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Updated analyses adjusting for treatment crossover in Part C of a Phase 2 trial (BRF113220) of dabrafenib and trametinib combination therapy in patients with metastatic melanoma based on recent dataset (March 2013)

GSK study ID
201153
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EudraCT ID
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EU CT Number
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Trial status
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Trial overview

Official title: Updated analyses adjusting for treatment crossover in Part C of a Phase 2 trial (BRF113220) of dabrafenib and trametinib combination therapy in patients with metastatic melanoma based on recent dataset (March 2013)
Trial description: Treatment crossover occurs when patients in the control group of a clinical trial are allowed to switch onto the experimental treatment at some point during follow-up. Crossover is becoming more commonplace in clinical trials of cancer treatments. Generally crossover is permitted when the new intervention has been shown to be effective in interim analyses (often based upon an outcome measure such as time to disease progression), and therefore it is deemed unethical to deny treatment to control group patients. In these circumstances if an “intention to treat” analysis is conducted – that is, the survival data are analyzed according to the arms to which patients were randomized – the estimate of the overall survival (OS) advantage associated with the new treatment could be biased. If control group patients that cross over benefit from the new treatment measures of average OS in the control group (for example means, or medians) will be higher than would have been observed if treatment crossover had not occurred. This will result in the OS advantage of the new treatment being underestimated. This is particularly important in the context of economic evaluation because survival estimates are used in cost-effectiveness analyses used to support health technology assessment submissions, and treatment crossover is likely to cause the cost-effectiveness of the new treatment to be underestimated. The objective of this study is to analyze updated survival data (March 2013 dataset) from Part C (only for dabrafenib (150mg) plus trametinib (2mg) vs. dabrafenib monotherapy (150mg)) of a phase 2 study (BRF113220) investigating the combination of dabrafenib and trametinib compared to dabrafenib alone to estimate an adjusted treatment effect that attempts to control for the potential consequence of treatment crossover. Two statistical methods (rank preserving structural failure time model (RPSFTM) and iterative parameter estimation (IPE)) will be applied to adjust for treatment crossover using Part C patient level data from the trial.
Primary purpose:
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Trial design:
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Allocation:
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Primary outcomes:

Overall survival data from Part C of the Ph2 trial (BRF113220) will be reported based on various analyses that control for the effect of treatment crossover.

Timeframe: Overall survival data will be based on time from randomization to date of death or censoring. Data cut-off of March 29, 2013

Secondary outcomes:
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Interventions:
Drug: Generic Rx #1
Drug: Generic Rx #3
Drug: Generic Rx #2
Enrollment:
162
Observational study model:
Case-Control
Primary completion date:
Not applicable
Time perspective:
Retrospective
Clinical publications:
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Medical condition
Melanoma
Product
dabrafenib, dabrafenib/trametinib, trametinib
Collaborators
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Study date(s)
October 2013 to October 2013
Type
Observational
Phase
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Participation criteria

Sex
Female & Male
Age
18 - 85 Year
Accepts healthy volunteers
none
  • Male or female of non-childbearing potential; > or = 18 years of age
  • Tumor type criteria:
  • Prior exposure to BRAF or MEK inhibitors. Prior anti-cancer therapy in the metastatic setting, with the exception of up to one regimen of chemotherapy and/or interleukin-2.
  • History of retinal vein occlusion (RVO) or central serous retinopathy (or chorioretinopathy [CSR]), or predisposing factors to RVO or CSR (e.g. uncontrolled glaucoma or ocular hypertension, uncontrolled systemic disease such as hypertension, diabetes mellitus, or history of hyperviscosity or hypercoagulability syndromes).

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Study documents

Clinical study report
Available language(s): English
Scientific result summary
Available language(s): English

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Results overview

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Recruitment status
Finalized
Actual primary completion date
Not applicable
Actual study completion date
2013-25-10

Plain language summaries

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