Veliparib, Cisplatin, and Gemcitabine Hydrochloride in Treating Patients With Advanced Biliary, Pancreatic, Urothelial, or Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
Advanced Adult Primary Liver Cancer, Localized Unresectable Adult Primary Liver Cancer, Metastatic Transitional Cell Cancer of the Renal Pelvis and Ureter
About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Advanced Adult Primary Liver Cancer
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients must have histologically or cytologically confirmed advanced biliary/pancreatic cancer, urothelial cancer, or non-small cell lung cancer that is metastatic or unresectable
- Patients with known CNS metastases should be excluded from this clinical trial
- ECOG performance status ≤ 2 (Karnofsky ≥ 60%)
- Life expectancy of greater than 12 weeks
- Absolute neutrophil count ≥ 1,500/mcL
- Platelets ≥ 100,000/mcL
- Total bilirubin within normal institutional limits
- AST/ALT ≤ 2.5 times institutional upper limit of normal
- Creatinine within normal institutional limits OR creatinine clearance ≥ 60 mL/min
- QTc interval on ECG ≤ 0.48 seconds by Bazett's calculation (≤ CTCAE v.4 grade 2)
- Not pregnant or nursing
- Women of child-bearing potential and men must agree to use adequate contraception (hormonal or barrier method of birth control; abstinence) prior to study entry and for the duration of study participation
- Patients must be able to swallow pills and have no significant impairment in gastrointestinal absorption
Patients with known or suspected germline mutation in BRCA1 or BRCA2 are eligible to participate
- Patients in study screening (primarily those with pancreatic cancer) who have a family history that is suspicious for BRCA1 or BRCA2 germline mutation should be assessed by the BRCAPRO computer program to quantitate the likelihood of harboring a deleterious BRCA mutation
- Patients found to have a BRCAPRO probability score of ≥ 20% should undergo formal full-sequence BRCA testing
- Patients in screening with a BRCAPRO probability of ≥ 20% who decline genetic testing are not eligible to participate in this trial due to the potential to confound safety assessment
No uncontrolled intercurrent illness including, but not limited to:
- Ongoing or active infection
- Symptomatic congestive heart failure
- Unstable angina pectoris
- Cardiac arrhythmia
- Psychiatric illness/social situations that would limit compliance with study requirements
- HIV-positive patients are eligible
- No active seizure or history of seizure disorder
- No history of allergic reactions attributed to compounds of similar chemical or biologic composition to veliparib (ABT-888) or other agents used in this study
- No peripheral neuropathy greater than grade1
- No prior systemic treatment
- No prior cytotoxic chemotherapy (neoadjuvant, adjuvant, or metastatic setting)
- At least 4 weeks since major surgery or radiation therapy
- Patients may not be receiving any other investigational agents
Sites / Locations
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
- Penn State Milton S Hershey Medical Center
- University of Pittsburgh
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Experimental
Treatment (veliparib, gemcitabine hydrochloride, cisplatin)
Patients receive veliparib orally every 12 hours on days 1-12, gemcitabine hydrochloride IV over 30 minutes on days 3 and 10, and cisplatin IV over 60-120 minutes on day 3. Courses repeat every 21 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients with suspected or known germline BRCA mutations may continue to receive single-agent veliparib continuously in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients may undergo blood, tumor tissue, and hair follicle sample collection periodically for pharmacokinetic and correlative studies.