E.1 Medical condition or disease under investigation |
E.1.1 | Medical condition(s) being investigated |
Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma |
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E.1.1.1 | Medical condition in easily understood language |
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E.1.1.2 | Therapeutic area | Diseases [C] - Cancer [C04] |
MedDRA Classification |
E.1.2 Medical condition or disease under investigation |
E.1.2 | Version | 14.1 |
E.1.2 | Level | PT |
E.1.2 | Classification code | 10073071 |
E.1.2 | Term | Hepatocellular carcinoma |
E.1.2 | System Organ Class | 10029104 - Neoplasms benign, malignant and unspecified (incl cysts and polyps) |
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E.1.3 | Condition being studied is a rare disease | No |
E.2 Objective of the trial |
E.2.1 | Main objective of the trial |
To assess the disease control rate at 16 weeks for subjects treated with SGI-110 after failure of sorafenib |
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E.2.2 | Secondary objectives of the trial |
• To assess the safety and tolerability of SGI-110 treatment
• To determine progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) of SGI-110 treatment
• To determine alpha fetoprotein (AFP) response to SGI-110 treatment
• To determine the biological effect of SGI-110 on methylation of long interspersed nucleotide elements-1 (LINE-1) in blood and tumor tissue
• To determine the pharmacokinetics (PK) of SGI-110 and decitabine in subjects with HCC
• To determine the methylation status, and re-expression of silenced genes, in particular tumor suppressor genes (TSGs) such as RASSF1A, SFRP, MZB1, P16, and others, after SGI-110 treatment
• To explore baseline mutation status of certain genes such as p53, or the methylation status of selected genes in tumor tissue before and after SGI-110 treatment as predictive of response to therapy |
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E.2.3 | Trial contains a sub-study | No |
E.3 | Principal inclusion criteria |
1. Subjects who are 18 years of age or older
2. Subjects who have histological or cytological confirmed HCC, with advanced stage disease
3. Subject with life expectancy of at least 16 weeks
4. Subjects who have received prior sorafenib treatment, and showed evidence of disease progression, which is defined as Investigator verified radiologic progression, or intolerance of prior systemic therapy, which is defined as having had clinically significant adverse events that persisted despite one or more dose reductions or interruptions. Subjects may have received prior systemic therapy other than sorafenib, or other treatment for HCC such as embolization, chemoembolization, intra-arterial chemotherapy, ethanol injection, ablative therapy, cryosurgery, or other locoregional or targeted therapy.
5. Subjects with ECOG performance status of 0-1
6. Subjects with acceptable organ function, as evidenced by laboratory data:
A. Aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and alanine aminotransferase (ALT) < 5.0 X upper limit of normal (ULN)
B. Total serum bilirubin ≤ 2 mg/dL
C. Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) ≥ 1000 cells/mm3
D. Platelets ≥ 75,000/mm3
E. Serum creatinine levels ≤ 1.25 X ULN OR calculated (by Cockcroft-Gault formula)/measured creatinine clearance (CrCL) ≥ 50 mL/min
F. Prothrombin time (PT) ≤ 6 sec above ULN, or international normalized ratio (INR) ≤ 2.3
7. Subjects and their partners with reproductive potential must agree to use effective contraceptive measures during the study and for 3 months following the last dose of study drug. Effective contraception includes methods such as oral contraceptives, double-barrier method (condom plus spermicide or diaphragm), or abstaining from sexual intercourse.
8. Subjects who sign an approved informed consent form for the study
9. Subjects who are willing and able to comply with the protocol and study procedures, in particular willingness to undergo tumor biopsy before (at baseline pretreatment), and after treatment with SGI-110 (Day 8 of Cycles 1 or 2) |
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E.4 | Principal exclusion criteria |
1. Subjects who have known hypersensitivity to SGI-110
2. Subjects who have received radiation therapy, other locoregional therapy, or chemotherapy within 4 weeks prior to the first dose of study drug. Subjects treated with sorafenib or other targeted agents must have been at least 2 weeks post treatment or at least 5 half-lives from last treatment. Subjects must have recovered from any significant toxicities associated with those therapies.
3. Subjects who are at poor medical risk because of other systemic diseases or active uncontrolled infections
4. Subjects with a life-threatening illness, medical condition or organ system dysfunction, or other reasons which, in the Investigator’s opinion, could compromise the subject’s safety, interfere with the metabolism of SGI-110, or compromise the integrity of the study outcomes
5. Subjects with abnormal left ventricular ejection fraction (<50%) on echocardiogram or multiple-gated acquisition scan (MUGA)
6. Subjects with uncontrolled ischemic heart disease or a history of congestive cardiac failure of ≥ Grade 3 severity according to New York Heart Association (NYHA)
7. Subjects with known brain metastases
8. Subjects with esophageal or gastric variceal bleeding within the last 6 months. Subjects at risk for varices (based on the following: known history of esophageal or gastric varices; evidence of hepatic cirrhosis and/or portal hypertension including biopsy-proven cirrhosis, hypersplenism, or radiographic findings of varices) will be screened (using either esophagogastroduodenoscopy [EGD] or capsule endoscopy) for esophageal varices, unless such screening has been performed in the past one year from study entry and the subject is receiving medical treatment for prophylaxis of variceal bleeding, such as non-selective beta blockade. If varices are identified that require intervention (banding), the subject will not be eligible until varices are adequately treated.
9. Subjects with clinically evident ascites (minimal, medically controlled ascites detectable on imaging studies only is allowed)
10. Subjects with Child-Pugh C cirrhosis or Child-Pugh B cirrhosis with more than 7 points
11. Subjects with encephalopathy in the last 6 months; however, subjects who are on stable dose or schedule of lactulose and/or neomycin and xifaxan are allowed
12. Subjects with active hepatitis B infection not on adequate antiviral therapy13. Subjects with prior malignancy, except for adequately treated basal cell or squamous cell skin cancer, in situ cervical cancer, non-metastatic prostate cancer with normal PSA or other cancer from which the subject has been disease free for at least three years
14. Subjects with known history of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) |
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E.5 End points |
E.5.1 | Primary end point(s) |
Disease control rate at 16 weeks defined as percentage of subjects who achieve a best clinical response of complete response or partial response plus subjects who have stable disease at 16 weeks using RECIST v1.1. |
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E.5.1.1 | Timepoint(s) of evaluation of this end point |
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E.5.2 | Secondary end point(s) |
• The incidence and severity of adverse events (AEs)
• DCR as defined above using modified RECIST (mRECIST) assessment for HCC
• Percentage of subjects with AFP level reduction by 50% or more
• Duration of response (DOR)
• Progression-free survival (PFS)
• Overall survival (OS)
• Cmax, Cmin, AUC and other secondary PK parameters of SGI-110 and decitabine in during Cycle 1
• Global DNA methylation (LINE-1 assay) in blood and in tumor tissue after SGI-110 treatment compared to baseline levels
• Methylation status of selected genes (e.g. RASSF1A, SFRP, MZB1, P16, and others) in tumor tissue before and after SGI-110 treatment
• Evaluation of methylation of circulating cell free DNA and analysis of mutation status of selected genes such as p53 in both tumor tissue and circulating tumor DNA. |
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E.5.2.1 | Timepoint(s) of evaluation of this end point |
These are assessed at the end of participation. These are not critical to the analysis of results. |
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E.6 and E.7 Scope of the trial |
E.6 | Scope of the trial |
E.6.1 | Diagnosis | No |
E.6.2 | Prophylaxis | No |
E.6.3 | Therapy | No |
E.6.4 | Safety | Yes |
E.6.5 | Efficacy | Yes |
E.6.6 | Pharmacokinetic | Yes |
E.6.7 | Pharmacodynamic | Yes |
E.6.8 | Bioequivalence | No |
E.6.9 | Dose response | No |
E.6.10 | Pharmacogenetic | No |
E.6.11 | Pharmacogenomic | No |
E.6.12 | Pharmacoeconomic | No |
E.6.13 | Others | No |
E.7 | Trial type and phase |
E.7.1 | Human pharmacology (Phase I) | No |
E.7.1.1 | First administration to humans | No |
E.7.1.2 | Bioequivalence study | No |
E.7.1.3 | Other | No |
E.7.1.3.1 | Other trial type description | |
E.7.2 | Therapeutic exploratory (Phase II) | Yes |
E.7.3 | Therapeutic confirmatory (Phase III) | No |
E.7.4 | Therapeutic use (Phase IV) | No |
E.8 Design of the trial |
E.8.1 | Controlled | No |
E.8.1.1 | Randomised | No |
E.8.1.2 | Open | Yes |
E.8.1.3 | Single blind | No |
E.8.1.4 | Double blind | No |
E.8.1.5 | Parallel group | No |
E.8.1.6 | Cross over | No |
E.8.1.7 | Other | No |
E.8.2 | Comparator of controlled trial |
E.8.2.1 | Other medicinal product(s) | No |
E.8.2.2 | Placebo | No |
E.8.2.3 | Other | No |
E.8.3 |
The trial involves single site in the Member State concerned
| No |
E.8.4 | The trial involves multiple sites in the Member State concerned | Yes |
E.8.4.1 | Number of sites anticipated in Member State concerned | 2 |
E.8.5 | The trial involves multiple Member States | No |
E.8.6 Trial involving sites outside the EEA |
E.8.6.1 | Trial being conducted both within and outside the EEA | Yes |
E.8.6.2 | Trial being conducted completely outside of the EEA | No |
E.8.6.3 | If E.8.6.1 or E.8.6.2 are Yes, specify the regions in which trial sites are planned |
Canada |
Korea, Republic of |
United States |
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E.8.7 | Trial has a data monitoring committee | No |
E.8.8 |
Definition of the end of the trial and justification where it is not the last
visit of the last subject undergoing the trial
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E.8.9 Initial estimate of the duration of the trial |
E.8.9.1 | In the Member State concerned years | 1 |
E.8.9.1 | In the Member State concerned months | 6 |
E.8.9.1 | In the Member State concerned days | 0 |
E.8.9.2 | In all countries concerned by the trial years | 2 |
E.8.9.2 | In all countries concerned by the trial months | 0 |
E.8.9.2 | In all countries concerned by the trial days | 0 |