Description:
This phase 2 trial will evaluate the safety and efficacy of combining immunotherapy with a
PD-1 checkpoint inhibitor (Pembrolizumab), an anti-VEGF receptor (Ramucirumab), and a taxane
chemotherapy (Docetaxel) in treating patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who did
not respond to FDA-approved treatments with platinum-based chemotherapy given concurrently or
sequentially with anti-PD1/PD-L1 immunotherapy.
Pembrolizumab helps the body's immune system to attack cancer cells and hasten their ability
to grow and spread. Ramucirumab blocks new blood vessel growth to reduce tumor growth.
Docetaxel works mainly by stopping cancer cells from dividing. Ramucirumab combined with
docetaxel is an FDA-approved therapy for NSCLC patients after progression on platinum-based
chemotherapy. It has shown to improve efficacy compared to docetaxel alone in this setting.
Pembrolizumab is an FDA-approved treatment for NSCLC and can be given alone or in combination
with platinum-based chemotherapy.
Investigators hypothesize that the combination of docetaxel, ramucirumab, and pembrolizumab
will be safe and more effective than the current standard of care treatments (docetaxel alone
or in combination with ramucirumab) in patients with metastatic or recurrent NSCLC after
progression on treatment with platinum-based chemotherapy and immunotherapy, given
concurrently or sequentially.
Title
- Brief Title: Phase 2 TaxRamPem for Patients With Metastatic or Recurrent NSCLC Who Progressed on Platinum-Doublet and PD-1/PD-L1 Blockade
- Official Title: A Phase 2 Study of Docetaxel, Ramucirumab, and Pembrolizumab for Patients With Metastatic or Recurrent Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Who Progressed on Platinum-Doublet and PD-1/PD-L1 Blockade
Clinical Trial IDs
- ORG STUDY ID:
STUDY00000030
- SECONDARY ID:
NCI-2020-01134
- SECONDARY ID:
WINSHIP4950-20
- SECONDARY ID:
P30CA138292
- NCT ID:
NCT04340882
Conditions
- Metastatic Non-Small Lung Cell Cancer
- Recurrent Non-Small Lung Cell Cancer
- Stage IV Lung Cancer AJCC v8
- Stage IVA Lung Cancer AJCC v8
- Stage IVB Lung Cancer AJCC v8
Interventions
Drug | Synonyms | Arms |
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Docetaxel | Docecad, RP56976, Taxotere, Taxotere Injection Concentrate | Treatment (docetaxel, ramucirumab, pembrolizumab) |
Pembrolizumab | Keytruda, Lambrolizumab, MK-3475, SCH 900475 | Treatment (docetaxel, ramucirumab, pembrolizumab) |
Ramucirumab | Anti-VEGFR-2 Fully Human Monoclonal Antibody IMC-1121B, Cyramza, IMC-1121B, LY3009806, Monoclonal Antibody HGS-ETR2 | Treatment (docetaxel, ramucirumab, pembrolizumab) |
Purpose
This phase 2 trial will evaluate the safety and efficacy of combining immunotherapy with a
PD-1 checkpoint inhibitor (Pembrolizumab), an anti-VEGF receptor (Ramucirumab), and a taxane
chemotherapy (Docetaxel) in treating patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who did
not respond to FDA-approved treatments with platinum-based chemotherapy given concurrently or
sequentially with anti-PD1/PD-L1 immunotherapy.
Pembrolizumab helps the body's immune system to attack cancer cells and hasten their ability
to grow and spread. Ramucirumab blocks new blood vessel growth to reduce tumor growth.
Docetaxel works mainly by stopping cancer cells from dividing. Ramucirumab combined with
docetaxel is an FDA-approved therapy for NSCLC patients after progression on platinum-based
chemotherapy. It has shown to improve efficacy compared to docetaxel alone in this setting.
Pembrolizumab is an FDA-approved treatment for NSCLC and can be given alone or in combination
with platinum-based chemotherapy.
Investigators hypothesize that the combination of docetaxel, ramucirumab, and pembrolizumab
will be safe and more effective than the current standard of care treatments (docetaxel alone
or in combination with ramucirumab) in patients with metastatic or recurrent NSCLC after
progression on treatment with platinum-based chemotherapy and immunotherapy, given
concurrently or sequentially.
Detailed Description
PRIMARY OBJECTIVE:
I. To determine the anti-tumor efficacy of the combination treatment using the 6-month
progression free survival rate by Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST 1.1).
SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:
I. To determine the safety profile and tolerability of docetaxel and ramucirumab in
combination with pembrolizumab in patients who progressed on platinum-based chemotherapy and
PD-1 or PD-L1 checkpoint inhibitor given sequentially or in combination.
II. To determine immune related adverse events of the combination docetaxel, ramucirumab, and
pembrolizumab.
III. To assess the overall response rate (ORR) of the combination docetaxel, ramucirumab, and
pembrolizumab.
IV. To assess the overall survival (OS) of the combination docetaxel, ramucirumab, and
pembrolizumab.
EXPLORATORY OBJECTIVES:
I. To correlate treatment response with PD-L1 22C3 expression, STK11 and KRAS mutation
status.
II. To correlate treatment response with the doublet tumor mutation burden (TMB) and PD-L1
22C3 expression.
III. To perform an immunophenotypic analysis of circulating immune cells by mass cytometry
before and after treatment and end of treatment (EOT).
IV. To analyze the tumor infiltrating immune cells by single cell ribonucleic acid (RNA)
sequencing coupled to mass cytometry, in paired biopsies before and after treatment.
OUTLINE:
After premedication, patients will receive docetaxel intravenously (IV) over 60 minutes,
ramucirumab IV over 60 minutes, then pembrolizumab IV over 30 minutes on day 1 of each 21-day
cycle. The combination will be administered until confirmed disease progression defined as
progression on 2 consecutive scans at least 4 weeks apart, occurrence of severe side effects,
withdrawal of consent by the patient or if in the opinion of the treating physician
continuing on the study treatment is not in the best interest of the patient.
The first six patients will be evaluated for safety data. If less than 2 patients experience
dose limiting toxicity, enrollment on study will continue with the efficacy assessment of the
combination.
Participants who experience confirmed disease progression or start a new anticancer therapy,
will move into the Survival Follow-Up Phase and should be contacted by telephone every 12
weeks (+/- 3 weeks) for 2 years, then every 6 months for next 3 years, then annually until
the subject's death or until the subject is lost to follow-up up to 10 years to assess for
survival status until death, withdrawal of consent, or the end of the trial, whichever occurs
first.
Trial Arms
Name | Type | Description | Interventions |
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Treatment (docetaxel, ramucirumab, pembrolizumab) | Experimental | Patients receive docetaxel IV over 60 minutes, ramucirumab IV over 60 minutes, and pembrolizumab IV over 30 minutes on day 1. Cycles repeat every 21 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. | - Docetaxel
- Pembrolizumab
- Ramucirumab
|
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Histologically confirmed diagnosis of non-small cell lung cancer
- Patients must have progressed on a platinum-based chemotherapy and any of the Food and
Drug Administration (FDA)-approved PD-1 or PD-L1 immune checkpoint inhibitors, either
given sequentially or in combination
- A male participant must agree to use a contraception during the treatment period plus
an additional 120 days after the last dose of study treatment and refrain from
donating sperm during this period
- A female participant is eligible to participate if she is not pregnant, not
breastfeeding, and at least one of the following conditions applies:
- Not a woman of childbearing potential (WOCBP) OR
- A WOCBP who agrees to follow the contraceptive guidance during the treatment
period and for at least 120 days plus 30 days (a menstruation cycle) after the
last dose of study treatment
- The participant (or legally acceptable representative if applicable) provides written
informed consent for the trial
- Has measurable disease based on Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST)
1.1. Lesions situated in a previously irradiated area are considered measurable if
progression has been demonstrated in such lesions
- Has an Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0 to 1
- Life expectancy > 12 weeks as determined by the investigator
- Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) ≥ 1500/uL (collected within 10 days prior to the start
of study treatment)
- Platelets ≥ 100 000/uL (collected within 10 days prior to the start of study
treatment)
- Hemoglobin ≥ 9.0 g/dL or ≥ 5.6 mmol/L (collected within 10 days prior to the start of
study treatment)
- Criteria must be met without erythropoietin dependency and without packed red
blood cell (pRBC) transfusion within last 2 weeks
- Creatinine ≤ 1.5 x upper limit of normal (ULN) OR measured or calculated creatinine
clearance (glomerular filtration rate [GFR] can also be used in place of creatinine or
creatinine clearance [CrCl]) ≥ 30 mL/min for participant with creatinine levels > 1.5
x institutional ULN (collected within 10 days prior to the start of study treatment)
- Creatinine clearance (CrCl) should be calculated per institutional standard
- Total bilirubin ≤ 1.5 x ULN OR direct bilirubin ≤ ULN for participants with total
bilirubin levels > 1.5 x ULN (collected within 10 days prior to the start of study
treatment)
- Aspartate aminotransferase (AST) (serum glutamic-oxaloacetic transaminase [SGOT]) and
alanine aminotransferase (ALT) (serum glutamate pyruvate transaminase [SGPT]) ≤ 2.5 x
ULN (≤ 5 x ULN for participants with liver metastases) (collected within 10 days prior
to the start of study treatment
- Palliative radiotherapy (to bone or soft tissue lesions) must be completed > 1 week
prior to start of study drug (exception: palliative radiotherapy for pain may be used
any time prior to first dose)
- Clinically significant toxic effect(s) of the most recent prior anti-cancer therapy
must be grade 1 or resolved (except alopecia and sensory neuropathy); patients with
grade 2 adrenal insufficiency related to prior anti-cancer therapy (defined as
requiring medical intervention, such as concomitant steroids) or grade 2
hypothyroidism (defined as requiring hormone replacement therapy) may be enrolled
provided that clinical symptoms are adequately controlled and the daily dose is 10 mg
or less of prednisone or equivalent. If the patient received major surgery or
radiation therapy of > 30 Gy, they must have recovered from the toxicity and/or
complications from the intervention
- Patients with a prior or concurrent malignancy whose natural history or treatment does
not have the potential to interfere with the safety or efficacy assessment of the
investigational regimen are eligible for this trial
- Patients with known history or current symptoms of cardiac disease, or history of
treatment with cardiotoxic agents, should have a clinical risk assessment of cardiac
function using the New York Heart Association Functional Classification. To be
eligible for this trial, patients should be class 2B or better
Exclusion Criteria:
- A WOCBP with a positive urine pregnancy test within 72 hours prior of the planned
treatment on day 1 of each cycle. If the urine test is positive or cannot be confirmed
as negative, a serum pregnancy test will be required
- Patients have prior exposure to docetaxel or ramucirumab
- Patients with proteinuria of ≥ 2+ on dipsticks or urine protein/creatinine ratio of >
1 g/24-hour
- Has received prior systemic anti-cancer therapy including investigational agents
within 4 weeks or 5 times the half-life time, whichever is shorter [could consider
shorter interval for kinase inhibitors or other short half-life drugs] prior to
allocation
- Note: Participants must have recovered from all adverse events (AEs) due to
previous therapies to grade ≤ 1 or baseline. Participants with grade ≤ 2
neuropathy may be eligible
- Note: If participant received major surgery, they must have recovered adequately
from the toxicity and/or complications from the intervention prior to starting
study treatment
- Has received prior radiotherapy within 1 week of start of study treatment.
Participants must have recovered from all radiation-related toxicities, not require
corticosteroids, and not have had radiation pneumonitis. A 1-week washout is permitted
for palliative radiation (≤ 2 weeks of radiotherapy) to non-central nervous system
(CNS) disease
- Has received a live vaccine within 30 days prior to the first dose of study drug.
Examples of live vaccines include, but are not limited to, the following: measles,
mumps, rubella, varicella/zoster (chicken pox), yellow fever, rabies, bacillus
Calmette-Guerin (BCG), and typhoid vaccine. Seasonal influenza vaccines for injection
are generally killed virus vaccines and are allowed; however, intranasal influenza
vaccines (eg, FluMist) are live attenuated vaccines and are not allowed
- Is currently participating in or has participated in a study of an investigational
agent or has used an investigational device within 4 weeks prior to the first dose of
study treatment
- Note: Participants who have entered the follow-up phase of an investigational
study may participate as long as it has been 4 weeks after the last dose of the
previous investigational agent
- Has a diagnosis of immunodeficiency or is receiving chronic systemic steroid therapy
(in dosing exceeding 10 mg daily of prednisone equivalent) or any other form of
immunosuppressive therapy within 7 days prior to the first dose of study drug
- Patients with symptomatic brain metastasis (patients with treated brain metastasis
without symptoms and not requiring steroid are allowed to participate)
- Has severe hypersensitivity (grade ≥ 3) to pembrolizumab and/or any of its excipients
- Patients with uncontrolled intercurrent illness including, but not limited to, ongoing
or active infection, symptomatic congestive heart failure, unstable angina pectoris,
significant cardiac arrhythmia, or psychiatric illness/social situations that would
limit compliance with study requirements
- Patients with significant cardiovascular disease (e.g., myocardial infarction,
arterial thromboembolism, cerebrovascular thromboembolism) within 6 months prior to
start of study therapy; angina requiring therapy; symptomatic peripheral vascular
disease; New York Heart Association class 3 or 4 congestive heart failure; or
uncontrolled grade ≥ 3 hypertension (diastolic blood pressure ≥ 100 mmHg or systolic
blood pressure ≥ 160 mmHg) despite antihypertensive therapy
- Patients with any major hemorrhage or thromboembolic events within 3 months prior to
start on this study
- Has active autoimmune disease that has required systemic treatment in the past 2 years
(i.e. with use of disease modifying agents, corticosteroids or immunosuppressive
drugs). Replacement therapy (eg., thyroxine, insulin, or physiologic corticosteroid
replacement therapy for adrenal or pituitary insufficiency, etc.) is not considered a
form of systemic treatment
- Has a history of (non-infectious) pneumonitis that required steroids or has current
pneumonitis or established interstitial lung disease
- Patients who had prior history of immune-related adverse event (irAE) that required
treatment with steroids and permanent immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI)
discontinuation per National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) guidelines
- Has an active infection requiring systemic therapy
- Has a known history of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). Note: no HIV testing is
required unless mandated by local health authority
- Has a known history of Hepatitis B (defined as Hepatitis B surface antigen [HBsAg]
reactive) or known active Hepatitis C virus (defined as HCV RNA is detected)
infection. Note: no testing for Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C is required unless
mandated by local health authority
- Has known psychiatric or substance abuse disorders that would interfere with
cooperation with the requirements of the trial
- Is pregnant or breastfeeding, or expecting to conceive or father children within the
projected duration of the study, starting with the screening visit through 120 days
after the last dose of trial treatment
Maximum Eligible Age: | N/A |
Minimum Eligible Age: | 18 Years |
Eligible Gender: | All |
Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Primary Outcome Measures
Measure: | 6-month progression-free survival (PFS) rate |
Time Frame: | up to 6 months |
Safety Issue: | |
Description: | Will be determined by Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) 1.1. Will be reported and its 95% confidence intervals will be estimated using the Clopper-Pearson method. PFS rates of two patient groups stratified by binary biomarker (PD-L1 and KRAS status), respectively will be estimated with the Kaplan-Meier method and compared using the log-rank test, respectively. Cox proportional hazards models will be further used in the multivariable analyses to assess adjusted effect of PD-L1 and KRAS status on the patients' PFS after adjusting for other factors. Interaction terms between these factors will also be tested for statistical significance. The proportional hazards assumption will be evaluated graphically and analytically with regression diagnostics. Violations of the proportional hazards assumptions will be addressed by use of time-dependent covariates or extended Cox regression models. |
Secondary Outcome Measures
Measure: | Incidence of adverse events |
Time Frame: | Up to 30 days after the last dose of study treatment |
Safety Issue: | |
Description: | Will be evaluated according to National Cancer Institute Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events version 5.0. Overall toxicity incidence as well as toxicity profiles will be explored and summarized. Frequency distributions, graphical techniques and other descriptive measures will form the basis of these analyses. Proportion of acute and late toxicity will be reported, and 95% confidence intervals will be estimated using the Clopper-Pearson method. |
Measure: | Overall response rate |
Time Frame: | Through study completion, an average of 1 year |
Safety Issue: | |
Description: | Will be determined per RECIST 1.1 and immune-modified Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors. |
Measure: | Overall survival (OS) |
Time Frame: | up to 10 years |
Safety Issue: | |
Description: | OS and rates of two patient groups stratified by binary biomarker (PD-L1 and KRAS status), respectively will be estimated with the Kaplan-Meier method and compared using the log-rank test, respectively. Cox proportional hazards models will be further used in the multivariable analyses to assess adjusted effect of PD-L1 and KRAS status on the patients' OS after adjusting for other factors. Interaction terms between these factors will also be tested for statistical significance. The proportional hazards assumption will be evaluated graphically and analytically with regression diagnostics. Violations of the proportional hazards assumptions will be addressed by use of time-dependent covariates or extended Cox regression models. |
Details
Phase: | Phase 2 |
Primary Purpose: | Interventional |
Overall Status: | Recruiting |
Lead Sponsor: | Emory University |
Last Updated
June 25, 2021