A Study of AUY922 in Non-small-cell Lung Cancer Patients Who Have Received Previous Two Lines of Chemotherapy.

A Phase II, Multi-center, Open-label Study of AUY922 Administered IV on a Once-weekly Schedule in Patients With Advanced Non-small-cell Lung Cancer Who Have Received at Least Two Lines of Prior Chemotherapy

This study will assess the efficacy of AUY922, when administered weekly at 70 mg/m2, in adult patients with advanced Non-small-cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC), who have received at least two prior lines of chemotherapy. Patients will be retrospectively, and prospectively, stratified based on their molecular tumor etiology. The following strata was assigned: Patients with Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) activating mutations, Patients with Kirstin Raus sarcoma virus (KRAS) activating mutations, Patients with EML4-ALK (anaplastic lymphoma kinase) translocations and patients that were both EGFR and Kras wild type.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Non-small-cell Lung Cancer
• Intervention / Treatment: Drug: AUY922

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 153
• Phase: Phase 2

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Canada
  • Alberta
    • Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T6G 1Z2
      • Novartis Investigative Site
  • Quebec
    • Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3T 1E2
      • Novartis Investigative Site
• France
  • Creteil, France, 94000
    • Novartis Investigative Site
  • Marseille cedex 20, France, 13915
    • Novartis Investigative Site
  • Villejuif Cedex, France, 94805
    • Novartis Investigative Site
• Germany
  • Berlin, Germany, 13125
    • Novartis Investigative Site
  • Oldenburg, Germany, 26121
    • Novartis Investigative Site
• Korea, Republic of
  • Korea
    • Seoul, Korea, Korea, Republic of, 05505
      • Novartis Investigative Site
    • Seoul, Korea, Korea, Republic of, 06351
      • Novartis Investigative Site
    • Seoul, Korea, Korea, Republic of, 137-701
      • Novartis Investigative Site
    • Seoul, Korea, Korea, Republic of, 110 744
      • Novartis Investigative Site
• Netherlands
  • Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1081 HV
    • Novartis Investigative Site
  • Groningen, Netherlands, 9713 GZ
    • Novartis Investigative Site
• Norway
  • Oslo, Norway, NO-0379
    • Novartis Investigative Site
• Singapore
  • Singapore, Singapore, 119228
    • Novartis Investigative Site
• Spain
  • Catalunya
    • Badalona, Catalunya, Spain, 08916
      • Novartis Investigative Site
    • Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain, 08035
      • Novartis Investigative Site
• Turkey
  • Izmir, Turkey, 35040
    • Novartis Investigative Site
• United States
  • California
    • Los Angeles, California, United States, 90095
      • University of California at Los Angeles UCLA - Santa Monica
  • Maryland
    • Rockville, Maryland, United States, 20850
      • Maryland Oncology Hematology, P.A. Dept. of Assoc. Onc/Hem
  • Massachusetts
    • Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02215
      • Dana Farber Cancer Institute DFCI
  • Pennsylvania
    • Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States
      • St. Luke's Hospital and Health Network St Luke's

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 with histologically or cytologically confirmed advanced (stage IIIB or stage IV) NSCLC who have received at least two prior lines of treatment. Patients who, in the investigators opinion, are deemed unsuitable for the standard 2nd line chemotherapy will be eligible for protocol participation. One of the prior lines must have included a platinum agent. Prior treatment with a platinum agent is not a requirement for EGFR mutant patients and patients with EML4-ALK translocations
• Patients enrolled to the fifth stratum, modified EGFR mutant, must have documented prior response to EGFR TKI as defined by CR, PR or SD for 6 months or greater unless patient has de novo resistance to EGFR TKI (e.g. exon 20 insertions.)
• All patients must have at least one measurable lesion as defined by RECIST criteria. Previously irradiated lesions are not measurable unless the lesion is new or has demonstrated clear progression after radiation
• World Health Organization (WHO) performance status ≤ 2. For patients enrolled to the fifth stratum, modified EGFR mutant, World Health Organization (WHO) performance status ≤ 1
• Patients enrolled to the fifth stratum, modified EGFR mutant, must be willing and suitable to undergo fresh baseline biopsy prior to study treatment (unless patient had recent biopsy after EGFR TKI progression that concluded resistance to EGFR TKI.)

• Hematologic:

  • Absolute Neutrophil Count (ANC) ≥ 1.5 x 109/L.
  • Hemoglobin (Hgb) ≥ 9 g/dl.
  • Platelets (plt) ≥ 100 x 109/L.

Biochemistry:

• Total calcium (corrected for serum albumin) within normal limits or correctable with supplements.
• Magnesium within lower normal limits or correctable with supplements.

Adequate liver function defined as:

• AST/SGOT and ALT/SGPT ≤ 3.0 x Upper limit of Normal (ULN) or ≤ 5.0 x ULN if liver metastasis are present.
• Serum bilirubin ≤ 1.5 x ULN.
• Serum albumin > 2.5 g/dL.
• Serum creatinine ≤ 1.5 x ULN or 24 hour clearance ≥ 50 mL/min.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients who have received more than four lines of prior treatment. Exception: Patients enrolled to the fifth stratum, modified EGFR mutant, must not have received more than two prior lines of therapy. Chemotherapy administered as adjuvant treatment more than six months prior to study enrollment is not considered a prior line of therapy for purposes of this study.
• Patients with a history of CNS metastasis. Note: Patients without clinical signs and symptoms of CNS involvement are not required to have MRI of the brain. Exception: Patients with treated brain metastases who are asymptomatic, who has discontinued corticosteroids, and who have been clinically stable for one month will be eligible for protocol participation. This exception is not valid for patients enrolled to the fifth stratum, modified EGFR mutant. These patients must not have CNS involvement.
• Prior anti-neoplastic treatment with any HSP90 or HDAC inhibitor compound.

• Patients must not have received:

  • any systemic anti-cancer treatment or radiotherapy within 4 weeks prior to first dose of study treatment and should have recovered to baseline or less than Grade 1 from toxicities of such therapy prior to the first dose of study treatment
  • 2 weeks for palliative radiotherapy to bones, 6 weeks for nitrosoureas and mitomycin
  • 4 weeks for monoclonal antibodies
  • and ≤5 half-life of the agent or active metabolites [if any] for continuous systemic anti-cancer treatment or investigational
• Patients who do not have either an archival tumor sample available or are unwilling to have a fresh tumor sample collected at baseline.

Other protocol-defined inclusion/exclusion criteria may apply

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

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

Number of Arms

5

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
EXPERIMENTAL: EGFR mutant patients; Patients with EGFR activating mutation tumors (Note: These patients must have progressed on one prior EGFR TKI containing regimen unless they have documented T790M activating mutation). Patients received AUY922 at 70 mg/m^2 weekly infusions.	Drug: AUY922; AUY922 was supplied in individual 10 mL amber colored glass ampoules containing 10 mL of a 5 mg/mL active drug substance in 5% aqueous glucose solution. AUY922 was administered intravenously (i.v.) weekly at 70 mg/m2.
EXPERIMENTAL: Kras mutant patients; Patients with KRAS mutant tumors. Patients received AUY922 at 70 mg/m^2 weekly infusions.	Drug: AUY922; AUY922 was supplied in individual 10 mL amber colored glass ampoules containing 10 mL of a 5 mg/mL active drug substance in 5% aqueous glucose solution. AUY922 was administered intravenously (i.v.) weekly at 70 mg/m2.
EXPERIMENTAL: EGFR and Kras wild type patients; Patients exhibiting both mutations were stratified to the KRAS mutation stratum. Patients received AUY922 at 70 mg/m^2 weekly infusions.	Drug: AUY922; AUY922 was supplied in individual 10 mL amber colored glass ampoules containing 10 mL of a 5 mg/mL active drug substance in 5% aqueous glucose solution. AUY922 was administered intravenously (i.v.) weekly at 70 mg/m2.
EXPERIMENTAL: Patients with EML4-ALK translocation; Patients with NSCLC who have tumors with an inversion in the short arm of chromosome 2 that results in the fusion of the echinoderm microtubule-associated protein-like 4 (EML4) gene with the ALK gene leading to the production of an EML4-ALK fusion tyrosine kinase. ALK is a transmembrane protein, which has a kinase domain and is not usually expressed in the lung. EML4 mediate ligand-independent dimerization, and therefore constitutive activity of the ALK tyrosine kinase domain. Patients received AUY922 at 70 mg/m^2 weekly infusions.	Drug: AUY922; AUY922 was supplied in individual 10 mL amber colored glass ampoules containing 10 mL of a 5 mg/mL active drug substance in 5% aqueous glucose solution. AUY922 was administered intravenously (i.v.) weekly at 70 mg/m2.
EXPERIMENTAL: Modified EGFR mutant patients; The modified EGFR stratum was defined as patients less heavily pretreated who had received one or two lines of prior therapy, with a documented response to a EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) (complete response (CR), partial response (PR) or stable disease (SD) for ≥ 6 months), unless the patient had de novo resistance to EGFR TKI. Patients received AUY922 at 70 mg/m^2 weekly infusions.	Drug: AUY922; AUY922 was supplied in individual 10 mL amber colored glass ampoules containing 10 mL of a 5 mg/mL active drug substance in 5% aqueous glucose solution. AUY922 was administered intravenously (i.v.) weekly at 70 mg/m2.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Response Assessment by Study Stratum - Per Investigator Assessment	The primary endpoint of the study was the investigator assessment of efficacy at 18 weeks in terms of response complete response (CR)/partial response (PR), stable disease (SD), or non clinical benefit (NCB) as assessed by response evaluation criteriain solid tumors (RECIST) version 1.0. ORR = patients with confirmed complete or partial response. Stable disease at 18 weeks = patients without response and with no assessment of progressive disease up to 18 weeks, but with an assessment of stable disease or better either within 2 weeks prior to the 18 week time point, or at the next non-missing assessment after the 18 week time point. No clinical benefit = all other patients.	18 weeks

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Overall Survival Rate Using Kaplan Meier Estimates - Per Investigator Radiological Review	Overall survival (OS) is defined as the time from date of randomization/start of treatment to date of death due to any cause. If a patient is not known to have died, survival was censored at the date of last contact.	Week 12, Week 18
Progression Free Survival (PFS) Rate as Per Investigator Using Kaplan Meier Estimates - Per Investigator Radiological Review	Progression-free survival (PFS) is the time from date of randomization/start of treatment to the date of event defined as the first documented progression or death due to any cause. If a patient did not have an event, progression-free survival was censored at the date of last adequate tumor assessment. A Novartis modified response evaluation criteria in solid tumors RECIST 1.1 criteria was applied to CT/MRI imaging data when assessing any responses to AUY922 treatment. All images were evaluated locally by the investigator. All complete or partial responses were confirmed by a second assessment at least 4 weeks later.	Week 12, Week 18
Pharmacokinetics (PK) of Plasma Concentration of AUY922 and Its Metabolite BJP762: AUCinf	Summary of PK parameters for all patients one hour post 70 mg/m2 AUY922 infusion for area under the curve infinity. There are discrepancies between sample numbers and study population because PK samples were not collected from all study subjects and thus were not analyzed.	1 hour after infusion
Pharmacokinetics (PK) of Plasma Concentration of AUY922 and Its Metabolite BJP762: AUClast	Summary of PK parameters for all patients one hour post 70 mg/m2 AUY922 infusion for area under the curve last. There are discrepancies between sample numbers and study population because PK samples were not collected from all study subjects and thus were not analyzed.	1 hour after infusion
Pharmacokinetics (PK) of Plasma Concentration of AUY922 and Its Metabolite BJP762: Cmax	Summary of PK parameters for all patients one hour post 70 mg/m2 AUY922 infusion for concentration max. There are discrepancies between sample numbers and study population because PK samples were not collected from all study subjects and thus were not analyzed.	1 hour after infusion

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Novartis Pharmaceuticals

Publications and helpful links

General Publications

• Felip E, Barlesi F, Besse B, Chu Q, Gandhi L, Kim SW, Carcereny E, Sequist LV, Brunsvig P, Chouaid C, Smit EF, Groen HJM, Kim DW, Park K, Avsar E, Szpakowski S, Akimov M, Garon EB. Phase 2 Study of the HSP-90 Inhibitor AUY922 in Previously Treated and Molecularly Defined Patients with Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. J Thorac Oncol. 2018 Apr;13(4):576-584. doi: 10.1016/j.jtho.2017.11.131. Epub 2017 Dec 13.

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: October 1, 2010
• Primary Completion (ACTUAL): August 1, 2014
• Study Completion (ACTUAL): August 1, 2014

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: May 14, 2010
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: May 14, 2010
• First Posted (ESTIMATE): May 17, 2010

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (ESTIMATE): March 2, 2016
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: February 2, 2016
• Last Verified: February 1, 2016

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Non-small-cell lung cancer; HSP90; 2nd to 3rd line treatment
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Respiratory Tract Diseases; Neoplasms; Lung Diseases; Neoplasms by Site; Respiratory Tract Neoplasms; Thoracic Neoplasms; Carcinoma, Bronchogenic; Bronchial Neoplasms; Lung Neoplasms; Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung
• Other Study ID Numbers: CAUY922A2206; 2010-020116-11 (EUDRACT_NUMBER)