Gemcitabine and Leflunomide in Patients With Advanced Unresectable Pancreatic Cancer
NCT ID: NCT06454383
Last Updated: 2025-04-10
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Basic Information
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RECRUITING
PHASE1
19 participants
INTERVENTIONAL
2024-05-13
2026-11-13
Brief Summary
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Detailed Description
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I. To evaluate the safety and tolerability of gemcitabine in combination with leflunomide and determine the recommended Phase 2 dose (RP2D) of the combination.
SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:
I. To evaluate the progression-free (PFS) and overall survival (OS). II. To evaluate the overall response rate (ORR), including confirmed and unconfirmed, complete and partial response and stable disease.
III. To describe quality of life utilizing the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy: General (FACT-G) questionnaire.
EXPLORATORY OBJECTIVES:
I. To describe the pharmacokinetic profile of leflunomide when given in combination with gemcitabine.
II. To examine the relationship between pharmacokinetics and disease progression.
OUTLINE:
Patients receive gemcitabine intravenously (IV) over 30 minutes on days 1, 8, and 15 of each cycle and leflunomide orally (PO) once daily (QD) on days -3 to -1 prior to cycle 1 and days 1-28 of each cycle thereafter. Cycles repeat every 28 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients also receive cholestyramine PO three times a day (TID) for 11 days at the end of treatment in the absence of unacceptable toxicity. Patients also undergo computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), or other imaging scans as clinically indicated throughout the study, as well as blood sample collection on study and during follow up.
After completion of study treatment, patients are followed up at 30 days then up to 1 year.
Conditions
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Study Design
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NA
SINGLE_GROUP
TREATMENT
NONE
Study Groups
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Treatment (gemcitabine, leflunomide)
Patients receive gemcitabine IV over 30 minutes on days 1, 8, and 15 of each cycle and leflunomide PO QD on days -3 to -1 prior to cycle 1 and days 1-28 of each cycle thereafter. Cycles repeat every 28 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients also receive cholestyramine PO TID for 11 days at the end of treatment in the absence of unacceptable toxicity. Patients also undergo CT, MRI, or other imaging scans as clinically indicated throughout the study, as well as blood sample collection on study and during follow up.
Biospecimen Collection
Undergo blood sample collection
Cholestyramine
Given PO
Computed Tomography
Undergo CT
Diagnostic Imaging
Undergo imaging scans
Gemcitabine
Given IV
Leflunomide
Given PO
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Undergo MRI
Interventions
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Biospecimen Collection
Undergo blood sample collection
Cholestyramine
Given PO
Computed Tomography
Undergo CT
Diagnostic Imaging
Undergo imaging scans
Gemcitabine
Given IV
Leflunomide
Given PO
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Undergo MRI
Other Intervention Names
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
* Adult patients lacking capacity to consent may participate if they have a caretaker that could ensure oral medication compliance.
* Agreement to allow the use of archival tissue from diagnostic tumor biopsies.
* If unavailable, exceptions may be granted with study principal investigator (PI) approval.
* Age: ≥ 18 years.
* Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) ≤ 1.
* Subjects must have histologically or cytologically confirmed diagnosis of advanced unresectable pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA).
* Measurable or evaluable disease according to Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) version (v) 1.1
* Potential patients must have plans of receiving single agent gemcitabine.
* Fully recovered from the acute toxic effects (except alopecia or neuropathy) to ≤ grade 1 to prior anti-cancer therapy.
* Without bone marrow involvement: Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) ≥ 1,500/mm\^3 NOTE: Growth factor is not permitted within 14 days of ANC assessment unless cytopenia is secondary to disease involvement.
* Without bone marrow involvement: Platelets ≥ 100,000/mm\^3 NOTE: Platelet transfusions are not permitted within 14 days of platelet assessment unless cytopenia is secondary to disease involvement.
* Hemoglobin ≥ 9g/dL NOTE: Red blood cell transfusions are not permitted within 14 days of hemoglobin assessment unless cytopenia is secondary to disease involvement.
* Total bilirubin ≤ 1.5 x upper limit of normal (ULN) OR direct bilirubin ≤ ULN for participants with total bilirubin levels \> 1.5 x ULN (unless has Gilbert's disease total bilirubin ≤ 3 x ULN)
* Aspartate aminotransferase (AST) ≤ 1.5 x ULN OR if liver metastases ≤ 3 x ULN
* Alanine aminotransferase (ALT) ≤ 1.5 x ULN OR if liver metastases ≤ 2 x ULN
* Creatinine ≤ 1.5 x ULN OR creatinine clearance (Cockcroft Gault) of ≥ 50 mL/min for participants with a creatinine level of \> 1.5 x ULN.
* Women of childbearing potential (WOCBP): negative urine or serum pregnancy test If the urine test is positive or cannot be confirmed as negative, a serum pregnancy test will be required.
* Agreement by females and males of childbearing potential to use an effective method of birth control or abstain from heterosexual activity for the course of the study through at least 6 months after the last dose of gemcitabine therapy for women and at least 3 months after the last dose of gemcitabine therapy for men, and/or undergo drug elimination of leflunomide at end of treatment until leflunomide is undetectable in the plasma.
* Childbearing potential defined as not being surgically sterilized (men and women) or have not been free from menses for \> 1 year (women only).
Exclusion Criteria
* Drugs metabolized by CYP2C8, CYP1A2, BCRP, OATP1B1/B3, and OAT3 transporters within 21 days prior to day 1 of protocol therapy.
* Herbal medications (excluding cannabidiol \[CBD\]).
* History of allergic reactions attributed to compounds of similar chemical or biologic composition to study agent.
* Issues with tolerating oral medication (e.g. inability to swallow pills, malabsorption issues, ongoing nausea or vomiting).
* Positive for tuberculosis or latent tuberculosis (TB).
* Active diarrhea.
* Clinically significant uncontrolled illness.
* Active infection requiring antibiotics.
* Known history of immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or hepatitis B or hepatitis C infection. (\*If seropositive for HIV, HCV or HBV, nucleic acid quantitation must be performed. Viral load must be undetectable.)
* Diagnosis of Gilbert's disease.
* Prior malignancy other than carcinoma in situ of the cervix, or nonmelanoma skin cancer, unless that prior malignancy was diagnosed and definitively treated 5 or more years prior to study entry with no subsequent evidence of recurrence. Patients with a history of low grade (Gleason score ≤ 6 = Gleason group 1) localized prostate cancer will be eligible even if diagnosed less than 5 years prior to study entry. Other malignancies with low probability of recurrence may be allowed with PI approval.
* Females only: Pregnant or breastfeeding.
* Any other condition that would, in the Investigator's judgment, contraindicate the patient's participation in the clinical study due to safety concerns with clinical study procedures.
* Prospective participants who, in the opinion of the investigator, may not be able to comply with all study procedures (including compliance issues related to feasibility/logistics).
18 Years
ALL
No
Sponsors
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National Cancer Institute (NCI)
NIH
City of Hope Medical Center
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Principal Investigators
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Vincent Chung
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
City of Hope Medical Center
Locations
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City of Hope Medical Center
Duarte, California, United States
Countries
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Facility Contacts
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Other Identifiers
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NCI-2024-04359
Identifier Type: REGISTRY
Identifier Source: secondary_id
23540
Identifier Type: OTHER
Identifier Source: secondary_id
23540
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id
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