An Efficacy and Safety Study of Fremanezumab in Adults With Migraine

Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy, safety, and tolerability of monthly and quarterly subcutaneous (sc) injections of fremanezumab compared with sc injections of placebo in participants with chronic migraine (CM) or episodic migraine (EM) who have responded inadequately to 2 to 4 classes of prior preventive treatments. Approximately equal numbers of participants from each subgroup (CM and EM) are randomized in blinded-fashion 1:1:1 into one of 3 treatments for the subgroup - 2 active treatments and 1 placebo treatment- consisting of monthly injections for 3 months (up to Week 12). Then all participants continue into an open-label extension of 3 months (up to Week 24) during which everyone is administered sc injections of fremanezumab.

Timeline

Start

2017-10-13

Primary completion

2018-10-02

Completion

2019-05-29

Publications

• McAllister P, Cohen JM, Campos VR, Ning X, Janka L, Barash S. Impact of fremanezumab on disability outcomes in patients with episodic and chronic migraine: a pooled analysis of phase 3 studies. J Headache Pain. 2022 Aug 29;23(1):112. doi: 10.1186/s10194-022-01438-4.
• Diener HC, McAllister P, Jurgens TP, Kessler Y, Ning X, Cohen JM, Campos VR, Barash S, Silberstein SD. Safety and tolerability of fremanezumab in patients with episodic and chronic migraine: a pooled analysis of phase 3 studies. Cephalalgia. 2022 Jul;42(8):769-780. doi: 10.1177/03331024221076485. Epub 2022 Mar 25.
• Lampl C, Rapoport AM, Cohen JM, Barash S, Ramirez Campos V, Seminerio MJ, Ning X, Silberstein SD. Efficacy and quality-of-life improvements with fremanezumab treatment in patients with difficult-to-treat migraine with associated neurological dysfunction. Eur J Neurol. 2022 Jul;29(7):2129-2137. doi: 10.1111/ene.15328. Epub 2022 Mar 29.
• MaassenVanDenBrink A, Terwindt GM, Cohen JM, Barash S, Campos VR, Galic M, Ning X, Karppa M. Impact of age and sex on the efficacy of fremanezumab in patients with difficult-to-treat migraine: results of the randomized, placebo-controlled, phase 3b FOCUS study. J Headache Pain. 2021 Dec 18;22(1):152. doi: 10.1186/s10194-021-01336-1.
• Nahas SJ, Naegel S, Cohen JM, Ning X, Janka L, Campos VR, Krasenbaum LJ, Holle-Lee D, Kudrow D, Lampl C. Efficacy and safety of fremanezumab in clinical trial participants aged >/=60 years with episodic or chronic migraine: pooled results from 3 randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase 3 studies. J Headache Pain. 2021 Nov 24;22(1):141. doi: 10.1186/s10194-021-01351-2.
• Ashina M, Cohen JM, Galic M, Campos VR, Barash S, Ning X, Kessler Y, Janka L, Diener HC. Efficacy and safety of fremanezumab in patients with episodic and chronic migraine with documented inadequate response to 2 to 4 classes of migraine preventive medications over 6 months of treatment in the phase 3b FOCUS study. J Headache Pain. 2021 Jul 10;22(1):68. doi: 10.1186/s10194-021-01279-7.
• Pazdera L, Cohen JM, Ning X, Campos VR, Yang R, Pozo-Rosich P. Fremanezumab for the Preventive Treatment of Migraine: Subgroup Analysis by Number of Prior Preventive Treatments with Inadequate Response. Cephalalgia. 2021 Sep;41(10):1075-1088. doi: 10.1177/03331024211008401. Epub 2021 May 14.
• Spierings ELH, Karppa M, Ning X, Cohen JM, Campos VR, Yang R, Reuter U. Efficacy and safety of fremanezumab in patients with migraine and inadequate response to prior preventive treatment: subgroup analyses by country of a randomized, placebo-controlled trial. J Headache Pain. 2021 Apr 16;22(1):26. doi: 10.1186/s10194-021-01232-8.
• Ferrari MD, Diener HC, Ning X, Galic M, Cohen JM, Yang R, Mueller M, Ahn AH, Schwartz YC, Grozinski-Wolff M, Janka L, Ashina M. Fremanezumab versus placebo for migraine prevention in patients with documented failure to up to four migraine preventive medication classes (FOCUS): a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 3b trial. Lancet. 2019 Sep 21;394(10203):1030-1040. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(19)31946-4. Epub 2019 Aug 16.

Drugs

Indications

No indication recorded.