Trastuzumab in Treating Patients With Metastatic or Recurrent Salivary Gland Cancer

Phase II Study of Trastuzumab (NSC-688097) in Advanced High Grade Salivary Gland Carcinoma

This phase II trial is studying how well trastuzumab works in treating patients with metastatic or recurrent salivary gland cancer. Monoclonal antibodies, such as trastuzumab, can block tumor growth in different ways. Some block the ability of tumor cells to grow and spread. Others find tumor cells and help kill them or carry tumor-killing substances to them

Study Overview

• Status: Terminated
• Conditions: Recurrent Salivary Gland Cancer; Stage IVA Salivary Gland Cancer; Stage IVB Salivary Gland Cancer; Stage IVC Salivary Gland Cancer; High-grade Salivary Gland Mucoepidermoid Carcinoma; Salivary Gland Acinic Cell Tumor; Salivary Gland Adenocarcinoma; Salivary Gland Poorly Differentiated Carcinoma
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: laboratory biomarker analysis; Biological: trastuzumab

Detailed Description

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:

I. To assess response (confirmed and unconfirmed, complete and partial response) in patients with advanced high-grade salivary gland carcinoma treated with trastuzumab.

II. To assess one-year progression-free survival and one-year overall survival for patients treated with this regimen.

III. To assess the toxicities associated with this treatment regimen in this group of patients.

IV. To measure the indicators of C-erb B2 oncoprotein expression and C-erb B2 oncogene amplification and epidermal growth factor receptor expression and explore the relationship between these markers and response, progression-free survival and overall survival in preliminary fashion.

OUTLINE: Patients receive trastuzumab (Herceptin) IV over 30-90 minutes on days 1, 8, 15, and 22. Courses repeat every 28 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.

After completion of study treatment, patients are followed every 8 weeks until disease progression and then every 3 months for 1 year and every 6 months until 3 years from study entry.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 35
• Phase: Phase 2

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Texas
    • San Antonio, Texas, United States, 78245
      • Southwest Oncology Group

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 14 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients must have histologically or cytologically confirmed malignant high-grade (poorly differentiated or undifferentiated) salivary gland carcinoma of the head and neck (except adenoid cystic carcinoma) that is either metastatic or recurrent and is not amenable to salvage surgical resection or radiation therapy; eligible histologies are adenocarcinoma, acinic cell carcinoma, mucoepidermoid carcinoma, salivary duct carcinoma and undifferentiated carcinoma
• Patients must have tumors that car HER-2 gene amplification as determined by (i) fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) or (ii) overexpression of HER-2 protein, 2+ to 3+ level assessed by immunohistochemistry
• Patients must have measurable disease; all measurable disease must be assessed within 28 days prior to registration; all non-measurable disease must be assessed within 42 days prior to registration
• Patients with known brain metastases are not eligible for this trial because of their poor prognosis and because they often develop progressive neurologic dysfunction that would confound the evaluation of neurologic and other adverse events
• Patients must have and must be willing to submit tumor tissue for pathology review and translational medicine studies; patients must be offered the opportunity to participate in specimen banking for future research
• Patients previously treated with chemotherapy are eligible provided that at least (28 days) has elapsed since the last course of chemotherapy was completed and patient has recovered from all toxicities
• Prior radiation must have been completed at least 28 days prior to registration and all toxicities must have resolved (in the opinion of the treating investigator); prior surgery must have been completed at least 28 days prior to registration and all surgical adverse events must have resolved (in the opinion of the treating investigator)
• Patients must not be planning on receiving any other investigational agents, other chemotherapeutic agents, radiation therapy, or hormonal therapy while receiving treatment on this study except for steroids administered for non-disease-related conditions (e.g., insulin for diabetes)
• Patients must have a Zubrod Performance status of 0-2
• WBC count >= 2,000 ul within 28 days prior to registration
• ANC count >= 1,000/ul within 28 days prior to registration
• Platelet count >= 75,000/ul within 28 days prior to registration
• Bilirubin =< 2.5 x the institutional upper limit of normal within 28 days prior to registration
• SGOT or SGPT =< 2.5 x the institutional upper limit of normal within 28 days prior to registration
• Patients with liver metastases must have bilirubin and SGOT or SGPT =< 5 x the institutional upper limit of normal
• Serum creatinine < 2.5 x the institutional limit of normal within 28 days prior to registration
• Patients with a known history of allergic reactions to compounds of similar chemical or biologic composition to trastuzumab are not eligible
• No prior malignancy is allowed except for the following: adequately treated basal cell or squamous cell skin cancer, in situ cervical cancer, adequately treated stage I or II cancer from which the patient is currently in complete remission, or any other cancer from which the patient has been disease-free for five years
• Patients must not be pregnant or nursing; women/men of reproductive potential must have agreed to use an effective contraceptive method
• If day 28 or 42 falls on a weekend or holiday, the limit may be extended to the next working day
• In calculating days of tests and measurements, the day a test or measurement is done is considered day 0; therefore, if a test is done on a Monday, the Monday four weeks later would be considered day 28; this allows for efficient patient scheduling without exceeding the guidelines
• Patients must be informed of the investigational nature of this study and must sign and give written informed consent in accordance with institutional and federal guidelines
• At the time of patient registration, the treating institution's name and ID number must be provided to the data operations center in Seattle in order to ensure that the current (within 365 days) date of institutional review board approval for this study has been entered into the data base

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 (trastuzumab); Patients receive trastuzumab (Herceptin) IV over 30-90 minutes on days 1, 8, 15, and 22. Courses repeat every 28 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.	Other: laboratory biomarker analysis; Correlative studies; Biological: trastuzumab; Given IV; Other Names: Herceptin; anti-c-erB-2; MOAB HER2

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Response (confirmed and unconfirmed, complete and partial response) in patients treated with trastuzumab	A true response probability of 30% or greater would be of interest.	Up to 4 years

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Time Frame
Overall survival	Up to 4 years
Progression-free survival	From date of registration to date of first documentation of progression or symptomatic deterioration, or death due to any cause, assessed up to 1 year

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Madeleine Kane, Southwest Oncology Group

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: July 1, 2005
• Primary Completion (Actual): May 1, 2007

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: August 2, 2005
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: August 2, 2005
• First Posted (Estimate): August 4, 2005

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Estimate): February 28, 2013
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: February 27, 2013
• Last Verified: February 1, 2013

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Neoplasms by Histologic Type; Neoplasms; Neoplasms by Site; Adenocarcinoma; Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial; Head and Neck Neoplasms; Stomatognathic Diseases; Mouth Diseases; Neoplasms, Cystic, Mucinous, and Serous; Salivary Gland Diseases; Mouth Neoplasms; Carcinoma; Carcinoma, Acinar Cell; Salivary Gland Neoplasms; Carcinoma, Mucoepidermoid; Mucoepidermoid Tumor; Antineoplastic Agents; Antineoplastic Agents, Immunological; Trastuzumab
• Other Study ID Numbers: NCI-2012-03172; U10CA032102 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract); S0431; CDR0000437831 (Registry Identifier: PDQ (Physician Data Query))