Study is aimed at evaluating the activity of Trabectedin (arm A) in advanced leiomyosarcomas, having Gemcitabine (arm B) as the comparator. In addition to the randomized cohort, the study has also an observational prospective cohort which include patients who will refuse the randomization or for whom the investigator will not judge the randomization as an appropriate option. In order to allow the participation of sites only to the prospective-observational (non randomized) cohort, it was introduced the possibility to participate to the study and receive the ethical approval only to the Observational Prospective Cohort In parallel an optional translational study will be performed, in both cohorts, to identify factors predictive of the activity of Trabectedin or Gemcitabine in this specific histotype.
The management of patients with leiomyosarcomas determines many difficulties. Despite patients with metastatic disease at diagnosis or who recur after initial treatment have a dismal prognosis and, except for a subset of selected patients with completely resectable disease, the median survival is less than two years. At the advanced-disease stage, the main aim of treatment is to improve patient's quality of life, possibly survival, with the best compromise between toxicity and symptoms. Trabectedin (T) is a marine-derived cytotoxic approved by European MEdicine Agency (EMEA) and FDA. It is indicated for the treatment of patients with advanced soft tissue sarcoma, after failure of anthracyclines-based chemotherapy or who are unsuitable to receive these agents. Among Soft Tissue Sarcoma (STS), activity has been mainly detected in synovial sarcoma, liposarcoma and leiomyosarcoma. Although the response rate did not exceed 10%, T was demonstrated to provide disease control, with progression arrest rates exceeding 50% and progression-free survival rates exceeding 20% at 6 months. So far no phase II or III studies have been addressed to test the activity of T in leiomyosarcoma specifically (without differentiation between site of primary localization) in comparison with Gemcitabine. This study is aimed at evaluating the activity of Trabectedin (arm A) in advanced leiomyosarcomas, having Gemcitabine (arm B) as the comparator. In parallel an optional translational study will be performed to identify factors predictive of the activity of Trabectedin or Gemcitabine in this specific histotype. In addition to the randomized cohort, the study has also an observational prospective cohort which include patients who will refuse the randomization or for whom the investigator will not judge the randomization as an appropriate option. In order to allow the participation of sites only to the prospective-observational (non randomized) cohort, it was introduced the possibility to participate to the study and receive the ethical approval only to the Observational Prospective Cohort In parallel an optional translational study will be performed, in both cohorts, to identify factors predictive of the activity of Trabectedin or Gemcitabine in this specific histotype.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
100
Trabectedin in monotherapy
Gemcitabine, control arm
Treatment according clinical practice
Azienda Ospedaliera S. Orsola-Malpighi
Bologna, BO, Italy
RECRUITINGIstituto Scientifico Romagnolo per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori - IRST
Meldola, FC, Italy
RECRUITINGNuovo Ospedale di Prato
Prato, Firenze, Italy
RECRUITINGIstituto Clinico Humanitas
Rozzano, MI, Italy
RECRUITINGCentro di Riferimento Oncologico di Aviano
Aviano, PD, Italy
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGPoliclinico Universitario Campus Biomedico
Roma, RM, Italy
RECRUITINGIRCCS Fondazione Piemonte per l'Oncologia
Candiolo, Torino, Italy
RECRUITINGA.O.U.San Luigi Gonzaga
Orbassano, Torino, Italy
RECRUITINGIstituto Ortopedico Rizzoli - Unit of Chemotherapy of Muscoloskeletal Tumors
Bologna, Italy
RECRUITINGH.San Martino di Genova
Genova, Italy
RECRUITING...and 7 more locations
Compare the Growth Modulation Index (GMI) in patients treated with Trabectedin or Gemcitabine in second line
Ratio of Time To Progression with the nth line (TTPn) of therapy to the TTPn-1 with the n-1th line.
Time frame: Week 6, week 12, week 18, week 27, week 36 and week 45
Overall Response Rate
Overall response rate according Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) version 1.1
Time frame: Week 6, week 12, week 18, week 27, week 36 and week 45
Overall Survival (OS)
Survival from the first dose treatment to death for any cause
Time frame: 3 years and 5 years
Progression free Survival (PFS)
Survival without disease progression
Time frame: 6 months
Duration of response
Duration of tumor control according Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) version 1.1
Time frame: Week 6, week 12, week 18, week 27, week 36 and week 45
Adverse events related to the treatment
Safety in term of adverse event is evaluate from the first treatment dose throughout the study according to CTCAE 5.0
Time frame: Week 3, week 6, week 9, week 12, week 18, week 27, week 36, week 45
Compare the Growth Modulation Index (GMI) in patients treated with Trabectedin or Gemcitabine after second line
Ratio of Time To Progression with the Mth line (TTPn) of therapy to the TTPn-1 with the n-1th line.
Time frame: Week 6, week 12, week 18, week 27, week 36 and week 45
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