Efficacy and Safety of Everolimus in Patients With Metastatic Colorectal Cancer Who Have Failed Prior Targeted Therapy and Chemotherapy

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2009-03-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

To assess the safety and efficacy of weekly (70 mg per week) and daily (10 mg per day) everolimus in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer whose cancer has progressed despite prior treatment with targeted therapy and chemotherapy.

• Phase: Phase 2
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Novartis Pharmaceuticals
• Treatments: Everolimus; Sirolimus

Criteria

Inclusion criteria:

• Age ≥ 18 years old.

• Patients with metastatic colorectal cancer (CRC).

• Patients must have sufficient and obtainable tumor tissue for biomarker analysis from original surgical resection.

• Patients with documented disease progression within 6 months of their most recent dose of chemotherapeutic regimens.

• Patients with at least one measurable lesion.

• Adequate bone marrow function.

• Adequate liver function.

• Adequate renal function.

• Patients with a life expectancy of > 3 months.

• Patients with a World Health Organization (WHO) performance status of 0, 1, or 2.

• Women of childbearing potential must have had a negative serum pregnancy test 72 hours prior to the administration of the first study treatment.

• Patients who give a written informed consent obtained according to local guidelines.

Exclusion criteria:

• Patients currently receiving anti-cancer agents or who have received these within 4 weeks prior to study entry.

• Patients who have previously received RAD001.

• Patients with a known hypersensitivity to everolimus or other rapamycins (sirolimus, temsirolimus) or to its excipients.

• Chronic treatment with steroids or another immunosuppressive agent.

• Patients with untreated central nervous system (CNS) metastases or neurologically unstable CNS metastases.

• HIV seropositivity.

• Patients with an active, bleeding diathesis. Patients may use enoxaparin.

• Patients who have any severe and/or uncontrolled medical conditions or other conditions that could affect their participation in the study.

• Patients who have a history of another primary malignancy < 3 years, with the exceptions of non-melanoma skin cancer, and carcinoma in situ of uterine cervix.

• Female patients who are pregnant or breast feeding, or adults of reproductive potential who are not using effective birth control methods.

• Patients who are using other investigational agents or who had received investigational drugs ≤ 4 weeks prior to first study treatment.

• Patients unwilling to or unable to comply with the protocol.

Other protocol defined inclusion/exclusion criteria may apply