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Registration number
NCT00102804
Ethics application status
Date submitted
1/02/2005
Date registered
2/02/2005
Date last updated
29/12/2014

Titles & IDs
Public title
Pemetrexed and Best Supportive Care Versus Placebo and Best Supportive Care in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC)
Scientific title
A Phase 3, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Study of Maintenance Pemetrexed Plus Best Supportive Care Versus Best Supportive Care Immediately Following Induction Treatment for Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
Secondary ID [1] 0 0
H3E-MC-JMEN
Secondary ID [2] 0 0
5122
Universal Trial Number (UTN)
Trial acronym
Linked study record

Health condition
Health condition(s) or problem(s) studied:
Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer 0 0
Condition category
Condition code
Cancer 0 0 0 0
Lung - Mesothelioma
Cancer 0 0 0 0
Lung - Non small cell
Cancer 0 0 0 0
Lung - Small cell

Intervention/exposure
Study type
Interventional
Description of intervention(s) / exposure
Treatment: Drugs - Pemetrexed
Treatment: Drugs - Placebo
Other interventions - Best Supportive Care

Experimental: Pemetrexed and Best Supportive Care -

Placebo comparator: Placebo and Best Supportive Care -


Treatment: Drugs: Pemetrexed
500 milligrams per square meter (mg/m\^2), intravenous (IV) administration, every (q) 21 days, until disease progression

Treatment: Drugs: Placebo
IV administration, q 21 days

Other interventions: Best Supportive Care
Treatment without a specific antineoplastic regimen, given with the intent to maximize quality of life, as judged by the treating physician.
Intervention code [1] 0 0
Treatment: Drugs
Intervention code [2] 0 0
Other interventions
Comparator / control treatment
Control group

Outcomes
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Progression-Free Survival (PFS) Time
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Randomization to measured PD or death from any cause (up to 41 months)
Secondary outcome [1] 0 0
Overall Survival (OS) Time
Timepoint [1] 0 0
Randomization to date of death from any cause (up to 41 months)
Secondary outcome [2] 0 0
Time to Objective Progressive Disease (TPD)
Timepoint [2] 0 0
Randomization to measured PD (up to 41 months)
Secondary outcome [3] 0 0
Time to Worsening of Symptoms (TWS)
Timepoint [3] 0 0
Randomization to worsening of each LCSS item (up to 39 months)
Secondary outcome [4] 0 0
Percentage of Participants With a Complete Response (CR) or Partial Response (PR) (Objective Tumor Response Rate)
Timepoint [4] 0 0
Baseline to measured PD (up to 41 months)
Secondary outcome [5] 0 0
Number of Participants With Adverse Events (AEs)
Timepoint [5] 0 0
Baseline to study completion (up to 41 Months)
Secondary outcome [6] 0 0
Maximum Improvement Over Baseline in Individual Symptom Scores and Quality of Life Using the LCSS
Timepoint [6] 0 0
Baseline through 30 days post discontinuation of study treatment (up to 39 Months)

Eligibility
Key inclusion criteria
* Histologic or cytologic diagnosis of NSCLC Stage IIIB (with pleural effusion and/or positive supraclavicular lymph nodes) or Stage IV prior to induction therapy.
* Participants must have had 1 of the following induction therapies for treatment for Stage IIIB (with pleural effusion and/or positive supraclavicular lymph nodes) or IV NSCLC: Gemcitabine plus carboplatin, paclitaxel plus carboplatin, or docetaxel plus carboplatin, gemcitabine plus cisplatin, paclitaxel plus cisplatin or docetaxel plus cisplatin.
* Participants must have received only 1 chemotherapeutic doublet lasting precisely 4 cycles.
* Induction regimens must be based on 21-day cycles.
* Documented evidence of a tumor response of complete response (CR), partial response (PR), or stable disease (SD). Tumor assessment must occur between Cycle 4 (Day 1) of induction therapy and the date of randomization. This response does not have to be confirmed in order for the participant to be randomized. Positron emission tomography (PET) scans and ultrasounds may not be used for lesion measurements for response determination.
Minimum age
18 Years
Maximum age
No limit
Sex
Both males and females
Can healthy volunteers participate?
No
Key exclusion criteria
* With the exception of those chemotherapies listed as inclusion criterion, participants will not be included if they have received prior systemic anticancer therapy (including adjuvant early-stage treatment for NSCLC) or any systemic treatment for any other cancer.
* Have received treatment within the last 30 days with a drug that has not received regulatory approval for any indication at the time of study entry.
* Inability to comply with protocol or study procedures.
* A serious concomitant systemic disorder that would compromise the participant's ability to complete the study.
* A serious cardiac condition, such as myocardial infarction within 6 months, angina, or heart disease, as defined by the New York Heart Association Class III or IV.

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
Completed
Data analysis
Reason for early stopping/withdrawal
Other reasons
Date of first participant enrolment
Anticipated
Actual
1/03/2005
Date of last participant enrolment
Anticipated
Actual
Date of last data collection
Anticipated
Actual
1/12/2013
Sample size
Target
Accrual to date
Final
663
Recruitment in Australia
Recruitment state(s)
NSW,QLD,SA,VIC
Recruitment hospital [1] 0 0
For additional information regarding investigative sites for this trial, contact 1-877-CTLILLY (1-877-285-4559, 1-317-615-4559) Mon - Fri from 9 AM to 5 PM Eastern Time (UTC/GMT - 5 hours, EST), or speak with your personal physician. - Bankstown
Recruitment hospital [2] 0 0
For additional information regarding investigative sites for this trial, contact 1-877-CTLILLY (1-877-285-4559, 1-317-615-4559) Mon - Fri from 9 AM to 5 PM Eastern Time (UTC/GMT - 5 hours, EST), or speak with your personal physician. - Coffs Harbour
Recruitment hospital [3] 0 0
For additional information regarding investigative sites for this trial, contact 1-877-CTLILLY (1-877-285-4559, 1-317-615-4559) Mon - Fri from 9 AM to 5 PM Eastern Time (UTC/GMT - 5 hours, EST), or speak with your personal physician. - Kogarah
Recruitment hospital [4] 0 0
For additional information regarding investigative sites for this trial, contact 1-877-CTLILLY (1-877-285-4559, 1-317-615-4559) Mon - Fri from 9 AM to 5 PM Eastern Time (UTC/GMT - 5 hours, EST), or speak with your personal physician. - Port Macquarie
Recruitment hospital [5] 0 0
For additional information regarding investigative sites for this trial, contact 1-877-CTLILLY (1-877-285-4559, 1-317-615-4559) Mon - Fri from 9 AM to 5 PM Eastern Time (UTC/GMT - 5 hours, EST), or speak with your personal physician. - Nambour
Recruitment hospital [6] 0 0
For additional information regarding investigative sites for this trial, contact 1-877-CTLILLY (1-877-285-4559, 1-317-615-4559) Mon - Fri from 9 AM to 5 PM Eastern Time (UTC/GMT - 5 hours, EST), or speak with your personal physician. - Townsville
Recruitment hospital [7] 0 0
For additional information regarding investigative sites for this trial, contact 1-877-CTLILLY (1-877-285-4559, 1-317-615-4559) Mon - Fri from 9 AM to 5 PM Eastern Time (UTC/GMT - 5 hours, EST), or speak with your personal physician. - Ashford
Recruitment hospital [8] 0 0
For additional information regarding investigative sites for this trial, contact 1-877-CTLILLY (1-877-285-4559, 1-317-615-4559) Mon - Fri from 9 AM to 5 PM Eastern Time (UTC/GMT - 5 hours, EST), or speak with your personal physician. - Frankston
Recruitment postcode(s) [1] 0 0
2200 - Bankstown
Recruitment postcode(s) [2] 0 0
2450 - Coffs Harbour
Recruitment postcode(s) [3] 0 0
2217 - Kogarah
Recruitment postcode(s) [4] 0 0
2444 - Port Macquarie
Recruitment postcode(s) [5] 0 0
4560 - Nambour
Recruitment postcode(s) [6] 0 0
4810 - Townsville
Recruitment postcode(s) [7] 0 0
5035 - Ashford
Recruitment postcode(s) [8] 0 0
VIC 3199 - Frankston
Recruitment outside Australia
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Minnesota
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New Hampshire
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Pennsylvania
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Tennessee
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Texas
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Wisconsin
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Austria
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Vienna
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Ijui
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Brazil
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Sao Paulo
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Bulgaria
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Sofia
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Varna
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Beijing
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China
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Dalian
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China
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Guang Zhou
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China
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Hangzhou
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China
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Ji Nan
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China
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Nan Jing
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China
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Shanghai
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Zagreb
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Brno
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Messina
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Amsterdam
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Ede
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Izmir

Funding & Sponsors
Primary sponsor type
Commercial sector/industry
Name
Eli Lilly and Company
Address
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Ethics approval
Ethics application status

Summary
Brief summary
This study is a randomized Phase 3, double-blind study of maintenance pemetrexed plus best supportive care versus placebo plus best supportive care in NSCLC. Participants must have received 1 of 6 induction regimens for 4 cycles and did not have progressive disease prior to randomization (enrollment) into this trial.
Trial website
https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00102804
Trial related presentations / publications
Belani CP, Brodowicz T, Ciuleanu TE, Krzakowski M, Yang SH, Franke F, Cucevic B, Madhavan J, Santoro A, Ramlau R, Liepa AM, Visseren-Grul C, Peterson P, John WJ, Zielinski CC. Quality of life in patients with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer given maintenance treatment with pemetrexed versus placebo (H3E-MC-JMEN): results from a randomised, double-blind, phase 3 study. Lancet Oncol. 2012 Mar;13(3):292-9. doi: 10.1016/S1470-2045(11)70339-4. Epub 2012 Feb 14.
Gridelli C, Brodowicz T, Langer CJ, Peterson P, Islam M, Guba SC, Moore P, Visseren-Grul CM, Scagliotti G. Pemetrexed therapy in elderly patients with good performance status: analysis of two phase III trials of patients with nonsquamous non-small-cell lung cancer. Clin Lung Cancer. 2012 Sep;13(5):340-6. doi: 10.1016/j.cllc.2011.12.002. Epub 2012 Jan 23.
Ciuleanu T, Brodowicz T, Zielinski C, Kim JH, Krzakowski M, Laack E, Wu YL, Bover I, Begbie S, Tzekova V, Cucevic B, Pereira JR, Yang SH, Madhavan J, Sugarman KP, Peterson P, John WJ, Krejcy K, Belani CP. Maintenance pemetrexed plus best supportive care versus placebo plus best supportive care for non-small-cell lung cancer: a randomised, double-blind, phase 3 study. Lancet. 2009 Oct 24;374(9699):1432-40. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(09)61497-5. Epub 2009 Sep 18.
Public notes

Contacts
Principal investigator
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Call 1-877-CTLILLY (1-877-285-4559) or 1-317-615-4559 Mon - Fri 9 AM - 5 PM Eastern time (UTC/GMT - 5 hours, EST)
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Eli Lilly and Company
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Summary Results

For IPD and results data, please see https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00102804