Dactolisib

title: "Dactolisib" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["experimental-cancer-drugs", "imidazoquinolines", "mtor-inhibitors", "phosphoinositide-3-kinase-inhibitors", "quinolines", "4-aminophenyl-compounds"] topic_path: "general/experimental-cancer-drugs" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dactolisib" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
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Dactolisib (codenamed NVP-BEZ235 and BEZ-235, also known as RTB101) is an imidazoquinoline derivative acting as a PI3K inhibitor. It also inhibits mTOR. It is being investigated as a possible cancer treatment.
It has been shown to be toxic to Waldenström's macroglobulinemia cells.
It was the first PI3K inhibitor to enter clinical trials, in 2006.
A phase IB/II clinical trial for locally advanced or metastatic HER2 negative breast cancer has completed.
A phase II clinical trial for advanced pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (pNET) had initially reported results, but was later terminated because insufficient normal tissue tolerance to the drug. A phase I clinical trial of BEZ235 in patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma had to be terminated prematurely due to toxicity and a lack of clinical efficacy . Another Phase Ib study on patients with various solid cancers found severe normal tissue toxicity as well when BEZ235/Dactolisib was administered in combination with the mTOR inhibitor Everolimus. The authors concluded that the combination of both drugs demonstrated limited efficacy and tolerance. BEZ235 systemic exposure increased in a dose-proportional manner while oral bioavailability was quite low, which may be related to gastrointestinal-specific toxicity . A phase I study of BEZ-235 to treat acute lymphoid leukaemia was initiated in 2012, but no results were published since then.
A phase 2a randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial published in 2018 showed that everolimus in combination with dactolisib decreased the rate of reported infections in an elderly population.
References
References
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- (November 2010). "Role of Dual PI3/Akt and mTOR Inhibition in Waldenström's Macroglobulinemia". Oncotarget.
- "A Phase I/II Study of BEZ235 in Patients with Advanced Solid Malignancies Enriched by Patients with Advanced Breast Cancer". ClinicalTrials.gov.
- [https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01495247 Phase Ib/II Trial of BEZ235 With Paclitaxel in Patients With HER2 Negative, Locally Advanced or Metastatic Breast Cancer]
- [https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/results/NCT01658436 BEZ235 Phase II Trial in Patients With Advanced Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors (pNET) After Failure of mTOR Inhibitor Therapy.]
- (2016). "BEZ235: When Promising Science Meets Clinical Reality". The Oncologist.
- "A Phase Ib Study of the Dual PI3K/mTOR Inhibitor Dactolisib(BEZ235) Combined with Everolimus in Patients with AdvancedSolid Malignancies". Target Oncology.
- "A Phase I, Dose-finding Study of BEZ235 in Adult Patients With Relapsed or Refractory Acute Leukemia". clinicatrials.gov.
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