Mogamulizumab, a humanized defucosylated anti-C-C chemokine receptor 4 monoclonal antibody, has been approved in Japan for the treatment of C-C chemokine receptor 4-positive adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATL). This phase II study evaluated efficacy and safety of mogamulizumab in ATL patients with acute, lymphoma, and chronic subtypes with relapsed/refractory, aggressive disease in the US, Europe, and Latin America. With stratification by subtype, patients were randomized 2:1 to intravenous mogamulizumab 1.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Cutaneous T-cell lymphomas are rare non-Hodgkin lymphomas with substantial morbidity and mortality in advanced disease stages. We compared the efficacy of mogamulizumab, a novel monoclonal antibody directed against C-C chemokine receptor 4, with vorinostat in patients with previously treated cutaneous T-cell lymphoma.
Methods: In this open-label, international, phase 3, randomised controlled trial, we recruited patients with relapsed or refractory mycosis fungoides or Sézary syndrome at 61 medical centres in the USA, Denmark, France, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, the UK, Japan, and Australia.
Unlabelled: X-linked hypophosphatemia (XLH) is characterized by lower extremity deformities that lead to bone and/or joint pain that result from decreased renal tubular reabsorption leading to hypophosphatemia caused by elevated levels of fibroblast growth factor 23 (FGF23).
Objective: Validate the use of SF-36v2 Health Survey (SF-36v2) and the Western Ontario and McMaster Osteoarthritis Index (WOMAC) to measure previously unstudied health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in XLH patients and determine the change in HRQoL before and after treatment with KRN23, a human monoclonal anti-FGF23 antibody.
Methods: Twenty-eight adult outpatients with XLH received up to four doses of KRN23 administered subcutaneously every 28 days.
In X-linked hypophosphatemia (XLH), serum fibroblast growth factor 23 (FGF23) is increased and results in reduced renal maximum threshold for phosphate reabsorption (TmP), reduced serum inorganic phosphorus (Pi), and inappropriately low normal serum 1,25 dihydroxyvitamin D (1,25[OH]2 D) concentration, with subsequent development of rickets or osteomalacia. KRN23 is a recombinant human IgG1 monoclonal antibody that binds to FGF23 and blocks its activity. Up to 4 doses of KRN23 were administered subcutaneously every 28 days to 28 adults with XLH.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFContext: In X-linked hypophosphatemia (XLH), elevated fibroblast growth factor 23 (FGF23) decreases the renal tubular maximum reabsorption rate of phosphate/glomerular filtration rate (TmP/GFR) and serum inorganic phosphorus (Pi), resulting in rickets and/or osteomalacia.
Objective: The objective was to test the hypothesis that monthly KRN23 (anti-FGF23 antibody) would safely improve serum Pi in adults with XLH.
Design: Two sequential open-label phase 1/2 studies were done.
Background: X-linked hypophosphatemia (XLH) is the most common heritable form of rickets and osteomalacia. XLH-associated mutations in phosphate-regulating endopeptidase (PHEX) result in elevated serum FGF23, decreased renal phosphate reabsorption, and low serum concentrations of phosphate (inorganic phosphorus, Pi) and 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D [1,25(OH)2D]. KRN23 is a human anti-FGF23 antibody developed as a potential treatment for XLH.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe optimal design of phase II studies continues to be the subject of vigorous debate, especially studies of newer molecularly targeted agents. The observations that many new therapeutics "fail" in definitive phase III studies, coupled with the numbers of new agents to be tested as well as the increasing costs and complexity of clinical trials, further emphasize the critical importance of robust and efficient phase II design. The Clinical Trial Design Task Force (CTD-TF) of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Investigational Drug Steering Committee (IDSC) has published a series of discussion papers on phase II trial design in Clinical Cancer Research.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGood Clinical Practice (GCP) provides an internationally accepted standard to ensure subject safety and data quality in clinical trials. Much of GCP parallels ethical considerations that have accumulated in successive versions of the World Medical Association's Declaration of Helsinki. This document advocates for preservation of rights, safety, and well-being of human study participants.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Clin Oncol
April 2005
Purpose: To determine whether BMS-275291, a broad-spectrum matrix metalloproteinase inhibitor (MMPI), added to systemic chemotherapy improved survival in advanced non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). In early phase studies, BMS- 275291 was not associated with dose-limiting joint toxicity seen with other MMPIs.
Patients And Methods: Chemotherapy-naive patients with stage IIIB/IV NSCLC, performance status (PS) 0 to 2, and adequate organ function were eligible.
Background: This randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study was designed to assess whether the addition of the matrix metalloproteinase (MMP) inhibitor BMS-275291 to combined paclitaxel and carboplatin chemotherapy had an adverse impact on expected tumor response or had significant toxicity, especially arthrotoxicity, in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
Patients And Methods: Seventy-five chemotherapy-naive patients with stage IIIB-IV NSCLC were randomly assigned to BMS-275291 or placebo. All patients received paclitaxel 200mg/m(2) as a continuous 3-hour infusion followed by carboplatin calculated using the Calvert formula for a target AUC of 6 mg / (ml min), every 21 days for a maximum of eight cycles.
Purpose: BMS-275291 is a novel broad-spectrum inhibitor of matrix metalloproteinase (MMPs) rationally designed to spare a class of closely related metalloproteinases known as sheddases. Inadvertent sheddase inhibition is hypothesized to play a role in the dose-limiting joint toxicities occurring with hydroxamate-based MMP inhibitors. This trial was conducted to establish the recommended phase II dose; determine safety, toxicity, and pharmacokinetics of BMS-275291; and to assess potential markers of sheddase activity [tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNFalpha) release and TNFalpha-RII shedding].
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of incorporating a novel wound angiogenesis assay into a Phase I study of BMS-275291, a broad-spectrum matrix metalloproteinase inhibitor, and to determine whether the wound angiogenesis assay was able to detect the inhibition of angiogenesis in patients treated with BMS-275291.
Experimental Design: Before treatment began, a 4-mm skin biopsy was performed. The wound was imaged for 14 days.