A Phase II Study of AZD4877 (a Novel Anti-mitotic Agent) in Advanced Bladder Cancer

Summary

The purpose of this Phase II study is to determine if AZD4877, an experimental drug that is a novel anti-mitotic agent (Eg5 or Kinesin Spindle Protein inhibitor that interferes with tumor cell division leading to tumor growth), can reduce tumor sizes in patients with bladder cancer

Timeline

Start

2008-05

Primary completion

2009-05

Completion

2009-12

Outcome

Missed primary endpoint

paper None of the first 20 patients evaluable for efficacy achieved an objective response; enrollment was therefore halted. PMID 23329066 ↗

Publications

• Jones R, Vuky J, Elliott T, Mead G, Arranz JA, Chester J, Chowdhury S, Dudek AZ, Muller-Mattheis V, Grimm MO, Gschwend JE, Wulfing C, Albers P, Li J, Osmukhina A, Skolnik J, Hudes G. Phase II study to assess the efficacy, safety and tolerability of the mitotic spindle kinesin inhibitor AZD4877 in patients with recurrent advanced urothelial cancer. Invest New Drugs. 2013 Aug;31(4):1001-7. doi: 10.1007/s10637-013-9926-y. Epub 2013 Jan 18.

Drugs

Indications