The overall goal of this Phase 2 study is to determine the efficacy of a lower dose weekly schedule of doxorubicin in patients with unresectable leiomyosarcomas aged 65-100 years old. While doxorubicin is the standard of care therapy for sarcomas not removable by surgery, older or more frail patients may struggle to tolerate side effects of the treatment including immune cell suppression. Previous studies have suggested that similar anti-tumor activity can be obtained using a lower dose, weekly administration schedule of doxorubicin. In this study, the investigators will determine progression-free survival rate at 12 weeks, with secondary endpoints including quality of life and adverse events in this population. Importantly, doxorubicin can also induce immune stimulatory effects when administered at lower doses, based on animal data. Thus, correlative samples including blood and tumor biopsies will also explore the effects of immune cells and foreignness of the tumor prior to and during treatment in study patients.
The study is an open-label, single-arm, investigator-initiated Phase 2 trial enrolling up to 30 patients to obtain 20 evaluable patients with advanced/metastatic leiomyosarcomas. The study will utilize a time-to-event Bayesian optimal Phase 2 design. The design includes one interim futility look after 10 patients are evaluable for progression-free survival rate at 12 weeks. The outcomes will be compared to historical PFS 12 week rate calculated as the mean from two large randomized Phase 3 studies. The treatment will be deemed promising if the number of patients who are stable at 12 weeks is 65%. Early stopping rules for toxicity are included in addition to futility. The primary endpoint of the study is the PFS rate at 12 weeks with secondary endpoints including PFS at 6 months, response rate by RECIST 1.1, duration of response, overall survival, adverse events, and quality of life scores. Correlative studies will include analysis of serial blood samples and baseline and on-treatment tumor biopsies for immune markers including analysis of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes, tumor immune pathways, analysis of circulating immune cells, and plasma cytokines. Following informed consent and screening, patients will receive doxorubicin 25 mg/m2 administered by bolus with dexrazoxane pre-treatment on days 1 and 8 every 21 days for up to 8 cycles. Patients will receive pegfilgrastim growth factor on day 9. Scans for response imaging will be obtained every 6 weeks during the treatment portion of the study, then every 12 weeks after completing treatment up to 1 year. Patients will have routine safety labs, assessment of adverse events, quality of life questionnaires with treatment visits, and echocardiogram to assess for cardiac toxicity will be performed at cycle 4 of doxorubicin and at the completion of study therapy.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
20
Doxorubicin is an antibiotic derived from the Streptomyces peucetius bacterium. It has widespread use as a chemotherapeutic agent since the 1960s. Doxorubicin is part of the anthracycline group of chemotherapeutic agents. Doxorubicin may be used to treat soft tissue and bone sarcomas and cancers of the breast, ovary, bladder, and thyroid. It is also used to treat acute lymphoblastic leukemia, acute myeloblastic leukemia, Hodgkin lymphoma, and small cell lung cancer.
University Of Colorado Hospital
Aurora, Colorado, United States
RECRUITINGDetermine the efficacy of treatment measured by Progression Free Survival (PFS) rate at 12 weeks
weekly doxorubicin chemotherapy in anthracycline-naïve patients measured through PFS at 12 weeks by RECIST 1.1
Time frame: 12 weeks
Progression Free Survival rate at 6 months
Rate of patients that are progression-free at the 6 month timepoint by RECIST 1.1
Time frame: 6 month
Quality of Life (QoL) by EORTC-QLQ-30
Patients will complete questionnaires to assess clinical benefit. The assessment will be based on a scale of strongly agree to strongly disagree.
Time frame: 6 months
Quality of Life by QLQ-ELD14
Patients will complete questionnaires to assess clinical benefit. The assessment will be based on a scale of strongly agree to strongly disagree.
Time frame: 6 months
Response rate measured by RECIST 1.1
Response rate by RECIST 1.1. Scans will be obtained every 6 weeks while on study therapy.
Time frame: 18 months
Duration of Response
Time that patients achieve a partial or complete response until progression by RECIST 1.1.
Time frame: 18 months
Overall Survival
Length of time from study enrollment to death by any cause.
Time frame: 18 months
Proportion of Doxorubicin Doses administered.
Evaluable patients will receive at least one dose of doxorubicin. We will determine the proportion of doses administered according to the study protocol, that are not omitted due to toxicity.
Time frame: 6 months
Toxicity Assessed by Adverse Events
Adverse events will be assessed using CTCAE version 5.0.
Time frame: 6 months
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