Purpose

This is a Phase 1b/2, open-label, parallel-arms pilot study in post-menopausal women with hormone receptor positive (HR+), HER2- advanced or metastatic breast cancer with an alteration in the PI3K pathway, including a mutation of the PIK3CA gene, PTEN loss, or AKT1 mutation, designed to determine the safety of evexomostat (SDX-7320) plus standard of care treatment alpelisib (BYL-719) or capivasertib and fulvestrant (each combined, the 'triplet therapy'), to measure the severity and number of hyperglycemic events, and to assess clinical, anti-tumor benefit of the triplet therapy. The purpose of this study is: - to characterize the safety of the triplet drug combination consisting of either alpelisib or capivasertib (per the treating oncologist's choice) and fulvestrant plus evexomostat, - to test whether evexomostat, when given in combination with either alpelisib or capivasertib and fulvestrant will reduce the number and severity of hyperglycemic events and/or reduce the number or dose of anti-diabetic medications needed to control the hyperglycemia for metabolically normal patients and those deemed at risk for capivasertib and alpelisib-induced hyperglycemia (insulin resistance, as measured by HOMA-IR, baseline elevated HbA1c or well-controlled type 2 diabetes), and - to assess preliminary anti-tumor efficacy for each combination and changes in key biomarkers and quality of life in this patient population.

Conditions

Eligibility

Eligible Ages
Over 18 Years
Eligible Genders
All
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
No

Criteria

Inclusion:

1. Patient is an adult female ≥18 years old at the time of informed consent(s) and has
signed informed consent(s) before any trial related activities and according to
local guidelines.

2. Patient with histologically and/or cytologically confirmed diagnosis of HR+, HER2-
breast cancer, as determined by the local laboratory.

3. Patient has identified PI3K pathway alteration, defined as a PIK3CA mutation or PTEN
loss or an AKT1 mutation using a Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved test,
as determined either during Screening or was previously determined to have the
alteration as evidenced by written documentation.

4. Patient has locally advanced (not amenable to curative therapy or metastatic) breast
cancer meeting any of the following categories:

- Relapsed disease, not amenable to curative therapy, with documented evidence of
progressive disease (PD) following receipt of both (neo) adjuvant endocrine
therapy and a CDK 4/6 inhibitor therapy (either alone or in combination with
endocrine therapy) in the early stage or metastatic setting.

- Newly diagnosed advanced breast cancer, with relapsed disease (i.e., documented
evidence of PD) while receiving or after endocrine therapy plus a CDK 4/6
inhibitor.

5. Patient has measurable disease per the Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors
(RECIST) v1.1.

For bone lesions, lytic bone lesions or mixed lytic-blastic lesions, with
identifiable soft tissue components, that can be evaluated by cross-sectional
imaging techniques such as computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging
(MRI) can be considered as measurable lesions if the soft tissue component meets the
definition of measurability per RECIST 1.1. Blastic bone lesions are non-measurable.

For bone metastases only (without measurable lesions), patients may be accrued to
the dose escalation Cohorts only.

6. Patient has an Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group Performance Status (ECOG-PS) ≤1

7. Patient has a Screening fasting plasma glucose (FPG) level ≤140 mg/dL (7.7 mmol/L)
and an HbA1c ≤6.4% (47 mmol/mol) for those taking alpelisib, or an HbA1c <8% (64
mmol/mol) for those taking capivasertib.

8. Patient has a body mass index (BMI) ≥ 20 kg/m2.

9. Patient is postmenopausal. Postmenopausal is defined as any of the following:

- ≥45 years of age and has not had menses for >2 years.

- Amenorrheic for >2 years without a hysterectomy and oophorectomy and a
follicle-stimulating hormone value in the postmenopausal range upon pre-study
(screening) evaluation.

- Post hysterectomy with oophorectomy. Documented hysterectomy or oophorectomy
must be confirmed with medical records of the actual procedure or confirmed by
an ultrasound. In case of oophorectomy alone, hormone level assessment
(follicle-stimulating hormone, estradiol) will be done locally at Screening to
confirm postmenopausal status. Patients who are on ovarian function suppression
also qualify.

10. Patient is allowed prior fulvestrant treatment, provided they remain eligible for
fulvestrant treatment (i.e., no ERS1 mutation).

11. Patient is allowed prior PI3K treatment for patients otherwise eligible for
capivasertib treatment. Likewise, patient is allowed prior AKT treatment if they are
otherwise eligible for alpelisib treatment.

12. Patient is allowed up to one (1) prior chemotherapy for their metastatic disease.

13. Patient agrees to, and is willing and able to arrive at the hospital/clinic in a
fasted state (>8 hours) on designated fasting days.

14. Patient has adequate bone marrow and organ function as defined by the following
laboratory values:

- Platelet count ≥140×109/L

- In absence of liver metastases, alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and aspartate
aminotransferase (AST) ≤2.5×the upper limit of normal (ULN). If the patient has
liver metastases, ALT and AST ≤5×ULN.

- Total bilirubin ≤1.5×ULN except for patient with Gilbert's syndrome who may
only be included if the total bilirubin is ≤3.0×ULN or direct bilirubin
≤1.5×ULN.

- Fasting serum amylase ≤2×ULN.

- Fasting serum lipase ≤1.5×ULN.

- Hemoglobin ≥ 9 g/dL.

- Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) ≥1500/mL.

- Creatinine clearance ≥ 50 mL/min using either the Cockcroft-Gault equation or
the CKD-EPI formula for calculation of eGFR, or has chronic kidney disease
(CKD) grade ≤1 as evidenced by a treating nephrologist. Alternatively, a
24-hour urine test can be performed to confirm renal sufficiency.

- Albumin ≥ 3.5 gm/dL.

15. Patient is able to take oral medications.

Exclusion:

1. Patient has inflammatory breast cancer at screening.

2. Patient has known primary brain malignancy, active brain metastasis or active
central nervous system pathology or is considered by the Investigator to be
neurologically unstable. Furthermore, patients must not have received
corticosteroids within 4 weeks of study entry and must have unchanged brain CT or
MRI findings for at least two months prior to screening.

3. Patient has received prior mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) inhibitor.

4. Patient has a known hypersensitivity to evexomostat, fulvestrant, alpelisib, or
capivasertib, or to any of their excipients.

5. Patient has an established diagnosis of type 1 diabetes mellitus or uncontrolled
(based on fasting plasma glucose [FPG] >140mg/dL or HbA1c ≥6.5%) type 2 diabetes or
has taken insulin in the 4 weeks prior to C1D1.

6. Patient has had major surgery within 30 days or minor surgery within 14 days prior
to the first study drug dose, or has not recovered from major side effects from
prior surgery.

7. Patient has ongoing toxicities related to prior anti-cancer therapies that have not
resolved to ≤Grade 1, per National Cancer Institute Common Terminology Criteria for
Adverse Events, Version 5.0 (NCI CTCAE v.5.0), with the exception of alopecia.

8. Patient has a Child Pugh score of B or C.

9. Patient has uncontrolled human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection.

10. Patient has received radio therapy ≤4 weeks or limited field radiation for
palliation ≤2 weeks prior to enrollment, and who has not recovered to ≤Grade 1 from
related side effects of such therapy (with the exception of alopecia) and/or from
whom ≥25 percentage of bone marrow was irradiated.

11. Patient has a concurrent malignancy other than breast cancer or had a malignancy
other than breast cancer within 2 years of enrollment, with the exception of
adequately treated, basal or squamous cell carcinoma, non-melanomatous skin cancer
or curatively resected cervical cancer.

12. Patient has impairment of gastrointestinal (GI) function or GI disease that may
significantly alter the absorption of the drug alpelisib or capivasertib (e.g.,
ulcerative diseases, uncontrolled nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, malabsorption
syndrome, gastric bypass or small bowel resection) based on Investigator discretion.

13. Patient has currently documented or unresolved pneumonitis/interstitial lung disease
(the chest computed tomography [CT] scan performed before start of study treatment
for the purpose of tumor assessment should be reviewed to confirm that there are no
relevant pulmonary complications present).

14. Patient is currently receiving any of the following medications and cannot be
discontinued at least 7 days prior to the start of the treatment:

- Strong cytochrome P450 3A4 (CYP3A4) inducers

- Inhibitors of breast cancer resistance protein (BCRP)

- Sulfonylureas

15. Patient has a history of acute pancreatitis within 1 year of screening or past
medical history of chronic pancreatitis.

16. Patient has unresolved osteonecrosis of the jaw (unless they are being considered
for treated with capivasertib - i.e., this exclusion is only for patients being
considered for alpelisib).

17. Patient has a history of severe cutaneous reaction, such as Stevens-Johnson Syndrome
(SJS), erythema multiforme (EM), toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN), or drug reaction
with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms (DRESS).

18. Patient is currently receiving or has received systemic corticosteroids ≤4 weeks
prior to starting study drug, or who have not fully recovered from side effects of
such treatment. Note: The following uses of corticosteroids are permitted: single
doses (PO or IV), topical applications (e.g., for rash), inhaled sprays (e.g., for
obstructive airways diseases), eye drops or local injections (e.g.,
intra-articular).

Study Design

Phase
Phase 1/Phase 2
Study Type
Interventional
Allocation
N/A
Intervention Model
Single Group Assignment
Primary Purpose
Treatment
Masking
None (Open Label)

Arm Groups

ArmDescriptionAssigned Intervention
Experimental
Evexomostat
Each subject will receive repeat doses (C1, C2...) for 28-day cycles. Participants may continue on study drug until disease progression, unacceptable toxicity, or other withdrawal criteria is met.
  • Drug: Evexomostat
    Evexomostat (SDX-7320) is a synthetic copolymer-drug conjugate of a novel MetAP2 inhibitor.
    Other names:
    • SDX-7320

Recruiting Locations

University of Maryland Baltimore
Baltimore, Maryland 21201

More Details

Status
Recruiting
Sponsor
SynDevRx, Inc.

Study Contact

David Browning
+1-615-975-7776
dbrowning@syndevrx.com

Detailed Description

Phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) pathway alterations frequently occur in breast cancer, conferring growth advantages to cancer cells via increased catalytic activity of various related proteins, such as protein kinase B (AKT) or via the loss of function of the negative regulator phosphatase and tensin homolog (PTEN) (He 2021). Of these alterations, the PIK3CA gene is most frequently mutated, leading to disease aggressiveness and patient mortality. Currently approved treatments targeting this pathway include alpelisib, a small molecule that inhibits the activity of the PIK3CA gene product PI3Kα, and capivasertib, a small molecule that targets the AKT protein. Both molecules have demonstrated similar clinical benefit in cancer patients with genetic alterations that activate the PI3K/Akt/ mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) pathway (André 2019, Turner 2023). However, hyperglycemia, a toxicity associated with PI3K and/or Akt inhibition, leads to hyperinsulinemia, re-activating the pathway and thereby limiting each drug's clinical efficacy. Management of hyperglycemia is important to ensure patients receive optimal anti-tumor therapy (Rugo 2020). Restoring insulin sensitivity and reducing levels of insulin have been suggested as ways to blunt the hyperglycemia associated with drugs that inhibit this pathway and have been reported to improve their efficacy (Hopkins 2018, Crouthamel 2009). The purpose of this study is - to characterize the safety of the triplet drug combination consisting of either alpelisib or capivasertib (per the treating oncologist's choice) and fulvestrant plus evexomostat, - to test whether evexomostat, when given in combination with either alpelisib or capivasertib and fulvestrant will reduce the number and severity of hyperglycemic events and/or reduce the number or dose of anti-diabetic medications needed to control the hyperglycemia for metabolically normal patients and those deemed at risk for capivasertib and alpelisib-induced hyperglycemia (insulin resistance, as measured by HOMA-IR, baseline elevated HbA1c or well-controlled type 2 diabetes), and - to assess preliminary anti-tumor efficacy for each combination and changes in key biomarkers and quality of life in this patient population. This is a Phase 1b/2, open-label, parallel-arms pilot study in post-menopausal women with hormone receptor positive (HR+), HER2- advanced or metastatic breast cancer with an alteration in the PI3K pathway, including a mutation of the PIK3CA gene, PTEN loss, or AKT1 mutation, designed to determine the safety of evexomostat (SDX-7320) plus standard of care treatment alpelisib (BYL-719) or capivasertib and fulvestrant (each combined, the 'triplet therapy'), to measure the severity and number of hyperglycemic events, and to assess clinical, anti-tumor benefit of the triplet therapy. The study will consist of a 14-day pre-treatment phase of evexomostat plus fulvestrant starting on C1D1 before adding either alpelisib or capivasertib on C1D15. The Triple Therapy treatment schedule is summarized in the following table. Tumor assessments will be conducted as a function of when the triplet therapy starts. Up to 52 patients for each combination arm may be enrolled, starting with dose-escalation cohorts of up to 6 patients for each combination arm. Once the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) of the triplet therapy has been defined for each combination, additional patients will be enrolled until a total of up to 20 patients have completed at least two cycles of the triplet therapy at that dose and combination. If warranted, up to an additional 20 patients may be enrolled to further characterize the safety profile and/or anti-tumor effect of each triplet therapy. The planned escalation scheme starts at an evexomostat dose of 36 mg/m2 (one dose below the monotherapy MTD of 49 mg/m2) in combination with either alpelisib or capivasertib and fulvestrant given at the marketed doses. Based on aggregate safety data from the first two cycles of the first 6 patients across each triplet combination, and in the absence of ≥ 2 dose-limiting toxicities (DLTs as defined herein), the Safety Review Committee (SRC), in consultation with the Sponsor and the Investigator(s), may increase the evexomostat dose for the next cohort to 49 mg/m2. In the presence of ≥2 DLTs, the SRC may decrease the evexomostat dose to 27 mg/m2 and may adjust the dose of either alpelisib or capivasertib if warranted. The dose of fulvestrant will not be adjusted. If the evexomostat dose of 49 mg/m2 is determined by the SRC not to be tolerable in combination with either alpelisib or capivasertib and fulvestrant, then current and future patients for only their respective combination treatment will receive evexomostat at 36 mg/m2. Patients will remain on study for up to 7 cycles to characterize the safety and tolerability of the triplet therapy as well as to capture initial efficacy data (e.g., progression-free survival [PFS] following 6 months of the triplet therapy). Patients will be allowed to continue on the triplet therapy if they are receiving clinical benefit, including stable disease, as determined by their treating oncologist.

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