Abstract

Abstract Current standard-of-care for glioblastoma (GBM) includes surgery followed by radiation with concurrent and adjuvant temozolomide. There are limited treatment options available upon progression or recurrence of disease. Options often involve participation in clinical trials with promising new therapies. However, patients may not meet the strictly defined entry criteria to participate in these clinical trials. Under an Expanded Access (EA) program, we have treated 14 recurrent GBM patients with VAL-083, they were not eligible to participate in other clinical trials. The median time from last progression to start of VAL-083 was 1.0 month (95%CI:0.09-2.67). All patients had received chemoradiation with temozolomide. Five (5/14;36%) patients had ≥ 2 recurrences, 8/14 (57%) had multifocal disease, and the median KPS was 80 (95%CI:70-90). All patients had unmethylated MGMT promoter, 13/14 (93%) were IDH-WT, 9/14 (64%) had a TERT promoter mutation, 6/14 (43%) had a PTEN mutation, and 4/14 (28%) had an EGFR mutation. All patients received treatment with VAL-083 at 30 mg/m2 x 3 days every 21 days. Five patients with cerebral edema refractory to steroids received bevacizumab (BEV;10 mg/kg) concurrently with VAL-083, and 8 patients received dexamethasone (Dex; >4 mg/day) with VAL-083. This is the first report of the use of VAL-083 in combination with BEV (VAL-03/BEV).The main adverse event was thrombocytopenia consistent with prior experience. Four (4/14; 28%) patients had a dose reduction, 3 of which were due to thrombocytopenia. No patients had a dose reduction while receiving VAL-083/BEV. Two patients who progressed on VAL-083, were later treated with CCNU, and myelosuppression was not observed.Median progression-free survival (mPFS) and median overall survival (mOS) from last progression were 5.7 months (95%CI:1.3-7.9) and 8.3 months (95%CI:3.0-14.3), respectively. Additional treatment, safety and outcome data will be presented at the meeting.Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier: NCT03138629. EA treatment plans were approved by MD Anderson Cancer Center IRB.

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