Tivozanib in Treating Patients With Liver Cancer That Is Metastatic or Cannot Be Removed by Surgery

Phase 1

Completed

Conditions: Advanced Adult Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Non-Resectable Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Interventions: Drug: Tivozanib (1.5mg)
Drug: Tivozanib (1mg)

Registration Number: NCT01835223

Lead Sponsor: Roswell Park Cancer Institute

Brief Summary: This phase I/II trial studies the side effects and best dose of tivozanib and to see how well it works in treating patients with liver cancer that has spread to other parts of the body or cannot be removed by surgery. Tivozanib may stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking some of the enzymes needed for cell growth.

Detailed Description: PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:

I. Progression free survival (PFS) at 24 weeks in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).

SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:

I. To determine the safety of tivozanib in HCC. II. To determine the overall survival (OS) and clinical benefit rate (complete response \[CR\], partial response \[PR\] and stable disease \[SD\]) by Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST).

III. To determine the steady state pharmacokinetics (PK) and soluble vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 2 (VEGFR-2) baseline/change with tivozanib and use modeling to correlate exposure with biomarker change and the primary outcome measure of PFS.

IV. To determine the change in viral load (hepatitis B virus \[HBV\] and hepatitis C virus \[HCV\]) during therapy in patients with HBV or HCV associated HCC.

V. To determine the change in tumor marker (alfa fetoprotein) with tivozanib therapy is in the effect of tivozanib on several tumor-associated immune response markers.

OUTLINE: This is a phase I, dose-escalation study followed by a phase II study.

Patients receive tivozanib orally (PO) once daily (QD) on days 1-21. Courses repeat every 28 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.

After completion of study treatment, patients are followed up every 6 months.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: COMPLETED

Sex: All

Target Recruitment: 33

Inclusion Criteria

Advanced staged HCC (unresectable and not amenable to local or regional therapy; or metastatic HCC); the diagnosis of HCC should be based on at least one of the following:
- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or computed tomography (CT) consistent with liver cirrhosis AND at least one solid liver lesion measuring >= 2 cm, with characteristics arterial enhancement and venous washout regardless of alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) levels
- AFP >= 400 ng/mL AND evidence of at least one solid liver lesion >= 2 cm regardless of specific imaging characteristics on CT or MRI
- Histological/cytology biopsy confirming HCC
Patients must have measurable disease per RECIST 1.1 criteria defined as at least one lesion that can be accurately measured in at least one dimension, and that has not been the target of local or regional therapy including transarterial chemoembolization, intra-arterial chemotherapy, ethanol or radiofrequency ablation
Life expectancy of greater than 3 months
Child-Pugh liver function class A
Aspartate aminotransferase (AST) =< 5 x institutional upper limits of normal (ULN)
Total bilirubin =< 3 mg/dL
International normalized ratio (INR) =< 2.0 (unless due to therapeutic warfarin use)
Serum albumin > 2.8 g/dL
Creatinine =< 1.5 x institutional ULN
Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) >= 1200/mm^3
Platelets >= 60,000/mm^3
Hemoglobin (Hgb) >= 8.5 g/dL
Patients must not have any evidence of bleeding diathesis or active gastrointestinal bleeding
Patients must not be known to be human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) positive
Patients must not have other uncontrolled intercurrent illnesses (excluding HBV or HCV); this includes (but is not limited to) ongoing or active infection, symptomatic congestive heart failure, unstable angina pectoris, cardiac arrhythmia, or psychiatric illness/social situations that would limit compliance with study requirements
Sexually active fertile patients (male and female), and their partners, must agree to use medically accepted methods of contraception during the course of the study and for 3 months after the last dose of the study drug
Female patients of childbearing potential must have a negative pregnancy test at screening
Have an Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of =< 2
Subject or legal representative must understand the investigational nature of this study and sign an Independent Ethics Committee/Institutional Review Board approved written informed consent form prior to receiving any study related procedure

Exclusion Criteria

Patients who have had prior anti-angiogenic therapy, including but not limited to sorafenib, brivanib, bevacizumab, or sunitinib
Patients who have had any prior line of systemic therapy including cytotoxic agents or molecularly targeted agents for advanced/unresectable disease; any number of prior regional therapies with transarterial chemoembolization (TACE), brachytherapy with yttrium-90 microsphere, intra-arterial chemotherapy, surgery, or ablative therapy are allowed
Prior liver transplantation and on immunosuppression
Known symptomatic or uncontrolled brain metastases or epidural disease
Patient has a corrected QT interval (QTcF) > 500 ms at screening
The patient is unable to swallow pills or diagnosed with a gastrointestinal disorder that are likely to interfere with the absorption of the study drug or with the patient's ability to take regular oral medication
The patient is pregnant or breastfeeding
Patients with second primary cancer (except adequately treated nonmelanoma skin cancer, curatively treated in-situ carcinoma of the cervix or superficial bladder cancer, or other solid tumors including lymphoma without bone marrow involvement curatively treated with no evidence of disease for >= 5 years)
The patient has a previously-identified allergy or hypersensitivity to components of the study treatment formulation
Patients receiving any medications or substances that are strong inducers of cytochrome P450, family 3, subfamily A, polypeptide 4 (CYP3A4) are ineligible; moderate inducers of CYP3A4 should be used with caution
Urine protein: creatinine ratio > 1

Study & Design

Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL

Study Design: SEQUENTIAL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Treatment (tivozanib - 1.5 mg)	Tivozanib (1.5mg)	Patients receive tivozanib PO QD on days 1-21. Courses repeat every 28 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
Treatment (tivozanib - 1 mg)	Tivozanib (1mg)	Patients receive tivozanib PO QD on days 1-21. Courses repeat every 28 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
PFS, Assessed Using Standard RECIST Criteria	24 weeks	Will be descriptively analyzed using standard Kaplan-Meier estimation along with the corresponding descriptive statistics and 95% confidence intervals.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Clinical Benefit Rate (CR, PR, and SD) by RECIST	Up to 3 years	The number of patients achieving clinical benefit (CR, PR, or SD by RECIST).
Incidence of Adverse Events and Toxicities, Assessed Using National Cancer Institute Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events Version 4	Up to 3 years	Toxicity frequency will be tabulated by grade across all dose levels and cycles for all patients in the safety sample and for the subset treated at the recommended phase 2 dose.
Overall Survival Rate	Up to 3 years	Overall survival is defined as the time from treatment until death or last follow-up.

Trial Locations

Locations (2): Roswell Park Cancer Institute
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Buffalo, New York, United States
Case Western Reserve University
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Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Roswell Park Cancer Institute
🇺🇸Buffalo, New York, United States