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Phase II Trial of Sorafenib (Nexavar) in Patients With Advanced Thyroid Cancer

Phase II Study of BAY 43-9006 in Patients With Metastatic Thyroid Cancer

Status
Completed
Phases
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT00654238
Enrollment
59
Registered
2008-04-07
Start date
2006-02-28
Completion date
2011-03-31
Last updated
2019-11-18

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Metastatic Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer, Metastatic Differentiated Thyroid Cancer, Metastatic Medullary Thyroid Cancer, Metastatic Poorly Differentiated Thyroid Cancer

Keywords

Thyroid Cancer, Anaplastic, Medullary, sorafenib

Brief summary

The goal of this study is to determine the activity of sorafenib in patients with advanced (metastatic or recurrent) thyroid cancer.

Interventions

DRUGsorafenib

400mg PO BID daily

Sponsors

University of Pennsylvania
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

* Patients must have histologically confirmed thyroid cancer that is metastatic or unresectable and for which standard curative or palliative measures do not exist or are no longer effective. * Patients may have received multiple treatments of radioactive iodine, one prior biologic treatment, and at least half of the patients will have had no prior chemotherapy for metastatic disease. At least 3 weeks must have elapsed since prior treatment. * Measurable disease defined as at least one malignant lesion that can be accurately and serially measured in at least one dimension (longest diameter to be recorded), using a caliper (diameter \> 10 mm) for superficial cutaneous disease, or using contrast-enhanced CT or spiral CT (diameter \> 20 mm) for visceral or nodal/soft tissue disease. * ECOG performance status \< 2 (Appendix 1). * Life expectancy greater than 3 months. * Adequate organ function that has been determined within 7 days prior to enrollment, defined as:Leucocyte count \> 3,000/uL; Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) \> 1,500/mm3, platelets \> 100,000/mm3, and hemoglobin \> 9 g/dl; Serum creatinine \< 1.5 times ULN, or 24-hour creatinine clearance \> 75 cc/min. (Note: creatinine clearance need not be determined if the baseline serum creatinine is within normal limits); Serum bilirubin \< 1.5 times ULN; serum glutamyloxaloacetic transaminase (SGOT) \< 2.5 ULN; alkaline phosphatase \< 2.5 times ULN; PT-INR/PTT \< 1.5 x upper limit of normal. * Intellectual, emotional, and physical ability to comply with oral medication. * Ability to understand and the willingness to sign a written informed consent * Patients with disease accessible for biopsy will be preferentially selected for participation in the study. Accessible disease includes lymph node metastases. * Female patients of child-bearing potential must have a negative pregnancy test within 14 days before initiation of study drug dosing. Post-menopausal women must be amenorrheic for at least 12 months to be considered non-child-bearing potential. Male and female patients of reproductive potential must agree to use adequate contraception (i.e. hormonal or barrier method of birth control). throughout the study and for 3 months after the study.

Exclusion criteria

* Significant medical disease including: uncontrolled congestive heart failure; active symptoms of coronary artery disease, uncontrolled seizure disorder; active infection; uncontrolled diabetes mellitus; requirement for chronic corticosteroid treatment; requirement for concurrent immunosuppressive drug(s); active autoimmune disease. * Organ allografts. * Known HIV-infection (HIV testing is not required for participation). * Pregnancy or lactation. Women of childbearing potential and sexually active males must be advised to take precautions to prevent pregnancy during treatment * History of second cancer (except adequately treated basal cell or squamous cell skin cancer, in situ cervical cancer, or other cancer for which the patient has been disease-free for five or more years). * Use of any experimental therapy within 3 weeks prior to baseline evaluations done prior to enrollment. * Patients with carcinomatous meningitis are excluded from the study. * Excluded therapies and medications, previous and concomitant:Anticancer chemotherapy or immunotherapy during the study or within 4 weeks prior to the first dose of the study drug; Radiotherapy for the treatment of a symptomatic (e.g. bone metastasis) as clinically indicated is allowed as long as it is not evidence of progressive disease (see 4.5.2); -Biological response modifiers, such as G-CSF, within 3 week prior to study entry. (G-CSF and other hematopoietic growth factors may be used in the management of acute toxicity such as febrile neutropenia when clinically indicated or at the discretion of the investigator; however they may not be substituted for a required dose reduction); Patients taking chronic erythropoietin are permitted provided no dose adjustment is undertaken within 2 months prior to the study or during the study; Investigational drug therapy outside of this trial during or within 4 weeks prior the screening assessment; Use of ketoconazole, itraconazole, and ritonavir; Use of carbamazepine, phenytoin, phenobarbital; Previous exposure to a Ras pathway inhibitor (including herceptin, EGFr inhibitors, farnesyl transferase inhibitors or MEK inhibitors); Use of grapefruit juice products; Use of cyclosporin; * Pregnant or breast feeding.

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
To Determine the Efficacy (Best Response) of BAY 43-9006 (Objective Response Rate and Stable Disease) in Patients With Metastatic Thyroid Carcinoma.From date of randomization until the date of first documented progression or date of death from any cause, whichever came first, assessed up to 60 monthsPer Response Evaluation Criteria In Solid Tumors Criteria (RECIST v1.0) for target lesions and assessed by MRI: Complete Response (CR), Disappearance of all target lesions; Partial Response (PR), \>=30% decrease in the sum of the longest diameter of target lesions; Overall Response (OR) = CR + PR.

Secondary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Median Progression Free Survival in Patients Receiving BAY 43-9006 (Sorafenib).From date of randomization until the date of first documented progression or date of death from any cause, whichever came first, assessed up to 60 monthsThis is the result of the Kaplan Meier analysis of all patients treated with sorafenib

Countries

United States

Participant flow

Participants by arm

ArmCount
Sorafenib
This is a single arm study. sorafenib: 400mg PO BID daily
55
Total55

Withdrawals & dropouts

PeriodReasonFG000
Overall StudyScreen Failures4

Baseline characteristics

CharacteristicSorafenib
Age, Continuous63 years
ECOG Performance Status at Baseline
ECOG Performance Status 0
29 Participants
ECOG Performance Status at Baseline
ECOG Performance Status 1
26 Participants
Histology subtype
Anaplastic
2 Participants
Histology subtype
DIfferentiated
44 Participants
Histology subtype
Medullary
3 Participants
Histology subtype
Poorly Differentiated
6 Participants
Race and Ethnicity Not Collected— Participants
Region of Enrollment
United States
55 participants
Sex: Female, Male
Female
27 Participants
Sex: Female, Male
Male
28 Participants

Adverse events

Event typeEG000
affected / at risk
deaths
Total, all-cause mortality
36 / 55
other
Total, other adverse events
43 / 55
serious
Total, serious adverse events
4 / 55

Outcome results

Primary

To Determine the Efficacy (Best Response) of BAY 43-9006 (Objective Response Rate and Stable Disease) in Patients With Metastatic Thyroid Carcinoma.

Per Response Evaluation Criteria In Solid Tumors Criteria (RECIST v1.0) for target lesions and assessed by MRI: Complete Response (CR), Disappearance of all target lesions; Partial Response (PR), \>=30% decrease in the sum of the longest diameter of target lesions; Overall Response (OR) = CR + PR.

Time frame: From date of randomization until the date of first documented progression or date of death from any cause, whichever came first, assessed up to 60 months

Population: Responses were calculated by total enrolled to each group by histologic subtype.

ArmMeasureGroupCategoryValue (COUNT_OF_PARTICIPANTS)
SorafenibTo Determine the Efficacy (Best Response) of BAY 43-9006 (Objective Response Rate and Stable Disease) in Patients With Metastatic Thyroid Carcinoma.DifferentiatedComplete Response0 Participants
SorafenibTo Determine the Efficacy (Best Response) of BAY 43-9006 (Objective Response Rate and Stable Disease) in Patients With Metastatic Thyroid Carcinoma.DifferentiatedPartial response16 Participants
SorafenibTo Determine the Efficacy (Best Response) of BAY 43-9006 (Objective Response Rate and Stable Disease) in Patients With Metastatic Thyroid Carcinoma.DifferentiatedStable Disease22 Participants
SorafenibTo Determine the Efficacy (Best Response) of BAY 43-9006 (Objective Response Rate and Stable Disease) in Patients With Metastatic Thyroid Carcinoma.DifferentiatedProgressive Disease1 Participants
SorafenibTo Determine the Efficacy (Best Response) of BAY 43-9006 (Objective Response Rate and Stable Disease) in Patients With Metastatic Thyroid Carcinoma.DifferentiatedNot Evaluable for Response5 Participants
SorafenibTo Determine the Efficacy (Best Response) of BAY 43-9006 (Objective Response Rate and Stable Disease) in Patients With Metastatic Thyroid Carcinoma.Poorly DifferenitatedComplete Response0 Participants
SorafenibTo Determine the Efficacy (Best Response) of BAY 43-9006 (Objective Response Rate and Stable Disease) in Patients With Metastatic Thyroid Carcinoma.Poorly DifferenitatedPartial response2 Participants
SorafenibTo Determine the Efficacy (Best Response) of BAY 43-9006 (Objective Response Rate and Stable Disease) in Patients With Metastatic Thyroid Carcinoma.Poorly DifferenitatedStable Disease1 Participants
SorafenibTo Determine the Efficacy (Best Response) of BAY 43-9006 (Objective Response Rate and Stable Disease) in Patients With Metastatic Thyroid Carcinoma.Poorly DifferenitatedProgressive Disease1 Participants
SorafenibTo Determine the Efficacy (Best Response) of BAY 43-9006 (Objective Response Rate and Stable Disease) in Patients With Metastatic Thyroid Carcinoma.Poorly DifferenitatedNot Evaluable for Response2 Participants
SorafenibTo Determine the Efficacy (Best Response) of BAY 43-9006 (Objective Response Rate and Stable Disease) in Patients With Metastatic Thyroid Carcinoma.MedullaryComplete Response0 Participants
SorafenibTo Determine the Efficacy (Best Response) of BAY 43-9006 (Objective Response Rate and Stable Disease) in Patients With Metastatic Thyroid Carcinoma.MedullaryPartial response1 Participants
SorafenibTo Determine the Efficacy (Best Response) of BAY 43-9006 (Objective Response Rate and Stable Disease) in Patients With Metastatic Thyroid Carcinoma.MedullaryStable Disease2 Participants
SorafenibTo Determine the Efficacy (Best Response) of BAY 43-9006 (Objective Response Rate and Stable Disease) in Patients With Metastatic Thyroid Carcinoma.MedullaryProgressive Disease0 Participants
SorafenibTo Determine the Efficacy (Best Response) of BAY 43-9006 (Objective Response Rate and Stable Disease) in Patients With Metastatic Thyroid Carcinoma.MedullaryNot Evaluable for Response0 Participants
SorafenibTo Determine the Efficacy (Best Response) of BAY 43-9006 (Objective Response Rate and Stable Disease) in Patients With Metastatic Thyroid Carcinoma.AnaplasticComplete Response0 Participants
SorafenibTo Determine the Efficacy (Best Response) of BAY 43-9006 (Objective Response Rate and Stable Disease) in Patients With Metastatic Thyroid Carcinoma.AnaplasticPartial response0 Participants
SorafenibTo Determine the Efficacy (Best Response) of BAY 43-9006 (Objective Response Rate and Stable Disease) in Patients With Metastatic Thyroid Carcinoma.AnaplasticStable Disease0 Participants
SorafenibTo Determine the Efficacy (Best Response) of BAY 43-9006 (Objective Response Rate and Stable Disease) in Patients With Metastatic Thyroid Carcinoma.AnaplasticProgressive Disease1 Participants
SorafenibTo Determine the Efficacy (Best Response) of BAY 43-9006 (Objective Response Rate and Stable Disease) in Patients With Metastatic Thyroid Carcinoma.AnaplasticNot Evaluable for Response1 Participants
Secondary

Median Progression Free Survival in Patients Receiving BAY 43-9006 (Sorafenib).

This is the result of the Kaplan Meier analysis of all patients treated with sorafenib

Time frame: From date of randomization until the date of first documented progression or date of death from any cause, whichever came first, assessed up to 60 months

Population: Of the 59 patients that were consented, four patients were deemed ineligible as a result of inadequate CBC and the establishment of an alternative diagnosis resulting from secondary pathology review. Therefore the total number of patients analyzed going forward was 55.

ArmMeasureValue (MEDIAN)
SorafenibMedian Progression Free Survival in Patients Receiving BAY 43-9006 (Sorafenib).77 weeks

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Mar 8, 2026