A Study to Evaluate Further Therapeutic Strategies With Guselkumab in Participants With Moderate-to-Severe Plaque-Type Psoriasis (GUIDE)

Janssen (J&J Innovative Medicine)

Status and phase: Active, not recruiting; Phase 3

Conditions: Psoriasis

Treatments: Drug: Guselkumab; Drug: Placebo Injection

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Industry

Identifiers

NCT03818035

2018-001238-16 (EudraCT Number)

CNTO1959PSO3012 (Other Identifier)

CR108514

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to demonstrate that Super-Responders (SRe; defined as psoriasis participants who receive on-label guselkumab treatment until week 20 and respond with a Psoriasis Area and Severity Index score (PASI) = 0 at weeks 20 and 28) maintain control of disease until week 68 with prolonged treatment intervals of 16 weeks (guselkumab 100 mg every 16 weeks).

Enrollment: 880 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Has a disease duration of plaque psoriasis of either less than or equal to (<=2) years or (greater than (>2) years calculated from date at which first symptoms [plaque] were reported by subject to date of screening visit at screening; approximately 40 percentage (%) of participants must have a disease duration <=2 years
• Has moderate-to-severe plaque-psoriasis defined by a Psoriasis Area and Severity Index (PASI) score >10 or affected body surface area (BSA) >10%) and additionally a Dermatology Life Quality Index (DLQI) score >10 at baseline (week 0)
• Have no signs or symptoms suggestive of active tuberculosis (TB) upon medical history and/or physical examination
• Agrees not to receive a live virus or live bacterial vaccination during the study, or within 3 months after the last administration of study drug
• Agrees not to receive a Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccination during the study, or within 12 months after the last administration of study drug

Exclusion criteria

• Has previously received any therapeutic agent directly targeted to interleukin (IL) -23 (including but not limited to guselkumab, tildrakizumab [MK3222], risankizumab [BI-655066])
• Has received any systemic immunosuppressant (for example, methotrexate, azathioprine, cyclosporine, 6-thioguanine, mercaptopurine, mycophenolate mofetil, tacrolimus, fumaric acid esters), or anakinra within 4 weeks of the first administration of study drug.
• Tests positive for hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection or who are seropositive for antibodies to hepatitis C virus (HCV), unless they have 2 negative HCV RNA test results 6 months apart after completing antiviral treatment and prior to baseline and have a third negative HCV RNA test result at baseline
• Has received natalizumab, belimumab, or agents that modulate B cells or T cells (e.g., rituximab, alemtuzumab, abatacept, or visilizumab) within 12 months of the first administration of study drug
• Has received any anti - tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α biologic therapy within 3 months before the first administration of study drug

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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880 participants in 4 patient groups

Part 1: Guselkumab

Experimental group

Description:

Participants in group 1 (Part 1) will receive 100 milligram (mg) guselkumab subcutaneously (SC) at Weeks 0, 4, 12 and 20.

Treatment:

Drug: Guselkumab

Part 2: Guselkumab q8w and Guselkumab q16w

Experimental group

Description:

Eligible participants from Part 1 will continue to participate in Part 2. Participants (super responder \[SRe\]) with a Psoriasis Area and Severity Index (PASI) score = 0 at weeks 20 and 28 will be randomized to guselkumab 100 mg every 8 weeks (q8w) (group 2a) or guselkumab 100 mg q16w (group 2b), at weeks 28 to 60. Group 2b will receive placebo injection at weeks 28, 44 and 60 to keep the comparison double blind. Participants losing control of disease (PASI score \>5) during study Part 2 (until week 60), will enter the re-treatment arm (group 2d) and receive guselkumab 100mg q8w (at re-treatment week 0), followed by administration at re-treatment-weeks 8 and 16.

Treatment:

Drug: Guselkumab

Part 2: Guselkumab q8w

Experimental group

Description:

Participants (Non SRe) in group 2c with a PASI score greater than (\>) 0 at week 20 and/or 28 will continue to receive guselkumab 100 mg q8w until week 60.

Treatment:

Drug: Placebo Injection

Drug: Guselkumab

Part 3: Guselkumab Withdrawal

Experimental group

Description:

Participants from groups 2a and 2b with a PASI score \<3 at week 68 will be included in Part 3 (group 3a and 3b) and be withdrawn from guselkumab. Study visits will be conducted every 12 weeks until week 220 (follow-up). Participants with fluctuating disease (PASI score greater than or equal to \[\>=\] 3) at week 68 or PASI \>5 (participants losing control of disease) at any visit during part 3 after week 68 will get an opportunity to enter the re-treatment-arm (group 3c) in which participants will receive three guselkumab injections of 100 mg q8w.

Treatment:

Drug: Guselkumab