There is currently no standard treatment beyond first-line etoposide/platinum-based chemotherapy in patients with progressive poorly differentiated extra-pulmonary neuroendocrine carcinoma. Therefore the treatment of patients whose disease progresses on or after this first-line treatment is an area of unmet need. Combination regimens such as irinotecan/5-fluorouracil/folinic acid are a second-line treatment option currently used in Europe and world-wide for this subset of patients. However, there is currently no trial evidence supporting this treatment regimen in these patients. Results of the NAPOLI-1 phase III trial of liposomal irinotecan in the treatment of patients with metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma after gemcitabine-based therapy reported improved survival for those patients who received a combination of liposomal irinotecan with 5-FU/folinic acid compared to those patients who received 5-FU/folinic acid alone. Liposomal irinotecan has been found to show an improved distribution into tumour tissue in comparison to irinotecan, and this may have clinical benefit in patients with extra-pulmonary neuroendocrine carcinoma. Docetaxel is standardly used as a second-line treatment option in patients with small cell lung cancer who have progressed on primary etoposide-platinum combination therapy. Therefore this drug could also have clinical benefit in patients with extra-pulmonary neuroendocrine carcinoma as the biology of the disease is similar to small cell lung cancer. The overall aim of the NET-02 trial is to select a treatment for continuation to a Phase III trial. The intention of the trial is to determine whether liposomal irinotecan/5-fluorouracil/folinic acid and docetaxel are sufficiently active in this population of patients. If both treatments are found to be efficacious, selection criteria will be applied to select a treatment to take forward. 102 eligible participants will be randomised to receive either liposomal irinotecan/5-fluorouracil/folinic acid given every 14 days, or docetaxel given every 21 days. Participants will be treated for a minimum of 6 months or until discontinuation of treatment as per protocol.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
58
The Beaston West of Scotland Cancer Center, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde
Glasgow, United Kingdom
Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
London, United Kingdom
The Christie NHS Foundation Trust
Manchester, United Kingdom
Weston Park Hospital, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, NHS Trust
Sheffield, United Kingdom
Progression-free survival defined as a binary outcome (progression-free or not)
Time frame: treatment start date until 6 months, assessed at 8 weekly intervals by CT scan
Progression-free survival defined as time from randomisation to progression or death from any cause.
Individuals will be censored if they are lost to follow-up or still alive and progression-free at the time of analysis.
Time frame: randomisation until 6 months after the last participant is randomised (end of trial), assessed at 8 weekly intervals by CT scan and death is continuously assessed
Overall survival defined as time from randomisation to death from any cause.
Individuals will be censored if they are lost to follow-up or still alive and progression-free at the time of analysis.
Time frame: randomisation until 6 months after the last participant is randomised (end of trial), death is continuously assessed
Objective response rate defined using Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) v1.1.
Time frame: start of treatment until 6 months after the last participant is randomised (end of trial)
Toxicity defined as the number of participants with treatment-related adverse events as assessed by common terminology criteria for adverse events (CTCAE) v5.0.
Time frame: treatment start date until 6 months after the last participant is randomised (end of trial), assessed at 2 (nal-IRI/5-FU/folinic acid) or 3 (docetaxel) weekly intervals
Quality of life assessed according to the patient reported outcome measures; European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) Quality of Life Questionnaire (QLQ) C30
Time frame: randomisation until 6 months after the last participant is randomised (end of trial), assessed at 6 weekly intervals
Neuron-specific enolase (NSE) measurements.
Time frame: baseline until 6 months after the last participant is randomised (end of trial), assessed at 6 weekly intervals
Quality of life assessed according to the patient reported outcome measures; European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) Quality of Life Questionnaire (QLQ) GINET21.
Time frame: randomisation until 6 months after the last participant is randomised (end of trial), assessed at 6 weekly intervals
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