Nivolumab and Ipilimumab With and Without Camu Camu for the Treatment of Patients With Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma

Combination Nivolumab and Ipilimumab With and Without Camu Camu in First Line Treatment of Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma

This phase I trial tests the safety, side effects, and best dose of camu camu when used in combination with nivolumab and ipilimumab in treating patients with kidney cancer that has spread to other places in the body. A monoclonal antibody is a type of protein that can bind to certain targets in the body, such as molecules that cause the body to make an immune response (antigens). Immunotherapy with monoclonal antibodies, such as nivolumab and ipilimumab, may help the body's immune system attack the cancer, and may interfere with the ability of tumor cells to grow and spread. Camu camu is a prebiotic that may have a beneficial effect on the immune system. Giving camu camu in combination with nivolumab and ipilimumab may kill more tumor cells than nivolumab and ipilimumab alone in patients with metastatic kidney cancer.

Study Overview

• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Conditions: Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma; Stage III Renal Cell Cancer AJCC v8; Stage IV Renal Cell Cancer AJCC v8; Sarcomatoid Renal Cell Carcinoma
• Intervention / Treatment: Biological: Nivolumab; Procedure: Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Biological: Ipilimumab; Procedure: Computed Tomography; Procedure: Bone Scan; Procedure: Biospecimen Collection; Drug: Myrciaria dubia Prebiotic Supplement

Detailed Description

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE:

I. To determine the effect of camu camu in combination with nivolumab/ipilimumab on Ruminococcus abundance in stool samples of patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC).

SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:

I. To evaluate the effect of camu camu on the clinical efficacy of the nivolumab/ipilimumab combination.

II. To determine the effect of camu camu on systemic immunodulation of the nivolumab/ipilimumab combination in patients with mRCC.

III. To describe the toxicity and safety profile of the use of camu camu in combination with nivolumab/ipilimumab.

IV. To determine the effect of camu camu on gut microbiome diversity and function.

OUTLINE: Patients are randomized to 1 of 2 arms.

ARM 1: Patients receive nivolumab intravenously (IV) over 30 minutes on day 1 and ipilimumab IV over 30 minutes on day 1 of each cycle. Cycles repeat every 3 weeks for cycles 1-4. Beginning cycle 5, patients receive nivolumab over 30 minutes on day 1 of each cycle. Cycles repeat every 4 weeks in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients also undergo blood and stool sample collection and undergo computed tomography (CT) and/or bone scan and/or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) on trial.

ARM 2: Patients receive nivolumab IV over 30 minutes on day, ipilimumab IV over 30 minutes on day 1, and camu camu orally (PO) once a day (QD) continuously with each cycle. Cycles repeat every 3 weeks for cycles 1-4. Beginning cycle 5, patients receive nivolumab over 30 minutes on day 1, and camu camu PO QD of each cycle. Cycles repeat every 4 weeks in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients also undergo blood and stool sample collection and undergo CT and/or bone scan and/or MRI on trial.

After completion of study treatment, patients are followed up every 12 weeks until time of death or formal withdrawal from the study, whichever comes first.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 31
• Phase: Phase 1

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • California
    • Duarte, California, United States, 91010
      • City of Hope Medical Center

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Be willing and able to provide informed consent for the trial
• Histological confirmation of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) with a clear-cell or sarcomatoid component
• Advanced (not amenable to curative surgery or radiation therapy) or metastatic (American Joint Committee on Cancer [AJCC] 8 stage IV) RCC
• Intermediate or poor risk disease by International Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma Database Consortium Criteria (IMDC) classification

• No prior systemic therapy for RCC with the following exception:

  • One prior adjuvant or neoadjuvant therapy for completely resectable RCC if such therapy did not include an agent that targets PD-1 or PD-L1 and if recurrence occurred at least 6 months after the last dose of adjuvant or neoadjuvant therapy
• Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status < 2
• Measurable disease as per Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) 1.1
• Males and females, ages >= 18
• Any ethnicity or race
• Adequate renal function defined as calculated creatinine clearance >= 30 milliliters per minute (mL/min) per the Cockcroft and Gault formula or Serum creatinine < 1.5 x upper limit of normal (ULN)
• Adequate liver function defined by aspartate aminotransferase (AST) or alanine aminotransferase (ALT) < 3 x ULN (< 5 x ULN if liver metastases are present), and total bilirubin < 1.5 x ULN (except subjects with Gilbert Syndrome, who can have total bilirubin up to 3.0 mg/dL)
• White blood cells (WBC) > 2,000/mm^3
• Neutrophils > 1,500/mm^3
• Platelets > 100,000/mm^3

Exclusion Criteria:

• Presence of untreated brain metastases. Patients with treated brain metastases must be stable for 4 weeks after completion of treatment and have documented stability on pre-study imaging. Patients must have no clinical symptoms from brain metastases and have no requirement for systemic corticosteroids amounting to > 10 mg/day of prednisone or its equivalent for at least 2 weeks prior to first dose of study drug. Patients with known leptomeningeal metastases are excluded, even if treated
• Favorable risk disease by IMDC classification
• Prior treatment with an anti-PD-1, anti-PD-L1, anti-PD-L2, anti-CD137, or anti-CTLA-4 antibody, or any other antibody or drug specifically targeting T-cell co-stimulation or checkpoint pathways
• Any active or recent history of a known or suspected autoimmune disease or recent history of a syndrome that required systemic corticosteroids (> 10 mg daily prednisone equivalent) or immunosuppressive medications except for syndromes which would not be expected to recur in the absence of an external trigger. Subjects with vitiligo or type I diabetes mellitus or residual hypothyroidism due to autoimmune thyroiditis only requiring hormone replacement are permitted to enroll
• Active interstitial lung disease (ILD)/pneumonitis or history of ILD/pneumonitis requiring treatment with systemic steroids
• Baseline pulse oximetry less than 92% "on room air"
• Current use, or intent to use probiotics, prebiotics, yogurt, bacterial fortified foods and other natural supplements =< 2 week prior to treatment initiation and during the period of treatment
• Any condition requiring systemic treatment with corticosteroids (> 10 mg daily prednisone equivalents) or other immunosuppressive medications within 14 days prior to first dose of study drug. Inhaled steroids and adrenal replacement steroid doses > 10 mg daily prednisone equivalents are permitted in the absence of active autoimmune disease
• Uncontrolled adrenal insufficiency
• Known medical condition (e.g., a condition associated with diarrhea or acute diverticulitis) that, in the investigator's opinion, would increase the risk associated with study participation or study drug administration or interfere with the interpretation of safety results
• Not recovered to =< Grade 1 toxicities related to any prior therapy before administration of study drug
• Women who are pregnant or breastfeeding
• History of myocarditis or congestive heart failure (as defined by New York Heart Association Functional Classification III or IV), as well as unstable angina, serious uncontrolled cardiac arrhythmia, uncontrolled infection, or myocardial infarction 6 months prior to study entry
• WBC < 2,000/mm^3
• Neutrophils < 1,500/mm^3
• Platelets < 100,000/mm^3
• AST or ALT > 3 x ULN (> 5 x ULN if liver metastases are present)
• Total bilirubin > 1.5 x ULN (except subjects with Gilbert Syndrome, who can have total bilirubin 3.0 mg/dL)
• Calculated creatinine clearance <30 millimeters per minute (mL/min) per the Cockcroft and Gault formula or serum creatinine > 1.5 x upper limit of normal (ULN)

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Treatment
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Active Comparator: Arm 1 (nivolumab and ipilimumab); Patients receive nivolumab IV over 30 minutes on day 1 and ipilimumab IV over 30 minutes on day 1 of each cycle. Cycles repeat every 3 weeks for cycles 1-4. Beginning cycle 5, patients receive nivolumab over 30 minutes on day 1 of each cycle. Cycles repeat every 4 weeks in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients also undergo blood and stool sample collection and undergo CT and/or bone scan and/or MRI on trial.	Biological: Nivolumab; Given IV; Other Names: BMS-936558; MDX-1106; NIVO; ONO-4538; Opdivo; CMAB819; Nivolumab Biosimilar CMAB819; Procedure: Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Undergo MRI; Other Names: MRI; Magnetic Resonance; Magnetic Resonance Imaging Scan; Medical Imaging, Magnetic Resonance / Nuclear Magnetic Resonance; MR; MR Imaging; MRI Scan; NMR Imaging; NMRI; Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Magnetic resonance imaging (procedure); Biological: Ipilimumab; Given IV; Other Names: Anti-Cytotoxic T-Lymphocyte-Associated Antigen-4 Monoclonal Antibody; BMS-734016; Ipilimumab Biosimilar CS1002; MDX-010; MDX-CTLA4; Yervoy; Procedure: Computed Tomography; Undergo CT; Other Names: CT; CAT; CAT Scan; Computed Axial Tomography; Computerized Axial Tomography; Computerized Tomography; CT Scan; tomography; Computerized axial tomography (procedure); Procedure: Bone Scan; Undergo bone scan; Other Names: Bone Scintigraphy; Procedure: Biospecimen Collection; Undergo blood and stool sample collection; Other Names: Biological Sample Collection; Biospecimen Collected; Specimen Collection
Experimental: Arm 2 (nivolumab, ipilimumab, camu camu); Patients receive nivolumab IV over 30 minutes on day, ipilimumab IV over 30 minutes on day 1, and camu camu PO QD continuously with each cycle. Cycles repeat every 3 weeks for cycles 1-4. Beginning cycle 5, patients receive nivolumab over 30 minutes on day 1, and camu camu PO QD of each cycle. Cycles repeat every 4 weeks in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients also undergo blood and stool sample collection and undergo CT and/or bone scan and/or MRI on trial.	Biological: Nivolumab; Given IV; Other Names: BMS-936558; MDX-1106; NIVO; ONO-4538; Opdivo; CMAB819; Nivolumab Biosimilar CMAB819; Procedure: Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Undergo MRI; Other Names: MRI; Magnetic Resonance; Magnetic Resonance Imaging Scan; Medical Imaging, Magnetic Resonance / Nuclear Magnetic Resonance; MR; MR Imaging; MRI Scan; NMR Imaging; NMRI; Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Magnetic resonance imaging (procedure); Biological: Ipilimumab; Given IV; Other Names: Anti-Cytotoxic T-Lymphocyte-Associated Antigen-4 Monoclonal Antibody; BMS-734016; Ipilimumab Biosimilar CS1002; MDX-010; MDX-CTLA4; Yervoy; Procedure: Computed Tomography; Undergo CT; Other Names: CT; CAT; CAT Scan; Computed Axial Tomography; Computerized Axial Tomography; Computerized Tomography; CT Scan; tomography; Computerized axial tomography (procedure); Procedure: Bone Scan; Undergo bone scan; Other Names: Bone Scintigraphy; Procedure: Biospecimen Collection; Undergo blood and stool sample collection; Other Names: Biological Sample Collection; Biospecimen Collected; Specimen Collection; Drug: Myrciaria dubia Prebiotic Supplement; Given PO; Other Names: Camu Camu Prebiotic; Camu-camu Prebiotic; Myrciaria dubia based Prebiotic; Myrciaria dubia Supplement

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Abundance of ruminococcus in the stool	Using a two-group t-test with a one-sided type I error of 0.05.	From baseline to week 12 of therapy

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Best overall response	Response and progression will be evaluated in this study using the new international criteria proposed by the revised Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) guideline (version 1.1). Will be examined using Fisher's exact test.	Every 12 weeks for up to 3 years
Progression-free survival (PFS)	PFS, assessed as the duration of time from enrollment to progression, with camu camu in combination with nivolumab/ipilimumab vs nivolumab/ipilimumab alone. The difference in progression-free survival across the two groups will be explored graphically using Kaplan-Meier survival plots. Median progression-free survival time for each of the two arms will be reported and Cox Proportional Hazards model will be used to estimate the hazard ratio and its confidence interval.	Time from enrollment to progression date or date of death, whichever occurs first (Each cycle is 4 weeks)
Incidence of adverse events	Will perform statistical analysis to compare the rates of all grade and grade >= 3 (per Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events version 5) treatment related adverse events between nivolumab/ipilimumab and nivolumab/ipilimumab with camu camu arms.	Up to 30 days post-last dose of protocol therapy

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: City of Hope Medical Center
• Collaborators: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Sumanta K Pal, City of Hope Medical Center

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): October 6, 2023
• Primary Completion (Estimated): June 23, 2026
• Study Completion (Estimated): June 23, 2026

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: September 7, 2023
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: September 19, 2023
• First Posted (Actual): September 22, 2023

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): April 15, 2026
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 12, 2026
• Last Verified: April 1, 2026

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Urogenital Diseases; Urogenital Neoplasms; Neoplasms by Site; Neoplasms; Male Urogenital Diseases; Kidney Diseases; Urologic Diseases; Female Urogenital Diseases; Female Urogenital Diseases and Pregnancy Complications; Neoplasms by Histologic Type; Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial; Adenocarcinoma; Urologic Neoplasms; Carcinoma; Kidney Neoplasms; Carcinoma, Renal Cell; Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins; Proteins; Investigative Techniques; Clinical Laboratory Techniques; Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures; Diagnosis; Biological Factors; Antibodies, Monoclonal, Humanized; Antibodies, Monoclonal; Antibodies; Immunoglobulins; Immunoproteins; Blood Proteins; Serum Globulins; Globulins; Chemistry Techniques, Analytical; Spectrum Analysis; Receptors, Cell Surface; Membrane Proteins; Antigens; Antigens, Surface; Biomarkers; Receptors, Immunologic; Antigens, Differentiation, T-Lymphocyte; Antigens, Differentiation; Immune Checkpoint Proteins; Costimulatory and Inhibitory T-Cell Receptors; Nivolumab; Ipilimumab; Specimen Handling; Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; CTLA-4 Antigen
• Other Study ID Numbers: 22457 (Other Identifier: City of Hope Medical Center); P30CA033572 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract); NCI-2023-06703 (Registry Identifier: CTRP (Clinical Trial Reporting Program))

Drug and device information, study documents

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