The primary objective of this study was to collect additional safety of INC424 in patients with Primary Myelofibrosis, Post Polycythemia Myelofibrosis or Post-essential Thrombocythemia Myelofibrosis, who either received prior treatment with commercially available agents or who have never received treatment.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
2,233
All patients enrolled into the study will receive INC424 (ruxolitinib). Starting dose is based on baseline platelet counts, with doses ranging from 5 to 20 mg twice a day. No INC424 dose will exceed 25 mg BID orally.
Number of Participants With Adverse Events (AEs) and Serious Adverse Events (SAEs) up to 5 Years
An adverse event (AE) is any untoward medical occurrence in a clinical trial participant regardless of causal relationship to study drug and regardless whether study drug has been administered. A serious adverse event (SAE) is any untoward medical occurrence or effect that at any dose results in death, is life-threatening, requires inpatient hospitalization or prolongation of existing hospitalization, results in persistent or significant disability / incapacity, is a congenital anomaly / birth defect or is medically important due to other reasons than the above mentioned criteria. A non-serious AE is any AE that does not meet the criteria above.
Time frame: Baseline up to approximately 5 years
Percentage of Participants With at Least 50% Reduction in Spleen Length
Spleen length was assessed by manual palpation. Assessment of spleen response was repeated until early discontinuation of the study drug and also at study completion (28 days post end of treatment visit).
Time frame: Baseline up to approximately 5 years
Number of Participants With Best Overall Response (BOR) up to 5 Years According to Spleen Length
Overall response is analyzed using the spleen response, as assessed by the investigator and also by deriving the response using International Working Group-Myeloproliferative Neoplasms Research and Treatment (IWG-MRT) criteria. Participants with spleen length at baseline between 5 and 10 cm were reported as Responders if reporting non palpable spleen; Stable disease does not meet criteria for response or disease progression and Progressive disease with an increase of 100% from baseline in spleen length. Participants with spleen length at baseline more than 10 cm were reported as Responders with spleen reduction of 50% from baseline; Stable disease does not meet criteria for response or disease progression and Progressive disease with an increase of 50% from baseline in spleen length.
Time frame: Baseline up to approximately 5 years
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Change in Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) Performance Status From Baseline to Worst Post-baseline ECOG Status up to 5 Years
ECOG Performance Score has 5 grades. 0 = Fully active, able to carry out all pre-disease activities; 1 = Restricted in strenuous activity but ambulatory and able to carry out work of light or sedentary nature; 2 = Ambulatory and capable of all self-care but unable to carry out work activities. Active about 50% of waking hours; 3 = Capable of limited self-care, confined to bed/chair more than 50% of waking hours; 4 = Completely disabled; cannot carry on self-care. Totally confined to bed/chair. 5 = Death.
Time frame: Baseline up to approximately 5 years
Change in Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy (FACT-TOI, FACT-G) and FACT-Lymphoma (FACT-Lym) Total Scores Measured at Baseline and Week 48
The FACT-Lym questionnaire consists of a total of 42 questions divided between five subscales (i.e., physical well-being, social/family well-being, emotional well-being, functional well-being and lymphoma subscale). Each subscale questionnaire rates each question on a 5-point scale from 0 = Not at all to 4 = Very much. These scores were summed to three total sum scores, namely FACT-Lym score, FACT-Lym Trial Outcome Index (TOI), FACT-General (FACT-G) and FACT-Lym total score. Total scores: FACT-Lym=0-60, FACT-TOI=0-116, FACT-G total=0-108, FACT-Lym Total= 0-168. Higher scores are reflective of better HRQoL.
Time frame: Baseline and Week 48
Time to First Improvement in FACT-Lym, FACIT-Fatigue Score and ECOG Performance Status
Improvement was defined by the upper limit of the minimally important difference (MID). Patients with the best possible score at Baseline were excluded from this analysis because their HRQoL cannot be further improved. Responders and non-responders for each endpoint were defined based on change from baseline scores using pre specified cut-off points. Patients with an improved score compared to Baseline, for which the magnitude of the change was at least the cutoff value, were classified as responders; otherwise, as non-responders. The responder cutoff: ECOG cutoff=1, range=0 to 5, FACT-Lym cutoff=5.4, range 0-60, FACIT-Fatigue =5 and range=0-52.The median time to first improvement was estimated using the Kaplan Meier method and time to improvement event was determined based on upper bound of the MID. The time to improvement was calculated from the date of first study drug administration.
Time frame: Baseline up to approximately 5 years
Medical Resource Utilization up to 5 Years
Percentage of patients requiring medical resources (blood transfusions, hospitalization, emergency room visits, general practitioners or specialists consultations, urgent care or splenic irradiation) up to 5 years.
Time frame: Baseline up to approximately 5 years.