Immunonutrition to Reduce Toxicities in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

The Use of Immunonutrition to Reduce Toxicities From Concurrent Chemotherapy and Radiotherapy for Treatment of Unresectable Stage IIIA-B Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC)

The purpose of this study is to assess whether either or both nutrition supplements (Impact® Advanced Recovery or Boost® High Protein) ingested prior to and during concurrent chemoradiotherapy decreases toxic side effects of treatment in Stage IIIA-B non-small cell lung cancer.

Study Overview

• Status: Withdrawn
• Conditions: NSCLC; Non Small Cell Lung Cancer; Non-small Cell Lung Cancer; NSCLC Stage IIIB; Non-small Cell Lung Cancer Stage IIIB; NSCLC, Stage IIIA; Non-small Cell Lung Cancer Stage ⅢA
• Intervention / Treatment: Dietary supplement: Impact® Advanced Recovery; Radiation: Radiation Therapy; Drug: Chemotherapy; Other: Quality of life (EORTC-QLQ-30); Other: Evaluation of Cognitive Function (FACT-Cog, v. 3.0); Other: Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ); Dietary supplement: Boost® High Protein

• Study Type: Interventional
• Phase: Phase 2

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Florida
    • Tampa, Florida, United States, 33612
      • H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients will be recruited from the Moffitt Cancer Center Thoracic Oncology Outpatient Clinic when identified by a thoracic oncologist that the patient will undergo all of their chemoradiotherapy at Moffitt.

  • Men and women ≥18 years of age.
  • Diagnosed with unresectable stage IIIA or IIIB non-small cell lung cancer.
  • Patients plan to undergo all cancer treatment at Moffitt Cancer Center with definitive concurrent chemotherapy and radiotherapy.
  • No prior treatment of NSCLC.
  • Able to provide informed consent.
  • Performance status 0, 1 or 2.
  • Life expectancy >3 months.
  • No esophagitis within 90 days.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Mental incompetence or chronic psychiatric disease.
• Incarcerated individuals.
• Use of antibiotics or probiotic supplements within one month of chemoradiotherapy.
• Allergy to any of the components of Impact® Advanced Recovery or Boost® High Protein.
• Pregnant female or breast-feeding. Any female patient <45 years old not using appropriate contraceptive measures during the treatment.
• Sepsis or active infection.
• Chronic renal failure stage IV (requiring protein restriction) or stage V requiring dialysis.
• Malnutrition defined as BMI <16.
• Inflammatory bowel disease (ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease).
• Severe hepatic dysfunction (baseline prothrombin time off any anticoagulation of international normalized ratio (INR) >1.8).
• Significant digestive disease with nausea, vomiting or diarrhea, NCI Grade >1.
• Use of IL-6 inhibitors (tocilizumab or siltuximab) within last 6 months.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Supportive Care
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: Single

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: A: Intervention Group - Impact®; A: Intervention Group - Standard of Care Concurrent Chemoradiotherapy (Chemotherapy + Radiation) with nutritional supplement. Impact® Advanced Recovery: Three times daily for the 5 days just prior to the start of each cycle of chemotherapy. Participants will undergo pre- and post-treatment assessments.	Dietary supplement: Impact® Advanced Recovery; The intervention drink Impact® will be ingested every two weeks since usually chemotherapy is delivered concurrently with radiation therapy in 2 week cycles. For patients who are placed on weekly or every 4 weeks chemotherapy dosing schedules, the treatment and control supplements will still be given every two weeks.; Other Names: Nutritional supplement; Radiation: Radiation Therapy; Standard of Care: Weekly radiation therapy as already planned for each participant, at Moffitt clinic visits.; Other Names: Radiotherapy; Drug: Chemotherapy; Standard of Care: Chemotherapy as already planned for each participant.; Other Names: Standard of Care; Other: Quality of life (EORTC-QLQ-30); Participants will undergo pre- and post-treatment assessments.; Other Names: Questionnaire; Other: Evaluation of Cognitive Function (FACT-Cog, v. 3.0); Participants will undergo pre- and post-treatment assessments.; Other Names: Questionnaire; Other: Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ); Participants will undergo pre- and post-treatment assessments.; Other Names: Questionnaire
Active Comparator: B: Control Group - Boost®; B: Control Group - Standard of Care Concurrent Chemoradiotherapy (Chemotherapy + Radiation) with nutritional supplement. Boost® High Protein: Identical schedule of a supplement with similar calorie and protein content, Boost® High Protein. Participants will undergo pre- and post-treatment assessments.	Radiation: Radiation Therapy; Standard of Care: Weekly radiation therapy as already planned for each participant, at Moffitt clinic visits.; Other Names: Radiotherapy; Drug: Chemotherapy; Standard of Care: Chemotherapy as already planned for each participant.; Other Names: Standard of Care; Other: Quality of life (EORTC-QLQ-30); Participants will undergo pre- and post-treatment assessments.; Other Names: Questionnaire; Other: Evaluation of Cognitive Function (FACT-Cog, v. 3.0); Participants will undergo pre- and post-treatment assessments.; Other Names: Questionnaire; Other: Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ); Participants will undergo pre- and post-treatment assessments.; Other Names: Questionnaire; Dietary supplement: Boost® High Protein; The control supplement drink Boost® will be ingested every two weeks since usually chemotherapy is delivered concurrently with radiation therapy in 2 week cycles. For patients who are placed on weekly or every 4 weeks chemotherapy dosing schedules, the treatment and control supplements will still be given every two weeks.; Other Names: Nutritional supplement

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Incidence of Treatment Related Adverse Events Per Study Arm	Overall toxicity from therapy as assessed by NCI Common Toxicity Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) v. 5.0 that directly correlates with toxicity from concurrent chemoradiotherapy. Based on another randomized trial using pretreatment immunonutrition, investigators want to see if this nutritional intervention will likely decrease overall chemoradiotherapy related toxicity. All toxicity and adverse events (CTCAE v.5.0) will be assessed weekly and attributed by the treating radiation oncologist and entered into the clinical trials management database OnCore for later statistical analysis. Differences in toxicity events at the end of the study in participants receiving Impact® and those receiving Boost® will be compared using two-sample t-test.	Up to 48 months
Change in Plasma Levels of IL-6 Per Study Arm	Measurement of the marked change of IL-6 that directly correlates with toxicity from concurrent chemoradiotherapy. Multiplex immunoassay will be used to determine the plasma levels of IL-6 in pg/ml as a continuous variable. Two-sample t-test for change in IL-6 at the last visit from the baseline will be compared between the two arms. Kolmogorove-Smirnov and Jarque-Bera tests will be performed to test for normality assumption on the primary endpoints prior to t-test analysis. If either test indicates a violation of the normality assumption, investigators will use an appropriate rank-based Wilcoxon rank-sum test instead of t-test.	Up to 48 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Overall Survival (OS) 9OS)	Overall survival (OS) defined as the length of time interval between the date of cancer treatment completion and the date of death due to any cause. Kaplan-Meier curves will be estimated for each arm. Log-rank test will be performed to examine the effect of Impact® vs. Boost® on measures of OS.	Up to 2 years
Progression-free Survival (PFS)	Progression-free survival (PFS) will be assessed using the length of time interval from the cancer treatment completion to the earlier of the first documentation of disease progression or death from any cause. Kaplan-Meier curves will be estimated for each arm. Log-rank test will be performed to examine the effect of Impact® vs. Boost® on measures of PFS.	Up to 2 years
Rate of Treatment Changes or Interruptions Per Study Arm	Treatment interruptions, chemotherapy dose reduction or hospitalizations secondary to toxicity.	Up to 2 years
Rate of Participant Regimen Compliance Per Study Arm	Rate of participant compliance, with immunonutrition regimen, according to participant diaries. Each participant will complete a compliance diary noting when each carton/bottle of the study agent is drunk and the card will be collected by the Study Coordinator at on treatment clinic visits (OTV) prior to receiving the new batch of study or control supplements.	Up to 2 years

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute
• Collaborators: Nestle Health Science
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Lary A. Robinson, M.D., H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute

Publications and helpful links

Helpful Links

• Moffitt Cancer Center Clinical Trials website

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Anticipated): July 1, 2020
• Primary Completion (Anticipated): September 1, 2022
• Study Completion (Anticipated): September 1, 2023

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: August 9, 2018
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: August 9, 2018
• First Posted (Actual): August 14, 2018

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): September 10, 2020
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: September 9, 2020
• Last Verified: September 1, 2020

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Nutrition; Lung cancer; Radiotherapy; Epidemiology; Unresectable; Immunonutrition; Radiation oncology; Stage IIIA-B; Thoracic oncology
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Respiratory Tract Diseases; Neoplasms; Lung Diseases; Neoplasms by Site; Respiratory Tract Neoplasms; Thoracic Neoplasms; Carcinoma, Bronchogenic; Bronchial Neoplasms; Lung Neoplasms; Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung
• Other Study ID Numbers: MCC-19505

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: Yes
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No