RecruitingPhase 2

Avapritinib for the Treatment of CKIT or PDGFRA Mutation-Positive Locally Advanced or Metastatic Malignant Solid Tumors

Phase 2 Study of Avapritinib in Patients With CKIT or PDGFRA Mutation-Positive Malignant Solid Tumors

Who can join

As published by the study on ClinicalTrials.gov. "Not stated" means the study hasn't said — ask the study team.

Age
18 Years and older
Sex
All sexes
Healthy volunteers
Not accepted
Compensation
Not stated

Other requirements are listed under Eligibility below. Only the study team can confirm whether you can join.

What to expect

No one can promise a trial will help you personally — that is what the research is trying to find out.

What participation involves

Not stated in the study description — ask the study team about visits and procedures.

Compensation
Not stated
  • Study-related exams and procedures are typically provided at no cost. This is how many trials work in general — confirm the details for this study with the study team.
  • Participants are monitored closely by the research team throughout the study.
  • Some participants may receive access to an investigational treatment, which is still being studied.
  • Your participation helps researchers learn whether this approach could help future patients.

About this study

In plain language

This study tests whether avapritinib can slow or control solid cancers with certain changes in the CKIT or PDGFRA genes. It is for people age 12 or older whose cancer has spread nearby or to other body parts, or who have a certain newly diagnosed brain cancer called glioblastoma.

This phase II trial studies the effect of avapritinib in treating malignant solid tumors that have a genetic change (mutation) in CKIT or PDGFRA and have spread to nearby tissue or lymph nodes (locally advanced) or other places in the body (metastatic). Avapritinib may stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking some of the enzymes needed for cell growth. Avapritinib may help to control the growth of malignant solid tumors.

Compensation is read from the study's own description and may be missing — always confirm with the study team.

Eligibility

Who can join

  • Be age 12 or older and give written consent. Teens need their own agreement and a parent's consent.
  • For groups 1 and 2: Have a solid cancer that has spread. Standard treatment must have failed, provided little benefit, been unavailable, or been declined.
  • For group 3: Have newly diagnosed glioblastoma with IDH wild-type and unmethylated MGMT test results. Finish radiation and temozolomide chemotherapy 3–8 weeks before study treatment.
  • Have a qualifying CKIT or PDGFRA gene change confirmed by an approved lab. Group 3 may also qualify with extra copies of either gene. Have stored tumor tissue available for testing.
  • For groups 1 and 2, have cancer that can be measured on scans. Group 3 does not require this.
  • Meet blood count, liver, kidney, and heart test requirements. Be able to care for yourself and be out of bed for at least half the day. Be expected to live at least 3 months.
  • Be willing and able to attend study visits, follow treatment rules, and have required biopsies, which remove small tissue samples.
  • If able to become pregnant, have a negative pregnancy test and avoid pregnancy during treatment and for 6 weeks afterward. Men with partners who can become pregnant must avoid pregnancy during treatment and for 30 days afterward.

Who can't join

  • Have a gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST), or a CKIT gene change called V654A or T670I.
  • Have cancer in the brain or spinal cord lining, pressure on the spinal cord, or brain spread that causes symptoms or is unstable. Stable brain spread may be allowed.
  • Have severe heart failure, a serious heart rhythm problem needing treatment, or certain abnormal heart tracing results.
  • Have used an experimental treatment or device, or had cancer treatment or surgery, within 2 weeks before study treatment. You must also recover enough from earlier treatment. Group 3 has a 3–8 week waiting period after radiation and temozolomide.
  • Have a wound, sore, hole in the digestive tract, or broken bone that causes symptoms and has not healed; another active cancer, with some exceptions; or another condition the study doctor considers unsafe.
  • Have a history of depression or a psychotic disorder unless well controlled on stable medicine for at least 12 months. Certain medicines that affect how the body processes drugs must be stopped before treatment.
  • Be pregnant or breastfeeding, be unable to swallow or keep down pills, or have digestive problems that could greatly affect how the study drug is absorbed.
  • For group 3: Have previously received a drug placed inside the brain, bevacizumab, or treatment such as radiation, chemotherapy, or immune therapy for a low-grade glioma, a slower-growing brain tumor.

Simplified for readability. The official criteria below are what the study team uses.

Official eligibility criteria

Inclusion Criteria: 1. The patient (or legally acceptable representative if applicable) provides written informed consent for the study. 2. Male or female ≥18 years of age on the day of informed consent signing. Adolescent patients aged 12 years and older are allowed with signed assent and parental consent according to institutional guidelines and requirements. 3. Cohorts 1 and 2: Patient has a locally advanced or metastatic solid tumor and has progressed on appropriate standard therapy, has not shown clinically meaningful benefit to appropriate standard therapy, has no available standard therapy, or has declined appropriate standard therapy. • NOTE: Specific solid tumor types include but are not limited to melanoma, breast cancer, lung cancer, gastroesophageal cancer, colorectal cancer, sarcoma, solid tumors NOS, and primary CNS tumors. Patients with any other recurrent solid tumor type with the exception of gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) will be eligible. 4. Cohort 3: Patient has newly diagnosed IDH wild-type, MGMT-unmethylated glioblastoma. Patients must have received prior treatment with radiation and concurrent temozolomide per standard of care.27 Patients must have completed radiation and concurrent temozolomide 3-8 weeks prior to study treatment initiation. 5. Measurable disease per the RECIST v1.1 or RANO criteria, as appropriate, for Cohorts 1 and 2. Patients in Cohort 3 can have measurable or non-measurable disease per the RANO criteria. 6 Documented pathogenic CKIT activating mutation (Cohort 1) OR pathogenic PDGFRA activating mutation (Cohort 2) based on Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments-certified next-generation sequencing diagnostic test. Cohort 3 should have pathogenic CKIT or PDGFRA activating mutation/amplification based on CLIA-certified NGS diagnostic test. CKIT and PDGFRA mutation pathogenicity will be verified by the MD Anderson Cancer Center's Precision Oncology Decision Support team. Acceptable CKIT/PDGFRA mutations for study eligibility are listed in Appendix E. 7\. Has available archival tissue for CKIT/PDGFRA mutation (amplification \[Cohort 3 only\]) retrospective testing. 8\. Adequate organ and marrow function as defined below within 7 days of study treatment initiation: * White blood cell count \>2,500/µL and \<15,000/µL * Absolute neutrophil count ≥1.5 × 109/L (without granulocyte colony-stimulating factor support within 2 weeks of laboratory test used to determine eligibility) * Platelet count ≥75 × 109/L (without transfusion within 2 weeks of laboratory test used to determine eligibility) * Hemoglobin ≥9.0 g/dL (without blood transfusion within 7 days of laboratory test used to determine eligibility) * Total bilirubin ≤1.5 × upper limit of normal (ULN); if hepatic metastases are present, ≤3.0 × ULN * Aspartate transaminase and alanine transaminase ≤2.5 × ULN; if hepatic metastases are present, ≤5.0 × ULN * Serum creatinine ≤2.0 × ULN or creatinine clearance ≥45 mL/min. 9. Cardiac ejection fraction \>45% per screening echocardiogram or multigated acquisition scan. 10\. Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance status of 0-2. 11\. Life expectancy ≥3 months. 12\. Willing and able to comply with the protocol for the duration of the study including treatment and scheduled visits and examinations. 13\. Willing to undergo biopsy as required by the study. 14\. Females must be postmenopausal (defined as ≥45 years of age with at least 12 months of spontaneous amenorrhea) or premenopausal with documented surgical sterilization (tubal ligation, hysterectomy, bilateral salpingectomy, or bilateral oophorectomy), or evidence of non-childbearing status for women of childbearing potential (negative serum beta-human chorionic gonadotropin pregnancy test) within 3 days of study treatment initiation. 15\. Females of childbearing potential must either abstain from heterosexual intercourse or use a highly effective method of contraception for the course of the study and for 6 weeks after the last dose of study treatment. 16\. Males with female partners of reproductive potential must either abstain from sexual intercourse or they and their partners must use a highly effective method of contraception when engaging in sexual intercourse for the course of the study through 30 days after the last dose of study treatment. Exclusion Criteria: Patients eligible for this study must not meet any of the following criteria: 1. Patients who have GIST. 2. Patients with tyrosine kinase inhibitor-resistant CKIT mutation V654A or T670I. 3. Patients with meningeal carcinomatosis, leptomeningeal carcinomatosis, spinal cord compression, or symptomatic or unstable brain metastases. Note: Patients with stable brain metastases (defined as asymptomatic or no requirement for high-dose or increasing dose of systemic corticosteroids) and without imminent need of radiation therapy) are eligible (including those with untreated brain metastases). If applicable, patients must have completed brain radiation therapy and recovered adequately from any associated toxicity and/or complications prior to eligibility assessment. For patients who have received prior radiation therapy, post-treatment magnetic resonance imaging scan should show no increase in brain lesion size/volume. 4. History of documented congestive heart failure (New York Heart Association functional classification III-IV) or serious cardiac arrhythmias requiring treatment. 5. QT interval corrected using Fridericia's formula of \>470 msec. 6. Is currently participating or has participated in a study of an investigational agent or has used an investigational device within 2 weeks prior to study treatment initiation. 7. Prior anticancer chemotherapy, hormone therapy, immunotherapy, targeted therapy, radiation therapy, or surgery within 2 weeks prior to study treatment initiation. * NOTE: Patients must have recovered from all AEs due to previous therapies to ≤ Grade 1 or baseline (except alopecia). Patients with ≤ Grade 2 neuropathy are eligible. * NOTE: If patient received major surgery, she/he must have recovered adequately from the toxicity and/or complications from the intervention prior to study treatment initiation. * NOTE: Patients in Cohort 3 must have completed radiation and concurrent temozolomide 3-8 weeks prior to study treatment initiation. 8. Symptomatic non-healing wound, ulcer, gastrointestinal perforation, or bone fracture. 9. History of psychotic or depressive disorder. Patients whose disorder is well controlled on a stable antipsychotic or antidepressant medication for at least 12 months prior to study entry will be eligible. 10. Concomitant use of a known strong cytochrome P450 (CYP)3A4 inhibitor or strong CYP3A4 inducer. The required washout period prior to study treatment initiation is 2 weeks or 5 half-lives, whichever is shortest. 11. Females who are pregnant or breastfeeding. 12. Unable to swallow and retain oral medications. 13. Impairment of gastrointestinal function or gastrointestinal disease that may significantly alter the absorption of the study treatment (e.g., ulcerative diseases, uncontrolled nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, malabsorption syndrome, or small bowel resection). 14. Known additional malignancy that is progressing or requires active treatment. NOTE: Patients with basal cell carcinoma of the skin, squamous cell carcinoma of the skin, or cervical cancer in situ that have undergone potentially curative therapy are not excluded. 15. History or current evidence of any condition, therapy, or laboratory abnormality that might confound the results of the study, interfere with the patient's participation for the full duration of the study, or is not in the best interest of the patient to participate, in the opinion of the investigator. 16. Prior treatment with an intracerebral agent or bevacizumab (Cohort 3 only). 17. Prior treatment including radiation, chemotherapy, or immunotherapy for low-grade glioma (Cohort 3 only).

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