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B Cell LeukemiaPhase 1/2Pedi CART19NCT01626495

Phase I/IIA Study of CART19 Cells for Patients With Chemotherapy Resistant or Refractory CD19+ Leukemia and Lymphoma

A Phase 1/2 study testing CART-19 in people with B Cell Leukemia and B Cell Lymphoma, run by University of Pennsylvania at 1 site in United States.

Completed

Finished. The study has ended and is not enrolling. Results may be posted on the official record.

Official record
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Trial summary

This is a study for children who have been previously treated for Leukemia/Lymphoma. In particular, it is a study for people who have a type of Leukemia/Lymphoma that involves B cells (a type of white cell), which contain the cancer. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 1 year to 24 years
Conditions the study is for
B Cell Leukemia, B Cell Lymphoma
What is being tested?
CART-19
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
73 participants
Where
1 siteUnited States
Study dates
17 Aug 2011to 11 Jul 2019
Phase
Phase 1/2
Are there results?
Yes, posted in the registrySummary in the doctors' view

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 1 year to 24 years
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Child, Adult

Who may be able to join

  • Male and female subjects with CD 19+ B cell malignancies in patients with no available curative treatment options (such as autologous or allogeneic SCT) who have limited prognosis (several months to <2 year survival) with currently available therapies will be enrolled:
  • Eligible diseases: CD 19+ leukemia or lymphoma
  • ALL without curative options for therapy, including those not eligible for allogeneic
  • SCT because of:
  • age
  • co-morbid disease
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  • other contraindications to TBI-based conditioning (required for ALL SCT)
  • lack of suitable donor
  • prior SCT
  • Declines allo SCT (in CR3) as a therapeutic option after documented discussion about the role of SCT with a BMT physician not part of the study team. Note: Patient may be in any complete response, or patient may have active disease but responding or stable after most recent therapy. The intent is not to enroll patients with no degree of disease control, or rapidly increasing disease burden between enrollment and cell infusion.
  • Follicular lymphoma, previously identified as CD19+
  • At least 2 prior combination chemotherapy regimens (not including single agent monoclonal antibody (Rituxan) therapy.
  • Stage III-IV disease.
  • Less than 1 year between last chemotherapy and progression (i.e. most recent progression free interval <1 year).
  • Disease responding or stable after most recent therapy (chemotherapy, MoAb).
  • CLL
  • At least 2 prior chemotherapy regimens (not including single agent monoclonal antibody (Rituxan) therapy.
  • Less than 1 year between last chemotherapy and progression (i.e. most recent progression free interval <1 year).
  • Not eligible or appropriate for conventional allogeneic SCT
  • Disease responding or stable after most recent therapy (chemotherapy, MoAb)
  • Mantle cell lymphoma
  • Beyond 1st CR with relapsed or persistent disease and not eligible or appropriate for conventional allogeneic or autologous SCT
  • Disease responding or stable after most recent therapy (chemotherapy, MoAb)
  • Relapsed after prior autologous SCT
  • B-cell prolymphocytic leukemia (PLL) with relapsed or residual disease after at least 1 prior therapy and not eligible for allogeneic SCT.
  • Diffuse large cell lymphoma or other high-grade NHL, previously identified as CD19+
  • Residual disease after primary therapy and not eligible for autologous SCT
  • Relapsed after prior autologous SCT
  • Beyond 1st CR with relapsed or persistent disease and not eligible or appropriate for conventional allogeneic or autologous SCT
  • Age 1 to 24 years. Patients ages 22-24 will only be enrolled if they are currently being treated at CHOP or another pediatric facility/oncologist
  • Expected survival > 12 weeks
  • Creatinine < 2.5 mg/dl and less than 2.5x normal for age
  • ALT ≤ 5x normal
  • Bilirubin <2.0 mg/dl
  • Any relapse after prior SCT will make patient eligible regardless of other prior therapy
  • Patients with relapsed disease after prior allogeneic SCT (myeloablative or non-myeloablative) will be eligible if they meet all other inclusion criteria and
  • Have no active GVHD and require no immunosuppression
  • Are more than 4 months from transplant
  • For those patients who require leukapheresis for T cell collection (i.e. no previously collected product exists), adequate venous access for apheresis or eligible for appropriate catheter placement, and no other contraindications for leukapheresis
  • Voluntary informed consent is given
  • Patients with CNS3 disease will be eligible if CNS disease is responsive to therapy (at infusion)

Who cannot join

  • Pregnant or lactating women. The safety of this therapy on unborn children is not known. Female study participants of reproductive potential must have a negative serum or urine pregnancy test performed within 48 hours before infusion
  • Uncontrolled active infection
  • Active hepatitis B or hepatitis C infection
  • Concurrent use of systemic steroids at the time of cell infusion or cell collection, or a condition, in the treating physician's opinion, that is likely to require steroid therapy during collection or after infusion. Steroids for disease treatment at times other than cell collection or at the time of infusion are permitted. Use of inhaled steroids, or hydrocortisone for physiological replacement in patients with adrenal insufficiency are permitted as well
  • Presence of grade 2-4 acute or extensive chronic GVHD
  • Under treatment for GVHD
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  • Previous treatment with any gene therapy products
  • Any uncontrolled active medical disorder that would preclude participation as outlined.
  • HIV infection.
  • CNS3 disease that is progressive on therapy, or with CNS parenchymal lesions that might increase the risk of CNS toxicity

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country.

United States1 site
  • CHOP - http://www.chop.edu/service/oncology/pediatric-cancer-research/cart-19-trial.html

    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104

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About this study

Official title: CHP 959 - A Phase I/IIA Study of Redirected Autologous T Cells Engineered to Contain Anti-CD19 Attached to TCRzeta and 4-1BB Signaling Domains in Patients With Chemotherapy Resistant Or Refractory CD19+ Leukemia and Lymphoma

This is a study for children who have been previously treated for Leukemia/Lymphoma. In particular, it is a study for people who have a type of Leukemia/Lymphoma that involves B cells (a type of white cell), which contain the cancer. This is a new approach for treatment of Leukemia/Lymphoma that involves B cells (tumor cells). This study will take the subject's white blood cells (T cells) and modify them in order to target the cancer.

The subject's T cells will be modified in one or two different ways that will allow the cells to identify and kill the tumor cells (B cells). Both ways of modifying the cells tells the T cells to go to the B cells (tumor cells) and turn "on" and potentially kill the B cells (tumor cells). The modification is a genetic change to the T cells, or gene transfer, in order to allow the modified T cells to recognize your tumor cells but not other normal cells in the subject's body. These modified cells are called chimeric antigen receptor 19 (CART19) T-cells.

Read the detailed description

At entry subjects will be staged and the suitability of their T cells for CART-19 manufacturing will be determined. Subjects who have adequate T cells will be leukapheresed to obtain large numbers of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) for CART-19 manufacturing. The T cells will be purified from the PBMC, transduced with CART-19 lentiviral vector, expanded in vitro and then frozen for future administration. Chemotherapy will then be given. Following tumor burden reassessment, CART-19 cells will be thawed and infused.

Subjects will have blood tests to assess safety, and engraftment and persistence of the CART-19 cells at regular intervals through four weeks after their last infusion of the study. Following the 6 months of intensive follow-up, subjects will be evaluated quarterly for two years with a medical history, a physical examination, and blood tests. Following this evaluation, subjects will enter a roll-over study for annual follow-up by phone and questionnaire for an additional thirteen years to assess for the diagnosis of long-term health problems, such as development of new malignancy.

Primary objectives:

  1. Determine the safety and feasibility of administration of chimeric antigen receptor T cells transduced with the anti-CD 19 lentiviral vector (referred to as "CART-19" cells).
  2. Determine duration of in vivio survival of CART-19 cells. Real Time polymerase chain receptor (RT-PCR) analysis of whole blood will be used to detect and quantify survival of CART-19 TCR:4-1BB and TCR cells over time.

Secondary objectives:

  1. For patients with detectable disease, measure anti-tumor response due to CART-19 cell infusions.
  2. To determine if the 4-1BB transgene is superior to the TCR only transgene as measured by the relative engraftment levels of CART-19 TCR:4-1BB and TCR cells over time.
  3. For patients with stored or accessible tumor cells (such as patients with active chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), acute lymphoblastic leukema (ALL), etc) determine tumor cell killing by CART-19 cells in vitro.
  4. Determine if cellular or humoral host immunity develops against the murine anti-CD19, and assess correlation with loss of detectable CART-19 (loss of engraftment).
  5. Determine the relative subsets of CART-19 T cells (Tcm, Tem, and Treg)
Being tested
CART-19
Keywords
Biological: CART19
Medical subject headings
Leukemia, B-Cell, Lymphoma, B-Cell

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • CART-19Biological

    Day 0: 10% of total dose Day 1: 30% of total dose if patient is stable (no significant toxicity) from prior dose.

Study groups in NCT01626495
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
CART-19 T CellsExperimentalThe subject's thawed T cells will be modified in one or two different ways that will allow the cells to identify and kill the tumor cells (B cells). The T cells will be infused over 10-15 minutes on days Days 0, and 1. Day 14 is tentative based on response.
Receives: Biological: CART-19

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Number of Subjects With Study Related Adverse Events.

    Inclusive of any events that are "possibly", "likely", or "definitely" related to study treatment any time from the first day of study treatment until week 24.

    Measured: 24 weeks

Secondary outcomes (3)
  1. The Number of Subjects With a Successful Product Manufactured

    Measured: 24 weeks

  2. Number of Subjects With Complete Remission (CR).

    Complete remission rate for subjects with Non-CNS3 ALL.

    National Comprehensive Cancer Network standard response criteria, which define complete remission (CR) as ,5% bone marrow blasts by morphologic determination, with no evidence of extramedullary disease or refractory disease.

    Measured: 4 Weeks

  3. Number of Subjects With Complete Remission With Incomplete Blood Count Recovery (CRi).

    Complete remission rate for subjects with Non-CNS3 ALL.

    National Comprehensive Cancer Network standard response criteria, which define complete remission (CR) as ,5% bone marrow blasts by morphologic determination, with no evidence of extramedullary disease or refractory disease.

    Measured: 4 Weeks

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted22 Jun 2012 (estimated)
  2. Study start17 Aug 2011
  3. Primary completion7 May 2018
  4. Study completion11 Jul 2019

Resources

More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase 1/2
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrolment
73 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT01626495
Sponsor's protocol ID
10-007706, 815870
Other IDs
CHP959
Acronym
Pedi CART19
Status last verified
Mar 2020
First submitted
18 Jun 2012
Last updated
23 Mar 2020
Data monitoring committee
Yes

Publications

  • Gofshteyn JS, Shaw PA, Teachey DT, Grupp SA, Maude S, Banwell B, Chen F, Lacey SF, Melenhorst JJ, Edmonson MJ, Panzer J, Barrett DM, McGuire JL. Neurotoxicity after CTL019 in a pediatric and young adult cohort. Ann Neurol. 2018 Oct;84(4):537-546. doi: 10.1002/ana.25315. Epub 2018 Sep 26.

    PubMed 30178481
  • Fitzgerald JC, Weiss SL, Maude SL, Barrett DM, Lacey SF, Melenhorst JJ, Shaw P, Berg RA, June CH, Porter DL, Frey NV, Grupp SA, Teachey DT. Cytokine Release Syndrome After Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cell Therapy for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. Crit Care Med. 2017 Feb;45(2):e124-e131. doi: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000002053.

    PubMed 27632680
  • Maude SL, Frey N, Shaw PA, Aplenc R, Barrett DM, Bunin NJ, Chew A, Gonzalez VE, Zheng Z, Lacey SF, Mahnke YD, Melenhorst JJ, Rheingold SR, Shen A, Teachey DT, Levine BL, June CH, Porter DL, Grupp SA. Chimeric antigen receptor T cells for sustained remissions in leukemia. N Engl J Med. 2014 Oct 16;371(16):1507-17. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1407222.

    PubMed 25317870

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A Phase 1/2 study testing CART-19 in people with B Cell Leukemia and B Cell Lymphoma, run by University of Pennsylvania at 1 site in United States.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 41 inclusion and 10 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 23 Mar 2020. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 1 site in United States. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

What does this combined phase mean?

Phase 1 studies test a treatment in a small group of people for the first time or in a new way, mainly to check safety and find the right dose.

Phase 2 studies give the treatment to a larger group to see whether it has the intended effect and to keep checking safety.

Not every study follows the same path, and some studies (observational studies, device studies) have no phase.

Are results available for this study?

Yes. Results are posted in the registry (first posted 23 Mar 2020). A summary is in the For doctors view, and the full results are on ClinicalTrials.gov.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Number of Subjects With Study Related Adverse Events. (time frame: 24 weeks). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?

On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT01626495, which also lists 3 linked publications.

Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 23 Mar 2020.

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