Afatinib Expanded Access Program
Status: | Approved for marketing |
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Conditions: | Lung Cancer |
Therapuetic Areas: | Oncology |
Healthy: | No |
Age Range: | 18 - Any |
Updated: | 12/1/2016 |
Start Date: | July 2012 |
End Date: | March 2014 |
LUX-Lung EAP US; An Open Label Expanded Access Program of Afatinib (BIBW 2992) for Patients With Locally Advanced or Metastatic Non-small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) Harboring EGFR Mutation(s)
This is an open-label, multi-center, single-arm trial, designed to provide early access to
afatinib and to provide additional information on the safety and efficacy of afatinib in
advanced NSCLC patients who harbor an EGFR mutation.
afatinib and to provide additional information on the safety and efficacy of afatinib in
advanced NSCLC patients who harbor an EGFR mutation.
Inclusion criteria:
Patients with:
1. locally advanced or metastatic Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC)
2. Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (EGFR) mutation-positive result per the
institution's testing methodology.
3. male or female patients age >=18 years
4. Adequate organ function, defined as all of the following:
1. Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction (LVEF) >50% or within institution normal
values
2. Absolute Neutrophil Count (ANC) > 1500/mm3.
3. Platelet count >75,000/mm3
4. Serum creatinine < 1.5 times of the upper limit of normal
5. Total Bilirubin < 1.5 times upper limit of (institutional) normal.
6. Aspartate Amino Transferase (AST) or Alanine Amino Transferase (ALT) < three
times the upper limit of (institutional) normal (ULN).
5. ECOG score between 0 - 2
6. written informed consent by patient or guardian prior to admission into the trial
that is consistent with International Conference on Harmonisation (ICH)- Good
Clinical Practice (GCP) guidelines and local law.
Exclusion criteria:
Patients who or with:
1. hormonal anti-cancer treatment within 2 weeks prior to start of trial treatment
(continued use of anti-androgens and/or gonadorelin analogues for treatment of
prostate cancer permitted)
2. Radiotherapy within 14 days prior to drug administration, except as follows:
1. Palliative radiation to organs other than chest may be allowed up to 2 weeks
prior to drug administration, and
2. Single dose palliative treatment for symptomatic metastasis outside above
allowance to be discussed with sponsor prior to enrolling.
3. major surgery within 4 weeks before starting trial treatment or scheduled for surgery
during the projected course of the trial
4. known hypersensitivity to afatinib or any of its excipients
5. history or presence of clinically relevant cardiovascular abnormalities such as
uncontrolled hypertension, congestive heart failure New York Heart Association (NYHA)
classification of 3, unstable angina or poorly controlled arrhythmia as determined by
the treating physician. Myocardial infarction within 6 months prior to starting trial
treatment.
6. are Women of Child-Bearing Potential (WOCBP) and men who are able to father a child,
unwilling to be abstinent or use adequate contraception prior to trial entry, for the
duration of trial participation and for at least 2 weeks after treatment has ended.
7. childbearing potential who are: a) are nursing or b) are pregnant or c) are not using
an acceptable method of birth control, or do not plan to continue using this method
throughout the trial and/or do not agree to submit to pregnancy testing required by
this protocol
8. any history of or concomitant condition that, in the opinion of the treating
physician, would compromise the patient's ability to comply with the trial or
interfere with the evaluation of safety for the trial drug
9. previous or concomitant malignancies at other sites, except effectively treated
non-melanoma skin cancers, carcinoma in situ of the cervix, ductal carcinoma in situ
or effectively treated malignancy that has been in remission for more than 3 years
and is considered to be cured.
10. requiring treatment with any of the prohibited concomitant medications listed in
Section 4.2.2 of the protocol that can not be stopped for the duration of trial
participation
11. known pre-existing interstitial lung disease
12. presence of poorly controlled gastrointestinal disorders that could affect the
absorption of the trial drug based on treating physician assessment.
13. active hepatitis B infection, active Hepatitis C (HEP C) infection and/or known Human
Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) carrier.
14. meningeal carcinomatosis
15. symptomatic brain metastases (patients with asymptomatic brain metastases, who were
previously treated, are eligible provided they have had Stable Disease (SD) for at
least 4 weeks on stable doses of medication)
We found this trial at
66
sites
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