Testing the Anti-cancer Drug, Cirtuvivint, and Its Combination With ASTX727 to Improve Outcomes in Patients With Acute Myeloid Leukemia and Myelodysplastic Syndromes
This phase I trial tests the safety, side effects, and best dose of SM08502 (cirtuvivint) alone and in combination with ASTX727 in treating patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS). Cirtuvivint may stop the growth of cancer cells by blocking some of the enzymes needed for cell growth. ASTX727 is a combination of two drugs, decitabine and cedazuridine. Decitabine is in a class of medications called hypomethylation agents. It works by helping the bone marrow produce normal blood cells and by killing abnormal cells in the bone marrow. Cedazuridine is in a class of medications called cytidine deaminase inhibitors. It prevents the breakdown of decitabine, making it more available in the body so that decitabine will have a greater effect. Giving cirtuvivint alone or in combination with ASTX727 may be safe, tolerable, and/or effective in treating patients with AML and MDS.
Eligibility criteria
Qualifiers
In Cohorts I and II, patients must have R/R AML or MDS (venetoclax naïve or venetoclax exposed)
Relapsed AML is defined as the appearance of 5% or greater myeloblasts in the bone marrow or peripheral blood after achieving a complete remission (CR), CR with partial hematologic recovery (CRh), or CR with incomplete hematologic recovery (CRi). Patients with a mutation in FLT3, IDH1 or IDH2 must have failed or been intolerant of a corresponding Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved FLT3, IDH1 or IDH2 inhibitor before enrolling on study. The initial diagnosis of AML is defined by the ELN 2022 criteria, and therefore patients with either AML (peripheral blood or bone marrow blasts ≥ 20% or blasts ≥ 10% with recurrent genetic abnormalities) or MDS/AML (peripheral blood or bone marrow blasts 10-19%) are eligible
Refractory AML is defined as failure to achieve a CR, CRh, or CRi after one of the following regimens: (i) ≥ 2 cycles of intensive induction chemotherapy with a cytarabine containing regimen (e.g., 7+3, mitoxantrone, etoposide, cytarabine [MEC], high-dose cytarabine [HIDAC], reinduction chemotherapy such as 5 + 2, etc.) or, (ii) ≥ 2 cycles of hypomethylating agent (HMA)/venetoclax or low-dose cytarabine (LDAC)/glasdegib or, (iii) ≥ 4 cycles of HMA monotherapy. The initial diagnosis of AML is defined by the ELN 2022 criteria, and therefore patients with either AML (peripheral blood or bone marrow blasts ≥ 20% or blasts ≥ 10% with recurrent genetic abnormalities) or MDS/AML (peripheral blood or bone marrow blasts 10-19%) are eligible
Patients with MDS/AML (blasts 10-19%) who progress to AML (blasts ≥ 20%) after treatment will be considered relapsed or refractory MDS/AML, and not as newly-diagnosed AML (i.e. the patients' treatment history for eligibility purposes does not reset)
Disqualifiers
Patients who have not recovered from adverse events due to prior anti-cancer therapy (i.e., have residual toxicities > grade 1) with the exception of alopecia or abnormal blood counts
Patients who are receiving any other investigational agents
Systemic anti-leukemic or other antineoplastic therapy within 14 days of first day of study treatment. Hydroxyurea may be continued through cycle 1 of treatment. Hydroxyurea is discouraged in subsequent cycles and should be discussed beforehand with principal investigator. If on venetoclax, then a wash-out period of at least five times the half-life of venetoclax is required. Exceptions: No wash-out required for intrathecal chemotherapy, hydroxyurea, cytarabine (Ara-C), or palliative radiation therapy to painful sites of leukemic disease. Patients are not allowed to receive concurrent therapy such as cytotoxic chemotherapy or radiation therapy for another cancer. Patients on hormonal adjuvant therapy for non-metastatic breast and prostate cancer or other minimally-myelosuppressive maintenance therapies for non-metastatic cancer may be eligible at the discretion of the study principal investigator (PI)
Patient is receiving known inhibitors or activators of flavin-containing monooxygenases (FMO1 or FMO3), and these cannot be stopped at least 5 days prior to SM08502 (cirtuvivint) treatment start. Known inhibitors of FOMO are chlorpromazine and imipramine