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NCT02601950CompletedPhase 2

A Study of Tazemetostat in Adult Participants With Soft Tissue Sarcoma

A Phase II, Multicenter Study of the EZH2 Inhibitor Tazemetostat in Adult Subjects With INI1-Negative Tumors or Relapsed/Refractory Synovial Sarcoma

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 22 Jun 2025

Brief summary (registry, in English)

This study will include participants with various types of cancer known as soft-tissue sarcomas. Tissues that can be affected by soft tissue sarcomas include fat, muscle, blood vessels, deep skin tissues, tendons and ligaments. Soft tissue cancers are rare and can occur almost anywhere in the body. Part 1 of this trial will study the safety and the level that adverse effects of the study drug tazemetostat in combination with doxorubicin (current front line treatment) can be tolerated (known as tolerability). It is also designed to establish a recommended study drug dosage for the next part of the study. Part 2 will evaluate and compare how long participants live without their disease getting worse when receiving the study drug plus doxorubicin versus doxorubicin plus placebo (dummy treatment).

Status (registry)
Completed
Phase (registry)
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
267 (actual)
First submitted
21 Oct 2015
Start date
22 Dec 2015
Primary completion date
26 Feb 2024
Lead sponsor
Epizyme, Inc.
NCT number
NCT02601950
EudraCT number
2015-002469-41

What you commit to

  • Study type: Interventional · Phase 2
  • Participants enrolled: 267
  • From 22 Dec 2015 to the primary completion date, 26 Feb 2024
  • 32 sites in 9 countries
  • Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them

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Who cannot take part

Copied verbatim from ClinicalTrials.gov and grouped by topic. Only the trial team decides who can take part.

Prior treatment

  • Has had prior exposure to tazemetostat or other inhibitor(s) of enhancer of zeste homologue-2 (EZH2)
  • Has participated in another interventional clinical study and received investigational drug within 30 days or 5 half-lives, whichever is longer, prior to the planned first dose of tazemetostat
  • Has had major surgery within 3 weeks prior to enrollment
  • Has Thrombocytopenia, neutropenia, or anemia of Grade ≥3 (per CTCAE 4.03 criteria) or any prior history of myeloid malignancies, including myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS). Has abnormalities known to be associated with MDS (e.g. del 5q, chr 7 abn) and MPN (e.g. JAK2 V617F) observed in cytogenetic testing and DNA sequencing.
  • Has a prior history of T-LBL /T-ALL
  • Has cardiovascular impairment, history of congestive heart failure greater than NYHA Class II, uncontrolled arterial hypertension, unstable angina, myocardial infarction, or stroke within 6 months prior to the planned first dose of tazemetostat; or ventricular cardiac arrhythmia requiring medical treatment
  • Is currently taking any prohibited medication(s)
  • Has had a symptomatic venous thrombosis within 2 weeks prior to study enrollment -

Other illness

  • Has had a prior malignancy other than the malignancies under study - EXCEPTION: A subject who has been disease-free for 5 years, or a subject with a history of a completely resected non-melanoma skin cancer or successfully treated in situ carcinoma is eligible
  • Has an active infection requiring systemic treatment
  • Is immunocompromised (i.e. has congenital immunodeficiency), including subjects known history of infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
  • Has known active infection with hepatitis B virus or hepatitis C virus
  • Has known hypersensitivity to any of the component of tazemetostat or other inhibitor(s)of EZH2
  • Is unable to take oral medications, or has a malabsorption syndrome or any uncontrolled gastrointestinal condition (e.g., nausea, diarrhea or vomiting) that would limit compliance with study requirements.
  • Has an uncontrolled intercurrent illness including, but not limited to, uncontrolled infection, or psychiatric illness/social situations that would limit compliance with study requirements.

Lab values

  • For subjects with CNS involvement (primary tumor or metastatic disease), have any active bleeding or new intratumoral hemorrhage of more than punctuate size of screening MRI obtained within 14 days of starting study drug or known bleeding diathesis or treatment with anti-platelet or anti-thrombotic agents

Other

  • Has known active CNS or any leptomeningeal metastasis of primary extra-cranial tumor.
  • Is unwilling to exclude grapefruit juice, Seville oranges and grapefruit from the diet
  • For female subjects of childbearing potential: Is pregnant or nursing
  • For male subjects: Is unwilling to adhere to contraception criteria from time of enrollment in the study to at least 3 months after last dose of tazemetostat.

Who the study is looking for

  • Age (at the time of consent/assent): ≥18 years of age
  • Has an Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0, 1, or 2
  • Has provided signed written informed consent
  • Has a life expectancy of \>3 months
  • Has a malignancy:
    • For which there are no standard therapies available (Cohorts 1, 3, 4 and 5)
    • That is relapsed or refractory after treatment with an approved therapy(ies), defined as metastatic or non-resectable, locally advanced disease that has previously been treated with and progressed following approved therapy(ies) (Cohort 2)
    • That has progressed within 6 months prior to study enrollment (Cohort 5 Expansion, Cohort 6 and Cohort 8 ONLY)
  • Has a documented local diagnostic pathology of original biopsy confirmed by a Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA/College of American Pathologists (CAP) or equivalent laboratory certification
  • For Cohort 1 (rhabdoid tumors only), the following test results must be available by local laboratory: morphology and immunophenotypic panel consistent with rhabdoid tumors, and loss of INI1 or SMARCA4 confirmed by IHC, or molecular confirmation of tumor bi-allelic INI1 or SMARCA4 loss or mutation when INI1 or SMARCA4 IHC is equivocal or unavailable
  • For Cohort 2 (subjects with relapsed/refractory synovial sarcoma only), the following tests must be available by local laboratory: Morphology consistent with synovial sarcomas, and cytogenetics or fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) and/or molecular confirmation (e.g., DNA sequencing) of SS18 rearrangement t(X;18)(p11;q11)
  • For Cohort 3, 4, 5, 7 and 8 (subjects with INI1-negative/aberrant tumors or any solid tumor with EZH2 GOF mutation only), the following test results must be available by local laboratory: Morphology and immunophenotypic panel consistent with INI1-negative tumors (not applicable for solid tumors with EZH2 GOF mutation), and loss of INI1 confirmed by IHC, or molecular confirmation of tumor bi-allelic INI1 loss or mutation when INI1 IHC is equivocal or unavailable, or molecular evidence of EZH2 GOF mutation
  • For Cohort 6 (subjects with ES undergoing optional tumor biopsy) only:
    • Morphology and immunophenotypic panel consistent with ES (e.g., CD34, EMA, Keratin, and INI1)
  • Has all prior treatment (i.e. chemotherapy, immunotherapy, radiotherapy) related clinically significant toxicities resolve to ≤Grade 1 per CTCAE version 4.0.3 or are clinically stable and not clinically significant, at time of enrollment.
  • Prior anti-cancer therapy(ies), if applicable, must be completed according to the criteria below:
    • Chemotherapy: cytotoxic (At least 14 days since last dose of chemotherapy prior to first dose of tazemetostat)
    • Chemotherapy: nitrosoureas (At least 6 weeks since last dose of nitrosoureas prior to first dose of tazemetostat)
    • Chemotherapy: non-cytotoxic (e.g., small molecule inhibitor) (At least 14 days since last dose of non-cytotoxic chemotherapy prior to first dose of tazemetostat)
    • Monoclonal antibody(ies) (At least 28 days since the last dose of any monoclonal antibody prior to first dose of tazemetostat)
    • Immunotherapy (e.g. tumor vaccine) (At least 42 days since last dose of immunotherapy agent(s) prior to first dose of tazemetostat)
    • Radiotherapy (RT) (At least 14 days from last local site RT prior to first dose of tazemetostat/At least 21 days from stereostatic radiosurgery prior to first dose of tazemetostat/At least 12 weeks from craniospinal, ≥50% radiation of pelvis, or total body irradiation prior to first dose of tazemetostat)
    • High dose therapy with autologous hematopoietic cell infusion (At least 60 days from last infusion prior to first dose of tazemetostat)
    • Hematopoietic growth factor (At least 14 days from last dose of hematopoietic growth factor prior to first dose of tazemetostat)
  • Has sufficient tumor tissue (slides or blocks) available for central confirmatory testing
  • Has measurable disease based on either RECIST 1.1 for solid tumors or RANO for CNS tumors
  • Has adequate hematologic (bone marrow \[BM\] and coagulation factors), renal and hepatic function.
  • For subjects with CNS Tumors only, subject must have seizures that are stable, not increasing in frequency or severity and controlled on current anti-seizure medication(s) for a minimum of 21 days prior to the planned first dose of tazemetostat
  • Has a shortening fraction of \>27% or an ejection fraction of ≥50% by echocardiogram (ECHO) or multi-gated acquisition (MUGA) scan and New York Heart Association (NYHA) Class ≤2
  • Has a QT interval corrected by Fridericia's formula (QTcF) ≤480 msec
  • Female subjects of childbearing potential must:
    • Have a negative beta-human chorionic gonadotropin (β-hCG) pregnancy test at time of screening and within 14 days prior to planned first dose of tazemetostat and
    • Agree to use effective contraception from a minimum of 7 days prior to first dose until 6 months following the last dose of tazemetostat and have a male partner who uses a condom, or
    • Practice true abstinence or have a male partner who is vasectomized
  • Male subjects with a female partner of childbearing potential must:
    • Be vasectomized, or
    • Agree to use condoms as defined in Section 8.6.2, from first dose of tazemetostat until 3 months following the last dose of tazemetostat, or
    • Have a female partner who is NOT of childbearing potential

Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers

Full criteria on ClinicalTrials.gov

Sites (32)

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SiteCityCountrySite status
Chris O'Brien Lifehouse
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CamperdownAustraliaUnknown status
Metro South Hospital and Health Service via Princess Alexandra Hospital
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WoolloongabbaAustraliaUnknown status
Institut Jules Bordet Medical Oncology Clinic
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BrusselsBelgiumUnknown status
University Hospital Leuven
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LeuvenBelgiumUnknown status
Alberta Health Services
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EdmontonCanadaUnknown status
McGill University Health Centre, Royal Victoria Hospital
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MontrealCanadaUnknown status
Princess Margaret Hospital
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TorontoCanadaUnknown status
Children's Hospital Augsburg Klinikum
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AugsburgGermanyUnknown status
Sarcoma Center HELIOS Klinikum Berlin
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BerlinGermanyUnknown status
Institut Bergonie
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BordeauxFranceUnknown status
Centre Leon Berard
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LyonFranceUnknown status
Institut Curie
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ParisFranceUnknown status
Hospital Pitie Salpetriere
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ParisFranceUnknown status
Institut Gustave Roussy
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VillejuifFranceUnknown status
Royal Marsden Foundation Trust
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LondonUnited KingdomUnknown status
University College London Hospital
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LondonUnited KingdomUnknown status
Instituto Nazionale Tumori - National Cancer Institute Via Giacomo Venezian
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MilanItalyUnknown status
National Taiwan University Hospital
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TaipeiTaiwanUnknown status
University of Michigan
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Ann ArborUnited StatesUnknown status
University of Colorado Denver
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AuroraUnited StatesUnknown status
Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center
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BostonUnited StatesUnknown status
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
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BostonUnited StatesUnknown status
Northwestern Memorial Hospital
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ChicagoUnited StatesUnknown status
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
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CincinnatiUnited StatesUnknown status
MD Anderson Cancer Center
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HoustonUnited StatesUnknown status
Mayo Clinic- Jacksonville
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JacksonvilleUnited StatesUnknown status
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
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New YorkUnited StatesUnknown status
Oregon Health Sciences University
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PortlandUnited StatesUnknown status
University of California San Francisco
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San FranciscoUnited StatesUnknown status
Seattle Children's Hospital
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SeattleUnited StatesUnknown status
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
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SeattleUnited StatesUnknown status
Washington University
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St LouisUnited StatesUnknown status

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