Clinical trial NCT02646020: Aprepitant vs. Desloratadine in EGFR-TKIs Related Pruritus Treatment
Official title: Aprepitant vs. Desloratadine in Non-small Cell Lung Cancer Patients With Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors Related Pruritus: A Prospective, Randomized Control, Double-blinded, Phase II Clinical Trial
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: PHASE2
Conditions: Non-small Cell Lung Cancer
Keywords: pruritus
Non-small Cell Lung Cancer
Receptor, Epidermal Growth Factor
tyrosine kinase inhibitor
Lead sponsor: Sun Yat-sen University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2016-01-05
Enrollment: 138
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: Study hypothesis is that aprepitant is more effective than desloratadine in relieving pruritus caused by EGFR TKIs. Primary endpoint is the effective rate of pruritus, effective treatment defined as visual analogue scale (VAS) decrease ≥ 50% after treatment compared to baseline score. 130 NSCLC patients undertaken EGFR-TKI and suffer from moderate or severe pruritus (VAS score ≥ 4) will be enrolled in this study, and stratified (gender, VAS 4-6 or 7-10, and 2nd generation TKI or non 2nd generation) randomized (1:1) into aprepitant or desloratadine treatment. VAS investigation will be taken once a week to treatment end (4 weeks).

Detailed description: This is a prospective, randomized control, double-blinded, phase II clinical trial. Study hypothesis is that aprepitant is more effective than desloratadine in relieving pruritus caused by EGFR TKIs. Primary endpoint is the effective rate of pruritus, effective treatment defined as visual analogue scale (VAS) decrease ≥ 50% after treatment (1 week) compared to baseline score. The VAS inquiry will be taken once a week for 4 weeks. Quality of life investigation will be performed at baseline, 1 week and 4 weeks after treatment using SKINDEX-16 questionnaire. 130 NSCLC patients undertaken EGFR-TKI and suffer from moderate or severe pruritus (VAS score ≥ 4) will be enrolled in this study, and stratified (gender,and VAS 4-6 or 7-10, and 2nd generation TKI or non 2nd generation) randomized (1:1) into aprepitant or desloratadine treatment. Aprepitant arm will be administrated aprepitant 125mg d1, 80mg d3 and d5, along with placebo 5mg d1-d28; desloratadine arm will be administrated placebo 125mg d1, 80mg d3 and d5, along with desloratadine 5mg d1-d28. Tolerance evaluation will be taken according to National Cancer Institute (NCI)-Common Terminology Criteria (CTC) For Adverse Events (AE) V4.03.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Advanced or metastatic non small cell lung cancer
* Undertaken EGFR TKIs treatment (gefitinib, erlotinib, icotinib, afatinib, etc)

  * 18 years old
* Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance score 0-2
* Moderate or severe pruritus (VAS score ≥ 4) first occur after EGFR TKIs treatment
* Life expectancy ≥ 3 months
* Orally drug administration with no difficulty
* pregnancy test negative in 7 days for women of child-bearing age; willing to take contraception measures.
* Signed informed consent form (ICF)

Exclusion Criteria:

* Systemically treatment with Neurokinin-1 (NK-1) receptor inhibitors, antihistamines drugs, antibiotics, cortical hormone therapy, antiepileptic drugs, immunosuppressive agents or other drugs might affect treatment in 4 weeks; or locally used of these drug in 2 weeks.
* Existing skin lesions not EGFR TKIs related, such as skin infection, chronic dermatitis, Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE), lymphoma or other diseases.
* Total bilirubin ≥ 1.5 Upper Limit Of Normal (ULN)
* Serum creatinine ≥mg/dl
* AST or ALT ≥ 2.5 ULN without liver metastasis; or ≥ 5 ULN with liver metastasis.
* Residual toxicity event ≥ CTC-AE grade 2, except peripheral neurotoxicities.
* Central nervous system (CNS) metastasis or spinal compression; except no symptoms and with no cortical hormonotherapy in 4 weeks.
* Clinical evidence of interstitial lung disease
* Any severe or uncontrolled systemic diseases judged by investigators.
* Any contraindication of Neurokinin-1 receptor inhibitors and desloratadine.

Discontinuation Criteria

* Invalid subject after randomization
* Major protocol violations judged by investigators.
* Poor compliance
* Intolerable adverse events
* Subject withdraw ICF
* Any pregnancy events
* No clinical benefits due to clinical adverse events, laboratory abnormalities or other medical conditions
* Other reasons of treatment discontinuation judged by investigators.

Primary outcomes:
measure: effective rate of pruritus relieving
timeFrame: day 28 at the treatment ends
Secondary outcomes:
measure: duration of pruritus relieving
timeFrame: 12 weeks at the follow-up end
measure: Change from baseline quality of life assessment at treatment ends
timeFrame: baseline, 28 days at the treatment ends
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: GuangZhou
country: China
facility: Cancer Center of Sun-Yat Sen University (CCSYSU)
state: Guangdong
Study officials:
affiliation: Sun Yat-sen University
name: Li Zhang, professor
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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