Larotrectinib for the Treatment of NTRK Amplification Positive, Locally Advanced or Metastatic Solid Tumors

A Phase II Basket Study of the Oral TRK Inhibitor Larotrectinib (BAY2757556) in Subjects With NTRK Amplification Positive and Pan-TRK Positive Tumors

This phase II trial studies the effect of larotrectinib in treating patients with NTRK gene amplification positive solid tumors that have spread to nearby tissues or lymph nodes (locally advanced) or other places in the body (metastatic). Larotrectinib may stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking some of the enzymes needed for cell growth.

Study Overview

• Status: Recruiting
• Conditions: Locally Advanced Malignant Solid Neoplasm; Metastatic Malignant Solid Neoplasm
• Intervention / Treatment: Drug: Larotrectinib Sulfate

Detailed Description

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE:

I. To determine overall response rate (ORR) to larotrectinib sulfate (larotrectinib) in patients with advanced solid tumors harboring NTRK amplification and pan-TRK expression by immunohistochemistry (IHC), calculated as the proportion of subjects with confirmed complete (CR) or partial response (PR) as best response and as assessed by Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) version (v) 1.1 and Response Assessment in Neuro-Oncology (RANO) criteria in primary central nervous system (CNS) tumor.

SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:

I. To evaluate the duration of response (DOR) in subjects with CR or PR as best response.

II. To estimate the proportion of subjects with any tumor regression as best response.

III. To evaluate the growth modulation index (GMI) following initiation of larotrectinib.

IV. To evaluate overall (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS) following initiation of larotrectinib.

V. To evaluate the clinical benefit rate (CBR) based on the proportion of subjects with best response of CR, PR, or stable disease lasting >= 16 weeks following initiation of larotrectinib safety.

VI. To assess the safety profile and tolerability of larotrectinib.

EXPLORATORY OBJECTIVES:

I. To characterize NTRK1, NTRK2, and NTRK3 amplification by next-generation sequencing of tumor biopsies.

II. To characterize TRKA, TRKB, and TRKC signaling in fresh pre-treatment tumor biopsies, with the aim of elucidating TRK biology and modifiers of response to larotrectinib.

III. To characterize concurrently activated oncogenic pathways in fresh pre-treatment tumor biopsies, with the aim of elucidating TRK biology and modifiers of response to larotrectinib.

OUTLINE:

Patients receive larotrectinib sulfate orally (PO) twice daily (BID) on days 1-28. Cycles repeat every 28 days in the absence of unacceptable toxicity. Patients who experience disease progression and are deriving clinical benefit from larotrectinib may continue treatment per physician discretion.

After completion of study treatment, patients are followed up at 4 weeks, and then every 3 months for 2 years.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Anticipated): 13
• Phase: Phase 2

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Texas
    • Houston, Texas, United States, 77030
      • Recruiting
      • M D Anderson Cancer Center
      • Contact: David S. Hong; Phone Number: 713-563-1930
      • Principal Investigator: David S. Hong

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 16 years and older (Child, Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• At least 16 years of age
• Locally-advanced or metastatic malignancy with an NTRK1, NTRK2, or NTRK3 gene amplification identified through molecular assays (such as IHC and any next-generation sequencing [NGS] platform, reference lab NGS, or in house NGS platform) as routinely performed at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center or other similarly-certified laboratories. The minimum level of amplification is 7 copies. This rationale of amplification level is based on data from MOCLIA at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
• Must have received prior standard therapy appropriate for tumor type and stage of disease, or, in the opinion of the investigator, is unlikely to tolerate or derive clinically meaningful benefit from appropriate standard of care therapy

• Must have at least one measurable lesion as defined by RECIST v1.1. Subjects with primary CNS tumors should meet the following criteria:

  • Must have received prior treatment including radiation and/or chemotherapy, with radiation completed > 12 weeks prior to cycle 1 day 1 (C1D1) of therapy, as recommended or appropriate for the tumor type
  • Must have >= 1 site of bi-dimensionally measurable disease (confirmed by magnetic resonance imaging [MRI] and evaluable by RANO), with the size of at least one of the measurable lesions >= 1 cm in each dimension
  • Must have imaging study within 28 days before enrollment. If on steroid therapy, the dose must be stable for at least five days immediately before and during the imaging study
• Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) score =< 3. If enrolled with primary CNS tumor to be assessed by RANO, Karnofsky performance score (KPS) >= 70 %
• Archived tumor tissue. If archival tissue is unavailable, an on-study tumor biopsy should be attempted if it can be safely performed
• Serum aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and serum alanine aminotransferase (ALT) < 2.5 x upper limit of normal (ULN) or < 5 x ULN if liver function abnormalities are due to underlying malignancy
• Total bilirubin < 2.5 x ULN, except in cases of biliary obstruction. Subjects with a known history of Gilberts disease and an isolated elevation of indirect bilirubin are eligible
• Serum creatinine < 2.0 x ULN or estimated glomerular filtration rate >= 30 mL/minute using the Cockcroft-Gault formula
• Ability to comply with outpatient treatment, laboratory monitoring, and required clinic visits for the duration of study participation
• Willingness of men and women of reproductive potential to use two effective birth control methods, one used by the subject and another by his/her partner, for the duration of treatment and for 3 months following study completion

Exclusion Criteria:

• Investigational agent or anticancer therapy within 2 weeks prior to the planned start of larotrectinib or five half-lives, whichever is shorter, and without clinically significant toxicities from that therapy
• Prior progression while receiving approved or investigational tyrosine kinase inhibitors targeting TRK. However, subjects who received less than 28 days of such treatment and discontinued because of intolerance or toxicity are eligible
• Symptomatic or unstable brain metastases that needs corticosteroid usage. Subjects with asymptomatic brain metastases or primary CNS tumors are eligible
• Uncontrolled concurrent malignancy that would limit assessment of efficacy. Allowed diseases may include, but are not limited to in situ cancers of cervix, breast, or skin, superficial bladder cancer, limited-stage prostate cancer, and basal or squamous cancers of the skin

• Active uncontrolled systemic bacterial, viral, or fungal infection, unstable cardiovascular disease or other systemic disease that would limit compliance with study procedures. Unstable cardiovascular disease is defined as:

  • Persistently uncontrolled hypertension defined as systolic blood pressure (BP) > 150 mmHg and/or diastolic BP > 100 mmHg despite antihypertensive therapy
  • Myocardial infarction within 3 months of screening
• Stroke within 3 months of screening
• Inability to discontinue treatment with a strong cytochrome P450 (CYP450), 3A4 (CYP3A4) inhibitor or inducer prior to start of treatment
• Pregnancy or lactation

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 (larotrectinib sulfate); Patients receive larotrectinib sulfate PO BID on days 1-28. Cycles repeat every 28 days in the absence of unacceptable toxicity. Patients who experience disease progression and are deriving clinical benefit from larotrectinib may continue treatment per physician discretion.	Drug: Larotrectinib Sulfate; Given PO; Other Names: ARRY 470 Sulfate; LOXO 101 Sulfate; LOXO-101 Sulfate; Vitrakvi

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Overall response	Will be scored by Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) version 1.1.	Up to 2 years post-treatment

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Best overall response of confirmed complete response or partial response	Will be determined using RECIST version 1.1 or Response Assessment in Neuro-Oncology criteria, as appropriate to tumor type. A bias-correcting estimate of the best overall response rate and its one-sided 90% confidence interval will be calculated using an exact inference method that appropriately accounts for Bayesian optimal phase II design.	Up to 2 years post-treatment
Duration of response	Will be calculated for subjects who achieve confirmed complete response or partial response, and Kaplan-Meier estimates, mean and median duration, and two-sided 95% confidence intervals will be generated.	From the date complete response or partial response is first noted (whichever response is recorded first), to the date that recurrence or progressive disease is first documented or to date of death, assessed up to 2 years
Growth modulation index	Will be defined as the ratio of time to progression (TTP) with nth line of therapy (TTPn) to the most recent prior line of therapy and summarized with mean, median, standard error, and two-sided 95% confidence interval.	Up to 2 years post-treatment
Progression-free survival	Kaplan-Meier estimates, mean and median duration, and two-sided 95% confidence intervals will be generated. In patients who have received prior therapy, corresponding Kaplan-Meier plots, mean and median duration with 95% confidence intervals will be used to compare the duration of progression-free survival following initiation of larotrectinib to that following the line of therapy immediately preceding larotrectinib.	From initiation of larotrectinib to disease progression or death due to any cause, whichever occurs first, assessed up to 2 years
Overall survival	Kaplan-Meier estimates, mean and median duration, and two-sided 95% confidence intervals will be generated.	From initiation of treatment to death from any cause, assessed up to 2 years
Clinical benefit rate	Will be defined as the proportion of subjects with best overall response of complete response, partial response, or stable disease lasting 16 or more weeks following initiation of treatment and summarized in percentages with two-sided 95% confidence intervals.	Up to 2 years post-treatment
Incidence of adverse events	Safety will be assessed by clinical review of all relevant parameters including adverse events, serious adverse events, laboratory values, vital signs, and electrocardiogram results. Overall safety profiles will be provided along with tumor-specific profiles. Treatment-emergent adverse events, defined as adverse events that start on or after the first administration of study drug, will be summarized based on the number and percentage of subjects experiencing the event, as defined by Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities system organ class and preferred term. In the event a subject experiences repeat episodes of the same adverse event, then the event with the highest severity grade and strongest causal relationship to study drug will be used for purposes of incidence tabulations.	Up to 4 weeks (after the final dose of the last cycle of treatment (between 21 and 35 days)
Change in clinical safety laboratory values and vital signs	Waterfall plots will be used to depict graphically for individual subjects the maximum percentage decrease from baseline in the sum of the longest diameters of target lesions. Similarly, spider and swimmer plots will be used to display the change in tumor burden over time for individual subjects and the occurrence of clinical outcomes of interest (e.g., tumor response, disease progression, treatment discontinuation, death).	Baseline up to 2 years post-treatment

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
• Collaborators: National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): April 30, 2021
• Primary Completion (Anticipated): November 11, 2025
• Study Completion (Anticipated): November 11, 2025

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: February 1, 2021
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: May 4, 2021
• First Posted (Actual): May 10, 2021

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): April 25, 2022
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 18, 2022
• Last Verified: April 1, 2022

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Neoplasms
• Other Study ID Numbers: 2020-0564 (Other Identifier: M D Anderson Cancer Center); NCI-2021-00338 (Registry Identifier: CTRP (Clinical Trial Reporting Program))

Drug and device information, study documents

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