Pancreatic cancer is a deadly disease and will be the second leading cause of cancer related death behind lung cancer by 2030. Over 62,000 people are diagnosed each year in the United States with about 90% succumbing to the disease within 5 years. In the metastatic setting, NALIRIFOX, FOLFIRINOX and nab-paclitaxel-gemcitabine are standard treatment options in patients with good performance status (Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group \[ECOG\] 0/1). All three combinations have shown a survival advantage over previously standard gemcitabine-based therapy, with 11.1 months overall survival (OS) for NALIRIFOX/FOLFIRINOX and 8.7 months for nab-paclitaxel-gemcitabine versus 6.7 months for gemcitabine alone. There is an urgent need to improve treatment of patients with current and emerging therapeutic strategies. KRAS is the most common oncogene mutated in pancreatic adenocarcinoma, and it is mutated in nearly all tumors. Mutant KRAS is essential for PDAC growth, where the constitutive activated RAS proteins contribute to tumorigenesis, treatment resistance, and metastases. Despite research and drug development efforts focused on KRAS, no effective RAS inhibitors have been approved for the treatment of pancreatic cancer with KRAS mutation. The poor prognosis of KRAS-mutated PDAC patients and the absence of KRAS-targeted therapies, highlight the urgency to develop novel therapies aimed at KRAS. This study will investigate onvansertib (also known as PCM-075 and NMS-1286937) as the first PLK1-specific adenosine triphosphate competitive inhibitor administered by oral route to enter clinical trials with proven antitumor activity in different preclinical models.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
21
20 or30mg flat dose - depending on results from safety lead-in. Administered concurrently with NALIRIFOX. Once daily on D1-5 of each 14-day cycle.
Chemotherapy regimen of nanoliposomal irinotecan, oxaliplatin, fluorouracil \[5-FU\], and leucovorin. Intravenously on Day 1 of each 14-day cycle.
The University of Kansas Cancer Center, Westwood Campus
Kansas City, Kansas, United States
RECRUITINGOverall Response Rate (ORR)
Imaging RECIST 1.1
Time frame: Approximately 2 years
Adverse Events
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE), Version 5.025
Time frame: 2 years
Anti-tumor activity by Disease Control Rate (DCR)
Calculated as the percentage of participants that achieve any of the following at 8 weeks: complete response, partial response, or stable disease, as defined by RECIST v1.1.
Time frame: 8 weeks
Anti-tumor activity by Duration of Response (DOR)
Calculated as the average length of time between response to treatment and disease progression, defined per Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors version 1.1 (RECIST v1.1).
Time frame: 2 years
Progression Free Survival (PFS)
The duration of time from start of treatment until objective tumor progression or death, as determined by medical record imaging
Time frame: 2 years
Overall Survival (OS)
Duration of time from start of treatment to death, determined by medical record
Time frame: 2 years
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