- ICH GCP
- US Clinical Trials Registry
- Clinical Trial NCT04565496
Phase 2 Study of Neoadjuvant PEMbrolizumab Before Radical PROstatectomy in High-risk Prostate Cancer Patients (PEM-PRO)
September 24, 2020 updated by: Francesco Montorsi, IRCCS San Raffaele
An Open Label, Single-arm, Phase 2 Study of Neoadjuvant PEMbrolizumab Before Radical PROstatectomy (PEM-PRO) in High-risk Prostate Cancer Patients
This is a phase 2, open-label, non-randomized, single-arm study in patients with high-risk PCa diagnosed with prostate biopsy and undergoing RP and ePLND.
Pembrolizumab will be administered at the dose of 200 mg intravenously, every 3 weeks, for a total of 3 cycles prior to RP and ePLND.
Local, nodal and systemic staging with prostate mpMRI, abdominal and chest CT, PSMA-PET/CT and bone scans will be performed before the administration of pembrolizumab.
Surgery will be planned at the time of study inclusion to be done within 3 weeks of the last dose of study drug (screening: 3 weeks; cycle 1 followed by 3 weeks; cycle 2 followed by 3 weeks; cycle 3 followed by 3 weeks to surgery = 12 weeks from inclusion to surgery).
Patients will receive 3 cycles of pembrolizumab at 200mg 3 weekly prior to RP and ePLND.
Surgery will take place within 3 weeks after the last dose of the study drug.
After surgery, patients with the evidence of aggressive disease features (namely, pathologic grade group 4-5; pT3b-4 and/or LNI) will be managed according to local guidelines (adjuvant radiotherapy with or without ADT will be allowed).
Further Anti PD-1 therapy will not be given post-operatively.
PD-L1 status will be retrospectively assessed on both tumour cells and immune cells in tissue specimens from for all patients enrolled in the study.
Study Overview
Detailed Description
This is a phase 2, open-label, non-randomized, single-arm study in patients with high-risk PCa diagnosed with prostate biopsy and undergoing RP and ePLND.
Screening assessments should be performed no more than 3 weeks prior to the start of study treatment.
Local, nodal and systemic staging with prostate mpMRI, abdominal and chest CT, PSMA-PET/CT and bone scans will be performed before the administration of pembrolizumab.
Pembrolizumab will be administered at the dose of 200 mg intravenously, every 3 weeks, for a total of 3 cycles prior to RP and ePLND.
Following the screening assessment, subsequent assessments will be carried out after the 3 administrations of the study drug prior to RP and ePLND.
If an unscheduled assessment is performed and the patient has not progressed, the results should be reported at the next scheduled visit.
After the last cycle of pembrolizumab, mpMRI and PSMA-PET/CT scan will be performed to re-stage the tumour.
Progressive disease will be defined as an increase of 20% in the maximum diameter of the index lesion at multiparametric MRI or as the onset of nodal or distant metastases at imaging or onset of symptoms and skeletal related events.
In the case of symptomatic disease progression (i.e., de novo onset of symptomatic distant metastases), the patient will not complete the 3 cycles of pembrolizumab and will be considered for immediate imaging (i.e., bone scan, mpMRI and PSMA-PET/CT scan) to re-stage the tumour and for treatment according to clinical guidelines.
After RP, patients will be managed according to clinical guidelines.
PDL-1 status will be assessed on all samples of patients enrolled on the study.
Tissue and blood samples will be collected before and after the administration of pembrolizumab.
The presence of biomarkers predictive of radiological and pathological response to neoadjuvant administration of pembrolizumab will be assessed.
Patients will be monitored carefully for the development of adverse events and will be monitored for clinical evidence of disease progression according to usual standards of clinical practice.
Adverse events will be evaluated according to criteria outlined in the NCI Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE), version 4.03.
There will be no intrapatient dose escalation in this study.
For individual patients that experience dose-limiting toxicities, no criteria for dose modification of pembrolizumab will be applied, but only criteria for dose delays as detailed in the protocol.
Patients will be treated with a maximum of 3 cycles of therapy until surgery (i.e.
RP and ePLND), provided that no dose-limiting toxicities will occur throughout the treatment course for each individual patient.
Study Type
Interventional
Enrollment (Anticipated)
59
Phase
- Phase 2
Contacts and Locations
This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.
Study Locations
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Milan, Italy, 20132
- Ospedale San Raffaele
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Contact:
- Giorgio Gandaglia, MD
- Phone Number: +393661753007
- Email: gandaglia.giorgio@hsr.it
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Milan, Italy, 20132
- IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele
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Participation Criteria
Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
18 years to 90 years (ADULT, OLDER_ADULT)
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
No
Genders Eligible for Study
Male
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- Male participants who are at least 18 years of age on the day of signing informed consent with histologically confirmed diagnosis of prostate cancer.
- The participant (or legally acceptable representative if applicable) provides written informed consent for the trial.
- PCa detected at prostate biopsy (random biopsy with at least 12 cores taken ± target biopsy according to the mpMRI findings).
- The participant should be fit and planned for RP and ePLND (according to clinical guidelines).
- The participant should be affected by high-risk PCa defined as PSA ≥20 ng/ml and/or clinical stage ≥T3 at digital rectal examination and/or biopsy grade group 4-5.
- No evidence of lymph node invasion (cN0) and metastatic disease (M0) at imaging (mpMRI, PSMA-PET/CT and bone scan).
- Have provided archival tumour tissue sample or newly obtained core or excisional biopsy of a tumour lesion not previously irradiated. Formalin-fixed, paraffin embedded (FFPE) tissue blocks are preferred to slides. Newly obtained biopsies are preferred to archived tissue.
- Have an Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0 to 1. Evaluation of ECOG is to be performed within 7 days prior to the date of allocation.
- Have adequate organ function as defined in the following table (Table 1). Specimens must be collected within 10 days prior to the start of study treatment.
- Willingness to use contraception during study treatment
Exclusion Criteria:
- Has received prior therapy with an anti-PD-1, anti-PD-L1, or anti-PD-L2 agent or with an agent directed to another stimulatory or co-inhibitory T-cell receptor (eg, CTLA-4, OX-40, CD137).
- Has received prior systemic anti-cancer therapy including investigational agents within 4 weeks prior to allocation.
- Has received prior surgery or radiotherapy for PCa.
- 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-Guérin (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.
- Has a known additional malignancy that is progressing or has required active treatment within the past 3 years. Note: Participants with basal cell carcinoma of the skin, squamous cell carcinoma of the skin, or carcinoma in situ (e.g. breast carcinoma, cervical cancer in situ) that have undergone potentially curative therapy are not excluded.
- Has known active CNS metastases and/or carcinomatous meningitis. Participants with previously treated brain metastases may participate provided they are radiologically stable, i.e. without evidence of progression for at least 4 weeks by repeat imaging (note that the repeat imaging should be performed during study screening), clinically stable and without requirement of steroid treatment for at least 14 days prior to first dose of study treatment.
- 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.
- 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 infection (defined as having a positive hepatitis B surface antigen [HBsAg] test at screening) or hepatitis C. Patients with past hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection or resolved HBV infection (defined as having a negative HBsAg test and a positive antibody to hepatitis B core antigen [anti-HBc] antibody test) are eligible. Patients positive for hepatitis C virus (HCV) antibody are eligible only if polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is negative for HCV RNA.
- Has a known history of active TB (Bacillus Tuberculosis).
- Has a history or current evidence of any condition, therapy, or laboratory abnormality that might confound the results of the study, interfere with the subject's participation for the full duration of the study, or is not in the best interest of the subject to participate, in the opinion of the treating investigator.
- Has known psychiatric or substance abuse disorders that would interfere with cooperation with the requirements of the trial.
- Has a history or current evidence of unstable cardiovascular disease
- Has a history or current evidence of congestive heart failure
- Severe hypersensitivity (Grade 3) to pembrolizumab and/or any of its excipients
Study Plan
This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: TREATMENT
- Allocation: NA
- Interventional Model: SINGLE_GROUP
- Masking: NONE
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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EXPERIMENTAL: Pembrolizumab
Pembrolizumab will be administered at the dose of 200 mg intravenously, every 3 weeks, for a total of 3 cycles prior to RP and ePLND
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Pembrolizumab will be administered at the dose of 200 mg intravenously, every 3 weeks, for a total of 3 cycles prior to RP and ePLND
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Lymph node invasion
Time Frame: 12 months
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Reduction by 50% of the rate of lymph node invasion
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12 months
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Pathologic response or presence of minimal residual disease
Time Frame: 12 months
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Absence of morphologically identifiable carcinoma in the prostatectomy specimen or the presence of minimal residual disease (i.e., ≤3 mm maximum diameter of residual tumour in the prostatectomy specimen)
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12 months
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Radiological response
Time Frame: 12 months
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Radiological response will be defined as a tumour reduction of 30% in the maximum diameter of the index lesion as measured by mpMRI
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12 months
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Positive surgical margins
Time Frame: 12 months
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Positive surgical margins at final pathology
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12 months
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PSA persistence or early biochemical recurrence
Time Frame: 36 months
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Postoperative PSA ≥0.1 ng/ml at 6-8 weeks after surgery or two consecutive PSA values ≥0.2 ng/ml within 2 years after surgery
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36 months
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Rate of adverse events
Time Frame: 36 months
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Safety
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36 months
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Collaborators and Investigators
This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.
Sponsor
Study record dates
These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.
Study Major Dates
Study Start (ANTICIPATED)
January 1, 2021
Primary Completion (ANTICIPATED)
January 1, 2022
Study Completion (ANTICIPATED)
January 1, 2024
Study Registration Dates
First Submitted
September 22, 2020
First Submitted That Met QC Criteria
September 24, 2020
First Posted (ACTUAL)
September 25, 2020
Study Record Updates
Last Update Posted (ACTUAL)
September 25, 2020
Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria
September 24, 2020
Last Verified
September 1, 2020
More Information
Terms related to this study
Additional Relevant MeSH Terms
Other Study ID Numbers
- PEM-PRO
Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)
Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?
NO
Drug and device information, study documents
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product
No
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product
No
product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.
No
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