Please select the eligibility criteria that correspond to the clinical trial below.
Title: Phase III, Randomised, Double-blind, Stratified Comparative, Placebo Controlled, Parallel Group, Multi-centre Study to Assess the Effect of Deep Subcutaneous Injections of Lanreotide Autogel 120mg Administered Every 28 Days on Tumour Progression Free Survival in Patients With Non-functioning Entero-pancreatic Endocrine Tumour
Brief Summary: The study will compare the difference between lanreotide Autogel and placebo on progression free survival in patients who have an endocrine tumour in the pancreas or intestines.


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A: Subjects were eligible for participation in the study if they met the following criteria:

1. At least 18 years of age at the time of first dosing.
2. Subjects must have given signed informed consent before any study related activities were conducted.
3. Subjects in the United States of America (USA) must have given written authorisation for the release of protected health information in compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) regulations; subjects in other countries must have provided appropriate authorisation as needed by regulatory authorities in each country.
4. Subjects must have been willing to receive s.c. octreotide injections as rescue medication, as needed to control their symptoms, if any.
5. If female, the subject must not have been pregnant (confirmed by negative pregnancy test) and must have had the following documented via verbally given history:

   * At least 1 year postmenopausal (natural cessation of menses), or
   * Surgically sterile (if by tubal ligation, surgery must have been performed more than 3 months prior to entry into the study), or
   * If the subject was of childbearing potential and sexually active, she must have been using an acceptable form of contraception (oral, injected, transdermal or implanted contraceptives, diaphragm or barrier method with spermicidal and/or intrauterine device); local methods such as condoms or sponges/vaginal tablets were not acceptable forms of contraception.
6. Subjects with a histopathologically confirmed diagnosis of carcinoid tumour or, a carcinoid tumour of unknown location with liver metastases (documented biopsy), and a history of carcinoid syndrome (flushing and/or diarrhoea) who were either naïve to treatment with a somatostatin analogue (SSTa) or responsive (according to the opinion of the principal investigator) to conventional doses of Sandostatin LAR® Depot (LAR; ≤30 mg every 4 weeks) or to daily doses of ≤600 μg of s.c. octreotide.
7. Confirmation of positive somatostatin receptor (SSTR) status by somatostatin receptor scintigraphy (SRS; up to 6 months prior to study entry at the Screening Visit).
8. Absence of tumour progression documented by two sequential computed tomography (CT) scans or two sequential magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans (≥3 months apart); the last CT or MRI scan must have been performed within 6 months of study entry (Screening Visit).
9. Subjects previously treated with LAR, must have received their last dose of LAR at least 4 weeks prior to first dose of study treatment (no later than at the Screening Visit).
10. Be able to communicate and cooperate with the principal investigator and the staff and willing to comply with the study instructions.

Subjects were excluded from entering the study for the following reasons:

1. History of known allergy or hypersensitivity to investigational drug or any components of its formulation, or octreotide.
2. History of carcinoid syndrome refractory to treatment with conventional doses of SSTa.
3. Treatment with any other investigational drug within 30 days prior to study entry (Screening Visit) and/or at any time during the subject's participation in the study.
4. Treatment with interferon, chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy (a radiolabelled SSTa) and/or tumour debulking \<3 months prior to study entry (Screening Visit).
5. History of hepatic arterial embolisation, hepatic arterial chemoembolisation and/or selective internal radiation therapy (selective internal radiation \[SIR\] therapy \[SIRT\]; e.g. SIR Spheres) \<6 months prior to study entry (Screening Visit).
6. Short bowel syndrome.
7. Uncontrolled diabetes and/or hypertension.
8. Severe renal impairment (glomerular filtration rate \<30 mL/min/1.73 m2) and/or severe liver impairment as evidenced by serum total bilirubin \>1.5 mg/dL associated with bile duct blockage or with alkaline phosphatase (ALP), aspartate aminotransferase (AST) or alanine aminotransferase (ALT) \>5.0 upper limit of normal (ULN).
9. Diagnosis of cardiac disease New York Heart Association (NYHA) functional classification \>Class I. (Subject has limitation of physical activity. Ordinary physical activity causes undue fatigue, palpitation, or dyspnoea).
10. Life expectancy less than 1 year.
11. Any malignancies except carcinoid tumour, basocellular carcinoma of the skin, in situ carcinoma of the cervix and ≥5 years disease free after curative cancer treatment.
12. Any serious medical condition that could jeopardise the safety of the subject and/or the efficacy assessments of the study.
13. Subject is being treated with a proton pump inhibitor (PPI) and has been at a stable dose (no change in dose or frequency of administration) for less than 4 weeks at study entry (Screening Visit).
B: Inclusion Criteria:

* Endocrine tumour in the intestine or pancreas and with locally advanced or metastatic disease
* No hormone related symptoms
* Well or moderately differentiated tumour confirmed by histology
* Tumour lesions which are measurable by a CT or MRI scan

Exclusion Criteria:

* Previously treated with a somatostatin analogue unless more than 6 months ago and given for no more than 15 days
* Treated within the last 6 months with interferon, chemoembolisation or chemotherapy or at any time with a radionuclide
* Had a previous cancer except basal cell carcinoma and/or in situ carcinoma of the cervix/uterus and/or patients treated with curative intent and free from disease for 5 years
* Pregnant or lactating
* Females must use adequate contraception during the study
C: Inclusion Criteria:

* Patient must have unresectable metastatic or locally advanced, low- or intermediate-grade neuroendocrine carcinoma

  * NOTE: pathology report must state one of the following: carcinoid, low-grade or well-differentiated neuroendocrine carcinoma, atypical carcinoid, intermediate-grade or moderately differentiated neuroendocrine carcinoma; patients with poorly differentiated neuroendocrine carcinoma, high-grade neuroendocrine carcinoma, adenocarcinoid, or goblet cell carcinoid are not eligible; patient must not have osseous metastasis as only site of disease; patients with medullary thyroid carcinoma or islet cell carcinoma are not eligible; if pathology report states only neuroendocrine carcinoma, pathology subtype must be reconfirmed
  * Occasionally, it is not possible to establish tumor grade on fine-needle aspiration (FNA) cytology material; if a new biopsy is needed, a core needle biopsy should be obtained whenever possible
* Patient must have high risk disease as defined by at least one of the following:

  * Progressive disease
  * Refractory carcinoid syndrome while receiving octreotide (defined by \> 2 flushing episodes/day or \> 4 bowel movements/day)
  * Atypical histology and more than 6 lesions
  * Metastatic colorectal carcinoid; patients with metastatic cecal or appendiceal carcinoid tumor are not eligible unless the tumors fit into one of the other high-risk categories (a, b, or c above)
  * Metastatic gastric carcinoid
* Patient must have measurable disease; CT or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) used for tumor measurement must have been completed within 28 days prior to registration; X-rays, scans or other tests for assessment of non-measurable disease must have been performed within 42 days prior to registration; all disease must be assessed and documented on the Baseline Tumor Assessment Form; these scans also must be submitted for central radiology review
* Institutions are required to submit CT/MRI scans and archived tissue for pathology review; furthermore, institutions are required to seek additional patient consent for submission of octreotide scans, and submission of blood and use of archived tissue for correlative studies
* If patient consents to the submission of octreotide scans, the patient must also be registered to Registration Step 2
* Patient may have had up to one prior regimen of cytotoxic chemotherapy; at least 28 days must have elapsed since completion of prior therapy, and patient must have recovered from all effects
* Patient may have had prior hepatic artery embolization; at least 28 days must have elapsed since embolization and there must be residual measurable disease; chemoembolization will be considered as one prior chemotherapy regimen
* Patient must not have received prior interferon, bevacizumab or any other therapy targeting VEGF or VEGF receptors
* Patient may have received prior therapy targeting stem cell factor receptor (c-kit), abelson murine leukemia viral oncogene homolog 1 (abl), platelet-derived growth factor receptor (PDGFR), mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR), and somatostatin receptors (not counted toward prior cytotoxic chemotherapy)
* Prior radiation is allowed; there must be measurable disease; if prior therapies include peptide receptor radiotherapy, the target lesion(s) must have shown disease progression; at least 28 days must have elapsed since completion of prior therapy, and patient must have recovered from all effects
* Patients must have recovered from any prior surgery; one week must have elapsed from the time of a minor surgery and 4 weeks from major surgery
* At least 21 days must have elapsed since any prior octreotide LAR depot treatment
* Patient must have a Zubrod performance status of 0-2
* Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) \> 1,500/mcl
* Hemoglobin \> 8 g/dl
* Platelets \> 100,000/mcl
* Serum bilirubin \< 1.5 x institutional upper limit of normal (IULN)
* Serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase (SGOT) or serum glutamate pyruvate transaminase (SGPT) =\< 2.5 x IULN
* Serum creatinine \< 1.5 mg/dL
* Urine protein must be screened by urine analysis for Urine Protein Creatinine (UPC) ratio; for UPC ratio \> 0.5, 24-hour urine protein must be obtained and the level must be \< 1,000 mg for patient enrollment; these results must be obtained within 28 days prior to registration

  * Note: UPC ratio of spot urine is an estimation of the 24-hour urine protein excretion - a UPC ratio of 1 is roughly equivalent to a 24-hour urine protein of 1 gm
* Patients not on anticoagulation must have prothrombin time (PT) and partial thromboplastin time (PTT) =\< 1.1 x lULN obtained within 28 days prior to registration; patients on full-dose anticoagulation (warfarin or low molecular weight heparin) are eligible provided that both of the following criteria are met:

  * The patient has an in-range international normalized ratio (INR) (usually between 2 and 3) on a stable dose of oral anticoagulant or on a stable dose of low molecular weight heparin
  * The patient has no active bleeding or pathological condition that carries a high risk of bleeding such as varices
* Patient must not have history or evidence of clinically significant peripheral vascular disease such as non-healing peripheral ulcers or claudication
* Patient must not have a history of primary brain tumor or metastatic cancer to the brain; brain imaging studies are not required for eligibility if the patient has no neurological signs or symptoms; if brain imaging studies are performed, they must be negative for disease
* Patient must not have a history of abdominal fistula, gastrointestinal perforation, or intra-abdominal abscess within 28 days prior to registration
* Patient must not have history within the past 5 years or presence of bleeding diathesis or coagulopathy that results in spontaneous bleeding (in the absence of trauma) requiring packed red blood cells (pRBC) transfusion
* Patient must not have a serious (requiring active medical therapy with medication or medical device under the supervision of a physician) non-healing wound, ulcer, or bone fracture
* Patient must not have recent history (within 6 months prior to registration) of these arterial thromboembolic events: transient ischemic attack, cerebrovascular accident, unstable angina, myocardial infarction, or New York Heart Association grade II or higher congestive heart failure
* Patients with a history of hypertension must be well-controlled (blood pressure \< 150/90), on a stable regimen of antihypertensive therapy
* Patient must not have hemoglobinopathies (e.g., Thalassemia) or any other cause of hemolytic anemia
* Patient must not plan to use any other concurrent chemotherapy, immunotherapy, hepatic artery embolization, hepatic artery chemoembolization, radiofrequency ablation, other tumor ablative procedure or radiotherapy while on protocol treatment
* Patient must not be pregnant or nursing because bevacizumab may be harmful to the developing fetus and newborn; male and female patients of reproductive potential must agree to employ an effective barrier method of birth control throughout protocol treatment and for up to 6 months following discontinuation of bevacizumab
* No other prior malignancy is allowed except for the following: adequately treated basal cell or squamous cell skin cancer, or other adequately treated in situ cancer, or any other cancer from which the patient has been disease free for five years
* All patients must be informed of the investigational nature of this study and must sign and give written informed consent in accordance with institutional and federal guidelines
* At the time of patient registration, the treating institution's name and identification (ID) number must be provided to the Data Operations Center in Seattle in order to ensure that the current (within 365 days) date of institutional re view board approval for this study has been entered into the data base
* REGISTRATION STEP 2 - SPECT SUBSTUDY
* Patient must have registered to the main study
* Patient must have consented to the submission of octreotide scans
* An octreotide scan obtained within 28 days prior to Registration Step 1 must be available for submission
D: Inclusion Criteria:

1. Presence of metastasized or locally advanced, inoperable (curative intent) at enrollment time, histologically proven, midgut carcinoid tumour (to be centrally confirmed).
2. Ki67 index ≤ 20% (to be centrally confirmed).
3. Patients on Octreotide LAR at a fixed dose of 20 mg or 30 mg at 3-4 weeks intervals for at least 12 weeks prior to randomization in the study.
4. Patients ≥18 years of age.
5. Patients must have progressive disease based on RECIST Criteria, Version 1.1 while receiving an uninterrupted fixed dose of Octreotide LAR (20-30 mg/3-4 weeks). Disease progression must be centrally confirmed. In order to make the assessment, two CT (or MRI) scans are required. The oldest scan must not be older than 3 years from the date of randomization. The most recent scan must not be older than 4 weeks from the date of randomization. Both scans must be obtained while the patient is receiving the same fixed dose of Octreotide LAR (20-30 mg/3-4 weeks) with the following exceptions; 1) it is acceptable if the oldest scan is obtained within 12 weeks of the patient receiving a fixed dose regimen of Octreotide LAR (20-30 mg/3-4 weeks); AND 2) it is acceptable for either scan to be obtained before or during the time a patient receiving a fixed dose of Octreotide LAR has switched to an equivalent dose of short acting Octreotide for up to 6 weeks in order to obtain an OctreoScan®, provided the patient returns to the Octreotide LAR fixed dose after the OctreoScan® has been obtained.
6. Confirmed presence of somatostatin receptors on all target lesions (for target/non-target/measurable lesions definition see §Appendix 2, Section 1 and 2, RECIST Criteria, Version 1.1) documented by CT/MRI scans, based on positive OctreoScan® imaging within 24 weeks prior to randomization in the study (to be centrally confirmed). The OctreoScan® should be one that was performed while the patient was on a fixed dose of Octreotide LAR. If a patient has had an OctreoScan® performed while Octreotide LAR treatment-naïve, the patient must have a repeat OctreoScan® performed after 3 months of Octreotide LAR treatments before entering the clinical study to prove that the index lesions or new lesions still meet the criteria for inclusion. It is acceptable to have patients temporarily switched to Octreotide s.c. (up to six weeks) in order to obtain an OctreoScan®, provided they return to the same fixed dose of Octreotide LAR prior to the scan.
7. The tumour uptake observed in each target lesion (for target/non-target/measurable lesions definition see §Appendix 2, Sections 1 and 2, RECIST Criteria, Version 1.1) using OctreoScan® must be ≥ normal liver uptake observed on planar imaging (to be centrally confirmed) (§Appendices 5 and 6).
8. Karnofsky Performance Score (KPS)\>=60.
9. Presence of at least 1 measurable site of disease.
10. \[Applicable only for France\] All patients included in the trial must be affiliated with a social security regime or be a beneficiary of the same in order to be included in the study.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Either serum creatinine \>150 µmol/L (\>1.7 mg/dL), or creatinine clearance \<50 mL/min calculated by the Cockroft Gault method, eventually confirmed by measured creatinine clearance (or measured glomerular filtration rate (GFR) using plasma clearance methods, not gamma camera-based) \<50 mL/min (the measured creatinine clearance / GFR is required only as confirmatory exam).
2. Hb concentration \<5.0 mmol/L (\<8.0 g/dL); WBC \<2x109/L (2000/mm3); platelets \<75x109/L (75x103/mm3).
3. Total bilirubin \>3 x ULN.
4. Serum albumin \<3.0 g/dL unless prothrombin time is within the normal range.
5. Pregnancy or lactation.
6. For female patients of childbearing potential (defined as \< 2 years after last menstruation and not surgically sterile) and male patients, who are not surgically sterile or with female partners of childbearing potential: absence of effective, non-hormonal means of contraception (intrauterine contraceptive device, barrier method of contraception in conjunction with spermicidal gel) as defined in §Appendix 7.
7. Treatment with \>30 mg Octreotide LAR at 3-4 weeks intervals within 12 weeks prior to randomization in the study.
8. Peptide receptor radionuclide therapy (PRRT) at any time prior to randomization in the study.
9. Any surgery, radioembolization, chemoembolization, chemotherapy and radiofrequency ablation within 12 weeks prior to randomization in the study.
10. Interferons, Everolimus (mTOR-inhibitors) or other systemic therapies within 4 weeks prior to randomization in the study.
11. Known brain metastases, unless these metastases have been treated and stabilized for at least 24 weeks, prior to enrollment in the study. Patients with a history of brain metastases must have a head CT with contrast to document stable disease prior to randomization in the study.
12. Uncontrolled congestive heart failure (NYHA II, III, IV).
13. Uncontrolled diabetes mellitus as defined by a fasting blood glucose \>2 ULN.
14. Any patient receiving treatment with short-acting Octreotide, which cannot be interrupted for 24 h before and 24 h after the administration of 177Lu-DOTA0-Tyr3-Octreotate, or any patient receiving treatment with Octreotide LAR, which cannot be interrupted for at least 6 weeks before the administration of 177Lu-DOTA0-Tyr3-Octreotate, unless the tumour uptake on target lesions observed by OctreoScan® imaging during continued Octreotide LAR treatment is at least as high as normal liver uptake observed by planar imaging.
15. Patients with any other significant medical, psychiatric, or surgical condition, currently uncontrolled by treatment, which may interfere with the completion of the study.
16. Prior external beam radiation therapy to more than 25% of the bone marrow.
17. Current spontaneous urinary incontinence.
18. Other known co-existing malignancies except non-melanoma skin cancer and carcinoma in situ of the uterine cervix, unless definitively treated and proven no evidence of recurrence for 5 years.
19. Patients who have not provided a signed informed consent form to participate in the study, obtained prior to the start of any protocol related activities.
20. Patient with known incompatibility to CT Scans with I.V. contrast due to allergic reaction or renal insufficiency. If such a patient can be imaged with MRI, then the patient would not be excluded.
21. Patients who have participated in any therapeutic clinical study/received any investigational agent within the last 30 days are excluded from participation in this trial.

Answer: B