Faculty Opinions recommendation of Phase 2 study of subcutaneous omacetaxine mepesuccinate after TKI failure in patients with chronic-phase CML with T315I mutation.

Author(s):  
Michael Deininger ◽  
Paul La Rosée
Blood ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 120 (13) ◽  
pp. 2573-2580 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge Cortes ◽  
Jeff H. Lipton ◽  
Delphine Rea ◽  
Raghunadharao Digumarti ◽  
Charles Chuah ◽  
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Abstract Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) patients with the BCR-ABL T315I mutation do not benefit from therapy with currently approved tyrosine kinase inhibitors. Omacetaxine mepesuccinate is a protein synthesis inhibitor that has demonstrated activity in cells harboring the T315I mutation. This phase 2 trial assessed the efficacy of omacetaxine in CML patients with T315I and tyrosine kinase inhibitor failure. Patients received subcutaneous omacetaxine 1.25 mg/m2 twice daily, days 1-14, every 28 days until hematologic response or a maximum of 6 cycles, and then days 1-7 every 28 days as maintenance. Results for patients treated in chronic phase are reported here. Patients (n = 62) received a median of 7 (range, 1-41) cycles. Complete hematologic response was achieved in 48 patients (77%; 95% lower confidence limit, 65%); median response duration was 9.1 months. Fourteen patients (23%; 95% lower confidence limit, 13%) achieved major cytogenetic response, including complete cytogenetic response in 10 (16%). Median progression free-survival was 7.7 months. Grade 3/4 hematologic toxicity included thrombocytopenia (76%), neutropenia (44%), and anemia (39%) and was typically manageable by dose reduction. Nonhematologic adverse events were mostly grade 1/2 and included infection (42%), diarrhea (40%), and nausea (34%). Omacetaxine may provide a safe and effective treatment for CML patients with T315I mutation. This study is registered at www.clinicaltrials.gov as NCT00375219.


2012 ◽  
Vol 30 (15_suppl) ◽  
pp. 6596-6596
Author(s):  
Luke Paul Akard ◽  
Hagop Kantarjian ◽  
Franck E. Nicolini ◽  
Meir Wetzler ◽  
Jeffrey Howard Lipton ◽  
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6596 Background: Omacetaxine mepesuccinate (“omacetaxine”) is a first-in-class, reversible, transient inhibitor of protein elongation that facilitates tumor cell death without depending on BCR-ABL signaling. Clinical activity was shown in two phase 2, open-label, multicenter studies of patients with treatment-resistant CML who had failed at least prior imatinib, many of whom were also resistant to or intolerant of dasatinib and/or nilotinib. Methods: A subset of data from the phase 2 studies included patients in chronic phase who were resistant/intolerant to ≥2 approved TKIs. Omacetaxine 1.25 mg/m2 was given subcutaneously twice daily: ≤14 consecutive days/28-day cycle for induction, ≤7 days/cycle as maintenance. Patients had never achieved or lost response to ≥2 TKIs (R group), were intolerant of ≥2 TKIs (I), or resistant to 1 and intolerant of another (R/I) were evaluated. Results: Of 81 patients (median age, 58 years), 69 were R, 7 I, and 5 R/I. Major cytogenetic response occurred in 13 (19%) in the R group (median duration not reached), 2 (29%) I (median duration 7.4 months), and 1 (20%) R/I (duration 17.7 months). For all patients, cycles of exposure and study duration were 7 cycles and 9.1 months (R); 4 cycles, 7.3 months (I); and 2 cycles, 2.3 months (R/I). Median overall survival in months were 33.9 (R), not reached (I), and 25.0 (R/I). Of 66 (81%) patients with treatment-related grade 3/4 adverse events (AEs), the most common were thrombocytopenia in 44 R, 6 I, and 4 R/I patients and neutropenia in 32 R, 4 I, and 1 R/I. Fifteen patients had an AE leading to discontinuation (10 R, 2 I, 3 R/I), primarily disease progression. There were 9 deaths (the most common were disease progression, sepsis), 8 I, 1 R/I; 2 were considered related to treatment (both sepsis). Conclusions: This subset analysis of patients with chronic-phase CML and prior therapy with ≥2 TKIs shows that omacetaxine provides efficacy and tolerability across TKI-R, I, and R/I groups. Interpretation of the I and the R/I group data was limited by small sample sizes. Support: Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.


2020 ◽  
Vol 112 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-32
Author(s):  
Masayuki Hino ◽  
Itaru Matsumura ◽  
Shin Fujisawa ◽  
Kenichi Ishizawa ◽  
Takaaki Ono ◽  
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2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (9) ◽  
pp. e376-e383 ◽  
Author(s):  
Preetesh Jain ◽  
Hagop Kantarjian ◽  
Elias Jabbour ◽  
Graciela Nogueras Gonzalez ◽  
Gautam Borthakur ◽  
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Blood ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 134 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 5910-5910
Author(s):  
Giuseppe Saglio ◽  
Timothy P. Hughes ◽  
Jan Geissler ◽  
Shruti Kapoor ◽  
Anne-Sophie Longin ◽  
...  

Background: In patients with chronic myeloid leukemia in chronic phase (CML-CP), the efficacy of ATP-competitive tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) has resulted in treatment-free remission (TFR) as a primary treatment goal for those with a sustained deep molecular response (DMR). However, most patients treated with imatinib fail to achieve a sustained DMR, meaning that they cannot benefit from TFR. Asciminib is a potent and specific inhibitor of BCR-ABL1. Unlike BCR-ABL1 TKIs that target the ATP binding site, asciminib binds to the myristate pocket of ABL1. Preclinical data showed that the combination of asciminib with ATP-competitive TKIs may provide more potent BCR-ABL1 inhibition and prevent emergence of resistance mutations (Wylie et al. Nature. 2017;543:733-737). In an ongoing phase 1 study (NCT02081378), asciminib demonstrated clinical activity and was well tolerated as a single agent (Hughes et al. Blood. 2016;128 [abstract 625]). In the same study, asciminib in combination with imatinib showed promising preliminary efficacy and a good safety profile in patients resistant/intolerant of ≥2 prior TKIs (Cortes et al. HemaSphere. 2019;3(S1) [abstract S388]). These findings informed the dose of asciminib to be further evaluated in combination with imatinib. An ongoing phase 3 study (NCT03106779) is evaluating asciminib vs bosutinib in patients previously treated with ≥2 ATP-binding site TKIs (Mauro et al. J Clin Oncol. 2019;37 [abstract TPS7070]). Here, we describe the ASCiminib add-on 4-arm study evaluating MOlecular REsponse (ASC4MORE) in patients. This is a phase 2 study evaluating the efficacy of adding asciminib to ongoing imatinib therapy in patients with CML-CP who have not achieved DMR with long-term frontline imatinib (CABL001E2201; NCT03578367). Methods: Study participants are aged ≥18 years, have CML-CP, and have been treated with frontline imatinib for ≥12 months. Study entry requires patients to be receiving imatinib 400 mg once daily (QD) at randomization, have BCR-ABL1 transcript levels in the range of ≤1% to >0.01% on the International Scale (IS), no prior achievement of MR4 (BCR-ABL1IS ≤0.01%) confirmed by two consecutive tests, and no prior treatment failure. Overall, ~80 patients will be randomized 1:1:1:1 to one of four arms (Figure): either asciminib 40 mg QD or 60 mg QD added to imatinib 400 mg QD; continued treatment with imatinib 400 mg QD; or switch to nilotinib 300 mg twice daily. Study treatment will continue until treatment resistance or intolerance, or up to 96 weeks after the last randomized patient has begun treatment. The primary objective of this study is to assess whether asciminib add-on to imatinib is more effective than imatinib continuation; the primary endpoint is the rate of MR4.5 (BCR-ABL1IS ≤0.0032%) at 48 weeks. Secondary objectives include: to estimate the efficacy of switch to nilotinib; to estimate the difference in efficacy between asciminib add-on to imatinib and switch to nilotinib; and to characterize the safety of asciminib add-on to imatinib. Exploratory objectives include TFR eligibility at the end of the study and patient-reported outcomes. Patients in the imatinib continuation arm who have not achieved MR4.5 at 48 weeks may cross over to receive add-on asciminib. This study is ongoing, with 23 patients randomized as of 22 July 2019. Disclosures Saglio: BMS: Consultancy; Novartis: Consultancy; Ariad: Consultancy; Incyte: Consultancy; Pfizer: Consultancy; Jansen: Consultancy; Celgene: Consultancy. Hughes:Novartis, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Celgene: Research Funding; Novartis, Bristol-Myers Squibb: Consultancy, Other: Travel. Geissler:Novartis: Consultancy, Research Funding, Speakers Bureau; Pfizer: Consultancy, Research Funding, Speakers Bureau; Roche: Consultancy; Amgen: Consultancy; Incyte: Research Funding; Takeda: Research Funding; Biomarin: Consultancy; Bristol-Myers Squibb: Consultancy, Research Funding, Speakers Bureau; Janssen: Consultancy, Speakers Bureau; UCB: Consultancy, Speakers Bureau; Servier: Consultancy. Kapoor:Novartis: Employment. Longin:Novartis: Employment. Mukherjee:Novartis: Employment. Cortes:Novartis: Consultancy, Honoraria, Research Funding; Daiichi Sankyo: Consultancy, Honoraria, Research Funding; BiolineRx: Consultancy; Jazz Pharmaceuticals: Consultancy, Research Funding; Merus: Consultancy, Honoraria, Research Funding; Forma Therapeutics: Consultancy, Honoraria, Research Funding; Immunogen: Consultancy, Honoraria, Research Funding; Astellas Pharma: Consultancy, Honoraria, Research Funding; Bristol-Myers Squibb: Consultancy, Research Funding; Takeda: Consultancy, Research Funding; Biopath Holdings: Consultancy, Honoraria; Sun Pharma: Research Funding; Pfizer: Consultancy, Honoraria, Research Funding.


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