Trial of ARQ 197 in Patients With Unresectable Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC) Who Have Failed One Prior Systemic Therapy

Inclusion Criteria

• •Written informed consent granted prior to initiation of any study-specific screening procedures
• •18 year of age or older
• •Histologically or cytologically confirmed HCC
• •Archival, fresh core needle biopsy or fine needle aspiration (FNA) tumor samples
• •Received at least one cycle of prior systemic therapy (at least 3 weeks for continuously administered drugs) and experienced radiographic disease progression or was unable to tolerate therapy. If intolerance was manifested by a Grade 3 or 4 event of such nature that re-challenge is not acceptable, less than 3 weeks of continuous administration will be allowed
• •Discontinued prior treatment for at least 4 weeks, or at least 2 weeks (14 days) if drug was administered continuously and orally (e.g. sorafenib or sunitinib), prior to the study randomization
• •Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) Performance Status (PS) ≤1
• •Local or loco-regional therapy (i.e., surgery, radiation therapy, hepatic arterial embolization, chemoembolization, radiofrequency ablation, percutaneous ethanol injection, or cryoablation) must have been completed ≥4 weeks prior to randomization
• •Measurable disease as defined by a modified version of the revised Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) version 1.1 (see section 9). Tumor lesions previously treated with local therapy should demonstrate clear dimensional increase by radiographic assessment in order to be selected as target lesion(s) at baseline. (Radiological assessment needs to be redone within 7 days prior to randomization if the pre-study AFP level has increased by more than 30% since the last AFP level taken one to four months prior to randomization)
• •Adequate bone marrow, liver, and renal functions at Pre-Study Visit, defined as:
• •* Platelet count ≥ 60 × 10\^9/L
• •* Hemoglobin ≥ 9.0 g/dL
• •* Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) ≥1.5 × 10\^9/L
• •* Total bilirubin ≤ 2 mg/dL
• •* Alanine transaminase (ALT) and aspartate transaminase (AST) ≤ 5 × upper limit of normal (ULN)
• •* Serum creatinine ≤1.5 × ULN
• •* International normalized ratio (INR) 0.8 to 1.4 or ≤3 for patients receiving anticoagulant such as coumadin or heparin. Patients who are therapeutically anticoagulated are allowed to participate provided that no prior evidence of underlying abnormality exists in these parameters
• •* Albumin ≥ 2.8 g/dL
• •Women of childbearing potential must have a negative pregnancy test performed within ten days prior to the start of study drug
• •Male and female subjects of child-bearing potential must agree to use double-barrier contraceptive measures, oral contraception, or avoidance of intercourse during the study and for 90 days after last investigational drug dose received