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Rapamycin With Grapefruit Juice for Advanced Malignancies


2006-09


2009-05


2012-05


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Study Overview

Rapamycin With Grapefruit Juice for Advanced Malignancies

The purpose of this study is to determine the highest safe dose of rapamycin when given with a fixed amount of grapefruit juice.

N/A

  • Tumors
  • Neoplasm Metastasis
  • DRUG: Rapamycin (sirolimus)
  • OTHER: Grapefruit Juice
  • 14435B

Study Record Dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Registration Dates Results Reporting Dates Study Record Updates

2006-09-11  

N/A  

2014-01-16  

2006-09-11  

N/A  

2014-01-17  

2006-09-12  

N/A  

2014-01  

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

Design Details

Primary Purpose:
Treatment


Allocation:
Na


Interventional Model:
Single Group


Masking:
None


Arms and Interventions

Participant Group/ArmIntervention/Treatment
EXPERIMENTAL: Rapamycin + Grapefruit juice

DRUG: Rapamycin (sirolimus)

  • Weekly oral doses, dose is assigned at the time of study entry

OTHER: Grapefruit Juice

  • Daily oral doses starting during the second week on study.
Primary Outcome MeasuresMeasure DescriptionTime Frame
Pharmacokinetic interaction4 weeks
Secondary Outcome MeasuresMeasure DescriptionTime Frame

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person’s general health condition or prior treatments.

Ages Eligible for Study:
ALL

Sexes Eligible for Study:
18 Years

Accepts Healthy Volunteers:

    Inclusion Criteria:

  • Histologically confirmed malignancy that is metastatic or unresectable and for which standard curative or palliative measures do not exist or are no longer effective.
  • Patients with hematologic malignancies (lymphoma, multiple myeloma and chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) only) are eligible to participate in the phase IB portion of the trial only.
  • At least 4 weeks since prior chemotherapy or radiation therapy
  • Aged 18 years or older
  • ECOG performance status 0-2
  • Life expectancy of greater than 3 months.
  • Normal organ and marrow function:


  • No transfusions of packed red blood cells within 1 week of starting treatment
  • Leukocytes greater or equal to 3,000/μL

  • *
  • White blood cell (WBC) greater or equal to 1,500/μL for patients with hematologic malignancies
  • Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) greater or equal to 1,500/μL

  • *
  • ANC greater or equal to 1,000/μL for patients with hematologic malignancies
  • Platelets (PLT) greater or equal to 100,000/μL

  • *
  • PLT greater or equal to 50,000/μL for patients with hematologic malignancies
  • Total bilirubin within normal institutional limits
  • AST (SGOT) and ALT (SGPT) less than or equal to 2.5 times institutional upper limit of normal
  • Serum triglycerides less than or equal to 500 mg/dl
  • Creatinine within normal institutional limits OR creatinine clearance greater or equal to 60 mL/min for patients with creatinine levels above institutional normal
  • Women of childbearing potential and men must agree to use adequate contraception (hormonal or barrier method of birth control; abstinence)
  • Ability to understand and the willingness to sign a written informed consent document.

  • Exclusion Criteria:

  • Chemotherapy or radiotherapy within 4 weeks (6 weeks for nitrosoureas or mitomycin C) prior to entering the study or those who have not recovered from adverse events due to agents administered more than 4 weeks earlier.
  • May not be receiving any other investigational agents.
  • Uncontrolled brain metastases or malignancy. Cannot be receiving enzyme-inducing anticonvulsants.
  • History of allergic reactions attributed to compounds of similar chemical or biologic composition to rapamycin
  • Gastrointestinal malabsorption syndromes, partial small bowel obstruction, or any illness that would interfere with the ability to absorb oral medications.
  • Uncontrolled intercurrent illness
  • Severe immunodeficient states (as judged by the treating physician)
  • Pregnant women are excluded from this study; breastfeeding should be discontinued.
  • HIV-positive patients receiving combination antiretroviral therapy are excluded.
  • Concurrent use of ketoconazole, cyclosporine, tacrolimus, diltiazem, and rifampin with rapamycin is not permissible. The concurrent use of calcium channel blockers, terfenadine, astemizole, cisapride, propafenone, cyclosporine, midazolam, triazolam, quinidine, or theophylline with grapefruit juice is not permissible.

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.


    • PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR: Ezra W Cohen, MD, University of Chicago

    Publications

    The person responsible for entering information about the study voluntarily provides these publications. These may be about anything related to the study.

    General Publications

    • Treiber G. mTOR inhibitors for hepatocellular cancer: a forward-moving target. Expert Rev Anticancer Ther. 2009 Feb;9(2):247-61. doi: 10.1586/14737140.9.2.247.