This will be a multicenter, prospective, randomized, open-label trial with women harboring microprolactinomas and treatment naïve. The sample will be added consecutively and randomized into 2 unblinded groups: the high dosage group will receive a high cabergoline (CAB) dose for a period of \~6 months vs the standard dosage group, which will use the lowest needed dose of CAB to achieve normoprolactinemia for 2 years. The primary outcome will be remission rate.
Prolactinoma is the most common subtype of pituitary adenoma, and dopamine agonists are the gold standard for treatment, primarily CAB. The SPARAGMOS trial will be an interventional, randomized, open-label, multicenter study utilizing a high dose of CAB for \~6 months to suppress prolactin levels, with the hypothetical goal of achieving greater tumor apoptosis and remission rates. The control group will receive CAB for two years at the lowest dose necessary to achieve normoprolactinemia, as per current guidelines. Of note, for both groups, the final cumulative dose will be similar. The findings from this trial have the potential to inform and redefine future therapeutic strategies for microprolactinoma.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
70
Patients eligible for the study and randomized to the HIGH CAB arm will start oral CAB, 1 pill of 0.5mg, once a week. The dose will be increased by 0.5mg every week until the target dose of 3.5 mg/w. This initial low-dose-escalating regimen of 7 weeks will be used to prevent symptoms of intolerance. When 3.5 mg/w (1 pill every day) is reached, the patient must maintain this dose for 6 months. After this period, a 1-month de-escalation regime is implemented, reducing the dose by 1 mg/w (2 pills per week) until discontinuation.
The standard dosage group will receive conventional treatment as recommended by current guidelines: a low dose of CAB enough to achieve normoPRL for 2 years. All patients will start CAB with 1 pill (0.5mg) once a week. The CAB dose can be adjusted during visits if hyperPRL is not resolved (maximum dose 2mg/w to prevent inclusion of resistant cases). The expected dose used for this arm during follow-up is between 0.5 and 1 mg/w. After completion of 2 years of treatment, all patients will have CAB withdrawn, irrespective of tumor reduction, PRL levels or last CAB dose used.
UFMG
Belo Horizonte, Brazil
RECRUITINGUnesp
Botucatu, Brazil
RECRUITINGUNB
Brasília, Brazil
RECRUITINGUnicamp
Campinas, Brazil
RECRUITINGUFPR
Curitiba, Brazil
RECRUITINGUFG
Goiânia, Brazil
RECRUITINGCPC
Ponta Grossa, Brazil
RECRUITINGHCPA
Porto Alegre, Brazil
COMPLETEDHospital Moinhos de Vento
Porto Alegre, Brazil
RECRUITINGSta Casa-RS
Porto Alegre, Brazil
RECRUITING...and 6 more locations
Remission
Compare laboratory and clinical recurrence of hyperPRL at 3, 6 and 12 months after CAB treatment in the high dosage group vs the standard dosage group (conventional treatment). Laboratory recurrence will be characterized after withdrawal from CAB treatment by the presence of PRL levels above 2x the normal upper limit of reference, after a previous period where PRL levels were within the normal range. At least two separate serum samples are needed to confirm recurrence. The time between samples will be more than a week to ensure sustained elevation. Clinical recurrence will be defined as the recrudescence of symptomatic hyperPRL.
Time frame: 3, 6 and 12 months after treatment
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