RO4929097 in Treating Patients With Recurrent Invasive Gliomas

• Status: Terminated
• Trial end date: 1969-12-31
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

This phase I trial is studying the side effects and best dose of RO4929097 in treating patients with recurrent invasive gliomas. RO4929097 may stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking some of the enzymes needed for cell growth

• Phase: Phase 1
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
• Treatments: R04929097

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients must have radiographic progression of a histologically confirmed glioblastoma, high-grade astrocytoma, NOS, anaplastic mixed oligo-astrocytoma, or anaplastic oligodendroglioma

• In patients that present radiographic evidence of progression after concurrent treatment with radiation and low-dose temozolomide, diagnosis of progression should be made after at least 2 cycles of monthly temozolomide in order to rule out pseudoprogression

• Secondary MGs (evolving from a prior low-grade glioma) can be included as long as they are considered malignant in the latest resection

• Patients must have at least one enhancing lesion that can be accurately measured as > 1 X 1 cm on a MRI

• Prior treatment must include radiotherapy (with or without temozolomide)

• No limit to the number of prior recurrences or surgeries

• For Part B only, surgical resection should be considered a reasonable therapeutic option for a patient that can tolerate surgical resection

• Patients with multifocal disease can be included as long as resection is considered a reasonable option to manage the nodule that is progressing

• There must be sufficient tissue available (minimum from a 1 X 1 cm lesion) for a biopsy to be taken during surgery

• There must be sufficient tissue available for evaluation of p75^NTR status from a prior surgery (using immunohistochemistry on fixed tissue or, in uncommon cases in which frozen tissue is available from a prior surgery, western blot) (part B)

• ECOG performance status < 2 (Karnofsky > 50%)

• Life expectancy of greater than 4 weeks

• Absolute neutrophil count > 1,500/mcL

• Platelets > 100,000/mcL

• Hemoglobin > 90 g/L (or > 9 g/dL)

• Total bilirubin < 2.0 mg/dL

• BUN < 25 mg/dL

• AST/ALT < 3 X institutional upper limit of normal

• Creatinine within institutional normal limits OR creatinine clearance > 60 mL/min

• No major medical illnesses or psychiatric impairments that, in the investigator's opinion, would prevent administration or completion of protocol therapy

• Not pregnant or nursing

• Negative serum pregnancy test

• Fertile patients must use two forms of contraception (i.e., barrier contraception and one other method of contraception) at least 4 weeks prior to study entry, during, and for 12 months after completion of study therapy

• Able to swallow pills

• Patients with a history of seizures need to have had no generalized seizures in the last month prior to entering the study

• No history of allergic reactions attributed to compounds of similar chemical or biologic composition to RO4929097

• No malabsorption syndrome or other condition that would interfere with intestinal absorption

• Patients who are serologically positive for hepatitis A, B, or C, and have a resulting positive serological test, or have a history of liver disease, other forms of hepatitis, or cirrhosis are ineligible

• No uncontrolled hypocalcemia, hypomagnesemia, hyponatremia, hypophosphatemia, or hypokalemia (within 7 days prior to study treatment), despite adequate electrolyte supplementation

• No uncontrolled intercurrent illness including, but not limited to, ongoing or active infection, symptomatic congestive heart failure, unstable angina pectoris, cardiac arrhythmia other than chronic, stable atrial fibrillation, or psychiatric illness/social situations that would limit compliance with study requirements

• HIV-positive patients on combination antiretroviral therapy are ineligible

• Baseline QTc ≤ 450 msec (male) or QTc ≤ 470 msec (female)

• No history of risk factors for QT interval prolongation, including, but not limited to, family or personal history of long QT syndrome, recurrent syncope without known etiology, or sudden unexpected death

• No history of torsades de pointes or other significant cardiac arrhythmias or the need for concomitant meds with known potential to prolong QT interval or antiarrhythmics

• Use of food that may interfere with the metabolism of RO4929097 is prohibited, including grapefruit or grapefruit juice

• Patients must have recovered from the effects of any prior treatment (systemic chemotherapy/radiotherapy) or surgery (therapy)

• Patients who have had chemotherapy, surgery, or radiotherapy within 4 weeks (6 weeks for nitrosoureas or mitomycin C) prior to entering the study are not eligible

• Patients may not be receiving any other investigational agents

• Patients cannot be receiving enzyme-inducing anti-epileptic drugs (EIAEDs)

• If previously treated with EIAEDs, patients must have been switched to non-EIAEDs 4 weeks prior to starting RO4929097

• Enzyme-inducing antiepileptic drugs (EIAEDs) include: carbamazepine (Tegretol); oxcarbazepine (Trileptal); phenobarbital (or derivatives); phenytoin (Dilantin)

• 3.1.10.2 Non enzyme-inducing Antiepileptic Drugs (Non-EIAEDs) include: clobazam (Frisium); clonazepam (Rivotril); gabapentin (Neurontin); levetiracetam (Keppra); lamotrigine (Lamictal); topiramate (Topamax)

• No concurrent medications that are strong inducers/inhibitors or substrates of CYP3A4

• Even though dexamethasone is a moderate inducer of CYP3A4, patients may remain on dexamethasone at the lowest dose possible

• Stable or decreasing steroid dose within 5 days prior to registration required

• No medications with narrow therapeutic indices that are metabolized by cytochrome P450 (CYP450), including warfarin sodium (Coumadin®)

• No other investigational or commercial agents or therapies may be administered with the intent to treat the patient's malignancy

• No re-irradiation (any technique) is allowed

• If a patient elects to have a new resection of his/her tumor in the absence of progression of the disease, treatment will be discontinued and no re-challenge will be allowed after this additional surgery