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NCT03889795Active, not recruitingPhase 1

Phase IB Metformin, Digoxin, Simvastatin in Solid Tumors

Phase IB Trial of Metformin, Digoxin, Simvastatin in Subjects With Advanced Pancreatic Cancer and Other Advanced Solid Tumors

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 20 Oct 2025

Brief summary (registry, in English)

This is a single-center trial in subjects with pancreatic cancer and other advanced solid tumors. It is an open-label, single arm dose escalation Phase IB trial with subjects accrued in a 3 subject dose escalation cohort. Subjects with treated advanced solid tumors, and showing disease progression on established standard therapy, will be enrolled in this trial.

Status (registry)
Active, not recruiting
Phase (registry)
Phase 1
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
15 (estimated)
First submitted
19 Mar 2019
Start date
5 Jun 2019
Primary completion date
30 Dec 2026
Lead sponsor
Danae Hamouda, MD
NCT number
NCT03889795

What you commit to

  • Study type: Interventional · Phase 1
  • Planned participants: 15
  • From 5 Jun 2019 to the primary completion date, 30 Dec 2026
  • 1 site in 1 country
  • 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

  • Brain metastases unless treated with curative intent (gamma knife or surgical resection) and without evidence of progression for ≥ 2 months.
  • Live vaccination for the prevention of infectious disease administered \<30 days prior to the start of study therapy or inactivated vaccination \<14 days prior to the start of study therapy.

Other illness

  • Anti-cancer chemotherapy, biologic therapy or immunotherapy within 3 weeks or radiation therapy within 2 weeks of first infusion.
  • Patients with only PET non-avid disease.
  • Known history of rhabdomyolysis.
  • Known HIV or chronic Hepatitis B or C infection.
  • Have signs and symptoms consistent with an active infection.
  • History of severe allergic, anaphylactic, or other hypersensitivity reactions to Metformin, Simvastatin, and/or Digoxin.

Lab values

  • History of or current evidence of any condition (including medical, psychiatric or substance abuse disorder), therapy, or laboratory abnormality that might confound the results of the study, interfere with the subject's participation for the full duration of the study, or is not in the best interest of the subject to participate, in the opinion of the Investigator.
  • Patients diagnosed with Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome or electrocardiographic (ECG) pattern. Other cardiac conditions including: Previous MI with evidence of residual electrographic pattern consisted with bradycardia/heart block. Atrio-ventricular (AV) heart block (currently ongoing). History of ventricular fibrillation. Sick Sinus Syndrome or Sinus bradycardia thought to be caused by sinus node disease, unless effectively treated. Heart failure associated with preserved left ventricular ejection fraction, including constructive pericarditis, restrictive cardiomyopathy, and Amyloid heart muscle disease.
  • Women of childbearing potential who are found to be pregnant as evidenced by positive serum pregnancy test (minimum sensitivity 25 IU/L or equivalent units of HCG) or nursing.

Age

  • Known history of other malignancy unless having undergone curative intent therapy without evidence of that disease for ≥ 3 years except cutaneous squamous cell and basal cell skin cancer, superficial bladder cancer, in situ cervical cancer or other in situ cancers are allowed if definitively resected.

Who the study is looking for

  • Subject ≥18 years with histologically confirmed solid tumor.
  • Dose expansion subjects must have at least one tumor mass amenable to core needle biopsy.
  • Refractory or intolerant to established standard of care.
  • Have at least one tumor mass amenable to core needle biopsy. Adequate Archival Tissue required for patients that will take part in the dose escalation cohorts.
  • ECOG performance status (PS) = 0-2, or Karnofsky PS ≥60%, or Lansky PS ≥60%.
  • Normal organ and marrow function: absolute granulocyte count ≥1,000/mm3, absolute lymphocyte count ≥400/mm3, platelets ≥100,000/mm3, total bilirubin ≤ institutional upper normal limit, AST/ASL ≤2x institutional upper limit of normal, GFR \>60 mL/min/1.73 m2 and creatinine \<1.5 mg/dL.
  • Subject has recovered to CTCAE Grade 1 or better from all adverse events associated with prior therapy or surgery. Pre-existing motor or sensory neurologic pathology or symptoms must be recovered to CTCAE Grade 2 or better.
  • If female of childbearing potential, has a negative urine or serum pregnancy test. If the urine test is positive or cannot be confirmed as negative, a negative serum test will then be required for study entry.
  • Ability to understand and the willingness to sign a written informed protocol specific consent.

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

Full criteria on ClinicalTrials.gov

Sites (1)

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SiteCityCountrySite status
University of Toledo, Eleanor N. Dana Cancer Center
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ToledoUnited StatesUnknown status

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