- ICH GCP
- US Clinical Trials Registry
- Clinical Trial NCT04722523
A Study of Cemiplimab With Chemotherapy and Immunotherapy in People With Head and Neck Cancer
A Pilot Study of Neoadjuvant Cemiplimab With Platinum-Doublet Chemotherapy, and Cetuximab in Patients With Resectable, Locally Advanced Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma
Study Overview
Status
Conditions
Study Type
Enrollment (Estimated)
Phase
- Phase 1
Contacts and Locations
Study Contact
- Name: Lara Dunn, MD
- Phone Number: 646-608-3787
- Email: dunnl1@mskcc.org
Study Contact Backup
- Name: David Pfister, MD
- Phone Number: 646-888-4237
- Email: pfisterd@MSKCC.ORG
Study Locations
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New Jersey
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Basking Ridge, New Jersey, United States, 07920
- Recruiting
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Basking Ridge (Limited Protocol Activities)
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Contact:
- Lara Dunn, MD
- Phone Number: 646-608-3787
- Email: dunnl1@mskcc.org
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Middletown, New Jersey, United States, 07748
- Recruiting
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Monmouth (Limited Protocol Activities)
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Contact:
- Lara Dunn, MD
- Phone Number: 646-608-3787
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Montvale, New Jersey, United States, 07645
- Recruiting
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Bergen (Limited Protocol Activities)
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Contact:
- Lara Dunn, MD
- Phone Number: 646-608-3787
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New York
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Commack, New York, United States, 11725
- Recruiting
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center @ Suffolk-Commack (Consent only)
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Contact:
- Laura Dunn, MD
- Phone Number: 646-608-3787
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Harrison, New York, United States, 10604
- Recruiting
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Westchester (Limited Protocol Activities)
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Contact:
- Lara Dunn, MD
- Phone Number: 646-608-3787
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New York, New York, United States, 10065
- Recruiting
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
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Contact:
- Lara Dunn, MD
- Phone Number: 646-608-3787
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Rockville Centre, New York, United States, 11553
- Recruiting
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Nassau (Limited Protocol Activites)
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Contact:
- Laura Dunn, MD
- Phone Number: 646-608-3787
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Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- Pathologically (histologically or cytologically) proven diagnosis of squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck that has arisen from the oral cavity, oropharynx, nasal cavity, paranasal sinuses, larynx, or hypopharynx
Clinical stage T1, N2-3; T2, N1-3, T3/T4a, Any N (AJCC, 8th ed.) without evidence of distant metastasis (M0) based on PET/CT or CT chest, abdomen, and pelvis, for which standard-of-care treatment would entail surgical resection with adjuvant radiation +/- chemotherapy.
° Patients with recurrent and multiple primary head and neck cancers that are surgically resectable are eligible if the patient did not receive prior radiation or systemic therapy.
- Disease must be amenable to surgical resection.
The patient must be a surgical candidate.
- Hemoglobin > 9.0 g/dL
- Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) >1.5 x 10^9/L
- Platelet count >100 x 10^9/L
- Serum creatinine <1.5 upper limit of normal (ULN) or estimated creatinine clearance (CrCl) >30 mL/min
- Adequate hepatic function:
- Total bilirubin <1.5 x upper limit of normal ULN)
- Aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and alanine aminotransferase (ALT) both < 3 x ULN
- Alkaline phosphatase (ALP) <2.5 x ULN Note: For patients with Gilbert syndrome, total bilirubin <3x ULN. Upper central must be documented appropriately as past medical history.
- Men and woman >18 years old
- Eastern cooperative oncology group performance status < 1
Exclusion Criteria:
- Prior radiation and systemic therapy for a head and neck cancer.
- Oral cavity cancer that is not amenable to surgical resection or the patient is not a surgical candidate.
- Active or prior documented autoimmune or inflammatory disorders that have been treated with steroids or immunomodulator therapy in the past 5 years.
Exceptions: Patients with vitiligo, type 1 diabetes mellitus, and endocrinopathies (including hypothyroidism due to autoimmune thyroiditis) only requiring hormone replacement, childhood asthma that is resolved, or psoriasis it does not require systemic treatment are permitted.
- Conditions requiring systemic treatment with either corticosteroids (> 10 mg daily prednisone equivalents) or other immunosuppressant medications within 14 days of treatment on study.
- Receipt of live attenuated vaccine within 30 days prior initiating treatment on study.
- Prior allogeneic stem cell transplantation, or autologous stem cell transplantation.
- Any infection requiring hospitalization and/or intravenous antibiotic therapy within 2 weeks of the start of treatment.
Uncontrolled infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B or hepatitis C virus (HBV or HCV) infection; or diagnosis of immunodeficiency.
- Patients with known HIV infection who have controlled infection (undetectable viral load (HIV RNA PCR) and CD4 count above 350, either spontaneously or on a stable antiviral regimen) are permitted. For patients with controlled HIV infection monitoring will be performed per local standards
- Patients with HBV (hepatitis B surface antigen positive; HBsAg+) who have controlled infection (serum HBV DNA PCR that is below the limit of detection and receiving anti-viral therapy for HBV) are permitted. Patients with controlled infections must undergo periodic monitoring of HBV DNA. Patients must remain on anti-viral therapy for at least 6 months be on the last dose of Cemiplimab.
- Patients were HCV antibody positive (HCV Ab+) who have controlled infection (undetectable HCV RNA by PCR, either spontaneously or in response to successful prior course of anti-HCV therapy) are permitted.
- History of immune-related pneumonitis with the last 5 years.
- History of interstitial lung disease (e.g., idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, organizing pneumonia) or active, noninfectious pneumonitis that required immune-suppressive doses of leuko-corticoids to assist with management.
- Known hypersensitivity or allergy to any of the excipients in the cemiplimab drug product.
- Patients with a history of solid organ transplant (exception: corneal transplant)
- Any medical comorbidity, physical examination finding, or metabolic dysfunction, or clinical laboratory abnormality that in the opinion of the investigator renders the patient unsuitable for participation in a clinical trial due to high safety risks.
- Women with a positive serum or urine beta-hCG pregnancy test at screening/baseline visit. If positive, pregnancy must be ruled out by ultrasound for patient to be eligible.
- Breast-feeding women
Women of childbearing potential who are sexually active and aren't willing to practice highly effective contraception prior to the first dose of Cemiplimab, during the study, and for at least 180 days after the last dose. Highly effective contraceptive measures include:
- Stable use of combined estrogen and progesterone containing hormonal contraception or progesterone and-only hormonal contraception associated with inhibition of ovulation initiated 2 or more menstrual cycles prior to screening
- Intrauterine device; intrauterine hormone-releasing system
- Bilateral tubal ligation
- Vasectomized partner and/or
- Sexual abstinence
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Treatment
- Allocation: N/A
- Interventional Model: Sequential Assignment
- Masking: None (Open Label)
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Experimental: Head and Neck Squamous Cell Cancer/HNSCC
Participants with locally advanced, resectable head and neck squamous cell carcinoma for which standard-of-care management would entail definitive surgery followed by adjuvant radiation +/- concurrent chemotherapy are eligible.
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Cisplatin 75mg/m2 AUC 5 on weeks 2, 5, and 8
Carboplatin AUC 5 on weeks 2, 5, and 8
Docetaxel 75mg/m2 on weeks 2, 5, and 8
Cetuximab 400mg/m2 on week 1, 250mg/m2 on weeks 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Cemiplimab 350mg on weeks 2, 5, 8, 11; if adjuvant radiation +/- chemotherapy is omitted, Cemiplimab will be administered on weeks 16, 19, 22, 25, 28, 31, 34, 37
Twenty-eight days (+ 7 days) following the 3rd cycle of neoadjuvant therapy, patients will then undergo definitive surgical resection of the primary site +/- neck dissection(s).
Post-operative radiation therapy +/- radiosensitizing agent(s) will be administered per standard-of-care based on pathologic staging of the surgical specimen.
If there is an excellent response to treatment with a high degree of downstaging the addition of adjuvant radiation may be omitted if NCCN guidelines are met.
If the pathologic stage following induction systemic therapy and surgery is ypT1-2N0 without the presence of adverse features that include positive margins or a combination of perineural invasion, vascular invasion, and a depth of invasion of >0.5mm, adjuvant radiation will not be administered, consistent with the NCCN guidelines [2].
Otherwise, patients will receive adjuvant RT-based treatment with standard radiation techniques.
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Incidence of toxicities graded according to NCI CTCAE
Time Frame: 1 year
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The primary endpoint is safety and tolerability, which will be evaluated by a description of observed adverse events by grades.
All toxicities will be graded according to NCI CTCAE, Version5.0.
The regimen will be deemed safe and well tolerated if there are 2 or fewer DLTs out of 10 patients enrolled.
A DLT is defined as any non-hematologic grade 3 or greater adverse event as defined by CTCAE v5.0 that is thought to be related to the addition of Cemiplimab to the combination of a platinum-doublet with cetuximab.
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1 year
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Collaborators and Investigators
Collaborators
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Lara Dunn, MD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Publications and helpful links
Helpful Links
Study record dates
Study Major Dates
Study Start (Actual)
Primary Completion (Estimated)
Study Completion (Estimated)
Study Registration Dates
First Submitted
First Submitted That Met QC Criteria
First Posted (Actual)
Study Record Updates
Last Update Posted (Actual)
Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria
Last Verified
More Information
Terms related to this study
Keywords
Additional Relevant MeSH Terms
- Neoplasms by Histologic Type
- Neoplasms
- Neoplasms by Site
- Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial
- Neoplasms, Squamous Cell
- Head and Neck Neoplasms
- Carcinoma
- Carcinoma, Squamous Cell
- Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Head and Neck
- Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
- Antineoplastic Agents
- Tubulin Modulators
- Antimitotic Agents
- Mitosis Modulators
- Antineoplastic Agents, Immunological
- Docetaxel
- Carboplatin
- Cetuximab
- Cemiplimab
Other Study ID Numbers
- 20-445
Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)
Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?
IPD Plan Description
Drug and device information, study documents
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product
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