A phase II trial of lenvatinib in patients with advanced or recurrent endometrial cancer: angiopoietin-2 as a predictive marker for clinical outcomes.

Authors

Ignace Vergote

Ignace Vergote

UZ Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Ignace Vergote , Michael Teneriello , Matthew A. Powell , David S. Miller , Agustin A. Garcia , Olga N. Mikheeva , Tamas Pinter , Mariusz Bidzinski , Cristina Ligia Cebotaru , Jean Fan , Min Ren , Nicole Meneses , Yasuhiro Funahashi , Tadashi Kadowaki , James P. O'Brien , Richard T. Penson

Organizations

UZ Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, US Oncology, The Woodlands, TX, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, State Healthcare Institution Leningrad Regional Oncology Center, St Petersburg, Russia, Aladar Petz Teaching County Hospital, Gyõr, Hungary, Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Institute, Warsaw, Poland, Institute of Oncology “Prof. Dr. Ion Chiricuta”, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Eisai Inc., Woodcliff Lake, NJ, Eisai Inc., Andover, MA, Massachusetts General Hospital/Dana-Farber Harvard Cancer Center, Boston, MA

Research Funding

Pharmaceutical/Biotech Company

Background: Lenvatinib is an oral receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitor targeting VEGFR1-3, FGFR1-4, RET, KIT, and PDGFRβ. The importance of angiogenesis in endometrial cancer (EC) highlights the need to understand clinical mechanisms of escape (eg, angiopoietin-2 [Ang-2]) from antiangiogenic therapy. Methods: Patients (pts) had metastatic/unresectable EC after 1 or 2 prior platinum-based treatments (Tx), ≤2 prior chemotherapies, and ECOG PS ≤2. Pts received lenvatinib 24 mg once daily until disease progression or development of unmanageable toxicities. Primary endpoint was objective response rate (ORR: complete + partial response [CR+PR]) by RECIST 1.1. Archival tumor tissue and baseline (BL) and post-Tx plasma samples were collected for molecular analyses (reported elsewhere). Results: 133 pts were treated (median age: 62 y) and evaluated for safety, efficacy, and molecular correlative analysis. Dose reduction (31%) or Tx discontinuation (31%) occurred for toxicity. Median Tx duration was 112 days. The most common adverse events were hypertension 55% (Gr 3/4: 33%), fatigue 42% (Gr 3: 12.8%), diarrhea 35% (Gr 3: 5.3%), decreased appetite 35% (Gr 3: 2.3%), and nausea 32% (Gr 3: 3%); 1 pt had Gr 5 asthenia. Bowel obstruction, fistula formation, and perforation occurred in 3.8%, 2.3%, and 1.5%, respectively. Confirmed CR+PRs were observed in 19 pts (14.3%) by independent review (IRR) and 29 pts (21.8%) by investigator assessment (Inv). mPFS was 5.4 mos and mOS was 10.6 mos. Among 50 serum factors tested, only BL plasma Ang-2 correlated with maximal tumor shrinkage, R = 0.36 (Spearman), p < 0.001; ORR; PFS; and OS. The 24 pts with low BL Ang-2 plasma levels (cut-off value <2082 pg/mL) were compared with the 98 pts with high BL Ang-2 (>2082 pg/mL) and improved ORR (61% vs 18%), mPFS (9.5 vs 3.7 mos), and mOS (23 vs 8.9 mos) were observed. Conclusions: Lenvatinib in this population was tolerable and resulted in a 14.3% (IRR) and 21.8% (Inv) ORR and mOS of 10.6 mos.Low BL Ang-2 level appears to predict clinical benefit in a subset of pts with advanced EC who may achieve high response rates and prolonged overall survival. Further assessment is warranted. Clinical trial information: NCT01111461.

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Abstract Details

Meeting

2013 ASCO Annual Meeting

Session Type

Poster Discussion Session

Session Title

Gynecologic Cancer

Track

Gynecologic Cancer

Sub Track

Uterine Cancer

Clinical Trial Registration Number

NCT01111461

Citation

J Clin Oncol 31, 2013 (suppl; abstr 5520)

DOI

10.1200/jco.2013.31.15_suppl.5520

Abstract #

5520

Poster Bd #

9

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