A Dose Escalation Study of L-DOS47 in Recurrent or Metastatic Non-Squamous NSCLC

Helix BioPharma

Status and phase: Terminated; Phase 1

Conditions: Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

Treatments: Drug: L-DOS47

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Industry

Identifiers

NCT02309892

LDOS001

Details and patient eligibility

About

The primary purpose of this research study is to evaluate how safe, how well tolerated and how effective a range of doses of L-DOS47 in combination with standard doublet therapy of pemetrexed/carboplatin in patients with Stage IV (TNM M1a and M1b) recurrent or metastatic non-squamous Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer.

Full description

It is planned that patients will receive 4 cycles of combination treatment with L-DOS47 + pemetrexed/carboplatin. Patients who have not progressed following the 4 cycles of combination treatment and who have not experienced unacceptable toxicity will have the opportunity to continue to receive L-DOS47 treatment for as long as there is clinical benefit and it is well-tolerated, in the opinion of the Investigator, until disease progression. Patients who are unable to complete 4 cycles of L-DOS47 + pemetrexed/carboplatin combination treatment due to pemetrexed/carboplatin toxicity will have the opportunity to continue receiving L-DOS47 treatment following discontinuation of pemetrexed/carboplatin, for as long as there is clinical benefit and it is well-tolerated, in the opinion of the Investigator, until disease progression.

Enrollment: 14 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Main Inclusion Criteria:

1. Male or female patient ≥ 18 years of age
2. Histologically or cytologically confirmed non-squamous NSCLC
3. EGFR-mutation positive patients must have progressed on or had intolerance to an EGFR small molecule tyrosine kinase inhibitor
4. Patients whose tumors harbor an anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) translocation must have progressed on or had intolerance to an ALK inhibitor;
5. No prior adjuvant chemotherapy within 1 year of the first treatment day if there is recurrent disease
6. At least 1 site of measurable disease per Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) v1.1
7. Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0 or 1 and minimum life expectancy of ≥ 3 months
8. Adequate bone marrow, renal and liver function

Main Exclusion Criteria:

1. Histologic evidence of predominantly squamous cell NSCLC
2. Brain metastasis and/or leptomeningeal disease (known or suspected)
3. Peripheral neuropathy > CTCAE grade 1
4. Possibility of a curative local treatment (surgery and/or radiotherapy)
5. Previous chemotherapy except adjuvant treatment with progression of disease documented ≥ 12 months after end of adjuvant treatment
6. Having received treatment in another clinical study within the 30 days prior to commencing study treatment or having side effects of a prior study drug that are not recovered to grade ≤ 1 or baseline, except for alopecia
7. Concurrent chronic systemic immunotherapy, chemotherapy or hormone therapy

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Sequential Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

---

14 participants in 1 patient group

Pemetrexed and Carboplatin plus L-DOS47

Experimental group

Description:

Patients will be recruited into cohorts of L-DOS47 escalating doses, with a minimum of 3 and a maximum of 6 patients per cohort for the first and last two dosing cohorts, and a minimum of 1 and a maximum of 2 patients for the middle three dosing cohorts. The starting dose of L-DOS47 will be 0.59 µg/kg; further planned dose levels to be assessed are 0.78, 1.5, 3.0, 6.0, 9.0 and 12.0 µg/kg. The standard of care doses of pemetrexed \[500 mg/m2\] and carboplatin \[AUC6\], respectively, to be administered in combination with L-DOS47, will remain constant across cohorts.

Treatment:

Drug: L-DOS47