PALACE 3: Efficacy and Safety Study of Apremilast to Treat Active Psoriatic Arthritis (PALACE 3)

This study has been completed.

Sponsor:

Information provided by (Responsible Party):

Celgene

ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:

NCT01212770

First received: September 29, 2010

Last updated: May 18, 2017

Last verified: May 2017

History of Changes

Results First Received: April 22, 2014

Study Type:	Interventional
Study Design:	Allocation: Randomized; Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment; Masking: Participant, Care Provider, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor; Primary Purpose: Treatment
Condition:	Psoriatic Arthritis
Interventions:	Drug: Apremilast 20mg Drug: Apremilast 30mg Drug: Placebo

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Recruitment Details

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Pre-Assignment Details

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This is an ongoing study consisting of a 24-week randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase, a 28-week randomized, double-blind active treatment phase and a 4-year open-label safety phase, for an overall study duration of 5 years. This report includes data up to the end of the active treatment phase (Week 52).

Reporting Groups

	Description
Placebo	Participants initially randomized to receive placebo tablets twice daily in the 24-week placebo-controlled phase. Participants who did not have at least 20% improvement in swollen and tender joint counts at Week 16 were re-randomized to either 20 mg or 30 mg apremilast twice daily (early escape).
Apremilast 20 mg	Participants initially randomized to receive 20 mg apremilast tablets twice daily in the 24-week placebo-controlled phase and continued to receive 20 mg apremilast tablets twice daily for up to 4.5 years in the active treatment / long-term safety phase.
Apremilast 30 mg	Participants initially randomized to receive 30 mg apremilast tablets twice daily during the 24-week placebo-controlled phase continued to receive 30 mg apremilast tablets twice daily for up to 4.5 years in the active treatment / long-term safety phase.
Placebo / Apremilast 20 mg EE	Participants initially randomized to receive placebo twice daily who were re-randomized due to early escape (EE) at Week 16 to receive 20 mg apremilast for up to 4.5 years.
Placebo / Apremilast 20 mg XO	Participants initially randomized to receive placebo twice daily who were re-randomized at Week 24 (XO) to receive 20 mg apremilast for up to 4.5 years.
Placebo / Apremilast 30 mg EE	Participants initially randomized to receive placebo twice daily who were re-randomized due to early escape (EE) at Week 16 to receive 30 mg apremilast for up to 4.5 years.
Placebo / Apremilast 30 mg XO	Participants initially randomized to receive placebo twice daily who were re-randomized at Week 24 to receive 30 mg apremilast for up to 4.5 years.

Participant Flow for 2 periods

Period 1: Placebo-controlled Phase (Week 0 - 24)

	Placebo	Apremilast 20 mg	Apremilast 30 mg
STARTED	169	169	167
Received Treatment	169	169	167
Completed Week 16	156	157	156
Early Escape at Week 16	97 ^[1]	76	53 ^[1]
COMPLETED	146	147	145
NOT COMPLETED	23	22	22
Adverse Event	10	12	8
Lack of Efficacy	6	5	7
Withdrawal by Subject	3	4	1
Lost to Follow-up	1	0	3
Protocol Violation	0	0	1
Unspecified	3	1	2

^[1]	One participant who escaped early did not complete Week 24

Period 2: Active Treatment Phase (Weeks 25 - 52)

	Apremilast 20 mg	Apremilast 30 mg	Placebo / Apremilast 20 mg EE	Placebo / Apremilast 20 mg XO	Placebo / Apremilast 30 mg EE	Placebo / Apremilast 30 mg XO
STARTED	139 ^[1]	138 ^[2]	43 ^[3]	25	47 ^[3]	25
COMPLETED	120	126	32	23	44	23
NOT COMPLETED	19	12	11	2	3	2
Adverse Event	6	2	2	0	0	1
Lack of Efficacy	7	5	4	1	2	0
Withdrawal by Subject	6	3	3	1	1	1
Lost to Follow-up	0	1	0	0	0	0
Protocol Violation	0	0	1	0	0	0
Unspecified	0	1	1	0	0	0

^[1]	Eight participants who completed the placebo-controlled phase did not enter this phase
^[2]	Seven participants who completed the placebo-controlled phase did not enter this phase
^[3]	Three participants who escaped early and completed Week 24 did not enter the active treatment phase

Baseline Characteristics

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Population Description

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The full analysis dataset (FAS) consisting of all participants who were randomized as specified in the protocol.

Reporting Groups

	Description
Placebo	Participants initially randomized to receive placebo tablets twice daily.
Apremilast 20 mg	Participants initially randomized to receive 20 mg apremilast tablets twice daily.
Apremilast 30 mg	Participants initially randomized to receive 30 mg apremilast tablets twice daily.
Total	Total of all reporting groups

Baseline Measures

	Placebo	Apremilast 20 mg	Apremilast 30 mg	Total
Overall Participants Analyzed [Units: Participants]	169	169	167	505

Age [Units: Years] Mean (Standard Deviation)	49.5 (11.64)	49.6 (12.10)	49.9 (11.38)	49.7 (11.69)

Sex: Female, Male [Units: Participants] Count of Participants
Female	91 53.8%	90 53.3%	88 52.7%	269 53.3%
Male	78 46.2%	79 46.7%	79 47.3%	236 46.7%

Duration of psoriatic arthritis [Units: Years] Mean (Standard Deviation)	6.78 (6.463)	7.74 (7.690)	7.48 (7.646)	7.33 (7.284)

Outcome Measures

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1. Primary:

Percentage of Participants With an American College of Rheumatology 20% (ACR20) Response at Week 16 [ Time Frame: Baseline and Week 16 ]

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2. Secondary:

Change From Baseline in Health Assessment Questionnaire- Disability Index (HAQ-DI) at Week 16 [ Time Frame: Baseline and Week 16 ]

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3. Secondary:

Percentage of Participants With an ACR 20 Response at Week 24 [ Time Frame: Baseline and Week 24 ]

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4. Secondary:

Change From Baseline in Health Assessment Questionnaire- Disability Index (HAQ-DI) at Week 24 [ Time Frame: Baseline and Week 24 ]

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5. Secondary:

Change From Baseline in 36-item Short Form Health Survey (SF-36) Physical Functioning Domain at Week 16 [ Time Frame: Baseline and Week 16 ]

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6. Secondary:

Percentage of Participants With a Modified Psoriatic Arthritis Response Criteria (PsARC) Response at Week 16 [ Time Frame: Baseline and Week 16 ]

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7. Secondary:

Percentage of Participants Achieving a ≥ 75% Improvement in Psoriasis Area and Severity Index Score (PASI75) at Week 16 [ Time Frame: Baseline and Week 16 ]

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8. Secondary:

Change From Baseline in Patient’s Assessment of Pain at Week 16 [ Time Frame: Baseline and Week 16 ]

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9. Secondary:

Change From Baseline in Maastricht Ankylosing Spondylitis Entheses Score (MASES) at Week 16 [ Time Frame: Baseline and Week 16 ]

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10. Secondary:

Change From Baseline in Dactylitis Severity Score at Week 16 [ Time Frame: Baseline and Week 16 ]

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11. Secondary:

Change From Baseline in Clinical Disease Activity Index (CDAI) at Week 16 [ Time Frame: Baseline and Week 16 ]

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12. Secondary:

Change From Baseline in the Disease Activity Score (DAS28) at Week 16 [ Time Frame: Baseline and Week 16 ]

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13. Secondary:

Change From Baseline in the Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy-Fatigue (FACIT-Fatigue) Score at Week 16 [ Time Frame: Baseline and Week 16 ]

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14. Secondary:

Change From Baseline in 36-item Short Form Health Survey (SF-36) Physical Functioning Domain at Week 24 [ Time Frame: Baseline and Week 24 ]

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15. Secondary:

Percentage of Participants With a Modified Psoriatic Arthritis Response Criteria (PsARC) Response at Week 24 [ Time Frame: Baseline and Week 24 ]

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16. Secondary:

Percentage of Participants Achieving a ≥ 75% Improvement in Psoriasis Area and Severity Index Score (PASI75) at Week 24 [ Time Frame: Baseline and Week 24 ]

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17. Secondary:

Change From Baseline in Patient’s Assessment of Pain at Week 24 [ Time Frame: Baseline and week 24 ]

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18. Secondary:

Change From Baseline in Maastricht Ankylosing Spondylitis Entheses Score (MASES) at Week 24 [ Time Frame: Baseline and week 24 ]

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19. Secondary:

Change From Baseline in Dactylitis Severity Score at Week 24 [ Time Frame: Baseline and Week 24 ]

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20. Secondary:

Change From Baseline in Clinical Disease Activity Index (CDAI) at Week 24 [ Time Frame: Baseline and Week 24 ]

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21. Secondary:

Change From Baseline in the Disease Activity Score (DAS28) at Week 24 [ Time Frame: Baseline and Week 24 ]

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22. Secondary:

Change From Baseline in the Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy-Fatigue (FACIT-Fatigue) Score at Week 24 [ Time Frame: Baseline and Week 24 ]

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23. Secondary:

Percentage of Participants With MASES Improvement ≥ 20% at Week 16 [ Time Frame: Baseline and Week 16 ]

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24. Secondary:

Percentage of Participants With Dactylitis Improvement ≥ 1 Point at Week 16 [ Time Frame: Baseline and Week 16 ]

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25. Secondary:

Percentage of Participants With Good or Moderate European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) Response at Week 16 [ Time Frame: Baseline and Week 16 ]

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26. Secondary:

Percentage of Participants With MASES Improvement ≥ 20% at Week 24 [ Time Frame: Baseline and Week 24 ]

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27. Secondary:

Percentage of Participants With Dactylitis Improvement ≥ 1 Point at Week 24 [ Time Frame: Baseline and Week 24 ]

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28. Secondary:

Percentage of Participants With Good or Moderate EULAR Response at Week 24 [ Time Frame: Baseline and Week 24 ]

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29. Secondary:

Percentage of Participants With a ACR 50 Response at Week 16 [ Time Frame: Baseline and Week 16 ]

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30. Secondary:

Percentage of Participants With an ACR 70 Response at Week 16 [ Time Frame: Baseline and Week 16 ]

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31. Secondary:

Percentage of Participants With an ACR 50 Response at Week 24 [ Time Frame: Baseline and Week 24 ]

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32. Secondary:

Percentage of Participants With a ACR 70 Response at Week 24 [ Time Frame: Baseline and Week 24 ]

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33. Secondary:

Percentage of Participants Achieving a MASES Score of Zero at Week 16 [ Time Frame: Week 16 ]

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34. Secondary:

Percentage of Participants Achieving a Dactylitis Score of Zero at Week 16 [ Time Frame: Week 16 ]

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35. Secondary:

Percentage of Participants Achieving a MASES Score of Zero at Week 24 [ Time Frame: Week 24 ]

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36. Secondary:

Percentage of Participants Achieving a Dactylitis Score of Zero at Week 24 [ Time Frame: Week 24 ]

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37. Secondary:

Percentage of Participants With an ACR 20 Response at Week 52 [ Time Frame: Baseline and Week 52 ]

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38. Secondary:

Change From Baseline in Health Assessment Questionnaire - Disability Index (HAQ-DI) at Week 52 [ Time Frame: Baseline and Week 52 ]

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39. Secondary:

Change From Baseline in the SF-36 Physical Functioning Scale Score at Week 52 [ Time Frame: Baseline and Week 52 ]

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40. Secondary:

Percentage of Participants With a Modified PsARC Response at Week 52 [ Time Frame: Baseline and Week 52 ]

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41. Secondary:

Percentage of Participants Achieving a ≥ 75% Improvement in Psoriasis Area and Severity Index Score (PASI75) at Week 52 [ Time Frame: Baseline and Week 52 ]

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42. Secondary:

Change From Baseline in the Patient Assessment of Pain at Week 52 [ Time Frame: Baseline and Week 52 ]

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43. Secondary:

Change From Baseline in Maastricht Ankylosing Spondylitis Entheses Score (MASES) at Week 52 [ Time Frame: Baseline and Week 52 ]

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44. Secondary:

Change From Baseline in the Dactylitis Severity Score at Week 52 [ Time Frame: Baseline and Week 52 ]

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45. Secondary:

Change From Baseline in the CDAI Score at Week 52 [ Time Frame: Baseline and Week 52 ]

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46. Secondary:

Change From Baseline in the DAS28 at Week 52 [ Time Frame: Baseline and Week 52 ]

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47. Secondary:

Change From Baseline in the FACIT-Fatigue Scale Score at Week 52 [ Time Frame: Baseline and Week 52 ]

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48. Secondary:

Percentage of Participants With MASES Improvement ≥ 20% at Week 52 [ Time Frame: Baseline and Week 52 ]

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49. Secondary:

Percentage of Participants With Dactylitis Improvement ≥ 1 Point at Week 52 [ Time Frame: Baseline and Week 52 ]

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50. Secondary:

Percentage of Participants Achieving Good or Moderate EULAR Response at Week 52 [ Time Frame: Baseline and Week 52 ]

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51. Secondary:

Percentage of Participants With an ACR 50 Response at Week 52 [ Time Frame: Baseline and Week 52 ]

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52. Secondary:

Percentage of Participants With an ACR 70 Response at Week 52 [ Time Frame: Baseline and Week 52 ]

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53. Secondary:

Percentage of Participants Achieving a MASES Score of Zero at Week 52 [ Time Frame: Week 52 ]

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54. Secondary:

Percentage of Participants Achieving a Dactylitis Score of Zero at Week 52 [ Time Frame: Week 52 ]

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55. Secondary:

Number of Participants With Adverse Events [ Time Frame: Up to 5 years ]

Results not yet reported. Anticipated Reporting Date: 12/2017

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Certain Agreements:

Principal Investigators are NOT employed by the organization sponsoring the study.

There IS an agreement between Principal Investigators and the Sponsor (or its agents) that restricts the PI's rights to discuss or publish trial results after the trial is completed.

The agreement is:

	The only disclosure restriction on the PI is that the sponsor can review results communications prior to public release and can embargo communications regarding trial results for a period that is less than or equal to 60 days. The sponsor cannot require changes to the communication and cannot extend the embargo.
	The only disclosure restriction on the PI is that the sponsor can review results communications prior to public release and can embargo communications regarding trial results for a period that is more than 60 days but less than or equal to 180 days. The sponsor cannot require changes to the communication and cannot extend the embargo.
	Other disclosure agreement that restricts the right of the PI to discuss or publish trial results after the trial is completed. Restriction Description: Results from a center cannot be submitted for publication before results of multicenter study are published unless it is more than 1 year since study completion. Then, Investigator can publish if manuscript is submitted to Celgene 60 days prior to submission. If Celgene decides publication would hinder drug development, Investigator must delay submission for up to 90 days. Investigator must delete confidential information before submission or defer publication to permit patent applications.

Results Point of Contact:

Name/Title: Anne McClain
Organization: Celgene Corporation
phone: 1-888-260-1599
e-mail: clinicaltrialdisclosure@celgene.com

Publications of Results:

Edwards CJ, Blanco FJ, Crowley J, Birbara CA, Jaworski J, Aelion J, Stevens RM, Vessey A, Zhan X, Bird P. Apremilast, an oral phosphodiesterase 4 inhibitor, in patients with psoriatic arthritis and current skin involvement: a phase III, randomised, controlled trial (PALACE 3). Ann Rheum Dis. 2016 Jun;75(6):1065-73. doi: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2015-207963. Epub 2016 Jan 20.

Responsible Party:	Celgene
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:	NCT01212770 History of Changes
Other Study ID Numbers:	CC-10004-PSA-004
Study First Received:	September 29, 2010
Results First Received:	April 22, 2014
Last Updated:	May 18, 2017

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