Nivolumab in Patients With Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer and Pre-existing Autoimmune Disease

Sponsor
Alliance Foundation Trials, LLC. (Other)
Overall Status
Active, not recruiting
CT.gov ID
NCT03656627
Collaborator
Bristol-Myers Squibb (Industry)
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Study Details

Study Description

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to explore the safety, tolerability and activity of Nivolumab, a PD-1 inhibitor, in cohorts of patients with autoimmune disease. Two cohorts of patients will be enrolled, based on autoimmune disease type.

Patients will be screened within 28 days prior to the start of dosing. Eligible patients will be enrolled in either of the two cohorts. Patients will receive treatment every two weeks, in an outpatient setting. One cycle is a 28-day period, with Nivolumab given on days 1 and 15 of a 28-day cycle. Subjects will be permitted to continue treatment beyond initial RECIST 1.1.

Detailed Description

The purpose of this study is to explore the safety, tolerability and activity of Nivolumab, a PD-1 inhibitor, in cohorts of patients with autoimmune disease. Two cohorts of patients will be enrolled, based on autoimmune disease type as outlined below. Entry into cohorts 1 and 2 will start simultaneously and enroll independently.

Cohort 1: Rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, giant cell arteritis/polymyalgia rheumatica, systemic lupus erythematosis Cohort 2: Other autoimmune diseases (ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease, multiple sclerosis). Patients must be discussed with PI prior to enrollment.

Patients will be screened within 28 days prior to the start of dosing. Eligible patients will be enrolled in either of the two cohorts. Patients will receive treatment every two weeks, in an outpatient setting. One cycle is a 28-day period, with Nivolumab given on days 1 and 15 of a 28-day cycle. Subjects will be permitted to continue treatment beyond initial RECIST 1.1. For each cohort, all patients will be dosed at 240 mg IV. There will be no dose de-escalation or escalation from this dose level.

Participants will be followed with telephone follow up for two years after removal from protocol therapy or until death, whichever occurs first. Phone calls will be placed every six months and survival follow up obtained. Participants removed from protocol therapy for unacceptable adverse event(s) will be followed until resolution or stabilization of the adverse event, in addition to the follow up for two years after removal from protocol therapy or until death, whichever occurs first.

Study Design

Study Type:
Interventional
Actual Enrollment :
7 participants
Allocation:
Non-Randomized
Intervention Model:
Parallel Assignment
Masking:
None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose:
Treatment
Official Title:
Safety, Activity, and Pharmacology of Nivolumab in Patients With Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer and Pre-existing Autoimmune Disease
Actual Study Start Date :
Jun 27, 2019
Anticipated Primary Completion Date :
Oct 31, 2022
Anticipated Study Completion Date :
Oct 31, 2022

Arms and Interventions

Arm Intervention/Treatment
Experimental: Nivolumab: Autoimmune Diseases Cohort 1

Arms determined by autoimmune type. First cohort consists of patients with: Rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, giant cell arteritis/polymyalgia rheumatica, systemic lupus erythematosis If a patient has more than one autoimmune condition, if all the conditions are within either cohort 1 or 2 above, the patient will be assigned to that cohort. If the patient has conditions from both cohort 1 and 2, the patient will be grouped in cohort 2.

Drug: Nivolumab
Nivolumab will be given as an IV infusion every two weeks, in an outpatient setting. One cycle is a 28-day period, with Nivolumab given on days 1 and 15 of a 28-day cycle. For each cohort, all patients will be dosed at 240 mg IV. There will be no dose de-escalation or escalation from this dose level.

Experimental: Nivolumab: Autoimmune Diseases Cohort 2

Arms determined by autoimmune type. Second cohort consists of patients with: Other autoimmune diseases (ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease, multiple sclerosis). Patients must be discussed with PI prior to enrollment. If a patient has more than one autoimmune condition, if all the conditions are within either cohort 1 or 2 above, the patient will be assigned to that cohort. If the patient has conditions from both cohort 1 and 2, the patient will be grouped in cohort 2.

Drug: Nivolumab
Nivolumab will be given as an IV infusion every two weeks, in an outpatient setting. One cycle is a 28-day period, with Nivolumab given on days 1 and 15 of a 28-day cycle. For each cohort, all patients will be dosed at 240 mg IV. There will be no dose de-escalation or escalation from this dose level.

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

  1. Dose-Limiting Toxicity (DLT) [48 Months]

    The DLT determination period is the first six weeks after cycle 1 day 1. Dose limiting toxicities are further defined in the trial protocol.

Secondary Outcome Measures

  1. Overall Response Rate [48 Months]

    Overall response rate is defined to be the best objective status recorded from the start of the treatment until disease progression/recurrence

  2. Progression-Free Survival [48 Months]

    Progression-free survival will be evaluated for each cohort using Kaplan-Meier estimator.

  3. Overall Survival [48 Months]

    Overall survival will be evaluated for each cohort using Kaplan-Meier estimator.

Eligibility Criteria

Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study:
18 Years and Older
Sexes Eligible for Study:
All
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
No
Inclusion Criteria:
  1. Age > 18

  2. Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0-1

  3. Metastatic, locally advanced or recurrent NSCLC, not amenable to curative therapy.

  4. Patients should have received at least one platinum-based chemotherapy regimen for recurrent or metastatic disease or have received platinum-based chemotherapy as part of adjuvant or neoadjuvant therapy and experienced progression of disease within 6 months of completing therapy.

  5. Patients with tumor genetic alterations such as EGFR, ALK, ROS1 or BRAF V600E alterations for which there is FDA-approved targeted therapy must have been treated with the appropriate targeted inhibitors in prior therapy

  6. No limit on number of prior therapies

  7. Ability to provide written, informed consent

  8. Patients must be on a stable regimen of treatment for their autoimmune condition without need for addition of new medications or escalating doses of preexisting medications in the previous 12 weeks prior to study entry

  9. In addition, patients with the following autoimmune diseases must have baseline disease activity scores as follows (please see Appendix A):

  • For rheumatoid arthritis: DAS28 < 5.1

  • For polymyalgia rheumatica: PMR-AS < 17

  • For Sjogrens: ESSDAI < 14

  • For ulcerative colitis: SSCAI < 5

  • For Crohn's disease: CDAI < 450

  • For systemic lupus erythroderma: SLEDAI-2K < 20

  • For multiple sclerosis: EDSS < 5.5

  1. Adequate organ and marrow function as defined by:
  • absolute neutrophil count ≥ 1,500/mcL

  • platelets ≥ 100,000/mcL

  • total bilirubin ≤ 2.5 × institutional upper limit of normal

  • AST(SGOT)/ALT(SGPT) ≤ 2.5 × institutional upper limit of normal, OR

  • AST(SGOT)/ALT(SGPT ) ≤5 × institutional upper limit of normal if liver metastases are present

  • Creatinine within normal institutional limits OR

  • Creatinine clearance ≥60 mL/min/1.73 m2 for participants with creatinine levels above institutional normal.

  1. Non-pregnant and non-nursing.

  2. Women of childbearing potential (WOCBP) must be willing to use 2 methods of birth control or be surgically sterile, or abstain from heterosexual activity for the course of the study through 5 months after the last dose of study medication. Patients of childbearing potential are those who have not been surgically sterilized or have not been free of menses > 1 year.

  3. Male patients must agree to use an adequate method of contraception starting with the first dose of study therapy through 7 months after the last dose of study therapy.

Exclusion Criteria:
  1. No chemotherapy or radiotherapy within two weeks of study entry. Prior targeted therapy is allowed as long as at least 5 half-lives have elapsed since last dose.

  2. All adverse events (other than alopecia) from prior therapy must be resolved to Grade 1 or less.

  3. Patients who are known to be HIV positive are excluded due to the known immunologic alterations associated with the disease. HIV testing is not required.

  4. No uncontrolled intercurrent illness such as active infection, or psychiatric illness or social situation that in the judgment of the investigator would limit compliance with study requirements

  5. No active interstitial lung disease (ILD) or pneumonitis, or a history of ILD or pneumonitis requiring treatment with corticosteroids

  6. No live vaccine within 30 days of start of study treatment

  7. No carcinomatous meningitis or untreated CNS metastases

  8. No history of significant cardiac disease or presence of an abnormality in electrocardiograms that, in the investigator's opinion, is medically exclusionary or clinically meaningful

  9. No other active malignancy

  10. No known history of or positivity for active hepatitis B or C. HBV DNA and/or HCV RNA must be undetectable and HBsAg must be negative at the time of screening

  11. No active unstable angina and/or congestive heart failure, or myocardial infarction within 6 months prior to protocol participation

Contacts and Locations

Locations

Site City State Country Postal Code
1 University of Chicago Medical Center Chicago Illinois United States 60637
2 Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center/University of Maryland School of Medicine Baltimore Maryland United States 21201
3 Massachusetts General Hospital Boston Massachusetts United States 02114
4 St. Joseph Mercy Hospital Ann Arbor Michigan United States 48106
5 Metro Minnesota Community Oncology Research Consortium Saint Louis Park Minnesota United States 55416
6 Dartmouth Hitchcock Norris Cotton Cancer Center Lebanon New Hampshire United States 03756
7 Atlantic Health System/Morristown Medical Center Morristown New Jersey United States 07962
8 The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center - Thoracic Oncology Clinic Columbus Ohio United States 43210
9 Providence Cancer Institute Franz Clinic Portland Oregon United States 97213
10 UPMC Hillman Cancer Center Pittsburgh Pennsylvania United States 15232
11 University of Wisconsin Clinical Science Center Madison Wisconsin United States 53792

Sponsors and Collaborators

  • Alliance Foundation Trials, LLC.
  • Bristol-Myers Squibb

Investigators

None specified.

Study Documents (Full-Text)

None provided.

More Information

Publications

Responsible Party:
Alliance Foundation Trials, LLC.
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
NCT03656627
Other Study ID Numbers:
  • AFT-42
First Posted:
Sep 4, 2018
Last Update Posted:
Jun 18, 2021
Last Verified:
Feb 1, 2021

Study Results

No Results Posted as of Jun 18, 2021