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Cervical CancerPhase 1/2NCT02111850

T Cell Receptor Immunotherapy Targeting MAGE-A3 for Patients With Metastatic Cancer Who Are HLA-DP0401 Positive

A Phase 1/2 study testing Anti-MAGE-A3-DP4 T Cell Receptor (TCR) Peripheral Blood Lymphocytes (PBL), Cyclophosphamide and Fludarabine in people with Cervical Cancer and Renal Cancer, run by National Cancer Institute (NCI) at 1 site in United States.

Completed

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

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Trial summary

Background: The National Cancer Institute (NCI) Surgery Branch has developed an experimental therapy for treating patients with metastatic cancer that involves taking white blood cells from the patient, growing them in the laboratory in large numbers, genetically modifying these specific cells with a type of virus… Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 to 70 years
Conditions the study is for
Cervical Cancer, Renal Cancer, Urothelial Cancer
What is being tested?
Anti-MAGE-A3-DP4 T Cell Receptor (TCR) Peripheral Blood Lymphocytes (PBL), Cyclophosphamide and Fludarabine
Type of treatment
Injection or infusion
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
21 participants
Where
1 siteUnited States
Study dates
7 Feb 2014to 24 Mar 2021
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 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.
  • Active systemic infections, (e.g.: requiring anti-infective treatment), coagulation disorders or any other active major medical illnesses
  • Any form of primary immunodeficiency (such as Severe Combined Immunodeficiency 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 any cardiac events including coronary revascularization or ischemic symptoms.
  • Documented left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) of less than or equal to 45% testing is required in patients who are
  • greater than or equal to 65 years old
  • Clinically significant atrial and or ventricular arrhythmias including but not limited to: atrial fibrillation, ventricular tachycardia, second or third degree heart block or have a history of ischemic heart disease, or chest pain.
  • Documented forced expiratory volume (FEV1) less than or equal to 60% predicted tested in patients with:
  • A prolonged history of cigarette smoking (20 pk/year of smoking within the past 2 years).
  • Symptoms of respiratory dysfunction
  • Patients who are receiving any other investigational agents.

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country.

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

    Bethesda, Maryland, 20892

Other trials in United States

About this study

Official title: A Phase I/II Study of the Treatment of Metastatic Cancer That Expresses MAGE-A3 Using Lymphodepleting Conditioning Followed by Infusion of HLA-DP0401/0402 Restricted Anti-MAGE-A3 TCR-Gene Engineered Lymphocytes and Aldesleukin

Background:

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) Surgery Branch has developed an experimental therapy for treating patients with metastatic cancer that involves taking white blood cells from the patient, growing them in the laboratory in large numbers, genetically modifying these specific cells with a type of virus (retrovirus) to attack only the tumor cells, and then giving the cells back to the patient. This type of therapy is called gene transfer. In this protocol, we are modifying the patient s white blood cells with a retrovirus that has the gene for anti-Melanoma antigen family A, 3 (MAGE-A3)-DP0401/0402 incorporated in the retrovirus.

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Objective:

The purpose of this study is to determine a safe number of these cells to infuse and to see if these particular tumor-fighting cells (anti-MAGE-A3-DP0401/0402 cells) cause tumors to shrink and to be certain the treatment is safe.

Eligibility:

  • Adult's age 18-70 with metastatic cancer expressing the MAGE-A3 molecule.

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-MAGE-A3-DP0401/0402 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-MAGE-A3-DP0401/0402 cells and aldesleukin. They will stay in the hospital for approximately 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.
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Background:

  • We have constructed a single retroviral vector that contains both and $ <= chains of a T cell receptor (TCR) that recognizes the DP0401/0402 restricted Melanoma antigen family A, 3 (MAGE-A3) tumor antigen, which can be used to mediate genetic transfer of this TCR with high efficiency.
  • In co-cultures with HLA-DP0401/0402 and MAGE-A3 double positive tumors, the anti- MAGE-A3- DP0401/0402 restricted (anti-MAGE-A3-DP4) TCR transduced T cells secreted significant amounts of Interferon gamma (IFN-y) with high specificity.

Objectives:

Primary objectives:

  • Determine a safe dose of the administration of autologous cluster of differentiation 4 (CD4) cells transduced with an anti-MAGE-A3-DP0401/0402 restricted (MAGE-A3-DP4) TCR and aldesleukin to patients following a nonmyeloablative but lymphoid depleting preparative regimen.
  • Determine if this approach will result in objective tumor regression in patients with metastatic cancer expressing MAGE-A3-DP4.
  • Determine the toxicity profile of this treatment regimen.

Eligibility:

Patients who are human leukocyte antigens (HLA)-DP0401/0402 positive and 18 years of age or older must have

  • Metastatic cancer whose tumors express the MAGE-A3-DP4 antigen.
  • Previously received and have been a non-responder to or recurred following at least one first line treatment for metastatic disease.

Patients may not have:

  • Contraindications for high dose aldesleukin administration.

Design:

  • PBMC obtained by leukapheresis will be enriched for CD4 cells and transduced with the retroviral vector supernatant encoding the anti-MAGE-A3-DP4 TCR.
  • The study will begin in a standard phase 1 dose escalation. After the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) cell dose has been determined, patients will be enrolled into the phase 2 portion of the trial at the MTD established during the phase 1 portion of the study. In the phase 2 portion, patients will be entered into two cohorts: cohort 1 will include patients with metastatic melanoma; cohort 2 will include patients with renal cancer and other types of metastatic cancer.
  • Patients will receive a nonmyeloablative but lymphocyte depleting preparative regimen consisting of cyclophosphamide and fludarabine followed by intravenous infusion of ex vivo tumor reactive, TCR gene-transduced peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) plus intravenous (IV) aldesleukin.
  • Patients will undergo complete evaluation of tumor response every 1-6 months until off study criteria are met.
  • For each of the 2 strata evaluated in the phase 2 portion, the study will be conducted using a phase 2 optimal design where initially 21 evaluable patients will be enrolled. For each of these two arms of the trial, if 0 or 1 of the 21 patients experiences a clinical response, then no further patients will be enrolled but if 2 or more of the first 21 evaluable patients enrolled have a clinical response, then accrual will continue until a total of 41 evaluable patients have been enrolled in that stratum.
  • For both strata, the objective will be to determine if the treatment regimen is able to be associated with a clinical response rate that can rule out 5% (p0=0.05) in favor of a modest 20% partial response (PR) + complete response (CR) rate (p1=0.20).
Being tested
Anti-MAGE-A3-DP4 T Cell Receptor (TCR) Peripheral Blood Lymphocytes (PBL), Cyclophosphamide, Fludarabine, Aldesleukin
Keywords
Gene Therapy, Tumor Regression, Immunotherapy, Adoptive Cell Therapy
Medical subject headings
Uterine Cervical Neoplasms, Kidney Neoplasms, Melanoma, Breast Neoplasms

What participants receive

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

  • Anti-MAGE-A3-DP4 T Cell Receptor (TCR) Peripheral Blood Lymphocytes (PBL)Biological

    Day 0: cells will be infused intravenously (i.v.) on the Patient Care Unit over 20 to 30 minutes

  • CyclophosphamideDrug

    Also called Cytoxan

    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 hour.

  • FludarabineDrug

    Also called Fludara

    Days -7 to -3: Fludarabine 25 mg/m^2 /day intravenous piggy-back (IVPB) daily over 30 minutes for 5 days.

  • AldesleukinDrug

    Also called Proleukin

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

Study groups in NCT02111850
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
1/Phase I Experimental TherapyExperimentalNon-myeloablative lymphodepleting preparative regimen of cyclophosphamide and fludarabine + Anti-Melanoma antigen family A, 3 (MAGE-A3)-DP4 T cell receptor (TCR) peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) + high-dose aldesleukin
Receives: Biological: Anti-MAGE-A3-DP4 T Cell Receptor (TCR) Peripheral Blood Lymphocytes (PBL); Drug: Cyclophosphamide; Drug: Fludarabine; Drug: Aldesleukin
2/Phase II Experimental TherapyExperimentalNon-myeloablative lymphodepleting preparative regimen of cyclophosphamide and fludarabine + Anti-Melanoma antigen family A, 3 (MAGE-A3)-DP4 T cell receptor (TCR) peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) + high-dose aldesleukin
Receives: Biological: Anti-MAGE-A3-DP4 T Cell Receptor (TCR) Peripheral Blood Lymphocytes (PBL); Drug: Cyclophosphamide; Drug: Fludarabine; Drug: Aldesleukin

What is being measured

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

  1. Maximum Tolerated Cell Dose (MTD) of Cluster of Differentiation 4 (CD4) Cells Transduced With an Anti-MAGE-A3-DP0401/0402 Restricted (MAGE-A3-DP4) T Cell Receptor and Aldesleukin

    Highest dose at which less than or equal to 1 of 6 patients experienced a dose-limiting toxicity (DLT) (all grade 3 and greater toxicities with the exception of myelosuppression and grade 3 fever, for example) or the highest dose level studied if DLTs are not observed at any of the dose levels.

    Measured: Before progression to next-higher dose level, at least two weeks

  2. Percentage of Participants Who Have a Clinical Response to Treatment (Objective Tumor Regression)

    Percentage of participants who have a clinical response to treatment (objective tumor regression) measured by the Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST)v1.0. Complete response is disappearance of all target lesions. Partial response is at least a 30% decrease in the sum of the longest diameter of target lesions. Progression is at least a 20% increase in the sum of longest diameter of target lesions or the appearance of one or more new lesions. And stable disease is neither sufficient shrinkage to qualify for partial response nor sufficient increase to qualify for progressive disease.

    Measured: 6 and 12 weeks after cell infusion, then every 3 months x3, then every 6 months x2 years, then per principal investigator discretion, approximately 6 years

  3. Number of Adverse Events With Grades ≥1 That Are Possibly, Probably, and/or Definitely Related to Treatment

    Aggregate of all adverse events with Grades ≥1 that are possibly, probably, and/or definitely related to treatment. Adverse events were assessed by the Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE v4.0). Grade 1 is mild, Grade 2 is moderate, Grade 3 is severe, Grade 4 is life-threatening, and Grade 5 is death related to adverse events.

    Measured: 6 weeks after cell infusion

Secondary outcomes (1)
  1. Number of Engineered T Cell Receptor (TCR) Cells That Survived at 4 Weeks

    T cell receptor (TCR) and vector presence was quantitated in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) samples using flow cytometry. It is a process by which cells are suspended in a liquid so they can be counted.

    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 posted11 Apr 2014 (estimated)
  2. Study start7 Feb 2014
  3. Primary completion24 Mar 2021
  4. Study completion24 Mar 2021

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
Non-randomised
Intervention model
Sequential
Masking
None (open label)
Enrolment
21 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT02111850
Sponsor's protocol ID
140052
Other IDs
14-C-0052
Status last verified
Mar 2022
First submitted
9 Apr 2014
Last updated
29 Mar 2022
Data monitoring committee
Yes
FDA-regulated drug
Yes
FDA-regulated device
No
Individual data sharing
No

Publications

  • Morgan RA, Dudley ME, Yu YY, Zheng Z, Robbins PF, Theoret MR, Wunderlich JR, Hughes MS, Restifo NP, Rosenberg SA. High efficiency TCR gene transfer into primary human lymphocytes affords avid recognition of melanoma tumor antigen glycoprotein 100 and does not alter the recognition of autologous melanoma antigens. J Immunol. 2003 Sep 15;171(6):3287-95. doi: 10.4049/jimmunol.171.6.3287.

    PubMed 12960359
  • Suri A. Cancer testis antigens--their importance in immunotherapy and in the early detection of cancer. Expert Opin Biol Ther. 2006 Apr;6(4):379-89. doi: 10.1517/14712598.6.4.379.

    PubMed 16548764
  • Robbins PF, Morgan RA, Feldman SA, Yang JC, Sherry RM, Dudley ME, Wunderlich JR, Nahvi AV, Helman LJ, Mackall CL, Kammula US, Hughes MS, Restifo NP, Raffeld M, Lee CC, Levy CL, Li YF, El-Gamil M, Schwarz SL, Laurencot C, Rosenberg SA. Tumor regression in patients with metastatic synovial cell sarcoma and melanoma using genetically engineered lymphocytes reactive with NY-ESO-1. J Clin Oncol. 2011 Mar 1;29(7):917-24. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2010.32.2537. Epub 2011 Jan 31.

    PubMed 21282551

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A Phase 1/2 study testing Anti-MAGE-A3-DP4 T Cell Receptor (TCR) Peripheral Blood Lymphocytes (PBL), Cyclophosphamide and Fludarabine in people with Cervical Cancer and Renal Cancer, 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 14 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 29 Mar 2022. 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 29 Mar 2022). 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?

Maximum Tolerated Cell Dose (MTD) of Cluster of Differentiation 4 (CD4) Cells Transduced With an Anti-MAGE-A3-DP0401/0402 Restricted (MAGE-A3-DP4) T Cell Receptor and Aldesleukin (time frame: Before progression to next-higher dose level, at least two weeks). The study lists 3 primary outcomes in all. 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 NCT02111850, 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 29 Mar 2022.

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