NCT04677595

Study of Capmatinib in Chinese Adult Patients With Advanced Non-small Cell Lung Cancer Harboring MET Exon 14 Skipping Mutation

A Phase II, Multicenter, Two-cohort Study of Oral MET Inhibitor Capmatinib in Chinese Adult Patients With EGFR Wild-type (wt), ALK Rearrangement Negative, MET Exon 14 Skipping Mutations, Advanced Non-small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) Who Are Treatment Naive or Failed One or Two Prior Lines of Systemic Therapy

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 2
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 36 (actual)
• Sponsor: Novartis Pharmaceuticals · Industry
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 100 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of the study was to learn whether the study treatment (capmatinib), which already shows efficacy and safety in non-Chinese patients, could help Chinese patients with controlling their lung cancer in a safe way. Participants had a type of lung cancer called non-small cell lung lancer (NSCLC), with a specific alteration in a part of their DNA (called mutation) of the MET gene, within a specific part of this gene called exon 14. Participants who had advanced (or metastatic) non-small cell lung cancer with specific mutations in the MET gene but without mutations in the EGFR or ALK genes, who were aged 18 years or older were enrolled in this study. The study drug, capmatinib (also known as INC280), is an oral drug that is called a 'targeted' medicine, which means it targets particular processes that may not be working properly in cancer cells (called dysregulation). The dysregulation of the MET signaling in cancer cells of patients with NSCLC is believed to make the cancer worse. Capmatinib has been shown to selectively block the effects of the MET gene and therefore may help in keeping the disease under control, stopping cancer cells from growing.

Detailed description

This was an open-label, multicenter two-cohort phase II study. Chinese adult participants with EGFR wild-type (wt) (EGFR mutations that predict sensitivity to EGFR therapy, including, but not limited to exon 19 deletions and exon 21 L858R substitution mutations), anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) rearrangement negative, advanced (stage IIIB, IIIC or IV) NSCLC disease harboring MET exon 14-skipping (METΔex14) mutations as determined by a Novartis central molecular laboratory were treated in this study. Cohort 1 included treatment naive participants and Cohort 2 participants who failed one or two prior lines of therapy in the advanced stage (stage IIIB, IIIC or IV). Each participant received 400 mg capmatinib tablet twice daily (BID) until either the disease worsened or there were other reasons to discontinue the drug. After treatment discontinuation, participants were followed for safety up to 30 days after the last dose of study drug. In addition to the 30-day safety follow-up, participants who discontinued treatment without documented progressive disease (PD) continued efficacy assessments and patient-reported outcomes (PROs) collection during the post-treatment follow-up until documented progression. After the post-treatment follow-up phase, the participant's survival status was collected as part of the survival follow-up phase. The primary endpoint was the overall response rate (ORR) by cohort as per the blinded independent review committee (BIRC) review. ORR is defined as the percentage of participants with best overall response (BOR) of complete response (CR) or partial response (PR) according to RECIST 1.1.

Conditions

• Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC)

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DRUG	Capmatinib	400 mg of capmatinib tablets, administered orally twice daily

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-05-17
• Primary completion: 2023-10-12
• Completion: 2025-05-22
• First posted: 2020-12-21
• Last updated: 2026-03-31
• Results posted: 2026-03-27

Locations

17 sites across 1 country: China