NCT05135858

Dose Dense Re-challenge of High Dose Methotrexate With Glucarpidase for Relapsed Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma

Dose Dense Re-challenge of High Dose Methotrexate (HD-MTX) With Glucarpidase (CPG2) for Relapsed Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma (PCNSL): A Phase I Trial

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: Phase 1
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 18 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

High dose intravenous Methotrexate (HD-MTX) is the key drug in the treatment of primary central nervous system lymphoma (PCNSL). HD-MTX is usually delivered with time interval ranging from 10 to 21 days. Reduction of injection time interval is limited by MTX renal excretion and systemic toxicity. Glucarpidase (CPG2) is a recombinant bacterial rescue enzyme that cleaves circulating MTX into inactive metabolites, reducing plasma MTX concentrations within few minutes. The research hypothesis is that CPG2 used after HD-MTX injection allows to reduce time interval between MTX injections, increase dose intensity of the chemotherapy, reduce systemic toxicity and duration of hospitalization.

Detailed description

Open-label multicenter Phase I dose finding trial based on 3+3 escalation design. The phase I will follow a standard "3+3" dose level escalation design with reduced time interval of HD-MTX injections at fixed dose of HD-MTX to establish the minimum tolerated time interval. HD-MTX (methotrexate) is administered intravenously at the dose 3.5 g/m² (body surface area capped at 2 m2) over 2 to 3 hours, followed at H24 by glucarpidase with a 3 different MTX administration intervals: 8 days, 6 days, and 5 days. Treatments will be continued for a maximum of 6 injections until disease progression, unacceptable toxicity, or investigator's/patient's decision. Three dose levels could be explored under toxicity restrictions, where the dose combination for each cohort of three subjects will be determined by 3+3 escalation rule. Three schedule dose levels will be : every 8 days, every 6 days and every 5 days. The starting schedule dose of HD-MTX will be one administration of HD-MTX every 8 days for 6 injections. Dose of MTX will be fixed and will not be modified. No skipping of the dose level will be allowed. No intra-patient dose escalation is allowed. The DLT evaluation period begins with the first dose of methotrexate and ends at the beginning of the 25th day after the first MTX infusion.

Conditions

• Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DRUG	Glucarpidase	Glucarpidase (CPG2) Dose: 2000 U (2 vials of 1000 U per dose) 5 minutes-intravenous administration 24 hours after each Methotrexate infusion (i.e. 6 times in the whole protocol)
DRUG	Methotrexate (MTX)	MTX will be administred 6 times during the protocol, at a variable interval of 8, 6 or 5 days. It will be administrated in a 2 to 3-hour IV infusion, at the dose of 3.5 g/m2 (body surface area capped at 2 m2). Each MTX administration will be preceded by a prehydration and will be followed by a posthydration

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-09-15
• Primary completion: 2025-01-31
• Completion: 2025-07-31
• First posted: 2021-11-26
• Last updated: 2022-10-25

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France