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Registration number
NCT04401748
Ethics application status
Date submitted
22/05/2020
Date registered
26/05/2020
Date last updated
20/06/2024

Titles & IDs
Public title
Study Of Venetoclax Tablet With Intravenous or Subcutaneous Azacitidine to Assess Change in Disease Activity In Adult Participants With Newly Diagnosed Higher-Risk Myelodysplastic Syndrome
Scientific title
A Randomized, Double-Blind, Phase 3 Study Evaluating the Safety and Efficacy of Venetoclax in Combination With Azacitidine in Patients Newly Diagnosed With Higher-Risk Myelodysplastic Syndrome (Higher-Risk MDS)
Secondary ID [1] 0 0
2023-507153-16-00
Secondary ID [2] 0 0
M15-954
Universal Trial Number (UTN)
Trial acronym
Verona
Linked study record

Health condition
Health condition(s) or problem(s) studied:
Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS) 0 0
Condition category
Condition code
Blood 0 0 0 0
Haematological diseases
Blood 0 0 0 0
Other blood disorders
Other 0 0 0 0
Research that is not of generic health relevance and not applicable to specific health categories listed above

Intervention/exposure
Study type
Interventional
Description of intervention(s) / exposure
Treatment: Drugs - Venetoclax
Treatment: Drugs - Azacitidine
Treatment: Drugs - Placebo

Experimental: Arm 1: Venetoclax + Azacitidine (AZA) - Participants will receive venetoclax once daily (QD) (Days 1-14) in combination with AZA QD (7 days of the first 9 days) of each 28 day cycle.

Active comparator: Arm 2: Placebo + Azacitidine - Participants will receive placebo once daily (QD) (Days 1-14) in combination with AZA QD (7 days of the first 9 days) of each 28 day cycle.


Treatment: Drugs: Venetoclax
Tablet: Oral

Treatment: Drugs: Azacitidine
Subcutaneous (SC) or Intravenous (IV) injection

Treatment: Drugs: Placebo
Tablet; Oral
Intervention code [1] 0 0
Treatment: Drugs
Comparator / control treatment
Control group

Outcomes
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Overall survival (OS)
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Up To 5 Years
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Modified Overall Response (mOR)
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Up To 5 Years
Secondary outcome [2] 0 0
Percentage of Participants Achieving Overall Hematological Improvement (HI)
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Up to 5 Years
Secondary outcome [3] 0 0
Complete Remission (CR)
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Up To 36 Months
Secondary outcome [4] 0 0
Percentage of Participants Achieving Transfusion Independence (TI) Who are Transfusion Dependent at Baseline
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Up To 5 Years
Secondary outcome [5] 0 0
Time to Deterioration in Physical Functioning as Measured by Physical Functioning Domain of the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire (EORTC QLQ-C30) Scale
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Up To 5 Years
Secondary outcome [6] 0 0
Change in Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS)-Fatigue Short Form (SF) 7a Scale Score
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Up To 5 Years
Secondary outcome [7] 0 0
Overall Response (OR)
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Up To 5 Years

Eligibility
Key inclusion criteria
* Participants with a diagnosis of Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS) according to the 2016 World Health Organization (WHO) classification wtih presence of < 20% bone marrow blasts per marrow biopsy/aspirate at screening.
* Participants must meet the following disease activity criteria:

* Overall Revised International Prognostic Scoring System (IPSS-R) score > 3 (intermediate, high or very high).
* Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of <= 2.
* Hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) eligible with no pre-arranged HSCT at the time of Study Day 1, or HSCT ineligible without plan for HSCT at the time of Study Day 1.
Minimum age
18 Years
Maximum age
No limit
Sex
Both males and females
Can healthy volunteers participate?
No
Key exclusion criteria
* Prior therapy for MDS with any hypomethylating agent, chemotherapy, or allogenic stem cell transplantation.
* Prior diagnosis of therapy-related MDS (t-MDS), MDS evolving from a pre-existing myeloproliferative neoplasm (MPN), MDS/MPN including chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML), atypical chronic myeloid leukemia (aCML), juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia (JMML) and unclassifiable MDS/MPN.

Study design
Purpose of the study
Treatment
Allocation to intervention
Randomised controlled trial
Procedure for enrolling a subject and allocating the treatment (allocation concealment procedures)
Methods used to generate the sequence in which subjects will be randomised (sequence generation)
Masking / blinding
Blinded (masking used)
Who is / are masked / blinded?
The people receiving the treatment/s
The people administering the treatment/s
The people assessing the outcomes
The people analysing the results/data
Intervention assignment
Parallel
Other design features
Phase
Phase 3
Type of endpoint/s
Statistical methods / analysis

Recruitment
Recruitment status
Active, not recruiting
Data analysis
Reason for early stopping/withdrawal
Other reasons
Date of first participant enrolment
Anticipated
Actual
10/09/2020
Date of last participant enrolment
Anticipated
Actual
Date of last data collection
Anticipated
10/09/2025
Actual
Sample size
Target
Accrual to date
Final
531
Recruitment in Australia
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Duplicate_Blacktown Hospital /ID# 234079 - Blacktown
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Gold coast University Hospital /ID# 222606 - SouthPort
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St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne /ID# 221809 - Fitzroy Melbourne
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Austin Health /ID# 221807 - Heidelberg
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Primary sponsor type
Commercial sector/industry
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AbbVie
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Genentech, Inc.
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Summary
Brief summary
Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS) is a group of disorders that gradually affect the ability of a person's bone marrow (semi-liquid tissue present in many bones like backbones) to produce normal blood cells. Some people with MDS have a risk of the disease progressing to acute myeloid leukemia (AML), and a risk of death from the disease itself. Symptoms of MDS include fatigue, shortness of breath, unusual paleness due to anemia (low red blood cell count), easy or unusual bruising, and red spots just beneath the skin caused by bleeding. The purpose of this study is to see how safe and effective venetoclax and azacitidine (AZA) combination are when compared to AZA and a placebo (contains no medicine), in participants with newly diagnosed higher-risk MDS.

Venetoclax is an investigational drug being developed for the treatment of MDS. The study consists of two treatment arms - In one arm, participants will receive venetoclax and AZA. In another arm, participants will receive AZA and placebo. Adult participants with newly diagnosed higher-risk MDS will be enrolled. Around 500 participants will be enrolled in approximately 220 sites worldwide.

Participants in one arm will receive oral doses of venetoclax tablet and intravenous (infusion in the vein) or subcutaneous (given under the skin) AZA solution. Participants in another arm will receive oral doses of placebo tablet and intravenous or subcutaneous AZA solution.

There may be higher treatment burden for participants in this trial compared to their standard of care. Participants will attend regular visits during the course of the study at a hospital or clinic. The effect of the treatment will be checked by medical assessments, blood and bone marrow tests, checking for side effects, and completing questionnaires.
Trial website
https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT04401748
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ABBVIE INC.
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AbbVie
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Summary Results

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