A Phase Ib/IIb, Open-label, Multi-center, Study of Oral Panobinostat Administered With 5-Azacitidine (in Adult Patients With Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS), Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukemia (CMML), or Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML).
Myelodysplastic Syndromes, Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukemia, Acute Myeloid Leukemia
About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Myelodysplastic Syndromes focused on measuring Myelodysplastic Syndromes, Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukemia, Acute Myeloid Leukemia, hypomethylating therapy, deacetylase inhibitor, MDS, CMML, AML
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
Phase l:
- Patients with cytopathologically confirmed diagnosis of AML according to WHO criteria, excluding acute promyelocytic leukemia who are eligible for Vidaza treatment
- ECOG performance status greater less than or equal to 2
Phase ll:
Adult patients (age ≥ 18 years) who were candidates for treatment with 5-Aza and present with one of the following:
- intermediate-2 or high-risk myelodysplastic syndromes according to the International Prognostic Scoring System (IPSS). OR
- AML with multilineage dysplasia and maximum of 30% blasts (former RAEB-T according to FAB) OR
- chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML)
- Patients must have had the following laboratory values unless elevations are considered due to MDS or leukemia: AST/SGOT and/or ALT/SGPT ≤ 2.5 x ULN; serum creatinine ≤ 1.5 x ULN; serum bilirubin (total and direct) ≤ 2 x ULN; electrolyte panel within normal ranges (WNL) for the institution.
Exclusion Criteria:
Phase l:
- Prior treatment with deacetylase inhibitors
- Concurrent therapy with any other investigational agent
Phase ll:
- Planned hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation (HSCT)
- Patients with therapy-related MDS
- Patients with therapy-related AML and/or relapsed/refractory AML
Patients with impaired cardiac function including any of the following:
- Complete left bundle branch block or use of a permanent cardiac pacemaker, congenital long QT syndrome, history or presence of ventricular tachyarrhythmia, clinically significant resting bradycardia (<50 beats per minute), QTcF > 460 ms on screening ECG, or right bundle branch block + left anterior hemiblock (bifascicular block)
- Presence of unstable atrial fibrillation (ventricular response rate >100 bpm). Patients with stable atrial fibrillation are eligible provided they do not meet the other cardiac exclusion criteria
- Previous history of angina pectoris or acute MI within 6 months
- Screening LVEF <45% by echocardiography or MUGA
- Other clinically significant heart disease (e.g. uncontrolled hypertension or history of poor compliance with an antihypertensive regimen).
Any of concurrent severe and/or uncontrolled medical conditions which could compromise participation in the study. For example:
- Uncontrolled diabetes
- Active or uncontrolled infection
- Uncontrolled hypothyroidism
- Acute or chronic liver or renal disease
- Patient had evidence of clinically significant mucosal or internal bleeding
Sites / Locations
- Georgia Health Sciences University Dept. of MCG
- Goshen Center for Cancer Care IU Cancer Center
- University of Kansas Hospital and Medical Center SC - Univ KS
- Dana Farber Cancer Institute Beth Israel Deaconess Med Ctr
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Sloan Kettering 2
- Cleveland Clinic Foundation Cleve Clinic
- Medical University of South Carolina -Hollings Cancer Center MUSC
- University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Dept of MD Anderson (16)
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Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Experimental
Active Comparator
Panobinostat + 5-Azacytidine
5-Azacytidine
In phase I: Panobinostat : Escalating doses starting with 20 mg delivered orally at Day 3, Day 5, Day 8, Day 10, Day 12, Day 15. In phase II: Panobinostat : Rapid Phase II doses at 30 mg delivered orally at Day 3, Day 5, Day 8, Day 10, Day 12, Day 15. In both phases, dose of 5-Azacytidine was 75 mg/m^2, subcutaneously Daily for Day 1 to Day 7.
The dose of 5-Aza was fixed at 75 mg/m2/day for 7 days in Week 1 of each cycle. 5-Aza was sourced locally, except in 4 countries (Hungary, Switzerland, UK, and Spain, for which a central purchase was used by Novartis. Dose of 5-Azacytidine : 75 mg/m^2 subcutaneously daily from Day 1 to Day 7.