Assessment of the Ability of Subjects With Acromegaly or Their Partners to Administer Somatuline Autogel

NCT ID: NCT00447499

Last Updated: 2020-11-20

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

PHASE3

Total Enrollment

59 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2007-04-30

Study Completion Date

2008-12-31

Brief Summary

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The purpose of this study is to determine whether subjects with acromegaly (or their partners) are able to self administer Somatuline Autogel at home.

Detailed Description

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Clinical experience with Somatuline Autogel to date has raised the possibility of self or partner injection. Previous microparticle somatostatin analogue formulations required careful reconstitution and as a result the cost of the analogues and the inconvenience of reconstitution meant self or partner injection was not a viable option.

Somatuline Autogel does not require reconstitution as it comes ready-mixed in a pre-filled syringe, thus making it more user-friendly than its predecessor and introducing the possibility of self or partner injection.

Patients with acromegaly often travel considerable distances every 28 days in order to receive their somatostatin analogue injections in the clinic. If Somatuline Autogel can be safely administered unsupervised, while maintaining disease control, this could offer patients considerable benefits in terms of reduced frequency of visits to the clinic.

This study is designed to allow suitably motivated patients with acromegaly or their partners to learn how to successfully inject Somatuline Autogel while maintaining their mean GH level control. Disease control in these patients will be assessed by comparing their GH and IGF-1 levels to accepted medical standards for control of acromegaly and by comparing the levels of GH and IGF-1 control achieved with baseline values.

Conditions

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Acromegaly

Keywords

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Acromegaly Somatostatin Analogs Somatuline® Autogel® lanreotide growth hormone IGF-1 Inappropriate Growth Hormone Secretion Syndrome Somatotropin Hypersecretion Syndrome Inappropriate GH Secretion Syndrome

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NA

Intervention Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Somatuline Autogel (lanreotide acetate)

Somatuline Autogel (lanreotide acetate) Injection

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Somatuline Autogel (lanreotide acetate)

Intervention Type DRUG

Injections

Home administration

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Questionnaire

Interventions

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Somatuline Autogel (lanreotide acetate)

Injections

Intervention Type DRUG

Home administration

Questionnaire

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* The subject must give signed informed consent before any study-related activities.
* The partner, if applicable, must give signed informed consent before administration of Somatuline Autogel.
* The subject must be able to understand the protocol requirements.
* The subject must have a clinical diagnosis of acromegaly due to pituitary tumor.
* The subject must be treated with a long-acting somatostatin analogue with or without a dopamine agonist and have been on the current medical regimen for at least 3 months prior to screening and have IGF-1 levels no higher than 10% above the upper limit of the normal range for age and gender at the screening visit or be somatostatin analogue naïve (if the subject is treated with a dopamine agonist he/she must have been on the current dose for at least 3 months prior to screening).
* Subjects who are treated with a dopamine agonist have to stay on their current dose for the duration of the study.
* Switch subjects must have had their last pre-study routine clinical treatment with Sandostatin LAR between 28 and 35 days before Visit 2 (enrollment).
* The subject must be able to store the study medication in a refrigerator in his/her own or his/her partner's home.
* The subject must be ≥18 years of age.
* Female subjects of childbearing potential must use adequate contraception.
* Female subjects of childbearing potential who are taking oral contraceptives must agree to stay on their current contraceptive dose for the duration of the study.
* The partner, if applicable, must be ≥18 years of age.

Exclusion Criteria

* The subject has had pituitary surgery (adenomectomy) within 3 months prior to screening.
* The subject has received pituitary radiotherapy within 3 years prior to screening.
* The subject has received a GH receptor antagonist within 6 months prior to screening.
* The subject is currently on a higher dose of Sandostatin LAR than 30mg q28d
* The subject is pregnant or breastfeeding.
* The subject has clinically significant renal or hepatic abnormalities.
* The subject has a symptomatic, untreated biliary lithiasis.
* The subject has uncontrolled diabetes or thyroid disease.
* The subject has a known hypersensitivity to any of the test materials or related compounds.
* The subject is unable or unwilling to comply with the protocol.
* The subject has received any investigational drug within 30 days prior to screening.
* The subject has participated in a medical device study within 30 days prior to screening.
* The subject has previously participated in this study.
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Ipsen

INDUSTRY

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Ipsen Medical Director

Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR

Ipsen (formerly Tercica)

Locations

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Diabetes and Endocrine Associates

La Mesa, California, United States

Site Status

Cedars Sinai Medical Center

Los Angeles, California, United States

Site Status

Denver VA Medical Center

Denver, Colorado, United States

Site Status

Northwestern University The Feinberg School of Medicine

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Site Status

Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Site Status

Massachussetts General Hospital

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Site Status

NYU School of Medicine

New York, New York, United States

Site Status

Columbia University

New York, New York, United States

Site Status

Sisters of Charity Hospital, Buffalo

Williamsville, New York, United States

Site Status

Oregon Health and Science University

Portland, Oregon, United States

Site Status

Research Institute of Dallas

Dallas, Texas, United States

Site Status

Baylor College of Medicine

Houston, Texas, United States

Site Status

University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Houston, Texas, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

References

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Salvatori R, Nachtigall LB, Cook DM, Bonert V, Molitch ME, Blethen S, Chang S; SALSA Study Group. Effectiveness of self- or partner-administration of an extended-release aqueous-gel formulation of lanreotide in lanreotide-naive patients with acromegaly. Pituitary. 2010 Jun;13(2):115-22. doi: 10.1007/s11102-009-0207-x.

Reference Type RESULT
PMID: 19898989 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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MS315

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id