Riluzole in Combination With mFOLFOX6 and Bevacizumab in Treating Patients With Metastatic Colorectal Cancer

A Phase I Study of Riluzole in Combination With mFOLFOX6/Bevacizumab in Patients With Metastatic Colorectal Cancer

This phase I trial is to find out the best dose, possible benefits, and/or side effects of riluzole and how well it works in combination with standard of care mFOLFOX6 and bevacizumab in treating patients with colorectal cancer that has spread to other places in the body (metastatic). Riluzole is a well-tolerated oral medication that has demonstrated it may make chemotherapy work better. Chemotherapy drugs, such as oxaliplatin, leucovorin calcium and fluorouracil, work in different ways to stop the growth of [cancer/tumor] cells, either by killing the cells, by stopping them from dividing, or by stopping them from spreading. Bevacizumab is an antibody that targets the blood vessel by blocking the activity of a protein called vascular endothelial growth factor alpha (VEGF-A). It helps to make the mFOLFOX6 more effective. Giving riluzole, mFOLFOX6, and bevacizumab may kill more tumor cells compared to mFOLFOX6 and bevacizumab alone in treating patients with colorectal cancer.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Metastatic Colorectal Carcinoma; Stage IV Colorectal Cancer AJCC v8; Stage IVA Colorectal Cancer AJCC v8; Stage IVB Colorectal Cancer AJCC v8; Stage IVC Colorectal Cancer AJCC v8
• Intervention / Treatment: Drug: Fluorouracil; Biological: Bevacizumab; Drug: Leucovorin Calcium; Drug: Oxaliplatin; Drug: Riluzole

Detailed Description

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE:

I. Characterize the safety and toxicity of riluzole in combination with modified (m) leucovorin calcium, fluorouracil, and oxaliplatin (FOLFOX) 6/bevacizumab and determine the recommended phase II dose (RP2D) of riluzole in combination with mFOLFOX6/bevacizumab in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer.

SECONDARY OBJECTIVE:

I. Determine the pharmacokinetics of riluzole in patients with metastatic CRC.

EXPLORATORY OBJECTIVES:

I. Assess the efficacy of the combination treatment. II. Determine the effect of riluzole in downstream GRM3 signaling by immunofluorescent staining of phosphorylated (p)AKT and pCREB in pre- and post-treatment tumor tissues.

III. Assess FCGRT/FcRn expression, bevacizumab pharmacokinetics, inflammatory cytokines, and cachexia associated factors as early biomarkers for resistance to therapy.

IV. Assess cytotoxic T cells in peripheral blood to evaluate the immunomodulatory effect of this therapy.

OUTLINE: This is a dose-escalation study of riluzole.

Patients receive riluzole orally (PO) twice daily (BID) on days 1-14. Patients also receive oxaliplatin via intravenous piggyback (IVPB) over 2 hours, leucovorin calcium IVPB over 2 hours, and bevacizumab IVPB over 30 minutes on day 1 and fluorouracil via intravenous (IV) push over 5 minutes and then IV continuously over 46 hours on days 1-2. Treatment repeats every 2 weeks for up to 8 cycles in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.

After completion of study treatment, patients are followed up for 30 days.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 13
• Phase: Phase 1

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Ohio
    • Columbus, Ohio, United States, 43210
      • Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

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

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients with metastatic colorectal cancer, who are appropriate candidates to receive mFOLFOX6/bevacizumab. Patients who progressed on FOLFOX-based regimen are allowed
• Willingness to undergo both pre-treatment and post-treatment tumor tissue biopsies (pre-treatment tumor tissue will be sent to pathology lab to confirm metastatic colorectal cancer as the standard of care)
• Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status 0-1
• Age >= 18 years
• Absolute neutrophil count >= (ANC) 1,500/ul
• Platelets >= 100,000/ul
• Hemoglobin >= 9 g/dl
• Serum total bilirubin < 1.5 x ULN
• Serum albumin >= 2.5 g/dl
• If no liver involvement, aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and alanine aminotransferase (ALT) =< 1.5 x ULN. If liver involvement, AST and ALT =< 3.0 x ULN
• Ability to understand and the willingness to sign a written informed consent document
• A male subject of fathering potential must use an adequate method of contraception to avoid conception throughout the study (and for up to 12 weeks after the last dose of study drug) to minimize the risk of pregnancy. If the partner is pregnant or breastfeeding, the subject must use a condom
• Women of childbearing potential (WOCBP) must be using an adequate method of contraception to avoid pregnancy throughout the study and for up to 12 weeks after the last dose of study drug to minimize the risk of pregnancy. WOCBP must have a negative serum or urine pregnancy test within 72 hours before the start of the investigational product

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients who are receiving any other investigational agents
• Patients with history of hepatitis B or C
• Patients with severe renal impairment (CrCl < 30 mL/min)
• Prior full field radiotherapy < 4 weeks or limited field radiotherapy < 2 weeks prior to first study drug administration. Patients with central nervous system (CNS) metastases may participate in this trial provided they are clinically stable. Patients who are < 1 month from radiation therapy must not be included
• Patients with existing grade 2 peripheral neuropathy
• Patients with a history of thrombotic or embolic events within the last six months such as a cerebrovascular accident (including transient ischemic attacks), pulmonary embolism or deep vein thrombosis

• Cardiac conditions as follows:

  • Active coronary artery disease, unstable or newly diagnosed angina or myocardial infarction less than 6 months prior to first study drug administration
  • Class III-IV New York Heart Association (NYHA) congestive heart failure
  • Uncontrolled hypertension (Systolic blood pressure [BP] > 150 mmHg and diastolic BP > 90 mmHg for 24 hours) despite optimal medical management
  • Corrected QT (QTc) (Friderica) prolongation > 480 msec
• Uncontrolled concurrent illness including, but not limited to, ongoing or active infection, cardiac arrhythmia, active bleeding diatheses, and psychiatric illness/social situations that would limit compliance with study requirements
• Major surgical procedure or significant traumatic injury less than 3 weeks or those who receive minor surgical procedures within 1 week from first dose of study drug administration
• Known inability to swallow capsules
• Inability to comply with study and/or follow-up procedures
• Pregnant women are excluded from this study. Because there is an unknown but potential risk for adverse events in nursing infants secondary to treatment of the mother, breastfeeding should be discontinued

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: Treatment (riluzole, mFOLFOX6, bevacizumab); Patients receive riluzole PO BID on days 1-14. Patients also receive oxaliplatin via IVPB over 2 hours, leucovorin calcium IVPB over 2 hours, and bevacizumab IVPB over 30 minutes on day 1 and fluorouracil via IV push over 5 minutes and then IV continuously over 46 hours on days 1-2. Treatment repeats every 2 weeks for up to 8 cycles in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.

Drug: Fluorouracil; Given IV; Other Names: 5-Fluracil; Fluracil; 5 Fluorouracil; 5 Fluorouracilum; 5 FU; 5-Fluoro-2,4(1H, 3H)-pyrimidinedione; 5-Fluorouracil; 5-Fu; 5FU; AccuSite; Carac; Fluoro Uracil; Fluouracil; Flurablastin; Fluracedyl; Fluril; Fluroblastin; Ribofluor; Ro 2-9757; Ro-2-9757; Biological: Bevacizumab; Given IVPB; Other Names: Avastin; Anti-VEGF; Anti-VEGF Humanized Monoclonal Antibody; Anti-VEGF rhuMAb; Bevacizumab awwb; Bevacizumab Biosimilar BEVZ92; Bevacizumab Biosimilar BI 695502; Bevacizumab Biosimilar CBT 124; Bevacizumab Biosimilar CT-P16; Bevacizumab Biosimilar FKB238; Bevacizumab Biosimilar GB-222; Bevacizumab Biosimilar HD204; Bevacizumab Biosimilar HLX04; Bevacizumab Biosimilar IBI305; Bevacizumab Biosimilar LY01008; Bevacizumab Biosimilar MIL60; Bevacizumab Biosimilar Mvasi; Bevacizumab Biosimilar QL 1101; Bevacizumab Biosimilar RPH-001; Bevacizumab Biosimilar SCT501; Bevacizumab Biosimilar Zirabev; Bevacizumab-awwb; Bevacizumab-bvzr; BP102; BP102 Biosimilar; HD204; Immunoglobulin G1 (Human-Mouse Monoclonal rhuMab-VEGF Gamma-Chain Anti-Human Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor), Disulfide With Human-Mouse Monoclonal rhuMab-VEGF Light Chain, Dimer; Mvasi; Recombinant Humanized Anti-VEGF Monoclonal Antibody; rhuMab-VEGF; SCT501; Zirabev; Drug: Leucovorin Calcium; Given IVPB; Other Names: Wellcovorin; folinic acid; Adinepar; Calcifolin; Calcium (6S)-Folinate; Calcium Folinate; Calcium Leucovorin; Calfolex; Calinat; Cehafolin; Citofolin; Citrec; Citrovorum Factor; Cromatonbic Folinico; Dalisol; Disintox; Divical; Ecofol; Emovis; Factor, Citrovorum; Flynoken A; Folaren; Folaxin; FOLI-cell; Foliben; Folidan; Folidar; Folinac; Folinate Calcium; Folinic Acid Calcium Salt Pentahydrate; Folinoral; Folinvit; Foliplus; Folix; Imo; Lederfolat; Lederfolin; Leucosar; leucovorin; Rescufolin; Rescuvolin; Tonofolin; Drug: Oxaliplatin; Given IVPB; Other Names: 1-OHP; Dacotin; Dacplat; Eloxatin; Ai Heng; Aiheng; Diaminocyclohexane Oxalatoplatinum; Eloxatine; JM-83; Oxalatoplatin; Oxalatoplatinum; RP 54780; RP-54780; SR-96669; Drug: Riluzole; Given PO; Other Names: Rilutek

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Dose limiting toxicities (DLTs)	Will be defined by treatment related grade >= 4 adverse events or >= grade 3 alanine aminotransferase or aspartate aminotransferase elevation during the DLT period using the Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events version 5.0.	Up to 4 weeks (2 cycles of treatment) (1 cycle = 14 days)

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Pharmacokinetic (PK) profile of riluzole (Cmax)	K data analysis will utilize a nonlinear mixed effects approach whereby PK parameter estimates will be generated from the data, and 'dose day' will be evaluated as a covariate on clearance and volume of distribution. The PK parameters including Cmax. Peak Plasma Concentration (Cmax)	Day 1 on cycle 1 (each cycle is 14 days)
Pharmacokinetic (PK) profile of riluzole (AUC)	PK data analysis will utilize a nonlinear mixed effects approach whereby PK parameter estimates will be generated from the data, and 'dose day' will be evaluated as a covariate on clearance and volume of distribution. The PK parameters including AUC. Area under the plasma concentration versus time curve (AUC)	Day 1 on cycle 1 (each cycle is 14 days)

Other Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Objective response rate (complete response + partial response)	Will be estimated along with exact 95% confidence interval.	Up to 112 days
Change in phosphorylated (p)AKT and pCREB levels	Will be summarized using mean +/- standard error of mean, range, and median at each time point. Graphical analyses will be largely used to assess potential patterns and relationships.	Up to 42 days (each cycle is 14 days)
Change in FCGRT/FcRn expression	Will be assessed using peripheral blood and summarized using mean +/- standard error of mean, range, and median at each time point. Graphical analyses will be largely used to assess potential patterns and relationships.	Day 1 of cycle 1, 3, 5, 7 (each cycle is 14 days)
Change in bevacizumab clearance (Cmax)	Peak Plasma Concentration (Cmax)	Day 1 of cycle 1, 3, 5, 7 (each cycle is 14 days)
Change in bevacizumab clearance (AUC)	Area under the plasma concentration versus time curve (AUC)	Day 1 of cycle 1, 3, 5, 7 (each cycle is 14 days)
interleukin 6	Cytokines	Day 1 of cycle 1 and day 1 of cycle 7 (each cycle is 14 days)
leukemia inhibitory factor	Cytokines	Day 1 of cycle 1 and day 1 of cycle 7 (each cycle is 14 days)
Necrosis factor alpha	Cytokines	Day 1 of cycle 1 and day 1 of cycle 7 (each cycle is 14 days)
Interferon gamma	Cytokines	Day 1 of cycle 1 and day 1 of cycle 7 (each cycle is 14 days)
C-reactive protein	Cytokines	Day 1 of cycle 1 and day 1 of cycle 7 (each cycle is 14 days)
ferritin	Cytokines	Day 1 of cycle 1 and day 1 of cycle 7 (each cycle is 14 days)
metalloproteinases 1	Cytokines	Day 1 of cycle 1 and day 1 of cycle 7 (each cycle is 14 days)
body weight	Will include body weight and summarized using mean +/- standard error of mean, range, and median at each time point. Graphical analyses will be largely used to assess potential patterns and relationships.	Day 1 of cycle 1 and day 1 of cycle 7 (each cycle is 14 days)
skeletal muscle index	Will include skeletal muscle index and summarized using mean +/- standard error of mean, range, and median at each time point. Graphical analyses will be largely used to assess potential patterns and relationships.	Day 1 of cycle 1 and day 1 of cycle 7 (each cycle is 14 days)
body serum albumin	Will include body serum albumin and summarized using mean +/- standard error of mean, range, and median at each time point. Graphical analyses will be largely used to assess potential patterns and relationships.	Day 1 of cycle 1 and day 1 of cycle 7 (each cycle is 14 days)
Change in levels of circulating cytotoxic T cells	Will be assessed using peripheral blood mononuclear cells and summarized using mean +/- standard error of mean, range, and median at each time point. Graphical analyses will be largely used to assess potential patterns and relationships.	Day 1 of Cycle 1,3,5,7 (each cycle is 14 days)

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Ning Jin
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Ning Jin, MD, Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center

Publications and helpful links

Helpful Links

• The Jamesline

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): April 2, 2021
• Primary Completion (Actual): April 4, 2023
• Study Completion (Actual): May 6, 2023

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: January 21, 2021
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: February 17, 2021
• First Posted (Actual): February 21, 2021

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): March 28, 2025
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: March 26, 2025
• Last Verified: March 1, 2025

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Neoplasms by Site; Neoplasms; Intestinal Diseases; Gastrointestinal Neoplasms; Digestive System Neoplasms; Digestive System Diseases; Gastrointestinal Diseases; Intestinal Neoplasms; Rectal Diseases; Colonic Diseases; Colorectal Neoplasms; Calcium-Regulating Hormones and Agents; Antineoplastic Agents; Immunosuppressive Agents; Immunologic Factors; Physiological Effects of Drugs; Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action; Antimetabolites, Antineoplastic; Antimetabolites; Bone Density Conservation Agents; Neurotransmitter Agents; Micronutrients; Protective Agents; Angiogenesis Inhibitors; Angiogenesis Modulating Agents; Growth Substances; Growth Inhibitors; Antidotes; Vitamin B Complex; Vitamins; Anticonvulsants; Neuroprotective Agents; Hematinics; Excitatory Amino Acid Agents; Excitatory Amino Acid Antagonists; Oxaliplatin; Bevacizumab; Antineoplastic Agents, Immunological; Calcium, Dietary; Calcium; Fluorouracil; Leucovorin; Levoleucovorin; Antibodies; Immunoglobulins; Antibodies, Monoclonal; Folic Acid; Immunoglobulin G; Endothelial Growth Factors; Riluzole
• Other Study ID Numbers: OSU-20096; NCI-2021-00018 (Registry Identifier: CTRP (Clinical Trial Reporting Program))

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