Positive Phase 1 Clinical Data of MTX110 in DMG Brain Cancer Demonstrating Increased Survival Presented at ISPNO 2024
After Only Two Infusions and Two Patients at Optimal Dose,
Median Overall Survival Across all Patients was 16.5 Months
(vs 10.0 Months in Historical Reference Cohort)
(DATELINE)
Results of the Phase 1 study
Overall, the treatment was well tolerated by patients. There was one Grade 4 adverse event assessed by the investigators as unrelated to the drug but related to the infusion and tumor anatomy. Most other adverse events were related to infusion and were deemed Grade 2 to 3.
Although the study was not powered to reliably demonstrate efficacy, median progression free survival (PFS) was 10 months (range 8 to 20 months) and overall survival (OS) of patients in the study was 16.5 months (range 12 to 35 months). This compares favourably with median OS in a cohort of 316 cases of 10.0 months (Jansen et al, 2015. Neuro-Oncology 17(1):160-166).
Design of the Phase 1 study
The open label investigator-initiated study was conducted by
As this was the first ever study of repeated infusions to the pons via an implanted CED catheter, the primary endpoint of the study was to evaluate the safety and maximum tolerated dose with secondary endpoints of Progression Free Survival and Overall Survival.
The number of infusions was limited to two, each of 48 hours, seven days apart. Nine patients were treated in the study (30 M group, n=3; 60 M group, n=4; 90 M group (optimal dose), n=2). Although the study was not powered to reliably demonstrate efficacy, median overall survival (OS) of patients in the study was 16.5 months. This compares favourably with median survival rate in a cohort of 316 cases of 10.0 months (Jansen et al, 2015. Neuro-Oncology 17(1):160-166).
MTX110 in DMG
In
The primary endpoint of the study was to determine the dosage regimen to be used in a proposed Phase II study of the safety and efficacy of MTX110 in patients with DIPG. Preliminary high-level data from the UCSF study supports a dose of between 60μM and 90μM of MTX110, depending upon patient tolerance over the course of 12 infusions in Phase II.
In total, seven patients were recruited into the UCSF study. Patients were newly diagnosed with DMG and received focal external beam radiation therapy four to 14 weeks before commencement of MTX110 treatment. MTX110 was administered directly into the tumour via a micro-catheter using CED with gadolinium-enhanced intra-operative MRI to guide and track drug distribution to the tumour. Patients could receive up to 12 cycles of treatment every four to eight weeks. The dose was escalated between and within patients as tolerated initially by increasing the infusion volume at a concentration of 30μM MTX110 and then with higher drug concentrations of 60μM and 90μM as the sixth and seventh dose increments, respectively.
Median overall survival based on
About MTX110
MTX110 is a water-soluble form of panobinostat free base, achieved through complexation with hydroxypropyl-β-cyclodextrin (HPBCD), that enables CED at potentially chemotherapeutic doses directly to the site of the tumour. Panobinostat is a hydroxamic acid and acts as a non-selective histone deacetylase inhibitor (pan-HDAC inhibitor). The currently available oral formulation of panobinostat lactate (Farydak®) is not suitable for treatment of brain cancers owing to poor blood-brain barrier penetration and inadequate brain drug concentrations. Based on favourable translational science data, MTX110 is being evaluated clinically as a treatment for DMG (NCT03566199, NCT04264143) and recurrent medulloblastoma (NCT04315064), and recurrent glioblastoma (NCT 05324501). MTX110 is delivered directly into and around the patient’s tumor via a catheter system (e.g. CED or fourth ventricle infusions) to bypass the blood-brain barrier. This technique exposes the tumor to very high drug concentrations while simultaneously minimising systemic drug levels and the potential for toxicity and other side effects. Panobinostat has demonstrated high potency against DMG tumor cells in in vitro and in vivo models, and in a key study it was the most promising of 83 anticancer agents tested in 14 patient-derived DMG cell lines (Grasso et al, 2015. Nature Medicine 21(6), 555-559).
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MTX110 is a solubilised formulation of the histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitor, panobinostat. This proprietary formulation enables delivery of the product via convection-enhanced delivery (CED) at chemotherapeutic doses directly to the site of the tumor, by-passing the blood-brain barrier and potentially avoiding systemic toxicity.
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