Small Bytes: Phase I Study Finds Pan-AKT Inhibitor Ipatasertib Safe & Effective, Featuring Carolyn McCourt, MD

BARCELONA, Spain—Patients with solid tumors expressing mutated AKT oncogenes responded to therapy with a pan-AKT inhibitor—the investigational drug ipatasertib—in a Phase I study reported at the 2022 EORTC—NCI—AACR symposium on Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics. Nearly a quarter of the patients treated with the AKT blocker had their tumors shrink. These included patients with breast, endometrial, and salivary gland cancers. Tumors remained stable in just over half of the remaining patients. The presenting author at the Barcelona symposium, Carolyn McCourt, MD, Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Washington University in St. Louis, talked with OncTimes Talk reporter Peter Goodwin.