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Keep this study
Lead
Swedish Medical Center
With
Novartis
Age
18–any
Sex
ALL
Healthy volunteers
Not accepted
You may be eligible if
Male or female patients aged ≥ 18 years old
Patients with measurable metastatic colorectal cancer
Refractory to at least 2 standard chemotherapy/biologic regimens to include 5FU, oxaliplatin, irinotecan, bevacizumab, cetuximab or combinations thereof
ECOG Performance Status of ≤ 2
Ability to provide written informed consent obtained prior to participation in the study and any related procedures being performed
Laboratory values as follows:
* Neutrophil count of \>1500/mm3
* Platelet count of \> 100,000/mm3L
* Hemoglobin ≥ 9 g/dL
* AST/SGOT and ALT/SGPT ≤ 2.5 x upper limit of normal (ULN) or ≤ 5.0 x ULN if the transaminase elevation is due to disease involvement
* Serum bilirubin ≤ 1.5 x ULN
* Serum creatinine ≤ 1.5 x ULN or 24-hour creatinine clearance ≥ 50 ml/min
* Total serum calcium (corrected for serum albumin) or ionized calcium ≥ LLN
* Serum potassium ≥ LLN
* Serum sodium ≥ LLN
* Serum albumin ≥ LLN or 3g/dl
* Patients with any elevated Alkaline Phosphatase due to bone metastasis can be enrolled
Baseline MUGA or ECHO must demonstrate LVEF ≥ the lower limit of the institutional normal
TSH and free T4 within normal limits (patients may be on thyroid hormone replacement)
Women of childbearing potential (WOCBP) must have a negative serum pregnancy test within 7 days of the first administration of study treatment. and must be willing to use two methods of contraception one of them being a barrier method during the study and for 3 months after last study drug administration
Radiographically bi-dimensionally measurable disease that has not been previously irradiated. If the patient has had previous radiation to the marker lesion(s), there must be evidence of progression since the radiation
Life expectancy must be greater than 12 weeks
You may not be if
Prior HDAC, DAC, HSP90 inhibitors or valproic acid for the treatment of cancer
Patients who will need valproic acid for any medical condition during the study or within 5 days prior to first LBH589 treatment
Impaired cardiac function including any one of the following:
* Screening ECG with a QTc \> 450 msec confirmed by central laboratory prior to enrollment to the study
* Patients with congenital long QT syndrome
* History of sustained ventricular tachycardia
* Any history of ventricular fibrillation or torsades de pointes
* Bradycardia defined as heart rate \< 50 beats per minute. Patients with a pacemaker and heart rate ≥ 50 beats per minute are eligible.
* Patients with a myocardial infarction or unstable angina within 6 months of study entry
* Congestive heart failure (NY Heart Association class III or IV)
* Right bundle branch block and left anterior hemiblock (bifasicular block)
Uncontrolled hypertension
Concomitant use of drugs with a risk of causing torsades de pointes
Concomitant use of CYP3A4 inhibitors
Patients with unresolved diarrhea \> CTCAE grade 1
Impairment of gastrointestinal (GI) function or GI disease that may significantly alter the absorption of oral LBH589
Other concurrent severe and/or uncontrolled medical conditions
Patients who have received chemotherapy, any investigational drug or undergone major surgery \< 4 weeks prior to starting study drug or who have not recovered from side effects of such therapy.
Concomitant use of any anti-cancer therapy or radiation therapy
Women who are pregnant or breast feeding or women of childbearing potential (WOCBP) not willing to use a double barrier method of contraception during the study and 3 months after the end of treatment. One of these methods of contraception must be a barrier method. WOCBP are defined as sexually mature women who have not undergone a hysterectomy or who have not been naturally postmenopausal for at least 12 consecutive months (i.e., who has had menses any time in the preceding 12 consecutive months). Women of childbearing potential (WOCBP) must have a negative serum pregnancy test within 7 days of the first administration of oral LBH589
Male patients whose sexual partners are WOCBP not using a double method of contraception during the study and 3 months after the end of treatment. One of these methods must be a condom
Patients with a history of another primary malignancy within 5 years other than curatively treated CIS of the cervix, or basal or squamous cell carcinoma of the skin
Patients with known positivity for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) ) or hepatitis C; baseline testing for HIV and hepatitis C is not required
Patients with any significant history of non-compliance to medical regimens or with inability to grant a reliable informed consent
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