Status:
COMPLETED
LBH589 in Relapsed or Relapsed and Refractory Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinemia
Lead Sponsor:
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Collaborating Sponsors:
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Novartis
Conditions:
Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinemia
Eligibility:
All Genders
18+ years
Phase:
PHASE2
Brief Summary
The purpose of this research study is to assess the overall response rate of LBH589 in patients with relapsed or refractory Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinemia. LBH589 is a newly discovered compound that ...
Detailed Description
This phase II study is designed to assess the toxicity profile and the proportion of overall response in patients with relapsed or refractory WM. This will study the effect of single agent LBH589 on r...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Male or female patients aged 18 years or older
- Must have received prior therapy for their WM, any number of prior therapies is allowed
- Must have symptomatic relapsed or refractory WM
- Measurable monoclonal IgM protein in the blood and presence of lymphoplasmacytic cells in the bone marrow during any previous bone marrow
- Laboratory values as described in the protocol
- Clinically euthyroid
- ECOG Performance Status of 2 or less
Exclusion
- Prior HDAC, DAC, HSP90 inhibitors or valproic acid for the treatment of cancer
- Patients who will need valproic acid for any medical condition during the study or within 5 days prior to first LBH589 treatment
- Peripheral neuropathy CTCAE grade 2 or higher
- Impaired cardiac function or clinically significant cardiac diseases
- Impairment of GI function or GI disease that may significantly alter the absorption of LBH589
- Diarrhea \> CTCAE grade 1
- Other concurrent severe and/or uncontrolled medical conditions including abnormal laboratory values, that could cause unacceptable safety risks or compromise compliance with the protocol
- Patients using medications that have a relative risk of prolonging the QT interval or inducing torsade de pointes if treatment cannot be discontinued or switched to a different medication prior to starting study drug
- Patients who have received targeted agents within 2 weeks or within 5 half-lives of the agent and active metabolites (whichever is longer) and who have not recovered from side effects of those therapies
- Patients who have received chemotherapy or rituximab within 3 weeks or less; or radiation therapy to \> 30% of marrow-bearing bone within 2 weeks or less prior to starting study treatment; or who have not yet recovered from side effects of such therapies
- Patients who have received corticosteroids 2 weeks or less prior to registration. Patients may be receiving chronic corticosteroids if they are being given for disorders other than than Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinemia
- Patients with active bleeding tendency or receiving any treatment with therapeutic doses of sodium warfarin or coumadin derivatives. Low doses of Coumadin to maintain line patency is allowed
- Patients who have undergone major surgery 4 weeks or less prior to starting study drug or who have not recovered from side effects of such therapy
- Women who are pregnant or breast feeding or women of childbearing potential not using an effective method of birth control
- Male patients whose sexual partners are women of childbearing potential not using effective methods of birth control
- Patients with prior malignancy within the last 5 years (except for basal or squamous cell carcinoma, or in situ cancer of the cervix)
- Patients with known positivity for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or hepatitis C; baseline testing for HIV and hepatitis C is not required
- Patients with a significant history of non-compliance to medical regimens or unwilling or unable to comply with the instructions given to him/her by the study staff
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
July 1 2009
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
November 1 2012
Estimated Enrollment :
39 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00936611
Start Date
July 1 2009
End Date
November 1 2012
Last Update
January 28 2021
Active Locations (2)
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1
Rocky Mountain Cancer Centers
Denver, Colorado, United States, 80220
2
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02115