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NCT Number: NCT05722886

DETERMINE (Determining Extended Therapeutic Indications for Existing Drugs in Rare Molecularly Defined Indications Using a National Evaluation Platform Trial) - Master Screening Protocol

DETERMINE is an open-label phase II/III trial. It will look at targeted treatments in rare cancers or common cancers with rare genetic change (mutation). Patients must have a cancer with an identified mutation. This could be found during routine testing or as part of another research programme. The DETERMINE trial will recruit adults, teenagers and children. If a drug is found to benefit a new patient group, the study team will work with the NHS and the Cancer Drugs Funds to see if these drugs can be available for patients in the future. This clinicaltrials.gov record refers to the Overall Trial Protocol (Master Screening Record), additional records will be added to clinicaltrials.gov for each treatment arm.

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Key information

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Phase 2 / Phase 3

Primary location

Belfast City Hospital, Belfast, United Kingdom

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About this study

DETERMINE is an umbrella-basket platform trial to evaluate the efficacy of licensed targeted therapies in rare* adult, paediatric and teenage/young adult (TYA) cancers with actionable genomic alterations, including common cancers with rare actionable alterations.

*Rare is defined generally as incidence less than 6 cases in 100,000 patients (includes paediatric and TYA cancers) or common cancers with rare alterations.

The number of treatment arms opened will depend on the number of licensed medicines identified for inclusion. Each trial cohort has a target sample size of 30 evaluable patients. Sub-cohorts may be defined and further expanded to a target of 30 evaluable patients each.

This clinicaltrials.gov record refers to the Overall Trial Protocol (Master Screening Record), please refer to the references section for links to the individual treatment arm records.

The main aims of the clinical trial arms are:

  • To describe the anti-cancer activity of licensed targeted drugs outside their licensed indication.
  • To assess the safety and adverse event (AE) profile of licensed, targeted anti-cancer drugs in the target population.
  • To understand biological mechanisms for response and resistance to targeted therapies.
  • To evaluate the quality of life (QoL) of target populations receiving the licensed, targeted anti-cancer drugs.

This Master Screening Record will capture the number of patients with a cancer containing the appropriate genetic alteration that have been successfully allocated and consented to each arm. The trial results (according to the protocol defined outcome measures) will be reported per-arm for each treatment arm.

The ultimate aim is to translate positive clinical findings to the NHS to provide new treatment options for rare adult, paediatric and TYA cancers.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

THE PATIENT MUST FULFIL THE ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA OUTLINED BELOW AND WITHIN THE SPECIFIC TREATMENT ARM APPENDIX TO WHICH THEY ARE ENROLLED.

Core Inclusion Criteria:

  • Any patient (adult patients or children and TYA as defined in each treatment arm appendix) with histologically proven locally advanced or metastatic cancer (solid tumour or haematological malignancy) who has:
  • exhausted (or declined) standard-of-care treatment options.
  • or for whom no effective standard treatment is available.
  • and whose disease has progressed or is refractory. Exceptional circumstances may apply as described in the protocol.
  • Diagnosis of a rare cancer harbouring an actionable genomic alteration, or common cancer types with rare actionable genomic alterations, that has been identified using a validated next-generation sequencing method and for which there is a relevant open treatment arm within the DETERMINE trial.
  • Life expectancy of at least three months.
  • Patients are able to provide written (signed and dated) informed consent and be capable of co-operating with treatment and follow-up. For patients under 16 years old, the parent or legal guardian will be asked to provide written informed consent and the patient will be asked to provide age-appropriate assent (written or verbal, commensurate with age and level of understanding).
  • Patients with objectively evaluable or measurable disease, according to an assessment method appropriate for their cancer type.
  • Patients must provide a fresh tissue biopsy at baseline and blood samples for translational research. Note that for patients with haematological malignancies or neuroblastomas, blood, bone marrow and/or trephine, lymph node or lump biopsy samples may be taken. For patients with haematological malignancies, a skin punch biopsy may also be taken.
  • Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status 0-1 (ECOG performance status 2 may be considered on an individual basis) (adults), Karnofsky score ≥50% (TYA) or Lansky Play scales ≥50% (<12 years). Please see specific treatment arm appendices for any variations on this criterion and for definitions of adult and paediatric populations. Note: Paediatric patients: patients with Central Nervous System (CNS) tumours and a stable neurological deficit may be eligible with a performance status below 50%, at the discretion of the Investigator. In such cases, the deficit must be stable for at least 7 days prior to trial enrolment and be assessed by the local investigator as due to tumour or due to a post-surgical AE.
  • Women of childbearing potential are eligible provided that they meet the following criteria:
  • Have a negative serum or urine pregnancy test before enrolment and
  • Agree to the birth control methods and duration of use of those methods, as specified in each treatment arm appendix.
  • Male patients with partners of childbearing potential are eligible provided that they agree to the birth control methods and duration of use of those methods, as specified in each treatment arm appendix.

Core exclusion criteria:

  • Ongoing AEs Common Terminology Criteria of Adverse Events (CTCAE) Grade ≥2 attributable to previous anti-cancer treatments. Exceptions to this are any clinically stable AEs, which in the opinion of the Investigator should not exclude the patient.
  • At high medical risk, in the opinion of the Investigator, because of non-malignant systemic disease (including active uncontrolled infection).
  • Female patients who are pregnant, breastfeeding or planning to become pregnant or male patients with a partner who is a woman of childbearing potential and is planning to become pregnant during the trial or following the last dose of IMP, as specified in each treatment arm appendix.
  • Is (or plans to be) a patient in another interventional clinical trial, whilst taking part in this trial. Participation in an observational trial which does not involve administration of an Investigational Medicinal Product (IMP) and which, in the opinion of the local Investigator, would not place an unacceptable burden on the patient would be acceptable e.g. sample collection* or QoL studies.

*for paediatric patients participating in other studies involving tissue/circulating tumour (ct) DNA/other blood collection, consideration would need to be given to the total blood volumes collected (as per the European Medicines Agency blood volume limits for children).

  • Co-administration of anti-cancer therapies other than those administered in this trial (with the exception of lifelong hormone suppression such as luteinising hormone agonists/analogues in prostate cancer).
  • Radiotherapy (except for palliative reasons) or chemotherapy, endocrine therapy (except when given for conditions other than malignant disease; e.g. thyroid replacement for hypothyroidism, hydrocortisone for cortisol deficiency/panhypopituitarism), nitrosoureas, mitomycin-C, immunotherapy and molecularly targeted agents or other IMPs within 4 weeks or 5 half-lives (whichever is the shorter).
  • Rapidly progressing or symptomatically deteriorating brain metastases. Patients with previously treated brain metastases are eligible, provided the patient has not experienced a seizure or had a clinically significant change in neurological status within the 14 days (for adult patients) or 7 days (for paediatric patients) prior to the start of IMP administration. Such patients must be non-dependent on steroids or on a stable or reducing dose of steroid treatment for at least 14 days (or 7 days for paediatric patients) prior to the start of IMP administration. Primary brain or CNS malignancies are allowed providing the patient is clinically stable (if requiring corticosteroids must be at stable or decreasing doses for at least 14 days for adults and 7 days for paediatric patients prior to the start of IMP administration). Patients who have received brain irradiation must have completed whole-brain radiotherapy and/or stereotactic radiosurgery at least 14 days prior to the start of IMP administration.
  • Any other condition which, in the opinion of the local Investigator, would not be in the best interests of the patient.

Treatment and study plan

Alectinib

Drug

Adult patients will be administered alectinib orally at a dose of 600 mg (four 150 mg capsules) twice daily.

Paediatric patients with a body weight ≥40 kg and who are able to swallow the capsules will be administered alectinib orally at a dose of 600 mg (four 150 mg capsules) twice daily.

Each cycle of treatment will consist of 28 days and patients may continue on treatment until disease progression without clinical benefit, unacceptable AEs or withdrawal of consent.

Other names: Alecensa

Atezolizumab

Drug

Adult patients will receive 1200 mg of atezolizumab intravenously every 21 days.

Paediatric patients will receive atezolizumab at a dose of 15 mg/kg (maximum 1200 mg) every 21 days.

Patients may continue on treatment until disease progression without clinical benefit, unacceptable AEs or withdrawal of consent.

Other names: Tecentriq

Entrectinib

Drug

Adult and paediatric patients with body surface area (BSA) ≥1.51 m^2 will receive entrectinib orally at a dose of 600 mg daily dose (three 200 mg capsules per day).

Paediatric patients with BSA <1.51 m^2 will receive a dose adjusted for BSA. Each cycle of treatment will consist of 28 days and patients may continue until disease progression without clinical benefit, unacceptable AEs or withdrawal of consent.

Other names: Rozlytrek

Trastuzumab in combination with pertuzumab

Drug

The initial loading dose of trastuzumab is 8 mg/kg body weight followed thereafter by a maintenance dose of 6 mg/kg body weight administered intravenously every 21 days.

The initial loading dose of pertuzumab is 840 mg followed thereafter by a maintenance dose of 420 mg administered intravenously every 21 days. Paediatric patients will receive a dose of pertuzumab adjusted by body weight.

Patients may continue until disease progression without clinical benefit, unacceptable AEs or withdrawal of consent.

Other names: Herceptin in combination with Perjeta

Vemurafenib in combination with cobimetinib

Drug

Patients will receive vemurafenib at a dose of 960 mg (four tablets of 240 mg) orally on a twice daily schedule throughout a 28-day cycle.

Patients will receive cobimetinib at a dose of 60 mg (three tablets of 20 mg) to be taken orally, once daily for 21 consecutive days (days 1 to 21 in each 28-day cycle); followed by a 7-day break.

Patients may continue on treatment until disease progression without clinical benefit, unacceptable AEs or withdrawal of consent.

Other names: Zelboraf in combination with Cotellic

Capmatinib

Drug

Patients will receive capmatinib orally at a daily dose of 800 mg consisting of 400 mg (two 200 mg tablets) twice daily. Each cycle of treatment will consist of 28 days and patients may continue on treatment until disease progression without clinical benefit, unacceptable AEs or withdrawal of consent.

Other names: Tabrecta

Dabrafenib in combination with trametinib

Drug

Adult patients (≥18 years) will receive dabrafenib at a dose of 150 mg (two 75 mg tablets) twice daily (total daily dose 300 mg). Paediatric patients (1 to <12 years) will receive dabrafenib dose adjusted by body weight as 10 mg dispersible tablets orally twice daily. Paediatric patients (≥12 years) and TYA patients (16 to <18 years) will have the option to receive adult or paediatric dosing. Adult patients will receive trametinib at a daily dose of 2 mg (one 2 mg tablet) orally once daily (total daily dose 2 mg). Paediatric patients receive trametinib at a dose adjusted by body weight as 0.05 mg/m^2 powder for oral solution twice daily. Paediatric patients (≥12 years) and TYA patients (16 to <18 years) will have the option to receive adult or paediatric dosing. Each cycle of treatment will consist of 28 days. Patients may continue until disease progression without clinical benefit, unacceptable AEs or withdrawal of consent.

Other names: Tafinlar in combination with Mekinist, Finlee in combination with Spexotras

Primary outcomes

  1. Number of patients who consent to each arm.

    Time frame: Up to 5 years.

    This is a master screening entry with sub-study entries to capture the results of each arm. As such a primary outcome measure for this entry is not relevant, however this entry will be used to report the number of patients with a cancer containing the appropriate genetic alteration that have been successfully allocated and consented to each arm.

Study contacts

Contact information is provided by the study sponsor or research team.

Aida Sarmiento Castro

CONTACT

[email protected]

+44 207 242 0200

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Cancer Research UK

Other

Collaborators

  • Hoffmann-La Roche
  • Novartis Pharmaceuticals
  • Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
  • University of Birmingham
  • University of Manchester

Registry information

Official study title

DETERMINE (Determining Extended Therapeutic Indications for Existing Drugs in Rare Molecularly Defined Indications Using a National Evaluation Platform Trial): An Umbrella-Basket Platform Trial to Evaluate the Efficacy of Targeted Therapies in Rare Adult, Paediatric and Teenage/Young Adult (TYA) Cancers With Actionable Genomic Alterations, Including Common Cancers With Rare Actionable Alterations

Acronym: DETERMINE

Important dates

Study start
2023
Primary completion
2029
Study completion
2029
First posted
Feb 10, 2023
Registry last updated
Jul 1, 2026

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