Subjects With Advanced Basal-like Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma Treated With Gemcitabine, Erlotinib and Nab-paclitaxel (PANGEA) Versus Subjects With Classical Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma Treated With Triplet Standard of Care Therapy.
This study explores the best dose of the combination treatment for subjects with advanced unresectable or metastatic basal-like subtype pancreatic adenocarcinoma. For that reason, the safety, efficacy, and tolerability, as well as preliminary estimates of anti-tumor effects of low-dose epidermal growth factor receptor EGFR inhibitors in combination with bi-weekly gemcitabine/nab-paclitaxel (GnP) will be examined in subjects with advanced basal-like pancreatic adenocarcinoma. The Purity Independent Subtyping of Tumors (PurIST) will determine the type of cancer either basal type or classical. If cancer subtype-based first-line chemotherapy in combination with erlotinib will be safe and tolerable in subjects with advanced unresectable or metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma of the basal-like subtype as defined by PurIST, as well as provide a preliminary assessment of treatment response in basal-like subjects. This study will also follow a subset of subjects with classical subtypes that are treated per standard of care on oxaliplatin-based triplet chemotherapy.
• Written informed consent was obtained to participate in the study and HIPAA authorization for release of personal health information. Subjects is willing and able to comply with study procedures based on the judgment of the investigator.
• Age ≥ 18 years at the time of consent.
• Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) Performance Status of 0-1
• The subject must consent to a mandatory pre-study biopsy if archival tissue is not available or sufficient.
• Subjects with a prior or concurrent malignancy whose natural history or treatment does not have the potential to interfere with the safety or efficacy assessment of the investigational regimen are eligible for this trial.