Clinical trial NCT05175235: Nivolumab and Pembrolizumab Dose Optimisation in Solid Tumours With CURATE.AI Platform and Sequential ctDNA Measurements
Official title: Nivolumab and Pembrolizumab Dose Optimisation in Solid Tumours With CURATE.AI Platform and Sequential ctDNA Measurements
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Phase: PHASE1
PHASE2
Conditions: Solid Tumor
Keywords: personalized oncology
personalized dose selection
immunotherapy
dose optimisation
Cancer
Artificial Intelligence
CURATE.AI
Nivolumab
Sequential ctDNA
Chemotherapy
Lead sponsor: National University Hospital, Singapore
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: The N.1 Institute for Health (N.1)
name: Natera, Inc.
First posted: 2022-01-03
Enrollment: 10
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 21
Maximum age (years): 99
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Intervention model description: This is a multi-centre, one-arm, prospective pilot study of participants diagnosed with solid tumours. The participants will be enrolled for the duration of their treatment with Nivolumab. At 12-month mark, the decision on the patient engagement with the study will be made by the principal investigator in consultation with the study sponsors and treating physician.
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: CURATE.AI - a small data, AI-derived technology platform - allows personalised guidance of an individual's dose modulations based only on that individual's data. Additionally, CURATE.AI is mechanism-independent, and dynamically adapts to changes experienced by the subject, providing dynamic dose optimisation throughout the duration of the subject's treatment. This study aims to demonstrate the feasibility of applying CURATE.AI in standard of care settings for treatment of solid tumours with Nivolumab. An additional objective is to explore sequential ctDNA measurements as a response marker collected at a higher frequency of probing, with modulated doses.

Detailed description: The first stage of the trial aims to identify patients who are responsive to the given treatment, determined from both SOC - radiology via criteria such as RECIST/immune-related RECIST (irRECIST) as well as the intended response marker for CURATE.AI. These patients will then proceed with the second stage of the trial.

The second stage of the trial aims to obtain a personalised CURATE.AI profile for each participant, based on their phenotypic response to a set of drug doses. The doses will be recommended by the CURATE.AI team, when relevant to the clinical decision-making process. For participants who started on the selected therapy prior to their engagement with the study, the previously recorded data, limited to: administered doses, corresponding phenotypic responses and treatment-related toxicities (optional) may be included in the CURATE.AI process. Once an actionable profile is obtained, dose recommendations are based on the profile and aimed to treat the participant.

Since there are no prior clinical trials using CURATE.AI in participant treated with combinational or single-agent immunotherapy with drugs such as nivolumab or pembrolizumab, this trial will comprise of participants diagnosed with the main tumour types: non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), gastric cancer (GC), hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) or nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC), or other eligible tumours undergoing or planned for palliative-intent immune-oncology combinational or single-agent therapy with nivolumab/ pembrolizumab.

Nivolumab and Pembrolizumab are an immune checkpoint inhibitors and a novel therapeutic treatment modalities recently approved by the FDA and are becoming the standard of care treatment for a range of oncological indications, including NSCLC, GC, HCC and NPC. However, they are associated with significant semi-annual costs - approximately $140,000 per patient in the United States. In light of the evidence supporting dose personalization and dose reduction in immune-oncology treatments, patients may stand to benefit from CURATE.AI's personalized dose optimisation in maximizing clinical outcomes at reduced costs. Together with the increasing adoption of circulating tumour DNA (ctDNA) as an effective response marker for tumour burden in NSCLC, GC, HCC and NPC, CURATE.AI is ideally suited for pairing these findings with healthcare economics research towards the development of novel healthcare workflows integrating AI and serial measurements of ctDNA response to sustain the scalable implementation of N-of-1 dosing optimisation in cancer treatments.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

1. Males and females ≥ 21 years of age
2. Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) Performance Status of 0 to 2.
3. Patients must meet the following clinical laboratory criteria within 21 days of starting treatment:

   1. Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) ≥ 1,000/mm3 and platelet ≥ 50,000/mm3
   2. Total bilirubin ≤ 1.5 x the upper limit of the normal range (ULN). Alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and aspartate aminotransferase (AST) ≤ 3 x ULN of ≤ 5 ULN if involvement of the liver.
   3. Calculated creatinine clearance ≥ 30 mL/min or creatinine \< 1.5 x ULN.
4. Main tumour types: Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), gastric cancer (GC), hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) or other metastatic solid tumours not for curative intent therapy;
5. Treatment with combinational immunotherapy or single-agent nivolumab/pembrolizumab. If patients have already started treatment on this regimen, they may still be eligible to enrol, provided they fulfil all other criteria and approval is sought by PI and Sponsor.
6. Eligible for treatment combinational immunotherapy or single-agent nivolumab /pembrolizumab based on co-investigator's assessment of fitness for immunotherapy (e.g. not on high dose corticosteroid therapy or uncontrolled auto-immune disorder)

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Patients who are lactating or pregnant.
2. Patients with clinically significant hypersensitivity to one or more of the selected regimen's constituent drug(s)
3. Contraindication to any of the required concomitant drugs or supportive treatments.
4. Any clinically significant medical disease or psychiatric condition that, in the co-investigator's opinion, may interfere with protocol adherence or a subject's ability to give informed consent.
5. Major surgery within 28 days prior to start of the treatment,
6. Active congestive heart failure (New York Heart Association \[NYHA\] Class III or IV), symptomatic ischaemia, or conduction abnormalities uncontrolled by conventional intervention. Myocardial infarction within 4 months prior to informed consent obtained.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Percentage of participants in whom we successfully apply CURATE.AI profile.
timeFrame: up to 12 months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Patient adherence
timeFrame: Up to 12 months
measure: Timely delivery of CURATE.AI recommendations to the clinician
timeFrame: Up to 12 months
measure: CURATE.AI relevance
timeFrame: Up to 12 months
measure: Physician adherence
timeFrame: Up to 12 months
measure: Clinically significant dose changes
timeFrame: Up to 12 months
Other outcomes:
measure: Percentage of trial participants with clinical progressive disease
timeFrame: Up to 12 months
measure: Temporal variation in response marker (ctDNA) level from baseline to trial conclusion.
timeFrame: Up to 12 months
measure: Maximal reduction in response marker (ctDNA) level measured as part of baseline investigations
timeFrame: Up to 12 months
measure: Toxicity derived from the use of CURATE.AI
timeFrame: Up to 12 months
measure: ctDNA analysis
timeFrame: Up to 12 months
Locations:
city: Singapore
country: Singapore
facility: National University Hospital
Study officials:
affiliation: NUH
name: Raghav Sundar
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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