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Vincristine Sulfate Liposome Injection (Marqibo®) in Combination With UK ALL R3 Induction Chemotherapy

A Pilot Study of Vincristine Sulfate Liposome Injection (Marqibo®) in Combination With UK ALL R3 Induction Chemotherapy for Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults With Relapse of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

Status
Completed
Phases
Phase 1
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT02879643
Enrollment
29
Registered
2016-08-26
Start date
2017-01-31
Completion date
2024-12-31
Last updated
2025-10-22

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

ALL, Childhood, Lymphoblastic Leukemia, Acute, Lymphoblastic Leukemia, Acute, Childhood

Brief summary

This is a pilot study utilizing Marqibo® (vincristine sulfate liposome injection) combined with dexamethasone, mitoxantrone and asparaginase (UK ALL R3) for relapsed acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL).

Detailed description

This study will utilize Marqibo® as a replacement for standard vincristine in combination with chemotherapy for children with relapsed ALL. The hypothesis is that the incorporation of Marqibo® with combination chemotherapy will be safe and feasible. In the context of this pilot study, overall outcomes and efficacy will be a secondary objective. It is hypothesized that data from this combination may show improved efficacy including, complete remission (CR), minimal residual disease (MRD) negativity, and progression free survival (PFS) rates and safety (i.e., neurotoxicity) in comparison to outcomes in historical regimens, including the UK ALL R3 with standard vincristine.

Interventions

The focus of the study design and statistical analysis is to determine whether Marqibo® can be substituted for standard vincristine and successfully administered to patients with relapsed ALL in three different treatment cohorts: (A) treatment with the UK ALL R3 regimen; (B) treatment with UK ALL R3 regimen without mitoxantrone, and (C) treatment with ALL maintenance therapy. Secondary objectives include estimating rates of serious toxicities and therapy delays in each of these cohorts.

Sponsors

Spectrum Pharmaceuticals, Inc
CollaboratorINDUSTRY
Therapeutic Advances in Childhood Leukemia Consortium
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
1 Years to 21 Years
Healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

Age -Patients must be ≥ 1 and ≤ 21 years of age at the time of enrollment. Diagnosis * Cohort A: Patients must have a diagnosis of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) or mixed phenotypic acute leukemia with ≥ 5% blasts in the bone marrow (M2 or M3), with or without extramedullary disease) or a diagnosis of lymphoblastic lymphoma. * Cohorts B & C: Patients must have a diagnosis of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), lymphoblastic lymphoma, or mixed phenotypic acute leukemia with any level of detectable disease (minimal residual disease level acceptable) with or without extramedullary disease Performance Level -Karnofsky \> 50% for patients \> 16 years of age and Lansky \> 50% for patients ≤ 16 years of age. Prior Therapy * Patients must have recovered from the acute toxic effects (≤ Grade 2 or baseline) of all prior chemotherapy, immunotherapy, or radiotherapy prior to entering this study, unless otherwise specified. Subjects with disease related cytopenias will be eligible. * Patients must have relapsed or refractory disease after attaining at least a first remission. They may be in first to third relapse.. * Patients with Philadelphia chromosome t(9;22) positive disease must have received at least two prior tyrosine kinase inhibitors. * Patients who have experienced their relapse after a Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) are eligible, provided they have no evidence of graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) and are at least 100 days post-transplant at the time of enrollment. * Prior anthracycline lifetime cumulative exposure: Patients must have less than 320 mg/m2 (or 400 mg/m2 if prior cardioprotection) lifetime exposure of anthracycline chemotherapy. 1. Cohort A: Patients must have less than 320 mg/m2 (or 400 mg/m2 if prior cardioprotection) lifetime exposure of anthracycline chemotherapy (See Appendix 2 for anthracycline calculation worksheet). 2. Cohorts B & C: There is no limit on prior anthracycline exposure. * Hematopoietic growth factors: It must have been at least seven days since the completion of therapy with granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (GCSF) or other growth factors at the time of enrollment. It must have been at least 14 days since the completion of therapy with pegfilgrastim (Neulasta®). * Biologic anti-neoplastic agents: At least seven days after the last dose of a biologic agent. For agents that have known adverse events occurring beyond seven days after administration, this period must be extended beyond the time during which adverse events are known to occur. The duration of this interval must be discussed with the study chair or vice chair. * Monoclonal antibodies: At least three half-lives (or 30 days-whichever is longer) of the antibody must have elapsed after the last dose of monoclonal antibody. (e.g., Rituximab = 66 days, Epratuzumab = 69 days) * Immunotherapy: At least 30 days after the completion of any type of immunotherapy, e.g. tumor vaccines, chimeric antigen receptor T-cells. * Recent prior chemotherapy: At least 10 days after standard vincristine and the completion of any type of chemotherapy induction regimen. At least 3 weeks after radiation therapy. At least 30 days after the completion of any investigational neoplastic agent is also required. An investigational agent is defined as any drug that is not approved and licensed for sale by the FDA for institutions in the United States, by Health Canada for institutions in Canada and by The Therapeutic Goods Administration for institutions in Australia. Exceptions: * There is no time restriction in regard to prior intrathecal chemotherapy provided there is complete recovery from any acute toxic effects of such; it is allowable to enroll a patient that has received IT Cytarabine (ARA-C), IT Methotrexate (MTX) or triple IT therapy within 14 days of enrollment as part of their evaluation to diagnose disease relapse. The IT therapy given within 14 days of initiation of protocol specified chemotherapy, may substitute for the day 1 IT in cohorts A and B * Subjects with rapidly progressive disease may receive hydroxyurea until they begin study therapy; * Patients who relapse while on maintenance-type ALL therapy or are receiving maintenance therapy for disease stabilization will not require a wash-out period before entry into this study. However, there must be at least 10 days after any dose of standard vincristine. Renal and Hepatic Function * Renal function: Patient's serum creatinine must be ≤ 1.5 x institutional upper limit of normal (ULN) according to age. If the serum creatinine is greater than 1.5 times normal, the patient must have a calculated creatinine clearance or radioisotope glomerular filtration rate (GFR) ≥ 70milliliter/min/1.73m2. Alternatively, a 24-hour creatinine clearance may also be used. * Hepatic function: alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and aspartate aminotransferase (AST) must be \< 5 x institutional upper limit of norm ULN. Total bilirubin must be ≤ 1.5 x ULN (except in the case of subjects with documented Gilbert's disease ≤ 5 × ULN). Cardiac Function -Patients must have a shortening fraction ≥ 27% or an ejection fraction ≥ 55% by echocardiogram, cardiac MRI or multigated acquisition scan (MUGA). Reproductive Function * Female patients must not be pregnant and those of childbearing potential must have a negative urine or serum pregnancy test confirmed within one week prior to enrollment. * Female patients with infants must agree not to breastfeed their infants while on this study. * Male and female patients of childbearing potential must agree to use an effective method of contraception during the study.

Exclusion criteria

Patients will be excluded if they have isolated testicular disease. Patients will be excluded if they have previously received Marqibo®. Patients will be excluded if they have a known allergy to any of the drugs used in the study, with the exception that patients with an allergy to PEG-asparaginase who can receive Erwinia asparaginase are eligible. Patients unable to receive any formulation of asparaginase may only enroll on cohort C Patients will be excluded if they have active, uncontrolled systemic fungal, bacterial, viral or other infection despite appropriate antibiotics or other treatment. Patients who require azole antifungal agents will be excluded. Azoles must be discontinued at least one week prior to the start of Marqibo®. Patients will be excluded if there is a plan to administer non-protocol chemotherapy, radiation therapy, another investigational agent or immunotherapy during the study period. Patients with pre-existing, persistent grade 2 or greater sensory or motor neuropathy from any cause will be excluded. Patients will be excluded if they have, significant concurrent disease, illness, psychiatric disorder or social issue that would compromise patient safety or adherence with the protocol treatment or procedures or interfere with consent, study participation, follow up, or interpretation of study results.Patients with Down syndrome will not be eligible for enrollment on Cohort A Patients with a known history of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) will will be excluded due to the increased risk of complications such as severe infection and unknown interaction of Marqibo® with antiretroviral drugs. Active hepatitis B or C infection as defined by seropositive for hepatitis B (hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg)) or hepatitis C and elevated liver transaminases (defined as above the ULN per the institution normal ranges).

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Number of Participants With Dose Limiting Toxicities as a Measure of Safety and Tolerability9 weeksNumber of Participants with Dose Limiting Toxicities as a Measure of Safety and Tolerability at different dose levels of Marqibo. Dose Level 1 = 1.5 mg/m\^2. Dose Level 2 = 2.0 mg/m\^2. Cohort A and B accrued at both Dose Levels. Cohort C accrued only at Dose Level 2.

Countries

Australia, Canada, United States

Participant flow

Participants by arm

ArmCount
Cohort A Dose Level 1: Marqibo and UK ALL R3 Backbone
* Marqibo® (1.5 mg/m\^2): given by intravenous (IV) infusion on days 1, 8, 15 and 22. * Dexamethasone orally twice daily on days 1-5 and 15-19. * Mitoxantrone: given by intravenous (IV) infusion on days 1 and 2. * PEG-asparaginase: given as an injection into the muscle on says 3 and 17. * Methotrexate IT: given intrathecally (used to treat the brain and spinal cord and is given using a needle inserted into the spinal canal) on days 1 and 8. Marqibo: The focus of the study design and statistical analysis is to determine whether Marqibo® can be substituted for standard vincristine and successfully administered to patients with relapsed ALL in three different treatment cohorts: (A) treatment with the UK ALL R3 regimen; (B) treatment with UK ALL R3 regimen without mitoxantrone, and (C) treatment with ALL maintenance therapy. Secondary objectives include estimating rates of serious toxicities and therapy delays in each of these cohorts.
12
Cohort A Dose Level 2: Marqibo and UK ALL R3 Backbone
* Marqibo® (2.0 mg/m\^2): given by intravenous (IV) infusion on days 1, 8, 15 and 22. * Dexamethasone orally twice daily on days 1-5 and 15-19. * Mitoxantrone: given by intravenous (IV) infusion on days 1 and 2. * PEG-asparaginase: given as an injection into the muscle on says 3 and 17. * Methotrexate IT: given intrathecally (used to treat the brain and spinal cord and is given using a needle inserted into the spinal canal) on days 1 and 8. Marqibo: The focus of the study design and statistical analysis is to determine whether Marqibo® can be substituted for standard vincristine and successfully administered to patients with relapsed ALL in three different treatment cohorts: (A) treatment with the UK ALL R3 regimen; (B) treatment with UK ALL R3 regimen without mitoxantrone, and (C) treatment with ALL maintenance therapy. Secondary objectives include estimating rates of serious toxicities and therapy delays in each of these cohorts.
4
Cohort B Dose Level 1: Marqibo and Lower Intensity UK ALL R3 Backbone
* Marqibo® (1.5 mg/m\^2): given by intravenous (IV) infusion on days 1, 8, 15 and 22. * Dexamethasone orally twice daily on days 1-5 and 15-19. * PEG-asparaginase: given as an injection into the muscle on days 3 and 17. * Methotrexate IT: given intrathecally (used to treat the brain and spinal cord and is given using a needle inserted into the spinal canal) on days 1 and 8. Marqibo: The focus of the study design and statistical analysis is to determine whether Marqibo® can be substituted for standard vincristine and successfully administered to patients with relapsed ALL in three different treatment cohorts: (A) treatment with the UK ALL R3 regimen; (B) treatment with UK ALL R3 regimen without mitoxantrone, and (C) treatment with ALL maintenance therapy. Secondary objectives include estimating rates of serious toxicities and therapy delays in each of these cohorts.
6
Cohort B Dose Level 2: Marqibo and Lower Intensity UK ALL R3 Backbone
* Marqibo® (2.0 mg/m\^2): given by intravenous (IV) infusion on days 1, 8, 15 and 22. * Dexamethasone orally twice daily on days 1-5 and 15-19. * PEG-asparaginase: given as an injection into the muscle on days 3 and 17. * Methotrexate IT: given intrathecally (used to treat the brain and spinal cord and is given using a needle inserted into the spinal canal) on days 1 and 8. Marqibo: The focus of the study design and statistical analysis is to determine whether Marqibo® can be substituted for standard vincristine and successfully administered to patients with relapsed ALL in three different treatment cohorts: (A) treatment with the UK ALL R3 regimen; (B) treatment with UK ALL R3 regimen without mitoxantrone, and (C) treatment with ALL maintenance therapy. Secondary objectives include estimating rates of serious toxicities and therapy delays in each of these cohorts.
2
Cohort C Dose Level 2: Marqibo and Maintenance Regimen
* Marqibo® (2.0 mg/m\^2): given by intravenous (IV) infusion on day 1 * Dexamethasone orally twice daily on days 1-5 * Methotrexate: given orally on days 1 and 8 * Mercaptopurine: given orally daily on days 1-13 Marqibo: The focus of the study design and statistical analysis is to determine whether Marqibo® can be substituted for standard vincristine and successfully administered to patients with relapsed ALL in three different treatment cohorts: (A) treatment with the UK ALL R3 regimen; (B) treatment with UK ALL R3 regimen without mitoxantrone, and (C) treatment with ALL maintenance therapy. Secondary objectives include estimating rates of serious toxicities and therapy delays in each of these cohorts.
5
Total29

Withdrawals & dropouts

PeriodReasonFG000FG001FG002FG003FG004
Overall StudyAdverse Event00110

Baseline characteristics

CharacteristicTotalCohort A Dose Level 1: Marqibo and UK ALL R3 BackboneCohort A Dose Level 2: Marqibo and UK ALL R3 BackboneCohort B Dose Level 1: Marqibo and Lower Intensity UK ALL R3 BackboneCohort B Dose Level 2: Marqibo and Lower Intensity UK ALL R3 BackboneCohort C Dose Level 2: Marqibo and Maintenance Regimen
Age, Categorical
<=18 years
27 Participants12 Participants4 Participants5 Participants2 Participants4 Participants
Age, Categorical
>=65 years
0 Participants0 Participants0 Participants0 Participants0 Participants0 Participants
Age, Categorical
Between 18 and 65 years
2 Participants0 Participants0 Participants1 Participants0 Participants1 Participants
Age, Continuous12.4 years12.3 years8.7 years12 years12.7 years15.8 years
Race (NIH/OMB)
American Indian or Alaska Native
2 Participants0 Participants1 Participants0 Participants0 Participants1 Participants
Race (NIH/OMB)
Asian
0 Participants0 Participants0 Participants0 Participants0 Participants0 Participants
Race (NIH/OMB)
Black or African American
1 Participants0 Participants0 Participants1 Participants0 Participants0 Participants
Race (NIH/OMB)
More than one race
0 Participants0 Participants0 Participants0 Participants0 Participants0 Participants
Race (NIH/OMB)
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander
0 Participants0 Participants0 Participants0 Participants0 Participants0 Participants
Race (NIH/OMB)
Unknown or Not Reported
6 Participants2 Participants1 Participants1 Participants0 Participants2 Participants
Race (NIH/OMB)
White
20 Participants10 Participants2 Participants4 Participants2 Participants2 Participants
Region of Enrollment
United States
29 participants12 participants4 participants6 participants2 participants5 participants
Sex: Female, Male
Female
12 Participants5 Participants1 Participants3 Participants1 Participants2 Participants
Sex: Female, Male
Male
17 Participants7 Participants3 Participants3 Participants1 Participants3 Participants

Adverse events

Event typeEG000
affected / at risk
EG001
affected / at risk
EG002
affected / at risk
EG003
affected / at risk
EG004
affected / at risk
deaths
Total, all-cause mortality
0 / 120 / 40 / 60 / 20 / 5
other
Total, other adverse events
12 / 124 / 46 / 62 / 25 / 5
serious
Total, serious adverse events
7 / 124 / 40 / 61 / 25 / 5

Outcome results

Primary

Number of Participants With Dose Limiting Toxicities as a Measure of Safety and Tolerability

Number of Participants with Dose Limiting Toxicities as a Measure of Safety and Tolerability at different dose levels of Marqibo. Dose Level 1 = 1.5 mg/m\^2. Dose Level 2 = 2.0 mg/m\^2. Cohort A and B accrued at both Dose Levels. Cohort C accrued only at Dose Level 2.

Time frame: 9 weeks

ArmMeasureCategoryValue (COUNT_OF_PARTICIPANTS)
Cohort A Dose Level 1: Marqibo and UK ALL R3 BackboneNumber of Participants With Dose Limiting Toxicities as a Measure of Safety and TolerabilityDLT0 Participants
Cohort A Dose Level 1: Marqibo and UK ALL R3 BackboneNumber of Participants With Dose Limiting Toxicities as a Measure of Safety and TolerabilityNo DLT12 Participants
Cohort A Dose Level 2: Marqibo and UK ALL R3 BackboneNumber of Participants With Dose Limiting Toxicities as a Measure of Safety and TolerabilityDLT2 Participants
Cohort A Dose Level 2: Marqibo and UK ALL R3 BackboneNumber of Participants With Dose Limiting Toxicities as a Measure of Safety and TolerabilityNo DLT2 Participants
Cohort B Dose Level 1: Marqibo and Lower Intensity UK ALL R3 BackboneNumber of Participants With Dose Limiting Toxicities as a Measure of Safety and TolerabilityDLT0 Participants
Cohort B Dose Level 1: Marqibo and Lower Intensity UK ALL R3 BackboneNumber of Participants With Dose Limiting Toxicities as a Measure of Safety and TolerabilityNo DLT6 Participants
Cohort B Dose Level 2: Marqibo and Lower Intensity UK ALL R3 BackboneNumber of Participants With Dose Limiting Toxicities as a Measure of Safety and TolerabilityNo DLT1 Participants
Cohort B Dose Level 2: Marqibo and Lower Intensity UK ALL R3 BackboneNumber of Participants With Dose Limiting Toxicities as a Measure of Safety and TolerabilityDLT1 Participants
Cohort C Dose Level 2: Marqibo and Maintenance RegimenNumber of Participants With Dose Limiting Toxicities as a Measure of Safety and TolerabilityDLT0 Participants
Cohort C Dose Level 2: Marqibo and Maintenance RegimenNumber of Participants With Dose Limiting Toxicities as a Measure of Safety and TolerabilityNo DLT5 Participants

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 21, 2026