The purpose of this research study is to determine the safety and tolerability of sunitinib alternating with regorafenib in participants with advanced gastrointestinal stromal tumor GIST, if the standard approved therapies (imatinib, sunitinib and regorafenib) have failed to control the disease. Additionally, this study seeks to determine the highest dose that can be given safely for this combination of drugs.
This is a non-randomized, open label, single-center, single-arm, phase Ib study to evaluate the safety and the preliminary efficacy of short cycles of sunitinib alternated with regorafenib in participants with metastatic and/or unresectable gastrointestinal stromal tumor GISTs with prior failure of tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKI). The study consists of two cohorts: a dose-escalation, dose-finding cohort, and dose-expansion cohort. Between 6 to 15 patients are expected to be included in the escalation cohort. A total of 20 eligible and evaluable patients will be included in the expansion cohort to further assess toxicity and evaluate preliminary efficacy. Each treatment cycle lasts 28 days (4 weeks), during which time you will be taking the study drug, sunitinib, for the first 3 days of the week, followed by the study drug, regorafenib, for the last 4 days of the week. The study drugs will be taken continuously for 4 weeks each cycle, unless the study team instructs you otherwise. Each participant will receive a study diary. The diary will also include special instructions for taking the study drugs.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
14
Intervention Description: 3 days of once daily sunitinib alternating with 4 days of once daily regorafenib throughout each 28 day cycle. The starting dose level (level 1) is sunitinib 37.5 mg/d and regorafenib 120 mg/d, and doses will be escalated in subsequent cohorts following a classical 3+3 design up to sunitinib 50 mg/d and regorafenib 160 mg/d or until maximum tolerable dosage (MTD) and recommended phase II dose (RP2D) is determined. Number of Cycles: until progression or unacceptable toxicity develops.
Intervention Description: 3 days of once daily sunitinib alternating with 4 days of once daily regorafenib throughout each 28 day cycle. The starting dose level (level 1) is sunitinib 37.5 mg/d and regorafenib 120 mg/d, and doses will be escalated in subsequent cohorts following a classical 3+3 design up to sunitinib 50 mg/d and regorafenib 160 mg/d or until maximum tolerable dosage (MTD) and recommended phase II dose (RP2D) is determined. Number of Cycles: until progression or unacceptable toxicity develops.
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Number of Participants With Serious and Non-Serious Adverse Events
Dose-escalation cohort is to determine the frequency and characteristics of DLTs of alternation of sunitinib and regorafenib at each dose level during the first cycle of therapy. Toxicity will be graded accordingly with NCI CTCAE version 4.0
Time frame: Up to Day 28
Percentage of Participants With Clinical Benefit
Percentage of participants who experienced complete response, partial response or stable disease per RECIST 1.1 at 16 weeks
Time frame: 16 weeks
Median Progression Free Survival (mPFS)
Non-parametric Kaplan-Meier analysis to assess median progression free survival (mPFS)
Time frame: From date of registration until date of protocol-defined progression while on this protocol, assessed up to 6 months
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