PREVENT CANCER PRECLINICAL DRUG DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM: PRECLINICAL EFFICACY AND ENDPOINT BIOMARKERS. TASK ORDER TITLE: URINARY BLADDER CANCER PREVENTIO
Project Number75N91019D00020-0-759102000003-1
Contact PI/Project LeaderRAO, CHINTHALAPALLY V.
Awardee OrganizationUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HLTH SCIENCES CTR
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Abstract Text
The American Cancer Society's estimate for new bladder cancer cases in the United States for 2020 is 80,400. Despite the latest advances in treatment strategies, most bladder tumors recur within 2-5 years and many progress to muscle-invasive disease, which poses a high risk for metastasis. Evidently, there is a clear need for the clinical development of new agents with novel mechanisms of action that exert higher efficacy with minimal toxicity for the prevention of progression of early stage bladder cancers. Like many other cancers, bladder cancer also takes significant time (~20 years) from the time of initiation to transform into malignant cells. About half of all bladder cancers are first found while the cancer is still confined to the inner layer of the bladder wall (non-invasive or in situ cancers) thereby significantly increasing the chance for successful chemopreventive interception. Genetic alterations such as mutations, copy number alterations or RNA expression changes in the PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway are found in more than 40% of urinary bladder cancers, suggesting that mTOR inhibitors may prevent bladder cancer progression. Everolimus (RAD001), an mTOR inhibitor, is a second generation rapalog approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to be used in combination with other agents to treat advanced-stage breast cancer.
Inflammation also plays a significant and important role in bladder cancer development. Anti-inflammatory NSAID naproxen is highly effective in the prevention of urinary bladder cancer in a rat model of bladder tumorigenesis. However, higher doses of NSAIDs are associated with unwanted side-effects. To avoid or reduce such untoward adverse effects, alternative dosing regimens may be explored. For example, intermittent/short-term frequent dosing with naproxen has been shown to be as effective as daily dosing for the prevention of bladder cancer.
Use of clinically ready agents will significantly shorten the time required from the preclinical development phase to the start of prevention clinical trials. Targeting complementary pathways will likely achieve better efficacy than a single agent standard therapeutic-dose strategy that could increase the risk of side effects or allow for the development of tumor resistance. Both everolimus and naproxen are FDA approved, and can be repurposed to prevent bladder cancer. Such “clinical-ready” agents, already in clinical use for treatment of cancer and other diseases, offer prevention options that may be primed for clinical translation within a much shorter timeframe, if favorable toxicity profiles can be established in the prevention setting. Alternative modes of administration of these clinical-ready agents - including lower, potentially less toxic doses, represent a viable approach to drug development for prevention of bladder cancer.
The overarching goal of this task order is to preclinically evaluate the chemopreventive efficacy of an mTOR inhibitor, everolimus, given in combination with an NSAID, naproxen, through continuous vs. intermittent dosing schedules using a carcinogen-induced rat bladder cancer model.
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CancerPreventionUrologic Diseases
Project Terms
Adverse effectsAmerican Cancer SocietyAnti-Inflammatory AgentsBiological MarkersBladderBladder NeoplasmCancer ModelCarcinogensCarcinoma in SituChemopreventive AgentClinicalDevelopmentDiseaseDoseFDA approvedFRAP1 geneGenerationsGenetic TranscriptionGoalsInflammationInterceptMalignant NeoplasmsMalignant neoplasm of urinary bladderModelingMuscleMutationNaproxenNeoplasm MetastasisNew AgentsNon-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory AgentsNormal tissue morphologyOrganPI3K/AKTPathway interactionsPhasePlayPreclinical Drug DevelopmentPreventionPreventiveProgram DevelopmentRattusRegimenResearchResistanceRiskRoleSDZ RADSamplingScheduleTestingTherapeuticTimeToxic effectTravelUnited StatesUnited States Food and Drug Administrationadvanced breast cancerbladder cancer preventioncancer cellcancer therapyclinical developmentclinical translationclinically relevantdrug developmentefficacy studyhigh riskmTOR Inhibitornovelpharmacodynamic biomarkerpre-clinicalpreclinical developmentpreclinical efficacypredictive markerpreventprevention clinical trialside effecttreatment strategytumortumor progressiontumorigenesis
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