The goal of this clinical trial is to: * In Phase 1 (observational) to develop an algorithm for treatment of Duffy-null positive patients for chemotherapy dosing * In Phase 2 (interventional), use the algorithm created in phase 1 to adjust chemotherapy dosing for Duffy-null patients
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
886
Standard of care chemotherapy for solid tumor malignancies with dose adjustment according to the algorithm produced in phase 1 for Duffy-null positive patients
Standard of care chemotherapy for solid tumor malignancies with dose modifications and delays according to the standard of care using CTCAE criteria.
Karmanos Cancer Institute
Detroit, Michigan, United States
The proportion of Duffy-null and non-Duffy-null participants who receive chemotherapy RDI <85%
The proportion of patients with chemotherapy RDI (relative dose intensity) \<85% will be estimated separately for the Duffy-null and non-Duffy-null groups. The primary measure of interest is the absolute between-group difference in proportions. A one-sided 90% confidence interval (equivalently, a two-sided 80% confidence interval) will be constructed for this difference. Results will be interpreted relative to the prespecified clinically meaningful threshold of 15% to inform the go/no-go decision for Phase 2. Formal hypothesis testing will be conducted using a one-sided significance level of 10% based on Fisher's exact test.
Time frame: 5 months after the start of chemotherapy
The proportion of Duffy-null and non-Duffy-null participants who receive chemotherapy RDI (relative dose intensity) <85% after implementation of a new purposed algorithm from Phase 1.
The absolute difference in the proportion of patients with chemotherapy RDI \<85% between the Duffy-null group treated under the purposed dosing algorithm and the non-Duffy-null group treated under standard of care will be estimated. A non-inferiority analysis will be performed using a prespecified margin of 7.5%. A two-sided 80% confidence interval (equivalently, a one-sided 90% confidence interval) will be constructed, and non-inferiority will be concluded if the upper bound of the confidence interval is less than 7.5%.
Time frame: 5 months after the start of chemotherapy
Incidence rates of fever, infection, hospitalization, and treatment-related mortality in the first five months of chemotherapy treatment
Data will be collected at baseline and up until 4 months after the start of chemotherapy, as well as an additional one month in order to assess treatment-related neutropenia and risks associated with therapy. Incidence of neutropenic fever, infection, hospitalization, and treatment-related mortality within the first five months of chemotherapy will be summarized descriptively within each group. Incidence proportions and corresponding two-sided 95% confidence intervals will be reported. Longitudinal patterns of neutrophil counts will be compared between the Duffy-null and non-Duffy-null groups using appropriate longitudinal methods such as mixed-effects models. In addition, exploratory time-to-first-event analyses for neutropenic fever, infection, hospitalization, and treatment-related mortality may be conducted using Cox proportional hazards models adjusted for relevant confounders (e.g., age, cancer type), and will be considered supportive of the descriptive incidence summaries.
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Time frame: 5 months after the start of chemotherapy