scholarly journals An Observational Study of the First Experience with Bevacizumab for the Treatment of Patients with Recurrent High-Grade Glioma in Two Belgian University Hospitals

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Huylebrouck ◽  
S. Lv ◽  
J. Duerinck ◽  
A. Van Binst ◽  
I. Salmon ◽  
...  

Background. Bevacizumab (BEV), a humanized immunoglobulin G1 monoclonal antibody that inhibits VEGF has demonstrated activity against recurrent high-grade gliomas (HGG) in phase II clinical trials.Patients and Methods. Data were collected from patients with recurrent HGG who initiated treatment with BEV outside a clinical trial protocol at two Belgian university hospitals.Results. 19 patients (11 M/8 F) were administered a total of 138 cycles of BEV (median 4, range 1–31). Tumor response assessment by MRI was available for 15 patients; 2 complete responses and 3 partial responses for an objective response rate of 26% for the intent to treat population were observed on gadolinium-enhanced T1-weighted images; significant regressions on T2/FLAIR were documented in 10 out of 15 patients (67%). A reduced uptake on PET was documented in 3 out of 4 evaluable patients. The six-month progression-free survival was 21% (95% CI 2.7–39.5). Two patients had an ongoing tumor response and remained free from progression after 12 months of BEV treatment.Conclusions. The activity and tolerability of BEV were comparable to results from previous prospective phase II trials. Reduced uptake on PET suggests a metabolic response in addition to an antiangiogenic effect in some cases with favorable clinical outcome.

2009 ◽  
Vol 27 (15_suppl) ◽  
pp. 2038-2038 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Neyns ◽  
C. Chaskis ◽  
M. Dujardin ◽  
H. Everaert ◽  
J. Sadones ◽  
...  

2038 Background: High-grade gliomas (HGG) are characterized by neo-angiogenesis. Sunitinib is a small molecule tyrosine kinase inhibitor that inhibits multiple receptors (including VEGFR, PDGFR, and c-Kit). We investigated sunitinib for the treatment of patients (pts) with temozolomide (TMZ) refractory recurrent HGG. Methods: Pts were recruited according to a 2-stage phase II design and received a daily dose of 37.5 mg sunitinib. T1 ± Gd and T2 weighted MRI images were obtained after 4 and 8 weeks of sunitinib and q8 weeks thereafter. We assessed the antiangiogenic effect by calculating the cerebral blood volume (CBV) and cerebral blood flow (CBF) from dynamic susceptibility (DSC) based perfusion MRI and determined the lesion-to-normal-white matter CBV (CBVLTN) and CBF (CBFLTN) ratios. Uptake of fluorinated fenyl-methyl-alanine within the CNS was assessed by PET at baseline and reassessed in responding pts. Results: 21 pts were enrolled (median age 43 [range 34–71]; M/F 15/6; KPS 90–80: 11 pts, KPS 70–60: 10 pts). All pts had PD following surgery, RT and TMZ. A total of 142 treatment weeks (range 2–84) were evaluated; 81% of the administrations were at the 37,5 mg-, 19% at the 25 mg dose level. Most frequent AEs were: skin toxicity (gr2, n = 1; gr 3, n = 1), fatigue (gr 2, n = 4), hypertension (gr 2, n = 3), diarrhea (gr 2, n = 2), mucositis (gr 3; n = 1), afebrile- (gr 2, n = 3) and febrile neutropenia (gr 3, n = 1; gr 4, n = 1), thrombocytopenia (gr 2, n = 4; gr 3, n = 1; gr 4, n = 1), and lymphocytopenia (gr 2, n = 2; gr 3, n = 4). Decrease in CBVLTN and CBFLTN was observed in 6/14 evaluable pts after 4 weeks of sunitinib, 5/19 evaluable pts had SD on T1±Gd after 8 weeks; one pt experienced a marked clinical improvement with a reduction in the tumor metabolism on PET. After a median follow-up of 11 months, median TTP and -OS are1,6 and 3,8 months respectively. Three pts with a secondary glioblastoma (age <40 year) had an objective PR when administered CCNU at PD under sunitinib (with a TTP of 2, 8 and +9 mths respectively). Characterization of the VEGFR, PDGFR, and Kit gene copy numbers and protein expression in the tumors is ongoing. Conclusions: Sunitinib at a continuous daily dose of 37.5 mg has a transient antiangiogenic effect in pts with recurrent HGG but is of insufficient clinical benefit to warrant further investigation as a single agent. [Table: see text]


2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (15_suppl) ◽  
pp. 6061-6061 ◽  
Author(s):  
Boer Shan ◽  
Wenbin Shen ◽  
Huaying Wang

6061 Background: Recurrent platinum-resistant or refractory ovarian carcinoma is difficult to treat, and how to improve the treatment effect of these patients is still an urgent problem to solve. Anlotinib is a new multi-target tyrosine kinase inhibitor and its anti-tumor vascular targets include VEGFR, PDGFR and FGFR. Previous researches have shown clinical antitumor activity of anlotinib in various cancers, including the phase I study on gynecologic tumor. This phase II study (ChiCTR2000029654) aims to further evaluate the safety and efficacy of anlotinib in patients with recurrent or refractory ovarian carcinoma. Methods: Patients who have previously received second-line or more chemotherapy, with histopathologically confirmed ovarian high-grade serous gonadal carcinoma (including salpingocarcinoma and peritoneal carcinoma), ECOG 0-2 were considered eligible for enrollment. Anlotinib was administered orally (12 mg qd, d1-14; 21 days per cycle) till disease progression, death or intolerant toxicity. Therapeutic effects are evaluated every 6 weeks. The primary endpoint was objective response rate (ORR) and the secondary endpoints included disease control rate (DCR), progression-free survival (PFS), overall survival (OS), safety and quality of life (QOL). Results: Between 2019 March to 2020 January, 15 patients (female) with FIGO histopathological stage IA(6.7%), IIIA (73.3%), IIIC (6.7%) and IV (13.3%) were enrolled and 14 patients were evaluable with a median age of 59 years (range: 47-69). The mean follow-up period is 3.5 months (95% CI: 2.1-4.8). Therapeutic evaluation showed the incidence of partial response, stable disease and progression disease was 14.3%, 57.1% and 28.6% respectively, yielding the ORR of 14.3% (2/14; 95% CI: 1.8%-42.8%) and the DCR of 71.4% (10/14; 95% CI: 41.9%-91.6%). The median PFS was not reached. Most of the occurring AEs were grade 1, including hypertention (57.1%), fatigue (50.0%), hand-foot syndrome (35.7%), hoarseness (14.3%), diarrhea (7.1%), gum-pain (7.1%), decrease in leukocyte count (6.7%) and urine protein (7.1%). Only cancer pain (7.1%) was grade 2. No high grade AE was observed in these 14 patients. Neither unexpected safety signals nor treatment related death occurred. Conclusions: Anlotinib showed a promising efficacy with a favourable toxicity profile for patients with recurrent platinum-resistant or refractory ovarian carcinoma. And we will report more results ahout anlotinib in the future. Clinical trial information: ChiCTR2000029654.


2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 369-387 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian M Alexander ◽  
Eudocia Q Lee ◽  
David A Reardon ◽  
Patrick Y Wen

2006 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 117727190600100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Albrecht Reichle ◽  
Jochen Grassinger ◽  
Klaus Bross ◽  
Jochen Wilke ◽  
Thomas Suedhoff ◽  
...  

Two consecutive multi-center phase II trials were designed to prove the hypothesis, whether therapeutic modeling of tumor-associated inflammatory processes could result in improved tumor response. Therapy in both trials consisted of low-dose capecitabine 1g/m2 twice daily p.o. for 14 days, every 3 weeks, day 1+, and rofecoxib 25 mg daily p.o., day 1+ (from 11/04 etoricoxib 60 mg daily instead) plus pioglitazone 60 mg daily p.o., day 1+. In study II low-dose IFN-α 4.5 MU sc. three times a week, week 1+, was added until disease progression. Eighteen, and 33 patients, respectively, with clear cell renal carcinoma and progressive disease were enrolled. Objective response (48%) was exclusively observed in study II (PR 35%, CR 13%), and paralleled by a strong CRP response after 4 weeks on treatment, p = 0.0005, in all 29 pts (100%) with elevated CRP levels. Median progression-free survival could be more than doubled from a median of 4.7 months (95% CI, 1.0 to 10.4) to 11.5 months (6.8 to 16.2) in study II, p = 0.00001. Median overall survival of population II was 26 months. Efficacious negative regulation of tumor-associated inflammation by transcription modulators may result in a steep increase of tumor response and survival.


2016 ◽  
Vol 125 (4) ◽  
pp. 1008-1015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tali Siegal ◽  
Hanna Charbit ◽  
Iddo Paldor ◽  
Bracha Zelikovitch ◽  
Tamar Canello ◽  
...  

OBJECTIVE Bevacizumab is an antiangiogenic agent under investigation for use in patients with high-grade glioma. It produces a high rate of radiological response; however, this response should be interpreted with caution because it may reflect normalization of the tumor vasculature and not necessarily a true antitumor effect. The authors previously demonstrated that 4 hypoxia-mediated microRNAs (miRNA)—miR-210, miR-21, miR-10b, and miR-196b—are upregulated in glioma as compared with normal brain tissue. The authors hypothesized that the regulation and expression of these miRNAs would be altered in response to bevacizumab treatment. The object of this study was to perform longitudinal monitoring of circulating miRNA levels in patients undergoing bevacizumab treatment and to correlate it with tumor response. METHODS A total of 120 serum samples from 28 patients with high-grade glioma were prospectively collected prior to bevacizumab (n = 15) or temozolomide (TMZ; n = 13) treatment and then longitudinally during treatment. Quantification of the 4 miRNAs was evaluated by real-time polymerase chain reaction using total RNA extracted from the serum. At each time point, tumor response was assessed by Response Assessment in Neuro-Oncology criteria and by performing MRI using fluid attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) and contrast-enhanced images. RESULTS As compared with pretreatment levels, high levels of miR-10b and miR-21 were observed in the majority of patients throughout the bevacizumab treatment period. miR-10b and miR-21 levels correlated negatively and significantly with changes in enhancing tumor diameters (r = −0.648, p < 0.0001) in the bevacizumab group but not in the TMZ group. FLAIR images and the RANO assessment did not correlate with the sum quantification of these miRNAs in either group. CONCLUSIONS Circulating levels of miR-10b and miR-21 probably reflect the antiangiogenic effect of therapy, but their role as biomarkers for tumor response remains uncertain and requires further investigation.


2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qunying Yang ◽  
Chengcheng Guo ◽  
Xiaoping Lin ◽  
Lili Luo ◽  
Zhenqiang He ◽  
...  

Background: Anlotinib is a multi-target anti-angiogenic agent. This retrospective study aimed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of anlotinib alone or in combination with temozolomide for the treatment of recurrent high-grade glioma.Materials and Methods: The clinical data of patients with recurrent high-grade glioma treated with anlotinib alone or in combination with temozolomide in our cancer center were collected and analyzed. Treatment response was evaluated according to the response assessment for neuro-oncology criteria. Progression-free survival, progression-free survival at 6 months, overall survival, and overall survival at 12 months were evaluated by Kaplan–Meier method and compared by log-rank test.Results: Between August 2019 and December 2020, 31 patients with recurrent high-grade glioma (21 of grade 4 and 10 of grade 3) were enrolled in this study. Seventeen patients received anlotinib alone and 14 received anlotinib plus temozolomide. All patients were heavily treated, the median lines of previous treatments were 2, and the median Karnofsky score was 60. At the data cutoff date, the median progression-free survival was 4.5 months and the progression-free survival at 6 months was 43.5%. The median overall survival was 7.7 months, and the overall survival at 12 months was 26.7%. The progression-free survival at 6 months and the overall survival at 12 months for 21 patients with grade 4 glioma was 40.2 and 27.9%, respectively. The tumor objective response rate was 41.9% in all patients and 33.3% in patients with grade 4 glioma. No grade 3 or worse treatment-related adverse events were recorded during the treatment.Conclusion: Anlotinib alone or in combination with temozolomide showed encouraging efficacy and favorable tolerability in patients with recurrent high-grade glioma who had been heavily treated.


Author(s):  
Solmaz Sahebjam ◽  
Evgenia Garoufalis ◽  
Marie-Christine Guiot ◽  
Thierry Muanza ◽  
Rolando Del Maestro ◽  
...  

Background:Bevacizumab, a humanized recombinant anti-vascular endothelial growth factor antibody, was approved in Canada in 2010 for the treatment of high-grade glioma. We report the effectiveness and safety of bevacizumab in the treatment of patients with recurrent high-grade gliomas at a single institution.Methods:Twenty-seven consecutive patients with high-grade glioma (anaplastic glioma and glioblastoma) at first or subsequent relapse were treated with bevacizumab alone or in combination with chemotherapy. The primary endpoint was progression-free survival (PFS) and secondary endpoints were objective response rate, six month PFS, overall survival (OS), and safety profile.Results:The clinical benefit rate (complete and partial responses plus stable disease) was 59%. Median PFS was 4.3 (95% CI, 3.0-10.9) months, with a six month PFS rate of 43%. Median OS after current relapse was 8.9 (95% CI, 5.8-not reached) months. Ten episodes of grade 3/4 adverse events were observed in nine patients, including fatigue (n = 3), thrombocytopenia (n = 4), and myelotoxicity, febrile neutropenia, and pulmonary embolism (each n = 1).Conclusions:We consider the efficacy and safety profile of bevacizumab is comparable to other cohorts of patients treated for recurrent high-grade glioma at other international institutions.


2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (4_suppl) ◽  
pp. 134-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nai-Jung Chiang ◽  
Kun-Huei Yeh ◽  
Chang-Fang Chiu ◽  
Jen-Shi Chen ◽  
Chueh-Chuan Yen ◽  
...  

134 Background: Our preclinical studies showed that AUY922 treatment could induce downregulation of KIT protein and apoptosis in both imatinib-sensitive and -resistant GIST cells (Autophagy 2013). This prospective, phase II trial evaluated the efficacy and safety of AUY922 in patients with metastatic GISTs after failure or intolerance to imatinib and sunitinib in an Asian population. Methods: Based on the MTD defined in previous phase I study, infusion 70 mg/m2 of AUY922 was given once weekly, 4 weeks as a cycle. The primary endpoint was disease control rate (DCR, objective response + stable disease ≥ 16 weeks), assessed by computed tomography (CT) scan according to RECIST v1.1 every 8 weeks. Metabolic response was assessed by positron emission tomography (PET)-CT scans performed at baseline and after 4 weeks of treatment. Treatment was continued until disease progression, unacceptable toxicity or withdrawal of informed consent. Results: Between 2011.10 and 2015.01, 25 evaluable patients were enrolled. DCR at 16 weeks was 20% but none had partial response. According to the EORTC-defined PET response criteria, ten patients (40%) had metabolic partial response ( > 25% decrease of SUV from baseline) at 4 weeks after AUY922 treatment. At a median follow-up time of 7.8 months (range, 2.0-33.4 months), median progression-free survival (PFS) was 2.4 months (95% confidence interval (CI), 1.6-3.2 months) and median overall survival was 9.6 months (95% CI, 0-21.1 months). Metabolic partial responders had a trend of better PFS (3.8 vs. 1.9 months in non-responders, P = 0.09). The common adverse events (AEs) were fatigue (82%), visual disturbances (70%), diarrhea (55%). Grade 3/4 AEs included visual field darkening (3.7%), blurred vision (7.4%) and diarrhea (7.4%). Treatment interruption and dose modification were frequently required (62%) in patients with more than 8 weeks of treatment because of grade 2-3 visual field darkening. Conclusions: AUY922 showed modest antitumor activity in heavily pretreated GIST patients. Clinical relevant ocular toxicity was unexpectedly high in current study cohort; its correlation with PK will be further explored. Clinical trial information: NCT 01389583.


2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (15_suppl) ◽  
pp. TPS2073-TPS2073
Author(s):  
Jiayi Huang ◽  
Jian Li Campian ◽  
Feng Gao ◽  
Tanner Michael Johanns ◽  
Annick Desjardins ◽  
...  

TPS2073 Background: There is currently lack of effective therapy for meningiomas that have relapsed despite surgery and radiation therapy (RT). Reirradiation have been used in selected cases, but the long-term clinical outcomes remained poor, especially for high-grade meningiomas. Preclinical data have suggested synergy between hypofractionated radiosurgery with immune checkpoint inhibitors such as PD1 and CTLA4 inhibitors. The purpose of this study is to evaluate feasibility and preliminary clinical efficacy of combining reirradiation using hypofractionated radiosurgery with concurrent nivolumab (PD1 inhibitor) plus or minus ipilimumab (CTLA4 inhibitor) for recurrent high-grade meningiomas. Methods: During the phase I portion, eligible patients will be treated according to treatment-escalation schema following the modified 3+3 design (Table). The maximum tolerated combination (MTC) will be the regimen at which ≤1/6 patients experience dose-limiting toxicity within 8 weeks of the start of study therapy. During the phase II portion, a total of 24 evaluable patients will be enrolled at the MTC using Simon’s MiniMax two-stage design. Key eligibility criteria include patients with recurrent grade II-III meningiomas after prior RT; age ≥ 18 years; ECOG score ≤ 2; measurable disease but ≤ 5 cm (or 20 cm3); prior radiation dose ≤ 70 Gy with at least 6 months interval; normal organ function; no active autoimmunity. The primary endpoints are to determine the MTC (phase I) and the objective response rate of the MTC (phase II). Secondary endpoints include safety, duration of response, progression-free survival, overall survival. Exploratory endpoints include developing an immune or molecular signature for predicting treatment response and resistance. The trial is actively enrolling and funded by the National Cancer Institute Experimental Therapeutics Clinical Trials Network (NCI-ETCTN). Treatment Escalation Schema. Clinical trial information: NCT03604978. [Table: see text]


2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (15_suppl) ◽  
pp. 6503-6503 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bhumsuk Keam ◽  
Eun Joo Kang ◽  
Myung-Ju Ahn ◽  
Chan-Young Ock ◽  
Keun Wook Lee ◽  
...  

6503 Background: Adenoid cystic carcinoma (ACC) does not respond to cytotoxic chemotherapy. Several anti-angiogenic agents were evaluated in single arm phase II trials. However, the role of chemotherapy is still controversial, because of natural stable disease course without chemotherapy and lack of randomized trial. We firstly conducted a randomized trial to evaluate the efficacy of axitinib compared to observation. Methods: In this multicenter, prospective phase II trial, we enrolled recurred, metastatic ACC patients who progressed within 9 months. Patients were randomly assigned either axitinib (5mg twice daily) or observation arm with 1:1 ratio. Crossover to the axitinib arm was permitted for patients in the observation arm who had disease progression. The primary endpoint was 6-month progression-free survival (PFS) rate. The secondary endpoints included objective response rate (ORR), overall survival (OS), PFS, duration of response and adverse events. Results: A total of 60 patients randomly allocated to axitinib (N=30) and observation arm (N=30) and response evaluation was conducted in 57 patients. With a median follow-up of 25.4 months, the 6-month PFS rate was 73.2% (95% confidence interval [CI], 54.8 to 88.1%) in the axitinib arm and 23.2% (95% CI, 9.3 to 41.1%) in the observation arm (hazard ratio, 0.19; 95% CI, 0.08 to 0.45; P < 0.001). Median PFS was 10.8 months in axitinib arm and 2.8 months in observation arm ( P < 0.001). The ORR was 3.3% (95% CI, 0.1 to 17.2%) in the axitinib arm, and 0% (95% CI, 0 to 12.8%) in the observation arm. The disease control rate was 100% (95% CI, 88.4 to 100%) in the axitinib arm and 51.9% (95% CI, 32.0 to 71.3%) in the observation arm. After crossover, ORR of axitinib in the observation arm was 11.1% (95% CI, 2.4 to 29.2%). Median OS was not reached in axitinib arm, 28.5 months in observation arm ( P = 0.688). The most frequently reported adverse events of axitinib were grade 1 or 2 oral mucositis and fatigue. Detailed data of adverse events and mutational profile data will be presented. Conclusions: In this first randomized trial in patients with recurred or metastatic ACC, axitinib significantly increased 6-month PFS rate compared to observation. Clinical trial information: NCT02859012 .


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