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A Phase II Study of Bevacizumab With Concurrent Capecitabine and Radiation Followed by Maintenance Gemcitabine and Bevacizumab For Locally Advanced Pancreatic Cancer


Phase 2
18 Years
N/A
Open (Enrolling)
Both
Adenocarcinoma of the Pancreas, Stage II Pancreatic Cancer, Stage III Pancreatic Cancer

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Trial Information

A Phase II Study of Bevacizumab With Concurrent Capecitabine and Radiation Followed by Maintenance Gemcitabine and Bevacizumab For Locally Advanced Pancreatic Cancer


PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:

I. Compare 1-year overall survival of patients with unresectable locally advanced pancreatic
cancer treated with capecitabine, bevacizumab, and radiotherapy followed by maintenance
therapy comprising gemcitabine and bevacizumab to a historical control.

SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:

I. Determine the frequency of serious unacceptable adverse events in patients treated with
this regimen.

II. Determine the response rate in patients treated with this regimen. III. Determine the
progression-free survival of patients treated with this regimen.

OUTLINE: This is a multicenter study.

Chemoradiotherapy and bevacizumab: Patients receive oral capecitabine twice daily and
undergo radiotherapy once daily on days 1-5, 8-12, 15-19, 22-26, 29-33, and 36-38. Patients
also receive bevacizumab IV over 30-90 minutes on days 1, 15, and 29. Patients undergo
reevaluation 3-4 weeks after completion of chemoradiotherapy and bevacizumab.

Patients with no evidence of disease progression proceed to maintenance therapy. Patients
with a marked response may undergo surgery at the discretion of the attending surgeon and
then proceed to maintenance therapy approximately 4-8 weeks later.

Maintenance therapy: Beginning within 4-7 weeks after completion of chemoradiotherapy and
bevacizumab, patients receive gemcitabine IV over 30 minutes on days 1, 8, and 15 and
bevacizumab IV over 30 minutes on days 1 and 15 provided that blood counts have returned to
normal. Courses repeat every 28 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable
toxicity.

After completion of study treatment, patients are followed for survival.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 82 patients will be accrued for this study within 16 months.


Inclusion Criteria:



- Histologically confirmed adenocarcinoma of the pancreas

- Locally advanced disease

- Unresectable disease

- All malignant disease must be encompassable within a single irradiation field

- Radiographically assessable disease

- Patients with biliary or gastroduodenal obstruction are eligible provided drainage or
surgical bypass was performed prior to initiation of study treatment

- No evidence of gastric outlet obstruction

- No evidence of duodenal invasion on CT scan

- No evidence of metastatic disease in the major viscera

- No peritoneal seeding or ascites

- Performance status - Zubrod 0-1

- Granulocyte count ≥ 1,500/mm^3

- Platelet count ≥ 100,000/mm^3

- No evidence of bleeding diathesis

- ALT < 3 times upper limit of normal

- Bilirubin < 2.0 mg/dL

- INR ≤ 1.5

- No evidence of coagulopathy

- Creatinine clearance > 50 mL/min

- Urine protein < 1,000 mg by 24-hour urine collection (for patients with proteinuria ≥
1+ by dipstick or urinalysis OR urine protein:creatinine ratio ≥ 1.0)

- No myocardial infarction within the past 6 months

- No unstable angina within the past 6 months

- No arterial thromboembolic events within the past 6 months, including any of the
following:

- Transient ischemic attack

- Cerebrovascular accident

- Clinically significant peripheral artery disease

- No unstable symptomatic arrhythmia requiring medication (e.g., chronic atrial
arrhythmia [i.e., atrial fibrillation or paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia])

- Patients with an atrial arrhythmia are eligible provided the condition is well
controlled on stable medication

- No New York Heart Association class II-IV congestive heart failure

- No history of arteriovenous malformation

- No history of aneurysm

- No uncontrolled hypertension (i.e., blood pressure > 160/90 mm Hg with medication)

- No other clinically significant cardiac disease

- No AIDS

- No significant infection

- No known hypersensitivity to Chinese hamster ovary cell products or other
recombinant human antibodies

- Not pregnant

- No nursing during and for ≥ 3-4 months after completion of study treatment

- Negative pregnancy test

- Fertile patients must use effective contraception during and for ≥ 3-4 months after
completion of study treatment

- No history of gastrointestinal fistula or perforation

- No other malignancy within the past two years except nonmelanoma skin cancer or
carcinoma in situ of the cervix, uterus, or bladder

- No significant traumatic injury within the past 4 weeks

- No serious nonhealing wound or ulcer

- No current healing fracture

- No known or suspected dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase deficiency

- No other medical condition that would preclude study participation

- No concurrent interleukin-11

- No prior chemotherapy for pancreatic cancer

- More than 2 years since prior chemotherapy for another malignancy

- No prior radiotherapy to the planned irradiation field

- No concurrent intensity modulated radiotherapy

- No other concurrent radiotherapy

- See Disease Characteristics

- More than 4 weeks since prior major surgical procedure or open biopsy

- More than 1 week since prior fine needle aspiration or core biopsy

- No prior organ transplantation

- No concurrent major surgical procedure

- More than 30 days since prior and no concurrent cimetidine

- Concurrent ranitidine or a drug from another anti-ulcer class allowed

- More than 4 weeks since prior and no concurrent sorivudine or brivudine

- No concurrent warfarin during chemoradiotherapy

- Concurrent warfarin allowed beginning 2 weeks after completion of
chemoradiotherapy

- Concurrent low molecular weight heparin allowed (at any time during study
participation)

- No other concurrent investigational agents

- No other concurrent cytotoxic agents

Type of Study:

Interventional

Study Design:

Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Treatment

Outcome Measure:

Overall survival rate

Outcome Description:

Will be estimated using the Kaplan-Meier method.

Outcome Time Frame:

1 year

Safety Issue:

No

Principal Investigator

Christopher Crane

Investigator Role:

Principal Investigator

Investigator Affiliation:

Radiation Therapy Oncology Group

Authority:

United States: Food and Drug Administration

Study ID:

NCI-2012-02661

NCT ID:

NCT00114179

Start Date:

January 2005

Completion Date:

Related Keywords:

  • Adenocarcinoma of the Pancreas
  • Stage II Pancreatic Cancer
  • Stage III Pancreatic Cancer
  • Adenocarcinoma
  • Adenocarcinoma, Mucinous
  • Pancreatic Neoplasms

Name

Location

Radiation Therapy Oncology Group Philadelphia, Pennsylvania  19107