Phase I Study of LBH589 & Erlotinib for Advanced Aerodigestive Tract Cancers

Phase I Study of LBH589 in Combination With Erlotinib for Advanced Aerodigestive Tract Cancers (CLBH5889CUS11T)

The main purpose of the study is to:

• Determine the safety and tolerability of erlotinib and LBH589B.
• Establish a recommended phase II expansion dosing of LBH589B and erlotinib in patients with advanced aerodigestive tract cancers.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Head and Neck Cancer; Lung Cancer
• Intervention / Treatment: Drug: Panobinostat (LBH589); Drug: erlotinib

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 44
• Phase: Phase 1

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Florida
    • Tampa, Florida, United States, 33612
      • H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute

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:

• Histologically or cytologically documented diagnosis of advanced/metastatic NSCLC or Head and Neck cancer.
• Male or female patients aged ≥ 18 years old
• Ability to provide written informed consent obtained prior to participation in the study and any related procedures being performed
• Have progressive and measurable disease that can be measured by Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) criteria
• Patients must have discontinued prior systemic chemotherapy by 14 days.

• Patients must meet the following laboratory criteria:

  1. Serum albumin ≥ 3g/dL
  2. Aspartic transaminase (AST/SGOT) and alanine transaminase (ALT/SGPT) ≤ 2.5 x upper limit of normal (ULN)or ≤ 5.0 x ULN if the transaminase elevation is due to leukemic involvement
  3. Serum bilirubin ≤ 1.5 x ULN
  4. Serum creatinine ≤ 1.5 x ULN or 24-hour creatinine clearance ≥ 50 ml/min
  5. Serum potassium ≥ lower limit of normal (LLN) and ≤ ULN
  6. Serum phosphorous ≥ LLN
  7. Serum total calcium (corrected for serum albumin) or serum ionized calcium ≥ LLN
  8. Serum magnesium ≥ LLN
  9. Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) (ANC: segmented and bands) ≥ 1.5 X10^9/L
  10. Platelets ≥ 100 X 10^9/L
• Baseline multiple gated acquisition imaging (MUGA) or echocardiogram (ECHO) must demonstrate left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) ≥ the lower limit of the institutional normal
• Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) Performance Status of ≤ 1
• Reproductive potential must be either terminated (by surgery, radiation, or menopause) or attenuated by the use of an approved contraceptive method during and for 3 to 6 months following the study.
• Patient instructed that intravenous (IV) bisphosphonates will be withheld for the first 8 weeks of LBH589 therapy due to risk of hypocalcemia.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Impaired cardiac function including any one of the following:

  1. Screening electrocardiogram (ECG) with a corrected QT (QTc) > 450 msec confirmed by central laboratory prior to enrollment to the study
  2. Patients with congenital long QT syndrome
  3. History of sustained ventricular tachycardia
  4. Any history of ventricular fibrillation or torsades de pointes
  5. Bradycardia defined as heart rate < 50 beats per minute. Patients with a pacemaker and heart rate ≥ 50 beats per minute are eligible.
  6. Patients with a myocardial infarction or unstable angina within 6 months of study entry
  7. Congestive heart failure - New York Heart Association (NYHA) class III or IV
  8. Right bundle branch block and left anterior hemiblock (bifascicular block)
  9. Patients with a history of uncontrolled or chronic atrial fibrillation.
• Uncontrolled hypertension, blood pressure (BP) >180/110 on 3 separate occasions despite oral antihypertensive medications
• Concomitant use of drugs with a risk of causing torsades de pointes Concomitant use of CYP3A4 inhibitors
• Patients with documented central nervous system or leptomeningeal metastasis (brain metastasis) at the time of study entry. Patients with prior brain metastasis may be considered if they have completed their treatment for brain metastasis, no longer require corticosteroids, and are asymptomatic.
• Patients with unresolved diarrhea > Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) grade 1
• Impairment of gastrointestinal (GI) function or GI disease that may significantly alter the absorption of oral LBH589
• Other concurrent severe and/or uncontrolled medical conditions
• Patients who have received chemotherapy < 14 days, any investigational drug < 14 days or undergone major surgery < 4 weeks prior to starting study drug or who have not recovered from side effects of such therapy.
• Concomitant use of any anti-cancer therapy (except erlotinib) or radiation therapy.
• Female patients who are pregnant or breast feeding or patients of reproductive potential not using two effective methods of birth control. Women of childbearing potential (WOCBP) must have a negative serum pregnancy test within 7 days of the first administration of oral LBH589
• Male patients whose sexual partners are WOCBP not using effective birth control
• Patients with known positivity for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or hepatitis C; baseline testing for HIV and hepatitis C is not required
• Patients with any significant history of non-compliance to medical regimens or with inability to grant a reliable informed consent
• Patients who are not willing to refrain from wearing contact lenses during study participation will be excluded.

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: Dose Escalation Followed by Expansion; Eligible participants were enrolled in a 3+3 dose-escalation design to determine the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) of twice weekly panobinostat plus daily erlotinib at 4 planned dose levels (DLs).

Drug: Panobinostat (LBH589); Panobinostat was taken twice weekly, for 2 out of 3 weeks of each cycle. Each cycle was defined as a 21-day period. Four dose levels of panobinostat in combination with erlotinib were planned: 1) dose level 1 (DL1) = panobinostat 20 mg by mouth (PO) twice weekly for 2 out of 3 weeks + erlotinib 100 mg PO daily; 2) dose level 2 (DL2) = panobinostat 30 mg and erlotinib 100 mg; 3) dose level 3 (DL3) = panobinostat 30 mg and erlotinib 150 mg; and 4) dose level 4 (DL4) = panobinostat 40 mg and erlotinib 150 mg. Doses were not escalated over the course of treatment of an individual participant.; Other Names: histone deacetylase inhibitor; HDAC; Drug: erlotinib; Erlotinib was taken daily without interruption. Each cycle was defined as a 21-day period. Panobinostat was taken twice weekly, for 2 out of 3 weeks of each cycle. Four dose levels of panobinostat in combination with erlotinib were planned: 1) dose level 1 (DL1) = panobinostat 20 mg by mouth (PO) twice weekly for 2 out of 3 weeks + erlotinib 100 mg PO daily; 2) dose level 2 (DL2) = panobinostat 30 mg and erlotinib 100 mg; 3) dose level 3 (DL3) = panobinostat 30 mg and erlotinib 150 mg; and 4) dose level 4 (DL4) = panobinostat 40 mg and erlotinib 150 mg. Doses were not escalated over the course of treatment of an individual participant.; Other Names: Tarceva; quinazoline

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Maximum Tolerated Dose (MTD)	Determine safety and tolerability of erlotinib and LBH589B and establish a recommended phase II expansion dosing of LBH589B and erlotinib in patients with advanced aerodigestive tract cancers.	4 Months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Disease Control Rate (DCR)	DCR: The percentage of patients with advanced or metastatic cancer who have achieved complete response (CR), partial response (PR) and stable disease (SD) to a therapeutic intervention in clinical trials of anticancer agents. CR: is defined as disappearance of all target lesions. PR: is defined as at least a 30% decrease in the sum of longest diameter (LD) of target lesions taking as reference the baseline sum LD. SD: is defined as neither sufficient shrinkage to qualify for PR nor sufficient increase to qualify for PD taking as references the smallest sum LD since the treatment started.	Up to 48 months
Progression Free Survival (PFS) by Cancer Type	Progressive Disease (PD) is defined as at least a 20% increase in the sum of LD of target lesions taking as references the smallest sum LD recorded since the treatment started or the appearance of one or more new lesions.	Up to 48 months
Overall Survival (OS) by Cancer Type	Overall survival (OS) is the duration from date of randomization to date of death from any cause.	Up to 48 months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute
• Collaborators: Novartis; Genentech, Inc.
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Jhanelle Gray, M.D., H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute

Publications and helpful links

Helpful Links

• Moffitt Cancer Center Clinical Trials website

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: November 1, 2008
• Primary Completion (Actual): August 1, 2013
• Study Completion (Actual): February 1, 2015

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: August 18, 2008
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: August 18, 2008
• First Posted (Estimate): August 20, 2008

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Estimate): February 4, 2015
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: February 3, 2015
• Last Verified: February 1, 2015

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: NSCLC; non-small cell lung cancer; erlotinib; Metastatic; H&N cancer; aerodigestive tract cancers
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Neoplasms; Neoplasms by Site; Head and Neck Neoplasms; Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action; Enzyme Inhibitors; Antineoplastic Agents; Protein Kinase Inhibitors; Erlotinib Hydrochloride; Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors; Panobinostat
• Other Study ID Numbers: MCC-15461; LBH589 (Other Identifier: Novartis)