First in Human study to characterize the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics (PK),
distribution, radiation dosimetry, and anti-tumor activity of [177Lu]-NeoB in patients with
advanced solid tumors known to overexpress GRPR and with [68Ga]-NeoB lesion uptake.
Inclusion Criteria:
1. Signed informed consent must be obtained prior to participation in the study.
2. Adult patients (age >= 18 years old) with any of the following advanced or metastatic
solid tumors: breast cancer, lung cancer, prostate cancer, GIST, GBM.
3. At least one measurable lesion as per RECIST 1.1, RANO (applicable for GBM only)
criteria detected on the low-dose CT/MRI (for GBM MRI only) acquired together with the
[68Ga]-NeoB PET.
The same identified measurable lesion shows [68Ga]-NeoB uptake on PET/CT or PET/MRI.
If the only matching lesion is located in the bone, the patient will still be
eligible.
4. Patients for whom no standard therapy is available, tolerated or appropriate.
5. Patient Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status =< 2.
6. Life expectancy more than 6 months.
Exclusion Criteria:
1. Patients who have not had resolution, except where otherwise stated in the inclusion/
exclusion criteria, of all clinically significant toxic effects of prior systemic
cancer therapy, surgery, or radiotherapy to Grade =<1 (except for alopecia)*.
2. Creatinine clearance (calculated using Cockcroft-Gault formula, or measured) < 60
mL/min or serum creatinine > 1.5 x ULN*
3. Platelet count of < 75 x 109/L*
4. Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) < 1.0 x 109/L*.
5. Hemoglobin < 9 g/dL*
6. Alanine aminotransferase (ALT) or aspartate aminotransferase (AST) > 3 x upper limit
of normal (ULN) if no demonstrable liver metastases or > 5 x ULN in the presence of
liver metastases*
7. Total bilirubin > 1.5 x ULN, except for patients with documented Gilbert's syndrome
who are eligible if total bilirubin =< 3 x ULN*
8. Serum amylase and/or lipase > 1.5 x ULN*
9. Known or expected hypersensitivity to [177Lu]-NeoB, [68Ga]-NeoB or any of their
excipients.
10. Impaired cardiac function or clinically significant cardiac disease, including any of
the following:
- Clinically significant and/or uncontrolled heart disease such as congestive heart
failure requiring treatment (NYHA grade >= 2), uncontrolled arterial hypertension
or clinically significant arrhythmia
- LVEF < 50% as determined by echocardiogram (ECHO)*
- QTcF >470 msec for females and QTcF >450 msec for males on screening
electrocardiogram (ECG) or congenital long QT syndrome
- Acute myocardial infarction or unstable angina pectoris < 3 months prior to
[177Lu]-NeoB (IMP1) administration.
11. Patients with diabetes mellitus not stable under current treatment as judged by the
investigator or with hyperglycemia ≥ CTCAE Grade 2*
12. Patients with history of or ongoing acute or chronic pancreatitis.
13. Concurrent bladder outflow obstruction or unmanageable urinary incontinence.
14. Administration of a radiopharmaceutical with therapeutic intent within a period
corresponding to 10 half-lives of the radionuclide used prior to injection of
[68Ga]-NeoB (IMP2).
15. Prior External Beam Radiation Therapy (EBRT) to more than 25% of the bone marrow.
16. [223Ra]-therapy within the context of diffuse bone or bone-marrow involvement (i.e.
"superscan" defined as bone scintigraphy in which there is excessive skeletal
radioisotope uptake [>20 bone lesions] in relation to soft tissues along with absent
or faint activity in the genitourinary tract due to diffuse bone/ bone marrow
metastases).
17. Patients who have changed the dose of systemic steroid therapy within less than 2
weeks prior to [177Lu]-NeoB (IMP1) administration or patients for whom steroid dose
increase is anticipated during the study.
18. Patients who have received prior systemic anti-cancer treatment within the following
time frames:
- Cyclical chemotherapy within a period that is shorter than the cycle length used
for that treatment (e.g. 6 weeks for nitrosourea, mitomycin-C) prior to starting
[177Lu]-NeoB treatment
- Biologic therapy (e.g. antibodies), continuous or intermittent small molecule
therapeutics, or any other investigational agents within a period which is =< 5
T1/2 or =< 4 weeks (whichever is shorter) prior to starting [177Lu]-NeoB
treatment
19. History of somatic or psychiatric disease/condition that may interfere with the
objectives and assessments of the study.
20. Malignant disease, other than that being treated in this study. Exceptions to this
exclusion include the following: malignancies that were treated curatively and have
not recurred within 2 years prior to [177Lu]-NeoB treatment; completely resected basal
cell and squamous cell skin cancers; any malignancy considered to be indolent and that
has never required therapy; and completely resected carcinoma in situ of any type.
21. Pregnant or breast-feeding women
22. Women of child-bearing potential, defined as all women physiologically capable of
becoming pregnant, are not allowed to participate in this study UNLESS they are using
highly effective methods of contraception throughout the study and for 6 months after
study drug discontinuation. Highly effective contraception methods include:
- True abstinence, when this is in line with the preferred and usual lifestyle of
the patient. Periodic abstinence (e.g., calendar, ovulation, symptothermal,
post-ovulation methods), declaration of abstinence for the duration of exposure
to IMPs, and withdrawal are not acceptable methods of contraception.
- Male or female sterilization. Vasectomised partner is a highly effective birth
control method if the partner is the sole sexual partner of the study participant
and the vasectomised partner has received medical assessment of the surgical
success.
Women tubal ligation is an acceptable highly effective contraception method, but
surgical sterility is defined as bilateral salpingectomy (or bilateral oophorectomy or
hysterectomy).
• Combination of any two of the following (a+b or a+c or b+c):
1. Use of oral, injected, or implanted hormonal methods of contraception. In case of
use of oral contraception, women should be stable on the same pill for a minimum
of 3 months before taking [177Lu]-NeoB treatment.
2. Placement of an intrauterine device (IUD) or intrauterine system (IUS)
3. Barrier methods of contraception: condom or occlusive cap (diaphragm or
cervical/vault caps) with spermicidal foam/gel/film/cream/vaginal suppository
Post-menopausal women are allowed to participate in this study. Women are
considered post-menopausal and not of child bearing potential if they have had 12
months of natural (spontaneous) amenorrhea with an appropriate clinical profile
(e.g. age appropriate, history of vasomotor symptoms) or six months of
spontaneous amenorrhea with serum Follicle-Stimulating Hormone (FSH) levels > 40
mIU/mL [for US only: and estradiol < 20 pg/mL] or have had surgical bilateral
oophorectomy or bilateral salpingectomy or hysterectomy or tubal ligation at
least six weeks prior to screening. In the case of oophorectomy alone, only when
the reproductive status of the woman has been confirmed by follow up hormone
level assessment is she considered not of child bearing potential.
Sexually active males must use a condom during intercourse while taking the drug and
for 6 months after stopping treatment and should not father a child in this period. A
condom is required to be used also by vasectomized men in order to prevent delivery of
the drug via seminal fluid.
23. Participation in any other investigational trial at the time of informed consent
signature.
- To be considered as valid to determine the eligibility of a patient, exam results
of exclusion criteria #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #10 (except QTcF parameter) and
#11 must not be older than 1 month prior to [68Ga]-NeoB administration and must
be available in the source documents for monitoring.