A Study of Durvalumab With or Without Tremelimumab in Endometrial Cancer

NCT03015129CompletedPHASE2INTERVENTIONAL

Summary

Key Facts

Lead Sponsor

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Enrollment

80

Start Date

2017-01-01

Completion Date

2022-12-30

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Official Title

A Phase 2 Trial of Durvalumab [MEDI4736](Anti-PD-L1 Antibody) With or Without Tremelimumab (Anti-CTLA-4 Antibody) in Patients With Persistent or Recurrent Endometrial Carcinoma and Endometrial Carcinosarcoma

Interventions

DurvalumabTremelimumab

Conditions

Endometrial CancerEndometrial CarcinosarcomaEndometrial CarcinomaEndometrial Cancer RecurrentEndometrial CarcinomaRecurrent

Eligibility

Age Range

18 Years+

Sex

FEMALE

Inclusion Criteria:

* Subjects must have recurrent or persistent endometrial carcinoma (including: Endometrioid adenocarcinoma, serous adenocarcinoma, undifferentiated carcinoma, dedifferentiated carcinoma, clear cell adenocarcinoma, mixed epithelial carcinoma, adenocarcinoma not otherwise specified (N.O.S.), mucinous adenocarcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, and transitional cell carcinoma) or endometrial carcinosarcoma). Histologic documentation of diagnosis of carcinoma is required. MSI-high patients will be identified based on immunohistochemistry or MSI testing of archival tumor specimens by department of pathology or via known mutations found in mismatch repair genes via the Integrated Mutation Profiling of Actionable Cancer Targets (IMPACT) assay through MSKCC IRB# 12-245.
* All patients must have measurable disease. Measurable disease is defined by RECIST (version 1.1). Measurable disease is defined as at least one lesion that can be accurately measured in at least one dimension (longest diameter to be recorded). Each lesion must be ≥ 10 mm when measured by CT, MRI or caliper measurement by clinical exam; or ≥ 20 mm when measured by chest x-ray. Lymph nodes must be ≥ 15 mm in short axis when measured by CT or MRI.
* Patients must have at least one "target lesion" to be used to assess response on this protocol as defined by RECIST version 1.1. Tumors within a previously irradiated field will be designated as "non-target" lesions unless progression is documented or a biopsy is obtained to confirm persistence at least 90 days following completion of radiation therapy.
* Age ≥ 18 years and life expectancy of ≥ 12 weeks.
* Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0 or 1.
* Resolution of (non-laboratory) adverse effects of recent surgery, radiotherapy, or chemotherapy to Grade ≤1 prior to first study treatment (with the exception of alopecia or neuropathy).
* Patients must have had one prior platinum-based chemotherapeutic regimen for management of endometrial carcinoma or carcinosarcoma. Initial treatment may include chemotherapy, chemotherapy and radiation therapy, and/or consolidation/maintenance therapy. Chemotherapy administered in conjunction with primary radiation as a radio-sensitizer WILL be counted as a systemic chemotherapy regimen.
* Patients are allowed to receive, but are not required to receive, three additional cytotoxic regimen for management of recurrent or persistent disease. Hormonal therapies will not count toward the prior regimen limit.
* Adequate normal organ and marrow function defined by the following laboratory results obtained within 14 days prior to first treatment:

  * Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) ≥ 1.5 x 10\^9/L (\> 1500 per mm\^3)
  * Platelet ≥ 100 x 10\^9/L (\>100,000 per mm\^3)
  * Hemoglobin ≥ 9.0 g/dL
  * Serum bilirubin ≤ 1.5 x institutional upper limit of normal (ULN). (Unless Gilbert's Syndrome,for which Bilirubin ≤ 3 x institutional upper limit of normal (ULN) without concurrent clinically significant liver disease)
  * AST (SGOT)/ALT (SGPT) ≤ 3 x institutional upper limit of normal unless (ULN) unless liver metastases are present, in which case it must be ≤ 5x ULN
  * Serum creatinine ≤ 1.5 x institutional upper limit of normal (ULN)
* Female subjects must either be of non-reproductive potential (ie, post-menopausal by history: ≥55 years old and no menses for ≥1 year without an alternative medical cause; OR history of hysterectomy, OR history of bilateral tubal ligation, OR history of bilateral oophorectomy) or must have a negative serum pregnancy test upon study entry.
* Subject is willing and able to comply with the protocol for the duration of the study including undergoing treatment and scheduled visits and examinations including follow up.
* Patients must have been enrolled, or agree to consent to the companion genomic profiling study MSKCC IRB# 12-245. Results must be available before starting treatment on protocol.
* Patients must have signed an approved informed consent and authorization permitting release of personal information.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Involvement in the planning and/or conduct of the study (applies to both AstraZeneca staff and/or staff at the study site); Previous enrollment in the present study.
* Participation in another clinical study with receipt of an investigational product during the last 4 weeks
* Any previous treatment with a PD-1 or PD-L1 inhibitor, including durvalumab or any anti-CTLA4, including tremelimumab.
* History of another primary malignancy except for:

  * Malignancy treated with curative intent and with no known active disease ≥3 years before the first dose of study drug and of low potential risk for recurrence
  * Adequately treated non-melanoma skin cancer or lentigo maligna without evidence of disease
  * Adequately treated carcinoma in situ without evidence of disease (eg, cervical cancer in situ)
  * Adequately treated stage 1 breast cancer.
* Receipt of the last dose of anti-cancer therapy (chemotherapy, immunotherapy, targeted therapy, biologic therapy, tumor embolization, monoclonal antibodies) \< 21 days prior to the first dose of study drug. Receipt of the last dose of hormonal therapy within \< 7 days prior to the first dose of study drug.
* Any prior radiation therapy must be discontinued at least four weeks prior to registration.
* At least 4 weeks must have elapsed since the patient underwent any major surgery (e.g., major: laparotomy, laparoscopy) There is no delay in treatment for minor procedures (e.g., central venous access catheter placement).
* Mean QT interval corrected for heart rate (QTc) ≥470 ms calculated from 3 electrocardiograms (ECGs)
* Current or prior use of immunosuppressive medication within 28 days before the first dose of durvalumab or durvalumab and tremelimumab, with the exceptions of intranasal and inhaled corticosteroids or systemic corticosteroids at physiological doses, which are not to exceed 10 mg/day of prednisone, or an equivalent corticosteroid. Patients who have received acute, low dose, systemic immunosuppressant medications (e.g., dexamethasone for nausea or steroids as CT scan contrast premedication) may be enrolled.
* Any prior Grade ≥3 immune-related adverse event (irAE) while receiving any previous immunotherapy agent, or any unresolved irAE \> Grade 1
* Active or prior documented autoimmune disease within the past 2 years NOTE: Subjects with vitiligo, Grave's disease, or psoriasis not requiring systemic treatment (within the past 2 years) are not excluded.
* Active or prior documented inflammatory bowel disease (e.g., Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis)
* History of primary immunodeficiency
* History and/or confirmed pneumonitis or interstitial lung disease
* History of allogeneic organ transplant
* History of hypersensitivity to durvalumab or any excipient
* History of hypersensitivity to tremelimumab
* Uncontrolled intercurrent illness including, but not limited to, ongoing or active infection, symptomatic congestive heart failure, uncontrolled hypertension, unstable angina pectoris, cardiac arrhythmia, active peptic ulcer disease or gastritis, active bleeding diatheses including any subject known to have evidence of acute or chronic hepatitis B, hepatitis C or human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), or psychiatric illness/social situations that would limit compliance with study requirements or compromise the ability of the subject to give written informed consent
* Known history of previous clinical diagnosis of tuberculosis
* History of leptomeningeal carcinomatosis
* Receipt of live attenuated vaccination within 30 days prior to study entry or within 30 days of receiving durvalumab or tremelimumab.
* Any condition that, in the opinion of the investigator, would interfere with evaluation of study treatment or interpretation of patient safety or study results
* Symptomatic or uncontrolled brain metastases requiring concurrent treatment, inclusive of but not limited to surgery, radiation and/or corticosteroids.
* Subjects with uncontrolled seizures.
* Patients who are pregnant or breastfeeding or patients of reproductive potential who are not willing to employ effective birth control from screening to 180 days after the last dose of durvalumab + tremelimumab combination therapy or 90 days after the last dose of durvalumab monotherapy, whichever is the longer time period
* History of small or large bowel obstruction within 3 months of registration, including subjects with palliative gastric drainage catheters. Subjects with palliative diverting ileostomy or colostomy are allowed if they have been symptom-free for more than 3 months.
* Ongoing bowel perforation or presence of bowel fistula or abscess within 3 months of registration.
* Subjects with refractory ascites, defined as ascites needing drainage catheter or therapeutic paracentesis more often than every 4 weeks.

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes

Treatment Efficacy Determined by Measuring the Overall Response Rate

Per Response Evaluation Criteria In Solid Tumors Criteria (RECIST v1.0) for target lesions and assessed by MRI: Complete Response (CR), Disappearance of all target lesions; Partial Response (PR), \>=30% decrease in the sum of the longest diameter of target lesions; Overall Response (OR) = CR + PR

Time frame: Up to 72 months

Locations

Memorial Sloan Kettering Basking Ridge, Basking Ridge, United States

Memorial Sloan Kettering Monmouth, Middletown, United States

Memorial Sloan Kettering Bergen, Montvale, United States

Memorial Sloan Kettering Commack, Commack, United States

Memorial Sloan Kettering Westchester, Harrison, United States

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, United States

Memorial Sloan Kettering Nassau, Uniondale, United States

Linked Papers

2022-12-06

The role of immunotherapy in advanced and recurrent MMR deficient and proficient endometrial carcinoma

Endometrial cancer is the most common gynecological disease in developed countries. Although it is considered an indolent disease, advanced and recurrent endometrial carcinomas are characterized by poor prognosis. In the metastatic setting, after the failure of first-line platinum-based chemotherapy, patients have limited therapeutic options. However, endometrial cancer should not be considered as a single entity but as a group of heterogeneous diseases with specific genomic, molecular, and biological features by suggested the analysis of The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA). Accumulating data highlighted the effectiveness and safety of the adoption of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) for several types of solid tumors. In particular, immunotherapy showed promising results in MSI-H/dMMR solid tumors. Endometrial cancer is not an exception. Endometrial cancer has the highest prevalence of MSI across human cancer types, and approximately 30% of primary endometrial cancers are MSI-H/dMMR and 13% to 30% of recurrent endometrial cancers are MSI-H/dMMR. The preliminary results of the KEYNOTE-158, the Australian NCT03015129 and the GARNET trial strongly supported the adoption of ICIs as monotherapy in patients with advanced or recurrent endometrial cancer, after the failure of first-line treatments. Unfortunately, those impressive results are not achieved in patients with MMR proficient disease. Hence, other combinations were tested. In particular, the adoption of ICIs plus tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKI) showed very compelling results. Recently, the updated results of the KEYNOTE-775 showed that pembrolizumab plus lenvatinib led to significantly longer progression-free and overall survival than chemotherapy among patients with advanced endometrial cancer, irrespective of MMR status. After EMA approval, pembrolizumab plus lenvatinib represents the new standard second-line treatment in endometrial cancer patients, regardless MMR status. Further studies are investigating the role of ICIs and TKIs in the first line and are testing new combinations (e.g. ICIs plus PARP inhibitors).

Clinical activity of durvalumab for patients with advanced mismatch repair-deficient and repair-proficient endometrial cancer. A nonrandomized phase 2 clinical trial

Background In this study, we assessed the activity of durvalumab, an antibody to programmed death ligand-1, in two cohorts of women with advanced endometrial cancers (AEC)—mismatch repair proficient (pMMR) and mismatch repair deficient (dMMR). Methods A multicenter phase two study was performed in women with AEC with pMMR tumor progressing after one to three lines of chemotherapy and women with AEC with dMMR tumor progressing after zero to three lines of chemotherapy. Mismatch repair status was based on immunohistochemistry expression. All women received durvalumab 1500 mg given every 4 weeks until progression or unacceptable toxicity. The primary endpoint was objective tumor response by RECIST V.1.1 modified for immune-based therapeutics. Results Seventy-one women were recruited: 35 dMMR and 36 pMMR. Median follow-up was 19 vs 21 months in dMMR versus pMMR, respectively. Median age was 67 years. Histology in dMMR versus pMMR included endometrioid (94% vs 57%) and serous (0% vs 31%) and was high grade in 26% vs 74%. The objective tumor response rate (OTRR) in the dMMR cohort was 47% (17/36, 95% CI 32 to 63), including 6 complete responses and 11 partial responses (PRs)) vs 3% in the pMMR cohort (1/35, 95% CI 1 to 15, PR). In the dMMR cohort, durvalumab was the first-line therapy in 58% (OTRR 57%) and the second-line therapy in 39% (OTRR 38%). Median progression-free survival was 8.3 months in the dMMR cohort vs 1.8 months in the pMMR cohort. The 12-month overall survival (OS) rate was 71% in dMMR vs 51% in pMMR, with median OS not reached for dMMR vs 12 months for pMMR. Immune-related adverse events occurred in 14 women, mostly grades 1–2. Conclusion Durvalumab monotherapy showed promising activity and acceptable safety in AEC with dMMR regardless of prior lines of chemotherapy, but activity was limited in AEC with pMMR. Trial registration numbers ANZGOG1601, ACTRN12617000106336, and NCT03015129.

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