Phase 2
N=267
A Study of Tazemetostat in Adult Participants With Soft Tissue Sarcoma
Malignant Rhabdoid Tumors (MRT) · Rhabdoid Tumors of the Kidney (RTK) · Atypical Teratoid Rhabdoid Tumors (ATRT) · Selected Tumors With Rhabdoid Features · Synovial Sarcoma
Bottom Line
View on ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT02601950 ↗Enrolled (actual)
267
Serious AEs
38.6%
Results posted
Mar 2025
Primary outcome: Primary: Cohorts 1, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7: Objective Response Rate (ORR) — 9.4; 9.4; 0.0; 16.1 Percentage of participants
Study Design & Population
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase 2
- Interventions
- Tazemetostat (Drug)
- Age
- Adult, Older Adult · 18+ yrs
- Sex
- All
- Sponsor
- Epizyme, Inc.
- Primary completion
- Feb 2024
Outcome Measures
| Outcome | Result | p-value |
|---|---|---|
| PRIMARY Cohorts 1, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7: Objective Response Rate (ORR) |
9.4; 9.4; 0.0; 16.1; 15.9; 5.6 | — |
| PRIMARY Cohort 2: Progression-Free Survival (PFS) Rate at 16 Weeks of Treatment With Tazemetostat |
15.2 | — |
| PRIMARY Cohort 8: Number of Participants With Treatment-emergent Adverse Events (TEAEs) and Treatment-emergent Serious Adverse Events (TESAEs) |
7; 2 | — |
| SECONDARY All Cohorts: Duration of Response (DOR) |
29.0; 80.1; 88.0; 96.1; 151.6; 119.4 | — |
| SECONDARY All Cohorts: Progression-Free Survival (PFS) |
7.9; 8.0; 15.7; 7.3; 23.7; 16.1 | — |
| SECONDARY All Cohorts: Progression-Free Survival (PFS) Rate at Weeks 24, 32 and 56 |
17.6; 15.9; 34.4; 15.4; 42.1; 33.8 | — |
| SECONDARY All Cohorts: Overall Survival (OS) |
22.1; 43.4; 37.9; 24.6; 82.4; 111.4 | — |
| SECONDARY All Cohorts: Overall Survival (OS) Rate at Weeks 24, 32 and 56 |
45.4; 81.4; 68.8; 50.0; 85.5; 83.6 | — |
| SECONDARY All Cohorts: Disease Control Rate (DCR) at Weeks 12, 24, 32 and 48 |
21.9; 15.2; 40.6; 21.4; 45.2; 36.2 | — |
| SECONDARY Cohorts 2 and 8: Objective Response Rate (ORR) |
0; 14.3 | — |
Summary
This study will include participants with various types of cancer known as soft-tissue sarcomas.
Tissues that can be affected by soft tissue sarcomas include fat, muscle, blood vessels, deep skin tissues, tendons and ligaments.
Soft tissue cancers are rare and can occur almost anywhere in the body.
Part 1 of this trial will study the safety and the level that adverse effects of the study drug tazemetostat in combination with doxorubicin (current front line treatment) can be tolerated (known as tolerability).
It is also designed to establish a recommended study drug dosage for the next part of the study.
Part 2 will evaluate and compare how long participants live without their disease getting worse when receiving the study drug plus doxorubicin versus doxorubicin plus placebo (dummy treatment).
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- Age (at the time of consent/assent): ≥18 years of age
- Has an Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0, 1, or 2
- Has provided signed written informed consent
- Has a life expectancy of >3 months
- Has a malignancy:
- For which there are no standard therapies available (Cohorts 1, 3, 4 and 5)
- That is relapsed or refractory after treatment with an approved therapy(ies), defined as metastatic or non-resectable, locally advanced disease that has previously been treated with and progressed following approved therapy(ies) (Cohort 2)
- That has progressed within 6 months prior to study enrollment (Cohort 5 Expansion, Cohort 6 and Cohort 8 ONLY)
- Has a documented local diagnostic pathology of original biopsy confirmed by a Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA/College of American Pathologists (CAP) or equivalent laboratory certification
- For Cohort 1 (rhabdoid tumors only), the following test results must be available by local laboratory: morphology and immunophenotypic panel consistent with rhabdoid tumors, and loss of INI1 or SMARCA4 confirmed by IHC, or molecular confirmation of tumor bi-allelic INI1 or SMARCA4 loss or mutation when INI1 or SMARCA4 IHC is equivocal or unavailable
- For Cohort 2 (subjects with relapsed/refractory synovial sarcoma only), the following tests must be available by local laboratory: Morphology consistent with synovial sarcomas, and cytogenetics or fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) and/or molecular confirmation (e.g., DNA sequencing) of SS18 rearrangement t(X;18)(p11;q11)
- For Cohort 3, 4, 5, 7 and 8 (subjects with INI1-negative/aberrant tumors or any solid tumor with EZH2 GOF mutation only), the following test results must be available by local laboratory: Morphology and immunophenotypic panel consistent with INI1-negative tumors (not applicable for solid tumors with EZH2 GOF mutation), and loss of INI1 confirmed by IHC, or molecular confirmation of tumor bi-allelic INI1 loss or mutation when INI1 IHC is equivocal or unavailable, or molecular evidence of EZH2 GOF mutation
- For Cohort 6 (subjects with ES undergoing optional tumor biopsy) only:
- Morphology and immunophenotypic panel consistent with ES (e.g., CD34, EMA, Keratin, and INI1)
- Has all prior treatment (i.e. chemotherapy, immunotherapy, radiotherapy) related clinically significant toxicities resolve to ≤Grade 1 per CTCAE version 4.0.3 or are clinically stable and not clinically significant, at time of enrollment.
- Prior anti-cancer therapy(ies), if applicable, must be completed according to the criteria below:
- Chemotherapy: cytotoxic (At least 14 days since last dose of chemotherapy prior to first dose of tazemetostat)
- Chemotherapy: nitrosoureas (At least 6 weeks since last dose of nitrosoureas prior to first dose of tazemetostat)
- Chemotherapy: non-cytotoxic (e.g., small molecule inhibitor) (At least 14 days since last dose of non-cytotoxic chemotherapy prior to first dose of tazemetostat)
- Monoclonal antibody(ies) (At least 28 days since the last dose of any monoclonal antibody prior to first dose of tazemetostat)
- Immunotherapy (e.g. tumor vaccine) (At least 42 days since last dose of immunotherapy agent(s) prior to first dose of tazemetostat)
- Radiotherapy (RT) (At least 14 days from last local site RT prior to first dose of tazemetostat/At least 21 days from stereostatic radiosurgery prior to first dose of tazemetostat/At least 12 weeks from craniospinal, ≥50% radiation of pelvis, or total body irradiation prior to first dose of tazemetostat)
- High dose therapy with autologous hematopoietic cell infusion (At least 60 days from last infusion prior to first dose of tazemetostat)
- Hematopoietic growth factor (At least 14 days from last dose of hematopoietic growth factor prior to first dose of tazemetostat)
- Has sufficient tumor tissue (slides or blocks) available for central confirmatory testing
- Has measurable disease based on eith
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