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NCT Number: NCT06663306

Intrathecal Injection Pemetrexed And Bevacizumab in Patients With Leptomeningeal Metastases in NSCLC

This is a prospective, single-arm, phase Ia clinical study, which was designed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of Pemetrexed Combined With Bevacizumab Intrathecal Injection in Patients With Leptomeningeal Metastases in NSCLC.

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Key information

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Age ≥ 18 years;
  • ECOG PS score 0-3. ECOG PS score 2 or 3 should be due to leptomeningeal metastases.
  • Patients with pathologically diagnosed non-small cell lung cancer with cerebrospinal fluid and/or MRI diagnosis of leptomeningeal metastasis(LM);
  • Unsatisfactory efficacy of LM,which defined as disease progression in LM,or LM-related neurological progression, while patients received standard systemic anti-tumor treatment;
  • Expected survival time ≥ 1 month;
  • The laboratory test results meet the following criteria:Hemoglobin ≥ 90 g/L, neutrophil count ≥ 1.5 × 10^9/L, platelet count ≥ 100 × 10^9/L; Total bilirubin ≤ 1.5 times the upper limit of normal (ULN); Alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and aspartate aminotransferase (AST) ≤ 2.5 × ULN ; Creatinine≤ 2.0 × ULN,or Creatinine clearance rate (CrCl) ≥ 50 mL/min;
  • Females of child-bearing potential agree to use contraception during the study period and for 6 months after the completion of the study; patients who have had a negative serum or urine pregnancy test within seven days prior to enrollment in the study and who are not breastfeeding; and males agreeing to use contraception during the study period and for 6 months after the completion of the study;
  • Understand and sign the informed consent form.

Exclusion criteria

  • Positive for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) ;
  • History of allergy to pemetrexed or bevacizumab;
  • History of pemetrexed and/or bevacizumab intrathecal Injection;
  • Presence of contraindication of bevacizumab:
  • Uncontrolled hypertension(systolic pressure≥150mmHg,or diastolic pressure≥100mmHg;History of hypertensive crisis or hypertensive encephalopathy;
  • Urine protein≥2+,or 24-hour urine protein≥2g;
  • Unstable angina pectoris, symptomatic congestive heart failure,myocardial infarction within 6 months before enrollment, severe vascular disease, severe uncontrolled arrhythmia;
  • Major hemoptysis within the past 1 month; History of coagulation disorders;
  • Presence of serious non-healing wounds, ulcers, or bone fractures
  • Presence of abdominal fistula, gastrointestinal perforation, or gastrointestinal tract obstruction;
  • Presence of macrovascular invasion;
  • Some neurological disorders unrelated to tumors,such as intracranial infection,cerebral hemorrhage,cerebral infarction,encephalitis;
  • Brain/spinal cord radiation therapy within 1 week before enrollment;
  • Pregnant and lactating female;
  • Refuse to use contraception during the study period;
  • Individuals considered by the investigator to be unsuitable for enrollment.

Treatment and study plan

Pemetrexed

Drug

Intrathecal pemetrexed 50mg,twice per week (d1, d8) for 1 week, then once per 4 weeks

Bevacizumab

Drug

Intrathecal bevacizumab, once (d8)for 1 week, then once per 4 weeks.The initial dose of intrathecal bevacizumab is 5 mg, escalated to 10 mg, and then 25 mg, and then 37.5mg, and then 50mg.

Primary outcomes

  1. Incidence of Adverse Events (Safety and Tolerability)

    Time frame: From the beginning of the treatment until two months after the treatment.

    Number of participants with adverse events, treatment emergent adverse events,and serious adverse events assessed by CTCAE v5.0 as a measure of safety and tolerability.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Overall Survival (OS)

    Time frame: Up to 2 years

    Kaplan-Meier method used to estimate the distribution of OS from the start of study treatment.

Other outcomes

  1. Clinical response rate

    Time frame: Up to 2 years

    The evaluation of clinical response rate was assessed by the investigators, which based on improvement of neurologic symptoms/signs and changes in the Karnofsky performance status score . This evaluation consists of five layers, including complete response (CR), obvious response (OR), partial response (PR), stable disease (SD) and progressive disease (PD).Clinical response was defined as the continuous presence of CR, OR or PR within an interval of at least 1 week. SD and PD were defined as ineffective.

  2. CSF cytology

    Time frame: From the beginning of the intrathecal treatment until the date of first documented progression or date of death from any cause, whichever came first, assessed up to 2 years

    Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) was collected before each cycle of intrathecal treatment, and assessed by the investigators the presence of tumor cells (Positive or Nagetive).

  3. Radiographic assessment

    Time frame: From the beginning of the treatment until two months after the treatment.

    Radiographic assessment with complete contrast-enhanced neuro-axis MRI or CT, Leptomeningeal metastases response was evaluated using the Response Assessment in Neuro-Oncology (RANO) criteria.

Study contacts

Contact information is provided by the study sponsor or research team.

Hua Zhong, MD

CONTACT

[email protected]

+86 021-22200000

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Shanghai Chest Hospital

Other

Collaborators

  • Innovent Biologics (Suzhou) Co. Ltd.

Registry information

Official study title

Efficacy and Safety of Pemetrexed Combined With Bevacizumab Intrathecal Injection in Patients With Leptomeningeal Metastases in NSCLC

Important dates

Study start
2024
Primary completion
2027
Study completion
2027
First posted
Oct 29, 2024
Registry last updated
Mar 2, 2026

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