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Acute Myeloid LeukemiaPhase 1/21565GCCNCT02878785

Decitabine and Talazoparib in Untreated AML and R/R AML

A Phase 1/2 study testing Decitabine and talazoparib in people with Acute Myeloid Leukemia, run by University of Maryland, Baltimore at 1 site 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

The purpose of this study is to find the best way to combine a new chemotherapy drug with one that is already in use to treat AML. The new experimental drug is called talazoparib (also known as BMN-673), and it is not approved by the Federal Drug Administration (FDA). Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 to 100 years
Conditions the study is for
Acute Myeloid Leukemia
What is being tested?
Decitabine and talazoparib
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
25 participants
Where
1 siteUnited States
Study dates
Aug 2016to 19 Nov 2020
Phase
Phase 1/2
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 to 100 years
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Adult, Older adult

Who may be able to join

  • Diagnosis of AML based on 2008 WHO criteria. AML may be de novo, following a prior hematologic disorder, including MDS or Philadelphia chromosome-negative myeloproliferative neoplasm, and/or therapy-related.
  • PHASES 1 AND 2: Patients with AML that has relapsed after, or is refractory to, first-line therapy, with or without subsequent additional therapy, and are currently considered unfit for, or unlikely to respond to, cytotoxic chemotherapy.
  • PHASE 2 ONLY: Patients previously untreated for AML who are considered unfit for cytotoxic chemotherapy by virtue of performance status, comorbidities, advanced age and/or low likelihood of response based on disease characteristics, or who decline cytotoxic induction chemotherapy.
  • Patients who have undergone autologous stem cell transplantation (autoSCT) are eligible provided that they are ≥ 4 weeks from stem cell infusion.
  • Patients who have undergone allogeneic SCT (alloSCT) are eligible if they are ≥ 60 days from stem cell infusion, have no evidence of graft versus host disease (GVHD) > Grade 1, and are ≥ 2 weeks off all immunosuppressive therapy.
  • Previous cytotoxic chemotherapy must have been completed at least 3 weeks and radiotherapy at least 2 weeks prior to Day 1 of treatment on the study, and all adverse events (excluding alopecia) due to agents administered more than 4 weeks earlier should have recovered to < Grade 1. Patients with hematologic malignancies are expected to have hematologic abnormalities at study entry. Hematologic abnormalities that are thought to be primarily related to leukemia are not considered to be toxicities (AE) and do not need to resolve to < Grade 1.
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  • Prior DNA methyl transferase inhibitor administration (azacitidine, decitabine, or guadecitabine) for AML or for antecedent MDS is allowed if this clinical trial is considered the best treatment option, but azacitidine, decitabine, or guadecitabine must have been stopped at least 3 weeks prior to Day 1 of treatment on the study.
  • All biologic agents including hematopoietic growth factors must have been stopped at least 1 week prior to Day 1 of treatment on the study.
  • Age ≥18 years. Because no dosing or adverse event data are currently available on the use of decitabine or talazoparib in patients <18 years of age, children are excluded from this study, but will be eligible for future pediatric trials.
  • ECOG performance status ≤2 (Karnofsky ≥60%).
  • Life expectancy of greater than 2 months.
  • Patients must have normal organ and marrow function as defined below:
  • Total bilirubin within normal institutional limits unless thought due to hemolysis or to Gilbert's syndrome;
  • AST(SGOT)/ALT(SGPT) ≤2.5 × institutional upper limit of normal;
  • Creatinine within normal institutional limits;
  • OR
  • Creatinine clearance ≥60 mL/min/1.73 m2 for patients with creatinine levels above institutional normal.
  • Female patients of childbearing potential must have a negative pregnancy test, and female patients of childbearing potential and male patients must agree to use adequate contraception.
  • Decitabine has been assigned to pregnancy category D by the FDA. Pregnant women must not take decitabine and female subjects must immediately stop taking decitabine and inform their doctor if they become pregnant during treatment. Decitabine is expected to result in adverse reproductive effects and can cause fetal harm when administered to a pregnant woman. In preclinical studies in mice and rats, decitabine was teratogenic, fetotoxic, and embryotoxic.
  • Studies in pregnant animals to evaluate the effect of talazoparib on pregnancy have not been performed.
  • Because decitabine is known to be teratogenic and the effects of talazoparib on the developing human fetus are unknown, women of child-bearing potential and men must agree to use adequate contraception (hormonal or barrier method of birth control; abstinence) prior to study entry and for the duration of study participation. Should a woman become pregnant or suspect that she is pregnant while she or her partner is participating in this study, she should inform the treating physician immediately. Men treated or enrolled on this protocol must also agree to use adequate contraception prior to the study, for the duration of study participation, and 4 months after completion of decitabine and talazoparib administration.
  • It is not known whether decitabine is excreted in human milk. Similarly, studies in lactating animals to evaluate the effect of talazoparib have not been performed, and thus, it is not known whether talazoparib is excreted in human milk. Therefore, breast-feeding should be stopped during decitabine and talazoparib treatment.
  • Ability to understand and the willingness to sign a written informed consent document.

Who cannot join

  • Patients with acute promyelocytic leukemia.
  • Patients with active central nervous system leukemia or requiring maintenance intrathecal chemotherapy.
  • Patients receiving concurrent chemotherapy, radiation therapy, or immunotherapy for AML.
  • Patients receiving any other investigational agents.
  • Hyperleukocytosis with >50,000 blasts/μl. Hydroxyurea for blast count control is permitted before starting treatment, but must be stopped prior to starting treatment on the study. Patients will be withdrawn from the study if > 50,000 blasts/μl occur or recur > 14 days after starting treatment on the study.
  • Active, uncontrolled infection. Patients with infection controlled with antibiotics are eligible.
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  • Uncontrolled intercurrent illness including, but not limited to, symptomatic congestive heart failure, unstable angina pectoris, cardiac arrhythmia, or psychiatric illness/social situations that per investigator's judgment would limit compliance with study requirements.
  • Patients who are pregnant or nursing.
  • Patients who have had chemotherapy within 3 weeks (6 weeks for nitrosoureas or mitomycin C) or radiotherapy within 2 weeks for antecedent malignancies prior to entering the study, or those who have not recovered from adverse events due to agents administered more than 4 weeks earlier.
  • History of allergic reactions attributed to compounds of similar chemical or biologic composition to decitabine or talazoparib.
  • Known HIV infection.
  • HIV-positive patients are at increased risk of lethal infections when treated with marrow-suppressive therapy. Appropriate studies will be undertaken in patients receiving combination antiretroviral therapy when indicated.
  • Previous treatment with talazoparib.

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country.

United States1 site
  • University of Maryland Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center

    Baltimore, Maryland, 21201

Other trials in United States

About this study

Official title: Multicenter Phase 1/2 Study of Combination Therapy w/ DNA Methyltransferase Inhibitor Decitabine & Poly ADP Ribose Polymerase Inhibitor Talazoparib for Untreated AML in Adults Unfit for Cytotoxic Chemotherapy or R/R AML

The purpose of this study is to find the best way to combine a new chemotherapy drug with one that is already in use to treat AML. The new experimental drug is called talazoparib (also known as BMN-673), and it is not approved by the Federal Drug Administration (FDA). The FDA is allowing the use of talazoparib for the purposes of this study.

Decitabine is used to treat bone marrow diseases called myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS), as well as off label for AML.

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Lab work suggests that talazoparib will increase the effects of decitabine in leukemia cells.

Investigators hope that treating patients with decitabine and talazoparib together will be more successful that treating patients with decitabine alone.

This study has two parts. The purpose of part one the study is to find out the best doses of decitabine and talazoparib to use when they are given together to treat AML. The purpose of part two is to see how well the drugs work together to treat AML.

All participants in the study will be treated with decitabine and talazoparib.

Part one of the study will include as few as two people and as many as 36 people to find the best dose levels of the study drugs. Part one will begin enrolling first. Part two of the study will not start until the Part one of the study is complete. Participants will be told which part of the study they may be enrolled in. Part two of the study may include as few as 79 people and as many as 135 people. Part two includes three separate arms. Participants enrolled in Part two of the study, will be assigned to one of the three arms below in order to test the success rate of the study drug dose determined by Part one:

  • Arm A will enroll adult patients with AML who are thought not to be likely to tolerate or respond to standard chemotherapy;
  • Arm B will enroll adult patients with AML that has not responded to previous treatment or has come back after responding to previous treatment;
  • Arm C will enroll adult patients previously treated with a DNA methyltransferase inhibitor (decitabine, azacitidine or guadecitabine).

This is a multi-center study. Up to 171 people may take part in this study globally.

Read the detailed description

In this clinical trial, investigators combine decitabine and talazoparib in the treatment of patients with AML. Decitabine will be given in the established regimen of IV daily dosing for 5 days every 28 days. Talazoparib will be initiated orally daily on a continuous basis, beginning on Day 1 of Course 1. In this phase 1 trial, decitabine and talazoparib will be tested at 3 and 4 dose levels, respectively, yielding up to 6 combinations. Doses will be escalated based on tolerability using a 'classic' 3+3 design. Once the MTD for decitabine combined with 0.25 mg talazoparib is established, the dose of talazoparib will be escalated with the dose of decitabine kept fixed at the provisional MTD dose. There is no further stepping up or down of the drugs in the combination.

The regimen for phase 2 testing will be chosen based on tolerability, but also based on available pharmacodynamic and efficacy data. In phase 2, the selected combination regimen will be studied for efficacy.

Each patient will be treated until occurrence of either unacceptable toxicity or disease progression. Bone marrow aspirate and biopsy will be performed on approximately day 28 of each treatment course unless circulating blasts persist in the peripheral blood, until documentation of CR or CRi. Bone marrow aspirate and biopsy will then be repeated at time of clinical concern for disease progression.

In Phase 1, the clinical trial will enroll patients with relapsed and refractory AML in order to test the novel combination initially in patients with less favorable outcomes with decitabine alone. This is being done to avoid the possibility of compromising the outcomes of untreated patients, who have up to a 40% response rate to 5-day decitabine as a single agent, in the unlikely possibility that the combination is inferior. The regimen will then also be tested in previously untreated AML patients unfit for chemotherapy in phase 2.

Being tested
Decitabine, talazoparib
Keywords
AML
Medical subject headings
Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute

What participants receive

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

  • DecitabineDrug

    Also called dacogen

    DNA methyltransferase inhibitor

  • talazoparibDrug

    Also called BMN673; MDV3800

    poly ADP ribose polymerase (PARP) inhibitor

Study groups in NCT02878785
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
Phase 1: Decitabine and Talazoparib ComboExperimentalPhase 1: Decitabine by IV daily for 5 days every 28 days. Talazoparib orally daily days 1-28. The 'outer layer' of this nested dose escalation trial will escalate the dose of the two drugs by sequentially going through dose levels 1-6 in the table found in the protocol. The standard algorithm of the 3+3 design will be applied.
Receives: Drug: Decitabine; Drug: talazoparib
Phase 2: Decitabine and Talazoparib ComboExperimentalPhase 2: Recommended Phase 2 Dose (RP2D) The MTD of the combination of decitabine with a dose of talazoparib of at least 0.25 mg is defined as the maximal tolerated dose of decitabine studied - and for that dose level, combined with the maximum dose of talazoparib for which the incidence of DLT was less than 33% in 6 participants treated and this will be chosen as the recommended Phase 2 dose (RP2D). Among potential combined dose levels at MTD, available pharmacodynamic data (PARP trapping) will also be considered in the choice of RP2D, as will any significant indications of differences in clinical efficacy
Receives: Drug: Decitabine; Drug: talazoparib
Phase 2 Arm AActive comparatorAdult patients with AML who are thought not to be likely to tolerate or respond to standard chemotherapy
Receives: Drug: Decitabine; Drug: talazoparib
Phase 2 Arm BActive comparatorAdult patients with AML that has not responded to previous treatment or has come back after responding to previous treatment
Receives: Drug: Decitabine; Drug: talazoparib
Phase 2 Arm CActive comparatorAdult patients previously treated with a DNA methyltransferase inhibitor (decitabine, azacitidine or guadecitabine)
Receives: Drug: Decitabine; Drug: talazoparib

What is being measured

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

  1. Phase 1 - Dose Finding

    To determine the recommended Phase 2 doses of Decitabine based on numbers of participants with treatment-related adverse events, evaluated according to Version 4.0 of the NCI Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE).

    Measured: Cycle length = 28 days

Timeline

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

  1. First posted25 Aug 2016 (estimated)
  2. Study startAug 2016
  3. Primary completion5 Jan 2020
  4. Study completion19 Nov 2020

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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 1/2
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomised
Intervention model
Factorial
Masking
None (open label)
Enrolment
25 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT02878785
Sponsor's protocol ID
HP-00066370 1565GCC
Acronym
1565GCC
Status last verified
May 2022
First submitted
3 Aug 2016
Last updated
29 Mar 2023
Data monitoring committee
Yes
Individual data sharing
Undecided

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A Phase 1/2 study testing Decitabine and talazoparib in people with Acute Myeloid Leukemia, run by University of Maryland, Baltimore at 1 site 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 23 inclusion and 13 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 29 Mar 2023. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 1 site 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 combined phase mean?

Phase 1 studies test a treatment in a small group of people for the first time or in a new way, mainly to check safety and find the right dose.

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 23 Jun 2022). 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?

Phase 1 - Dose Finding (time frame: Cycle length = 28 days). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?
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 29 Mar 2023.

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