Trial of TRC105 and Pazopanib Versus Pazopanib Alone in Patients With Advanced Angiosarcoma (TAPPAS)

A Randomized Phase 3 Trial of TRC105 and Pazopanib Versus Pazopanib Alone in Patients With Advanced Angiosarcoma (TAPPAS)

This is a study of TRC105 in combination with standard dose pazopanib compared to single agent pazopanib in patients with angiosarcoma not amenable to curative intent surgery (e.g., metastatic or bulky disease, and disease for which surgical resection would carry an unacceptable risk to the patient) who have not received pazopanib or TRC105 previously.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Advanced Angiosarcoma
• Intervention / Treatment: Biological: TRC105; Drug: Votrient

Detailed Description

TRC105 (carotuximab) is a monoclonal antibody to endoglin (CD105), an essential angiogenic target highly expressed on tumor vessels that is distinct from VEGFR. Endoglin is also expressed directly on tumor cells in angiosarcoma and is upregulated following VEGF inhibition. TRC105 inhibits angiogenesis, tumor growth and metastases in preclinical models and complements the activity of bevacizumab and multi-kinase inhibitors that target the VEGFR.

Pazopanib is an oral inhibitor of multiple receptor tyrosine kinases, including vascular endothelial growth factor receptor (VEGFR)-1, VEGFR-2, and VEGFR-3 at therapeutic plasma concentrations. These receptors are implicated in pathologic angiogenesis, tumor growth, and cancer progression.

By targeting a non-VEGF pathway that is upregulated following VEGF inhibition, TRC105 has the potential to complement VEGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) and could represent a major advance in the treatment of angiosarcoma. Together, the use of TRC105 with pazopanib may result in more effective angiogenesis inhibition and improved clinical efficacy over that seen with pazopanib alone.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 128
• Phase: Phase 3

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Austria
  • Wien, Austria
    • Medical University,Vienna
• France
  • Bordeaux, France
    • Institut Bergonié
  • Lille, France
    • Centre Oscar Lambret
  • Lyon, France
    • Centre Leon Berard
  • Villejuif, France
    • Institut Gustave Roussy
• Germany
  • Bad Saarow, Germany
    • Helios Klinikum
  • Mannheim, Germany
    • Mannheim university medical center
  • Munich, Germany
    • Klinikum derUniversitat Munchen
• Italy
  • Milano, Italy
    • Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori
• Poland
  • Warszawa, Poland
    • Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology
• Spain
  • Barcelona, Spain
    • Institut Catala d'Oncologia (ICO)
  • Madrid, Spain
    • 12 de Octubre University Hospital
• United Kingdom
  • Chelsea, United Kingdom
    • Royal Marsden NHS
• United States
  • Arizona
    • Tucson, Arizona, United States, 85724
      • University of Arizona Cancer Center
  • California
    • Palo Alto, California, United States, 94304
      • Stanford University
    • Santa Monica, California, United States, 90403
      • Sarcoma Oncology Center
  • Colorado
    • Aurora, Colorado, United States, 80045
      • University of Colorado Denver
  • Florida
    • Jacksonville, Florida, United States, 32224
      • Mayo Clinic Jacksonville
    • Tampa, Florida, United States, 33612
      • Moffitt Cancer Center
  • Georgia
    • Sandy Springs, Georgia, United States, 30342
      • Northside Hospital
  • Iowa
    • Iowa City, Iowa, United States, 52242
      • University of Iowa
  • Maryland
    • Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21231
      • Johns Hopkins
  • Massachusetts
    • Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02114
      • Massachusetts General Hospital
    • Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02215
      • Dana Farber Cancer Institute
  • Minnesota
    • Rochester, Minnesota, United States, 55905
      • Mayo Clinic Rochester
  • Missouri
    • Saint Louis, Missouri, United States, 63110
      • Washington University St. Louis
  • New York
    • Buffalo, New York, United States, 14263
      • Roswell Park Cancer Institute
    • Lake Success, New York, United States, 11042
      • Northwell Health
    • New York, New York, United States, 10017
      • MSKCC
  • North Carolina
    • Durham, North Carolina, United States, 27705
      • Duke University
  • Ohio
    • Cleveland, Ohio, United States, 44195
      • Cleveland Clinic
    • Columbus, Ohio, United States, 43202
      • Ohio State University
  • Pennsylvania
    • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19107
      • Thomas Jefferson University
    • Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, 15232
      • UPMC
  • Tennessee
    • Nashville, Tennessee, United States, 37212
      • Vanderbilt University
  • Texas
    • Houston, Texas, United States, 77230
      • MD Anderson
  • Utah
    • Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, 84112
      • University of Utah, Huntsman Cancer Institute
  • Washington
    • Seattle, Washington, United States, 98109
      • University of Washinton
  • Wisconsin
    • Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, 53226
      • Medical College of Wisconsin

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 12 years and older (Child, Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Histologically-confirmed angiosarcoma that is not amenable to curative intent surgery (e.g., metastatic or bulky disease and disease for which surgical resection would carry an unacceptable risk to the patient). Pathology report will be reviewed by sponsor prior to randomization.
2. Documented progression on or following most recent systemic chemotherapy regimen (not required for chemotherapy-naïve patients), within 4 months prior to screening
3. Measurable disease by RECIST v1.1
4. Age of 18 years or older; in addition, patients age 12 to 17 years may enroll beginning in Cohort 2 if weight ≥ 40 kg
5. Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status ≤ 1
6. Resolution of all acute AEs resulting from prior cancer therapies to National Cancer Institute Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events version 4.03 (NCI CTCAE v4.03) grade ≤ 1 or to that patient's pre-study baseline (except alopecia or neuropathy)
7. Adequate organ function
8. Willingness and ability to consent (and assent if under age 18) for self to participate in study
9. Willingness and ability to comply with scheduled visits, treatment plan, laboratory tests, and other study procedures
10. Angiosarcoma tumor specimen, if available
11. Men who are sterile (including vasectomy confirmed by post vasectomy semen analysis) OR agree to use a condom with spermicide (refer to Section 2.6.1.3) and to not donate sperm during the study and for at least 180 days following last dose of TRC105 or pazopanib
12. Woman of non-child bearing potential due to surgical sterilization (at least 6 weeks following surgical bilateral oophorectomy with or without hysterectomy or tubal ligation) confirmed by medical history or menopause (i.e., no menstrual bleeding for more than 12 months in a women aged 45 years or more), OR woman of child bearing potential who test negative for pregnancy at time of enrollment based on serum pregnancy test and agree to use at least 2 acceptable methods of birth control, one of which must be highly effective, during the study and for at least 180 days after stopping TRC105 or pazopanib

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Prior treatment with TRC105
2. Prior treatment with any VEGF inhibitor
3. More than two prior lines (may be combination regimens) of chemotherapy for angiosarcoma (neoadjuvant/adjuvant treatment does not count as a line of treatment)
4. Current treatment or participation on another therapeutic clinical trial
5. Women who are pregnant or breastfeeding
6. Receipt of systemic anticancer therapy, including investigational agents, within 5 times the agent's elimination half-life of starting study treatment
7. Major surgical procedure or significant traumatic injury within 4 weeks prior to randomization and must have fully recovered from any such procedure or injury; planned surgery (if applicable) or the anticipated need for a major surgical procedure within the next six months. Note: the following are not considered to be major procedures and are permitted up to 7 days before randomization: Thoracentesis, paracentesis, port placement, laparoscopy, thoracoscopy, tube thoracostomy, bronchoscopy, endoscopic ultrasonographic procedures, mediastinoscopy, skin biopsies, and imaging-guided biopsy for diagnostic purposes
8. Patients who have received wide field radiotherapy ≤ 28 days (defined as > 50% of volume of pelvic bones or equivalent) or limited field radiation for palliation < 14 days prior to randomization
9. Uncontrolled hypertension defined as systolic > 150 or diastolic > 100 mm Hg on the average of the 3 most recent BP readings. Anti-hypertensives may be started prior to randomization.
10. Ascites or pleural effusion requiring intervention or that required intervention or recurred within three months prior to randomization
11. Pericardial effusion (except trace effusion identified by echocardiogram) within three months prior to randomization
12. History of brain involvement with cancer, spinal cord compression, or carcinomatous meningitis, or new evidence of brain or leptomeningeal disease. Patients with radiated or resected lesions are permitted, provided the lesions are fully treated and inactive, patients are asymptomatic, and no steroids have been administered for at least 28 days prior to randomization
13. Angina, myocardial infarction, symptomatic congestive heart failure, cerebrovascular accident, transient ischemic attack, arterial embolism , pulmonary embolism, percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) or coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) within 6 months prior to randomization. Deep venous thrombosis within 3 months prior to randomization unrelated to a central venous catheter, unless the patient is anti-coagulated without the use of warfarin for at least 2 weeks prior to randomization. In this situation, low molecular weight heparin is preferred
14. Active bleeding or pathologic condition that carries a high risk of bleeding (e.g., hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia). Patients with bleeding cutaneous lesions not actively requiring transfusions are eligible. Patients who have been uneventfully anti-coagulated with low molecular weight heparin are eligible
15. Hemoptysis (> ½ teaspoon [2.5 mL] of bright red blood) within 6 months prior to randomization
16. Thrombolytic use (except to maintain i.v. catheters) within 10 days prior to randomization
17. Known active viral or nonviral hepatitis or cirrhosis
18. Peptic ulcer within the past 3 months prior to randomization, unless treated for the condition and complete resolution has been documented by esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD)
19. Presence of tumor(s) invading into the heart or great vessels (including carotid artery) or another location where bleeding is associated with high morbidity including patients with primary cardiac or great vessel angiosarcoma
20. Gastrointestinal perforation or fistula in the 6 months prior to randomization unless underlying risk has been resolved (e.g., through surgical resection or repair)
21. Presence of a malabsorption syndrome, gastrointestinal disorder, or gastrointestinal surgery that could affect the absorption of pazopanib
22. History of prior malignancy except adequately treated basal cell or squamous cell skin cancer or adequately treated, with curative intent, cancer from which the patient is currently in complete remission per Investigator's judgment; patients with history of breast cancer and no evidence of disease on hormonal therapy to prevent recurrence and patients with prostate cancer on adjuvant hormonal therapy with undetectable PSA are eligible
23. Known human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) related illness
24. Active infection that requires systemic treatment
25. Concurrent use or receipt of a strong CYP3A4 inducer within 12 days prior to randomization or a strong CYP3A4 inhibitor within 7 days prior to randomization (see Table 10)
26. History of severe hypersensitivity reaction to any monoclonal antibody
27. Other severe acute or chronic medical (including bone marrow suppressive diseases) or psychiatric condition or laboratory abnormality that may increase the risk associated with study participation, impede the ability of the patient to complete all protocol-specified activities, or may interfere with the interpretation of study results and, in the judgment of the Investigator, would make the patient inappropriate for this study

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Treatment
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: TRC105 plus votrient; weekly TRC105 i.v. in combination with standard dose votrient by mouth, once daily	Biological: TRC105; TRC105 antibody; Other Names: anti-endoglin antibody; carotuximab; Drug: Votrient; pazopanib; Other Names: pazopanib
Active Comparator: votrient; standard dose votrient by mouth, once daily	Drug: Votrient; pazopanib; Other Names: pazopanib

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Progression Free Survival of Patients With Unresectable Angiosarcoma	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. Progression free survival is defined as time from randomization to either first disease progression (per independent radiology review of images by RECIST 1.1) or death from any cause.	from date of randomization until the date of first documented progression or date of death from any cause, whichever came first, assessed up to cut off date of interim analysis (25 months)

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Objective Response Rate of Patients With Unresectable Angiosarcoma	Per Response Evaluation Criteria In Solid Tumors Criteria (RECIST v1.1) for target lesions: Complete Response (CR) is disappearance of all target lesions; Partial Response (PR) is >=30% decrease in the sum of the longest diameter of target lesions; Overall Response (OR) = CR + PR. Overall response rate is defined as the number of patients with a best response designation of complete response or partial response recorded between the date of randomization and the date of documented progression.	from date of randomization until the date of first documented progression or date of death from any cause, whichever came first, assessed up to cut off date of interim analysis (25 months)
Overall Survival of Patients With Unresectable Angiosarcoma	Overall survival is the number of death events at 25 months, including all on-study and off-study deaths (past post-treatment 28-day follow up visit)	from beginning of study to cut off date of interim analysis (25 months)
To Characterize Patient Reported Outcomes Between the Two Arms of the Study	Patient reported outcomes as measured by the EuroQol five dimensions questionnaire (EQ-5D-5L) and the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer quality of life questionnaire (EORTC QLQ-C30). The EORTC QLQ-C30 health scale is on a scale of 1 to 7, with 1 being poor health and 7 being excellent health. The EQ-5D-5L scale is on a scale of 0 to 100, with 0 being the worst health one can imagine, and 100 being the best health one can imagine.	Screening and 9 weeks (Cycle 3 Day 1)

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Tracon Pharmaceuticals Inc.
• Investigators: Study Director: Charles Theuer, MD, TRACON Pharmaceuticals

Publications and helpful links

General Publications

• Jones RL, Ravi V, Brohl AS, Chawla S, Ganjoo KN, Italiano A, Attia S, Burgess MA, Thornton K, Cranmer LD, Cheang MCU, Liu L, Robertson L, Adams B, Theuer C, Maki RG. Efficacy and Safety of TRC105 Plus Pazopanib vs Pazopanib Alone for Treatment of Patients With Advanced Angiosarcoma: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Oncol. 2022 May 1;8(5):740-747. doi: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2021.3547.
• Mehta CR, Liu L, Theuer C. An adaptive population enrichment phase III trial of TRC105 and pazopanib versus pazopanib alone in patients with advanced angiosarcoma (TAPPAS trial). Ann Oncol. 2019 Jan 1;30(1):103-108. doi: 10.1093/annonc/mdy464.

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): February 13, 2017
• Primary Completion (Actual): April 11, 2019
• Study Completion (Actual): August 31, 2019

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: November 29, 2016
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: November 29, 2016
• First Posted (Estimate): December 2, 2016

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): May 12, 2020
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: May 11, 2020
• Last Verified: May 1, 2020

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: angiosarcoma
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Neoplasms, Connective and Soft Tissue; Neoplasms by Histologic Type; Neoplasms; Sarcoma; Neoplasms, Vascular Tissue; Hemangiosarcoma
• Other Study ID Numbers: 105SAR301

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