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. 2021 Oct 28;11:737943. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2021.737943

Table 2.

Recruiting info and preliminary results of clinical trials with ibruitinib and acalabrutinib in human diseases beyond B cell malignancies.

Clinical trial Recruitment # Method of Sponsor Location of trial Trial results Major toxicities Ref.
Actual/Target recruiment
Hematological cancers
NCT03267186 8/50 Site-specific Andrew Rezvani, Stanford University United States Not posted Not posted
NCT03642236 122/122 Enrolling by invitation Nanfang Hospital of Southern Medical University China Not posted Not posted
NCT03359460 20/20 Site-specific Brian Jonas United States Not posted Not posted
NCT02553941 21/24 Not specified Brian Jonas United States Not posted Not posted
NCT02415608 4/11 (Terminated due to slow accrual) Site-specific Jason Robert Gotlib United States ORR to ibrutinib is 0% in 4 patients with advanced systemic mastocytosis. Fatigue, anemia, gastrointestinal disorders
NCT02309580 Recruiting/19 Site-specific Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center United States ORR to ibrutinib is 8% in 13 patients with R/R TCL. Thrombocytopenia, diarrhea, fatigue (49)
NCT03873493 14/37 Not specified AbbVie United States Ibrutinib plus venetoclax produces clinical responses in two patients with R/R T-PLL, but the results of other patients are not posted. Not posted (50)
Solid tumors            
NCT02403271 124/160 Not specified Pharmacyclics LLC United States ORR to ibrutinib in combination with durvalumab is 1.9% in 105 patients with R/R NSCLC, breast or pancreatic cancer. Fatigue, gastrointestinal disorders, anemia
NCT03379428 Recruiting/51 Site-specific US Oncology Research United States Not posted Not posted
NCT03332498 40/42 Site-specific H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute United States Disease control rate by ibrutinib plus pembrolizumab is 41.9% in 31 patients with metastatic colorectal cancers, but this trial lacks a control arm with pembrolizumab alone or plus placebo. Anemia, fatigue, elevated alkaline phosphatase (51)
NCT02599324 261/189 Not specified Pharmacyclics LLC United States Not posted Not posted
NCT03535350 Recruiting/36 Site-specific Case Comprehensive Cancer Center United States Not posted Not posted
NCT02586857 24/72 Not specified Acerta Pharma BV United States ORR to 200 mg acalabrutinib is 6.7% in 15 patients and ORR to 400 mg acalabrutinib is 11% in 9 patients with recurrent glioblastoma. Gastrointestinal disorders, fatique, fall injury
NCT02454179 78/74 Site-specific Acerta Pharma BV United States ORR is not improved by 100 mg (BID) acalabrutinib plus pembrolizumab (16.7%; 5/30) as compared to pembrolizumab monotherapy (18.9%; 7/37) in patients with advanced HNSCC. Fatigue, anemia, gastrointestinal disorders, decreased appetite
NCT03646461 Recruiting/39 Site-specific University of California, San Diego United States Not posted Not posted
NCT02899078 31/30 Site-specific University of California, Davis United States Not posted Not posted
NCT02448303 74/74 Site-specific Acerta Pharma BV United States ORR is not improved by 100 mg (BID) acalabrutinib plus pembrolizumab (14.3%; 4/28) as compared to pembrolizumab monotherapy (12.9%; 4/31) in patients with advanced NSCLC. Gastrointestinal disorders, decreased appetite, dyspnoea
NCT02321540 13/38 Site-specific M.D. Anderson Cancer Center United States Not posted Not posted
NCT03021460 23/51; recruiting Site-specific Mayo Clinic United States Not posted Not posted
NCT02581930 18/32 Site-specific National Cancer Institute (NCI) United States ORR to ibrutinib is 0% in 18 patients with refractory metastatic cutaneous melanoma. Fatigue, anorexia, hyponatremia, gastrointestinal disorders (52)
NCT02884453 Recruiting/17 Not specified Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust United Kingdom Not posted Not posted
NCT02537444 78/76 Site-specific Acerta Pharma BV United States ORR to 100 mg (BID) acalabrutinib monotherapy is 2.9% (1/35) and ORR to acalabrutinib plus pembrolizumab is 9.1% (3/33) in patients with refractory ovarian cancer. Gastrointestinal disorders, headache, fatique, anemia
NCT02362048 77/76 Site-specific Acerta Pharma BV United States ORR to 100 mg (BID) acalabrutinib monotherapy is 0% (0/37) and ORR to acalabrutinib plus pembrolizumab is 7.5% (3/40) in patients with refractory or metastatic pancreatic cancer. Gastrointestinal disorders, headache, fatique, anemia, decreased appetite (53)
NCT02436668 430/326 Global Pharmacyclics LLC. United States, European Union, South Korea As compared to placebo plus gemcitabine/Nab-paclitaxel, ibrutinib plus gemcitabine/Nab-paclitaxel did not improve the progression free survival (PFS) or overall survival (OS) in patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer. Gastrointestinal disorders, thrombocytopenia
NCT02562898 18/35 Site-specific Margaret Tempero United States CA19-9 clinical response rate to ibrutinib plus gemcitabine/Nab-paclitaxel is <1% in patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer. Gastrointestinal disorders, fatique, myalgia, sepsis (54)
NCT02575300 20/51 Site-specific H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center United States ORR to ibrutinib is 0% in 20 patients with advanced carcinoid and pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors Gastrointestinal disorders, fatique, arthralgia
NCT02643667 Recruiting/36 Site-specific Washington University School of Medicine United States Not posted Not posted
NCT02351739 78/74 Not specified Acerta Pharma BV United States ORR is not improved by 100 mg (BID) acalabrutinib plus pembrolizumab (23.5%; 8/34) as compared to pembrolizumab monotherapy (29%; 9/31) in patients with platinum resistant urothelial bladder cancer. Fatique, gastrointestinal disorders, increased alanine aminotransferase (55)
NCT03525925 15/15 Site-specific Ohio State University Cancer Center United States Not posted Not posted
Graft-versus-host disease            
NCT04294641 Recruiting/40 Site-specific National Cancer Institute (NCI) United States Not posted Not posted
NCT03689894 Recruiting/15 Site-specific Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center United States Not posted Not posted
NCT04235036 Recruiting/35 Site-specific Northside Hospital, Inc. United States Not posted Not posted
NCT02959944 193/186 Global Pharmacyclics LLC. 14 different countries ORR is minimally improved by ibrutinib plus prednisone (41.1%; 39/95) as compared to placebo plus prednisone (36.7%; 36/98) in patients with new onset cGVHD. Peripheral edema, insomnia, thrombocytopenia
NCT03474679 19/17 Not specified Janssen Pharmaceutical K.K Japan Not posted Not posted
NCT02195869 45/39 Not specified Pharmacyclics LLC. United States ORR to ibrutinib is 69% in 42 patients with cGVHD who were steroid-dependent or -refractory. Fatigue, gastrointestinal disorders, muscle spasms, bruising, pneumonia (56, 57)
NCT04198922 Recruiting/50 Not specified Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center United States Not posted Not posted
NCT03790332 58/44 Global Pharmacyclics LLC. 14 different countries Not posted Not posted (58)
Autoimmune diseases            
NCT04398459 Recruiting/18 Site-specific Institute of Hematology & Blood Diseases Hospital China Not posted Not posted
NCT03827603 50/50 Site-specific Eugene Nikitin Russian Federation Not posted Not posted
NCT04657094 Recruiting/22 Site-specific City of Hope Medical Center United States Not posted Not posted
NCT02387762 31/70 Not specifed Acerta Pharma BV United States Disease activity score 28-CRP (DAS28-CRP) at Week 4 is not improved by 15 mg (QD) acalabrutinib plus methotrexate (5.40; n=15) as compared to placebo plus methotrexate (5.05; n=15) in patients with RA. Anemia
Allergic diseases            
NCT03149315 6/6 Site-specific Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago United States Short-term ibrutinib therapy suppreses skin test responses and eliminates IgE-mediated basophil activation in 6 patients with an allergy to peanut or tree nuts (ORR: 100%). No common side effects observed (59)
COVID-19            
NCT04375397 46/46 Not specified Abbvie United States Not posted Not posted
NCT04439006 Recruiting/78 Site-specific Jennifer Woyach, Ohio State University Cancer Center United States Not posted Not posted
NCT04647669 Not yet recruiting/100 Site-specific The University of The West Indies Jamaica Not posted Not posted
NCT04346199 177/428 Global AstraZeneca Worldwide Percentage of participants that remained alive and free of respiratory failure is not improved by acalabrutinib plus best supportive care (BSC) (n=89) as compared to BSC alone (n=88) in patients hospitalized with COVID-19. Headache
NCT04380688 62/60 Not specified AstraZeneca United States Percentage of participants that remained alive and free of respiratory failure is not improved by acalabrutinib plus BSC (n=31) as compared to BSC alone (n=31) in patients hospitalized with COVID-19. Headache
NCT04564040 20/40 Site-specific AstraZeneca Germany Not posted Not posted
NCT04665115 Not yet recruiting/134 Site-specific Academic and Community Cancer Research United United States Not posted Not posted