Metronomic Temozolomide in Unfit NENs Patients Metronomic Temozolomide in Unfit Patients With Advanced Neuroendocrine Neoplasms (NENs): MeTe Study

Study Purpose

Study design and rationale: Neuroendocrine neoplasms (NENs ) represent a heterogeneous group of malignancies, which differ in terms of behavio r and prognosis. Most of t hem are advanced at diagnosis t herefore systemic treatment is proposed. While over the last years many advanced have been made especially in terms of molecular targeted therapies (MTA) like everolimus and sunitinib, chemotherapy i n NENs still represents a controversial question. Temozolomide has been reported to be active alone or in combination with other drugs in neuroendocrine neoplasms (NENs) from different origin. So far there is not universal agreement on the right setting an d way of administration of this therapy. Objective: This is a multicentric phase II prospective interventional study to evaluate the clinical features of patients, who are judged unfit for systemic treatments, consecutively treated with a metronomic Temozolomide chemotherapy schedule in Italian centers with expertise in NEN and to explore also the methylation status of O6-methylguanine-DNA-methyltransferase (MGMT) and the polymorphism of thymidylate synthase (TS) by pyrosequencing in those patients of which tissues were available. This study will allow a better understanding of the role of metronomic temozolomide chemotherapy in NENs patients and help clinicians in answering some of the outstanding questions on their management. Method: Prospective analysis of clinical data of patients unfit for chemotherapy consecutively treated with metronomic temozolomide regimen in Italian centers with expertise in clinical and research NEN activity, for one year from the start of the accrual. Planning of study: Data from NENs patients of any age treated at these centers will be retrieved by searching the hospital information system and analysed. Eligible study population: Patients with histological diagnosis of low grade advanced NEN treated unfit for systemic treatments, for one year from the start of the accrual. Endpoints and evaluation parameters: Description of efficacy and toxicity of Temozolomide regimen in patients with advanced NENs with different primary sites unfit for systemic treatment and explored the pote ntial correlation with clinical/biological factors.

Recruitment Criteria

Accepts Healthy Volunteers Healthy volunteers are participants who do not have a disease or condition, or related conditions or symptoms	No
Study Type An interventional clinical study is where participants are assigned to receive one or more interventions (or no intervention) so that researchers can evaluate the effects of the interventions on biomedical or health-related outcomes. An observational clinical study is where participants identified as belonging to study groups are assessed for biomedical or health outcomes. Searching Both is inclusive of interventional and observational studies.	Interventional
Eligible Ages	18 Years and Over
Gender	All

More Inclusion & Exclusion Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Age > 18 years. 2. Histologically proven diagnosis of low grade GEP-NENs (including morphology and ki67 in accordance with WHO 2019 classification), bronchial carcinoids (in accordance with the Travis classification), low grade of unknown primary sites NENs. 3. Advanced disease (unresectable locally advanced or metastatic). 4. ECOG performance status 2 and/or moderate medullary impairment (at least one of the following criteria: Hb concentration <10-8 gr/dl; WBC <3000-2000/mm3; platelets <75000-50000/mm3; neutrophil count <1500-1000/mm3); renal failure (eGFR o CrCl 30-59 ml/min

- G2) and/or moderate liver failure (Child B 7-9) and/or severe comorbidities and/or > 3 prior systemic antitumor therapies (apart from SSA).

For all the parameters other than the above mentioned criteria n° 4 consider the following criteria (that must be associated with at least one of those above): absolute neutrophil count of ≥1.5×109/L, platelet count of ≥100×109/L, haemoglobin ≥9 g/dL, serum total bilirubin <1.5 times the upper limit of normal (ULN) alanine aminotransferase (ALT), AST, or alkaline phosphatase levels ≤2.5 times the ULN (if known liver metastases ALT, AST, and ALP ≤3× the ULN), serum creatinine <1.5 times ULN or creatinine clearance ≥60 mL/min as estimated by the Cockcroft-Gault formula. 5. Functioning/non functioning. 6. Morphological progressive disease (CT scan or MRI). 7. Recovery from toxicities related to any prior treatments, adequate wash-out period from previous treatments. 8. Ability to swallow pills. 9. Fertile men should agree to use effective contraceptive methods up to 6 months after the last temozolomide intake and should be informed about the possible irreversible infertility related to temozolomide intake.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Patients pretreated with temozolomide. 2. Are Women of Child-Bearing Potential (WOCBP) and men who are able to father a child, unwilling to use adequate contraception prior to trial entry, for the duration of trial participation and for at least 28 days 2 weeks after treatment has ended. Adequate methods of contraception and Women of Child-Bearing Potential; WOCBP childbearing potential who are nursing or are pregnant or do not agree to submit to pregnancy testing required by this protocol. 3. Patients that did not sign written informed consent prior to admission into the trial that is consistent with International Conference on Harmonisation (ICH)- Good Clinical Practice (GCP) guidelines and local law. 4. Knowed active hepatitis B infection (defined as presence of Hepatitis B (HepB) sAg and/or HepB DNA), active Hepatitis C (HEP C) infection (defined as presence of Hep C RNA) and/or known Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) carrier. 5. Patients treated with systemic therapies (chemotherapy, interferon-alpha, somatostatin analogues, molecular target therapies) within 1 month prior to screening visit. 6. Hypersensitivity to the active substance or to any of the excipients, hypersensitivity to dacarbazine (DTIC), known brain metastases or cranial epidural disease unless adequately treated with radiotherapy and/or surgery and stable for at least 3 months before study entry, pregnant or lactating females, patients on chronic treatment with valproic acid

Trial Details

Trial ID: This trial id was obtained from ClinicalTrials.gov, a service of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, providing information on publicly and privately supported clinical studies of human participants with locations in all 50 States and in 196 countries.	NCT05554003
Phase Phase 1: Studies that emphasize safety and how the drug is metabolized and excreted in humans. Phase 2: Studies that gather preliminary data on effectiveness (whether the drug works in people who have a certain disease or condition) and additional safety data. Phase 3: Studies that gather more information about safety and effectiveness by studying different populations and different dosages and by using the drug in combination with other drugs. Phase 4: Studies occurring after FDA has approved a drug for marketing, efficacy, or optimal use.	Phase 2
Lead Sponsor The sponsor is the organization or person who oversees the clinical study and is responsible for analyzing the study data.	European Institute of Oncology
Principal Investigator The person who is responsible for the scientific and technical direction of the entire clinical study.	Francesca Spada, MD, PhDNicola Fazio, MD, PhD
Principal Investigator Affiliation	European Institute of Oncology (IEO), IRCCS, Milan (Italy)European Institute of Oncology (IEO), IRCCS, Milan (Italy)
Agency Class Category of organization(s) involved as sponsor (and collaborator) supporting the trial.	Other
Overall Status	Recruiting
Countries	Italy
Conditions The disease, disorder, syndrome, illness, or injury that is being studied.	Neuroendocrine Tumors, Frailty, Chemotherapy Effect
Study Website:	View Trial Website

Additional Details

Study design and trial duration This is an italian multicenter phase II trial of metronomic temozolomide in unfit patients with advanced NENs. The accrual will last 1-year and the follow up 2-year for a global 3-year period. Objectives Primary endpoint Progression free survival (PFS). Secondary endpoint Overall response rate (ORR) Duration of response (DOR) Overall survival (OS) Safety Quality of life (QoL) Exploratory endpoint To evaluate O6 methylguanine DNA methyltransferase (MGMT) status in tumor tissue to validate the methods of MGMT determining and correlation with clinical outcomes. Overview on the study design Prospective analyses of consecutively NEN patients treated at Istituto Europeo di Oncologia IRCCS and participant centers between the end of 2021 and 2024 will be conducted. All patients who potentially benefit by these therapies will be proposed to participate to the study. The patient notes will then be assessed for eligibility as defined in the next section. Treatment drug and schedule The regimen consists of oral temozolomide 60 mg once daily fasting continuously (28-day cycles)

Arms & Interventions

Arms

Experimental: Metronomic Temozolomide

Metronomic Temozolomide in unfit patients with advanced neuroendocrine neoplasms (NENs) Dosage and schedule: 60 mg/die continuosly

Interventions

Drug: - Temozolomide capsule

Metronomic temozolomide 60 mg/die continuously

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International Sites

Milan, Italy

Status

Recruiting

Address

European Institute of Oncology, IEO, IRCCS

Milan, , 20141

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