Perifosine in Treating Patients With Metastatic or Recurrent Malignant Melanoma

A Phase II Study Of Perifosine (D-21266) In Previously Untreated Patients With Metastatic Or Recurrent Malignant Melanoma

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die.

PURPOSE: Phase II trial to study the effectiveness of perifosine in treating patients who have metastatic or recurrent malignant melanoma.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Melanoma (Skin)
• Intervention / Treatment: Drug: perifosine

Detailed Description

OBJECTIVES:

• Determine the efficacy of perifosine, in terms of response rate, in previously untreated patients with metastatic or recurrent malignant melanoma.
• Assess the toxicity of this drug in these patients.

OUTLINE: This is a multicenter study.

Patients receive oral perifosine daily on days 1-21. Treatment repeats every 28 days for up to 6 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients who achieve a complete response (CR) or partial response (PR) receive 2 additional courses after documentation of CR or stable PR (i.e., no further tumor shrinkage).

Patients are followed at 4 weeks and then every 3 months thereafter.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 15-30 patients will be accrued for this study within 12-18 months.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 18
• Phase: Phase 2

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Canada
  • Alberta
    • Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2N 4N2
      • Tom Baker Cancer Center - Calgary
  • Nova Scotia
    • Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, B3H 1V7
      • Nova Scotia Cancer Centre
  • Ontario
    • London, Ontario, Canada, N6A 4L6
      • Cancer Care Ontario-London Regional Cancer Centre
    • Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5G 2M9
      • Princess Margaret Hospital at University Health Network
  • Quebec
    • Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H2W 1S6
      • McGill University
    • Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H2L-4M1
      • Centre Hospitalier de l'Universite de Montreal

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years to 120 years (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Description

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

• Histologically confirmed malignant melanoma
• Metastatic or recurrent disease deemed incurable by standard therapies

• Clinically and/or radiologically documented disease by at least 1 site that is unidimensionally measurable as follows:

  • At least 20 mm by x-ray or physical exam
  • At least 10 mm by spiral CT scan
  • At least 20 mm by non-spiral CT scan
  • Bone lesions are not considered measurable
  • Outside previously irradiated area unless evidence of progression or new lesions within irradiated field
• No known brain metastases

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

Age

• 18 and over

Performance status

• ECOG 0-2

Life expectancy

• At least 12 weeks

Hematopoietic

• Absolute granulocyte count at least 1,500/mm^3
• Platelet count at least 100,000/mm^3

Hepatic

• Bilirubin no greater than upper limit of normal (ULN)
• AST no greater than 2.5 times ULN

Renal

• Creatinine no greater than ULN

Cardiovascular

• No symptomatic congestive heart failure
• No unstable angina pectoris
• No cardiac arrhythmia

Other

• Not pregnant or nursing
• Negative pregnancy test
• Fertile patients must use effective contraception
• No prior allergic reactions to compounds of similar chemical or biological composition to perifosine
• No other malignancy within the past 5 years except adequately treated nonmelanoma skin cancer or curatively treated carcinoma in situ of the cervix
• No ongoing or active infection
• No other concurrent uncontrolled medical illness, psychiatric illness, or social situation that would preclude study entry

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

Biologic therapy

• At least 3 months since prior adjuvant immunotherapy
• No prior immunotherapy for recurrent/metastatic disease

Chemotherapy

• No prior chemotherapy (including regional therapy)
• No other concurrent cytotoxic chemotherapy

Endocrine therapy

• Not specified

Radiotherapy

• See Disease Characteristics
• At least 4 weeks since prior radiotherapy (except for low-dose, nonmyelosuppressive radiotherapy)

Surgery

• At least 4 weeks since prior major surgery

Other

• No other concurrent anticancer therapy or investigational agents

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Treatment
• Allocation: N/A
• Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: NCIC Clinical Trials Group
• Collaborators: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
• Investigators: Study Chair: Donald S. Ernst, MD, FRCPC, London Health Sciences Centre

Publications and helpful links

General Publications

• Ernst DS, Eisenhauer E, Wainman N, Davis M, Lohmann R, Baetz T, Belanger K, Smylie M. Phase II study of perifosine in previously untreated patients with metastatic melanoma. Invest New Drugs. 2005 Dec;23(6):569-75. doi: 10.1007/s10637-005-1157-4.

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): June 20, 2003
• Primary Completion (Actual): September 14, 2004
• Study Completion (Actual): December 21, 2009

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: February 5, 2003
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: February 5, 2003
• First Posted (Estimated): February 6, 2003

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): August 4, 2023
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: August 3, 2023
• Last Verified: April 1, 2020

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: recurrent melanoma; stage IV melanoma
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Neoplasms by Histologic Type; Neoplasms; Neuroectodermal Tumors; Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal; Neoplasms, Nerve Tissue; Neuroendocrine Tumors; Nevi and Melanomas; Melanoma
• Other Study ID Numbers: I156; CAN-NCIC-IND156 (Other Identifier: PDQ); CDR0000269475 (Other Identifier: PDQ)

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: Yes
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No
• product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.: Yes