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- Clinical Trial NCT01943422
Safety and Efficacy Study of Vemurafenib and High-dose Interferon Alfa-2b in Melanoma (12-107)
Dose-seeking and Efficacy Study of the Combination of the BRAF Inhibitor Vemurafenib and High-dose Interferon Alfa-2b for Therapy of Advanced Melanoma
Study Overview
Status
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Detailed Description
- Dose-selection and dose-expansion study of combination therapy with high-dose interferon alfa-2b and vemurafenib.
- Vemurafenib at standard dosing with a 2 week lead-in period to exploit potential immunomodulatory effects. Concurrent HDI following this (week 2 onwards) at standard induction (4 weeks) and maintenance (48 weeks) doses.
- Modified Storer's "up and down" dose escalation schema using 3 fixed dose levels for HDI and a fixed sample size that allows efficient identification of recommended phase II dose.
- 36-63 patients will be enrolled depending on toxicity parameters. oIn the dose-selection portion, 3 patients will be enrolled per dose level, starting from the lowest dose level. Enrollment will occur serially allowing for the observation of toxicity during the observation period.
oIterative enrollment of up to 3 subjects per cohort will be continued until a total of 30 evaluable subjects have been enrolled.
oThe dose level at which the RLT rate is the closest to 1/3 will be considered as RP2D.
oDuring the dose-expansion portion of the trial, depending on the number of patients treated at RP2D during the dose-selection portion, additional patients may be enrolled - the accrual target is 36 patients treated at RP2D.
Study Type
Enrollment (Actual)
Phase
- Phase 1
Contacts and Locations
Study Locations
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Pennsylvania
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, 15232
- Hillman Cancer Center
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Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Genders Eligible for Study
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients must have a written informed consent.
- 18 years of age.
- Patients must have histologically confirmed recurrent stage III or stage IV melanoma (AJCC 7th edition classification).
- BRAF V600E and V600K mutated
- Cutaneous squamous cell carcinomas (SCC) lesions identified at baseline must be excised. Adequate wound healing is required prior to study entry.
- Patients must have measurable disease as defined by the Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors v1.1.
Patients must have adequate hematologic, renal, and liver function:
- WBC ≥ 3,000/mm3
- ANC ≥ 1500
- Hb ≥ 9g/dL (women) or ≥ 11g/dL (men) (supportive transfusions will be allowed during induction and maintenance phases to maintain these levels)
- Platelets ≥ 100,000/mm3 (supportive transfusions will be allowed during induction and maintenance phases to maintain these levels)
- Serum Creatinine ≤ 1.5 x upper limit of normal (ULN)
- Serum Bilirubin ≤ 1.5 x ULN
- Serum AST/ALT ≤ 2.5 x ULN
- EKG documenting normal intervals.
- Fully recovered from any effects of major surgery, and be free of significant detectable infection.
- ECOG performance status of 0 or 1.
- Free of active brain metastases by contrast-enhanced CT/MRI scans within 4 weeks prior to starting the study drugs.
- Female patients of child bearing potential must have a negative pregnancy test (within 7 days from the time of randomization).
Exclusion Criteria:
- Serious illnesses, such as: cardiovascular disease (uncontrolled congestive heart failure, uncontrolled hypertension, cardiac ischemia, myocardial infarction, and severe cardiac arrhythmia), bleeding disorders, symptomatic autoimmune diseases, severe obstructive or restrictive pulmonary diseases, uncontrolled endocrine disorders (hypothyroidism, hyperthyroidism and diabetes mellitus), retinopathy, active systemic infections, and inflammatory bowel disorders. This includes known HIV or AIDS-related illness, or active HBV and HCV.
- Prior therapy (except for adjuvant immunotherapy) with a BRAF and/or MEK and/or ERK inhibitors.
- Refractory nausea, vomiting, small bowel resection or any other gastrointestinal ailment that would preclude study drug absorption.
Cardiac abnormalities
- Mean QTc interval ≥ 480 msec at screening.
- Recent ACS/AMI - defined as within 24 weeks prior to screening.
- Recent PCI/PTCA - defined as within 24 weeks prior to screening.
- Recent malignant cardiac arrhythmias - all except sinus arrhythmia within 24 weeks prior to screening.
- Symptomatic heart failure - NYHA Class ≥ II symptoms.
- Active infection or antibiotics within one-week prior to study, including unexplained fever Any significant psychiatric disease, medical intervention, or other condition, which in the opinion of the principal investigator, could prevent adequate informed consent or compromise participation in the clinical trial.
- Systemic steroid or other immunosuppressive therapy within 4 weeks of starting the study.
- Lactating females or pregnant females.
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Treatment
- Allocation: Non-Randomized
- Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
- Masking: None (Open Label)
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Experimental: Vemurafenib + IFNα-2b (10 MU/m2/d)
Vemurafenib + High-dose Interferon alfa-2b (10 MU/m2/d)
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•Vemurafenib at standard dosing with a 2 week lead-in period to identify potential effects.
IFNα-2b following this (week 2 onwards) at standard induction (4 weeks) and maintenance (48 weeks) doses.
Other Names:
Vemurafenib is a prescription medicine used to treat melanoma, that has spread to other parts of the body or cannot be removed by surgery, and that has a certain type of abnormal "BRAF" gene.
Other Names:
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Experimental: Vemurafenib + IFNα-2b(15 MU/m2/d)
Vemurafenib + High-dose Interferon alfa-2b (15 MU/m2/d)
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•Vemurafenib at standard dosing with a 2 week lead-in period to identify potential effects.
IFNα-2b following this (week 2 onwards) at standard induction (4 weeks) and maintenance (48 weeks) doses.
Other Names:
Vemurafenib is a prescription medicine used to treat melanoma, that has spread to other parts of the body or cannot be removed by surgery, and that has a certain type of abnormal "BRAF" gene.
Other Names:
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Experimental: Vemurafenib + IFNα-2b (20 MU/m2/d)
Vemurafenib + High-dose Interferon alfa-2b (20 MU/m2/d)
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•Vemurafenib at standard dosing with a 2 week lead-in period to identify potential effects.
IFNα-2b following this (week 2 onwards) at standard induction (4 weeks) and maintenance (48 weeks) doses.
Other Names:
Vemurafenib is a prescription medicine used to treat melanoma, that has spread to other parts of the body or cannot be removed by surgery, and that has a certain type of abnormal "BRAF" gene.
Other Names:
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Number of Participants with Adverse Events to determine Ph II dose
Time Frame: 12-24 months from study start
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At each dose level, the number of patients experiencing Adverse Events over their course of treatment will be characterized by type of Adverse Event and grade using NCI CTCAE (v4.0), and by time of onset in relation to the first day of therapy.
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12-24 months from study start
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Progression Free and overall survival (Efficacy)
Time Frame: 48 months
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•Progression Free Survival will be evaluated at 6 months using the Kaplan-Meier method.
Overall Survival will be measured from the initial date of treatment to the recorded date of death, and analyzed similarly to Progression Free Survival.
Overall Survival will also be analyzed with the Kaplan-Meier method.
The complete response rate and partial response rate will be estimated by the proportion of patients with a best response respectively by RECIST criteria.
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48 months
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Other Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Improve tumor STAT signaling
Time Frame: 48 months
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Melanoma metastases removed from patients pretreatment, post-BRAFI alone and Post B-RAF+ will be analyzed for expression of IFNAR1 and immunologically relevant molecules such as HLA antigens, APM components and MA; these results will be correlated with T cell infiltration.
In addition the metastases will be tested for extent of melanoma cell proliferation and apoptosis.
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48 months
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Collaborators and Investigators
Sponsor
Collaborators
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: John Kirkwood, MD, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Study record dates
Study Major Dates
Study Start (Actual)
Primary Completion (Actual)
Study Completion (Actual)
Study Registration Dates
First Submitted
First Submitted That Met QC Criteria
First Posted (Estimate)
Study Record Updates
Last Update Posted (Actual)
Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria
Last Verified
More Information
Terms related to this study
Additional Relevant MeSH Terms
- Neoplasms by Histologic Type
- Neoplasms
- Neuroectodermal Tumors
- Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal
- Neoplasms, Nerve Tissue
- Neuroendocrine Tumors
- Nevi and Melanomas
- Melanoma
- Physiological Effects of Drugs
- Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
- Anti-Infective Agents
- Antiviral Agents
- Enzyme Inhibitors
- Antineoplastic Agents
- Immunologic Factors
- Protein Kinase Inhibitors
- Interferons
- Interferon-alpha
- Interferon alpha-2
- Vemurafenib
Other Study ID Numbers
- 12-107
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