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Polidocanol (3%) 0.1ml intralesional injection per 10mm diameter lesion

Polidocanol Injection

Diona Damian

There is currently an urgent need for low cost and well tolerated intralesional agents for the management of in transit and cutaneous melanoma metastases that are unsuitable for, or resistant to, other therapies. This pilot study will determine whether intralesional injections of the sclerosant polidocanol into intransit and cutaneous melanoma lesions shows promise for efficacy, safety and ease of use that will enable this inexpensive and widely available agent to undergo further evaluation.

Many patients with metastatic melanoma have in transit and other cutaneous metastases. Untreated, these lesions become eroded, haemorrhagic and symptomatic. When systemic therapy is not warranted, has failed or is not tolerated for in transit disease, and when surgery is not feasible or appropriate, other local treatments are needed. Current options include isolated limb infusion for bulky limb disease, topical immunotherapy with contact sensitisers and imiqiuimod for superficial, nonbulky disease or radiation therapy. Intralesional (IL) agents such as Rose Bengal (PV-10, Provectus) and Talimogene laherparepvec (T-Vec, Amgen) have been used for patients with limited numbers of cutaneous metastases with reported overall response rates of 51% and 26% respectively. It is thought that these IL agents can incite regional or even systemic anti-tumour immune responses, thus providing benefit beyond the individual injected lesions. Use of PV-10, which is not an intrinsic immune modulator, was associated with regression of untreated bystander lesions in 27% of patients.

T-Vec is not currently available as a subsidised product in Australia and PV-10 is not currently accessible outside of dual-agent systemic/IL clinical trials. Intralesional injection of the antimetabolites 5-fluorouracil and methotrexate has been used successfully for the treatment of cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma, but the efficacy of these agents in melanoma is unknown. Importantly, the investigator's in transit melanoma patients usually have multiple, often very numerous lesions, making IL injection with adequate volumes of antimetabolites difficult without significant risk of systemic haematologic, hepatic and renal side effects.

Hence there is currently an urgent need for tolerable, low cost and accessible intralesional therapies for in transit and cutaneous melanoma metastases.

This study aims to evaluate the efficacy and tolerability of intralesional therapy with the sclerosant polidocanol for treatment of in transit and cutaneously metastatic melanoma unsuitable for other therapies.

Intravascularly injected sclerosants have a long history of safe and effective use in the treatment of varicose veins. Sclerosants have also been used intralesionally for the treatment of cutaneous lesions such as squamous cell carcinoma, pyogenic granulomas, Kaposi sarcoma and angiomas. They are inexpensive, readily accessible and can be easily administered in the clinic to multiple metastases. By inciting cell death within melanoma metastases in the skin, they may also incite anti-tumour immune responses in untreated bystander lesions, as is observed with IL PV-10 therapy.

Intralesional Sclerosant for in Transit and Cutaneous Melanoma Metastases

Proportion of patients with a complete response (complete disappearance of treated lesions), partial response (a 25% or more reduction in size of treated lesions), stable disease (a 0 to 24% reduction in size of treated lesions) or disease progression (any increase in size of treated lesions)

Treatment related adverse events using the CTCAE version 4 terms and grading.

Proportion of patients with a complete response (complete disappearance of untreated lesions), partial response (a 25% or more reduction in size of untreated lesions), stable disease (a 0 to 24% reduction in size of untreated lesions) or disease progression (any increase in size of untreated lesions)

The proportion (%) of tumour-infiltrating immune markers: CD4, CD8 and FoxP3 T cell markers, CD20 (B cell), CD16 and CD56 Natural Killer (NK) cell markers, Ki67 marker of proliferation, CD31 (endothelial cells) and CD68 and CD163 (macrophages) detected at baseline and 1 week after intralesional injection by immunohistochemistry. The same analysis will be undertaken in a minimuim of one untreated lesion detected at baseline and at anytime between 1 and 8 weeks. Change in the proportion (%) of immune markers will be ,made within each lesion and between each lesion.

The proportion of residual non-necrotic melanoma cells detected histolologcally in treated and untreated lesions one week after intralesional injection.

Study title	NCT ID	Conditions	Interventions	Eligibility	Organization	Link
Intralesional Sclerosant for in Transit and Cutaneous Melanoma Metastases	NCT03754140	Melanoma In-Transit Meta...	Polidocanol Inj...	18 Years -	Melanoma Institute Australia
Intralesional Sclerosant for in Transit and Cutaneous Melanoma Metastases	NCT03754140	Melanoma In-Transit Meta...	Polidocanol Inj...	18 Years -	Melanoma Institute Australia

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