Conditions: Carcinoid Syndrome
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 135
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
The primary objective of the study is to confirm that at least 1 or more doses of telotristat etiprate compared to placebo is effective in reducing the number of daily bowel movements (BMs) from baseline averaged over the 12-week double-blind portion (Treatment Period) of the trial in patients not adequately controlled by current SSA therapy.

Detailed description:

Arms:
arm 1: Following a 3 to 4-week run-in period on stable-dose somatostatin analog (SSA) therapy (octreotide or lanreotide) participants were randomized to receive one 250 mg telotristat etiprate tablet plus one placebo-matching telotristat etiprate tablet administered three times daily for 12 Weeks in the double-blind treatment period, followed by a 36 week open-label extension period. arm 2: Following a 3 to 4-week run-in period on stable-dose SSA therapy (octreotide or lanreotide) participants were randomized to receive, one telotristat etiprate 250 mg plus one placebo-matching telotristat etiprate tablet administered 3 times daily for 1 week, followed by two telotristat etiprate (250 mg) tablets administered three times daily for 11 weeks in the double-blind treatment period, followed by a 36 week open-label extension period. arm 3: Following a 3 to 4-week run-in period on stable-dose SSA therapy (octreotide or lanreotide) participants were randomized to receive two placebo-matching telotristat etiprate tablets administered three times daily for 12 weeks in the double-blind treatment period, followed by a 36 week open-label extension period. arm 4: Patients previously assigned to 250 mg or 500 mg three times daily of telotristat etiprate were administered two 250 mg telotristat etiprate tablets three times daily in a 36 week open-label extension (OLE) period. Patients previously assigned to placebo were administered one 250 mg telotristat etiprate tablet plus one placebo-matching tablet three times daily for one week, followed by two 250 mg telotristat etiprate tablets three times daily for 35 weeks.

Interventions: intervention 1: Telotristat etiprate intervention 2: Placebo-matching telotristat etiprate
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: Telotristat etiprate tablets. intervention 2: Placebo-matching telotristat etiprate tablets.

Protocol document: