Immunotherapy and Carbon Ion Radiotherapy In Solid Cancers With Stable Disease

Last updated: August 20, 2024
Sponsor: CNAO National Center of Oncological Hadrontherapy
Overall Status: Active - Recruiting

Phase

2

Condition

Squamous Cell Carcinoma

Melanoma

Head And Neck Cancer

Treatment

Immunotherapy (Pembrolizumab)

Carbon Ion Therapy

Clinical Study ID

NCT05229614
CNAO 44 2021 C
  • Ages > 18
  • All Genders

Study Summary

Immunotherapy has become the standard of care in different advanced malignancies. Its effectiveness in the palliative setting was demonstrated by several phase III trials. However, the response rate varies according to the cancer under study and to the line of treatment. A potential way to improve the activity of single agent immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) is to enhance the clinical response through further antitumor agents, including radiotherapy. Studies showed that carbon ions may lead to a broader immunogenic response; for their dosimetric characteristics it is possible to reduce integral dose sparing immune cells to direct and sustain a tumor specific immune response.

Considering the available preclinical and clinical evidence together, the goal of this study is to explore the feasibility and the clinical activity of adding carbon ion radiotherapy (CIRT), employed with a fractionation strategy comparable to stereotactic body radiation, to ICIs in advanced malignancies where immunotherapy is currently the standard of care.

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

Inclusion Criteria:

  1. Signed written informed consent

  2. Histologic confirmation of malignancies under treatment with single agentanti-PD1/PDL1 immunotherapy per clinical practice (see cohort specific inclusioncriteria) with immune checkpoint inhibitors approved by Italian national drugregulatory agencies (Agenzia Italiana del Farmaco, AIFA)

  3. Having a disease stability as assessed by AIFA monitoring sheet

  4. Presence of at least 2 measurable target lesions, of which at least one to befollowed up as per RECIST and one suitable for CIRT

  5. Willing and able to comply with scheduled visits, treatment schedule, laboratorytesting, and other requirements of the study

  6. Females and males, 18 years of age or older (no upper limit for age)

  7. Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status ≤ 2

  8. Subjects must have measurable disease by CT or MRI per RECIST 1.1

Exclusion

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Patients treated with chemo-immunotherapy associations

  2. Patients treated with immunotherapy combinations (e.g. subjects treated withanti-CTLA4 + anti-PD1/PDL1 are excluded)

  3. Patients receiving immunotherapy within clinical trials

  4. Patients receiving off-label immunotherapy or within expanded access programs or ascompassionate use

  5. Patients with high tumor burden defined as > 10 lesions and/or sum of diameters > 19cm

  6. Patients with distant metastases only located in the CNS are excluded

  7. Any serious or uncontrolled medical disorder that, in the opinion of theinvestigator, may increase the risk associated with study participation or studydrug administration, impair the ability of the subject to receive protocol therapy,or interfere with the interpretation of study results

  8. Patients with autoimmune diseases (ADs), including local and systemiccollagen-vascular (CVD) and inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD)

  9. Previous RT, regardless of energy, on the metastatic site selected to be irradiated.

  10. Any immune-related CTCAE grade 4 adverse event, before study entry

  11. Any CTCAE grade ≥3 immune-related adverse event observed within 3 weeks prior toCIRT start

  12. Presence of metal prostheses or any other condition to prevent adequate imaging foridentification of the target volume and calculation of the dose

  13. Loco-regional conditions not allowing hadron therapy (e.g. active infections in RTtarget region)

  14. Prisoners or subjects who are involuntarily incarcerated

  15. Subjects who are compulsorily detained for treatment of either a psychiatric orphysical illness (e.g. infectious disease)

Study Design

Total Participants: 27
Treatment Group(s): 2
Primary Treatment: Immunotherapy (Pembrolizumab)
Phase: 2
Study Start date:
July 26, 2022
Estimated Completion Date:
August 31, 2026

Study Description

This is a multicenter, open label, non-randomized phase II clinical trial aiming to assess the feasibility and the clinical activity of adding CIRT to ICIs in cancer patients that have obtained a disease stability (SD) with pembrolizumab administered as per standard of care. At study entry, hypofractionated CIRT will be delivered to one measurable lesion previously untreated with local approaches.CIRT will be performed at Fondazione CNAO, Pavia

Connect with a study center

  • GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH

    Darmstadt,
    Germany

    Site Not Available

  • Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori

    MIlan,
    Italy

    Active - Recruiting

  • Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo

    Pavia,
    Italy

    Active - Recruiting

  • National Center for Oncological Hadrontherapy (CNAO)

    Pavia, 27100
    Italy

    Site Not Available

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