Study of Safety and Preliminary Efficacy for LDK378 in Japanese Patients With Genetic Alterations in Anaplastic Lymphoma Kinase (ALK)

Summary

Estimation of the Maximum tolerated dose (MTD) and/or Recommended dose (RD) of LDK378 as a single agent when administered orally to Japanese patients with tumors characterized by genetic alterations in anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK)

Timeline

Start

2012-06

Primary completion

2016-01

Completion

2016-01

Publications

• Ono A, Murakami H, Serizawa M, Wakuda K, Kenmotsu H, Naito T, Taira T, Koh Y, Ohde Y, Nakajima T, Endo M, Takahashi T. Drastic initial response and subsequent response to two ALK inhibitors in a patient with a highly aggressive ALK-rearranged inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor arising in the pleural cavity. Lung Cancer. 2016 Sep;99:151-4. doi: 10.1016/j.lungcan.2016.07.002. Epub 2016 Jul 5.
• Nishio M, Murakami H, Horiike A, Takahashi T, Hirai F, Suenaga N, Tajima T, Tokushige K, Ishii M, Boral A, Robson M, Seto T. Phase I Study of Ceritinib (LDK378) in Japanese Patients with Advanced, Anaplastic Lymphoma Kinase-Rearranged Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer or Other Tumors. J Thorac Oncol. 2015 Jul;10(7):1058-66. doi: 10.1097/JTO.0000000000000566.

Drugs

Indications

No indication recorded.