Buparlisib in Patients With Relapsed and Refractory Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia

A Phase II Study of Buparlisib in Patients With Relapsed and Refractory Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia

The purpose of this study is to find out what effects a new drug, buparlisib, has on chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
• Intervention / Treatment: Drug: Buparlisib

Detailed Description

Buparlisib has been shown to shrink tumours in animals. It has been studied in some people and seems promising but it is not clear if it can offer better results than standard treatment.

The standard or usual treatment for this disease is chemotherapy, targeted therapy or radiation, either alone or in combination.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 14
• Phase: Phase 2

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Canada
  • Alberta
    • Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2N 4N2
      • Tom Baker Cancer Centre
    • Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T6G 1Z2
      • Cross Cancer Institute
  • Manitoba
    • Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, R3E 0V9
      • CancerCare Manitoba
  • Nova Scotia
    • Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, B3H 1V7
      • QEII Health Sciences Centre
  • Ontario
    • Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5G 2M9
      • University Health Network
  • Quebec
    • Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3T 1E2
      • The Jewish General Hospital

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

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

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Previously documented CLL that is recurrent or relapsed after previous therapy and that requires treatment
• Age ≥ 18 years
• ECOG Performance Status score of 0, 1 or 2
• Patients must have a life expectancy of at least 12 weeks. Those who have previously completed curative treatment of a malignancy other than CLL will be eligible
• Patients must have at least ONE of: Lymphocyte count ≥ 10 x 10^9/L OR at least one pathologically enlarged lymph node (≥ 2 x 2 cm) by CT scan
• Previous therapy: Patients must have received at least 1 prior systemic treatment regimen (single agent or combination therapy). There is no upper limit on number of prior regimens. Patients who have received prior autologous or allogeneic stem cell transplantation are eligible.

• Patients must have recovered (to ≤ grade 2) from all reversible toxicity related to prior systemic therapy, and have adequate washout from prior chemotherapy and investigational agents defined as the longest of:

  • two weeks
  • standard cycle length of prior regimen (e.g. 28 days for FCR)
  • 5 half-lives for investigational drugs

Not permitted:

• prior treatment with buparlisib (BKM120)

• Patients may have had radiation, provided a minimum of 21 days has elapsed prior to enrollment. Patients must have recovered from any acute toxic effects from radiation prior to registration
• Previous surgery is permitted provided that wound healing has occurred and at least 14 days have elapsed if surgery was major
• Absolute neutrophil counts (ANC): ≥ 1.0 x 10^9/L
• Platelets ≥ 50/min x 10^9/L and more than 5 days since last transfusion
• Creatinine clearance* ≥ 50 mL/min
• Bilirubin** ≤ 1.5 x upper normal limit (UNL)
• Alanine aminotransferase (AST) and aspartate aminotransferase (ALT) ≤ 1.5 x UNL or ≤ 3 x UNL if hepatic involvement with CLL
• Potassium and calcium Within normal limits for laboratory (supplementation permitted)

• Glucose (fasting) < 7.8 mmol/L (AND HbA1c ≤ 8% if diabetic)

  * Creatinine clearance as calculated by Cockcroft-Gault formula or by 24 hour urine measurement: Females: GFR = 1.04 x (140-age) x weight in kg serum creatinine in μmol/L Males: GFR = 1.23 x (140-age) x weight in kg serum creatinine in μmol/L

  ** Direct if patient known to have Gilbert's syndrome

• Patient consent must be obtained according to local Institutional and/or University Human Experimentation Committee requirements
• Patients must be accessible for treatment and follow up. Patients registered on this trial must be treated and followed at the participating centre
• In accordance with CCTG policy, protocol treatment is to begin within 2 working days of patient registration

Exclusion Criteria:

• Progression to high grade lymphoma (Richter's transformation) or myelodysplasia
• Patients with known hypersensitivity to the study drug or its excipients

• The following are exclusions for enrolment on the study:

  • Pregnant or lactating women. (N.B. All women of childbearing potential must have a negative serum or urine pregnancy test within 7 days prior to registration).
  • Men and women of childbearing potential who do not agree to use adequate contraception: prior to study entry; while taking buparlisib and after completion of study therapy for 12 weeks in men and 4 weeks in women.

• Serious illness or medical condition which would not permit the patient to be managed according to the protocol, including, but not limited to:

  1. active uncontrolled or serious infection (viral, bacterial or fungal);
  2. pulmonary disease requiring oxygen;
  3. known HIV infection or other immune deficiency disorders (except for CLL);
  4. uncontrolled auto-immune hemolytic anemia (AIHA) or auto-immune thrombocytopenia (ITP)
  5. acute or chronic pancreatitis

• Uncontrolled or significant cardiovascular disease including:

  • Myocardial infarction within 12 months
  • Uncontrolled angina within 6 months
  • Clinically significant congestive heart failure (eligible if controlled and LVEF ≥ 50%)
  • Stroke, TIA or other ischemic event within 12 months
  • Severe cardiac valve dysfunction
  • Left ventricular ejection fraction < 50% (only required if symptoms suggestive or history of cardiovascular disease)
  • Uncontrolled hypertension

• Patient has any of the following mood disorders:

  • Medically documented history of or active major depressive episode, bipolar disorder (I or II), obsessive-compulsive disorder, schizophrenia, a history of suicidal attempt or ideation, or homicidal ideation (e.g. risk of doing harm to self or others)
  • Score of ≥ 12 on the PHQ-9 questionnaire
  • Score of ≥ 15 on the GAD-7 mood scale
  • ≥ CTCAE grade 3 anxiety
  • Patient selects a positive response of '1,2,3' to question 9 (suicidal ideation) in the PHQ-9 questionnaire
• Patients who have received prior buparlisib (BKM120).
• Patients with impairment of gastrointestinal (GI) function or GI disease that may significantly alter the absorption of buparlisib (e.g. ulcerative diseases, uncontrolled nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, malabsorption syndrome, or small bowel resection).
• Patients who are unable to swallow capsules
• Patients on strong CYP3A inhibitors/inducers or therapeutic doses of warfarin-like anticoagulants (must have discontinued > 7 days prior to day 1). Patients may receive low molecular weight heparin if indicated. See Appendix VII for a list of prohibited medications.
• Patients on drugs with a known risk to induce Torsades de Pointes
• Patients receiving high dose steroid therapy or another immunosuppressive agent. Note: Topical applications (e.g. rash), inhaled sprays (e.g. obstructive airways diseases), eye drops or local injections (e.g. intra-articular) are allowed. Patients who are on stable moderate dose corticosteroid treatment for treatment of conditions other than CLL (< dexamethasone 4 mg/day, prednisone 25 mg/day) for at least 14 days before start of study treatment are eligible.
• Patients with known HIV positivity.
• Patients with known CLL involvement of the central nervous system.
• Patients with a history of other malignancies, except those which have been curatively treated and require no ongoing therapy

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: Buparlisib; 100mg daily orally every 28 days	Drug: Buparlisib

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Overall Response Rate	To determine the overall response rate (complete + partial response, as defined in the protocol) to oral buparlisib in patients with relapsed and refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Complete Response (CR): CR requires all of the criteria listed on page 31 of the protocol, maintained for a period of at least 8 weeks. Partial Response (PR): To define a PR, at least 1 of the criteria of Group A plus 1 of the criteria of Group B listed on page 32 of the protocol must be met and persist for ≥ 8 weeks, in the absence of any criteria definitive of progressive disease.	30 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Progression Free Survival	Progression-free survival (PFS) is defined as the time in months from study entry until disease progression or death.	30 months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Canadian Cancer Trials Group
• Collaborators: Novartis
• Investigators: Study Chair: Sarit Assouline, McGill University - Dept. Oncology, Jewish General Hospital Site, Montreal QC Canada

Publications and helpful links

General Publications

• Assouline S, Amrein L, Aloyz R, Banerji V, Caplan S, Owen C, Hasegawa W, Robinson S, Shivakumar S, Prica A, Peters A, Hagerman L, Rodriguez L, Skamene T, Panasci L, Chen BE, Hay AE. IND.216: a phase II study of buparlisib and associated biomarkers, raptor and p70S6K, in patients with relapsed and refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Leuk Lymphoma. 2020 Jul;61(7):1653-1659. doi: 10.1080/10428194.2020.1734594. Epub 2020 Mar 10.

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): April 27, 2015
• Primary Completion (Actual): November 21, 2018
• Study Completion (Actual): April 28, 2020

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: January 8, 2015
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: January 13, 2015
• First Posted (Estimated): January 19, 2015

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): August 22, 2023
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: August 3, 2023
• Last Verified: April 1, 2020

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Pathologic Processes; Immune System Diseases; Neoplasms by Histologic Type; Neoplasms; Lymphoproliferative Disorders; Lymphatic Diseases; Immunoproliferative Disorders; Disease Attributes; Leukemia, B-Cell; Chronic Disease; Leukemia; Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell; Leukemia, Lymphoid
• Other Study ID Numbers: I216

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No