An Open-Label, Phase 1b Study of Acalabrutinib With and Without Dexamethasone in Subjects With Multiple Myeloma

An Open-Label, Phase 1b Study of ACP-196 With and Without Dexamethasone in Subjects With Multiple Myeloma

To characterize the safety profile of acalabrutinib with and without dexamethasone in subjects with relapsed or refractory Multiple Myeloma (MM)

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Multiple Myeloma (MM)
• Intervention / Treatment: Drug: acalabrutinib

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 27
• Phase: Phase 1

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United Kingdom
  • Leicester, United Kingdom
    • United Kingdom
  • London, United Kingdom
    • Guys and St Thomas' Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
• United States
  • Maryland
    • Baltimore, Maryland, 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:

• Men and women ≥ 18 years of age.
• A confirmed diagnosis of MM, which has relapsed after, or been refractory to ≥ 1 prior therapy for MM, and is progressing at the time of study entry.
• Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of ≤ 2.
• Agreement to use contraception during the study and for 30 days after the last dose of study drugs if sexually active and able to bear or beget children.

Exclusion Criteria:

• A life-threatening illness, medical condition or organ system dysfunction which, in the investigator's opinion, could compromise the subject's safety, interfere with the absorption or metabolism of acalabrutinib, or put the study outcomes at undue risk
• Significant cardiovascular disease such as uncontrolled or symptomatic arrhythmias, congestive heart failure, or myocardial infarction within 6 months of screening, or any Class 3 or 4 cardiac disease as defined by the New York Heart Association Functional Classification
• Malabsorption syndrome, disease significantly affecting gastrointestinal function, gastric bypass, resection of the stomach or small bowel, symptomatic inflammatory bowel disease, or partial or complete bowel obstruction.
• Breast feeding or pregnant

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: TREATMENT
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Interventional Model: PARALLEL
• Masking: NONE

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
EXPERIMENTAL: Cohort 1; Acalabrutinib 100 mg twice daily (bid) continuously	Drug: acalabrutinib; Other Names: ACP-196
EXPERIMENTAL: Cohort 2; Acalabrutinib 100 mg bid continuously and 40 mg dexamethasone once weekly	Drug: acalabrutinib; Other Names: ACP-196

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Safety Profile of Acalabrutinib With and Without Dexamethasone	AEs and SAEs were coded by system organ class (SOC) and preferred term (PT) based on the Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities (MedDRA) reporting system. All AEs summarized were treatment-emergent. Summaries were also presented by the severity of the AE (per Common Toxicity Criteria for Adverse Events [CTCAE]) and by relationship to study drug as assessed by the investigator. Events of clinical interest (ECIs) selected for dedicated analysis were evaluated using Standardized MedDRA Queries, where available, by SOC, or by Sponsor-defined baskets of MedDRA Adverse Event Grouped Terms (AEGTs). The following ECIs were summarized: Cardiac events (including a subset of atrial fibrillation), cytopenias (anemia, leukopenia, neutropenia, and thrombocytopenia), hemorrhage (including a subset of major hemorrhage), hepatic events, hypertension, infection, interstitial lung disease/pneumonitis, second primary malignancies (second primary malignancies excluding skin), tumor lysis syndrome.	From first dose of study drug up to Cycle 12 (48 weeks). Subjects who showed benefit from study drugs were allowed to continue until disease progression.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Pharmacokinetic (PK) Parameters Calculated for Acalabrutinib: AUC0-4, AUClast, AUCINF, Cmax, Tmax, λz, t1/2, CL/F, and Vz/F. PK Parameters Calculated for Dexamethasone: Tmax, Cmax, AUC0-4 and AUClast.	The plasma PK of study drug was characterized using noncompartmental analysis. PK parameters were calculated whenever possible, from plasma concentrations of acalabrutinib. Missing dates or times could have been imputed for PK and pharmacodynamic (PD) samples if the missing values could be established with an acceptable level of accuracy based on other information obtained during the visit in question. If PK and PD sampling for a 33 Final Clinical Study Report Drug Substance Acalabrutinib Study Code ACE-MY-001 Edition Number 2 Date 31 October 2018 given subject was not performed according to protocol, the subject could have been excluded from the PK and PD analyses. The PK parameters were tabulated and summarized using descriptive statistics. For each PD variable, the concentration at each assessment was described. The change from baseline to each assessment was summarized. As appropriate the on treatment values were compared with the pretreatment baseline values using paired t-tests.	On Days 1 and 22: pre-dose, and at 0.5, 0.75, 1, 2, 4, and 6 hours after the morning dose. On Days 8, 15, and 28: pre-dose and 1 hour after the morning dose.
Bruton Tyrosine Kinase (BTK) Occupancy	The percent occupied BTK was calculated in each subject's peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) sample for each assessment timepoint using an ELISA-based method. Samples from 17 subjects met the criteria for data inclusion, having a dynamic range (signal to noise) of ≥5 for the Day 1 pre-dose timepoint. Acalabrutinib administered at 100 mg bid resulted in a median steady-state (Day 8) BTK target occupancy level of 95% and 98% for Cohort 1 and Cohort 2, respectively. The Days 28 and 56 assessments, both taken at pre-dose, were >97% occupancy for each cohort. Intersubject variability was low, with 6 of 7 (86%) subjects in Cohort 1 and 4 of 5 (80%) subjects in Cohort 2 having >90% BTK occupancy at steady-state trough (12h post-dose). The single subject in Cohort 2 with <90% occupancy at Day 8 pre-dose did not take their Day 7 doses.	On Days 1 and 8: pre-dose and at 4 hours after the morning dose. On Days 28 and 56: morning pre-dose only.
Response Assessed According to Guidelines Proposed by the International Myeloma Workshop Consensus Panel and European Group for Blood and Marrow Transplant	Per EBMT: CR, negative immunofixation of serum and urine, disappearance of plasmacytomas and < 5% plasma cells; Stringent complete response (SCR), CR + normal flow cytometry and absence of clonal plasma cells; Very good partial response (VGPR), Serum and urine M-protein detectable on immunofixation but not on electrophoresis or > 90% reduction is serum and urine M protein; Partial response (PR), > 50% reduction in serum M-protein and > 90% reduction in 24 hour urine M-protein, > 50% reduction in baseline soft tissue plasmacytoma; Minimal response (MR), 25-49% reduction of serum M-protein and 50-59% reduction in 24 hour urine M-protein, 25-49% reduction in plasmacytomas and no increase in lytic bone lesions; Stable disease (SD), not meeting criteria for CR, VGPR, MR, PR or progressive disease (PD); PD, increase of 25% or more from nadir in serum M-protein, urine M-protein, new or increased bone lesions or plasmacytomas, or hypercalcemia solely attributed to multiple myeloma.	From first dose of study drug up to Cycle 12 (48 weeks). Subjects who showed benefit from study drugs were allowed to continue until disease progression

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Acerta Pharma BV
• Collaborators: Acerta Pharma, LLC

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (ACTUAL): February 1, 2015
• Primary Completion (ACTUAL): April 26, 2019
• Study Completion (ACTUAL): April 26, 2019

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: August 5, 2014
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: August 5, 2014
• First Posted (ESTIMATE): August 7, 2014

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (ACTUAL): July 31, 2020
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 15, 2020
• Last Verified: July 1, 2020

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Multiple Myeloma; MM; Bruton tyrosine kinase inhibitor; Btk; acalabrutinib; ACP-196; Calquence
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Cardiovascular Diseases; Vascular Diseases; Immune System Diseases; Neoplasms by Histologic Type; Neoplasms; Lymphoproliferative Disorders; Immunoproliferative Disorders; Hematologic Diseases; Hemorrhagic Disorders; Hemostatic Disorders; Paraproteinemias; Blood Protein Disorders; Multiple Myeloma; Neoplasms, Plasma Cell; Antineoplastic Agents; Acalabrutinib
• Other Study ID Numbers: ACE-MY-001