A Study of ACR-368 in Ovarian Carcinoma, Endometrial Adenocarcinoma, and Urothelial Carcinoma

Launched by ACRIVON THERAPEUTICS · Sep 16, 2022

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This clinical trial is investigating a new treatment called ACR-368 for patients with certain types of cancer, specifically platinum-resistant ovarian cancer, endometrial adenocarcinoma, and urothelial carcinoma. The study aims to see how well ACR-368 works on its own or when combined with a low dose of another drug called gemcitabine. Participants must be adults who have experienced cancer progression after at least one round of previous therapy and have measurable cancer lesions. They will also need to provide some tumor tissue samples for testing.

Eligible participants should be in relatively stable health, meaning they can tolerate the treatment and have a life expectancy of more than three months. They need to have specific types of advanced cancer that have not responded to standard treatments. If enrolled, participants can expect regular check-ups and monitoring throughout the study to assess their response to the treatment and manage any side effects. This trial is currently recruiting participants, so it's a good opportunity for those looking for new treatment options.

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Eligibility criteria

• • Inclusion Criteria: General
• • 1. Participant must be able to give signed, written informed consent.
• • 2. Participant must have histologically confirmed, locally advanced (i.e., not amenable to curative surgery and/or radiation therapy) or metastatic cancer that has progressed during or after at least 1 prior therapeutic regimen.
• • 3. Participant must have at least 1 measurable lesion per RECIST v1.1 criteria (by local Investigator) (Eisenhauer, 2009) in a baseline tumor imaging that has been obtained within 28 days of the treatment start. Participant must have radiographic evidence of disease progression based on RECIST v1.1 criteria following the most recent line of treatment. Biochemical recurrence (eg, cancer antigen \[CA-125\] in ovarian carcinoma) only is not considered as disease progression.
• • 4. Participant must be willing to provide tissue from a newly obtained tumor biopsy from an accessible tumor lesion not previously irradiated after written informed consent.
• • Newly obtained is defined as a specimen taken after written informed consent is obtained, during the 28-day Screening period.
• • 5. Participant must be willing to provide an archival tumor tissue block or at least 20 unstained slides, if available.
• 6. Participant must have stabilized or recovered (Grade 1 or baseline) from all prior therapy related toxicities, except as follows:
• • 1. Alopecia is accepted.
• • 2. Endocrine events from prior immunotherapy stabilized at ≤ Grade 2 due to need for replacement therapy are accepted (including hypothyroidism, diabetes mellitus, or adrenal insufficiency).
• • 3. Neuropathy events from prior cytotoxic therapies stabilized at ≤ Grade 2 are accepted.
• • 7. Participant must have an Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group Performance Status 0 or 1.
• • 8. Participant must have an estimated life expectancy of longer than 3 months.
• 9. Participant must have adequate organ function at Screening, defined as:
• • 1. Absolute neutrophil count \> 1500 cells/µL without growth factor support within 1 week prior to obtaining the hematology values at Screening.
• • 2. Hemoglobin ≥ 9.0 g/dL without transfusion or growth factor support within 2 weeks prior to obtaining the hematology values at Screening.
• • 3. Platelets ≥ 100,000 cells/µL without transfusion within 1 week prior to obtaining the hematology values at Screening.
• • 4. Calculated creatinine clearance ≥ 30 mL/min as calculated by the Cockcroft Gault formula.
• • 5. Aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and alanine aminotransferase (ALT) ≤ 3 × upper limit of normal (ULN); ≤ 5 × ULN if liver metastases are present.
• • 6. Total bilirubin ≤ 1.5 × ULN not associated with Gilbert's syndrome. If associated with Gilbert's syndrome ≤ 3 x ULN is acceptable.
• • 7. Serum albumin ≥ 3 g/dL.
• 10. Participant must have adequate coagulation profile as defined below if not on anticoagulation. If subject is receiving anticoagulation therapy, then subject must be on a stable dose of anticoagulation for ≥ 1 month:
• • 1. Prothrombin time within 1.5 x ULN.
• • 2. Activated partial thromboplastin time within 1.5 x ULN.
• • Tumor Specific Inclusion Criteria
• For Ovarian Carcinoma:
• • 1. Participant must have histologically documented, advanced metastatic and/or unresectable) platinum resistant high-grade serous/endometrioid ovarian, primary peritoneal, or fallopian tube cancer. Platinum-resistant disease is defined as progression or relapse within 6 months after the completion of platinum-based therapy.
• • a. Carcinosarcoma is eligible.
• 2. Participant must have received at least 1 but no more than 6 prior lines of systemic therapy, including at least 1 line of therapy containing platinum derivative and taxane, and single-agent therapy must be appropriate as the next line of treatment:
• • 3. Participant must have had prior bevacizumab or did not receive bevacizumab based on Investigator judgment (see Section 2.1.1).
• • 4. Participants with or without documented test results assessing alterations in the DNA repair pathway genes, eg, Breast Cancer gene 1 (BRCA1), BRCA2, and homologous recombination deficiency, at Screening are eligible. Subjects with known BRCA mutated tumors should have received a PARP inhibitor maintenance or treatment.
• • 5. Participant will be enrolled regardless of tumoral folate receptor alpha (FRα) expression status. FRα expression status will be collected for retrospective analysis, if the information is available.
• • For Endometrial Carcinoma
• • 1. Participant must have histologically documented, high-grade endometrial adenocarcinoma.
• • 1. All Grade 3 International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics epithelial endometrial histological subtypes are eligible including: endometrioid, serous, and clear-cell carcinoma.
• • 2. Carcinosarcoma is eligible.
• • 3. Participant must have no more than 4 prior lines of therapy in the recurrent setting, including platinum-based chemotherapy for subtypes of endometrial adenocarcinoma where it is a standard of care. The four lines of therapies must not include more than 3 lines containing a cytotoxic regimen.
• • 2. Participant must have documented failure (includes treatment discontinuation related to toxicity) or ineligibility (based on Investigator judgement) for prior anti-programmed cell death protein 1/anti-programmed death- ligand 1 (anti-PD 1/anti-PD L1) based therapy for advanced/metastatic disease. Prior combination of PD 1/PD L1 inhibitor and vascular endothelial growth factor tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) is acceptable.
• • 3. Prior neoadjuvant or adjuvant chemotherapy included in initial treatment are not considered first- or later-line treatment unless such treatments were completed less than 6 months prior to the current tumor recurrence. Prior treatment may include chemotherapy, chemotherapy/radiation therapy, and/or consolidation/maintenance therapy.
• • 4. Prior treatment with hormonal therapy or inhibitors of the mTOR or CDK4/6 pathways are not considered a line of therapy in any setting.
• • For Urothelial Carcinoma
• • 1. Participant must have histologically documented, advanced (metastatic and/or unresectable) urothelial carcinoma. Variant histology is allowed as long as the tumor is predominantly urothelial.
• 2. Participants must have:
• • 1. Received a platinum containing regimen (cisplatin or carboplatin) in the metastatic/locally advanced, neoadjuvant, or adjuvant setting. If platinum was administered in the adjuvant/neoadjuvant setting, participant must have progressed within 12 months of completion.
• • 2. Been exposed to or have been ineligible for checkpoint inhibitors (including PD-1 or PD-L1 inhibitors).
• • 3. Been exposed to or have been ineligible for enfortumab vedotin.
• • Exclusion Criteria: General
• • 1. Participant with known symptomatic brain metastases requiring \> 10 mg/day of prednisolone (or its equivalent). Participants with previously diagnosed brain metastases are eligible if they have completed their treatment, have recovered from the acute effects of radiation therapy or surgery prior to the start of ACR-368 treatment, fulfill the steroid requirement for these metastases, and are neurologically stable based on central nervous system imaging ≥ 4 weeks after treatment.
• • 2. Participant had systemic therapy or radiation therapy within 2 weeks prior to the first dose of study drug.
• • 3. Participants has known human immunodeficiency virus, hepatitis B, or hepatitis C infection that is considered uncontrolled based on the criteria included in Appendix 2.
• • 4. Participant has a history of clinically meaningful coagulopathy, bleeding diathesis.
• 5. Participant has cardiovascular disease, defined as:
• • 1. Uncontrolled hypertension defined as blood pressure \> 160/90 mmHg at Screening confirmed by repeat (medication permitted).
• • 2. History of torsades de pointes, significant Screening electrocardiogram (ECG) abnormalities, including ventricular rhythm disturbances, unstable cardiac arrhythmia requiring medication, pathologic symptomatic bradycardia, left bundle branch block, second degree atrioventricular (AV) block type II, third degree AV block, Grade ≥ 2 bradycardia, uncorrected hypokalemia not amenable to correction, congenital long QT syndrome, prolonged QT interval due to medications, corrected QT based on Fridericia's formula (QTcF) \> 450 msec (for men) or \> 470 msec (for women).
• • 3. Symptomatic heart failure (per New York Heart Association guidelines; (Caraballo, 2019), unstable angina, myocardial infarction, severe cardiovascular disease (ejection fraction \< 20%, transient ischemic attack, or cerebrovascular accident within 6 months of Day 1).
• • 6. Participant has a history of major surgery within 4 weeks of Screening.
• • 7. Participant has a history of bowel obstruction related to the current cancer or participant has signs or symptoms of intestinal obstruction, which include nausea, vomiting, or objective radiologic finding of bowel obstruction in the last 4 weeks before the start of the treatment.
• • 8. Participant has taken a prior cell cycle CHK1 inhibitor, including ACR-368
• • Tumor Specific Exclusion Criteria
• For Ovarian Carcinoma:
• • 1. Participant has non-epithelial carcinoma, clear-cell, mucinous, germ-cell, low-grade serous, or low-grade endometrioid carcinoma.
• • 2. Participant has a history of clinically meaningful ascites, defined as a history of paracentesis or thoracentesis within 4 weeks of Screening. Participant has a planned therapeutic paracentesis or thoracentesis between Screening and Cycle 1 Day 1 dosing.
• • 3. Participant has a history of active inflammatory bowel disease within 2 years prior to Screening.
• • 4. Participant has a history of bowel perforation, fistula, necrosis, or leak within 8 weeks of Screening.
• For Endometrial Adenocarcinoma:
• • 1. Participant has low-grade endometrioid carcinoma.
• • 2. Participant has mesenchymal tumors of the uterus.
• • 3. Participant has a history of clinically meaningful ascites, defined as a history of paracentesis or thoracentesis within 4 weeks of Screening. Participant has a planned therapeutic paracentesis or thoracentesis between Screening and Cycle 1 Day 1 dosing.
• For Urothelial Carcinoma:
• • 1. Participant has sarcoma, carcinosarcoma, melanoma, or lymphoma of the bladder.
• • 2. Participant has not received a previous platinum-based regimen.
• • 3. Participant has small cell or neuroendocrine histology.