PurIST Classification-Guided Adaptive Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy by RNA Expression Profiling of EUS Aspiration Samples (PANCREAS)

This is an open-label, phase II study in patients with resectable and borderline resectable pancreatic cancer.

Study Overview

• Status: Recruiting
• Conditions: Pancreatic Cancer
• Intervention / Treatment: Radiation: Chemoradiation; Drug: Gemcitabine/Nab-paclitaxel Treatment Regimen; Drug: mFOLFIRINOX Treatment Regimen

Detailed Description

The study intervention involves molecular profiling Purity Independent Subtyping of Tumors (PurIST) subtyping of pretreatment Endoscopic Ultrasound Fine Needle Aspiration (EUS/FNA) samples to determine pancreatic cancer subtype. Neoadjuvant therapy is directed based on the molecular subtype (classical vs. basal). Patients with classical subtype will receive a standard chemotherapy (mFOLFIRINOX) and patients with basal subtype will receive an alternative standard therapy (gemcitabine/nab-paclitaxel).

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Estimated): 87
• Phase: Phase 2

Contacts and Locations

• Study Contact: Name: Medical College of Wisconsin Cancer Center Clinical Trials Office; Phone Number: 8900 866-680-0505; Email: cccto@mcw.edu

Study Locations

• United States
  • Arizona
    • Scottsdale, Arizona, United States, 85258-4566
      • Recruiting
      • HonorHealth Medical Group
      • Contact: Erkut Borazanci, MD; Phone Number: 480-323-1350; Email: eborazanci@honorhealth.com
      • Contact: Gayle Jameson, APNP; Phone Number: 480-323-1350
  • Wisconsin
    • Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, 53226
      • Recruiting
      • Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin
      • Contact: Kathleen Christians, MD; Phone Number: 414-955-1400; Email: kchristi@mcw.edu

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

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

Description

Inclusion Criteria (for Screening)

1. Have suspicion of pancreas adenocarcinoma and plan for endoscopic biopsy. Agrees to additional EUS biopsy to be performed at the first-restaging timepoint and tissue collection from surgical specimen.
2. Have a carbohydrate antigen 19-9 (CA19-9) level greater than 35 mg/dL regardless of total bilirubin level.

Inclusion Criteria (for Treatment)

1. Be 18 years of age or older.
2. Be able to understand and provide written informed consent or have a legally authorized representative (LAR).
3. Have documentation of histologically confirmed adenocarcinoma. Biopsy must have been completed prior to start of treatment Have an Eastern Cooperative Group (ECOG) performance status < 2 (please see the appendix).
4. Have documentation of histologically confirmed adenocarcinoma. Biopsy must have been completed prior to start of treatment.
5. Have clinical stage consistent with resectable or borderline resectable adenocarcinoma of the pancreas, based on CT or MRI findings.

6. Have adequate organ and bone marrow function, as defined by

   • total leukocytes >3 x103/μL.
   • absolute neutrophil count (ANC) >1.5x 103/μL.
   • hemoglobin >9 g/dL.
   • platelets >100 x 10e3/μL.
   • creatinine clearance >60 mL/min or creatinine <1.5 mg/dL.
   • bilirubin < 2 mg/dL.
   • aspartate transaminases (AST/SGOT) and alanine transaminases (ALT/SGPT) <3 x upper limit of normal (ULN). At two weeks from biliary decompression, if the subject's serum AST/ALT remains greater 3x ULN, but has demonstrated a progressive decline, the subject may be enrolled into the trial and appropriate modification and dose adjustments will be made to the assigned regimen. Eligibility of subjects whose AST/ALT remain elevated 3x ULN, without demonstrating a downward trend, will be determined at the discretion of the trial PIs.
7. Subjects must be CA19-9 producers as defined by a pretreatment CA 19-9 > 35 U/mL, when total bilirubin <2 mg/dL
8. Female patients must be postmenopausal (absence of menses for > 1 year), surgically sterile or have a negative pregnancy test and use at least one form of contraception for four weeks prior to Day 1 of the study, during study treatment and during the first four months after study treatment is discontinued. Male patients must be surgically sterile or use barrier contraception during the study and for four months after the last dose of any study drug.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Has received chemotherapy and/or radiation within three years prior to study enrollment.
2. Has any previous history of another malignancy (other than cured basal or squamous cell carcinoma of the skin or cured in situ carcinoma of the cervix or localized prostate cancer with normal prostate specific antigen) within three years of study enrollment.
3. Uncontrolled comorbidities including, but not limited to, ongoing or active serious infection, symptomatic congestive heart failure, unstable angina, unstable cardiac arrhythmias, psychiatric illness, excessive obesity (BMI >55) or situations that would limit compliance with the study requirements or the ability to willingly give written informed consent.
4. Known HIV, hepatitis B virus (HBV) or hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection.
5. Pregnant or breastfeeding patients or any patient with childbearing potential not using contraception four weeks prior to treatment.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

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

Number of Arms

8

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Subtype diagnosis and classification: Basal; Patients will be classified by (molecular) subtype (using the PurIST classifier) into two groups: basal and classical pancreatic cancer. Upon diagnosis, patients categorized as basal will receive two months of the Gemcitabine/Nab-paclitaxel Treatment Regimen.	Drug: Gemcitabine/Nab-paclitaxel Treatment Regimen; This regimen will be nab-paclitaxel and gemcitabine.; Other Names: Gemzar; Abraxane
Experimental: Subtype diagnosis and classification: Classical; Patients will be classified by (molecular) subtype (using the PurIST classifier) into two groups: basal and classical pancreatic cancer. Patients in the classical group will receive two months of the mFOLFIRINOX Treatment Regimen.	Drug: mFOLFIRINOX Treatment Regimen; This therapy will be 5-fluorouracil, leucovorin, irinotecan, and oxaliplatin (FOLFIRINOX).; Other Names: Eloxatin; Camptosar; Folinic acid; Fluorouracil
Experimental: Basal Group: Restaging: Response to Treatment; After the first restaging evaluation, further treatment will be based on treatment response. Patients who demonstrate a response [decline in carbohydrate antigen 19-9 (CA19-9) values] and radiographic response, along with preserved performance status) will be maintained on the first line chemotherapy for an additional two months.	Drug: Gemcitabine/Nab-paclitaxel Treatment Regimen; This regimen will be nab-paclitaxel and gemcitabine.; Other Names: Gemzar; Abraxane
Experimental: Classical Group: Restaging: Response to Treatment; After the first restaging evaluation, further treatment will be based on treatment response. Patients who demonstrate a response [decline in carbohydrate antigen 19-9 (CA19-9) values] and radiographic response, along with preserved performance status) will be maintained on the first line chemotherapy for an additional two months.	Drug: mFOLFIRINOX Treatment Regimen; This therapy will be 5-fluorouracil, leucovorin, irinotecan, and oxaliplatin (FOLFIRINOX).; Other Names: Eloxatin; Camptosar; Folinic acid; Fluorouracil
Experimental: Basal Group: Restaging: Patients with Stable Disease; Patients who do not have a significant decline in CA19-9 values will be changed to a second-line therapy for an additional two months.	Drug: mFOLFIRINOX Treatment Regimen; This therapy will be 5-fluorouracil, leucovorin, irinotecan, and oxaliplatin (FOLFIRINOX).; Other Names: Eloxatin; Camptosar; Folinic acid; Fluorouracil
Experimental: Classical Group: Restaging: Patients with Stable Disease; Patients who do not have a significant decline in CA19-9 values will be changed to a second-line therapy for an additional two months.	Drug: Gemcitabine/Nab-paclitaxel Treatment Regimen; This regimen will be nab-paclitaxel and gemcitabine.; Other Names: Gemzar; Abraxane
Experimental: Basal Group: Restaging: Local Disease Progression; Further treatment will be based on treatment response. If the patient has local disease progression amenable to surgical resection, he or she will receive chemoradiation, rather than continued chemotherapy, so the window of opportunity for surgical resection is not lost.	Radiation: Chemoradiation; 50.4 Gy in 28 fractions.
Experimental: Classical Group: Restaging: Local Disease Progression; Further treatment will be based on treatment response. If the patient has local disease progression amenable to surgical resection, he or she will receive chemoradiation, rather than continued chemotherapy, so the window of opportunity for surgical resection is not lost.	Radiation: Chemoradiation; 50.4 Gy in 28 fractions.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Subjects who receive PurIST classification-directed therapy.	The number of subjects who receive PurIST classification-directed therapy and have a treatment response following 12 weeks of therapy.	12 weeks

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Subjects with basal subtype tumors who complete all intended neoadjuvant therapy and surgical therapy.	The number of subjects completing all intended neoadjuvant therapy and surgical therapy.	One year
Subjects with classical subtype tumors who complete all intended neoadjuvant therapy and surgical therapy.	The number of subjects completing all intended neoadjuvant therapy and surgical therapy.	One year
Treatment response for subjects with basal subtype tumors.	The number of subjects with basal subtype tumors who have a treatment response.	12 weeks
Treatment response for subjects with classical subtype tumors.	The number of subjects with classical subtype tumors who have a treatment response.	12 weeks

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Medical College of Wisconsin
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Kathleen K Christians, MD, Medical College of Wisconsin

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): April 1, 2021
• Primary Completion (Estimated): June 1, 2026
• Study Completion (Estimated): June 1, 2027

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: December 19, 2020
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: December 19, 2020
• First Posted (Actual): December 24, 2020

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): October 17, 2023
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: October 15, 2023
• Last Verified: October 1, 2023

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: neoadjuvant; pancreatic adenocarcinoma; surgery; pancreas cancer; CA19-9; molecular profiling; MCW
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Physiological Effects of Drugs; Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action; Antimetabolites, Antineoplastic; Antimetabolites; Antineoplastic Agents; Immunosuppressive Agents; Immunologic Factors; Tubulin Modulators; Antimitotic Agents; Mitosis Modulators; Antineoplastic Agents, Phytogenic; Paclitaxel; Fluorouracil; Gemcitabine
• Other Study ID Numbers: PRO00039451

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
• product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.: No