Best Approach in Recurrent-Ovarian-Cancer-with Cediranib-Olaparib

NCT03314740CompletedPHASE2INTERVENTIONAL

Summary

Key Facts

Lead Sponsor

Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research

Enrollment

123

Start Date

2017-06-12

Completion Date

2021-04-01

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Official Title

Italian Multicenter Randomized Phase II Study of Weekly Paclitaxel vs. Cediranib-Olaparib (Continuous vs. Intermittent) in Patients With Platinum Resistant High Grade Epithelial Ovarian, Fallopian Tube, or Primary Peritoneal Cancer

Interventions

PaclitaxelCediranibOlaparib

Conditions

Ovarian Neoplasms

Eligibility

Age Range

18 Years+

Sex

FEMALE

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Patients affected by pathologically confirmed high-grade epithelial ovarian, fallopian tube, or primary peritoneal cancer.
2. Relapsed/progressive disease within 6 months from last platinum-based chemotherapy (platinum resistant/refractory disease).
3. Any line of treatment (after the first).
4. Any "last" chemotherapy line, including Paclitaxel, that should have been administered at least 6 months before the study beginning.
5. Patients must be women \> 18 years of age.
6. Patients must have normal organ and bone marrow function measured within 28 days prior to administration of study treatment as defined below:

   * Haemoglobin ≥ 10.0 g/dL and no blood transfusions in the 28 days prior to entry/randomization - Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) ≥ 1.5 x 109/L
   * White blood cells (WBC) \> 3x109/L
   * Platelet count ≥ 100 x 109/L
   * Total bilirubin ≤ 1.5 x institutional Upper Limit of Normal (ULN)
   * AST (SGOT)/ALT (SGPT) ≤ 2.5 x institutional Upper Limit of Normal, unless liver metastases are present in which case it must be ≤ 5x ULN
   * Creatinine clearance estimated using the Cockcroft-Gault equation ≥51 mL/min,.
7. ECOG performance status 0-1.
8. Patients must have a life expectancy ≥ 16 weeks.
9. Evidence of non-childbearing status for women of childbearing potential (negative urine or serum pregnancy test within 28 days of study treatment, confirmed prior to treatment on day 1 or postmenopausal women. Postmenopausal status is defined as:

   * Amenorrheic for 1 year or more following cessation of exogenous hormonal treatments
   * LH and FSH levels in the post-menopausal range for women under 50
   * Radiation-induced oophorectomy with last menses \>1 year ago,
   * Chemotherapy-induced menopause with \>1 year interval since last menses
   * Surgical sterilization (bilateral oophorectomy or hysterectomy)
10. Patient is willing and able to comply with the protocol for the duration of the study including undergoing treatment, scheduled visits and examinations including follow up.
11. At least one lesion (measurable as defined by RECIST 1.1) that can be accurately assessed by CT scan or MRI with Chest X-ray at baseline and follow up visits.
12. BRCA1-2 mutation status known. In case of BRCA status unknown, the BRCA test must be performed before the randomization or, if not feasible, within the end-of the study treatment.
13. Provision of informed consent prior to any study specific procedures. In case of patients unable to give written informed consent, is necessary to have the subject or legal representative sign, but in any case a witness must be present and sign and date with the person providing informed consent.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Any previous treatment with a PARP inhibitor, including Olaparib.
2. Prior treatment with Cediranib (previous bevacizumab or other antiangiogenic drugs are allowed)
3. Previous progression to weekly Paclitaxel
4. Patients with second primary cancer, except: adequately treated non-melanoma skin cancer, curatively treated in-situ cancer of the cervix, or other solid tumours curatively treated with no evidence of disease for ≥ 5 years
5. Patients receiving any systemic chemotherapy, radiotherapy (except for palliative reasons), within 2 weeks from the last dose prior to study treatment (or a longer period depending on the defined characteristics of the agents used). The patient can receive bisphosphonates for bone metastases, before and during the study as long as these were started at least 4 weeks prior to treatment with study drug.
6. Concomitant use of known strong CYP3A inhibitors (eg. itraconazole, telithromycin, clarithromycin, protease inhibitors boosted with ritonavir or cobicistat, indinavir, saquinavir, nelfinavir, boceprevir, telaprevir) or moderate CYP3A inhibitors (eg. ciprofloxacin, erythromycin, diltiazem, fluconazole, verapamil). The required washout period prior to starting Olaparib is 2 weeks.
7. Concomitant use of known strong (eg. phenobarbital, enzalutamide, phenytoin, rifampicin, rifabutin, rifapentine, carbamazepine, nevirapine and St John's Wort ) or moderate CYP3A inducers (eg. bosentan, efavirenz, modafinil). The required washout period prior to starting Olaparib is 5 weeks for enzalutamide or phenobarbital and 3 weeks for other agents.
8. Persistent toxicities (\>=CTCAE grade 2) with the exception of alopecia, caused by previous cancer therapy.
9. Resting ECG with QTc \> 470msec on 2 or more time points within a 24 hour period or family history of long QT syndrome.
10. Greater than +1 proteinuria on two consecutive dipsticks taken no less than 1 week apart unless urinary protein \< 1.5g in a 24 hr period or urine protein/creatinine ratio \< 1.5.
11. A history of poorly controlled hypertension or resting blood pressure \>150/100 mmHg in the presence or absence of a stable regimen of anti-hypertensive therapy (measurements will be made after the patient has been resting supine for a minimum of 5 minutes. Two or more readings should be taken at 2-minute intervals and averaged. If the first two diastolic readings differ by more than 5 mmHg, then an additional reading should be obtained and averaged).
12. Blood transfusions within 28 days prior to study start.
13. Features suggestive of Myelodysplastic syndrome or Acute myeloid leukemia (MDS/AML) on peripheral blood smear.
14. Patients with symptomatic uncontrolled brain metastases. A scan to confirm the absence of brain metastases is not required. The patient can receive a stable dose of corticosteroids before and during the study as long as these were started at least 28 days prior to treatment.
15. Major surgery within 4 weeks of starting study treatment and patients must have recovered from any effects of any major surgery.
16. Patients considered at poor medical risk due to a serious, uncontrolled medical disorder, non-malignant systemic disease or active, uncontrolled infection. Examples include, but are not limited to, uncontrolled ventricular arrhythmia, recent (within 3 months) myocardial infarction, unstable spinal cord compression (untreated and unstable for at least 28 days prior to study entry), superior vena cava syndrome, extensive bilateral lung disease on HRCT scan or any psychiatric disorder that prohibits obtaining informed consent.
17. Patients unable to swallow medications and patients with gastrointestinal disorders likely to interfere with absorption of the study medication.
18. Breast feeding women.
19. Immunocompromised patients, e.g., patients who are known to be serologically positive for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and are receiving antiviral therapy.
20. Patients with known active hepatic disease (i.e., Hepatitis B or C).
21. Patients with a known hypersensitivity to Olaparib, Cediranib or any of the excipients of the products.
22. Patients with a known hypersensitivity to Paclitaxel.
23. Patients with uncontrolled seizures.
24. History of abdominal fistula or gastrointestinal perforation.
25. Prior gastrectomy.

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes

Efficacy: Progression Free Survival (PFS)

PFS is defined as time from randomization to the date of first progression or death for any cause, whichever comes first. Progression was established as the radiological disease progression according to RECIST 1.1 (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") or to clinical assessment in case radiological evaluation is not feasible due to clinical condition.

Time frame: An average of 30 months for each participant

Safety: Number of Evacuations Per Day

Number of evacuations per day used as an index of gastro-intestinal toxicity profile of experimental drugs

Time frame: Evacuation were collected daily for the first four weeks of treatment of experimental drugs

Secondary Outcomes

Efficacy: Objective Response Rate (ORR)

Percentage of patients with an objective response as determined by RECIST 1.1

Time frame: Disease assessments were scheduled every 8 weeks (+/- 1 week) from randomization for all treatment duration (an average of 3.5 months).

Efficacy: PFS2

PFS2 is defined as time from first progression to the date of second progression or death for any cause, whichever comes first.

Time frame: Up to one year after the last patient enrolled

Efficacy: Overall Survival (OS)

OS is defined as time from randomization to the date of death for any cause

Time frame: Up to one year after the last patient enrolled

Efficacy: Quality of Life

Quality of Life evaluated by the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Ovarian (FACT-O) questionnaire

Time frame: Up to sixth month of study treatment

Safety: Maximum Toxicity Grade

Maximum toxicity grade experienced by each patient, for each toxicity, according to NCI-CTCAE v. 4.03

Time frame: Up to 30 days after the end of treatment

Safety: Number of Patients Experiencing Grade 3-4 Toxicity for Each Toxicity

Number of patients experiencing grade 3-4 toxicity for each toxicity according to NCI-CTCAE v. 4.03

Time frame: Adverse events were collected at the end of each cycle for the duration of treatment for each participant (an average of 3.5 months) and following 30 days after the end of treatment.

Safety: Type, Frequency and Nature of SAEs

Type, frequency and nature of SAEs, according to NCI-CTCAE v. 4.03

Time frame: Up to 30 days after the end of treatment

Safety: Number of Patients With at Least a SAE; Patients With at Least a SADR

Number of patients with at least a SAE; patients with at least a SADR, according to NCI-CTCAE v. 4.03

Time frame: Up to 30 days after the end of treatment

Safety: Number of Patients With at Least a SUSAR

Number of patients with at least a SUSAR, according to NCI-CTCAE v. 4.03

Time frame: Up to 30 days after the end of treatment

Compliance: Number of Administered Cycles

The endpoint for compliance is the number of administered cycles.

Time frame: Up to one year after the last patient enrolled

Compliance: Reasons for Discontinuation and Treatment Modification

The endpoints for compliance are the reasons for discontinuation and treatment modification.

Time frame: Up to one year after the last patient enrolled

Compliance: Dose Intensity

Entire dose administered during treatment

Time frame: Up to one year after the last patient enrolled

Locations

Spedali Civili di Brescia, Brescia, Italy

Ospedale San Gerardo - ASST Monza, Monza, Italy

Istituto Oncologico Veneto (IOV), Padua, Italy

Arcispedale Santa Maria Nuova, Reggio Emilia, Italy

Policlinico Umberto I - Università La Sapienza, Rome, Italy

Istituto Eurpeo di Oncologia (IEO), Milan, Italy

Linked Papers

2022-02-16

Poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitors for the treatment of ovarian cancer

Ovarian cancer is the sixth most common cancer in women world-wide. Epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) is the most common; three-quarters of women present when disease has spread outside the pelvis (stage III or IV). Treatment consists of a combination of  surgery and platinum-based chemotherapy. Although initial responses to chemotherapy are good, most women with advanced disease will relapse. PARP (poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase) inhibitors (PARPi), are a type of anticancer treatment that works by preventing cancer cells from repairing DNA damage, especially in those with breast cancer susceptibility gene (BRCA) variants. PARPi offer a different mechanism of anticancer treatment from conventional chemotherapy. To determine the benefits and risks of poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase) inhibitors (PARPi) for the treatment of epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC). We identified randomised controlled trials (RCTs) by searching the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (Central 2020, Issue 10), Cochrane Gynaecological Cancer Group Trial Register, MEDLINE (1990 to October 2020), Embase (1990 to October 2020), ongoing trials on www.controlled-trials.com/rct, www.clinicaltrials.gov, www.cancer.gov/clinicaltrials, the National Research Register (NRR), FDA database and pharmaceutical industry biomedical literature. We included trials that randomised women with EOC to PARPi with no treatment, or PARPi versus conventional chemotherapy, or PARPi together with conventional chemotherapy versus conventional chemotherapy alone. We used standard Cochrane methodology. Two review authors independently assessed whether studies met the inclusion criteria. We contacted investigators for additional data. Outcomes included overall survival (OS), objective response rate (ORR), quality of life (QoL) and rate of adverse events. We included 15 studies (6109 participants); four (3070 participants) with newly-diagnosed, advanced EOC and 11 (3039 participants) with recurrent EOC. The studies varied in types of comparisons and evaluated PARPi. Eight studies were judged as at low risk of bias in most of the domains. Quality of life data were generally poorly reported. Below we present six key comparisons.  The majority of participants had BRCA mutations, either in their tumour (sBRCAmut) and/or germline (gBRCAmut), or homologous recombination deficiencies (HRD) in their tumours. Newly diagnosed EOC Overall, four studies evaluated the effect of PARPi in newly-diagnosed, advanced EOC. Two compared PARPi with chemotherapy and chemotherapy alone. OS data were not reported. The combination of PARPi with chemotherapy may have little to no difference in progression-free survival (PFS) (two studies, 1564 participants; hazard ratio (HR) 0.82, 95% confidence interval (CI 0).49 to 1.38; very low-certainty evidence)(no evidence of disease progression at 12 months' 63% with PARPi versus 69% for placebo).  PARPi with chemotherapy likely increases any severe adverse event (SevAE) (grade 3 or higher) slightly (45%) compared with chemotherapy alone (51%) (two studies, 1549 participants, risk ratio (RR) 1.13, 95% CI 1.07 to 1.20; high-certainty evidence). PARPi combined with chemotherapy compared with chemotherapy alone likely results in little to no difference in the QoL (one study; 744 participants, MD 1.56 95% CI -0.42 to 3.54; moderate-certainty evidence).  Two studies compared PARPi monotherapy with placebo as maintenance after first-line chemotherapy in newly diagnosed EOC. PARPi probably results in little to no difference in OS (two studies, 1124 participants; HR 0.81, 95%CI 0.59 to 1.13; moderate-certainty evidence) (alive at 12 months 68% with PARPi versus 62% for placebo). However, PARPi may increase PFS (two studies, 1124 participants; HR 0.42, 95% CI 0.19 to 0.92; low-certainty evidence) (no evidence of disease progression at 12 months' 55% with PARPi versus 24% for placebo). There may be an increase in the risk of experiencing any SevAE (grade 3 or higher) with PARPi (54%) compared with placebo (19%)(two studies, 1118 participants, RR 2.87, 95% CI 1.65 to 4.99; very low-certainty evidence), but the evidence is very uncertain. There is probably a slight reduction in QoL with PARPi, although this may not be clinically significant (one study, 362 participants; MD -3.00, 95%CI -4.48 to -1.52; moderate-certainty evidence).  Recurrent, platinum-sensitive EOC Overall, 10 studies evaluated the effect of PARPi in recurrent platinum-sensitive EOC. Three studies compared PARPi monotherapy with chemotherapy alone. PARPi may result in little to no difference in OS (two studies, 331 participants; HR 0.95, 95%CI 0.62 to 1.47; low-certainty evidence) (percentage alive at 36 months 18% with PARPi versus 17% for placebo). Evidence is very uncertain about the effect of PARPi on PFS (three studies, 739 participants; HR 0.88, 95%CI 0.56 to 1.38; very low-certainty evidence)(no evidence of disease progression at 12 months 26% with PARPi versus 22% for placebo). There may be little to no difference in rates of any SevAE (grade 3 or higher) with PARPi (50%) than chemotherapy alone (47%) (one study, 254 participants; RR 1.06, 95%CI 0.80 to 1.39; low-certainty evidence). Four studies compared PARPi monotherapy as maintenance with placebo. PARPi may result in little to no difference in OS (two studies, 560 participants; HR 0.88, 95%CI 0.65 to 1.20; moderate-certainty evidence)(percentage alive at 36 months 21% with PARPi versus 17% for placebo). However, evidence suggests that PARPi as maintenance therapy results in a large PFS (four studies, 1677 participants; HR 0.34, 95% CI 0.28 to 0.42; high-certainty evidence)(no evidence of disease progression at 12 months 37% with PARPi versus 5.5% for placebo). PARPi maintenance therapy may result in a large increase in any SevAE (51%) (grade 3 or higher) than placebo (19%)(four studies, 1665 participants, RR 2.62, 95%CI 1.85 to 3.72; low-certainty evidence). PARPi compared with chemotherapy may result in little or no change in QoL (one study, 229 participants, MD 1.20, 95%CI -1.75 to 4.16; low-certainty evidence). Recurrent, platinum-resistant EOC Two studies compared PARPi with chemotherapy. The certainty of evidence in both studies was graded as very low. Overall, there was minimal information on the QoL and adverse events. PARPi maintenance treatment after chemotherapy may improve PFS in women with newly-diagnosed and recurrent platinum-sensitive EOC; there may be little to no effect on OS, although OS data are immature. Overall, this is likely at the expense of an increase in SevAE. It is  disappointing that data on quality of life outcomes  are relatively sparse. More research is needed to determine whether PARPi have a role to play in platinum-resistant disease.

2022-01-19

Randomized phase II trial of weekly paclitaxel vs. cediranib-olaparib (continuous or intermittent schedule) in platinum-resistant high-grade epithelial ovarian cancer

Previous findings showed that cediranib-olaparib increased PFS in women with recurrent platinum-sensitive ovarian cancer compared to olaparib alone. BAROCCO trial randomized 123 patients: 80mg/m2 paclitaxel weekly up to 24 weeks (control), olaparib 300mg tablets twice daily together with 20mg cediranib daily (continuous schedule) or with 20mg cediranib 5 days/week (intermittent schedule) until progression. The primary objective was the PFS comparison between each experimental arm and the control (alpha one-sided 5%; power 80%; HR 0.5). The median platinum-free interval was 1.9 months, 60% of patients had been pretreated with 3 or more chemotherapy lines. Median PFS for paclitaxel, the continuous, and the intermittent schedules were 3.1, 5.6, and 3.8 months. The HR for PFS in the continuous arm vs control was 0.76 (90% CI: 0.50-1.14, p = 0.265). The HR for PFS in the intermittent arm vs control was 1.03 (90% CI: 0.68-1.55, p = 0.904). Treatment was discontinued due to adverse events in 15%, 20%, and 5% of patients in the control, continuous and intermittent arms. Grade ≥ 3 anemia and diarrhea and hypertension of any grade occurred only in the experimental arms, and peripheral neuropathies and alopecia only in the control arm. Five serious adverse drug reactions occurred and two were fatal: one in the control and one in the continuous arm. The combination of cediranib-olaparib was not superior to chemotherapy in terms of PFS in heavily pretreated platinum-resistant ovarian cancer patients. However, this oral doublet, is active and may offer a non-chemotherapy option in this difficult to treat population. IRFMN-OVA-7289, EudraCT: 2016-003964-38, NCT03314740.

Best Approach in Recurrent-Ovarian-Cancer-with Cediranib-Olaparib