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Phase II Study of Sorafenib and Infusional 5-Fluorouracil in Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC) (GAO2)
This study is currently recruiting participants.
Verified by Italian Trial in Medical Oncology, May 2008
Sponsored by: Italian Trial in Medical Oncology
Information provided by: Italian Trial in Medical Oncology
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00619541
  Purpose

To use Sorafenib + 5-FU for evaluate activity, efficacy, safety, PD and PK in patients with advanced HCC


Condition Intervention Phase
Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Drug: Sorafenib and Infusional 5-Fluorouracil
Phase II

Drug Information available for: Sorafenib Sorafenib tosylate Fluorouracil
U.S. FDA Resources
Study Type: Interventional
Study Design: Treatment, Open Label, Uncontrolled, Single Group Assignment, Pharmacokinetics/Dynamics Study
Official Title: Phase II Study of Bay 43-9006 and Infusional 5-Fluorouracil in Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma.

Further study details as provided by Italian Trial in Medical Oncology:

Primary Outcome Measures:
  • N° of non progressive disease (complete and partial responses, stable disease) [ Time Frame: no ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]

Secondary Outcome Measures:
  • Toxicity of the combination,ORR,Duration of responses, TTP and OS.PK, PD,Baseline pERK concentration, phospho VEGF-R2 concentration, plasma proteomics and gene expression profiling on blood cells and tumor biopsy [ Time Frame: no ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]

Estimated Enrollment: 46
Study Start Date: January 2007
Estimated Study Completion Date: November 2007
Primary Completion Date: November 2007 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Arms Assigned Interventions
A,: Experimental
5-FU 3000 mg/sqm 48 hours continuous infusion every 14 days Bay 400 mg bid orally continuously 5-FU will be administered for a maximum of 12 cycles. Bay 43-9006 will be administered from the start of treatment in combination with 5-FU until progression of disease.
Drug: Sorafenib and Infusional 5-Fluorouracil
5-FU 3000 mg/sqm 48 hours continuous infusion every 14 days Bay 400 mg bid orally continuously 5-FU will be administered for a maximum of 12 cycles. Bay 43-9006 will be administered from the start of treatment in combination with 5-FU until progression of disease.

Detailed Description:

Numerous chemotherapeutic regimens have been tested for use against hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). HCC is, however, highly resistant to chemotherapy; doxorubicin and 5- fluorouracil containing regimens, alone or in combinations, results in less than a 20% response, with a median survival of less than 4 months. Furthermore even the objective responses are short-lasting. In a metaanalysis of the published randomized studies on HCC, neither doxorubicin nor any chemotherapeutic agent has been shown to have any survival benefit for HCC patients.

Bay 43-9006 (Bay) is a novel signal transduction inhibitor that prevent tumor cell proliferation and angiogenesis through blockade of the Raf/Mek/Erk pathway at the level of Raf Kinase and the receptor tyrosine kinases VEGFR-2 and PDGFR-beta.

Recent preclinical studies have shown the activation of Mek-1/2 and its downstream target MAPK in HCC tumors. In a phase II study 137 patients advanced primary liver cancer with have been treated with Bay administerd as a single agent. Investigators reported seven patients with partial responses, five minor responses and 59 with stable disease for at least 4 months. Median overall survival was 9.2 months and median time to progression 4.2 months. This study showed that Bay was well tolerated and side-effects were manageable and reversible.

Rationale

5-Fluorouracil (5-FU) is a widely used agent for patients with unresectable advanced HCC, with objective responses rates around 10%. Compared to bolus administration, infusional 5-FU in metastatic colorectal cancers has demonstrated increased activity with less toxicity.

Bay as single agent in HCC has demonstrated activity in terms of objective responses and promising duration of stable disease.

The combination of Bay and 5-FU was evaluated in a phase I study where the drug is associated with different 5FU based schedules with good toxicity profile and objectives responses in particular in colorectal carcinoma.

Based on these data our purpose is to study infusional 5-FU with Bay to evaluate the activity, efficacy, safety, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of this combination.

Study design and duration of treatment

5-FU 3000 mg/sqm 48 hours continuous infusion every 14 days Bay 400 mg bid orally continuously 5-FU will be administered for a maximum of 12 cycles. Bay 43-9006 will be administered from the start of treatment in combination with 5-FU until progression of disease.

  Eligibility

Ages Eligible for Study:   18 Years and older
Genders Eligible for Study:   Both
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:   No
Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Screening must be done within 28 days of study drug administration (laboratory evaluations must be done within 7 days). For inclusion in the study, patients must fulfill all of the following criteria:

  • Age 18 years.
  • Patients should have proven primary HCC according to one of the following criteria:

    • Histological evidence of HCC on a biopsy specimen. Patients with the fibrolamellar subset are excluded, as are any patients with a mixed histology.
    • Cytological evidence of HCC is acceptable only if tissue cannot be obtained for histological evaluation.
  • ECOG Performance Status of 0 or 1
  • Life expectancy of at least 12 weeks at the pre-treatment evaluation.
  • Inoperable tumor (T2-T4, any N, M0 or M1 as defined by the TNM classification)
  • Patient considered by the investigator to be appropriate for systemic therapy.
  • Patients with at least one measurable lesion by CT-scan or MRI according to the Recist criteria, performed within 4 weeks prior to start of dosing.
  • Patients who have not received any systemic anti-cancer treatment for HCC such as: chemotherapy, immunotherapy, hormonal therapy, vaccines as well as any systemic agent given with antineoplastic intent, prior to study inclusion. (previous local therapy is permitted). Previous treatment with Octreotide is however allowed, provided that the administration of the drug was discontinued at least 7 days prior enrolment or at least 28 days if the LAR (long acting release) formulation of the drug was used.
  • Patients who have received local therapy, such as: surgery, radiation therapy, hepatic arterial embolization, chemo-embolization, radio-frequency ablation or cryo-ablation are eligible, provided that they either have a target lesion which has not been subjected to local therapy and/or the target lesion(s) within the field of the local therapy has shown an increase of 25% in the size. Furthermore, the local therapy applied to target or non-target lesions needs to have been completed at least 8 weeks prior to study inclusion (Lesions treated with external beam radiation therapy are not acceptable as target lesions, unless they fulfill the conditions described above).
  • Adequate bone marrow, liver and renal function, as assessed by the following laboratory requirements to be conducted within 7 days prior to screening:

    • Hemoglobin 8.5 g/dl
    • Absolute granulocytes 1.5 x 109/L
    • Platelet count 60 x 109/L
    • Total serum bilirubin 3 mg/dl
    • ALT (SGOT) and AST (SGPT) 5 x upper limit of normal
    • PT-INR 2.3 or PT 6 seconds above control
    • Serum creatinine 1.5 x upper limit of normal.
  • Cirrhotic status of Child's Pugh class A or B. Child's Pugh class C should be excluded
  • Written Informed Consent must be obtained and documented prior to any study specific procedures.

Exclusion Criteria:

Patients who meet the following criteria at the time of screening will be excluded; excluded medical conditions:

  • Congestive heart failure defined as NYHA class III or IV.
  • Serious cardiac arrhythmias.
  • Active coronary artery disease or ischemia.
  • Active clinically serious infections (> grade 2 NCI-CTC).
  • Known history of HIV infection.
  • Known metastatic brain or meningeal tumors.
  • History of seizure disorder.
  • History of organ allograft.
  • Previous malignancy (except for cervical carcinoma in situ, adequately treated basal cell carcinoma, or superficial bladder tumors [Ta, Tis & T1] or other malignancies curatively treated > 3 years prior to entry).
  • Patients with clinically significant gastrointestinal bleeding within the past month prior to study entry are ineligible.

Excluded therapies and medications, previous and concomitant:

  • Any systemic anticancer treatment or any agent administered with antineoplastic intent, including chemotherapy, immunotherapy , vaccines or hormonal therapy given before study entry or during study treatment. Anticancer therapy is defined as any agent or combination of agents with clinically proven anticancer activity administered systemically, with the purpose of affecting the cancer, either directly or indirectly, including palliative and therapeutic endpoints. In certain cases, local anticancer therapy is allowed. See Inclusion Criteria for details.
  • Any surgical procedure within 4 weeks prior to start of study drug.
  • Autologous bone marrow transplant or stem cell rescue within 4 months of study entry.
  • Use of biologic response modifiers, such as G-CSF, within 3 weeks of study entry. G-CSF and other hematopoietic growth factors may be used in the management of acute toxicity, such as febrile neutropenia, when clinically indicated, or at the discretion of the investigator; however, they may not be substituted for a required dose reduction. Chronic Erythropoietin treatment prior to the study entry or during the study is permitted.
  • Use of ritonavir and grapefruit juice.
  • Prior use of Raf-Kinase inhibitors, MEK or Farnesyl Transferase Inhibitors. Any investigational drug therapy outside of this trial during or within 4 weeks of study entry.

Other Exclusion Criteria:

  • Pregnant or breast-feeding patients. Women of childbearing potential must have a negative pregnancy test performed within 7 days of the start of treatment. Both men and women enrolled in this trial must use adequate barrier birth control measures (e.g. cervical cap, condom, diaphragm) during the course of the trial. Oral birth control methods alone will not be considered adequate on this study, because of the potential pharmacokinetic interaction between SORAFENIB and oral contraceptives.
  • Substance abuse, medical, psychological or social conditions that, in the judgment of the investigator, is likely to interfere with the patient's participation in the study or evaluation of the study results.
  • Known allergy to the investigational agent or any agent given in association with this trial.
  • Any condition that is unstable or could jeopardize the safety of the patient and its compliance in the study, in the investigator's judgment.
  Contacts and Locations
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00619541

Contacts
Contact: Ricci Sergio, MD +39 050 992145 sergio.ricci@ao-pisa.toscana.it
Contact: Orlandini Cinzia, phD +39 050 993173 c.orlandini@med.unipi.it

Locations
Italy
Dipartimento di Oncologia, dei Trapianti e delle Nuove Tecnologie in Medicina ... Indirizzo: via Roma, 55 - 56100 Pisa Tel. 050-2218690 - Fax. 050-2218685 Recruiting
Pisa, Italy, 56100
Contact: Orlandini Cinzia, phD     +39 050 992145     c.orlandini@med.unipi.it    
Principal Investigator: Ricci Sergio, MD            
Sponsors and Collaborators
Italian Trial in Medical Oncology
  More Information

Responsible Party: Bayer Schering Pharma Italy ( Bayer Schering Pharma )
Study ID Numbers: GAODUE
Study First Received: February 11, 2008
Last Updated: May 27, 2008
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00619541  
Health Authority: Italy: Ethics Committee

Keywords provided by Italian Trial in Medical Oncology:
HCC
Sorafenib
Pisa
Ricci
5-FU
5FU
5 FU
Advanced HCC

Study placed in the following topic categories:
Liver Diseases
Digestive System Neoplasms
Carcinoma, Hepatocellular
Liver neoplasms
Carcinoma
Liver Neoplasms
Digestive System Diseases
Fluorouracil
Gastrointestinal Neoplasms
Adenocarcinoma
Sorafenib
Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial
Hepatocellular carcinoma

Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Antimetabolites
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Antimetabolites, Antineoplastic
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Immunologic Factors
Antineoplastic Agents
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Enzyme Inhibitors
Immunosuppressive Agents
Protein Kinase Inhibitors
Pharmacologic Actions
Neoplasms
Neoplasms by Site
Therapeutic Uses

ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on January 16, 2009