PONS: Study in Patients With Chronic Leukemia, Where Previous Therapy Failed, and Who Will be Treated With Ponatinib as Second Line Therapy

Sponsor

GWT-TUD GmbH (Other)

Overall Status

Recruiting

CT.gov ID

NCT03807479

Collaborator

Incyte Biosciences International Sàrl (Industry)

Enrollment

Locations

Arm

64.7

Anticipated Duration (Months)

5.4

Patients Per Site

0.1

Patients Per Site Per Month

Study Details

Study Description

Brief Summary

This study will include patients suffering from chronic myeloid leukemia (CP-CML), who were treated with tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI, a substance that blocks the action of enzymes) in a previous therapy but which has not been effective. Patients will be treated with Ponatinib 30 mg in in this study. The aim of the study is to evaluate the safety and efficacy of Ponatinib as a second line treatment in patients failing or not tolerating first line therapy with any other approved TKIs. It is expected that Ponatinib, due to its efficacy, may be more effective as second line therapy than other approved TKIs and lead to improved overall survival. The effect will be determined by the molecular response rate (MMR) as the primary objective after 12 months of treatment. The safety of the drug will be evaluated on the basis if routine medical and laboratory examinations.

Condition or Disease	Intervention/Treatment	Phase
Leukemia, Myeloid, Chronic-Phase	Drug: Ponatinib	Phase 2

Detailed Description

Despite significant progress in the treatment of patients with chronic phase CML, there is still need to further optimize therapy to reach the goal of disease eradication for almost all patients. In case of imatinib failure, dasatinib and nilotinib are effective treatment options after an individualized treatment selection. Although MMR rates of around 30% after 2 years of therapy are a significant achievement, options that may improve response rates in depth are still desirable. Ponatinib is a third generation TKI with very high anti-clonal activity in all CML phases. Moreover, it also eradicates most of the known and problematic mutations and only very few (compound) mutations may induce ponatinib-resistance.

Based on its favourable target spectrum, it is expected that Ponatinib may be more effective than 2nd line dasatinib or nilotinib in achieving early (i.e., at 6 months) cytogenetic and molecular responses in patients after inappropriate response to imatinib, and more effective as 2nd line treatment after failure of initial treatment with dasatinib or nilotinib than a cross-over between the 2nd generation TKIs. The basic hypothesis underlying therapeutic programs in CML is to be able to achieve meaningful and long-lasting suppression of the Philadelphia chromosome and breakpoint cluster region-abelson fusion gen (BCR-ABL). Complete cytogenetic responses have been associated with improved survival in CML, while major molecular responses are associated with improved event-free survival.

Study Design

Study Type:

Interventional

Anticipated Enrollment :

54 participants

Allocation:

N/A

Intervention Model:

Single Group Assignment

Masking:

None (Open Label)

Primary Purpose:

Treatment

Official Title:

Phase 2 Clinical Trial With Ponatinib as a Second Line Therapy for Patients With Chronic Myeloid Leukemia in Chronic Phase Resistant or Intolerant to Prior First Line Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor Treatment

Actual Study Start Date :

Dec 11, 2018

Anticipated Primary Completion Date :

Jun 30, 2022

Anticipated Study Completion Date :

May 1, 2024

Arms and Interventions

Arm	Intervention/Treatment
Experimental: Ponatinib Patients in this treatment arm receive Ponatinib: starting dose 30 mg once-daily. Doses may be increased in case of inappropriate response and reduced to manage drug-related adverse events (AEs) and may be re-escalated once events resolve.	Drug: Ponatinib 2 film-coated tablets à 15mg for oral administration on a daily basis Other Names: Iclusig

Arm

Intervention/Treatment

Experimental: Ponatinib

Patients in this treatment arm receive Ponatinib: starting dose 30 mg once-daily. Doses may be increased in case of inappropriate response and reduced to manage drug-related adverse events (AEs) and may be re-escalated once events resolve.

Drug: Ponatinib

2 film-coated tablets à 15mg for oral administration on a daily basis

Other Names:

Iclusig

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

Major Molecular Response (MMR) of treatment [by 12 moths]
To estimate the proportion of CP-CML patients with tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI)-resistance or intolerance to first line therapy with TKI, attaining MMR by 12 months of treatment with second line Ponatinib therapy.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Time to toxicity [up to 24 months]
To evaluate the toxicity profile of ponatinib in patients with CML in chronic phase after one TKI failure toxicities will be followed up at each visit during the treatment phase and will be assessed using CTCAE v.5.0. Type of toxicity (hematologic or non-hematologic) along with the grading will be followed up on.
Time to response [at 3, 6, 9, 12, 18 and 24 months]
To estimate the time to CCyR, MMR, MCyR and MR4 for patients treated with Ponatinib as second line therapy for CP-CML (chronic phase-chronic myelogenous leukemia).
Durations of response [at 3, 6, 9, 12, 18 and 24 month]
To evaluate the duration of hematologic, cytogenetic and molecular response to Ponatinib after one TKI failure.
Occurrence of BCR-ABL-mutations [at 3, 6, 9, 12, 18 and 24 months]
To evaluate the occurrence of BCR-ABL-mutations in patients with failure of Ponatinib 2nd line therapy.
Time to progression [at 3, 6, 9, 12, 18 and 24 months]
To define the time to progression for patients with CML in chronic phase treated with Ponatinib after one TKI failure.
Time to overall survival [at 3, 6, 9, 12, 18 and 24 month]
To define the time to overall survival for patients with CML in chronic phase treated with Ponatinib after one TKI failure.

Eligibility Criteria

Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study:

18 Years and Older

Sexes Eligible for Study:

All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers:

Inclusion Criteria:

Male or female patients ≥18 years old
Diagnosis of Ph-positive (by cytogenetics) or BCR-ABL-positive (by PCR) CP-CML
Patients should have demonstrated to have

a failure of a prior 1st line TKI treatment with either imatinib, dasatinib or nilotinib. Failure is defined as per European LeukemiaNet (ELN) recommendations:
Less than Complete Hematologic Response (CHR) and/or Ph+ > 95% at or beyond 3 months
No cytogenetic response (Ph+>35%) and/or Abelson murine leukemia viral oncogene homolog 1 (BCR-ABL1) >10% at or beyond 6 months
BCR-ABL (on international scale) >1% and/or PH+ >0%
Less than MMR at or beyond 18 months
Loss of response or development of mutations or other clonal chromosomal abnormalities at any time during the first line TKI treatment
or intolerance to prior TKI treatment defined as grade 3 or 4 toxicity, or persistent grade 2 toxicity despite optimal management including dose adjustment, or in a patient where dose reductions are considered to be not in the patient's best interest to obtain an adequate response. Intolerant patients should not have achieved or have lost major molecular response at the time of enrollment

Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0, 1, or 2

Exclusion Criteria:

Any 1st line anti-CML treatment other than TKI (apart from therapy with hydroxyurea)
Any 2nd line therapy with a tyrosine kinase inhibitor (>1 European Medicines Agency (EMA) approved TKI for CML, or any investigational non EMA-approved TKI)
Concurrent participation in any other clinical trial involving another investigational drug within 4 weeks prior to enrollment and throughout participation in PONS-Study
New York Heart Association (NYHA) cardiac class 3-4 heart disease
Cardiac Symptoms within the past 12 months prior recruitment

Contacts and Locations

Locations

	Site	City	State	Country	Postal Code
1	University Hospital	Halle (Saale)	Saxony-Anhalt	Germany	06097
2	University Hospital RWTH Aachen,Clinic for Hematology, Oncology, Hemostaseology and Stem Cell Transplantation, Medical Department IV	Aachen		Germany	52074
3	Charité University Medicine Berlin - Medical Clinic, Department of Hematology, Oncology and Tumor Immunology	Berlin		Germany	13353
4	University Hospital Essen gGmbH, Westdeutsches Tumorzentrum; Internal Medicine (Tumor Research)	Essen		Germany	45122
5	University Medicine Greifswald, Clinic and Policlinic - Internal Medicine C - Hematology and Oncology	Greifswald		Germany	17475
6	Asklepios Clinic St. Georg - Department of Oncology, Section Hematology	Hamburg		Germany	20099
7	University Hospital Mannheim GmbH, III. Medical Clinic for Hematology and Oncology	Mannheim		Germany	68167
8	University Hospital Giessen and Marburg GmbH, Institution department Clinic for Hematology, Oncology and Immunology	Marburg		Germany	35043
9	UKRUB University Hospital of Ruhr-University Bochum, Clinic for Hematology and Oncology	Minden		Germany	32429
10	University Hospital Ulm - Department for internal medicine III	Ulm		Germany	89081