Clinical trial NCT01296763
Conditions: Pancreatic Cancer
Keywords: Irinotecan Cisplatin Carboplatin Mitomycin-C Olaparib AZD2281
Sponsor: Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins
Start date: 2011-01-01; Completion date: 2016-02-01
Enrollment: 18 participants; Allocation: NA; Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP

Brief summary:
Patients whose pancreatic cancers have defects in the BRCA/Fanconi DNA repair pathway or other defects in homologous repair will have cancers that respond to olaparib when given in combination with the DNA damaging agents, irinotecan, cisplatin, mitomycin C (ICM).

Detailed description:
The trial is designed to evaluate the role of Parp inhibitor based therapy, combining the most well studied and potent Parp inhibitor currently available with a low-dose combination of DNA damaging agents to optimize the effects of Parp inhibition. To ensure optimal response rates in the trial, to enrich our population for patients likely to achieve the best clinical response to Parp inhibitor based therapy, we will recruit and enroll patients with known BRCA mutations, patients of Jewish ancestry, patients with familial pancreatic cancer, as well as with sporadic pancreatic cancer. We will test patients and their cancers for other inherited or acquired defects in homologous DNA repair. For the phase 1 study, we will enroll up to 30 patients. For the phase 2 component of the study, 100 patients with locally, advanced, unresectable or metastatic pancreatic cancer will be enrolled. An initial phase I analysis will be performed to test the safety of the ICM with Olaparib regimen at the doses we predict will be effective for the phase 2 and ensure that these doses are below the maximum tolerated dose. For this phase 1 we will use a standard 3+3 design and will test the following dose regimens in a 28 day cycle:

Dose level 1: Cisplatin/Irinotecan i.v.(day 1, 8) and Olaparib (100 mg bid p.o., Day 1 \& Day 8) Dose level 2: Cisplatin/Irinotecan i.v.(day 1, 8) and Olaparib 100 bid p.o. day 1-3, day 8-10 (if this dose is not tolerated, go to Dose 5: Mitomycin + Olaparib Dose level 1) Dose level 3: Cisplatin/Irinotecan i.v.(day 1, 8) and Olaparib 200 bid p.o.day 1-3, day 8-10 (if this dose is not tolerated, go to Dose 5: Mitomycin + Olaparib Dose level 2) Dose level 4: Cisplatin/Irinotecan i.v.(day 1, 8) and Olaparib 200 bid p.o. day 1-12 (if this dose is not tolerated, go to Dose 5: Mitomycin + Olaparib Dose level 3)) Dose level 5: Cisplatin/Irinotecan i.v.(day 1, 8), Mitomycin Day 1 (5 mg/m2 IV), along with the established tolerated dose level of Olaparib.

Other intermediate dose schedules of Olaparib may be considered to achieve the most optimal tolerable regimen" If there are DLTs at Dose 1, we will reduce the duration of Olaparib

Note: The Principal Investigator and Astrazeneca decided not to move forward with the Phase II part of the study. Therefore the arms of Irinotecan, Cisplatin, Mitomycin C with Olaparib versus Irinotecan, Cisplatin, Mitomycin C without Olaparib will not be compared.

Arms: arm 1: A 3+3 dose escalation design will be used starting with dose 1. The maximally tolerated dose is defined as the highest dose for which at most 1 out of 6 patients experiences a DLT. We will use 3 patients per dose cohort. If 0 of 3 patients have a DLT (see section 5a) then the escalation will be continued at the next dose level. If 1 of 3 patients have a DLT then three more patients will be enrolled at this dose. If 1 of 6 patients has a DLT then the dose escalation will continue. If 2 or more of the first 3 patients, or \>2 of 6 patients treated have a DLT at the dose level, we will reduce the dose to the previous dose level of Olaparib for the phase 2 and then test Mitomycin C (phase 1 dose 5). If DLTs are observed at our dose 1 regimen, we will reduce the duration of Olaparib from day 1 and day 8 to just day 1 (dose level -1) and we will not test Mitomycin C in the trial.
Interventions: intervention 1: Irinotecan intervention 2: Cisplatin intervention 3: Olaparib (for levels 1 and 5) intervention 4: Olaparib (for dose level 2) intervention 5: Mitomycin-C
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: Irinotecan 70 mg/m2 IV, Days 1 and 8 intervention 2: Cisplatin 25 mg/m2 IV, Days 1 and 8 intervention 3: Olaparib 100 mg bid oral, Days 1 and 8 intervention 4: Olaparib 100mg bid oral, Day 1-3, Day 8-10 intervention 5: Mitomycin 5 mg/m2 IV, Day 1

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