A Phase II Study of UCN-01 in Metastatic Melanoma

UCN-01 may stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking the enzymes necessary for their growth. This phase II trial is studying how well UCN-01 works in treating patients with metastatic melanoma.

Study Overview

• Status: Terminated
• Conditions: Recurrent Melanoma; Stage IV Melanoma
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: laboratory biomarker analysis; Other: pharmacological study; Drug: 7-hydroxystaurosporine

Detailed Description

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:

I. To assess the anti-tumor activity of UCN-01 (7-hydroxystaurosporine) in metastatic melanoma, as determined by the response rate.

II. To assess the clinical and laboratory toxicities of UCN-01. III. To study the effects of UCN-01 administration on potential markers of specific G1-phase cell cycle regulators.

OUTLINE: This is a multicenter study.

Patients receive UCN-01 IV over 3 hours on day 1. Courses repeat every 21 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.

Patients are followed for survival.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 17-33 patients will be accrued for this study within 18 months.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 17
• Phase: Phase 2

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • California
    • Sacramento, California, United States, 95817
      • UC Davis Cancer Center

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients have histologically or cytologically confirmed melanoma that is incurable by other means such as surgery, radiotherapy, or limb perfusion
• Patients must have measurable disease, defined as lesions that can be accurately measured in at least one dimension (longest diameter to be recorded) as >= 10 mm with conventional techniques or with spiral CT scan, and which has clearly progressed during the observation interval prior to participation in this study
• Patients must have received =< 1 prior chemotherapy and/or =< biological therapies; isolated limb perfusion with a biological and/or chemotherapeutic agent is allowed if the measurable disease and the lesion that will be biopsied for this protocol are outside the area of prior perfusion; at least 4 weeks must have elapsed since prior therapy (6 weeks for nitrosoureas or mitomycin C) and the patient must have recovered from all toxicities attributable to prior therapy
• Life expectancy greater than 4 months
• Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status #2 (Karnofsky >= 60%)
• Leukocytes >= 3000/uL
• Absolute neutrophil count >= 1500/uL
• Platelets >= 100000/uL
• Total bilirubin =< 1.5 mg/dL
• Aspartate aminotransferase (AST) (serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase [SGOT])/alanine aminotransferase (ALT) (serum glutamate pyruvate transaminase [SGPT]) =< 2 X institutional upper limit of normal
• Creatinine < 1.6 mg/dL
• Creatinine clearance >= 50 mL/min for patients with creatinine levels above 1.6 mg/dL
• The effects of UCN-01 on the developing human fetus at the recommended therapeutic dose are unknown; for this reason, women of childbearing potential and men must agree to use adequate contraception (hormonal or barrier method of birth control) prior to study entry and for the duration of study participation; should a woman become pregnant or suspect she is pregnant while participating in this study, she should inform her treating physician immediately
• Ability to understand and willingness to sign a written informed consent document
• Patient must have a central venous catheter
• Patients are requested to submit archival tissue for pre-study and undergo a tumor biopsy 24 hours post UCN-01 administration if feasible

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients who have had chemotherapy or radiotherapy within 4 weeks (6 weeks for nitrosoureas or mitomycin C) prior to entering the study or who have not recovered from adverse events to agents administered more than 4 weeks earlier
• Patients must not be receiving any other investigational agents
• Patients with known brain metastases are eligible only if disease is controlled and patient is asymptomatic (i.e. at least 4 weeks from completion of whole brain irradiation, stereotactic radiosurgery, or gamma knife irradiation) and not receiving corticosteroids
• History of allergic reactions attributed to compounds of similar chemical or biologic composition to UCN-01

• Patients with only non-measurable disease, defined as all other lesions, including small lesions (longest diameter >= 10 mm with conventional techniques or with spiral CT scan) and truly non-measurable lesions, which include the following:

  • Bone lesions
  • Leptomeningeal disease
  • Ascites
  • Pleural or pericardial effusion
  • Abdominal masses that are not confirmed and followed by imaging techniques
• Uncontrolled intercurrent illness including, but not limited to, ongoing or active infection, systematic congestive heart failure, symptomatic pulmonary diseases, unstable angina pectoris, cardiac arrhythmia, prior mediastinal radiation or psychiatric illness/social situations that would limit compliance with study requirements
• Pregnant women are excluded from this study because UCN-01 is a serine-threonine kinase inhibitor with the potential for teratogenic or abortifacient effects; because there is an unknown but potential risk for adverse effects in nursing infants secondary to treatment of the mother with UCN-01, breastfeeding should be discontinued if the mother is treated with UCN-01
• Because patients with immune deficiency are at increased risk of lethal infections when treated with marrow-suppressive therapy, HIV-positive patients receiving combination anti-retroviral therapy are excluded from the study because of possible pharmacokinetic interactions with UCN-01; appropriate studies will be undertaken in patients receiving combination anti-retroviral therapy when indicated
• Due to the incidence of hyperglycemia with UCN-01, patients with a history of diabetes will be excluded from the study

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

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

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Treatment (7-hydroxystaurosporine); Patients receive UCN-01 IV over 3 hours on day 1. Courses repeat every 21 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.	Other: laboratory biomarker analysis; Correlative studies; Other: pharmacological study; Correlative studies; Drug: 7-hydroxystaurosporine; Given IV

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Response Rate	Per Response Evaluation Criteria In Solid Tumors Criteria (RECIST v1.0) for target lesions and assessed by MRI: Complete Response (CR), Disappearance of all target lesions; Partial Response (PR), >=30% decrease in the sum of the longest diameter of target lesions; Overall Response (OR) = CR + PR	Up to 7 years

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Overall Survival	Estimated using the product-limit method of Kaplan and Meier.	Up to 7 years
Progression-free Survival	Estimated using the product-limit method of Kaplan and Meier. Progression is defined using Response Evaluation Criteria In Solid Tumors Criteria (RECIST v1.0), as a 20% increase in the sum of the longest diameter of target lesions, or a measurable increase in a non-target lesion, or the appearance of new lesions.	From the date of study registration to the first documentation of progressive tumor, assessed up to 7 years

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Scott Christensen, MD, University of California, Davis

Publications and helpful links

General Publications

• Li T, Christensen SD, Frankel PH, Margolin KA, Agarwala SS, Luu T, Mack PC, Lara PN Jr, Gandara DR. A phase II study of cell cycle inhibitor UCN-01 in patients with metastatic melanoma: a California Cancer Consortium trial. Invest New Drugs. 2012 Apr;30(2):741-8. doi: 10.1007/s10637-010-9562-8. Epub 2010 Oct 22.

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: November 1, 2003
• Primary Completion (Actual): March 1, 2010
• Study Completion (Actual): March 1, 2010

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: November 4, 2003
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: November 5, 2003
• First Posted (Estimate): November 6, 2003

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Estimate): March 2, 2015
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: February 17, 2015
• Last Verified: October 1, 2013

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Terms related to this study

• 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; Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action; Enzyme Inhibitors; Antineoplastic Agents; Protein Kinase Inhibitors; 7-hydroxystaurosporine
• Other Study ID Numbers: NCI-2012-02829 (Registry Identifier: CTRP (Clinical Trial Reporting Program)); N01CM17101 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract); PHII-33 (Other Identifier: City of Hope); 5536 (CTEP)