Study Investigating the Effect of Everolimus Monotherapy in Patients With Advanced Non-small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC)

NCT ID: NCT00124280

Last Updated: 2016-11-18

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

PHASE2

Total Enrollment

85 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2005-07-31

Brief Summary

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This study will evaluate the efficacy and safety of everolimus treatment of patients with advanced NSCLC. The rationale for investigating everolimus in advanced NSCLC previously treated with chemotherapy or chemotherapy plus EGFR inhibitors, like gefitinib or erlotinib, is based on following:

* The medical need for the better therapy for advanced NSCLC and limited efficacy of the currently available therapy in advanced NSCLC.
* Postulated association of relevant cell-signaling pathways targeted by everolimus with different aspects of oncogenesis, disease progression, and response/resistance to treatment.
* Effectiveness of everolimus and rapamycin in preclinical models of lung cancer
* Early reports of clinical responses to monotherapy with mTOR inhibitors in advanced NSCLC.

There is evidence that an enhanced PI3K/Akt/mTOR pathway, which is inhibited by everolimus, may be one of the key changes accounting for different aspects of oncogenesis, disease progression, and response/resistance to NSCLC cancer treatment. The use of the mTOR inhibitor everolimus in treatment of advanced NSCLC would be a novel therapeutic approach that proposes to logically manipulate the cell's regulatory pathways to enable control of tumor growth.

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Non-small-cell Lung Carcinoma

Keywords

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Lung cancer non-small cell everolimus Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NON_RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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previously treated with chemotherapy only

patients previously treated with chemotherapy only (at most 2 prior regimens one of which must have been platinum-based) and no EGFRI

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

RAD001

Intervention Type DRUG

previously treated with chemotherapy + small

patients previously treated with chemotherapy (at most 2 prior regimens one of which must have been platinum-based) and with one small molecule EGFRI

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

RAD001

Intervention Type DRUG

Interventions

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RAD001

Intervention Type DRUG

Other Intervention Names

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Everolimus

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Patients with advanced (unresectable or metastatic) NSCLC
* Tissue sample of the metastatic or primary tumor available for pathology evaluation and molecular marker analyses
* Patients who have received ≤ 2 chemotherapy regimens, one of which must have included cisplatinum or carboplatin, and who have documented evidence of tumor progression (Arm 1)
* Patients who have received ≤ 2 chemotherapy regimens, one of which must have included cisplatinum or carboplatin as well as a small molecule EGFR inhibitor (as a separate regimen) with documented tumor progression despite at least 4 weeks therapy with either gefitinib or erlotinib (Arm 2)

Exclusion Criteria

* Concurrent therapy with agents used otherwise as anticancer therapy (for example, methotrexate for rheumatoid arthritis)
* Any investigational drug, other than EGFR inhibitor (Arm 2), within the preceding 4 weeks
* Chronic treatment with steroids or another immunosuppressive agent
* Uncontrolled brain or leptomeningeal metastases, including patients who continue to require glucocorticoids for brain or leptomeningeal metastases
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Novartis Pharmaceuticals

INDUSTRY

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Novartis Pharmaceuticals

Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR

Novartis Pharmaceutcals

Locations

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Nevada Cancer Institute

Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

Site Status

MD Anderson Cancer Center, Department of Thoracic /Head and Neck Medical Oncology

Houston, Texas, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

References

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White DA, Schwartz LH, Dimitrijevic S, Scala LD, Hayes W, Gross SH. Characterization of pneumonitis in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer treated with everolimus (RAD001). J Thorac Oncol. 2009 Nov;4(11):1357-63. doi: 10.1097/JTO.0b013e3181ba20b1.

Reference Type RESULT
PMID: 19745764 (View on PubMed)

Soria JC, Shepherd FA, Douillard JY, Wolf J, Giaccone G, Crino L, Cappuzzo F, Sharma S, Gross SH, Dimitrijevic S, Di Scala L, Gardner H, Nogova L, Papadimitrakopoulou V. Efficacy of everolimus (RAD001) in patients with advanced NSCLC previously treated with chemotherapy alone or with chemotherapy and EGFR inhibitors. Ann Oncol. 2009 Oct;20(10):1674-81. doi: 10.1093/annonc/mdp060. Epub 2009 Jun 23.

Reference Type RESULT
PMID: 19549709 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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CRAD001C2235

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id