Sunitinib and Regorafenib for the Treatment of Patients with Metastatic or Unresectable Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors and KIT Gene Mutations
This phase II trial evaluates whether mutations in the KIT gene can be used to predict response to treatment with sunitinib or regorafenib in patients with KIT gene mutations and gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST) that have spread to other parts of the body (metastatic) or that cannot be removed by surgery (unresectable). Specific mutations in KIT exons 13 and 17 have been discovered in patients with GIST, and these mutations may alter how the tumor responds to standard of care treatment. Sunitinib and regorafenib are enzyme inhibitors that bind to and block certain growth receptors, preventing tumor cell growth and proliferation. This trial evaluates whether KIT gene mutation status is useful in predicting tumor response to sunitinib or regorafenib.
Inclusion Criteria
- Patients who are >= 18 years of age
- Patients who have histologically confirmed metastatic or unresectable GIST. Unresectable GIST must be confirmed to be unresectable by an experienced surgeon
- Patients may have had any prior lines of tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) therapy
- Patients who received imatinib prior treatment regimens, including adjuvant therapy, with objective disease progression, inadequate clinical benefit, or intolerance. Additionally, disease progression or intolerance to other systemic therapies including investigational agents and radiotherapy is allowed. Patients who experienced intolerance to prior therapies must have objective disease progression prior to enrollment
- Patients who have an Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status (PS) of 0 to 2
- Patient, or legal guardian if permitted by local regulatory authorities, who provides informed consent to participate in the study
- Presence of KIT exon 13 or 17 secondary mutation will be determined through a circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) blood test or biopsy performed as per standard of care
Exclusion Criteria
- Patients who are known to be KIT wild type
- Patients who received any systemic anticancer therapy within 2 weeks before. Prior radiotherapy to major organs within 2 weeks of admission, or focal radiotherapy, such as to bones, limbs, or other areas not involving major organs, within 3 days
- Patients who have clinically significant, uncontrolled, cardiovascular disease, including congestive heart failure grades II, III or IV according to the New York Heart Association classification, myocardial infarction or unstable angina within the previous 6 months, or uncontrolled hypertension
- Patients who have experienced arterial thrombotic or embolic events such as cerebrovascular accident (including transient ischemic attacks), or pulmonary embolism within the 6 months before randomization or venous thrombotic events such as deep vein thrombosis within the 3 months before screening
- Patients who have experienced any hemorrhage or bleeding event National Cancer Institute (NCI) Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) version 5.0 grade 3 or higher within 4 weeks before screening
- Patients who have a known risk of intracranial bleeding, such as a brain aneurysm or history of intracranial bleeding within 1 year prior to screening
- Patients who have a non-healing wound, ulcer, or bone fracture
- Persistent proteinuria of NCI-CTCAE version 4.03 grade 3 or higher
- Alanine aminotransferase and aspartate aminotransferase (AST) > 3 × upper limit of normal (ULN) if no hepatic metastases are present; > 5 × ULN if hepatic metastases are present
- Total bilirubin >1.5 × ULN; and in presence of Gilbert’s syndrome, total bilirubin > 3 × ULN or direct bilirubin > 1.5 × ULN
- Estimated (Cockcroft-Gault formula) or measured creatinine clearance < 40 mL/min
- Platelet count < 90 × 10^9/L
- Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) < 1.0 × 10^9/L
- Hemoglobin < 9 g/dL. Transfusion and erythropoietin may be used to reach at least 9 g/dL, but must have been administered at least 2 weeks before screening
- Patients who have received neutrophil growth factor support within 14 days of screening
- Patients who require therapy with a concomitant medication that is a strong inhibitor or strong inducer of CYP3A4
- Patients who have had a major surgical procedure (minor surgical procedures such as central venous catheter placement, tumor needle biopsy, and feeding tube placement are not considered major surgical procedures) within 14 days of screening. Patient has significant traumatic injury within 28 days before screening
- Patients who have a history of another primary malignancy that has been diagnosed or required therapy within 2 years before screening. (The following are exempt from the 2-year limit: completely resected basal cell and squamous cell skin cancer, curatively treated localized prostate cancer, and completely resected carcinoma in situ of any site.)
- Patients who have a history of a seizure disorder requiring anti-seizure medication
- Patients who have metastases to the brain
- Patients who are unwilling or unable to comply with scheduled visits, drug administration plan, laboratory tests, or other study procedures and study restrictions
- Patients who have a QT interval corrected using Fridericia's formula (QTcF) of > 450 msec
- Women who are unwilling, if not postmenopausal or surgically sterile, to abstain from sexual intercourse or employ highly effective contraception from the time of randomization and for at least 30 days after the last dose of study drug. Men who are unwilling, if not surgically sterile, to abstain from sexual intercourse or employ highly effective contraception from the time of randomization and for at least 90 days after the last dose of study drug
- Women who are pregnant, as documented by a serum beta human chorionic gonadotropin (beta-hCG) pregnancy test consistent with pregnancy, obtained within 7 days before the treatment assignment. Females with beta-hCG values that are within the range for pregnancy but are not pregnant (false positives) may be enrolled with written consent of the investigator, after pregnancy has been ruled out. Females of non-childbearing potential (postmenopausal for more than 1 year; bilateral tubal ligation; bilateral oophorectomy; hysterectomy) do not require a serum beta-hCG test
- Women who are breastfeeding
- Patients who have prior or ongoing clinically significant illness, medical condition, surgical history, physical finding, or laboratory abnormality that, in the Investigator’s opinion, could affect the safety of the patient; alter the absorption, distribution, metabolism, or excretion of the study drug; or impair the assessment of study results
- Patients with impaired decision-making capacity
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PRIMARY OBJECTIVE:
I. To determine effect of circulating tumor deoxyribonucleic acid (ctDNA) stratification on objective response rate (ORR) determined by Choi criteria in patients with advanced gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) treated with sunitinib or regorafenib.
SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:
I. To evaluate progression-free survival (PFS) in patients with advanced GIST treated with sunitinib or regorafenib.
II. To evaluate overall survival (OS) in patients with advanced GIST treated with sunitinib or regorafenib.
III. To evaluate clinical benefit rate (CBR) determined by Choi criteria in patients with advanced GIST treated with sunitinib or regorafenib.
IV. To evaluate the safety and tolerability of assigned treatment (sunitinib and regorafenib).
EXPLORATORY OBJECTIVES:
I. To evaluate objective response rate (ORR) for cross-over treatment among patients who have progression from the first assigned treatment.
II. To evaluate clinical benefit rate (CBR) for crossover treatment among patients who have progression from the first assigned treatment.
OUTLINE: Patients are assigned to 1 of 2 groups.
GROUP A: Patients receive sunitinib orally (PO) once daily (QD) on days 1-28 of each cycle. Cycles repeat every 28 days for up to 12 months in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients who progress may cross over to group B. Patients also undergo computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) at screening and collection of blood samples at screening and on trial.
GROUP B: Patients receive regorafenib PO QD in weeks 1-3 of each cycle. Cycles repeat every 4 weeks for up to 12 months in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients also undergo CT or MRI at screening and collection of blood samples at screening and on trial.
After completion of study treatment, patients are followed up for 2 years.
Trial PhasePhase II
Trial Typetreatment
Lead OrganizationUniversity of Miami Miller School of Medicine-Sylvester Cancer Center
Principal InvestigatorJonathan C. Trent
- Primary ID20201368
- Secondary IDsNCI-2022-06174
- ClinicalTrials.gov IDNCT05366816