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Oral Hydroxychloroquine Plus Oral Sorafenib to Treat Patients With Refractory or Relapsed Solid Tumors

NCT01634893 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE1 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 18

Last updated 2016-03-25

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Patients with recurrent, refractory or metastatic solid tumors have a dismal prognosis with few viable treatment options. Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) is an agent that has been widely used to treat malaria. Because HCQ also inhibits autophagy, a process central to survival of cancer in the face of metabolic stress, including the effects of anti-cancer therapy, it is now in human cancer trials combined with other agents to attempt to boost the efficacy of those agents. Autophagy inhibition improves the activity of sorafenib in hepatocellular carcinoma.

Sorafenib is an oral multi-kinase inhibitor that blocks not only receptor tyrosine kinases such as KIT, VEGFR and PDGFR but also serine/threonine kinases along the RAS/RAF/MEK/ERK pathway.

The investigators propose to treat patients with refractory or relapsed solid tumors with sorafenib, to boost its efficacy while attempting to mitigate its toxicity by combining with HCQ.

Conditions

  • Refractory or Relapsed Solid Tumors

Interventions

DRUG

Sorafenib combined with Hydroxychloroquine

dose escalation of sorafenib combined with hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) to a maximum of sorafenib 400 mg PO BID plus HCQ 400 mg PO QD. Drugs are given on an intermittent schedule of days 1-5/week in a 28-day cycle. Sorafenib alone is given in cycle 1, and HCQ is added in cycle 2.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Tyler Curiel, MD, MPH · University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-06-30
Primary Completion
2015-12-31
Completion
2015-12-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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