ImmunoBreast - A Phase Ib Study

April 19, 2022 updated by: Henrik Ditzel

"ImmunoBreast - A Phase Ib Study to Investigate the Safety, Tolerability and Trends of Efficacy of ALECSAT Treatment as an add-on Therapy to Carboplatin and Gemcitabine in Patients With Locally Advanced or Metastatic Triple-negative Breast Cancer"

A phase Ib study to investigate the safety, tolerability and trends of efficacy of ALECSAT treatment as an add-on therapy to carboplatin and gemcitabine in patients with locally advanced or metastatic triple-negative breast cancer.

Study Overview

Status

Recruiting

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

This is a phase Ib, dual-center, open-label, single-arm, clinical study to determine the safety, tolerability and trends of efficacy of ALECSAT as an add-on therapy to standard treatment with carboplatin and gemcitabine in female patients with locally advanced inoperable or metastatic TNBC, which has received no more than two prior systemic therapies for mTNBC.

Study treatments will continue until any of the following occurs: disease progression is locally verified using Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors version 1.1 (RECIST 1.1); unacceptable toxicity; intercurrent illness that necessitates discontinuation of study treatment; Investigator's decision to withdraw the patient; pregnancy; patient noncompliance with study treatment or procedure requirements; withdrawal of consent to treatment; death; end-of-treatment visit at month 18; or other administrative reasons requiring cessation of study treatment. If chemotherapy is discontinued during the study, the patient will be allowed to continue in the study on ALECSAT treatment after discontinuation of chemotherapy, based on the Investigator's judgement. In addition, if clinical assessments indicate an anti-cancer effect of ALECSAT treatment (at the discretion of the investigator) at end of study, patients will be offered to continue ALECSAT treatment after end of the study under approved named patient use. Response assessment according to RECIST v1.1 will be performed at weeks 9 (±7 days), 18 (±7 days), and 27 (±7 days) after treatment start as by local hospital standards. Imaging will continue every 9 weeks (±7 days) thereafter during the first year, independent of any treatment delays. Response assessment will be performed every 12 weeks (±7 days) after the first year. Safety will be monitored according to National Cancer Institute (NCI) Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE), version 5.0 (v5.0). Patients who discontinue study treatments for reasons other than PD will continue post-treatment imaging studies for disease status follow-up as per protocol, i.e., every 9 weeks (± 7 days) and 12 weeks (± 7 days) during the first year or second year of study participation, until disease progression, start of a non-study anticancer treatment, withdrawal of consent to study participation, death, or end-of-treatment visit 18 months.

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Anticipated)

20

Phase

  • Phase 2
  • Phase 1

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Contact

Study Locations

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 and older (Adult, Older Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

Female

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  1. Have signed informed consent to study participation. The patient may also provide consent for Future Biomedical Research (FBR). However, the patient may participate in the main study without participating in FBR.
  2. Female patients aged 18 years and older.
  3. Have locally advanced inoperable breast which cannot be treated with curative intent OR have metastatic breast cancer.
  4. Have a histologically or cytologically TNBC (defined by absence of HER2 and estrogen receptor (ER) expression on primary tumor) confirmed by local pathologist. Patients initially diagnosed with hormone receptor-positive and/or HER2-positive breast cancer must have confirmation of TNBC in a tumor biopsy obtained from a local recurrence or distant metastasis site.
  5. Able and willing to provide a fresh tumor biopsy from a local recurrence or distant metastasis site.
  6. Eligible for chemotherapy with carboplatin and gemcitabine.
  7. WHO Performance status 0-1.
  8. Has received no more than two prior regimens for locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer. Prior therapy with checkpoint inhibitors (anti-PD-1, anti-PD-L1, anti-PD-L2, or anti-CTLA-4) agent is allowed.
  9. Have measurable disease based on RECIST 1.1 as determined by local radiology review.
  10. Have life expectancy ≥3 months at time of enrollment.
  11. Demonstrate adequate organ function, within 10 days prior to the start of study treatments, as defined:

    Hematological:

    Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) ≥1,500/μL, Lymphocyte count >0.3 x 109/L. Platelets ≥100,000/μL, Renal Creatinine ≤1.5 × ULN OR measured creatinine clearance (GFR can also be used in place of creatinine or CrCl) ≥30 mL/min for patient with creatinine levels >1.5 × institutional ULN) Hepatic Total bilirubin ≤1.5 ×ULN ASAT and ALT ≤2.5 × ULN (≤5 × ULN for patients with liver metastases), Albumin ≥3.0 g/dL

  12. Women of child-bearing potential must have a negative pregnancy test at screening and agree to use acceptable methods of contraception during the study.

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Previously treated with carboplatin / gemcitabine.
  2. Prior therapy with ALECSAT or other cellular immunotherapies.
  3. Is currently participating in a clinical study and receiving an investigational agent or has participated in a clinical study and received an investigational agent within 4 weeks prior to inclusion or during the trial.
  4. Has not recovered (to ≤Grade 1 or to baseline) from AEs due to a previously administered therapy (alopecia excluded). Prior to inclusion, the patient must have recovered adequately from any toxicity and/or complications associated with any recent procedure.
  5. Has an active autoimmune disease that has required systemic treatment in the past 2 years (e.g., with use of disease modifying agents, corticosteroids, or immunosuppressive drugs).
  6. Has a diagnosis of immunodeficiency.
  7. Positive blood tests for anti-HIV-1/2; HBsAg, anti-HBc, Anti-HCV or being positive in a Treponema Pallidum test (syphilis).
  8. Patients who have been exposed to high risk contagious virus within a reasonable time prior to enrolment, e.g., by travelling in areas with known high risk of infection or known epidemics.

    This includes but is not limited to:

    • West Nile virus (in season): Less than 28 days following return from affected area; less than 6 months following full recovery from known West Nile virus infection or symptoms suggestive of West Nile virus infection
    • Dengue virus: Less than 28 days following return from affected area or cessation of symptoms (include high fever, joint pain, body pain, and/or rash) in case of confirmed Dengue virus infection; less than 6 months following full recovery from diagnosis of dengue hemorrhagic fever.
    • Zika virus: Less than 28 days following return from an affected area or after sexual contact with a male who has been diagnosed with Zika virus infection or with a male who travelled or lived in a Zika affected area during the three months prior to the sexual contact; less than 60 days following recovery of symptoms in case of confirmed Zika virus infection.
    • Ebola virus: Less than 60 days after return from an affected area; Patients previously diagnosed with Ebola virus should be excluded from the study
  9. Patients from high incidence areas for Human T-Lymphotropic Virus type 1 (HTLV-1) or who has a parent from a high incidence area or who has had sexual contact with a partner from a high incidence.

    area must be excluded unless tested negative for HTLV-1

  10. Blood transfusion with whole blood or red blood cells within 48 hours prior to the donation of blood for ALECSAT production.
  11. Has an active infection requiring systemic therapy.
  12. Has a known additional malignancy that progressed or required active treatment within the last 5 years. Exceptions include basal cell carcinoma of the skin, squamous cell carcinoma of the skin that has undergone potentially curative therapy, and in situ cervical cancer.
  13. Patients with symptomatic brain metastases. Patients previously treated or untreated for brain metastases that are asymptomatic in the absence of corticosteroid and anticonvulsant therapy for at least 6 weeks and max size 20 mm are allowed to be enrolled. Radiotherapy for brain metastasis must have been completed at least 6 weeks prior to start of study treatment. Brain metastasis must be stable with verification by imaging (e.g. brain MRI or CT completed at screening, demonstrating no current evidence of progressive brain metastases). Patients are not permitted to receive antiepileptic drugs or corticosteroid treatment indicated for brain metastasis.
  14. Any condition or illness that, in the opinion of the Investigator, would compromise patient safety or interfere with the evaluation of the safety of the investigational drug.
  15. Females who are pregnant, planning to become pregnant or breastfeeding.
  16. Has received a live vaccine within 30 days prior to inclusion.
  17. Patients known or suspected not being able to comply with the study related study procedures.

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: N/A
  • Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: ALECSAT

This is an exploratory single arm study. 20 patients will be included with the objective to investigate the safety, tolerability and trends of efficacy of ALECSAT for the treatment of recurrent TNBC.

ALECSAT is a form of adoptive cell therapy medicinal product. ALECSAT is an abbreviation for Autologous Lymphoid Effector Cells Specific Against Tumor. ALECSAT is an autologous product that induces an immune response against a broad repertoire of CTAs expressed on cancer cells (including TNBC) leading to killing of these cells.

Patients will receive standard treatment with carboplatin and gemcitabine along with ALECSAT.

Patients will receive concurrent chemotherapy with carboplatin/gemcitabine with cycles repeated every 3 weeks.

During the loading phase, patients will receive ALECSAT at 28 days intervals at weeks 5, 9, and 13. Hereafter (the maintenance phase), ALECSAT will be administered every 12 weeks until disease progression, death, unacceptable toxicity, investigator/patient decision or EOT visit at 18 months.

Other Names:
  • Adoptive cell therapy

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
AEs and SAEs according to CTCAE v5.0.
Time Frame: 19 months
Safety and tolerability
19 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Efficacy ORR
Time Frame: 19 months
ORR according to RECIST v1.1
19 months
Efficacy PFS
Time Frame: 19 months
PFS according to RECIST v1.1, from the initiation of study treatment to the time of radiographic progression or death from any cause during the study.
19 months
Efficacy DCR
Time Frame: 19 months
DCR according to RECIST v1.1 defined as the proportion of patients with CR, PR or stable disease (SD).
19 months
Efficacy DOR
Time Frame: 19 months
DOR according to RECIST v1.1 defined as the time from the first occurrence of a documented objective tumor response to the time of radiographic progression or death from any cause on study, whichever occurs first.
19 months
Efficacy OS
Time Frame: 19 months
OS defined as the time from initiation of study treatment to the date of death from any cause.
19 months

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Investigators

  • Principal Investigator: Anette R Kodahl, MD, PhD, Principal Investigator

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 (Actual)

April 21, 2020

Primary Completion (Anticipated)

May 21, 2023

Study Completion (Anticipated)

May 21, 2023

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

October 23, 2020

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

October 29, 2020

First Posted (Actual)

October 30, 2020

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

April 20, 2022

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

April 19, 2022

Last Verified

April 1, 2022

More Information

Terms related to this study

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

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