TransMID treatment or best standard of care for patients with advanced glioblastoma multiforme Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is a type of brain tumour. GBM tumours are usually treated with surgery and radiotherapy. Unfortunately, this type of brain tumour may continue to grow or come back (recur) despite treatment. This trial will compare a new drug called TransMID with the best standard treatment that is currently available. TransMID is a drug that is a combination of a protein called transferrin and a poison called diphtheria toxin. Cancer cells need iron in order to continue to grow. They need more iron than normal cells. Transferrin helps cells to take up available iron. So the cancer cells are attached to the transferrin in TransMID, and the diphtheria poison kills them. The aim of this treatment is to kill the cancer cells while not affecting the normal brain cells. This treatment for brain tumours may have fewer side effects than other treatments because it targets cancer cells. The best standard treatment will involve giving chemotherapy. You may have chemotherapy as part of the treatment when you are diagnosed. Or it may be kept in reserve to treat your brain tumour if it comes back or continues to grow. Your cancer specialist (consultant) will decide which chemotherapy drugs you should have.
This is a Multicenter, open label, randomized study comparing TransMID™ with a chemotherapeutic regimen considered to be best standard of care and consisting of either nitrosoureas, platinum compounds, temozolomide, procarbazine, PCV, (procarbazine, lomustine (CCNU) \& vincristine), CPT-11, or Etoposide. A planned interim analysis of the primary efficacy endpoint will be conducted after approximately 50% of the required events have been observed. In order for a patient to be eligible for enrollment into this trial, he/she must be diagnosed with glioblastoma multiforme which has been confirmed histologically and have undergone conventional treatment, including surgery (biopsy or debulking) and/or radiation therapy and/or chemotherapy, have a recurrent and/or progressive tumor ≥1.0 cm and ≤4.0 cm in diameter.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
323
University of California-San Diego
La Jolla, California, United States
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California, United States
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
Denver, Colorado, United States
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute
Tampa, Florida, United States
University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois, United States
University of Iowa Hospitals in Clinics
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States
University of Kentucky Medical Center
Lexington, Kentucky, United States
Johns Hopkins Medical Center
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
NINDS National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland, United States
...and 15 more locations
Overall survival time i.e. to to death
12 month survival rate
Tumor Response
Duration of Response
Time to Progression
6 and 12 month progression rates
Progression Free Survival
6 and 12 progression free survival rate
Quality of Life
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