Oral Capecitabine and Temozolomide (CAPTEM) for Newly Diagnosed GBM

Last updated: April 5, 2025
Sponsor: Northwell Health
Overall Status: Active - Recruiting

Phase

1/2

Condition

Brain Cancer

Brain Tumor

Gliomas

Treatment

Temozolomide

Capecitabine

Clinical Study ID

NCT03213002
17-0312
  • Ages 18-74
  • All Genders

Study Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety and efficacy of administering the medication capecitabine along with temozolomide when you start your monthly regimen of oral temozolomide for the treatment of your newly diagnosed glioblastoma multiforme (GBM).

Capecitabine is an oral chemotherapy that is given to patients with other types of cancer. The study will evaluate whether the dosage of 1500 mg/m2 of capecitabine is tolerable after radiation, when taken along with temozolomide. It will also try to determine if the medication capecitabine helps patients respond to treatment for a longer period of time compared to just temozolomide alone, which is the standard of care.

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

Inclusion Criteria:

  1. Be capable of giving informed consent.

  2. Have a pathology proven diagnosis of any of newly diagnosed Glioblastoma MultiformeWHO IV

  3. Have completed the first part of standard of care chemo-radiation (Stupp), for 6weeks, and not started the maintenance phase of temozolomide

  4. Agree to use effective barrier contraception while on treatment and for 2 monthsthereafter, if of childbearing potential

  5. Have a life expectancy > 3 months

  6. Be between the ages of 18 to 74

  7. Have a performance status KPS 70 or greater

  8. Be able to swallow pills and capsules

  9. Be able to tolerate oral chemotherapeutic medications, with no health threateningallergies or side effects, based on lab and clinical findings

  10. Have adequate bone marrow function, liver function and renal function beforecommencing therapy

Exclusion

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Prior chemotherapy with capecitabine or temozolomide for other prior malignancies.Patients previously treated with continuous infusion 5-FU or any schedule of DTIC,which are similar to capecitabine and temozolomide, respectively, will be excluded.

  2. Prior chemotherapies for newly diagnosed GBM or AA, other than temozolomide duringradiation.

  3. Patients with a history of severe hypersensitivity reaction to capecitabine, 5-FU,temozolomide (i.e. anaphylaxis or anaphylactic reactions),

  4. Serious medical or psychiatric illness preventing informed consent or treatment (e.g., serious infection)

  5. Prior malignancies in the last 5 years other than curatively treated carcinomain-situ previously treated with curative intent (cancer free for the past one year).

  6. Performance status, KPS < 70

  7. Inability to swallow pills and capsules

  8. Concurrent chemotherapy or treatment for the active disease, including devices suchas Optune, high dose vitamin supplements, or any other chemotherapy

  9. Patients taking concomitant medications such as Coumadin and phenytoin medications,need to be excluded because of interactions with capecitabine

  10. Patients with previously documented CAD will need to be evaluated by cardiologyprior to start to help risk stratify for capecitabine tolerance

  11. Patients with renal insufficiency or hepatic insufficiency

  12. Patients with coagulopathies

  13. Women who are pregnant or lactating.

Study Design

Total Participants: 67
Treatment Group(s): 2
Primary Treatment: Temozolomide
Phase: 1/2
Study Start date:
June 13, 2017
Estimated Completion Date:
June 30, 2027

Study Description

There were an estimated 22,000 new cases of brain cancers in 2015 in the United States, and 15,000 deaths (Howlader et al., 2014). Glioblastoma (WHO IV), and Anaplastic Astrocytoma (WHO III), are the most common brain cancers, respectively, representing over 70% of all malignant gliomas (ABTA, 2015).

Though rare, there is no cure, and the prognosis for these tumors is poor. Survival at 5 years for all CNS cancers is approximately 33.3 % (Howlader et al., 2014). For GBM, the most lethal of the tumors, with the current standard of care median survival is 14.6 months (Walid, 2008). Relative survival with GBM at five years is approximately only 5% (Ostrom et al. CBTRUS 2014).

For newly diagnosed tumors, the current standard of care recommends a multi-modal approach with surgery to remove the tumor, when possible, followed by 6 weeks of radiation and a concurrent daily dose of temozolomide (Stupp et al. 2005). This is known as the Stupp protocol (Stupp et al. 2005). Patients then have a one-month rest period with no treatment, followed by "maintenance" temozolomide, given five days out of every 28 days, for a minimum of six months. Some providers keep patients on temozolomide beyond 6 months, or until disease progression.

Therefore, more therapies are needed to help improve survival, reduce time to recurrence and improve quality of life for these patients. This trial proposes to improve the current standard of care by enhancing the efficacy of an active drug temozolomide, currently used for treatment of GBM.

Connect with a study center

  • Lenox Hill Brain Tumor Center

    New York, New York 10075
    United States

    Active - Recruiting

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