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NOLAN: Naproxen or Loratadine and Neulasta

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Abstract

The primary objective of the study is to estimate the difference in bone pain between breast cancer patients receiving chemotherapy and pegfilgrastim and either no prophylactic intervention, prophylactic naproxen, or prophylactic loratadine.

Description

In this study, the investigational products are naproxen, a non-steroidal antiinflammatory drug (NSAID), and loratadine, an anti-histamine. Both agents are being investigated as prophylactic medications to reduce the incidence and/or severity of bone pain in breast cancer patients receiving adjuvant or neoadjuvant myelosuppressive chemotherapy and pegfilgrastim prophylaxis.

Pegfilgrastim treatment is used to stimulate bone marrow to produce more neutrophils to help fight infections in patients undergoing chemotherapy.

Dates

Last Verified: 12/31/2017
First Submitted: 10/18/2012
Estimated Enrollment Submitted: 10/18/2012
First Posted: 10/22/2012
Last Update Submitted: 01/04/2018
Last Update Posted: 01/29/2018
Date of first submitted results: 02/08/2016
Date of first submitted QC results: 02/08/2016
Date of first posted results: 03/08/2016
Actual Study Start Date: 10/31/2012
Estimated Primary Completion Date: 03/17/2015
Estimated Study Completion Date: 03/17/2015

Condition or disease

Bone Pain in Stage I - III Breast Cancer

Intervention/treatment

Drug: Prophylactic naproxen

Drug: Prophylactic loratadine

Biological: Pegfilgrastim

Drug: Chemotherapy

Phase

Phase 2

Arm Groups

ArmIntervention/treatment
Experimental: Prophylactic naproxen
Participants received adjuvant or neoadjuvant chemotherapy with pegfilgrastim prophylaxis in addition to prophylactic naproxen 500 mg orally twice a day (BID) for 5 days in each of the 4 cycles, beginning on the day of pegfilgrastim administration.
Drug: Prophylactic naproxen
Experimental: Prophylactic loratadine
Participants received adjuvant or neoadjuvant chemotherapy with pegfilgrastim prophylaxis in addition to prophylactic loratadine 10 mg once a day (QD) for 5 days in each of the 4 cycles, beginning on the day of pegfilgrastim administration.
Drug: Prophylactic loratadine
Other: No prophylactic treatment
Participants received adjuvant or neoadjuvant chemotherapy with pegfilgrastim prophylaxis.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study 18 Years To 18 Years
Sexes Eligible for StudyFemale
Accepts Healthy VolunteersYes
Criteria

Age 18 years or over

- Eastern cooperative oncology group (ECOG) performance status 0-2

- Female with newly diagnosed, not previously treated with chemotherapy, stage I-III breast cancer

- Medically eligible to safely receive adjuvant or neoadjuvant chemotherapy, pegfilgrastim, naproxen and loratadine as determined by the investigator

- Creatinine ≤ 1.5 X upper limit of normal (ULN)

- Planning to receive at least 4 cycles of adjuvant or neoadjuvant chemotherapy

- Planning to receive prophylaxis with pegfilgrastim starting in the first cycle and continuing throughout each chemotherapy cycle of the treatment period

- Subject has provided informed consent

Exclusion Criteria

- History of other malignancy within the past 5 years, with the following exceptions:

- Adequately treated non-melanoma skin cancer or lentigo maligna without evidence of disease

- Adequately treated cervical carcinoma in situ without evidence of disease

- Planning to receive weekly chemotherapy

- Ongoing chronic pain, or other painful conditions requiring treatment (including immediate post-operative treatment of surgical or procedural-associated pain) as determined by the investigator

- Chronic oral steroid use. Premedication related to the administration of chemotherapy, and use of anti-emetics is allowed, per usual clinical practice

- Chronic use of oral non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAIDs) or oral antihistamines outside of those dictated by the randomization groups outlined in the protocol, with the following exception:

- Chronic oral aspirin use for cardiovascular-related indications

- Prior chemotherapy treatment for cancer within 5 years of current breast cancer diagnosis

- Prior use of granulocyte colony stimulating factor (G-CSF)

- History of clinically significant gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding, history of GI ulcers or active GI bleeding within 6 months prior to randomization

- History of clinically significant bleeding disorders, thromboembolism within 6 months prior to randomization

- Currently enrolled in, or less than 30 days since ending, another clinical trial which includes language directing G-CSF (filgrastim, pegfilgrastim, other) or granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) (sargramostim) use

- Currently enrolled in, or less than 30 days since ending, another interventional clinical trial which includes a blinded treatment or blinded treatment arm (whether or not the subject is randomized to the blinded arm)

- Currently enrolled in, or less than 30 days since ending, another interventional clinical trial which includes the use of any agent not currently considered to be standard therapy for the adjuvant or neoadjuvant treatment of stage I-III breast cancer based on National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology for Breast Cancer

- Currently enrolled in, or less than 30 days since ending, any pain intervention study

- Female subjects who are pregnant or lactating or of reproductive potential not willing to employ an effective method of birth control during treatment and for 17 days after discontinuing study treatment

- History or evidence of any other clinically significant disorder, condition or disease (with the exception of those outlined above) that, in the opinion of the Investigator or Amgen, if consulted, would pose a risk to subject safety or interfere with the study evaluation, procedures or completion

Outcome

Primary Outcome Measures

1. Percentage of Participants With Bone Pain (All Grades) in Cycle 1 [Cycle 1 (approximately 4 weeks, depending on the chemotherapy dosing interval)]

Bone pain data were captured as part of standard adverse event (AE) reporting.

Secondary Outcome Measures

1. Percentage of Participants With Bone Pain (All Grades) by Cycle (2-4) and Across Cycles [Cycles 1, 2, 3 and 4 (approximately 4 weeks each, depending on the chemotherapy dosing interval)]

Bone pain data were captured as part of standard adverse event (AE) reporting.

2. Percentage of Participants With Severe Bone Pain by Cycle and Across Cycles [Cycles 1, 2, 3 and 4 (approximately 4 weeks each, depending on the chemotherapy dosing interval)]

Bone pain data were captured as part of standard adverse event reporting. Severe bone pain is defined as grade 3 or 4 according to common terminology criteria for adverse events (CTCAE) version 3 grading criteria: Grade 1 = Mild, Grade 2 = Moderate, Grade 3 = Severe, and Grade 4 = Life-threatening or disabling.

3. Mean Patient-reported Bone Pain by Cycle and Across Cycles [Five consecutive days during each cycle beginning on the day of pegfilgrastim administration (Day 2, 3, or 4 of each cycle)]

Participants completed a brief bone pain survey once per day for 5 days beginning the day they received their pegfilgrastim injection. The bone pain survey collected the severity of pain using a 0 (no pain) to 10 (worst pain) scale. Mean patient-reported bone pain values are the average of each participant's bone pain values across survey days 1-5 within each cycle. Across all cycles the mean is the average of each patient-reported bone pain value across all survey days 1-5 and across all cycles. An analysis of variance (ANOVA) model with treatment as explanatory term was used.

4. Maximum Patient-reported Bone Pain by Cycle and Across Cycles [Five consecutive days during each cycle beginning on the day of pegfilgrastim administration (Day 2, 3, or 4 of each cycle)]

Participants completed a brief bone pain survey once per day for 5 days beginning the day they received their pegfilgrastim injection. The bone pain survey collected the severity of pain using a 0 (no pain) to 10 (worst pain) scale. Maximum patient-reported bone pain is the maximum of each participant's bone pain values across survey Days 1-5 within each cycle. Across all cycles the maximum is the maximum of each patient-reported bone pain value across all survey days 1-5 and across all cycles. An ANOVA model with treatment as explanatory term was used.

5. Area Under the Curve (AUC) for Patient-reported Bone Pain [Five consecutive days during each cycle beginning on the day of pegfilgrastim administration (Day 2, 3, or 4 of each cycle)]

Patient-reported bone pain AUC was calculated using the trapezoidal rule with bone pain scores from day 1 to 5 for each cycle. The AUC across cycles is the average of AUCs across the cycle.

6. Number of Participants With Adverse Events (AEs) [From first dose of investigational product (IP, naproxen or loratidine) or first dose of pegfilgrastim (Peg), whichever occurred first, until 30 days after last dose, up to 24 weeks.]

Severity was graded using CTCAE version 3. A serious adverse event (SAE) is defined as an adverse event that meets at least 1 of the following serious criteria: • fatal; • life threatening; • requires in-patient hospitalization or prolongation of existing hospitalization; • results in persistent or significant disability/incapacity; • congenital anomaly/birth defect; • other medically important serious event. The investigator assessed each adverse event for relatedness to investigational product(s) or other protocol-required therapies.

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