Clinical trial NCT01130025: Long-Term Innohep® Treatment Versus a Vitamin K Antagonist (Warfarin) for the Treatment of Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) in Cancer
Official title: Efficacy and Safety of Long-Term (6 Months) Innohep® Treatment Versus Anticoagulation With a Vitamin K Antagonist (Warfarin) for the Treatment of Acute Venous Thromboembolism in Cancer Patients / IN 0901 INT
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: PHASE3
Conditions: Venous Thromboembolism
Lead sponsor: LEO Pharma
Sponsor class: INDUSTRY
First posted: 2010-05-25
Enrollment: 900
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: The purpose of this study is to assess the efficacy and safety of Innohep® in preventing the recurrence of VTE in patients with active cancer who have had an acute VTE episode.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Patients with a diagnosis of active cancer.
* Symptomatic and objectively confirmed VTE.
* ≥ 18 years of age or above the legal age of consent as per country specific regulations.
* Patients with Eastern Co-operative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0, 1 or 2.
* Signed informed consent.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Life expectancy \< 6 months.
* Patients with basal cell carcinoma or non-melanoma skin cancer.
* Creatinine clearance ≤ 20 ml/min.
* Contra-indications to anticoagulation.
* Known hypersensitivity to the investigational product (Innohep®) or the reference product (warfarin).
* History of heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT).
* Pre-randomisation therapeutic anticoagulant treatment for acute VTE administered for more than 72 hours prior to randomisation.
* Patients unlikely to comply with the protocol.
* Participation in another interventional study.
* Pregnant or breast-feeding women.
* Women of childbearing potential.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Composite end-point represented by the time in days from randomisation to the first occurrence of VTE
timeFrame: 6 months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Time in days from randomisation to the first occurrence of VTE.
timeFrame: 6 months
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Vancouver
country: Canada
facility: Diamond Health Care Centre
state: British Columbia
Study officials:
affiliation: Director of Thrombosis, Division of Hematology, University of British Columbia, Canada
name: Agnes Y. Y. Lee, MD, MSc, FRCPC
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Kahale LA, Matar CF, Hakoum MB, Tsolakian IG, Yosuico VE, Terrenato I, Sperati F, Barba M, Schunemann H, Akl EA. Anticoagulation for the initial treatment of venous thromboembolism in people with cancer. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2021 Dec 8;12(12):CD006649. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD006649.pub8.
citation: Bauersachs R, Lee AYY, Kamphuisen PW, Meyer G, Janas MS, Jarner MF, Khorana AA; CATCH Investigators. Renal Impairment, Recurrent Venous Thromboembolism and Bleeding in Cancer Patients with Acute Venous Thromboembolism-Analysis of the CATCH Study. Thromb Haemost. 2018 May;118(5):914-921. doi: 10.1055/s-0038-1641150. Epub 2018 Apr 4.
citation: Lee AYY, Kamphuisen PW, Meyer G, Bauersachs R, Janas MS, Jarner MF, Khorana AA; CATCH Investigators. Tinzaparin vs Warfarin for Treatment of Acute Venous Thromboembolism in Patients With Active Cancer: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA. 2015 Aug 18;314(7):677-686. doi: 10.1001/jama.2015.9243.
citation: Lee AY, Bauersachs R, Janas MS, Jarner MF, Kamphuisen PW, Meyer G, Khorana AA; CATCH Investigators. CATCH: a randomised clinical trial comparing long-term tinzaparin versus warfarin for treatment of acute venous thromboembolism in cancer patients. BMC Cancer. 2013 Jun 13;13:284. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-13-284.