Clinical trial NCT03754140: Intralesional Sclerosant for in Transit and Cutaneous Melanoma Metastases
Official title: Intralesional Sclerosant for in Transit and Cutaneous Melanoma Metastases
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: WITHDRAWN
Phase: PHASE2
Conditions: Melanoma
In-Transit Metastasis of Cutaneous Melanoma
Keywords: Sclerosant
Polidocanol
Lead sponsor: Melanoma Institute Australia
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2018-11-27
Enrollment: 0
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Intervention model description: Open label, single arm pilot study
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: There is currently an urgent need for low cost and well tolerated intralesional agents for the management of in transit and cutaneous melanoma metastases that are unsuitable for, or resistant to, other therapies. This pilot study will determine whether intralesional injections of the sclerosant polidocanol into intransit and cutaneous melanoma lesions shows promise for efficacy, safety and ease of use that will enable this inexpensive and widely available agent to undergo further evaluation.

Detailed description: Many patients with metastatic melanoma have in transit and other cutaneous metastases. Untreated, these lesions become eroded, haemorrhagic and symptomatic. When systemic therapy is not warranted, has failed or is not tolerated for in transit disease, and when surgery is not feasible or appropriate, other local treatments are needed. Current options include isolated limb infusion for bulky limb disease, topical immunotherapy with contact sensitisers and imiqiuimod for superficial, nonbulky disease or radiation therapy. Intralesional (IL) agents such as Rose Bengal (PV-10, Provectus) and Talimogene laherparepvec (T-Vec, Amgen) have been used for patients with limited numbers of cutaneous metastases with reported overall response rates of 51% and 26% respectively. It is thought that these IL agents can incite regional or even systemic anti-tumour immune responses, thus providing benefit beyond the individual injected lesions. Use of PV-10, which is not an intrinsic immune modulator, was associated with regression of untreated bystander lesions in 27% of patients.

T-Vec is not currently available as a subsidised product in Australia and PV-10 is not currently accessible outside of dual-agent systemic/IL clinical trials. Intralesional injection of the antimetabolites 5-fluorouracil and methotrexate has been used successfully for the treatment of cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma, but the efficacy of these agents in melanoma is unknown. Importantly, the investigator's in transit melanoma patients usually have multiple, often very numerous lesions, making IL injection with adequate volumes of antimetabolites difficult without significant risk of systemic haematologic, hepatic and renal side effects.

Hence there is currently an urgent need for tolerable, low cost and accessible intralesional therapies for in transit and cutaneous melanoma metastases.

This study aims to evaluate the efficacy and tolerability of intralesional therapy with the sclerosant polidocanol for treatment of in transit and cutaneously metastatic melanoma unsuitable for other therapies.

Intravascularly injected sclerosants have a long history of safe and effective use in the treatment of varicose veins. Sclerosants have also been used intralesionally for the treatment of cutaneous lesions such as squamous cell carcinoma, pyogenic granulomas, Kaposi sarcoma and angiomas. They are inexpensive, readily accessible and can be easily administered in the clinic to multiple metastases. By inciting cell death within melanoma metastases in the skin, they may also incite anti-tumour immune responses in untreated bystander lesions, as is observed with IL PV-10 therapy.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Histologically confirmed in transit and/or cutaneous melanoma metastases unsuitable for, or with progressive disease despite systemic, surgical, intra-arterial, topical or radiation therapies
* A minimum of 2 accessible lesions

Exclusion Criteria:

* Periocular lesions
* Severe renal impairment defined as an estimated glomerular filtration rate \<20ml/min/1.73sqm
* Sever liver function abnormality defined as aspartate aminotransferase and / or alanine aminotransferase \> 3 x upper limit of normal and / or bilirubin \> 1.5 x upper limit of normal
* known hypersensitivity to polidocanol or its exipients
* Patients unavailble for the full study duration (of a 4 week screening period and 8 week treatment period) because of general frailty, geographical or social reasons
* Pregnant or breast feeding female patients
* Patients receiving topical or radiation therapy to the in transit and / or cutaneous lesions within 4 weeks of planned start of study treatment (patients receiving current systemic immunotherapy which is deemed appropriate to continue, despite progression of disease in the skin, in order to reduce the likelihood of visceral metastases are eligible)
* Patients receiving sclerosants for other indications within 4 weeks of planned start of study treatment or during study treatment.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Clinical efficacy of interlesional polidocanol injection assessed by the size of in transit melanoma metastases after treatment
timeFrame: 8 weeks
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Incidence of treatment related adverse events
timeFrame: 8 weeks
measure: Bystander treatment effect on untreated intransit melanoma metastases
timeFrame: 8 weeks
measure: Bystander treatment effect on the proportion of tumour infiltrating immune markers in treated and untreated melanoma lesions
timeFrame: 8 weeks
measure: Bystander treatment effect on tumour viabilty in treated and untreated melanoma lesions
timeFrame: 8 weeks
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Camperdown
country: Australia
facility: Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
state: New South Wales
Study officials:
affiliation: Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, Australia
name: Diona Damian
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
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