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Metastatic CancerPhase 2NCT02062359

T Cell Receptor Immunotherapy Targeting NY-ESO-1 for Patients With NY-ESO-1 Expressing Melanoma

A Phase 2 study testing Anti-NY ESO-1 T cell receptor (TCR) cluster of differentiation 62L (CD62L)+ cells, Aldesleukin and Cyclophosphamide in people with Metastatic Cancer and Metastatic Melanoma, run by National Cancer Institute (NCI) at 1 site in United States.

Terminated

Stopped early. The study ended before it was planned to and will not resume.

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Trial summary

Background: The National Cancer Institute (NCI) Surgery Branch has developed an experimental therapy for treating patients with melanoma that involves taking white blood cells from the patient, growing them in the laboratory in large numbers, genetically modifying them, and then giving the cells back to the patient. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 to 70 years
Conditions the study is for
Metastatic Cancer, Metastatic Melanoma
What is being tested?
Anti-NY ESO-1 T cell receptor (TCR) cluster of differentiation 62L (CD62L)+ cells, Aldesleukin and Cyclophosphamide
Type of treatment
Injection or infusion
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
2 participants
Where
1 siteUnited States
Study dates
Feb 2014to Feb 2016
Phase
Phase 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 18 to 70 years
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Adult, Older adult

Who may be able to join

None listed.

Who cannot join

  • Women of child-bearing potential who are pregnant or breastfeeding because of the potentially dangerous effects of the treatment on the fetus or infant.
  • Any form of primary immunodeficiency (such as Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Disease).
  • Active systemic infections, coagulation disorders or other major medical illnesses of the cardiovascular, respiratory or immune system, myocardial infarction, cardiac arrhythmias, obstructive or restrictive pulmonary disease.
  • Concurrent opportunistic infections (The experimental treatment being evaluated in this protocol depends on an intact immune system. Patients who have decreased immune competence may be less responsive to the experimental treatment and more susceptible to its toxicities).
  • Concurrent systemic steroid therapy.
  • History of severe immediate hypersensitivity reaction to any of the agents used in this study.
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  • History of coronary revascularization or ischemic symptoms
  • Documented left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) of less than or equal to 45%. Testing is required in patients with:
  • Clinically significant atrial and/or ventricular arrhythmias including but not limited to: atrial fibrillation, ventricular tachycardia, second or third degree heart block
  • Age greater than or equal to 60 years old

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country.

United States1 site
  • National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, 9000 Rockville Pike

    Bethesda, Maryland, 20892

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About this study

Official title: Phase II Study of CD62L+-Derived T Lymphocytes Transduced With a T Cell Receptor Recognizing the NY-ESO-1 Antigen and Aldesleukin Following Lymphodepletion in Patients With NY-ESO-1 Expressing Melanoma

Background:

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) Surgery Branch has developed an experimental therapy for treating patients with melanoma that involves taking white blood cells from the patient, growing them in the laboratory in large numbers, genetically modifying them, and then giving the cells back to the patient. In a previous study, the NCI Surgery Branch used the anti-ESO-1 gene and a type of virus (retrovirus) to make these tumor-fighting cells (anti-ESO-1 cells). About half of the patients who received this treatment experienced shrinking of their tumors. In this study, we are using a slightly different method of producing the anti-ESO-1 cells selected for a specific cell type, which we hope, will be better in making the tumors shrink.

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Objectives:

The purpose of this study is to see if these tumor fighting cells (genetically modified cells) that express the receptor for the ESO-1 molecule on their surface can cause melanoma tumors to shrink and to see if this treatment is safe.

Eligibility:

-Adults 18 and older with cancer that has the ESO-1 molecule on tumor surfaces

Design:

  • Work up stage: Patients will be seen as an outpatient at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) clinical Center and undergo a history and physical examination, scans, x-rays, lab tests, and other tests as needed
  • Leukapheresis: If the patients meet all of the requirements for the study they will undergo leukapheresis to obtain white blood cells to make the anti ESO-1 cells. {Leukapheresis is a common procedure, which removes only the white blood cells from the patient.}
  • Treatment: Once their cells have grown, the patients will be admitted to the hospital for the conditioning chemotherapy, the anti-ESO 1 cells and aldesleukin. They will stay in the hospital for about 4 weeks for the treatment.

Follow up: Patients will return to the clinic for a physical exam, review of side effects, lab tests, and scans about every 1-3 months for the first year, and then every 6 months to 1 year as long as their tumors are shrinking. Follow up visits take up to 2 days.

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Background:

  • A T cell receptor (TCR) that recognizes the NY-ESO-1 (ESO) tumor/testes antigen has been cloned into a retrovirus and can be used to genetically modify human peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) so they recognize human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-A2+, ESO+ tumors
  • PBL expressing the anti-ESO TCR have been administered with aldesleukin with or without ALVAC vaccine to 21 patients with melanoma following lymphodepleting chemotherapy at the Surgery Branch, resulting in objective tumor regression (complete or partial regression) in ten patients (47%).
  • In animal models using murine cells and in experiments with human T cells in vitro, T cell subsets expressing the lymphoid homing and differentiation marker cluster of differentiation 62L (CD62L), including na(SqrRoot) ve T cells (TNaive), stem cell memory T cells (TSCM), and central memory T cells (TCM), were shown to have superior attributes compared to whole PBL and CD62L- PBL for adoptive cell therapy, including superior persistence following transfer in vivo.

Objectives:

Primary objective:

  • To determine whether the administration of anti-ESO TCR engineered CD62L+-derived lymphocytes plus high-dose aldesleukin following a non-myeloablative lymphodepleting preparative regimen can result in an objective regression rate (partial response (PR) + complete response (CR)) of melanoma tumors.

Secondary objectives:

  • Determine the persistence of genetically engineered, adoptively transferred CD62L+ derived lymphocytes.
  • Determine the toxicity profile of this treatment regimen.

Eligibility:

Patients who are:

  • Human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-A*0201 positive
  • 18 years of age or older
  • Have metastatic melanoma that expresses the ESO antigen

Patients may not have:

  • Contraindications for high dose aldesleukin administration.

Design:

  • Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) will be obtained by leukapheresis and will undergo positive selection for CD62L using a CliniMACS magnetic cell separation apparatus to enrich for the less differentiated TNaive, TSCM, and TCM subsets.
  • The enriched CD62L+ lymphocytes will be cultured in the presence of anti-CD3 (OKT3) and aldesleukin in order to stimulate T-cell growth, then transduced with the anti-ESO TCR.
  • All patients will receive a non-myeloablative lymphocyte depleting preparative regimen of cyclophosphamide and fludarabine.
  • On day 0 patients will receive anti-ESO TCR gene-transduced CD62L+ -derived lymphocytes and then begin high dose aldesleukin.
  • A complete evaluation of evaluable lesions will be conducted 6 weeks (+/- 2 weeks) following the administration of the cell product.
  • The primary objective will be efficacy. The study will be conducted using a phase II optimal design (Simon R, Controlled Clinical Trials 10:1-10, 1989) in order to rule out an unacceptably low 40% overall response rate (p0=0.40) in favor of an improved response rate of 65% (p1=0.65). This study will initially enroll 11 evaluable patients, and if 0 to 5 of the 11 have a response, then no further patients will be accrued. If 6 or more of the first 11 patients have a response, then accrual would continue until a total of 20 patients have been enrolled. If there were 11 or more responses in 20 patients (55%), this would be sufficiently interesting to warrant further study in later trials. To allow for a very small number of inevaluable patients, the accrual ceiling will be set at 22 patients.
Being tested
Anti-NY ESO-1 T cell receptor (TCR) cluster of differentiation 62L (CD62L)+ cells, Aldesleukin, Cyclophosphamide, Fludarabine
Keywords
Malignant Melanoma, Metastatic Cancer, Gene Therapy, Immunotherapy, Tumor Regression
Medical subject headings
Neoplasm Metastasis, Melanoma

What participants receive

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

  • Anti-NY ESO-1 T cell receptor (TCR) cluster of differentiation 62L (CD62L)+ cellsBiological

    Patients will receive non-myeloablative lymphodepleting preparative regimen consisting of cyclophosphamide and fludarabine followed by the administration of anti-NY ESO-1 T cell receptor (TCR) CD62L+ cells and high dose aldesleukin.

    On day 0, cells (1x10e9 to 2x10e11) will be infused intravenously on the Patient Care Unit over 20-30 minutes.

  • AldesleukinDrug

    Aldesleukin 720,000 IU/kg intravenous (IV) (based on total body weight) over 15 minutes approximately every eight hours (+/- 1 hour) beginning within 24 hours of cell infusion and continuing for up to 5 days (maximum of 15 doses).

  • CyclophosphamideDrug

    On days -7 and -6: Cyclophosphamide 60 mg/kg/day X 2 days intravenous (IV) in 250 ml dextrose 5% in water (D5W) with Mesna 15 mg/kg/day X 2 days over 1 hr.

  • FludarabineDrug

    On days -5 to -1: Fludarabine 25 mg/m(2)/day intravenous piggyback (IVPB) daily over 30 minutes for 5 days.

Study groups in NCT02062359
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
All ParticipantsExperimentalPatients will receive the standard National Cancer Institute (NCI) Surgery Branch non-myeloablative, lymphodepleting preparative regimen consisting of cyclophosphamide and fludarabine followed by intravenous (IV) infusion of the anti-NY ESO-1 T cell receptor (TCR) cluster of differentiation 62L (CD62L)+ engineered peripheral blood lymphocyte (PBL) and aldesleukin
Receives: Biological: Anti-NY ESO-1 T cell receptor (TCR) cluster of differentiation 62L (CD62L)+ cells; Drug: Aldesleukin; Drug: Cyclophosphamide; Drug: Fludarabine

What is being measured

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

  1. Objective Response (Complete Response (CR) + Partial Response (PR)) of Melanoma Tumors

    Response was determined by the Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST). Complete response (CR) is disappearance of all target lesions. Partial response (PR) is at least a 30% decrease in the sum of the longest diameter (LD) of target lesions taking as reference the baseline sum LD. Progression (PD) is at least a 20% increase in the sum of the LD of target lesions taking as reference the smallest sum LD recorded since the treatment started or the appearance of one or more new lesions. Stable disease (SD) is neither sufficient shrinkage to qualify for PR nor sufficient increase to qualify for PD taking as references the smallest sum LD.

    Measured: 3 months

Secondary outcomes (2)
  1. Persistence of Genetically Engineered, Adoptively Transferred Cluster of Differentiation 62L (CD62L) + Derived Lymphocytes

    Estimate the persistence of cells via enzyme linked immunosorbent spot (ELISPOT) and tetramer analysis by fluorescence activated cell sorting (FACS).

    Measured: 3 months

  2. Number of Participants With Adverse Events

    Here is the number of participants with adverse events. For a detailed list of adverse events see the adverse event module.

    Measured: 3 months

Timeline

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

  1. First posted13 Feb 2014 (estimated)
  2. Study startFeb 2014
  3. Primary completionFeb 2016
  4. Study completionFeb 2016

Why it stopped: Study was closed due to poor accrual.

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 2
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrolment
2 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT02062359
Sponsor's protocol ID
140058
Other IDs
14-C-0058
Status last verified
May 2016
First submitted
12 Feb 2014
Last updated
24 Jun 2016
Data monitoring committee
No
Individual data sharing
No

Publications

  • Rosenberg SA, Yang JC, Sherry RM, Kammula US, Hughes MS, Phan GQ, Citrin DE, Restifo NP, Robbins PF, Wunderlich JR, Morton KE, Laurencot CM, Steinberg SM, White DE, Dudley ME. Durable complete responses in heavily pretreated patients with metastatic melanoma using T-cell transfer immunotherapy. Clin Cancer Res. 2011 Jul 1;17(13):4550-7. doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-11-0116. Epub 2011 Apr 15.

    PubMed 21498393
  • Dudley ME, Yang JC, Sherry R, Hughes MS, Royal R, Kammula U, Robbins PF, Huang J, Citrin DE, Leitman SF, Wunderlich J, Restifo NP, Thomasian A, Downey SG, Smith FO, Klapper J, Morton K, Laurencot C, White DE, Rosenberg SA. Adoptive cell therapy for patients with metastatic melanoma: evaluation of intensive myeloablative chemoradiation preparative regimens. J Clin Oncol. 2008 Nov 10;26(32):5233-9. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2008.16.5449. Epub 2008 Sep 22.

    PubMed 18809613
  • Klebanoff CA, Gattinoni L, Torabi-Parizi P, Kerstann K, Cardones AR, Finkelstein SE, Palmer DC, Antony PA, Hwang ST, Rosenberg SA, Waldmann TA, Restifo NP. Central memory self/tumor-reactive CD8+ T cells confer superior antitumor immunity compared with effector memory T cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 Jul 5;102(27):9571-6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0503726102. Epub 2005 Jun 24.

    PubMed 15980149

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A Phase 2 study testing Anti-NY ESO-1 T cell receptor (TCR) cluster of differentiation 62L (CD62L)+ cells, Aldesleukin and Cyclophosphamide in people with Metastatic Cancer and Metastatic Melanoma, run by National Cancer Institute (NCI) 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 0 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: stopped early, as of the sponsor's last update on 24 Jun 2016. 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 phase mean?

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 18 May 2016). 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?

Objective Response (Complete Response (CR) + Partial Response (PR)) of Melanoma Tumors (time frame: 3 months). 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 NCT02062359, 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 24 Jun 2016.

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