Date: 2011-12-09
Type of information:
phase: 2
Announcement: results
Company: MediGene (Germany)
Product: EndoTAG®-1
Action mechanism: EndoTAG®-1 is a novel composition of paclitaxel combined with neutral and positive lipids. It attacks activated endothelial cells that are needed for the formation of new tumor blood vessels. The drug candidate selectively attaches itself to newly developed, negatively charged tumor blood vessels, thus attacking only the blood supply of the tumor and not the blood supply of healthy tissue. EndoTAG®-1 is expected to prevent the formation of new vessels and suppress further tumor growth.
Disease: triple-negative breast cancer
Therapeutic area: Cancer - Oncology
Country: Europe, India
Trial
details: 140 patients diagnosed with TNBC participated in the phase II clinical trial. Patients were randomized to three groups and received either EndoTAG®-1 in combination with weekly paclitaxel (55 patients) or EndoTAG®-1 monotherapy (57 patients). The third group (28 patients) only received weekly paclitaxel. The patients treated with combination therapy received 22 mg/m2 EndoTAG®-1 plus 70 mg/m2 paclitaxel once per week. EndoTAG®-1 monotherapy was administered twice per week, in a dosage of 44 mg/m2 per treatment. The paclitaxel monotherapy consisted of a once weekly 90 mg/m2 dose. The clinical trial was conducted in more than 30 centers in several European countries and in India. The study was not powered for intergroup comparisons.
Latest
news: Medigene has announced median overall survival data from its phase II trial of EndoTAG®-1 for the treatment of triple-negative breast cancer, which was presented at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium in San Antonio, USA. The secondary endpoint data confirm the positive efficacy trend of EndoTAG®-1 in combination therapy with standard weekly paclitaxel, which was previously reported by the primary endpoint data (progression-free survival rate at 16 weeks). Furthermore, an additional analysis of a subgroup of patients not predefined in the study protocol (119 of 140 patients: ECOG 0/1, first-line therapy for advanced cancer) showed encouraging overall survival data with EndoTAG®-1/paclitaxel combination therapy. The data were presented by Prof. Dr. Ahmad Awada, principal investigator of this trial and Head of the Medical Oncology Clinic at Jules Bordet Institute in Brussels, Belgium. Median overall survival time (as at reference date "visit week 41" of the last patient treated) for those 133 patients with TNBC status confirmed by central lab was 13.0 months in the EndoTAG®-1/paclitaxel combination therapy arm (51 patients), 11.9 months in the EndoTAG®-1 monotherapy arm (57 patients), and 10.1 months in the paclitaxel monotherapy arm (25 patients). Further data analysis of this group was done for those 124 patients treated per protocol. Median overall survival in this group was 15.1 months in the EndoTAG®-1 combination therapy arm (48 patients), 12.5 months in the EndoTAG®-1 monotherapy arm (52 patients), and 8.9 months in the paclitaxel monotherapy arm (24 patients).
