NCT01677741

A Study to Determine Safety, Tolerability and Pharmacokinetics of Oral Dabrafenib In Children and Adolescent Subjects

Phase I/IIa, 2-Part, Multi-Center, Single-Arm, Open-Label Study to Determine the Safety, Tolerability and Pharmacokinetics of Oral Dabrafenib in Children and Adolescent Subjects With Advanced BRAF V600-Mutation Positive Solid Tumors

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 1 / Phase 2
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 85 (actual)
• Sponsor: Novartis Pharmaceuticals · Industry
• Sex: All
• Age: 12 Months – 17 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This was a 2-part, Phase I/IIa, multi-center, open label, study in pediatric and adolescent patients with advanced BRAF V600 mutation-positive solid tumors. Part 1 was a dose escalation study in patients with any BRAF V600 mutation-positive solid tumor using a modified Rolling 6 Design (RSD). Part 2 was an expansion study to further evaluate the safety, tolerability, and clinical activity of dabrafenib in 4 tumor-specific pediatric populations. Patients participated in only either part 1 or part 2 of the study.

Detailed description

Part 1 was a dose escalation study in subjects with any BRAF V600 mutation-positive solid tumor, designed to optimize efficiency of enrollment, minimize the number of subjects being treated at potentially sub-efficacious dose levels, and incorporating the evolving pharmacokinetic, safety and efficacy data from the adult development program. Dose escalation part of the study was to determine the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) and recommend the dose for phase 2 studies (RP2D). An MTD has not been identified for dabrafenib in the adult population. This does not preclude the identification of an MTD in the pediatric population. Modified RSD was employed to determine the MTD. Part 1 used dual criteria of dose limiting toxicity (DLT) and observed dabrafenib exposures to make decisions to advance to the next dose level. Target exposure criteria based on adults treated at the approved adult dose of 300 mg (150 mg given BID) were observed in this study before meeting criteria for stopping dose escalation due to observations of DLTs, and served as the criteria for determining the RP2D for dabrafenib in pediatric subjects. Thus, MTD has not been established in pediatric population, similar to the previous dose finding efforts in adult subjects. Part 2 was a tumor specific expansion study to further evaluate the safety/tolerability profile and to discover possible clinical efficacy of dabrafenib in 4 tumor-specific pediatric populations known to have BRAFV600 activation: high grade glioma (HGG), low grade glioma (LGG), Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH), miscellaneous tumors including melanoma and papillary thyroid carcinoma (Other). The exposures for subjects dosed on the basis of weight were also evaluated by age categories.

Conditions

• Neoplasms, Brain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DRUG	Dabrafenib	Dabrafenib is available as 50 mg or 75 mg capsules and as oral suspension (10 mg/mL for subjects unable to swallow capsules). Dabrafenib (either formulation) will be administered orally as a single dose on Day 1 and twice daily from Day 2, based on weight at the appropriate study dose level.

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-05-23
• Primary completion: 2020-12-04
• Completion: 2020-12-04
• First posted: 2012-09-03
• Last updated: 2021-11-24
• Results posted: 2021-11-24

Locations

26 sites across 10 countries: United States, Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom

Regulatory

• FDA-regulated drug study