This phase II trial tests how the brain absorbs, distributes, and gets rid of tucatinib, and how tumor cells may develop resistance to treatment in patients with HER2 cancers (breast cancer, non-small cell lung cancer, colorectal cancer, or gastroesophageal cancer) that have spread (metastasized) to the brain and will be undergoing brain surgery. Overexpression of HER2 causes tumor cells to divide and grow quickly, which occurs in HER2 positive cancers and may or may not occur in HER2 negative mutant cancers. Tucatinib has been shown to target and destroy tumor cells that overexpress HER2, which may slow or stop the growth of the cancer. However, it is not yet known how tucatinib works in the brain. The Food and Drug Administration has approved tucatinib to be given in combination with other anticancer drugs as a treatment for HER2 positive metastatic breast cancer, but the drug is not approved to treat any other type of HER2 positive cancer or to be given alone. The information gained from this trial may allow researchers to learn more about how tucatinib affects HER2 positive cancers that has spread to the brain.
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United States
New York
New York
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer CenterStatus: Active
Contact: Andrew D. Seidman
Phone: 646-888-4559
PRIMARY OBJECTIVE:
I. To evaluate and compare the pharmacokinetics of tucatinib by measurement of intratumoral and intertumoral brain metastases (in case of more than 1 metastases resected) and plasma levels in HER2 positive breast cancer with progressing brain metastases (BM) while on tucatinib (cohort A) and in tucatinib naive patients (cohort B).
SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:
I. To evaluate pharmacokinetics of tucatinib by measurement of intra-brain metastasis levels and plasma levels in HER2 mutant breast cancer or HER2 positive/mutant non-small cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC), colorectal carcinoma (CRC) and gastroesophageal carcinoma (GEC) with progressing BM.
II. To evaluate the genomic evolution mediating tucatinib resistance in HER2 positive brain metastases.
III. To examine the association between efflux pump expression (Pgp, ABCB1 and ABCG2) in human brain micro-vessels by immunohistochemistry (IHC) and matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) imaging, as well as tight junction integrity via electron microscopy with pharmacokinetics (PK).
IV. To evaluate tumoral microenvironment and immunity biomarker via IHC (including CD8+/CD4+ T cells, CD86+ dendritic cells).
V. To interrogate tumor cell heterogeneity of resistant breast cancer brain metastases.
VI. To investigate possible association between perfusion brain metastasis magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) parameter correlates of perfusion dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE) brain MRI parameters (volume transfer coefficient [Ktrans] and plasma volume [vp]) and brain metastasis concentration of tucatinib.
VII. Safety of preoperative administration of tucatinib.
EXPLORATORY OBJECTIVE:
I. To evaluate central nervous system (CNS) progression free survival in patients enrolled in cohort B and cohort C who will continue tucatinib beyond the study period (at the discretion of their treating physician) using standard of care imaging until progression (in or outside the CNS).
OUTLINE:
Patients receive tucatinib orally (PO) twice daily (BID) on days -4 to 0 prior to standard craniotomy. Patients undergo brain MRI during screening, blood sample collection during screening and on study and optional lumbar puncture for cerebral spinal fluid (CSF) collection on study.
After completion of study treatment, patients are followed up 2 weeks and then every 3 months post-operatively.
Lead OrganizationMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Principal InvestigatorAndrew D. Seidman