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Phase 2a Desipramine in Small Cell Lung Cancer and Other High-Grade Neuroendocrine Tumors
Not Recruiting
Trial ID: NCT01719861
Purpose
Intrapatient dose escalation study of desipramine in subjects with small cell lung cancer
(SCLC) and other high-grade neuroendocrine tumors.
Official Title
A Phase 2a Intrapatient Dose Escalation Study of Desipramine in Small Cell Lung Cancer and Other High-Grade Neuroendocrine Tumors
Stanford Investigator(s)
Joel Neal, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine (Oncology)
Heather Wakelee
Professor of Medicine (Oncology)
Alan F. Schatzberg
Kenneth T. Norris, Jr. Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria:
- Metastatic small-cell lung cancer
- Metastatic high-grade neuroendocrine carcinoma of any organ system (high-grade defined
by Ki-67 ≥ 20% and/or ≥ 20 mitoses/10 (HPF).
- Received at least one line of prior chemotherapy treatment for metastatic disease.
- Daily chemotherapy must be completed ≥ 2 weeks prior to registration
- Weekly chemotherapy must be completed ≥ 2 weeks prior to registration
- Chemotherapy every 2 weeks must be completed ≥ 3 weeks prior to registration
- Chemotherapy every 3 weeks must be completed ≥ 4 weeks prior to registration
- ECOG Performance Status 0 to 2
- Measurable disease by RECIST 1.1 criteria
- Age at least 18 years
- Estimated life expectancy at least 3 months
- Absolute neutrophil count ≥ 1,500/ mm³
- Platelets ≥ 100,000/mm³
- Hemoglobin ≥ 9 g/dL
- Total bilirubin ≤ 1.5 mg/dL, OR ≤ 2 X ULN if tumor involves the liver
- AST(SGOT)
- ALT(SGPT) ≤ 3 X ULN
- Creatinine ≤ 1.5 X ULN
- Creatinine clearance ≥ 45 mL/min/1.73m²) for patients with creatinine levels above
institutional normal
- QT interval corrected using Fridericia's method (QTcF) < 450 msec (males) or < 470
msec (females)
- PR < 240 msec
- QRS < 100 msec
- Brain metastases must be asymptomatic and have been adequately treated with radiation
finishing at least 1 week prior to initiation of study treatment.
- Ability to understand and the willingness to sign a written informed consent document.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Clinically-significant ventricular arrhythmia including cardiac arrest
- Myocardial infarction from coronary artery disease within 3 months of study enrollment
- Implantable pacemaker or implantable cardioverter defibrillator
- NYHA Class III or greater congestive heart failure
- Other clinically-significant cardiac disorders
- Family history of long QT syndrome.
- Concomitant or expected treatment with strong inhibitors of cytochrome p450 CYP2D6,
specifically including Bupropion; Fluoxetine; or Paroxetine (must be discontinued at
least 2 weeks or 5-half lives prior to the initiation of desipramine, whichever is
shortest, except fluoxetine which requires at least a 5-week washout period).
- Use of medications known to increase risk of torsades de pointes, including
Amiodarone; Arsenic trioxide; Astemizole; Azithromycin; Bepridil; Chloroquine;
Chlorpromazine; Cisapride; Citalopram; Clarithromycin; Disopyramide; Dofetilide;
Domperidone; Droperidol; Erythromycin; Flecainide; Halofantrine; Haloperidol;
Ibutilide; Levomethadyl; Mesoridazine; Methadone; Moxifloxacin; Pentamidine; Pimozide;
Probucol; Procainamide; Quinidine; Sotalol; Sparfloxacin; Terfenadine; Thioridazine;
Vandetanib
- Other anti-depressant or anti-psychotic medications including selective serotonin
re-uptake inhibitors (SSRIs); other tricyclic, monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs);
serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs, typical or atypical
anti-psychotic)
- Metoclopramide (Reglan) because of increased risk of extrapyrimidal symptoms and
neuroleptic malignant syndrome
- Symptomatic orthostatic hypotension despite adequate volume resuscitation.
- Medical history of narrow angle glaucoma
- Bipolar disorder, ongoing or active within the last 5 years
- Suicidal ideation, ongoing or active within the last 5 years
- Suicide attempt, ongoing or active within the last 5 years
- Pregnancy
- Breastfeeding
- Receiving any other investigational agents
- Any other serious or unstable concomitant systemic disorder that in the opinion of the
investigator is incompatible with the clinical study
Intervention(s):
drug: Desipramine HCL
Not Recruiting
Contact Information
Stanford University
School of Medicine
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Stanford,
CA
94305
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