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NCT Number: NCT03927144

Study of Sustained Benefit of AMG334 in Adult Episodic Migraine Patients

The purpose of this study is to compare the sustained long-term benefit between two treatment paradigms of migraine prophylactic agents (erenumab versus a control arm of oral prophylactics) in episodic migraine patients who have previously failed 1 to 2 prophylactic migraine treatments.

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Key information

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Phase 4

Primary location

IDIM Instituto de Investigaciones Metabolicas, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

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

Inclusion criteria

  • Written informed consent must be obtained before any assessment is performed.
  • Adults greater than or equal to 18 years of age upon entry into screening.
  • Documented history of migraine (with or without aura) greater than or equal to 12 months prior to screening according to the International Classification of Headache Disorders-3rd Edition (ICHD-3).
  • Greater than or equal to 4 and less than 15 days per month of migraine symptoms (based on ICHD-3 criteria) on average across 3 months prior to screening based on retrospective reporting.
  • Less than 15 days per month of headache symptoms (i.e., migraine and non-migraine).
  • Subjects in need for switching by documented failure of 1 or 2 prophylactic treatments in the last 6 months due to either lack of efficacy or poor tolerability. For subjects with 1 prior treatment failure, the failure should have occurred in the last 6 months. For subjects with 2 prior treatment failures, the second treatment failure should have occurred in the last 6 months.
  • During baseline: Confirmed migraine frequency of 4 to 14 migraine days and less than 15 days of headache symptoms.
  • During baseline: greater than or equal to 80% compliance with the headache diary.

Exclusion criteria

  • Subjects meeting any of the following criteria are not eligible for inclusion in this study.
  • Older than 50 years of age at migraine onset.
  • History of cluster headache or hemiplegic migraine headache.
  • Unable to differentiate migraine from other headaches.
  • Lack of efficacy or poor tolerability with greater than 2 treatments from the 7 medication categories for prophylactic treatment of migraine after an adequate therapeutic trial.
  • Efficacy failure is defined as no meaningful reduction in headache frequency, duration, and/or severity after administration of the medication for at least 6 weeks at the generally accepted therapeutic dose(s) based on the investigator's assessment.
  • Tolerability failure is defined as documented discontinuation due to adverse events of the respective medication during the last 6 months prior to screening.
  • The following scenarios do not constitute lack of therapeutic response:
  • Lack of sustained response to a medication.
  • Patient decision to halt treatment due to improvement.
  • Used a prohibited medication from the 7 categories of prior prophylactic medications within 3 months prior to the start of and during baseline for a non-migraine indication if dose is not stable
  • Exposure to botulinum toxin in the head and/or neck region within 4 months.
  • Taken the following for any indication in any month during the 2 months prior to the start of the baseline period:
  • Ergotamines or triptans on greater than or equal to 10 days per month, or Simple analgesics (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs [NSAIDs], acetaminophen) on greater than or equal to 15 days per month, or
  • Opioid- or butalbital-containing analgesics on greater than or equal to 4 days per month.
  • Device, or procedure that potentially may interfere with the intensity or number of migraine days within 2 months prior to the start of or during baseline.
  • History of major psychiatric disorders (such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder) or current evidence of depression. Subjects with anxiety disorder and/or major depressive disorders are permitted in the study if they are considered by the investigator to be stable and are taking no more than 1 medication for each disorder. Subjects must have been on a stable dose within the 3 months prior to the start of the baseline period.
  • History of seizure disorder or other significant neurological conditions other than migraine. Note: a single childhood febrile seizure is not exclusionary.
  • History of malignancy of any organ system (other than localized basal cell carcinoma of the skin or in situ cervical cancer), treated or untreated, within the past 5 years, regardless of whether there is evidence of local recurrence or metastases.
  • Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection by history.
  • History or evidence of any other unstable or clinically significant medical condition or clinically significant vital sign, laboratory, or electrocardiogram (ECG) abnormality during that could pose a risk to subject safety or interfere with the study evaluation.
  • Myocardial infarction, stroke, transient ischemic attack, unstable angina, or coronary artery bypass surgery or other re-vascularization procedures within 6 months prior to screening.
  • Score "yes" on item 4 or item 5 of the Suicidal Ideation section of the C-SSRS, if this ideation occurred in the past 6 months, or "yes" on any item of the Suicidal Behavior section, except for the "Non-Suicidal Self-Injurious Behavior" (item also included in the Suicidal Behavior section), if this behavior occurred in the past 2 years.
  • Evidence of drug or alcohol abuse or dependence, based on Investigator discretion within 12 months.
  • Pregnant or nursing (lactating) women.
  • Women of child-bearing potential must use contraception during dosing with study treatment.
  • Use of other investigational drugs within 5 half-lives of enrollment, or until the expected pharmacodynamic effect has returned to baseline, whichever is longer.
  • History of hypersensitivity to any of the study drugs or its excipients or to drugs of similar chemical classes.
  • Previous exposure to AMG334 or exposure to any other prophylactic CGRP-targeted therapy (prior to the study).

Treatment and study plan

AMG334

Drug

Subcutaneous Injection

Other names: Erenumab

Oral Prophylactic

Drug

SOC Oral Tablet/Capsule

Primary outcomes

  1. Number of Participants Who Completed Initially Assigned Treatment and Achieved at Least a 50% Reduction From Baseline in Monthly Migraine Days at Month 12

    Time frame: Baseline and Month 12

    A migraine day was defined as any calendar day in which the participant experienced a qualified migraine headache (onset, continuation, or recurrence of the migraine headache). A qualified migraine headache was defined as a migraine with or without aura, lasting for ≥ 30 minutes, and meeting at least one of the following criteria:

    • ≥2 of the following pain features:
    • Unilateral
    • Throbbing
    • Moderate to severe
    • Exacerbated with exercise/physical activity
    • ≥1 of the following associated symptoms:
    • Nausea and/or vomiting
    • Photophobia and phonophobia

    If the participant took a migraine-specific medication (ie, triptan or ergotamine) during aura, or to treat a headache on a calendar day, then it was counted as a migraine day regardless of the duration and pain features/associated symptoms.

    In addition to achieving at least a 50% reduction from baseline in monthly migraine days, participants must have also completed their initially assigned treatment through Month 12.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Number of Participants Who Completed Initially Assigned Treatment at Month 12

    Time frame: Month 12

  2. Cumulative Mean Change From Baseline on the Monthly Migraine Days to Week 52

    Time frame: Baseline and Week 4, Week 8, Week 12, Week 16, Week 20, Week 24, Week 28, Week 32, Week 36, Week 40, Week 44, Week 48, and Week 52

    A migraine day was defined as any calendar day in which the participant experienced a qualified migraine headache (onset, continuation, or recurrence of the migraine headache). The mean of monthly migraine days was obtained cumulatively every 4 weeks across 52 weeks (for example, at Week 8 the mean will be based on data from Week 1 to Week 8; and at Week 12 the mean will be based on data from Week 1 to Week 12). The cumulative mean change from baseline in monthly migraine days was derived using difference between cumulative average of each month and baseline monthly migraine days.

  3. Number of Responders as Measured by the Patient's Global Impression of Change (PGIC) Scale at Week 52

    Time frame: Baseline and Week 52

    The PGIC scale consists of one item which measures the participants' perception of change in their condition relative to the beginning of the study. Responses are rated on a 7-item response scale ranging from very much improved (7) to no change or worsened condition (1). A responder was defined as a participant with a PGIC score of at least 5 (5=moderately better, 6=better, 7=a great deal better), at Week 52 for participants who completed the treatment period at Week 52 on the initially assigned treatment.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Amgen

Industry

Collaborators

  • Novartis

Registry information

Official study title

A 12-month Prospective, Randomized, Interventional, Global, Multi-center, Active-controlled Study Comparing Sustained Benefit of Two Treatment Paradigms (AMG334 qm vs. Oral Prophylactics) in Adult Episodic Migraine Patients

Important dates

Study start
2019
Primary completion
2021
Study completion
2022
First posted
Apr 25, 2019
Registry last updated
Nov 18, 2023

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