a study to compare safety and efficacy of osmotic release oral syytem (oros) hydromorphone hydrochloride (hcl) with morphine sustain release (sr) in participants with cancer pain

Conditions: Cancer Pain

Summary: the purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of osmotic release oral system (oros) hydromorohone hydrochloride (hcl) compared with morphine sustain release (sr) in participants with chronic (lasting a long time) malignant (cancerous) cancer pain.

this is an open-label (all people know the identity of the intervention), multi-center (when more than 1 hospital or medical school team work on a medical research study), active-controlled, randomized (the study drug is assigned by chance) study to evaluate safety and efficacy of oros extended-release (er) hydromorhone hcl compared to twice daily morphine sr, in taiwan participants with cancer pain. the study consists of 3 phases: screening phase (14 days before administration of study drug), dose titration phase (3 to 14 days) and dose maintenance phase (14 days). this study will include 8 visits (visit 1 \[day 1\], visit 2 \[day 1-13 telephonic\], visit 3 \[day 14\], visit 4 \[day 15 to day 21 telephonic\], visit 5 \[day 22\], visit 6 \[day 23 to 27 telephonic\] and visit 7 \[day 28\]). in dose titration phase, participants will be randomly assigned to 1 of the 2 treatments, oros hydromorphone or morphine sr and dose of study medication will be adjusted every 48 hours at investigator's discretion according to participant's analgesic (drug used to control pain) requirements. morphine hcl will be used as rescue medication (maintained at 3 doses per day or less) for breakthrough pain. participants primarily will be evaluated for equivalence of efficacy using the "worst pain" item of the brief pain inventory (bpi). participants' safety will be monitored throughout the study duration.

Eligibility criteria:
inclusion criteria: * participants with cancer pain and experiencing inadequate pain control on or approaching step 2 of the world health organisation (who) analgesic ladder * participants with pain scores greater than and equal to 4 on the average in the last 24 hours * participants requiring or are expected to require not more than 540 milligram of oral morphine or morphine equivalent every 24 hours for the management of chronic cancer pain * participants who can reasonably be expected to achieve stable dose of opioid study medication for the duration of the trial * participants who can reasonably be expected to achieve stable dose of opioid study medication for the duration of the trial exclusion criteria: * participants with pure or predominantly neuropathic pain or pain of unknown origin (where a mechanism or physical cause cannot be identified) * participants with acute pain or who have pain on movement * participants who have received a fentanyl patch within the last 5 days * participants intolerant or hypersensitive to hydromorphone or other opioids agonists (chemical substance capable of activating a receptor to induce a full or partial response) * participants with recent past history (within the previous 5 years) or current history of drug abuse or alcohol abuse

Keywords: pain hydromorphone hydrochloride oros morphine