Lifileucel With Reduced Dose Fludarabine/Cyclophosphamide Lymphodepletion and Interleukin-2 for the Treatment of Patients With Unresectable or Metastatic Melanoma

Last updated: February 26, 2024
Sponsor: University of Kansas Medical Center
Overall Status: Active - Recruiting

Phase

2

Condition

Melanoma

Skin Cancer

Metastatic Melanoma

Treatment

Echocardiography

Tumor Resection

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Clinical Study ID

NCT06151847
STUDY00150697
NCI-2023-09309
P30CA168524
IIT-2022-LDTIL
STUDY00150697
  • Ages 18-70
  • All Genders

Study Summary

This phase II trial tests how well lifileucel, with reduce dose fludarabine and cyclophosphamide for lymphodepletion and interleukin-2, work for treating patients with melanoma that cannot be removed by surgery (unresectable) or that has spread from where it first started (primary site) to other places in the body (metastatic).Lifileucel is made up of specialized immune cells called lymphocytes or T cells that are taken from a patient's tumor, grown in a manufacturing facility and infused back into the preconditioned patient to attack the tumor. Giving Lifileucel with a reduced dose of fludarabine and cyclophosphamide for lymphodepletion and interleukin -2 is being studied in patients with unresectable or metastatic melanoma.

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Males and females age ≥ 18 years Enrollment of patients ≥ 70 years of age may beallowed at principal investigator discretion.
  • Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status 0 - 1
  • At least one measurable target lesion, as defined by Response Evaluation Criteria inSolid Tumors (RECIST) version (v) 1.1
  • Lesions in previously irradiated areas (or other local therapy) should not beselected as target lesions, unless treatment was ≥ 3 months prior to Screening,and there has been demonstrated disease progression in that lesion
  • Women of childbearing potential must have a negative serum pregnancy test 48 hoursprior to initiating treatment
  • Patients with unresectable or metastatic melanoma (stage IIIc or stage IV)
  • Patients must have progressed following 1-3 prior systemic therapy including aprogrammed cell death protein-1 (PD-1) blocking antibody; and if proto-oncogene B-Raf (BRAF) V600 mutation positive, a BRAF inhibitor or BRAF inhibitor in combinationmitogen-activated extracellular signal-regulated kinase (MEK) inhibitor
  • At least one resectable lesion (or aggregate of lesions resected) of a minimum 1.5 cmin diameter post-resection to generate TIL; surgical removal with minimal morbidity (defined as any procedure for which expected hospitalization is ≤ 3 days)
  • Adequate hematologic and organ function
  • Patients must have recovered from all prior therapy-related adverse events (AEs) to ≤grade 1 (per Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events [CTCAE] version [v] 5.0),except for alopecia or vitiligo, prior to enrollment (tumor resection)
  • Patients with documented ≥ grade 2 diarrhea or colitis because of previoustreatment with immune checkpoint inhibitor(s) must have been asymptomatic for atleast 6 months and/or had a normal colonoscopy post-immune checkpoint inhibitortreatment, by visual assessment, prior to tumor resection
  • Patients with immunotherapy-related endocrinopathies stable for at least 6 weeks (eg,hypothyroidism), and controlled with hormonal replacement (non-corticosteroids), areallowed
  • Patients must have a washout period of ≥ 28 days from prior anticancer therapy(ies) tothe start of the planned reduced dose lymphodepletion (RDL) preconditioning regimen:
  • Targeted therapy: MEK/BRAF or other targeted agents
  • Chemotherapy
  • Immunotherapy: anti-CTLA-4/anti-PD-1, other monoclonal antibodies (mAb), orvaccine
  • Palliative radiation therapy is permitted so long as it does not involve lesionsbeing selected for TIL, or as target or non-target lesions. Washout is notrequired if all related toxicities have resolved to ≤ grade 1 as per CTCAE v 5.0
  • Women of child-bearing potential and men with partners of child-bearing potential mustagree to practice sexual abstinence or to use the forms of contraception listed inChild-Bearing Potential/Pregnancy section for the duration of study participation andfor 12 months following the last dose of IL-2 or until the first dose of the nextanti-cancer therapy, whichever occurs first

Exclusion

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Current or anticipating use of other anti-neoplastic or investigational agents whileparticipating in this study
  • Is pregnant or breastfeeding
  • Patients who have active medical illness(es) that would pose increased risk for studyparticipation, including active systemic infections requiring systemic antibiotics,coagulation disorders, or other active major medical illnesses of the cardiovascular,respiratory, or immune system
  • Patients who have been shown to be BRAF mutation positive (V600), but have notreceived prior systemic therapy with a BRAF inhibitor alone or a BRAF inhibitor incombination with a MEK inhibitor
  • Patients who have received an organ allograft or prior cell transfer therapy
  • Patients with melanoma of uveal/ocular origin
  • Patients who have a history of hypersensitivity to any component or excipient ofLifileucel or other study drugs
  • Patients who have any form of primary immunodeficiency (such as severe combinedimmunodeficiency disease [SCID] and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome [AIDS])
  • Patients who have a left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) < 45% or New York HeartAssociation (NYHA) functional classification class > 1
  • Patients who have a documented forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1) of ≤ 60%
  • Patients who have had another primary malignancy within the previous 3 years (exceptfor carcinoma in situ of the breast, cervix, or bladder; localized prostate cancer;and non-melanoma skin cancer that has been adequately treated)
  • Patients with symptomatic and/or untreated brain metastases (of any size and anynumber)
  • Other protocol defined inclusion/exclusion criteria could apply

Study Design

Total Participants: 12
Treatment Group(s): 9
Primary Treatment: Echocardiography
Phase: 2
Study Start date:
December 21, 2023
Estimated Completion Date:
November 27, 2025

Study Description

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE:

I. The percentage of total TIL clones as measured by the T-cell receptor (TCR) population shared between the tumor infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL) product and peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC).

SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:

I. To evaluate the efficacy parameters of lifileucel (LN-144) in combination with a reduced dose lymphodepletion in patients with unresectable or metastatic melanoma by assessing objective response rate (ORR), progression-free survival (PFS), and overall survival (OS).

II. To characterize the safety profile of lifileucel (LN-144) in combination with a reduced dose lymphodepletion regimen in patients with unresectable or metastatic melanoma.

EXPLORATORY OBJECTIVE:

I. Blood and tumor samples will be banked for future correlative analyses, including flow cytometry, next generation sequencing, immunogenomics and RNA sequencing to characterize the immunome and microenvironment.

OUTLINE:

Patients undergo tumor resection surgery. After the lifileucel is manufactured (approximately 4 weeks later), patients receive cyclophosphamide intravenously (IV) on days -4 to -2 and fludarabine IV on days -4 to -1. Patients then receive lifileucel IV on day 0. Patients also receive up to 6 doses of intraleukin-2 IV.

After completion of study treatment, patients are followed up at day 28, 42, 84, 126, 180, 365, month 18, and month 24.

Connect with a study center

  • University of Kansas Cancer Center

    Kansas City, Kansas 66160
    United States

    Active - Recruiting

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