Akt Inhibitor MK2206 in Treating Patients With Advanced Breast Cancer

Phase II Trial of AKT Inhibitor MK2206 in Patients With Advanced Breast Cancer Who Have Tumors With a PIK3CA Mutation, or an AKT Mutation, and/or PTEN Loss/PTEN Mutation

This phase II trial studies how well Akt inhibitor MK2206 works in treating patients with breast cancer cancer that has spread to other places in the body and usually cannot be cured or controlled with treatment. Akt inhibitor MK2206 may stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking some of the enzymes needed for cell growth.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Stage IV Breast Cancer; Recurrent Breast Carcinoma; Stage IIIB Breast Cancer; Stage IIIC Breast Cancer
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Laboratory Biomarker Analysis; Other: Pharmacological Study; Drug: Akt Inhibitor MK2206

Detailed Description

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:

I. To determine whether v-akt murine thymoma viral oncogene (Akt) inhibitor MK2206 achieves objective tumor responses (complete response [CR], partial response [PR]) in advanced breast cancer patients who have a phosphoinositide-3-kinase, catalytic, alpha polypeptide (PIK3CA) or Akt mutation and/or phosphatase and tensin homolog (PTEN) loss or mutation.

SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:

I. To determine the 6 month progression-free survival on MK2206. II. To determine baseline molecular markers that may predict clinical outcome. III. To determine pharmacodynamic markers in blood and tumor tissue that may predict a decrease in proliferation-related Ki-67 antigen (Ki-67) and clinical outcome.

IV. To determine safety and tolerability of MK2206 in previously treated patients with advanced breast cancer.

V. To determine if decrease in Ki-67 at 2 weeks correlates with anti-tumor effect (CR, PR, or stable disease [SD] > 6 months).

VI. To determine concordance of PIK3CA and PTEN status between primary tumor and distant metastasis.

VII. To determine concordance of PIK3CA status of circulating free deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and distant metastasis.

OUTLINE:

Patients receive Akt Inhibitor MK-2206 orally (PO) 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 up for 3 weeks.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 30
• Phase: Phase 2

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Massachusetts
    • Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02215
      • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
    • Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02115
      • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
  • New York
    • New York, New York, United States, 10032
      • Columbia University/Herbert Irving Cancer Center
  • Tennessee
    • Nashville, Tennessee, United States, 37232
      • Vanderbilt University/Ingram Cancer Center
  • Texas
    • Houston, Texas, United States, 77030
      • M D Anderson 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 must have histologically or cytologically confirmed breast cancer, with diagnosed or suspected metastatic, inoperable locally advanced breast cancer, or inoperable locally recurrent breast cancer
• Patients must have measurable disease, defined as at least one lesion that can be accurately measured in at least one dimension (longest diameter to be recorded for non-nodal lesions and short axis for nodal lesions) as > 20 mm with conventional techniques or as > 10 mm with spiral computed tomography (CT) scan
• Patients who have failed to respond to at least one line of systemic therapy are eligible for MK2206 therapy; if the patient has a human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) positive tumor, it is expected that they will have received at least one HER2-targeted therapy in the metastatic setting; if the patient has an estrogen receptor positive (ER+) tumor, it is expected that they will have received at least one ER-targeted therapy in the metastatic setting; patients can be enrolled for molecular screening while on another therapy if the patient is interested in MK2206 therapy upon progression
• Archived primary tumor biopsies or surgical specimens, or biopsies of recurrence or metastasis, will be available for PIK3CA/Akt mutational analysis and PTEN analysis; patients with surgical samples, or core/punch biopsies available, will be eligible for testing for PIK3CA/Akt status as well as PTEN testing; the most recent sample will be preferred (i.e. in patients with metastatic disease, metastases samples are preferred over archival primary tumor and in patients with local recurrences a biopsy of the recurrence is preferred over archival primary tumor); NOTE: PIK3CA or Akt mutation status can be determined on fine needle aspirate (FNA) samples, but PTEN status cannot as stroma and endothelial cells are used as internal controls and PTEN testing has not been validated on FNA samples; thus patients with only FNA samples and no tissue blocks available will be considered to be eligible for screening for PIK3CA/Akt mutations and will be enrolled onto the study only if they are found to have PIK3CA mutations or Akt mutations; patients whose tumors have already been tested in the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) environment and have been found to have a PIK3CA mutation or Akt mutation or PTEN loss by immunohistochemistry (IHC) or PTEN mutation will be eligible for treatment; patients whose tumors have been tested in the research environment and found to have a PIK3CA mutation or Akt mutation or PTEN loss or PTEN mutation will have their marker status confirmed in the CLIA environment
• Patients whose tumors have already been tested in the CLIA environment and have been found to have a PIK3CA mutation or Akt mutation or PTEN loss or mutation will be eligible for treatment; patients whose tumors have been tested in the research environment and found to have a PIK3CA mutation or Akt mutation or PTEN loss or mutation will have their marker status confirmed in the CLIA environment.
• Patient will have a tumor suitable for FNA and/or core/punch biopsy for research purposes
• Patient must have Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status 0-1
• Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) >= 1,000/uL
• Platelets >= 100,000/uL
• Hemoglobin (Hgb) >= 9 g/dL
• Creatinine =< 1.5 X upper limit of normal (ULN)
• Prothrombin time (PT), partial thromboplastin time (PTT) =< 1.2 X ULN
• Total bilirubin =< 1.5 X ULN
• Alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and aspartate aminotransferase (AST) < 2.5 X ULN
• Patients of childbearing potential must have a negative serum or urine pregnancy test beta-human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) within 72 hours prior to study registration
• Women of childbearing potential and men must use two forms of contraception (hormonal or barrier method of birth control; abstinence) prior to study entry, for the duration of study participation and also for 4 weeks after the end of therapy; should a woman become pregnant or suspect she is pregnant while she or her partner is participating in this study, the patient should inform the treating physician immediately
• Patient must have completed any systemic therapy regimens and therapeutic radiation a minimum of 21 days prior to initiation of study therapy
• Ability to understand and the willingness to sign a written informed consent document
• >= 6 months life expectancy as documented in patient records

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients who have had chemotherapy or radiotherapy within 3 weeks (6 weeks for nitrosoureas or mitomycin C) prior to entering the study or those who have not recovered from adverse events to grade 1 or less due to agents administered more than 3 weeks earlier
• Patients may have received prior investigational therapies; however, they not be receiving any other investigational agents concurrent with MK2206; patients must have completed therapy a minimum of 21 days prior to initiation of study therapy
• Patients may not have received treatment with another inhibitor of phosphatidylinositol 3 kinase (PI3K), Akt or mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) in the neoadjuvant, adjuvant or metastatic setting with the exception of rapalogs; patients with metastatic breast cancer, who received PI3K/Akt/mTOR inhibitors on short preoperative window trials (treatment for 4 weeks or less), will be eligible if the treatment was over 6 months prior to registration; patients must have completed therapies a minimum of 21 days prior to initiation of study therapy
• Patients with known brain metastases should be excluded from this clinical trial; patients will not undergo pre-treatment imaging of the brain, unless clinically indicated
• History of allergic reactions attributed to compounds of similar chemical or biologic composition to MK2206 or other agents used in the study
• Patients receiving any medications or substances that are potent inhibitors or inducers of cytochrome P450, family 3, subfamily A, polypeptide 4 (CYP 450 3A4) are ineligible; however, patients will be permitted regular dietary consumption of caffeine; glyburide will be allowed for the treatment of hyperglycemia
• Patients with diabetes or in risk for hyperglycemia should not be excluded, but patients with poorly controlled diabetes (glycated hemoglobin [HBA1C] > 8%) should be excluded
• Baseline corrected QT by Fridericia's formula (QTcF) > 450 msec (male) or QTcF >b470 msec (female) will exclude patients from entry on study
• Uncontrolled intercurrent illness including, but not limited to, ongoing or active infection, symptomatic congestive heart failure, unstable angina pectoris, cardiac arrhythmia, or psychiatric illness/social situations that would limit compliance with study requirements
• Baseline bradycardia related to cardiac disease, or significant bundle branch block
• Pregnant women are excluded from this study; breastfeeding should be discontinued if the mother is treated with MK2206
• Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive patients on combination antiretroviral therapy are ineligible
• Patients at high risk for coagulopathy
• Liver disease burden greater or equal to 50 percent
• Need for blood or platelet transfusion within one month from baseline laboratory testing as well as within treatment initiation

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 (Akt inhibitor MK-2206); Akt Inhibitor MK-2206 mg orally once a week 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; Other: Pharmacological Study; Correlative studies; Drug: Akt Inhibitor MK2206; Given orally (PO) weekly, starting (dose 0) at 200 mg; Other Names: MK2206

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Number of Participants With Response Defined Using Response Evaluation Criteria In Solid Tumors (RECIST)	Number of participants with response defined by RECIST version 1.1: Complete Response (CR): Disappearance of all target lesions. Any pathological lymph nodes (whether target or non-target) must have reduction in short axis to <10 mm. Partial Response (PR): At least a 30% decrease in the sum of the diameters of target lesions, taking as reference the baseline sum diameters. Progressive Disease (PD): At least a 20% increase in the sum of the diameters of target lesions, taking as reference the smallest sum on study (this includes the baseline sum if that is the smallest on study). In addition to the relative increase of 20%, the sum must also demonstrate an absolute increase of at least 5 mm. (Note: appearance of one or more new lesions is also considered progressions). Stable Disease (SD): Neither sufficient shrinkage to qualify for PR nor sufficient increase to qualify for PD, taking as reference the smallest sum diameters while on study.	Up to 3 weeks after completion of study treatment, for up to 1 year
Number of Participants With Objective Response	Only those participants who have measurable disease present at baseline, have received at least four doses of MK2206, and have had their disease re-evaluated will be considered evaluable for response. Response classified according the RECIST definitions, and re-evaluated for response every 12 weeks. (Note: Participants who exhibit objective disease progression prior to receiving four doses of therapy will also be considered evaluable.) In addition to a baseline scan, confirmatory scans should also be obtained 4-6 weeks following initial documentation of objective response, and then revert to scheduled repeat imaging.	4 weeks following beginning treatment, repeat confirmation 4-6 weeks following response, up to 1 year

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
6 Month Progression-free Survival (PFS)	Number of participants progression free at 6 months. PFS is defined as the duration of time from start of treatment, or time of progression or death, whichever occurs first. The PFS for this outcome was assessed at 6 months post treatment.	From start of treatment to time of progression or death or six months whichever occurs first, assessed at 6 months
Median Response Duration	The duration of the response is from the time response is achieved until disease progression is detected. The duration of overall response is measured from the time measurement criteria are met for CR or PR (whichever is first recorded) until the first date that recurrent or progressive disease is objectively documented (taking as reference for progressive disease the smallest measurements recorded since the treatment started). The duration of overall CR is measured from the time measurement criteria are first met for CR until the first date that progressive disease is objectively documented. Response re-evaluated every 12 weeks. In addition to a baseline scan, confirmatory scans should also be obtained 4-6 weeks following initial documentation of objective response.	Response assessment 4 weeks from beginning of treatment, response recorded from the start of treatment until disease progression/recurrence, up to 1 year

Other Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Apoptosis Assessed by Cleaved Caspase-3	Assessment of apoptosis by immunohistochemistry to active caspase-3. Initially, the goal was to look at predictors of response, but the number of responses was not enough to make a determination.	Up to 30 days after completion of study treatment, up to 1 year
Cell Proliferation as Measured by the Change in Percent Ki-67 Positive Cells	Ki-67 will be scored as % positive cells to determine whether there is a change % Ki-67+ cells before treatment versus after 2 weeks of treatment. Initially, the goal was to look at predictors of response, but the number of responses was not enough to make a determination.	Baseline to 2 weeks

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Publications and helpful links

General Publications

• Xing Y, Lin NU, Maurer MA, Chen H, Mahvash A, Sahin A, Akcakanat A, Li Y, Abramson V, Litton J, Chavez-MacGregor M, Valero V, Piha-Paul SA, Hong D, Do KA, Tarco E, Riall D, Eterovic AK, Wulf GM, Cantley LC, Mills GB, Doyle LA, Winer E, Hortobagyi GN, Gonzalez-Angulo AM, Meric-Bernstam F. Phase II trial of AKT inhibitor MK-2206 in patients with advanced breast cancer who have tumors with PIK3CA or AKT mutations, and/or PTEN loss/PTEN mutation. Breast Cancer Res. 2019 Jul 5;21(1):78. doi: 10.1186/s13058-019-1154-8.

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: March 1, 2011
• Primary Completion (Actual): August 1, 2014
• Study Completion (Actual): August 1, 2014

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: January 13, 2011
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: January 13, 2011
• First Posted (Estimate): January 17, 2011

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): December 19, 2018
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: November 28, 2018
• Last Verified: November 1, 2018

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Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Skin Diseases; Neoplasms; Neoplasms by Site; Breast Diseases; Breast Neoplasms
• Other Study ID Numbers: NCI-2012-02892 (Registry Identifier: CTRP (Clinical Trial Reporting Program)); P30CA016672 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract); N01CM62202 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract); U01CA062490 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract); N01CM00039 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract); 2010-0242 (Other Identifier: M D Anderson Cancer Center); CDR0000694003; 8732 (Other Identifier: CTEP)