Abemaciclib in Metastatic or Locally Advanced Anaplastic/Undifferentiated Thyroid Cancer

NCT ID: NCT04552769

Last Updated: 2025-06-05

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

PHASE2

Total Enrollment

9 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2020-09-10

Study Completion Date

2025-01-05

Brief Summary

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The purpose of the study is to evaluate the efficacy of treatment with abemaciclib in patients with anaplastic thyroid/undifferentiated thyroid

Detailed Description

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Primary Objective The primary objective is to determine the overall response rate after treatment with abemaciclib in patients with anaplastic thyroid/undifferentiated thyroid cancer.

Secondary Objectives The secondary objectives are to describe the overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS) after treatment with abemaciclib in patients with anaplastic thyroid/undifferentiated thyroid cancer.Safety assessments of AE's will also be analysed

Conditions

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Thyroid Cancer Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer Undifferentiated Thyroid Cancer

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NA

Intervention Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Abemaciclib

Each cycle of therapy will be 28 days long. A completed cycle will be twice daily abemaciclib. Number of Cycles: until progression or unacceptable toxicity develops

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Abemaciclib

Intervention Type DRUG

200 mg orally

Interventions

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Abemaciclib

200 mg orally

Intervention Type DRUG

Other Intervention Names

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Verzenio LY2835219 2-pyrimidinamine, N-(5-((4-ethyl-1-piperazinyl)methyl)-2-pyridinyl)-5-fluoro-4-(4-fluoro-2-methyl-1-(1-methylethyl)-1H-benzimidazol-6-yl)

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

1. Histologically or cytologically confirmed diagnosis of anaplastic thyroid cancer or undifferentiated thyroid cancer that does not have a known BRAF V600E positive on tissue/blood testing. BRAF V600E positive patients are eligible if they have previously received FDA approved therapy for this genetic abnormality and progressed or become intolerant.
2. Patients will be eligible if they meet either criteria:

* Unresectable anaplastic thyroid cancer limited to the neck: Patients must have received radiation therapy or surgery to primary tumor and have subsequent evidence of anaplastic thyroid cancer (ATC).
* Metastatic anaplastic thyroid cancer: either with entirely surgically removed cancer/metastatic only disease, or with disease in the neck not requiring radiation or surgery to the neck mass.
3. Patients with a bulky thyroid/neck mass and those in whom airway obstruction is suspected should undergo an evaluation via indirect or direct laryngoscopy to ensure patency of the trachea/airway prior to enrollment
4. Patients will not have any other curative therapeutic option, such as radiation or surgery.
5. Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status 0-1.
6. Have measurable disease based on RECIST 1.1
7. Be willing to provide tissue from a newly obtained core or excisional biopsy of a tumor lesion. Newly-obtained is defined as a specimen obtained up to 6 weeks (42 days) prior to initiation of treatment on Day 1. Subjects for whom newly-obtained samples cannot be provided (e.g. inaccessible or subject safety concern) may submit an archived sample.
8. Be ≥ 18 years of age on day of signing informed consent.
9. Patients who received chemotherapy must have recovered (Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events \[CTCAE\] Grade ≤1) from the acute effects of chemotherapy except for residual alopecia or Grade 2 peripheral neuropathy prior to study treatment start. A washout period of at least 21 days is required between last chemotherapy dose and study treatment start (provided the patient did not receive radiotherapy).
10. Patients who received radiotherapy must have completed and fully recovered from the acute effects of radiotherapy. A washout period of at least 14 days is required between end of radiotherapy and study treatment start.
11. The patient is able to swallow oral medications.
12. The patient has adequate organ function for all of the following criteria, Laboratory Value Guidance to Establish Adequate Organ Function System Laboratory Value Hematologic absolute neutrophil count (ANC)≥1.5 × 109/L Platelets≥100 × 109/L Hemoglobin≥8 g/dL Patients may receive erythrocyte transfusions to achieve this hemoglobin level at the discretion of the investigator. Initial treatment must not begin earlier than the day after the erythrocyte transfusion.

Hepatic Total bilirubin ≤1.5 × upper limit of normal(ULN) Patients with Gilbert's syndrome with a total bilirubin ≤2.0 times ULN and direct bilirubin within normal limits are permitted.

alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and aspartate aminotransferase (AST)≤3 × ULN
13. Women of childbearing potential and all men must agree to use adequate contraception (hormonal or barrier method of birth control; abstinence) while taking drug and agree to continue for 3 months after the last dose of study treatment. Women of child bearing potential and male patients for 3 months should not mother or father a child in this period. A condom is required to be used also by vasectomized men in order to prevent delivery of the drug via seminal fluid.
14. Patient has the ability to understand and provide signed informed consent.
15. Willingness and ability to comply with scheduled visits, treatment plans, laboratory tests and other procedures.

Exclusion Criteria

1. Patients with known hypersensitivity to any of the excipients of abemaciclib
2. History of carcinomatous meningitis
3. Prior therapy with abemaciclib.
4. The patient has serious and/or uncontrolled preexisting medical condition(s) that, in the judgment of the investigator, would preclude participation in this study (for example, interstitial lung disease, severe dyspnea at rest or requiring oxygen therapy, severe renal impairment \[e.g. estimated creatinine clearance \<30ml/min\], history of major surgical resection involving the stomach or small bowel, or preexisting Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis or a preexisting chronic condition resulting in baseline Grade 2 or higher diarrhea).
5. Females who are pregnant or lactating.
6. The patient has active systemic bacterial infection (requiring intravenous \[IV\] antibiotics at time of initiating study treatment), fungal infection, or detectable viral infection (such as known human immunodeficiency virus positivity or with known active hepatitis B or C \[for example, hepatitis B surface antigen positive\]. Screening is not required for enrollment.
7. The patient has a personal history of any of the following conditions: syncope of cardiovascular etiology, ventricular arrhythmia of pathological origin (including, but not limited to, ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation), or sudden cardiac arrest.
8. Presence or history of a malignant disease other than thyroid cancer that has been diagnosed and/or required therapy within the past year and is undergoing active anticancer treatment. Exceptions to this exclusion include the following: completely resected basal cell and squamous cell skin cancers, and completely resected carcinoma in situ of any type.
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Stanford University

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Saad A Khan

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF MEDICINE (ONCOLOGY)

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Saad A Khan, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Stanford Universiy

Locations

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Stanford University

Stanford, California, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

Provided Documents

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Document Type: Study Protocol and Statistical Analysis Plan

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Other Identifiers

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END0023

Identifier Type: OTHER

Identifier Source: secondary_id

NCI-2020-07832

Identifier Type: OTHER

Identifier Source: secondary_id

IRB-57905

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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