Clinical trial NCT03816345: Nivolumab in Treating Patients With Autoimmune Disorders and Advanced, Metastatic, or Unresectable Cancer
Official title: A Phase Ib Study of Nivolumab in Patients With Autoimmune Disorders and Advanced Malignancies (AIM-NIVO)
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: RECRUITING
Phase: PHASE1
Conditions: Autoimmune Disease
Crohn Disease
Dermatomyositis
Hematopoietic and Lymphoid Cell Neoplasm
Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Malignant Solid Neoplasm
Multiple Sclerosis
Psoriasis
Psoriatic Arthritis
Rheumatoid Arthritis
Sjogren Syndrome
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Systemic Scleroderma
Ulcerative Colitis
Lead sponsor: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Sponsor class: NIH
First posted: 2019-01-25
Enrollment: 300
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: This phase Ib trial studies the side effects of nivolumab and to see how well it works in treating patients with autoimmune disorders and cancer that has spread to other places in the body or cannot removed by surgery. Immunotherapy with monoclonal antibodies, such as nivolumab, may help the body's immune system attack the cancer, and may interfere with the ability of tumor cells to grow and spread.

Detailed description: PRIMARY OBJECTIVE:

I. To assess the overall safety, and toxicities associated with the use of the anti-programmed death 1 (PD-1) antibody nivolumab in patients with varying severity of dermatomyositis (DM)/systemic sclerosis (SSc), rheumatoid arthritis (RA), systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) (ulcerative colitis \[UC\] and Crohn's disease \[CD\]), multiple sclerosis (MS), Sjogren's syndrome \[SjS\], Psoriasis (PsO)/Psoriatic Arthritis (PsA), and other autoimmune diseases.

SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:

I. To evaluate the efficacy of nivolumab in terms of objective response rates (ORRs), progression-free survival (PFS), and overall survival (OS) in patients with cancer and DM/SSc, RA, SLE, IBD (UC and CD), MS, SjS, PsO/PsA, and other autoimmune diseases.

II. To observe and record anti-tumor activity. III. To propose dosing recommendations for anti-PD-1 antibodies based on the severity of the autoimmune disorder.

IV. To evaluate the impact of nivolumab on the disease severity indices for: DM/SSc, RA, SLE, IBD: UC and CD, not specified (NS), MS, SjS, PsO/PsA.

V. To identify biomarkers of response and toxicity.

OUTLINE:

Patients receive nivolumab intravenously (IV) over 30 minutes every 4 weeks for up to 2 years in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients also undergo collection of blood, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), tissue, stool, and urine samples throughout the trial.

After completion of study treatment, patients are followed up for 100 days.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Patients can have either histologically confirmed malignancy that is radiologically evaluable and metastatic or unresectable, or have a malignancy for which a PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitor has been approved in the adjuvant setting. Eligible tumor types include solid tumors and malignancies in which there is known evidence of clinical activity for single agent PD-1 or PD-L1 antibodies. Nivolumab is Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved for the treatment of melanoma, non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), Merkel cell cancer, bladder cancer, renal cell carcinoma (RCC), gastric cancer, hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), cervical cancer, head and neck cancer, Hodgkin lymphoma (HL), metastatic small cell lung cancer (SCLC), and any solid tumor with microsatellite instability (MSI)-high status confirmed. Patients with HL are eligible but must follow standard response criteria. Additional tumor types may be eligible on a case by case basis upon discussion with principal investigator (PI). Patients enrolling on the trial for adjuvant use will be restricted to those with histology for which a PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitor has been approved in the adjuvant setting including but not limited to NSCLC, melanoma, RCC, cervical cancer, and bladder cancer
* Patients who have previously received other forms of immunotherapy (high-dose \[HD\] IL-2, IFN, CTLA-4) are allowed. Patients must not have received cytokine immunotherapy for at least 4 weeks before nivolumab administration. Patients who have received prior anti-CTLA4 will be allowed and the washout period is 6 weeks
* Age \>= 18 years; children are excluded from this study but may be eligible for future pediatric phase 1 combination trials
* Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0 to 2 (Karnofsky \>= 60)
* Life expectancy of greater than 12 weeks
* Leukocytes \>= 1,000/mcL
* Absolute neutrophil count \>= 500/mcL
* Platelets \>= 50,000/mcL
* Total bilirubin =\< 2 x institutional upper limit of normal (ULN)
* Aspartate aminotransferase (AST) (serum glutamic-oxaloacetic transaminase \[SGOT\])/alanine aminotransferase (ALT) (serum glutamate pyruvate transaminase \[SGPT\]) =\< 5 x institutional ULN or =\< 8 x institutional ULN for patients with liver metastases or an autoimmune disease that is contributing to the elevation of these values
* Creatinine ULN OR glomerular filtration rate (GFR) \>= 30 mL/min (if using the Cockcroft-Gault formula)
* Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients on effective antiretroviral therapy with undetectable viral load within 6 months are eligible for this trial
* If evidence of chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, HBV viral load must be undetectable on suppressive therapy if indicated
* If history of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, must be treated with undetectable HCV viral load
* Patients with new or progressive brain metastases (active brain metastases) or leptomeningeal disease are eligible if the treating physician determines that immediate central nervous system (CNS) specific treatment is not required and is unlikely to be required for at least 4 weeks (or scheduled assessment after the first cycle of treatment), and a risk-benefit analysis (discussion) by the patient and the investigator favors participation in the clinical trial
* The effects of nivolumab on the developing human fetus are unknown. For this reason, women of child-bearing potential (WOCBP) and men must agree to use adequate contraception (hormonal or barrier method of birth control; abstinence) prior to study entry and for the duration of study participation. WOCBP receiving nivolumab will be instructed to adhere to contraception for a period of 5 months after the last dose of investigational product. Men receiving nivolumab and who are sexually active with WOCBP will be instructed to adhere to contraception for a period of 7 months after the last dose of investigational product. Women of childbearing potential must have a negative serum or urine pregnancy test (minimum sensitivity 25 IU/L or equivalent units of human chorionic gonadotropin \[HCG\]) within 24 hours prior to the start of nivolumab. Women must not be breastfeeding. Women who are not of childbearing potential (i.e., who are postmenopausal or surgically sterile as well as azoospermic men) do not require contraception. WOCBP is defined as any female who has experienced menarche and who has not undergone surgical sterilization (hysterectomy or bilateral oophorectomy) or who is not postmenopausal. Menopause is defined clinically as 12 months of amenorrhea in a woman over 45 in the absence of other biological or physiological causes. In addition, women under the age of 55 must have a documented serum follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) level less than 40 mIU/mL. These durations have been calculated using the upper limit of the half-life for nivolumab (25 days) and are based on the protocol requirement that WOCBP use contraception for 5 half-lives plus 30 days, and men who are sexually active with WOCBP use contraception for 5 half-lives plus 90 days. Should a woman become pregnant or suspect she is pregnant while she or her partner is participating in this study, she (or the participating partner) should inform the treating physician immediately
* Ability to understand and the willingness to sign a written informed consent document
* Patients with more than one autoimmune disease are eligible. The treating physician would determine which autoimmune disease is dominant and the patient would be treated under that specific cohort

Exclusion Criteria:

* Patients who have had chemotherapy or radiotherapy within 2 weeks (6 weeks for nitrosoureas or mitomycin C) prior to entering the study or those who have not recovered from adverse events (AEs) due to agents administered more than 4 weeks earlier have not resolved or stabilized. Palliative (limited-field) radiation therapy (RT) is permitted (2 week washout from start of treatment), if all of the following criteria are met:

  * Repeat imaging demonstrates no new sites of bone metastases
  * The lesion being considered for palliative radiation is not a target lesion
* Patients with prior therapy with an anti-PD-1 or anti-PD-L1
* Patients with prior allogeneic hematologic transplant
* Patients who are receiving any other anticancer investigational agents
* Uncontrolled intercurrent illness including, but not limited to, ongoing or active infection, symptomatic congestive heart failure, unstable angina pectoris, cardiac arrhythmia, or psychiatric illness/social situations that would limit compliance with study requirements

Primary outcomes:
measure: Incidence of adverse events
timeFrame: Up to 100 days
measure: Change in disease assessments
timeFrame: Baseline up to 100 days
measure: Overall response rate
timeFrame: Up to 100 days
measure: Changes in serum chemokines and circulating immune cells over time
timeFrame: Baseline up to 100 days
measure: Gene expression in normal tissues
timeFrame: Up to 100 days
measure: Clinical measures of interest
timeFrame: Up to 100 days
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Birmingham
country: United States
facility: University of Alabama at Birmingham Cancer Center
state: Alabama
city: Palo Alto
country: United States
facility: Stanford Cancer Institute Palo Alto
state: California
city: Sacramento
country: United States
facility: University of California Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center
state: California
city: New Haven
country: United States
facility: Smilow Cancer Center/Yale-New Haven Hospital
state: Connecticut
city: New Haven
country: United States
facility: Yale University
state: Connecticut
city: Washington
country: United States
facility: MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
state: District of Columbia
city: Atlanta
country: United States
facility: Emory University Hospital/Winship Cancer Institute
state: Georgia
city: Chicago
country: United States
facility: Northwestern University
state: Illinois
city: Chicago
country: United States
facility: University of Chicago Comprehensive Cancer Center
state: Illinois
city: Fairway
country: United States
facility: University of Kansas Clinical Research Center
state: Kansas
city: Hays
country: United States
facility: HaysMed
state: Kansas
city: Kansas City
country: United States
facility: University of Kansas Cancer Center
state: Kansas
city: Lawrence
country: United States
facility: Lawrence Memorial Hospital
state: Kansas
city: Olathe
country: United States
facility: The University of Kansas Cancer Center - Olathe
state: Kansas
city: Overland Park
country: United States
facility: University of Kansas Cancer Center-Overland Park
state: Kansas
city: Overland Park
country: United States
facility: University of Kansas Hospital-Indian Creek Campus
state: Kansas
city: Pittsburg
country: United States
facility: Mercy Hospital Pittsburg
state: Kansas
city: Salina
country: United States
facility: Salina Regional Health Center
state: Kansas
city: Topeka
country: United States
facility: University of Kansas Health System Saint Francis Campus
state: Kansas
city: Westwood
country: United States
facility: University of Kansas Hospital-Westwood Cancer Center
state: Kansas
city: Lexington
country: United States
facility: University of Kentucky/Markey Cancer Center
state: Kentucky
city: Baltimore
country: United States
facility: Johns Hopkins University/Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center
state: Maryland
city: Bethesda
country: United States
facility: National Cancer Institute Developmental Therapeutics Clinic
state: Maryland
city: Bethesda
country: United States
facility: National Institutes of Health Clinical Center
state: Maryland
city: Boston
country: United States
facility: Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center
state: Massachusetts
city: Boston
country: United States
facility: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
state: Massachusetts
city: Detroit
country: United States
facility: Wayne State University/Karmanos Cancer Institute
state: Michigan
city: Creve Coeur
country: United States
facility: Siteman Cancer Center at West County Hospital
state: Missouri
city: Kansas City
country: United States
facility: University Health Truman Medical Center
state: Missouri
city: Kansas City
country: United States
facility: University of Kansas Cancer Center - North
state: Missouri
city: Lee's Summit
country: United States
facility: University of Kansas Cancer Center - Lee's Summit
state: Missouri
city: North Kansas City
country: United States
facility: University of Kansas Cancer Center at North Kansas City Hospital
state: Missouri
city: Saint Louis
country: United States
facility: Washington University School of Medicine
state: Missouri
city: Saint Louis
country: United States
facility: Siteman Cancer Center-South County
state: Missouri
city: Saint Louis
country: United States
facility: Siteman Cancer Center at Christian Hospital
state: Missouri
city: Saint Peters
country: United States
facility: Siteman Cancer Center at Saint Peters Hospital
state: Missouri
city: New Brunswick
country: United States
facility: Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey
state: New Jersey
city: Mineola
country: United States
facility: NYU Langone Hospital - Long Island
state: New York
city: New York
country: United States
facility: Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone
state: New York
city: New York
country: United States
facility: NYP/Columbia University Medical Center/Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center
state: New York
city: New York
country: United States
facility: NYP/Weill Cornell Medical Center
state: New York
city: Columbus
country: United States
facility: Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center
state: Ohio
city: Philadelphia
country: United States
facility: Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
state: Pennsylvania
city: Pittsburgh
country: United States
facility: University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI)
state: Pennsylvania
city: Dallas
country: United States
facility: UT Southwestern Simmons Cancer Center - RedBird
state: Texas
city: Dallas
country: United States
facility: UT Southwestern/Simmons Cancer Center-Dallas
state: Texas
city: Fort Worth
country: United States
facility: UT Southwestern/Simmons Cancer Center-Fort Worth
state: Texas
city: Houston
country: United States
facility: M D Anderson Cancer Center
state: Texas
city: Richardson
country: United States
facility: UT Southwestern Clinical Center at Richardson/Plano
state: Texas
city: Salt Lake City
country: United States
facility: Huntsman Cancer Institute/University of Utah
state: Utah
city: Richmond
country: United States
facility: Virginia Commonwealth University/Massey Cancer Center
state: Virginia
city: Toronto
country: Canada
facility: University Health Network-Princess Margaret Hospital
state: Ontario
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center LAO
name: Hussein A Tawbi
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
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