Primary Objective - To assess the safety of CIT-induction with Tremelimumab and Durvalumab, and CRT/R in stage III NSCLCSecondary objectives - To assess the efficacy of CIT-induction with Tremelimumab and Durvalumab , and CRT /R by establishing…
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- Respiratory and mediastinal neoplasms malignant and unspecified
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Outcome measures
Primary outcome
The primary endpoint is safety. Treatment is deemed safe if adverse events can
be managed and patients have completed the planned multimodality treatment,
defined by CIT-CRT/R.
Secondary outcome
The main secondary endpoint is the percentage of patients with mediastinal and
/ or radiological down-staging following CIT-induction allowing a complete
resection.
The other secondary endpoints include:
• Efficacy endpoints
- 1-Year disease control rate (DCR)
- Disease free survival (DFS)
- Overall survival (OS)
- Pathological complete response
• Safety endpoints:
- The rate of grade 3-4 and 5 treatment-related adverse events that occur
during CIT-CRT/R.
- The rate of grade 3-4 and 5 treatment-related adverse events that occur
during maintenance treatment and 3-month follow-up.
- The rate of immune-related adverse events during treatment
• Translational research endpoints:
- Correlation FDG-uptake with pathological response and inflammation.
- Pathology
- Development of a measure of assess the pathological response
- Immunology
- Descriptive analysis of the development of a tumour-specific T-cell response
- Description of regional v.s. local immune response
- Early predictors of response
- Breath analyses:
- Predictive of response to combined modality immunotherapy at baseline
- Early response prediction
Background summary
The treatment of stage III NSCLC has not changed in the last decade and with a
median overall survival of 24-30 months it remains relatively poor. The
mainstay of treatment is concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CRT) (Senan et al.,
2016; van den Heuvel et al., 2014; Walraven et al., 2016). This is a demanding
treatment that is only an option for 40-70% of patients. Sequential CRT is an
alternative if the patient is not fit to receive concurrent treatment or the
mean lung dose is too high.
Trimodality treatment (CRT followed by surgery) is accepted for the so-called
superior sulcus tumour (also called Pancoast tumour) and has shown to improve
both overall survival and local disease control (Rusch, 2006). However, for the
other stage III NSCLC disease the additive value of surgery remains
controversial. No controlled trials have shown a survival benefit, but in
carefully selected patients a better survival is observed compared to
non-resected patients (Dickhoff et al., 2016). The multidisciplinary meeting
(MDM) remains crucial for selection of patients (Dickhoff et al., 2014). The
only reliable prognostic variables are down-staging and complete pathologic
response (Blaauwgeers et al., 2013). About 50% of patients are deemed medically
inoperable because of poor lung function, age, or co-morbidity.
Induction treatment has never shown to improve outcome of combined modality
treatment of stage III disease, a fact that has been explained by the poor
efficacy of chemotherapy.
Study objective
Primary Objective
- To assess the safety of CIT-induction with Tremelimumab and Durvalumab, and
CRT/R in stage III NSCLC
Secondary objectives
- To assess the efficacy of CIT-induction with Tremelimumab and Durvalumab ,
and CRT /R by establishing radiological and / or pathological downstaging by a
combination of PET-CT, EBUS and / or mediastinoscopy and if deemed feasible
upfront resection in stage III NSCLC
- To assess correlatives in the blood and the tumour for CIT-induction by
Tremelimumab and Durvalumab
Study design
A Phase Ib, Open-label, Single-center study to assess the safety of
cancer-immunotherapy induction with Tremelimumab and Durvalumab prior to
Chemoradiotherapy and/or Resection in the treatment of locally advanced NSCLC
for 34 patients.
Intervention
During the feasibility phase of the trial in the first cohort, cohort 1A, 6
patients will be treated with one course of Durvalumab 1500mg plus Tremelimumab
75mg via IV infusion followed by one 2nd course of Durvalumab 1500mg IV, 4
weeks after the first one. In the absence of safety concerns, in the next
cohort, cohort 2A, 6 patients will be treated with 2 courses of immune
induction with Durvalumab 1500mg plus Tremelimumab 300 mg via IV infusion
followed by a single dose of Durvalumab 1500mg .It was therefor decided to
amend the protocol to allow another 6 patients to be enrolled in a feasibility
cohort 3A where only 1 course of high dose tremelimumab 300mg with durvalumab
1500mg will be given. Another 22 patients will be treated in the expansion
cohort, cohort 3B, if it is well tolerated.
Study burden and risks
In Durvalumab + Tremelimumab combination studies AEs (all grades) reported very
commonly (>= 10% of patients) are diarrhea, fatigue, nausea, dyspnoea, pruritus,
rash, increased amylase, decreased appetite, pyrexia, increased ALT, cough,
colitis, and increased lipase.
The target population has a small albeit important chance for cure with the
current standard of care treatment. So it is vital that the patient is able to
at least profit from the standard therapy. The intervention should NOT prevent
the patient from receiving the definitive planned treatment, defined by CRT/R.
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Inclusion criteria
1. Provision of signed, written and dated informed consent prior to any study
specific procedures.
2. Male or female aged 18 years or older.
3. WHO performance status of 0 or 1.
4. Pathologically proven NSCLC stage III or inoperable stage II (cT1-3N0-1),
according to the 8th edition of the AJCC staging, with a clinical indication
for concurrent chemo-irradiation.
5. Body weight >30kg
6. Patients with locoregional recurrent lung tumour following surgery or a
second primary cancer are eligible, unless a pneumonectomy was performed.
7. Negative pregnancy test (urine or serum) for female patients with
childbearing potential;
8. For women of childbearing potential: agreement to remain abstinent (refrain
from heterosexual intercourse) or use contraceptive methods that result in a
failure rate of <= 1% per year, during the treatment period and for at least 180
days after the last dose of Durvalumab and Tremelimumab combination therapy or
1 month after the last dose of chemotherapy, whichever is later.
A woman is considered to be of childbearing potential if she is postmenarcheal,
has not reached a postmenopausal state (>=12 continuous months of amenorrhea
with no identified cause other than menopause), and has not undergone surgical
sterilization (removal of ovaries and/or uterus).
Examples of contraceptive methods with a failure rate of <= 1% per year include
bilateral tubal ligation, male sterilization, established proper use of
hormonal contraceptives that inhibit ovulation, hormone-releasing intrauterine
devices (IUDs), and copper IUDs.
The following age-specific requirements apply:
- Women <50 years of age would be considered post-menopausal if they have been
amenorrheic for 12 months or more following cessation of exogenous hormonal
treatments and if they have luteinizing hormone and follicle-stimulating
hormone levels in the post-menopausal range for the institution or underwent
surgical sterilization (bilateral oophorectomy or hysterectomy).
- Women >=50 years of age would be considered post-menopausal if they have been
amenorrheic for 12 months or more following cessation of all exogenous hormonal
treatments, had radiation-induced menopause with last menses >1 year ago, had
chemotherapy-induced menopause with last menses >1 year ago, or underwent
surgical sterilization (bilateral oophorectomy, bilateral salpingectomy or
hysterectomy).
9. Adequate organ function. Minimum required laboratory data: see protocol
10. All acute toxic effects of any prior radiotherapy, chemotherapy, or
surgical procedure must have resolved to Grade <= 1, except alopecia (any
grade). Patients with Grade >=2 neuropathy will be evaluated on a case-by-case
basis after consultation with the Study Physician.
11. Patients should be medically operably defined by:
a. Sufficient cardiopulmonary function (Brunelli, Kim, Berger, &
Addrizzo-Harris, 2013)
b. No major contra-indications for surgery.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion Criteria A potential subject who meets any of the following criteria
will be excluded from participation in this study:
1. Patients with grade 3 dyspnoea or worse at baseline (according to CTCAE
version 4.03).
2. Prior radiotherapy to the thorax.
3. Participation in another clinical study with an investigational product
during the last 4 weeks.
4. Concurrent enrolment in another clinical study, unless it is an
observational (non-interventional) clinical study or the follow-up period of an
interventional study.
5. Recent major surgery within 4 weeks prior to entry into the study (excluding
the placement of vascular access) that would prevent administration of
chemotherapy.
6. Uncontrolled intercurrent illness, including but not limited to, ongoing or
active infection, symptomatic congestive heart failure, uncontrolled
hypertension, unstable angina pectoris, cardiac arrhythmia, interstitial lung
disease, serious chronic gastrointestinal conditions associated with diarrhea,
or psychiatric illness/social situations that would limit compliance with study
requirement, substantially increase risk of incurring AEs or compromise the
ability of the patient to give written informed consent., Exclusion Criteria 7.
Presence of any psychological, familial, sociological or geographical condition
potentially hampering compliance with the study protocol and follow*up
schedule; those conditions should be discussed with the patient before
registration in the trial.
8. Any condition that, in the opinion of the investigator, would interfere with
evaluation of the CRT or interpretation of patient safety or study results.
9. Patients with irreversible toxicity not reasonably expected to be
exacerbated by treatment with Durvalumab or Tremelimumab may be included only
after consultation with the Study Physician.
10. Active or prior documented autoimmune or inflammatory disorders (including
inflammatory bowel disease [eg, colitis or Crohn's disease], diverticulitis
[with the exception of diverticulosis], systemic lupus erythematosus,
Sarcoidosis syndrome, or Wegener syndrome [granulomatosis with polyangiitis,
Graves' disease, rheumatoid arthritis, hypophysitis, uveitis, etc]). The
following are exceptions to this criterion:
a. Patients with vitiligo or alopecia
b. Patients with hypothyroidism (eg, following Hashimoto syndrome) stable on
hormone replacement
c. Any chronic skin condition that does not require systemic therapy
d. Patients without active disease in the last 5 years may be included but only
after consultation with the study physician
e. Patients with celiac disease controlled by diet alone
11. Subject noncompliance that, in the opinion of the investigator or sponsor,
warrants withdrawal; eg, refusal to adhere to scheduled visits
12. General contra-indications for immunotherapy:
a. Active infection including tuberculosis (clinical evaluation that includes
clinical history, physical examination and radiographic findings, and TB
testing in line with local practice), hepatitis B (known positive HBV surface
antigen (HBsAg) result), hepatitis C, or human immunodeficiency virus (positive
HIV 1/2 antibodies). Patients with a past or resolved HBV infection (defined as
the presence of hepatitis B core antibody [anti-HBc] and absence of HBsAg) are
eligible. Patients positive for hepatitis C (HCV) antibody are eligible only if
polymerase chain reaction is negative for HCV RNA.
b. Receipt of a live, attenuated vaccine within 30 days prior to enrolment or
anticipation that such a live, attenuated vaccine will be required during the
study.
c. Prior treatment with CD137 agonists or immune checkpoint blockade therapies,
including anti-CTLA-4, anti-PD-1 or anti-PD-L1 therapeutic antibodies.
d. Treatment with systemic immunostimulatory agents (including but not limited
to interferons or IL-2) within 14 days or five half-lives of the drug
(whichever is shorter) prior to enrolment. Current or prior use of
immunosuppressive medication within 14 days before the first dose of Durvalumab
or Tremelimumab. The following are exceptions to this criterion:
- Intranasal, inhaled, topical steroids, or local steroid injections (eg, intra
articular injection)
- Systemic corticosteroids at physiologic doses not to exceed <<10 mg/day>> of
prednisone or its equivalent
- Steroids as premedication for hypersensitivity reactions (eg, CT scan
premedication)
- Patients who have received acute, low-dose, systemic immunosuppressant
medications (e.g., one-time dose of dexamethasone for nausea) may be enrolled
in the study. The use of inhaled corticosteroids for chronic obstructive
pulmonary disease, mineralocorticoids (e.g., fludrocortisone) for patients with
orthostatic hypotension, and low-dose supplemental corticosteroids for
adrenocortical insufficiency are allowed. , Exclusion Criteria 13. History of
idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (including bronchiolitis obliterans with
organizing pneumonia) or evidence of active pneumonitis on screening
chest-computed tomography scan. History of radiation pneumonitis in the
radiation field (fibrosis) is permitted.
14. History of leptomeningeal carcinomatosis
15. History of active primary immunodeficiency
16. History of allogeneic transplantation
17. Severe infections within 28 days prior to enrolment, including, but not
limited to, hospitalization for complications of infection, bacteraemia, or
severe pneumonia;
- Received oral or IV antibiotics within 2 weeks prior to enrolment. Patients
receiving prophylactic antibiotics (e.g., for prevention of a urinary tract
infection or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) are eligible.
Design
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In other registers
Register | ID |
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EudraCT | EUCTR2017-003800-28-NL |
CCMO | NL63233.031.17 |