Intranasal Fentanyl for the Treatment of Breakthrough Pain in Cancer Patients (FT-017-IM)

• Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
• Last refreshed on: 19 February 2015
• Main ID: NCT00345735
• Date of registration: 26/06/2006
• Prospective Registration: No
• Primary sponsor: Nycomed
• Public title: Intranasal Fentanyl for the Treatment of Breakthrough Pain in Cancer Patients (FT-017-IM)
• Scientific title: Intranasal Fentanyl for the Treatment of Breakthrough Pain in Cancer Patients. A Randomised, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled, Cross-over Confirmatory Trial Testing Fentanyl and Placebo in Eight Breakthrough Pain Episodes
• Date of first enrolment: May 2006
• Target sample size: 150
• Recruitment status: Completed
• URL: http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00345735
• Study type: Interventional
• Study design: Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Crossover Assignment, Masking: Double-Blind, Primary Purpose: Treatment
• Phase: Phase 2

Countries of recruitment

Denmark

Contacts

• Name: Nycomed Clinical Trial Operations
• Affiliation: Headquarters

Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Has the patient given informed consent according to local requirements before any
trial-related activities? Trial-related activities are any procedures that would not
have been performed during the routine management of the patient.

2. Is the patient a cancer patient with breakthrough pain?

3. Is the patient aged = 18 years?

4. Has the patient received, for at least the past month, either oral morphine,
oxycodone, hydromorphone, or transdermal fentanyl for treatment of background pain?

5. Is the current dose of the scheduled background pain opioid of the patient equivalent
to 60-500 mg oral morphine/day or to 25-200 µg/hour transdermal fentanyl?

6. Is the background pain generally stable and on average controlled to a mild level
(defined as = 4 on an 11-point numerical rating scale [NRS]) by the background pain
opioid?

7. Is the BTP(s) in general of such severe pain intensity that the patient judges he/she
needs additional analgesics (apart from background pain medication) and does it
normally last for more than 15 minutes?

8. Does the patient, in general, while using a stable fixed-schedule opioid regimen have
at least three BTP episodes per week but no more than four BTP episodes per day?

9. Has the patient obtained at least partial relief of BTP(s) with his/her usual
immediate-release strong opioid, i.e. oral morphine, oxycodone, hydromorphone or
transmucosal fentanyl?

10. Is the life expectancy of the patient at least 3 months?

11. Is the patient able to use intranasal drugs?

12. Does the patient use adequate contraceptive precautions (contraceptive pill, implant
or injection, or intrauterine device) in the trial period?

13. Does the patient have a negative pregnancy test?

14. Was the background pain, during a minimum of five of the seven days, controlled to a
mild level (defined as = 4 on an 11-point NRS) by the background pain opioid?

15. Did the patient have at least three BTP episodes during the seven days but no more
than four BTP episodes per day?

16. Was the BTP(s) of such severe pain intensity that the patient took additional
analgesics (apart from the usual background pain opioid)?

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Does the patient have a recent history of substance abuse?

2. Is the patient pregnant or nursing during the trial period?

3. Does the patient have neurological or psychiatric impairment that may compromise data
collection?

4. Does the patient have severe hepatic impairment? (Investigator's judgement according
to local practice.)

5. Has the patient had any recent therapy, which could potentially alter pain or
response to analgesics to a degree, where the need for background pain opioid will
be:

- less than 60 mg morphine or morphine equivalents/day; or

- less than 25 µg/hour transdermal fentanyl or the number of BTP episodes will be
less than three per week during the trial period?

6. Has the patient had facial radiotherapy?

7. Has the patient been treated with a monoamine oxidase (MAO) inhibitor within the last
14 days?

8. Does the patient use methadone or buprenorphine?

9. Does the patient have impaired respiratory function to an extent which may severely
increase the risk of clinically relevant respiratory depression by BTP fentanyl
treatment?

10. Does the patient use drugs for intranasal administration?

11. Does the patient have a nasopharyngeal probe?

12. Is the patient known to be hypersensitive to fentanyl or to other opioids or any of
their excipients?

13. Does the patient have any head injury, primary brain tumour, or other pathological
conditions which could significantly increase the risk of increased intracranial
pressure or impaired consciousness?

14. Is the patient concomitantly participating in any other trial with an investigational
drug or device apart from cancer treatment and participation in NAF trial FT-016-IM
within 30 days prior to inclusion in this trial?

15. Does the patient have pathological conditions of the nasal cavity as
contraindications to intranasal fentanyl?



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: 80 Years
Gender: Both

Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied

Cancer

Pain

Intervention(s)

Drug: Fentanyl

Primary Outcome(s)

Pain intensity difference at 10 minutes (PID10) after administration

Secondary Outcome(s)

Sum of pain intensity differences over the 0-60 minute time interval (SPID0-60) and General Impression (GI) with 5 point verbal rating scale at 60 minutes

Secondary ID(s)

2005-002347-82

FT-017-IM

Source(s) of Monetary Support

Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors