Osimertinib, Surgery, and Radiation Therapy in Treating Patients With Stage IIIB or IV Non-small Cell Lung Cancer With EGFR Mutations, NORTHSTAR Study

Last updated: April 3, 2026
Sponsor: M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Overall Status: Active - Not Recruiting

Phase

2

Condition

Carcinoma

Treatment

Osimertinib

Radiation Therapy

Therapeutic Conventional Surgery

Clinical Study ID

NCT03410043
2017-0228
NCI-2018-00937
2017-0228
  • Ages > 18
  • All Genders

Study Summary

This phase II trial studies how well osimertinib, surgery, and radiation therapy work in treating patients with stage IIIB or IV non-small cell lung cancer with EGFR mutations. Osimertinib may stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking some of the enzymes needed for cell growth. Radiation therapy uses high energy x-rays to kill tumor cells and shrink tumors. Giving osimertinib, surgery, and radiation therapy may work better at treating non-small cell lung cancer with EGFR mutations.

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Histologically or cytologically confirmed non-small cell lung cancer

  • Stage IIIB/IV or recurrent non-small cell lung cancer which is not amenable tocurative intent therapy

  • Patients must have one of the following:

  • NSCLC which harbors EGFR exon 19 deletion or L858R mutation. This subset ofpatients must be TKI naive; OR

  • NSCLC which harbors an EGFR T790M mutation that was acquired followingprogression on erlotinib, gefitinib or afatinib. This subset of patients musthave not received prior third generation TKI

  • NOTE: EGFR mutation must be documented by a Clinical Laboratory ImprovementAmendments (CLIA) certified test

  • Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status =< 1

  • Measurable disease by Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) 1.1

  • Candidate for local consolidation therapy to at least one site of disease

  • Signed and dated written informed consent prior to admission to the study inaccordance with International Council for Harmonization of Technical Requirementsfor Pharmaceuticals for Human Use (ICH)-Good Clinical Practice (GCP) guidelines andto the local legislation

  • Ability to take pills by mouth

  • Females of childbearing potential:

  • Must not be breast feeding

  • Must have a negative serum or urine pregnancy test

  • Must agree to use adequate contraception for a minimum of two weeks prior toreceiving study medication until 3 months after discontinuation of the studymedication

  • NOTE: Acceptable methods of contraception include total and true sexualabstinence, hormonal contraceptives that are not prone to drug-druginteractions (IUS levonorgestrel intra uterine system [Mirena],medroxyprogesterone injections [Depo-Provera]), copper-bandedintra-uterine devices, and vasectomized partner. All hormonal methods ofcontraception should be used in combination with the use of a condom bytheir sexual male partner. Females of childbearing potential are definedas those who are not surgically sterile (i.e., bilateral tubal ligation,bilateral oophorectomy, or complete hysterectomy) or postmenopausal (defined as 12 months with no menses without an alternative medical cause)

  • Women will be considered post-menopausal if they have been amenorrheic for the past 12 months without an alternative medical cause. The following age-specificrequirements must also apply:

  • Women < 50 years old: they would be considered post-menopausal if they havebeen amenorrheic for the past 12 months or more following cessation ofexogenous hormonal treatments. The levels of luteinizing hormone (LH) andfollicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) must also be in the post-menopausal range (as per the institution)

  • Women >= 50 years old: they would be considered post-menopausal if they havebeen amenorrheic for the past 12 months or more following cessation of allexogenous hormonal treatments, or have had radiation-induced oophorectomy withthe last menses > 1 year ago, or have had chemotherapy-induced menopause with > 1 year interval since last menses, or have had surgical sterilization by eitherbilateral oophorectomy or hysterectomy

  • Non-sterilized males who are sexually active with a female partner of childbearingpotential must use adequate contraception for the duration of the study and 3 monthafter the last dose of study medication. Adequate contraception methods include:birth control pills (e.g. combined oral contraceptive pill), barrier protection (e.g. condom plus spermicide, cervical/vault cap or intrauterine device), andabstinence. Patients should not father a child for 6 months after completion of thestudy medication. Patients should refrain from donating sperm from the start ofdosing until 6 months after discontinuing the study medication. If male patientswish to father children they should be advised to arrange for freezing of spermsamples prior to the start of the study medication

  • Life expectancy >= 12 weeks

  • To be eligible for randomization, patients must:

  • Meet all the inclusion criteria

  • Have no progression of disease after 6-12 weeks of osimertinib per RECIST 1.1.To assess for progressive disease patients must have the following imaging:

  • Either a positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT) scanor a CT scan of the chest/abdomen/pelvis (or CT chest)

  • A CT scan or a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain

  • Have target lesions (lesions that will be treated with LCT if the patient israndomized to that arm). Patients that have a complete response (CR) tofront-line osimertinib (e.g. no visible disease to target) will continue to befollowed for progression on study but will not be randomized

Exclusion

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Previous treatment with osimertinib, or a 3rd generation EGFR TKI. NOTE: Patientswho are receiving initial osimertinib (6-12 weeks) outside this study are notexcluded

  • Patients currently receiving (or unable to stop use prior to receiving the firstdose of study treatment) medications or herbal supplements known to be potentinducers of CYP3A4 (at least 3 week prior). All patients must try to avoidconcomitant use of any medications, herbal supplements and/or ingestion of foodswith known inducer effects on CYP3A4

  • Patients with symptomatic central nervous system (CNS) metastases who areneurologically unstable

  • Any unresolved toxicities from prior therapy greater than Common TerminologyCriteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) grade 1 (with the exception of alopecia grade 2)at the time of starting study treatment

  • Any evidence of severe or uncontrolled systemic diseases, including uncontrolledhypertension and active bleeding diatheses, which in the investigator's opinionmakes it undesirable for the subject to participate in the trial or which wouldjeopardize compliance with the protocol, or active infection including hepatitis B,hepatitis C and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Screening for chronic conditionsis not required

  • Refractory nausea and vomiting, chronic gastrointestinal diseases, inability toswallow the formulated product or previous significant bowel resection that wouldpreclude adequate absorption of osimertinib

  • Past medical history of interstitial lung disease (ILD), drug-induced ILD, radiationpneumonitis which required steroid treatment, or any evidence of clinically activeinterstitial lung disease

  • Males and females of reproductive potential who are not using and effective methodof birth control and females who are pregnant or breastfeeding or have a positive (urine or serum) pregnancy test prior to study entry

  • History of hypersensitivity of osimertinib (or active or inactive excipients ofosimertinib or drugs with a similar chemical structure or class to osimertinib)

  • Judgment by the investigator that the patient should not participate in the study ifthe patient is unlikely to comply with study procedures, restrictions andrequirement

  • Absolute neutrophil count < 1,500/mcL

  • Platelet < 100,000/mcL

  • Hemoglobin < 9.0 g/dL

  • Total bilirubin > 1.5 times the upper limit of normal (ULN) if no demonstrable livermetastases or > 3 times ULN in the presence of documented Gilbert's syndrome orliver metastases

  • Aspartate aminotransferase (AST) (serum glutamic-oxaloacetic transaminase [SGOT])/alanine aminotransferase (ALT) (serum glutamate pyruvate transaminase [SGPT]) > 2.5 times ULN or > 5 times ULN if liver metastases are present

  • Creatinine clearance < 50 mL/min/1.73 m^2 by Cockcroft-Gault equation

  • Any of the following cardiac criteria:

  • Mean resting corrected QT interval (corrected QT [QTc] using Fridericia'sformula) > 470 msec

  • Any clinically important abnormalities in rhythm, conduction or morphology ofresting electrocardiogram (ECG) e.g., complete left bundle branch block, thirddegree heart block, second degree heart block, PR interval > 250 msec

  • Any factors that increase the risk of QTc prolongation or risk of arrhythmicevents such as heart failure, hypokalemia congenital long QT syndrome, familyhistory of long QT syndrome or unexplained sudden death under 40 years of agein first degree relatives or any concomitant medication known to prolong the QTinterval

  • Patients will be excluded from randomization if they meet any of the followingcriteria:

  • Any of the exclusion criteria

  • Complete response to osimertinib or prior treatment to all visible lesions,such that no lesion is amenable to LCT. Note that patients can receivepalliative radiation therapy prior to randomization to CNS lesions or thoserequiring urgent treatment (e.g. for pain or bleeding), but are only eligiblefor the study if they have one site amenable to further radiation therapy. Inaddition, these lesions will be counted towards the total number of metastases,and will also be counted as target lesions

Study Design

Total Participants: 173
Treatment Group(s): 3
Primary Treatment: Osimertinib
Phase: 2
Study Start date:
January 17, 2018
Estimated Completion Date:
April 01, 2027

Study Description

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE:

I. To determine whether, in patients with tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) naive or TKI resistant (acquired T790M) metastatic EGFR mutant non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who do not progress after 6-12 weeks of induction osimertinib, local consolidative therapy (LCT; radiotherapy +/- surgical resection) followed by osimertinib prolongs progression-free survival (PFS) compared with osimertinib alone.

SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:

I. To determine whether osimertinib plus LCT improves time to progression of non-irradiated lesions (TTP-NIL) and time to appearance of new metastases (TANM) compared with osimertinib alone.

II. To determine whether osimertinib plus LCT improves the time to progression of target versus (vs.) non-target lesions compared with osimertinib alone.

III. To determine whether osimertinib plus LCT improves progression-free survival compared with osimertinib alone in TKI naive EGFR (L8585R/exon 19 deletion) mutant metastatic NSCLC.

IV. To determine whether osimertinib plus LCT improves progression-free survival compared with osimertinib alone in TKI resistant (acquired T790M) EGFR mutant NSCLC.

V. To determine whether osimertinib plus LCT improves progression-free survival compared with osimertinib alone in the subgroup of patients with oligometastatic NSCLC (up to 3 metastases).

VI. To assess the safety and tolerability of osimertinib with and without LCT. VII. To determine whether osimertinib plus LCT improves overall survival (OS) compared with osimertinib alone.

VIII. To determine if there is a difference in survival outcomes or toxicity by radiation treatment modality (protons vs. photons).

EXPLORATORY OBJECTIVES:

I. To explore the association of baseline genomic, proteomic and gene expression profiles (from tumor, germline deoxyribonucleic acid [DNA], and cell free [cf]DNA) with clinical benefit and in patients treated with osimertinib with or without LCT.

II. To determine modulation of genomic, proteomic and gene expression tumor profiles by induction osimertinib.

III. To explore osimertinib resistance mechanisms. IV. To determine the immunomodulatory effects of osimertinib plus LCT.

OUTLINE: Patients are randomized to 1 of 2 groups.

GROUP I (LCT): Patients receive osimertinib orally (PO) once daily (QD) for 6-12 weeks. Patients then undergo surgery and/or radiation therapy daily for 5 consecutive days every week for up to 8 weeks. Patients continue osimertinib during and after radiation therapy. Cycles repeat every 4 weeks in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.

GROUP II (NO LCT): Patients receive osimertinib PO QD. Cycles repeat every 4 weeks in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.

After completion of study treatment, patients are followed up within 30 days, then every 6 months thereafter.

Connect with a study center

  • London Ontario Cancer Center

    London, Ontario N6A 5W9
    Canada

    Site Not Available

  • UCSF Medical Center-Mount Zion

    San Francisco, California 94115
    United States

    Site Not Available

  • UCSF Medical Center-Mount Zion

    San Francisco 5391959, California 5332921 94115
    United States

    Site Not Available

  • University of Colorado

    Boulder, Colorado 80309
    United States

    Site Not Available

  • University of Colorado

    Denver, Colorado 80217-3364
    United States

    Site Not Available

  • University of Colorado

    Denver 5419384, Colorado 5417618 80217-3364
    United States

    Site Not Available

  • Washington University

    Saint Louis, Missouri 63130
    United States

    Site Not Available

  • Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

    New York, New York 10065
    United States

    Site Not Available

  • Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

    New York 5128581, New York 5128638 10065
    United States

    Site Not Available

  • M D Anderson Cancer Center

    Houston, Texas 77030
    United States

    Site Not Available

  • M D Anderson Cancer Center

    Houston 4699066, Texas 4736286 77030
    United States

    Site Not Available

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