This poster presents RCC data from a dose-escalation study designed to determine the recommended phase 2 dose of PT2977 (NCT02974738). Data from 55 patients metastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCC) treated with drug at a 120 mg dose was presented. By IMDC criteria, 3/4 of patients were an intermediate risk, and 18% were poor risk. The patients were heavily pre-treated, with a median of 3 prior treatments, most commonly VEGF/VEGFR axis targeting agents or checkpoint inhibitor immunotherapy.
Median progression-free survival at the time of analysis was 11 months, and the overall response rate was 24% (all partial responses). 69% of patients experienced some form of tumor shrinkage on therapy. Treatment is ongoing in a total of 29% of the original cohort. While most responses were noted by 20 weeks, at least two patients experienced marked tumor shrinkage at the 40-week timepoint.
Therapy was tolerated reasonably well, and common side effects included anemia, fatigue, and dyspnea. Anemia was managed with erythropoietin supplementation. Of note, 26% of patients experienced hypoxia, which like other common side effects listed is thought to be related to on target HIF-2alpha inhibition. This resolved with oxygen supplementation and was reversible with drug cessation.
In summary, PT2977 was reasonably tolerated and resulted in partial and durable responses in a heavily treated cohort of mRCC patients. Further study of this compound in mRCC is planned in a phase 3 monotherapy trial.
Presented by: Eric Jonasch, MD, Professor, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
Written by: Alok Tewari, MD, PhD, Medical Oncology Fellow at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, at the 2019 European Society for Medical Oncology annual meeting, ESMO 2019 #ESMO19, 27 Sept - 1 Oct 2019 in Barcelona, Spain