About this trial
Compare two arms:
* Chemotherapy followed by tolinapant (ASTX660) in combination with Long-Course Radio Chemotherapy (LCRT), and * Tolinapant (ASTX660) in combination with Short-Course Radiotherapy (SCRT) followed by chemotherapy For each patient, the treatment arm will be allocated on the following basis: patients will be allocated to the chemotherapy followed by LCRT arm unless they present at least one of the following criteria: contraindication to receive mFOLFIRINOX (including intolerance to irinotecan and UGT1A1\*28 polymorphism), age \> 75, general condition incompatible with the radiotherapy schedule of LCRT. In such case, patients will be allocated to the SCRT arm.
Tolinapant (ASTX660) will be administered orally once a day for 7 consecutive days every other week during 10 weeks (One week On / One week Off during 10 weeks).
Both treatment arms will have a dose escalation part to determine the MTD and/or RP2D, followed by an expansion part where up to 21 subjects will be dosed at the RP2D. Both arms will enroll simultaneously.
Eligibility criteria
This trial does not accept healthy volunteersQualifiers
a distance between the tumor or its lymph node and the mesorectal fascia ≤ 2 mm on the pelvic MRI at diagnosis.
*and/or N2
No evidence of metastatic disease on CT-scan (chest and abdomen), including resectable metastases
Age : ≥ 18 years old at the time of informed consent
Disqualifiers
Any contraindications to MRI (e.g. subjects with pacemakers, claustrophobia, excessive weight, etc).
Participation in another clinical study with an investigational product during the last 3 months.
No other anticancer therapy during study participation. (however, informed consent can be signed during mFOLFIRINOX for patients willing to enter the LCRT arm).
5-FU, capecitabine and known dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase (DPD) deficiency, or
Trial design
Parallel
Treatments tested in this trial
mFOLFIRINOX
Drugprior to tolinapant (ASTX660) for 6 cycles over 12 weeks
Pelvic radiotherapy LCRT
Radiation50-Gy total dose in 25 daily fractions of 2 Gy (5 days per week from Monday to Friday) for 5 weeks
Capecitabine
Drug800 mg/m2 bid for 5 days per week (From Monday to Friday) for 25 days will be given concomitantly during the 5 weeks of radiotherapy
TOLINAPANT (ASTX660)
Drugstarting from 14 days before the first dose of radiotherapy, for 10 weeks.
Pelvic radiotherapy SCRT
Radiationtotal dose of 25 Gy, in 5 daily fractions of 5 Gy for 1 week (5 days from Monday-Friday)
FOLFOX4
Druggiven every 2 weeks for 9 cycles, starting 10 days after the last session of short course radiotherapy
CAPOX
Drugevery 3 weeks for 6 cycles, starting 10 days after the last session of short course radiotherapy.
Treatment groups
Trial outcomes
Primary outcomes
Dose-limiting toxicities (DLTs)
ASTX660-related toxicities graded using NCI CTCAE V5.0
Secondary outcomes
Overall survival
Disease-free survival (DFS)
Local recurrence-free survival
Distant metastasis-free survival
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