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Lung CancerPhase 2NCT01829217

Sunitinib in Never-Smokers With Lung Adenocarcinoma

A Phase 2 study testing Sunitinib in people with Lung Cancer, run by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute at 4 sites in United States.

Completed

Finished. The study has ended and is not enrolling. Results may be posted on the official record.

Official record
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Trial summary

This research study is a Phase II clinical trial, which tests the safety and effectiveness of an investigational drug to learn whether the drug works in treating a specific cancer. "Investigational" means that the drug is being studied. It also means that the FDA has not yet approved sunitinib for your type of cancer. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 years and older
Conditions the study is for
Lung Cancer
What is being tested?
Sunitinib
Type of treatment
Pill or oral medicine
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
13 participants
Where
4 sitesUnited States
Study dates
May 2013to Jan 2018
Phase
Phase 2
Are there results?
Yes, posted in the registrySummary in the doctors' view

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 18 years and older
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Adult, Older adult

Who may be able to join

  • Histologically or cytologically confirmed advanced (stage IV or recurrent) non-small cell lung cancer
  • Adenocarcinoma histology of any variant, including adenosquamous histology
  • Wild-type for mutations in EGFR, KRAS and ALK
  • Must have < 100 cigarettes smoked lifetime OR known to harbor a RET rearrangement OR another potentially targetable genomic alteration as defined per protocol
  • Disease must be measureable per RECIST 1.1
  • At least one prior systemic therapy (adjuvant or palliative)
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  • 18 years or older
  • Life expectancy of greater than 4 weeks
  • Adequate ECOG performance status 0 or 1
  • Adequate organ function as defined in the protocol
  • Adequate tumor tissue for the correlative analyses on study, or must undergo a biopsy to obtain adequate tissue

Who cannot join

  • Pregnant or breastfeeding
  • Chemotherapy within 4 weeks of entering study, or lack of recover from adverse events to grade 1 or less due to systemic agents administered more than 4 weeks earlier
  • Radiation therapy within 2 weeks prior to entering study
  • Major surgery within 4 weeks prior to entering the study
  • Receiving any other investigational agents
  • Known untreated, symptomatic or progressive brain metastases; presence of carcinomatous meningitis; history of intracranial hemorrhage or brain metastases requiring chronic steroids
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  • History of allergic reactions attributed to compounds of similar chemical or biologic composition to sunitinib
  • Use of certain inhibitors and inducers of CYP3A4
  • Grade 3 or 4 hemoptysis or hemorrhage within 4 weeks prior to study entry
  • History of significant bleeding disorder unrelated to cancer
  • Poorly controlled hypertension
  • Severe cardiovascular disease
  • Prolongation of corrected QT interval
  • History of a different malignancy except: cervical cancer in situ, basal or squamous cell carcinoma of the skin, low risk centralized prostate cancer
  • HIV positive on combination antiretroviral therapy

Trial locations and contacts

4 sites in 1 country.

United States4 sites
  • Massachusetts General Hospital

    Boston, Massachusetts, 02214

  • Beth Isreal Deaconess Medical Center

    Boston, Massachusetts, 02215

  • Brigham and Women's Hospital

    Boston, Massachusetts, 02215

  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

    Boston, Massachusetts, 02215

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About this study

Official title: A Phase II Trial of Sunitinib in Never-smokers With Lung Adenocarcinoma: Identification of Oncogenic Alterations Underlying Sunitinib Sensitivity

This research study is a Phase II clinical trial, which tests the safety and effectiveness of an investigational drug to learn whether the drug works in treating a specific cancer. "Investigational" means that the drug is being studied. It also means that the FDA has not yet approved sunitinib for your type of cancer.

Sunitinib has been approved by the FDA for treatment of gastrointestinal stromal tumors, advanced renal cell carcinoma and advanced pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors. While most chemotherapies work by interfering with cancer cell replication, sunitinib works by blocking certain protein signals within the cell. Because sunitinib works differently from standard intravenous chemotherapies, we call it a "targeted therapy." This drug has also been used in other research studies and information from those other research studies suggests that this agent may help to slow the growth of some NSCLC tumors.

In this research study, we are looking to see if sunitinib may stop certain NSCLC tumors from growing. The study focuses on a type of NSCLC, adenocarcinoma, which has previously been found to be more sensitive to other kinds of oral targeted therapies. This study will focus specifically on (1) adenocarcinoma tumors that do not carry a mutation in a known cancer gene (EGFR, KRAS, or ALK) and occur in patients that never smoked (less than 100 cigarettes in their lifetime) or (2) adenocarcinoma tumors that have a mutation in the RET gene.

Read the detailed description

Primary Objectives

  • To evaluate the objective response rate (ORR) to sunitinib in never-smokers with lung cancers that are wild-type for EGFR, KRAS, and ALK in a single-arm phase II trial

Secondary Objectives

  • To identify oncogenic alterations underlying sensitivity to sunitinib through performing nextgeneration sequencing (NGS) of lung cancers treated with sunitinib
  • To explore the activity of sunitinib in lung cancers known to harbor a RET rearrangements and other genomic alterations in targets of sunitinib (e.g. cKIT, PDGFRa, PDGFRb).
Conditions
Lung Cancer
Being tested
Sunitinib
Medical subject headings
Lung Neoplasms

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

Study groups in NCT01829217
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
SunitinibExperimental42 day cycle, taken orally every day for the first 28 days followed by 14 days off
Receives: Drug: Sunitinib

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Objective Response Rate (ORR)

    Percentage of patients with evidence of complete or partial response per RECIST1.1 criteria.

    Measured: ORR was assessed at 6 weeks post-registration and every 6 weeks until date of documented disease progression or death, up to January 23, 2017 (approximately 44 months).

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted11 Apr 2013 (estimated)
  2. Study startMay 2013
  3. Primary completionAug 2017
  4. Study completionJan 2018

Resources

More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase 2
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrolment
13 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT01829217
Sponsor's protocol ID
13-086
Status last verified
Oct 2018
First submitted
9 Apr 2013
Last updated
31 Oct 2018
Data monitoring committee
Yes

Publications

  • Cooper AJ, Kobayashi Y, Kim D, Clifford SE, Kravets S, Dahlberg SE, Chambers ES, Li J, Rangachari D, Nguyen T, Costa DB, Rabin MS, Wagle N, Sholl LM, Janne PA, Oxnard GR. Identification of a RAS-activating TMEM87A-RASGRF1 Fusion in an Exceptional Responder to Sunitinib with Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. Clin Cancer Res. 2020 Aug 1;26(15):4072-4079. doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-20-0397. Epub 2020 Apr 20.

    PubMed 32312893
  • Wu H, Shih JY, Yang JC. Rapid Response to Sunitinib in a Patient with Lung Adenocarcinoma Harboring KIF5B-RET Fusion Gene. J Thorac Oncol. 2015 Sep;10(9):e95-e96. doi: 10.1097/JTO.0000000000000611. No abstract available.

    PubMed 26291023

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A Phase 2 study testing Sunitinib in people with Lung Cancer, run by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute at 4 sites in United States.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 11 inclusion and 15 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 31 Oct 2018. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 4 sites in United States. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

What does this phase mean?

Phase 2 studies give the treatment to a larger group to see whether it has the intended effect and to keep checking safety.

Not every study follows the same path, and some studies (observational studies, device studies) have no phase.

Are results available for this study?

Yes. Results are posted in the registry (first posted 4 Sep 2018). A summary is in the For doctors view, and the full results are on ClinicalTrials.gov.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Objective Response Rate (ORR) (time frame: ORR was assessed at 6 weeks post-registration and every 6 weeks until date of documented disease progression or death, up to January 23, 2017 (approximately 44 months).). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?

On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT01829217, which also lists 2 linked publications.

Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 31 Oct 2018.

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