Open Label Trial to Explore Safety of Combining Afatinib (BIBW 2992) and Radiotherapy With or Without Temozolomide in Newly Diagnosed Glioblastoma Multiform

Summary

This study is a phase I, open label trial to determine the Maximum Tolerated Dose (MTD), safety, pharmacokinetics, and efficacy of BIBW 2992 (an epidermal growth factor receptor(EGFR)inhibitor) to be used in combination with: * radiotherapy alone (in patients with an unmethylated (functioning) MGMT gene regulator) or * radiotherapy and Temozolomide (in patients with a methylated (silenced) O6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase gene (MGMT) to treat newly diagnosed patients with Grade IV Glioblastoma (primary brain cancer).

Timeline

Start

2009-09-17

Primary completion

2017-09-12

Completion

2017-09-12

Publications

• Saran F, Welsh L, James A, McBain C, Gattamaneni R, Jefferies S, Harris F, Pemberton K, Schaible J, Bender S, Cseh A, Brada M. Afatinib and radiotherapy, with or without temozolomide, in patients with newly diagnosed glioblastoma: results of a phase I trial. J Neurooncol. 2021 Dec;155(3):307-317. doi: 10.1007/s11060-021-03877-6. Epub 2021 Nov 17.

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Indications