Vorinostat and Bortezomib in Treating Patients With Advanced Soft Tissue Sarcoma

A Phase II Study of Suberoylanilide Hydroxamic Acid and Bortezomib in Advanced Soft Tissue Sarcomas

This phase II trial is studying how well giving vorinostat together with bortezomib works in treating patients with advanced soft tissue sarcoma. Vorinostat and bortezomib may stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking some of the enzymes needed for cell growth. Giving vorinostat together with bortezomib may kill more tumor cells.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Recurrent Adult Soft Tissue Sarcoma; Stage III Adult Soft Tissue Sarcoma; Stage IV Adult Soft Tissue Sarcoma
• Intervention / Treatment: Drug: vorinostat; Drug: bortezomib

Detailed Description

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:

I. To determine the objective response rate in patients with advanced soft tissue sarcoma treated with vorinostat and bortezomib.

SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:

I. Characterize the toxicity of this regimen in these patients. II. Evaluate the progression-free survival and median overall survival of patients treated with this regimen.

OUTLINE:

Patients receive vorinostat orally (PO) once daily on days 1-14. Patients also receive bortezomib intravenously (IV) over 3-5 seconds on days 1, 4, 8, and 11. Courses repeat every 21 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.

After completion of study therapy, patients are followed up every 6 months for up to 2 years. (As of Addendum 7, patient follow-up no longer required.)

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 16
• Phase: Phase 2

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Florida
    • Jacksonville, Florida, United States, 32224-9980
      • Mayo Clinic in Florida
  • Maryland
    • Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21287-8936
      • Johns Hopkins University
  • Minnesota
    • Rochester, Minnesota, United States, 55905
      • Mayo Clinic
    • Saint Louis Park, Minnesota, United States, 55416
      • Metro-Minnesota CCOP
  • Missouri
    • Saint Louis, Missouri, United States, 63110
      • Washington University School of Medicine
  • Wisconsin
    • Madison, Wisconsin, United States, 53792
      • University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics

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 confirmed advanced, unresectable, or metastatic soft tissue sarcoma (STS)
• Measurable disease, defined as >= 1 lesion that can be accurately measured in >= 1 dimension as >= 2 cm by conventional techniques OR >= 1 cm by spiral computed tomography (CT) scan

• No small round cell tumors, including the following:

  • Primitive neuroectodermal tumor
  • Rhabdomyosarcoma
  • Ewing sarcoma
  • Osteosarcoma

• No known active and/or untreated brain metastases and/or brain metastases requiring ongoing therapy (e.g., corticosteroids)

  • Treated, inactive brain metastases not requiring ongoing therapy allowed provided the brain metastases have been stable for >= 1 month as assessed by intracranial imaging AND there is no indication of increased vascularity of the treated metastases within 14 days before study entry as assessed by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
• Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status (PS) 0-1 OR Karnofsky PS 70-100%
• Life expectancy >= 12 weeks
• Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) >= 1,500/mm^3
• Platelet count >= 100,000/mm^3
• Total bilirubin normal
• Aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and/or alanine aminotransferase (ALT) =< 2.5 times upper limit of normal
• Creatinine normal OR creatinine clearance >= 60 mL/min
• Not pregnant or nursing
• Negative pregnancy test
• Fertile patients must use effective contraception
• Able to take oral medication
• No peripheral neuropathy >= grade 2

• No concurrent uncontrolled illness including, but not limited to, any of the following:

  • Ongoing or active infection
  • Symptomatic congestive heart failure
  • Unstable angina pectoris
  • Cardiac arrhythmia or myocardial infarction within the past 6 months
  • Psychiatric illness and/or social situation that would limit compliance with study requirements
• No history of Torsades de Pointes
• No history of allergic reactions attributed to compounds of similar chemical or biological composition to vorinostat or bortezomib

• No more than 1 prior systemic treatment for advanced STS, including investigational agents

  • Adjuvant therapy is not considered a systemic regimen
• More than 2 weeks since prior valproic acid

• More than 4 weeks since prior and no concurrent chemotherapy (> 6 weeks for nitrosoureas or mitomycin C) or radiotherapy and recovered

  • Radiotherapy to bone metastasis within the past 2 weeks allowed provided there is active non-bone disease outside the radiation port
• No prior radiotherapy to >= 33% of the bone marrow
• No prior vorinostat or bortezomib

• No concurrent category I medications that are generally accepted to have a risk of causing Torsades de Pointes, including any of the following:

  • Quinidine, procainamide, disopyramide
  • Amiodarone, sotalol, ibutilide, dofetilide
  • Erythromycin, clarithromycin
  • Chlorpromazine, haloperidol, mesoridazine, thioridazine, pimozide, cisapride, bepridil, droperidol, methadone, arsenic, chloroquine, domperidone, halofantrine, levomethadyl, pentamidine, sparfloxacin, lidoflazine
• No concurrent combination antiretroviral therapy for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive patients
• No other concurrent investigational agents for the primary malignancy
• No other concurrent anticancer therapy

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: TREATMENT
• Allocation: NA
• Interventional Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Masking: NONE

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
EXPERIMENTAL: Treatment (vorinostat, bortezomib); Patients receive 400 mg vorinostat orally once daily on days 1-14. Patients also receive 1.3 mg/m^2 bortezomib IV over 3-5 seconds on days 1, 4, 8, and 11. Courses repeat every 21 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.	Drug: vorinostat; 400 mg given PO; Other Names: SAHA; Zolinza; L-001079038; suberoylanilide hydroxamic acid; Drug: bortezomib; 1.3 mg/m^2 given IV; Other Names: MLN341; LDP 341; VELCADE

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Confirmed Tumor Responses	The number of confirmed tumor responses is defined as a complete response (CR) or partial response (PR) according to Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) on two consecutive evaluations at least six weeks apart. Complete Response (CR): Disappearance of all target lesions. Partial Response (PR): At least a 30% decrease in the sum of the longest dimension (LD) of target lesions taking as reference the baseline sum LD.	Up to 2 years

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Progression Free Survival	Progression-free survival is defined as the time from registration to the time of progression or death, whichever comes first. The distribution and median of progression-free survival times will be estimated using the method of Kaplan-Meier.	Up to 2 years
Overall Survival	The distribution of survival time will be estimated using the method of Kaplan-Meier.	Time from registration to death due to any cause, assessed up to 2 years

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: June 1, 2009
• Primary Completion (ACTUAL): August 1, 2010
• Study Completion (ACTUAL): June 1, 2011

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: July 10, 2009
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 10, 2009
• First Posted (ESTIMATE): July 13, 2009

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (ESTIMATE): May 14, 2014
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 25, 2014
• Last Verified: September 1, 2013

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Neoplasms, Connective and Soft Tissue; Neoplasms by Histologic Type; Neoplasms; Sarcoma; Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action; Enzyme Inhibitors; Antineoplastic Agents; Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors; Bortezomib; Vorinostat
• Other Study ID Numbers: NCI-2011-03810; N01CM62205 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract); MC0778; CDR0000646715; MAYO-MC0778