Study Of Tasquinimod In Asian Chemo-Naïve Patients With Metastatic Castrate-Resistant Prostate Cancer (TasQ003)
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02057666 |
Recruitment Status :
Terminated
(Development of tasquinimod in prostate cancer discontinued)
First Posted : February 7, 2014
Last Update Posted : July 1, 2015
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Condition or disease | Intervention/treatment | Phase |
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Asian Chemo-naïve Patients With Metastatic Castrate-resistant Prostate Cancer | Drug: Tasquinimod Drug: Placebo | Phase 3 |
Study Type : | Interventional (Clinical Trial) |
Actual Enrollment : | 146 participants |
Allocation: | Randomized |
Intervention Model: | Parallel Assignment |
Masking: | Quadruple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor) |
Primary Purpose: | Treatment |
Official Title: | A Phase III, Randomised, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Study Of Tasquinimod In Asian Chemo-Naïve Patients With Metastatic Castrate-Resistant Prostate Cancer |
Study Start Date : | January 2014 |
Actual Primary Completion Date : | May 2015 |
Actual Study Completion Date : | May 2015 |

Arm | Intervention/treatment |
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Experimental: Tasquinimod
Main study: 1 capsule (0.25, 0.50 or 1 mg) daily, taken orally once a day with water and food (preferably the main evening meal).
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Drug: Tasquinimod
A patient will initially receive 0.25 mg/day dose which will then be titrated through 0.5 mg/day (from Day 15) to a maximum of 1mg/day (from Day 29). If tolerability issues arise at 0.5 or 1 mg/day, patients will have their dose reduced to 0.25 or 0.5 mg/day, respectively. |
Placebo Comparator: Placebo
1 capsule daily, taken orally once a day with water and food (preferably the main evening meal).
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Drug: Placebo
Placebo capsules are identical to tasquinimod capsules in appearance and excipients but exclude the active compound (tasquinimod), to be taken orally once a day with water and food (preferably the main evening meal). |
- Time to Radiological Progression-Free Survival [PFS] [ Time Frame: Every 3 months, up to 3 years ]PFS is defined as the time from the date of randomisation to the date of radiological progression (confirmed by the central imaging assessment) or death due to any cause.
- Overall Survival [ Time Frame: Every 3 months, up to 3 years ]Overall survival is defined as the time from randomisation to death due to any cause
- Time to Symptomatic PFS based on local assessment [ Time Frame: Every 3 months, up to 3 years ]Symptomatic PFS, defined as the time from the date of randomisation to the date of appearance of pain (using pain visual analogue scale [VAS]) at a site with documented disease and analgesic use, or skeletal-related events, or death due to prostate cancer, whichever occurs first.
- Time from randomisation to further treatment for prostate cancer. [ Time Frame: Every 3 months, up to 3 years ]
- Quality of Life (QoL) [ Time Frame: Every 3 months, up to 3 years ]Quality of Life (QoL) measured by the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy Prostate Module (FACT-P) questionnaire and by the EuroQol 5-Dimension QoL Instrument (EQ-5D).

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Ages Eligible for Study: | 20 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | Male |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Asian male aged at least 20 years at the time of signing the informed consent form
- Histologically confirmed diagnosis of adenocarcinoma of the prostate
- Evidence of metastatic disease (bone and/or visceral), excluding node lesion only, on radiographic examination, whether from bone scan (bone lesions) or other imaging modality (computed tomography [CT] scan/magnetic resonance imaging [MRI])
- Chemical or surgical castration verified by levels of serum testosterone ≤50 ng/dL (1.75 nmol/L), Evidence of progressive disease after castration levels of testosterone have been achieved
Exclusion Criteria:
- Cytotoxic chemotherapy for the treatment of prostate cancer within 2 years prior to the start of study treatment
- Previous anticancer therapy using radiation, biologics or vaccines and including sipuleucel-T (Provenge®) within 4 weeks prior to the start of study treatment and abiraterone, TAK700 or MDV3100 within 2 weeks prior to the start of study treatment. Before inclusion, abiraterone, TAK700 or MDV3100 related adverse effect must have been resolved to NCI-CTCAE v4.03 Grade ≤1. If radiation therapy is applied after Baseline scan, a new Baseline scan needs to be done at least 4 weeks after the radiation therapy
- Therapy with antiandrogens within 4 weeks (within 6 weeks for bicalutamide e.g. Casodex®) prior to the start of study treatment
- Concurrent use of other anticancer agents or treatments, with the exception of ongoing treatment with luteinising hormone-releasing hormone agonists or antagonists, denosumab (Prolia®) or bisphosphonate (e.g. zoledronic acid), which are allowed. Ongoing treatment should be kept at a stable schedule; however, if medically required, a change of dose, compound, or both is allowed
- Prostate cancer pain that requires ongoing treatment with narcotic analgesics or warrants the initiation of radio- or chemotherapy
- Prostate-Specific Antigen (PSA) >100 ng/mL

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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT02057666
China | |
Beijing, China | |
Changsha, China | |
Chengdu, China | |
Chongqing, China | |
Guangzhou, China | |
Hangzhou, China | |
Nanchang, China | |
Nanjing, China | |
Shanghai, China | |
Shantou, China | |
Shenyang, China | |
Soochow, China | |
Tianjin, China | |
Wenzhou, China | |
Wuhan, China | |
Korea, Republic of | |
Cheongju, Korea, Republic of | |
Seoul, Korea, Republic of | |
Taiwan | |
Taichung, Taiwan | |
Taipei, Taiwan |
Study Director: | Medical Director Uro-Oncology | Ipsen |
Responsible Party: | Ipsen |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT02057666 |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
8-55-58102-003 |
First Posted: | February 7, 2014 Key Record Dates |
Last Update Posted: | July 1, 2015 |
Last Verified: | June 2015 |
Prostatic Neoplasms Genital Neoplasms, Male Urogenital Neoplasms |
Neoplasms by Site Neoplasms Prostatic Diseases |