FASTERCC: Folic Acid Supplement Versus Placebo for Treating Mucositis Adverse Events in Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma Patients Receiving Targeted Therapy. A Randomized, Double-blind Trial From the Danish Renal Cancer Group (DARENCA Study-4)
Condition: Mucositis
Intervention:
- Drug: Folic Acid
- Drug: Placebo Oral Tablet
Purpose: FASTERCC: Folic acid supplement versus placebo for treating mucositis adverse events in metastatic renal cell carcinoma patients receiving targeted therapy. A randomized, double-blind trial from the Danish renal cancer group (DARENCA study-4)
Study Type: Interventional
Clinical Trials Identifier NCT 8-digits: NCT03581773
Sponsor: Frede Donskov
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Measure: CTCAE Mucositis
- Time Frame: 16 weeks
- Safety Issue:
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Measure: PRO Mucositis frequency
- Time Frame: 16 weeks
- Safety Issue:
- Measure: Time to effect on mucositis
- Time Frame: 16 weeks
- Safety Issue:
- Measure: Dose reductions
- Time Frame: 16 weeks
- Safety Issue:
- Measure: Treatment discontinuations
- Time Frame: 16 weeks
- Safety Issue:
- Measure: Treatment withdrawals
- Time Frame: 16 weeks
- Safety Issue:
- Measure: GI adverse events degree
- Time Frame: 16 weeks
- Safety Issue:
- Measure: Hand-foot syndrome degree
- Time Frame: 16 weeks
- Safety Issue:
- Measure: QOL NCCN
- Time Frame: 16 weeks
- Safety Issue:
- Measure: PRO Mucositis degree
- Time Frame: 16 weeks
- Safety Issue:
- Measure: GI adverse events frequency
- Time Frame: 16 weeks
- Safety Issue:
- Measure: Hand-foot syndrome frequency
- Time Frame: 16 weeks
- Safety Issue:
- Measure: QOL MDASI
- Time Frame: 16 weeks
- Safety Issue:
Estimated Enrollment: 100
Study Start Date: December 20, 2017
Phase: Phase 2
Eligibility:
- Age: minimum 18 Years maximum N/A
- Gender: All
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients displaying CTCAE ≥2 mucositis during TKI, mTOR inhibitor or immunotherapy treatment.
- Signed written informed consent obtained prior to any study specific procedures.
- Patient must be willing and able to comply with the protocol.
- Age ≥
- Biopsy proven locally advanced or metastatic renal cell carcinoma.
- Females with a negative serum pregnancy test unless childbearing potential can be otherwise excluded (postmenopausal, hysterectomy or oophorectomy) and not lactating.
- Fertile women of childbearing potential (<2 years after last menstruation) and men must use effective means of contraception (oral contraceptives, intrauterine contraceptive device, barrier method of contraception in conjunction with spermicidal jelly or surgical sterilization).
- Karnofsky Performance status ≥ 60%.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Known hypersensitivity to folic acid.
- Use of prednisolone more than 10 mg daily.
Contact:
- Frede Donskov, MD DMSc
- 004527147015
Locations:
- Aarhus University Hospital, Department of oncology
- Aarhus Central Region Of Denmark 8000 Denmark
- Department of Oncology, Herlev Hospital
- Herlev 2730 Denmark
- Department of Oncology, Odense University Hospital
- Odense 5000 Denmark
View trial on ClinicalTrials.gov