Phase II trial of AKT inhibitor MK-2206 in patients with advanced breast cancer who have tumors with PIK3CA or AKT mutations, and/or PTEN loss/PTEN mutation
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Phase II trial of AKT inhibitor MK-2206 in patients with advanced breast cancer who have tumors with PIK3CA or AKT mutations, and/or PTEN loss/PTEN mutation
Abstract
Background: The PI3K/AKT pathway is activated through PIK3CA or AKT1 mutations and PTEN loss in breast cancer. We conducted a phase II trial with an allosteric AKT inhibitor MK-2206 in patients with advanced breast cancer who had tumors with PIK3CA/AKT1 mutations and/or PTEN loss/mutation.
Methods: The primary endpoint was objective response rate (ORR). Secondary endpoints were 6-month progression-free survival (6 m PFS), predictive and pharmacodynamic markers, safety, and tolerability. Patients had pre-treatment and on-treatment biopsies as well as collection of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) and platelet-rich plasma (PRP). Next-generation sequencing, immunohistochemistry, and reverse phase protein arrays (RPPA) were performed.
Results: Twenty-seven patients received MK-2206. Eighteen patients were enrolled into the PIK3CA/AKT1 mutation arm (cohort A): 13 had PIK3CA mutations, four had AKT1 mutations, and one had a PIK3CA mutation as well as PTEN loss. ORR and 6 m PFS were both 5.6% (1/18), with one patient with HR+ breast cancer and a PIK3CA E542K mutation experiencing a partial response (on treatment for 36 weeks). Nine patients were enrolled on the PTEN loss/mutation arm (cohort B). ORR was 0% and 6 m PFS was 11% (1/9), observed in a patient with triple-negative breast cancer and PTEN loss. The study was stopped early due to futility. The most common adverse events were fatigue (48%) and rash (44%). On pre-treatment biopsy, PIK3CA and AKT1 mutation status was concordant with archival tissue testing. However, two patients with PTEN loss based on archival testing had PTEN expression on the pre-treatment biopsy. MK-2206 treatment was associated with a significant decline in pAKT S473 and pAKT T308 and PI3K activation score in PBMC and PRPs, but not in tumor biopsies. By IHC, there was no significant decrease in median pAKT S473 or Ki-67 staining, but a drop was observed in both responders.
Conclusions: MK-2206 monotherapy had limited clinical activity in advanced breast cancer patients selected for PIK3CA/AKT1 or PTEN mutations or PTEN loss. This may, in part, be due to inadequate target inhibition at tolerable doses in heavily pre-treated patients with pathway activation, as well as tumor heterogeneity and evolution in markers such as PTEN conferring challenges in patient selection.
Trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT01277757 . Registered 13 January 2011.
Keywords: AKT signaling; Biomarkers; Genomics; PIK3CA mutation; PTEN loss.
Conflict of interest statement
V. Abramson, A. Akcakanat, H. Chen, K-A Do, L.A. Doyle, A.K Eterovic, A.M. Gonzalez-Angulo, G.M. Wulf, L. Yisheng, A. Mahvash, D. Riall, A. Sahin, E. Tarco, V. Valero, Y. Xing have nothing to disclose.
L. C. Cantley reports grants from NCI, Stand Up To Cancer/AACR, Breast Cancer Research Foundation, and the Jon and Mindy Gray Foundation during the conduct of this study. He has a patent: improving responses to cancer drugs by dietary and pharmaceutical interventions that lower serum insulin pending. He is a founder and member of the SAB of Agios Pharmaceuticals and of Petra Pharmaceuticals. These companies are developing novel therapies for cancer. His laboratory also receives some financial support from Petra Pharmaceuticals.
M. Chavez-MacGregor reports grant from Novartis and consulting fees from Roche and Pfizer.
D. Hong reports grants from Merck, Daichii-Sanko, Eisai, Adaptimmune, Abbvie, Astra-Zeneca, BMS, Genmab, infinity, Kite, Kyowa, Medimmune, Molecular Template, Novartis, and Takeda, and personal fees from Mima, LOXO, Bayer, Baxter, Guidepoint Global, Oncoresponse, Takeda, Janssen, and Molecular Match.
R. Hortobagyi reports grants from Merck.
N.U. Lin reports grants from Pfizer, Genentech/Roche, Kadmon, Novartis, and Array Biopharma, and personal fees from Genentech, Shionogi Inc., Seattle Genetics, and Daichii.
J. Litton reports grants from Pfizer, Astra Zeneca, Genentech, EMD Serono, and GSK.
M.A. Mauer is a fulltime employee of Bristol Myers-Squibb. His work at BMS has no direct relationship to the work in this study.
F. Meric-Bernstam reports receiving commercial research grants from Novartis, AstraZeneca, Calithera, Aileron, Bayer, Jounce, CytoMx, eFFECTOR, Zymeworks, PUMA Biotechnology, Curis, Millennium, Daiichi Sankyo, Abbvie, Guardant Health, Takeda, and GlaxoSmithKline as well as grants and travel-related fees from Taiho, Genentech, Debiopharm Group, and Pfizer. She also served as a consultant to Pieris, Dialectica, Sumitomo Dainippon, Samsung Bioepis, Aduro, OrigiMed, Xencor, and Jackson Laboratory, and advisor to Inflection Biosciences, GRAIL, Darwin Health, Clearlight Diagnostics, Spectrum, and Mersana.
G.B. Mills reports grants from Adelson Medical Research Foundation, AstraZeneca, Breast Cancer Research Foundation, Immunomet, Ionis, KarusTherapeutics, Komen Research Foundation,Nanostring, Ovarian Cancer Research Foundation, Pfizer, Prospect Creek Foundation, and Takeda/Millennium Pharmaceuticals; personal fees from AstraZeneca, Catena Pharmaceuticals, Critical Outcome Technologies, ImmunoMET, Ionis, SignalchemLifesciences, Symphogen, Takeda/Millennium Pharmaceuticals, and Tarveda; stock/financial interest in Catena Pharmaceuticals, ImmunoMet, SignalChem, Spindle Top Ventures, and Tarveda; and licensed technology in HRD assay to Myriad Genetics.
S.A. Piha-Paul reports grants from Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp, Genmab, Taiho Oncology, Medimume, LLC, BioMarin Pharmaceutical, Inc., Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Principia Biopharma, Inc., Abbvie, Merck, Pieris Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Puma Biotechnology, Inc., GlaxoSmithKline, Helix BioPharma Corp, Curis, Tesaro, and Medivation.
E. Winer reports personal fees from Genentech, Leap, InfiniteMD, Lilly, Carrick Therapeutics, GSK, and Verastem.
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