A Study of MLN0264 in Participants With Cancer of the Stomach or Gastroesophageal Junction

A Phase 2 Trial of MLN0264 in Previously Treated Patients With Metastatic or Recurrent Adenocarcinoma of the Stomach or Gastroesophageal Junction Expressing Guanylyl Cyclase C (GCC)

The purpose of this study is to assess the efficacy, safety and tolerability of MLN0264 in patients with recurrent or metastatic guanylyl cyclase C (GCC)-positive adenocarcinoma of the stomach or gastroesophageal junction.

Study Overview

• Status: Terminated
• Conditions: Adenocarcinoma of the Stomach; Gastroesophageal Junction Expressing Guanylyl Cyclase C
• Intervention / Treatment: Drug: MLN0264

Detailed Description

The drug being tested in this study is called MLN0264. MLN0264 is being tested to treat tumors in people who have metastatic or recurrent gastric or gastroesophageal junction malignancies expressing guanylyl cyclase C (GCC). Participants will be analyzed in cohorts based on GCC expression: low=combined H-score 10-109, intermediate=combined H-score 110-249, high=combined IHC H-score >250. This study will assess tumor size reduction in patients who are administered MLN0264.

The study enrolled 38 patients. All participants will be administered MLN0264 at 1.8 mg/kg as a single, 30-minute, intravenous (IV) infusion on Day 1 of each 3-week treatment cycle, followed by a rest period of 20 days. Participants will continue to receive MLN0264 for up to 1 year or until disease progression or unacceptable toxicity occurs.

This multi-centre trial will be conducted worldwide. The overall time to participate in this study is approximately 19 months. Participants will make 3 to 6 visits to the clinic per treatment cycle, an end-of-treatment visit 30 days after the last dose of study medication, and follow-up assessments every 12 weeks until death or 6 months after the last patient completes treatment - whichever occurs first.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 38
• Phase: Phase 2

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Belgium
  • Brugge, Belgium
  • Brussels, Belgium
  • Bruxelles, Belgium
  • Leuven, Belgium
• Spain
  • Barcelona, Spain
  • Madrid, Spain
  • Malaga, Spain
  • Sevilla, Spain
• United Kingdom
  • Greater London
    • London, Greater London, United Kingdom
  • Greater Manchester
    • Manchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom
  • Surrey
    • Sutton, Surrey, United Kingdom
• United States
  • Colorado
    • Aurora, Colorado, United States
  • Florida
    • St. Petersburg, Florida, United States
    • Tampa, Florida, United States
  • Massachusetts
    • Boston, Massachusetts, United States
  • Ohio
    • Cincinatti, Ohio, United States
  • Tennessee
    • Nasheville, Tennessee, United States
    • Nashville, Tennessee, United States

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:

1. Male or female participants 18 years of age or older when written informed consent is obtained.
2. Histologically confirmed metastatic or advanced inoperable adenocarcinoma of the stomach or gastroesophageal junction with immunohistochemistry (IHC) evidence of guanylyl cyclase C (GCC) expression indicated by an H-score of 10 or greater.
3. Treatment with 1 or more prior chemotherapies for advanced or metastatic adenocarcinoma of the stomach or gastroesophageal junction.
4. Measurable disease as defined by Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) version 1.1 guidelines. All scans and x-rays used to document measurable disease must be done within 28 days before enrollment (ascites and bone lesions are not considered measureable disease).
5. Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0 or 1 within 14 days before enrollment.

6. Female participants who:

   • Are postmenopausal for at least 1 year before the screening visit, OR
   • Are surgically sterile, OR
   • If they are of childbearing potential, agree to practice 2 effective methods of contraception, at the same time, from the time of signing the informed consent through 30 days after the last dose of study drug, or
   • Agree to practice true abstinence, when this is in line with the preferred and usual lifestyle of the participant. (Periodic abstinence [eg, calendar, ovulation, symptothermal, postovulation methods] and withdrawal are not acceptable methods of contraception.)

   Male participants, even if surgically sterilized (ie, status postvasectomy), who:

   • Agree to practice effective barrier contraception during the entire study treatment period and through 4 months after the last dose of study drug, or
   • Agree to practice true abstinence, when this is in line with the preferred and usual lifestyle of the participant. (Periodic abstinence [eg, calendar, ovulation, symptothermal, postovulation methods for the female partner] and withdrawal are not acceptable methods of contraception.)
7. Voluntary written consent must be given before performance of any study-related procedure not part of standard medical care, with the understanding that consent may be withdrawn by the participant at any time without prejudice to future medical care.

8. Adequate organ and hematological function as evidenced by the following laboratory values within 14 days before enrollment:

   • Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) ≥ 1.5 x 10^9/L
   • Platelet count ≥ 100 x 10^9/L
   • Hemoglobin ≥ 9 g/dL
   • Activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT) ≤ 1.5 x the upper limit of the normal range (ULN) per institutional laboratory normal range
   • International normalized ratio (INR) ≤ 1.5 x ULN
   • Serum creatinine ≤ 1.5 x ULN
   • Total bilirubin ≤ 1.5 x ULN
   • Albumin ≥ 3g/dL
   • Aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and alanine aminotransferase (ALT) ≤ 2.5 x ULN
   • Serum lipase ≤ 3 x ULN and serum amylase within the normal range
9. Resolution of all toxic effects of prior treatments except alopecia to Grade 0 or 1 by National Cancer Institute Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (NCI CTCAE) version 4.03.
10. Willing and able to comply with scheduled visits, treatment plan, laboratory tests, and other trial procedures.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Radiotherapy within 4 weeks before enrollment.
2. Concurrent treatment or treatment within 4 weeks of study entry with any other investigational agent or chemotherapy.
3. Female participants who are lactating and breastfeeding or have a positive pregnancy test during the Screening period.
4. Uncontrolled, clinically significant, symptomatic cardiovascular disease within 6 months before enrollment, including myocardial infarction, unstable angina, Grade 2 or greater peripheral vascular disease, cerebrovascular accident, transient ischemic attack, congestive heart failure, or arrhythmias not controlled by outpatient medication.
5. Treatment with any medication that has a clinically relevant potential risk of prolonging the QT interval or inducing torsades de pointes that cannot be discontinued or switched to a different medication before starting study drug.
6. Participants with electrocardiogram (ECG) abnormalities considered by the investigator to be clinically significant, or repeated baseline prolongation of the rate-corrected QT interval (QTc).
7. Ongoing or clinically significant active infection as judged by the investigator.
8. Signs of peripheral neuropathy (PN) ≥ NCI CTCAE Grade 2.
9. Concomitant chemotherapy, hormonal therapy, immunotherapy, or any other form of cancer treatment.
10. Use of strong cytochrome P450 (CYP) 3A4 inhibitors within 2 weeks before the first dose of study drug.
11. Any preexisting medical condition of sufficient severity to prevent full compliance with the study.
12. History of or current neoplasm other than gastric adenocarcinoma, except for curatively treated nonmelanoma skin cancer or in situ carcinoma of the cervix uteri.
13. Known diagnosis of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection (testing is not mandatory).
14. Symptomatic brain metastases.
15. Ongoing anticoagulant therapy (eg, aspirin, coumadin, heparin).

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: MLN0264 1.8 mg/kg; MLN0264 1.8 mg/kg, 30-minute intravenous (IV) infusion, Day 1 of each 21-day cycle, for up to 1 year or until disease progression or unacceptable toxicity occurs (Up to 14 cycles). The dose may be decreased, delayed or discontinued in participants who develop treatment-associated nonhematologic and hematologic toxicity to MLN0264.	Drug: MLN0264; MLN0264 IV infusion

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Overall Response Rate (ORR) Based on Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST)	ORR is defined as the percentage of participants with complete response (CR) or partial response (PR) as assessed by the investigator using Response Evaluation Criteria In Solid Tumors (RECIST) version 1.1. CR: Disappearance of all target lesions, non-target lesions, no new lesions, and normalization of tumor marker level. PR: At least a 30% decrease in the sum of diameters of target lesions, no progression in non-target lesion, and no new lesions.	Day 21, every other cycle, starting with Cycle 2 until disease progression, death or study closure (up to 17 months)

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Number of Participants With Adverse Events (AEs) and Serious Adverse Events (SAEs)	An AE is defined as any untoward medical occurrence in a participant administered a pharmaceutical product; the untoward medical occurrence does not necessarily have a causal relationship with this treatment. A serious adverse event (SAE) is defined as any untoward medical occurrence that at any dose results in death, is life-threatening, requires inpatient hospitalization or prolongation of an existing hospitalization, results in persistent or significant disability or incapacity, is a congenital anomaly/birth defect or is a medically important event. Relationship of each AE to study drug will be determined by the Investigator.	From the first dose through 30 days after the last dose of study medication (Up to 10.7 months)
Number of Participants With Potentially Clinically Significant Laboratory Evaluation Findings	Participants with at least one post-baseline potentially clinically significant serum chemistry, hematology, coagulation or urinalysis result. Clinically significant results are those that were assessed by the investigator to be Grade 3 or higher using the National Cancer Institute Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (NCI CTCAE). Grade 3=severe, Grade 4=life threatening or disabling and Grade 5=Death.	From the first dose through 30 days after the last dose of study medication (Up to 10.7 months)
Number of Participants With Potentially Clinically Significant Vital Signs Findings	Participants with at least one potentially clinically significant post-baseline vital sign finding including measurements of diastolic and systolic blood pressure, heart rate, and oral temperature.	Day 1 of each 21 day cycle and 30 days after the last dose of study medication (Up to 10.7 months)
Progression Free Survival (PFS)	PFS is defined as the time in days from the date of first study drug administration to the date of first documentation of disease progression or death. Progression is defined using Response Evaluation Criteria In Solid Tumors Criteria (RECIST v1.1), as a 20% increase in the sum of the longest diameter of target lesions, or a measurable increase in a non-target lesion, or the appearance of new lesions.	Time Frame: Day 21 of every other 21-day cycle starting with Cycle 2, 30 days after the last dose of study medication, and then every 12 weeks for up to an additional 6 months (Up to 16.7 months)
Duration of Response	Duration of response is defined as the time in days from the date of first documentation of a confirmed response to the date of first documentation of disease progression. Per RECIST v1.1 for target lesions and assessed by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) - CR: Disappearance of all target lesions, non-target lesions, no new lesions, and normalization of tumor marker level. PR: At least a 30% decrease in the sum of diameters of target lesions, no progression in non-target lesion, and no new lesions.	From first documented response until disease progression (Up to 16.7 months)
Disease Control Rate	Disease control rate is defined as the percentage of participants with complete response (CR) or partial response (PR) or stable disease (SD) with a minimum of 12 weeks' duration. CR: Disappearance of all target lesions, non-target lesions, no new lesions, and normalization of tumor marker level. PR: At least a 30% decrease in the sum of the Longest Diameter (LD) of target lesions, taking as reference the baseline sum LD and no new lesions. SD: Neither sufficient shrinkage to qualify for PR nor sufficient increase to qualify for progressive disease (PD) of target lesions, taking as reference the smallest sum LD since the treatment started and no new lesions. Investigator response is based on the Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) Version 1.1.	Day 21 of every other 21-day cycle starting with Cycle 2, 30 days after the last dose of study medication, and then every 12 weeks for up to an additional 6 months (Up to 16.7 months)
Overall Survival (OS)	Overall survival is defined as the time in days from the date of first study drug administration to the date of death.	Until death or 6 months after the last patient completes treatment-whichever occurs first (Up to 17 months)
Cmax: Maximum Observed Serum Concentration for MLN0264	Maximum observed serum concentration (Cmax) is the peak serum concentration of a drug after administration, obtained directly from the serum concentration-time curve.	Cycles 1-3 predose and 10 minutes, 4 hours, and 3, 4, 8 and 15 days postdose. Cycles 4+ predose, 10 minutes, 4 hours, and 4 and 8 days postdose.
MLN0264 Serum Concentrations	Blood samples were collected and sent to a laboratory to be tested for serum concentrations of MLN0264.	Cycles 1-3 pre-dose and 10 minutes, 4 hours, and 3, 4, 8 and 15 days post-dose; Cycles 4-9 and 11-14 pre-dose and 10 minutes post-dose; End of Treatment.
Serum Concentration of Total Antibodies (Conjugated and Unconjugated)	Blood samples were collected and sent to a laboratory to be tested for conjugated and unconjugated antibodies.	Cycles 1-3 pre-dose and 10 minutes, 4 hours, and 3, 4, 8 and 15 days post-dose; Cycles 4-9 and 11-14 pre-dose and 10 minutes post-dose; End of Treatment.
Serum Concentration of Monomethyl Auristatin E (MMAE)	Blood samples were collected and sent to a laboratory to be tested for MMAE.	Cycles 1-3 pre-dose and 10 minutes, 4 hours, and 3, 4, 8 and 15 days post-dose; Cycles 4-9 and 11-14 pre-dose and 10 minutes post-dose; End of Treatment.
Number of Participants With Reduction From Baseline in Tumor Size	The number of participants with the best percentage of tumor reduction from baseline in the sum of the diameter was calculated.	Day 21 of every other 21-day cycle starting with Cycle 2, 30 days after the last dose of study medication, and then every 12 weeks for up to an additional 6 months (Up to 16.7 months)
Guanylyl Cyclase C (GCC) H-score Assessed by Immunohistochemistry (IHC)	Analysis of GCC protein expression levels in tumor tissue (fresh biopsy pretreatment and whenever a biopsy is considered medically safe and technically feasible) was performed using a semiquantitative immunohistochemistry (IHC) assay and the total GCC H-Score was determined. GCC H-score is based on the sum of the 0 to 300 H-score for cytoplasmic staining and the 0 to 300 H-score for apical staining for a total possible H-score 0 to 600. Separate consent was required to obtain archival tumor specimens for GCC expression assessment prior to screening.	Approximately 20 months
Number of Participants With Antitherapeutic Antibodies (ATA)	Blood samples were collected to assess the immunogenicity of MLN0264 (ATA development) using a laboratory test. Neutralizing ATA assessment was performed for ATA-positive samples only.	Pre-dose of each 21 day cycle and 30 days after last dose of study medication (Up to 10.7 months)

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (ACTUAL): August 4, 2014
• Primary Completion (ACTUAL): January 15, 2016
• Study Completion (ACTUAL): January 15, 2016

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: July 7, 2014
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 25, 2014
• First Posted (ESTIMATE): July 29, 2014

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (ACTUAL): May 15, 2017
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 6, 2017
• Last Verified: April 1, 2017

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Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Drug therapy
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Neoplasms by Histologic Type; Neoplasms; Carcinoma; Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial; Adenocarcinoma
• Other Study ID Numbers: C26002; U1111-1155-9023 (OTHER: WHO); 2014-000804-88 (EUDRACT_NUMBER); REec-2014-1176 (REGISTRY: REec)