PALBOCICLIB + PD-0325901 for NSCLC & Solid Tumors

Phase I Study of the CDK4/6 Inhibitor Palbociclib (PD-0332991) in Combination With the MEK Inhibitor PD-0325901 for Patients With KRAS Mutant Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer and Other Solid Tumors

This research study is evaluating the experimental drug palbociclib in combination with another experimental drug PD-0325901 as a possible treatment for cancers with KRAS mutations, particularly for those which started in the lung.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Solid Tumors; KRAS Mutant Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
• Intervention / Treatment: Drug: Palbociclib; Drug: PD-0325901

Detailed Description

This will be an open label Phase I dose escalation study evaluating the combination of the CDK4/6 inhibitor palbociclib (PD-0332991) and the MEK inhibitor PD-0325901. To determine the maximally tolerated dose (MTD) and recommended phase 2 dose (RP2D), a 3+3 dose escalation protocol will be undertaken. Once the RP2D has been determined, the study will then evaluate, in a randomized phase II study design, the combination of palbociclib and PD-0325901 compared to PD-0325901 alone and palbociclib alone in KRAS mutant NSCLC.

• Phase 1: The investigators are looking for the highest dose of the study drug that can be administered safely without severe or unmanageable side effects in participants that have cancer, not everyone who participates in this research study will receive the same dose of the study drug. The dose the participant receives will depend on the number of participants who have been enrolled in the study before and how well the dose has been tolerated.
• Study Drug(s): The participant will be given a study drug-dosing calendar for each treatment cycle. Each treatment cycle lasts 4 weeks during which time you will be taking the study drug for 3 weeks at a time. The participant will take Palbociclib by mouth once a day, every day for 3 weeks. The participant will take PD-0325901 by mouth twice a day, every day for 3 weeks.
• Clinical Exams: During all cycles the participant will have a physical exam and will be asked questions about general health and specific questions about any problems that they might be having and any medications they may be taking.
• Scans (or Imaging tests): The investigators will assess the participant's tumor by either a CT scan or MRI
• Blood Tests: These are special tests to check the amount of drug and the amount of tumor DNA in the participant's blood at specific points in time.

Secondary Outcomes:

• Evaluate PK parameters for the combination of palbociclib and PD-0325901
• Confirm target engagement of palbociclib and PD-0325901 in patients undergoing pre- and on-treatment biopsies in an expansion cohort at the MTD
• Evaluate preliminary clinical efficacy of the combination of palbociclib and PD-0325901 in patients with tumors harboring KRAS mutations.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 60
• Phase: Phase 1

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Massachusetts
    • Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02215
      • Dana Farber Cancer Institute

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Dose-escalation/MTD cohorts, participants must have histologically confirmed malignancy with a RAS mutation that is metastatic or unresectable and for which standard curative or palliative measures do not exist or are no longer effective. For the randomized phase 2 component of the study, participants must have histologically confirmed NSCLC with a confirmed KRAS mutation (via any CLIA-certified method)
• For the dose-escalation component, participants are required to have only evaluable disease. For the MTD cohort and phase 2 component of the study, participants must have measurable disease.
• Participants enrolled to the MTD cohort must agree to pre and on-treatment tumor biopsies if assessable disease is identified.
• Age ≥18 years.
• ECOG performance status ≤ 2 (see Appendix A).

Participants must have normal organ and marrow function as defined below:

• Absolute neutrophils count ≥ 1,500/mcL
• Platelets ≥100,000/mcL
• total bilirubin within normal institutional limits
• AST (SGOT)/ALT (SGPT) ≤ 2.5 X institutional upper limit of normal (≤ 5.0 X institutional upper limit of normal permitted if hepatic metastases present)
• Creatinine within 1.5x the ULN institutional limits.
• Women of child-bearing potential and men must agree to use adequate contraception prior to study entry and for the duration of study participation. Ability to understand and the willingness to sign a written informed consent document.
• QTc ≤480 msec.
• The availability of archival tissue to evaluate retrospectively the participant's Rb status
• Patients must have recovered to ≤ Grade 1 in terms of toxicity from prior treatments (excluding neuropathy which can be ≤ Grade 2).

Exclusion Criteria:

• Participants 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 due to agents administered more than 3 weeks earlier.
• Participants may not be receiving any other study agents concurrently with the study drugs.
• Participants with symptomatic brain metastases that require chronic steroids are excluded. Patients with a history of brain metastases are permitted to enroll as long as they have been treated, off of steroids and have been stable for one month on imaging.
• Concurrent use with strong CYP3A4 inhibitors/inducers is prohibited due to drug-drug interactions with palbociclib.
• Due to potential drug interactions between warfarin and PD-0325901, warfarin use is excluded. Other anticoagulants are permitted.
• 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.
• Pregnant women are excluded from this study because the study agents have the potential for teratogenic or abortifacient effects. Because there is an unknown but potential risk of adverse events in nursing infants secondary to treatment of the mother with the study agents, breastfeeding should be discontinued.
• For Part II only: Individuals with a history of a different malignancy are ineligible except if they have been disease-free for at least 2 years and are deemed by the investigator to be at low risk for recurrence. Individuals with the following cancers are eligible if diagnosed and treated within the past 5 years: cervical cancer in situ, and basal cell or squamous cell carcinoma of the skin.
• HIV-positive individuals on combination antiretroviral therapy are ineligible because of the potential for pharmacokinetic interactions.
• Evidence of visible retinal pathology on screening ophthalmologic examination that places the participant at an unacceptable risk for ocular toxicity, such as risk factors for retinal vein occlusion, related to PF-0325901.

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: Palbociclib and PD-0325901; Palbociclib by mouth once a day, every day for 3 weeks every 4 in each cycle.; PD-0325901 by mouth twice a day, every day for 3 weeks every 4 in each cycle. .

Drug: Palbociclib; Palbociclib will be administered orally once daily, 3 weeks out of every 4 in each cycle. The initial dose for phase 1 of the study will be 75 mg daily. Dosing will be adjusted until Maximum Tolerated Dose (MTD) and the Recommended Phase 2 Dose (RP2D) are established. No pre-medications for palbociclib are required. It should be administered without food with patients fasting for 1 hour prior and 2 hours post drug administration.; Other Names: PD 0332991-00; Drug: PD-0325901; PD-0325901 will be administered orally twice daily, 3 weeks out of every 4 in each cycle. The initial dose for phase 1 of the study will be 2 mg twice daily. Dosing will be adjusted until Maximum Tolerated Dose (MTD) and the Recommended Phase 2 Dose (RP2D) are established. PD-0325901 will be administered using a flat-dosing plan. No premedications are required. As the effect of food on PD-0325901 is uncertain, patients will be permitted to dose either fasting or after food.; Other Names: PD-0325901-0000; PF-00192513-00

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Safety and tolerability	Toxicities will be graded using version 4.0 of the NCI Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE).	2 Years
Maximum Tolerated Dose and Recommended Phase 2 Dose	A standard 3+3 design will be implemented to discover the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) and recommended phase 2 dose (RP2D) of the combination of study drugs. A dose will be declared the MTD if zero or 1 patient out of 6 experience a dose limiting toxicity (DLT) at the highest dose level below the maximally administered dose. This is generally the RP2D.	2 years

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Maximum plasma concentration (Cmax) of palbociclib	Cmax (ng/ml) of palbociclib will be assessed utilizing serial blood draws on cycle 1 day 1 and on cycle 1 day 15 (steady state).	1 month
Time to maximum concentration (tmax) of palbociclib	tmax (h) of palbociclib will be assessed utilizing serial blood draws on cycle 1 day 1 and on cycle 1 day 15 (steady state).	1 month
AUC-12 of palbociclib	The AUC-12 (ng.h/ml) of palbociclib will be assessed utilizing serial blood draws on cycle 1 day 1 and on cycle 1 day 15 (steady state).	1 month
Clearance (CL/F) of palbociclib	Clearance (L/h) of palbociclib will be assessed utilizing serial blood draws on cycle 1 day 1 and on cycle 1 day 15 (steady state).	1 month
Maximum plasma concentration (Cmax) of PD-0325901	Cmax (ng/ml) of PD-0325901 will be assessed utilizing serial blood draws on cycle 1 day 1 and on cycle 1 day 15 (steady state).	1 month
Time to maximum concentration (tmax) of PD-0325901	tmax of PD-0325901 will be assessed utilizing serial blood draws on cycle 1 day 1 and on cycle 1 day 15 (steady state).	1 month
AUC-12 of PD-0325901	AUC-12 (ng.h/ml) of PD-0325901 will be assessed utilizing serial blood draws on cycle 1 day 1 and on cycle 1 day 15 (steady state).	1 month
Clearance (CL/F ) of PD-0325901	Clearance (L/h) of PD-0325901 will be assessed utilizing serial blood draws on cycle 1 day 1 and on cycle 1 day 15 (steady state).	1 month
Target engagement of palbociclib by immunohistochemistry (IHC) of phospho-Rb in tumor	IHC for phospho-Rb will be performed in pre- and on-treatment tumor biopsies to assess palbociclib target engagement.	2 Years
Target engagement of palbociclib by immunohistochemistry (IHC) of phospho-Rb in skin	IHC for phospho-Rb will be performed in pre- and on-treatment skin biopsies to assess palbociclib target engagement.	2 Years
Target engagement of PD-0325901 by immunohistochemistry (IHC) of phospho-ERK in tumor	IHC for phospho-ERK will be performed in pre- and on-treatment tumor biopsies to assess PD-0325901 target engagement.	2 Years
Cell cycle arrest by palbociclib using serum thymidine kinase 1 (TK1) assays	Serial serum collections (pre- and on-treatment) will be assayed for TK1 activity to assess cell cycle arrest mediated by palbociclib.	2 Years
Quantitative non-invasive genotyping for KRAS in cfDNA	Serial cfDNA samples will be collected and assessed for KRAS plasma allellic burden as a measure of anti-tumor activity of the combination of palbociclib and PD-0325901.	2 Years
Overall Response Rate	The preliminary clinical efficacy of palbociclib and PD-0325901 in advanced KRAS-mutant solid tumors will be assessed using CT and MRI scans per RECIST version 1.1.	2 Years

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Geoffrey Shapiro, MD. Ph.D, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: January 1, 2014
• Primary Completion (Actual): November 1, 2017
• Study Completion (Actual): June 30, 2021

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: December 23, 2013
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: December 23, 2013
• First Posted (Estimated): December 30, 2013

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): March 19, 2024
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: March 18, 2024
• Last Verified: March 1, 2024

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Solid Tumors; KRAS mutant Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
• 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; Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action; Enzyme Inhibitors; Antineoplastic Agents; Protein Kinase Inhibitors; Palbociclib
• Other Study ID Numbers: 13-506