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RecruitingLast updated: 26 February 2024

GBM AGILE: This trial aims to identify effective therapies for newly diagnosed and recurrent glioblastoma and match effective therapies with people with certain subtypes of glioblastomaGlobal Adaptive Trial Master Protocol: An International, Seamless Phase II/III Response Adaptive Randomization Platform Trial Designed To Evaluate Multiple Regimens In Newly Diagnosed and Recurrent GBM

Clinical summary

Summary

This trial is designed to efficiently evaluate therapies, and is being conducted under a single Master Protocol which allows multiple drugs and drug combinations from different pharmaceutical companies to be evaluated simultaneously. The plan is to add experimental therapies as new information about promising new drugs are identified and remove therapies as they complete their evaluation.

The trial is recruiting people with either newly diagnosed glioblastoma (GBM) or recurrent GBM, inclusive of gliosarcoma. The treatment you will receive depends on which arm you are assigned to, but may include systemic therapies such as chemotherapy and targeted therapty, or radiation therapy. 

This is a complex trial, please speak to your doctor or contact one of the recruiting hospitals to find out more information.

The process for therapy (treatment) evaluation

The evaluation of each therapy in this trial proceeds in 2 possible stages. A therapy's Stage 1 is an adaptively randomised Screening stage for evaluating the therapy within patient signatures compared against a common control. A therapy in Stage 1 will stop accruing patients if it reaches its maximal sample size, drops for futility or evinces inadequate safety. If a therapy reaches an efficacy threshold for graduation from Stage 1, it will move into Stage 2 within one of the prospectively defined signatures. The maximum sample size in Stage 1 is 150 patients.

For a therapy graduating to Stage 2 there is a fixed randomisation, expansion cohort. The maximum sample size in Stage 2 is 50 experimental patients in the graduating signature. The primary analysis of a regimen's effect on overally survival uses patients in both its stages and all control patients in the trial in graduating signature, suitably adjusted for any possible time treands. 

Conditions

This trial is treating patients with newly diagnosed and metastatic glioblastoma

Cancer

Brain and Spinal Cancers Brain and Spinal

Age

People18+

Phase

II/III

Trial Acronym

GBM AGILE

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Trial sponsor

Global Coalition for Adaptive Research

Scientific Title

Global Adaptive Trial Master Protocol: An International, Seamless Phase II/III Response Adaptive Randomization Platform Trial Designed To Evaluate Multiple Regimens In Newly Diagnosed and Recurrent GBM

Eligibility

Inclusion

Newly Diagnosed Inclusion Criteria:

  • Age ≥ 18 years.
  • Histologically confirmed Grade IV GBM, inclusive of gliosarcoma (WHO criteria; IDH wild-type by immunohistochemistry [IHC] or sequencing for IDH) established following either a surgical resection or biopsy. An MRI scan with the required imaging sequences performed within 21 days prior to randomization preferably. The post-operative MRI scan performed within 96 hours of surgery or the MRI scan performed for radiation therapy planning may serve as the MRI scan performed during screening if all required imaging sequences were obtained.
  • Karnofsky performance status ≥ 60% performed within a 14-day window prior to randomization.
  • Availability of tumor tissue representative of GBM from definitive surgery or biopsy.

Recurrent Inclusion Criteria:

  • Age ≥ 18 years.
  • Histologically confirmed Grade IV GBM, inclusive of gliosarcoma (WHO criteria; IDH wild-type by immunohistochemistry [IHC] or sequencing for IDH) at first or second recurrence after initial standard, control or experimental therapy that includes at a minimum radiation therapy (RT).
  • Evidence of recurrent disease demonstrated by disease progression using slightly modified Response Assessment in Neuro-Oncology (RANO) criteria.
  • Two scans to confirm progression are required: at least 1 scan at the time of progression and 1 scan prior to the time of progression.
  • Karnofsky performance status ≥ 70% performed within a 14-day window prior to randomization.
  • Availability of tumor tissue representative of GBM from initial definitive surgery and/or, recurrent surgery, if performed.

Exclusion

Newly Diagnosed Exclusion Criteria:

  • Received any prior treatment for glioma including: a. Prior prolifeprospan 20 with carmustine wafer. b. Prior intracerebral, intratumoral, or cerebral spinal fluid (CSF) agent. c. Prior radiation treatment for GBM or lower-grade glioma. d. Prior chemotherapy or immunotherapy for GBM or lower-grade glioma. Receiving additional, concurrent, active therapy for GBM outside of the trial.
  • Extensive leptomeningeal disease.
  • QTc > 450 msec if male and QTc > 470 msec if female.
  • History of another malignancy in the previous 2 years, with a disease-free interval of < 2 years. Patients with prior history of in situ cancer or basal or squamous cell skin cancer are eligible.

Recurrent Exclusion Criteria:

  • Early disease progression prior to 3 months (12 weeks) from the completion of RT.
  • More than 2 prior lines for chemotherapy administration. (NOTE: In the 1st line adjuvant setting, combination of temozolomide (TMZ) with an experimental agent, is considered one line of chemotherapy.)
  • Received any prior treatment with lomustine, agents part of any of the experimental arms, and bevacizumab or other vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) or VEGF receptor-mediated targeted agent.
  • Any prior treatment with prolifeprospan 20 with carmustine wafer.
  • Any prior treatment with an intracerebral agent.
  • Receiving additional, concurrent, active therapy for GBM outside of the trial
  • Extensive leptomeningeal disease.
  • QTc > 450 msec if male and QTc > 470 msec if female.
  • History of another malignancy in the previous 2 years, with a disease-free interval of < 2 years. Patients with prior history of in situ cancer or basal or squamous cell skin cancer are eligible.

Inclusion

  • You have been diagnosed with cancer, but have not received any treatment.
  • You have had treatment but your cancer has gotten worse or has not responded to the treatment you have been given.
  • You have had treatment, but your cancer has come back.

Exclusion

  • You have been diagnosed with a prior or secondary type of cancer.
  • You have certain types of non-cancer medical conditions.
  • You have had certain treatments, surgical procedures or drugs.
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