A phase I/II trial of fixed-dose stereotactic body radiotherapy with sequential or concurrent pembrolizumab in metastatic urothelial carcinoma: evaluation of safety and clinical and immunologic response

Autor: Daan De Maeseneer, Pieter De Visschere, Sylvie Rottey, Els Goetghebeur, Karel Decaestecker, Piet Ost, Sofie Verbeke, Valérie Fonteyne, Dries Reynders, Nora Sundahl, Mireille Van Gele, Annabel Meireson, Katrien De Wolf, Lieve Brochez
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2017
Předmět:
Male
0301 basic medicine
Oncology
medicine.medical_treatment
Statistics as Topic
MULTICENTER
lcsh:Medicine
Pembrolizumab
THERAPY
law.invention
0302 clinical medicine
Randomized controlled trial
law
Protocol
Medicine and Health Sciences
SINGLE-ARM
Neoplasm Metastasis
SBRT
Bladder cancer
Combination chemotherapy
General Medicine
Combined Modality Therapy
Anti-PD-1
METHOTREXATE
Mathematics and Statistics
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
Female
Immunotherapy
Randomized clinical trial
Urologic Neoplasms
medicine.medical_specialty
DOXORUBICIN
Metastatic Urothelial Carcinoma
Combination therapy
Bladder
BLADDER-CANCER
Urothelial cell carcinoma
Antibodies
Monoclonal
Humanized

Radiosurgery
General Biochemistry
Genetics and Molecular Biology

CISPLATIN
03 medical and health sciences
Internal medicine
medicine
Humans
cancer
VINBLASTINE
COMBINATION
Immune-Related Response Criteria
Radiotherapy
business.industry
lcsh:R
Dose-Response Relationship
Radiation

medicine.disease
Radiation therapy
Immunomonitoring
030104 developmental biology
Sample Size
RADIATION
Urothelium
business
Follow-Up Studies
Zdroj: Journal of Translational Medicine, Vol 15, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2017)
JOURNAL OF TRANSLATIONAL MEDICINE
Journal of Translational Medicine
ISSN: 1479-5876
DOI: 10.1186/s12967-017-1251-3
Popis: Background Current first-line standard of therapy for metastatic urothelial carcinoma is platinum-based combination chemotherapy. Pembrolizumab in phase III has demonstrated a promising overall response rate of 21.1% in patients with progression or recurrence after platinum-based chemotherapy. Preclinical and clinical evidence suggests that radiotherapy has a systemic anti-cancer immune effect and can increase the level of PD-L1 and tumor infiltrating lymphocytes in the tumor microenvironment. These findings gave rise to the hypothesis that the combination of radiotherapy with anti-PD1 treatment could lead to a synergistic effect, hereby enhancing response rates. Methods The phase I part will assess the dose limiting toxicity of the combination treatment of stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) with four cycles of pembrolizumab (200 mg intravenously, every 3 weeks) in patients with metastatic urothelial carcinoma. The dose of both pembrolizumab and SBRT will be fixed, yet the patients will be randomized to receive SBRT either before the first cycle of pembrolizumab or before the third cycle of pembrolizumab. SBRT will be delivered (24 Gy in 3 fractions every other day) to the largest metastatic lesion. Secondary objectives include response rate according to RECIST v1.1 and immune related response criteria, progression-free survival and overall survival. The systemic immune effect triggered by the combination therapy will be monitored on various time points during the trial. The PD-L1/TIL status of the tumors will be analyzed via immunohistochemistry and response rates in the subgroups will be analyzed separately. A Simon’s two-stage optimum design is used to select the treatment arm associated with the best response rate and with acceptable toxicity to proceed to the phase II trial. In this phase, 13 additional patients will be accrued to receive study treatment. Discussion The progress made in the field of immunotherapy has lead to promising breakthroughs in various solid malignancies. Unfortunately, the majority of patients do not respond. The current trial will shed light on the toxicity and potential anti-tumor activity of the combination of radiotherapy with anti-PD1 treatment and may identify potential new markers for response and resistance to therapy. Trial registration this trial is registered on clinicaltrials.gov (NCT02826564). Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12967-017-1251-3) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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