KN046 Plus Regorafenib or Apatinib in MSI-H Digestive System Cancers Resistant to PD-1/PD-L1 Blockade

A Phase II Clinical Study Evaluating The Efficacy and Safety of KN046 in Combination With Regorafenib or Apatinib for Microsatellite Instability-High Digestive System Cancers Resistant to PD-1/PD-L1 Blockade

The study is an interventional phase II clinical trial aiming to evaluate the efficacy and safety of KN046, a PD-L1 and CTLA-4 bispecific antibody, in combination with regorafenib or apatinib for microsatellite instability-high digestive system cancers resistant to PD-1/PD-L1 blockade. KN046 plus regorafenib will be given for patients with colorectal cancers, and KN046 plus apatinib will be given for patients with gastric cancers (including esophageal-gastric junction cancers) and other kinds of digestive system cancers.

Study Overview

• Status: Recruiting
• Conditions: Digestive System Cancers
• Intervention / Treatment: Drug: KN046; Drug: Regorafenib; Drug: Apatinib

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Estimated): 39
• Phase: Phase 2

Contacts and Locations

• Study Contact: Name: Zhenghang Wang; Phone Number: 01088196561; Email: zhenghang_wang@bjmu.edu.cn
• Study Contact Backup: Name: Ting Xu; Phone Number: 18201137836; Email: xtlmhxt@163.com

Study Locations

• China
  • Beijing, China
    • Recruiting
    • Peking university cancer hospital
    • Contact: Zhenghang Wang, Dr
    • Contact: Ting Xu

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

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

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Subjects are able to comprehend the informed consent form, voluntarily participate, and sign the informed consent form.
• Subjects are ≥18 years old on the day of signing the informed consent form, with no gender restrictions.
• Histologically confirmed digestive system cancers.
• According to RECIST 1.1 criteria, there should be at least one measurable or evaluable lesion at baseline. If the subject has only one measurable or evaluable lesion at baseline, the lesion must not have been exposed to radiotherapy previously, or there must be evidence of significant progression after radiotherapy treatment completion.
• ECOG performance status of 0 or 1.
• Expected survival ≥3 months.
• Archived tumor tissue samples or freshly obtained tumor tissue samples are available.
• Female subjects of childbearing potential or male subjects with partners of childbearing potential agree to use highly effective contraception from 7 days before the first dose until 120 days after the last dose. Female subjects of childbearing potential must have a negative serum pregnancy test within 7 days before the first dose.
• Subjects have the ability and willingness to comply with the study protocol's visits, treatment plan, laboratory tests, and other study-related procedures.
• Within the first 7 days of initial dosing, subjects should have good organ function:
• HGB ≥ 80g/L, NEU ≥ 1.0*10^9/L, PLT ≥ 75*10^9/L, Cr≤1.5×ULN or CrCl≥50mL/min（Cockcroft-Gault method), TBiL ≤ 1.5×ULN, ALT and AST ≤3 ×ULN; for patients with liver metastasis ALT and AST ≤5 ×ULN, urine protein <2+;,if urine protein ≥ 2+, 24 hour urinary protein quantity <2g; INR, APTT, PT ≤ 1.5 ×ULN
• dMMR/MSI-H cancers resistant to PD1/PDL1 blockade. MSI status should be confirmed by PCR or NGS. If MSI status by PCR and NGS were not consistent, or no enough tissue were available for PCR or NGS testing, whether to enroll this patient should be determine by investigators.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Subjects with untreated active brain metastases or meningeal metastases; if the subject's brain metastases have been treated and the metastases are stable (brain imaging at least 4 weeks before the first dose shows stable lesions, and there is no evidence of new neurological symptoms or the neurological symptoms have returned to baseline), then enrollment is allowed.
• Subjects with a history of gastrointestinal perforation or fistula within 6 months before the first dose. If the perforation or fistula has been treated with resection or repair, and the disease is judged to be recovered or improved by the investigator, then enrollment is allowed.
• Subjects who have received any other interventional clinical trial or any other antitumor treatment within 28 days or 5 half-lives before the first dose (whichever is shorter). Palliative radiotherapy for bone metastases to relieve symptoms is permitted.
• Subjects who have undergone major surgery within 28 days before the first dose (e.g., major abdominal or thoracic surgery; excluding drainage, diagnostic puncture, or peripheral vascular access replacement).
• Subjects who require systemic corticosteroids (≥10 mg/day prednisone or equivalent) or immunosuppressive therapy for a continuous 7-day period within 14 days before the first dose. Inhaled or locally applied steroids and physiological replacement doses of steroids due to adrenal insufficiency are allowed. Short-term (≤7 days) corticosteroids for prophylaxis (e.g., contrast dye allergy) or treatment of non-autoimmune diseases (e.g., delayed hypersensitivity reaction caused by exposure to allergens) are allowed.
• Subjects who have received live vaccines (including attenuated live vaccines) within 28 days before the first dose.
• Subjects with interstitial lung disease or a history of non-infectious pneumonia requiring oral or intravenous corticosteroid treatment.
• Subjects with active autoimmune diseases requiring systemic treatment within 2 years before the start of the study or those considered at risk of recurrence or planned treatment for autoimmune diseases as judged by the investigator. Exclusions include a) skin diseases that do not require systemic treatment (e.g., vitiligo, alopecia, psoriasis, or eczema); b) hypothyroidism caused by autoimmune thyroiditis, requiring stable doses of hormone replacement therapy; c) type 1 diabetes requiring stable doses of insulin replacement therapy; d) childhood asthma fully resolved with no need for intervention in adulthood; e) the investigator judges that the disease will not relapse without external triggering factors.
• Subjects with a history of other malignant tumors within 5 years, excluding cured skin squamous cell carcinoma, basal cell carcinoma, non-invasive bladder carcinoma, localized low-risk prostate cancer (defined as stage ≤T2a, Gleason score ≤6, and prostate-specific antigen (PSA) ≤10 ng/mL (if measured) in patients who have undergone curative treatment and have no biochemical recurrence of prostate-specific antigen (PSA)), in situ cervical/breast carcinoma, or Lynch syndrome.
• Subjects with uncontrolled comorbidities, including but not limited to: a) active HBV or HCV infection; b) subjects who are HBsAg positive and/or HCV antibody positive during screening must undergo HBV DNA and/or HCV RNA testing. Only subjects with HBV DNA ≤500 IU/mL (or ≤2000 copies/mL) and/or HCV RNA negative can be enrolled; HBV DNA monitoring will be at the discretion of the investigator based on the subject's condition during the trial; c) known HIV infection or AIDS history; d) active tuberculosis; e) active infection or systemic use of anti-infective drugs for more than 1 week within 28 days before the first dose; fever of unknown cause within 2 weeks before the first dose; f) uncontrolled hypertension (resting blood pressure ≥160/100 mmHg), symptomatic congestive heart failure (NYHA II-IV), unstable angina or myocardial infarction within 6 months, or the presence of QTc prolongation or the risk of arrhythmia (baseline QTc >470 msec <Fridericia method correction>, difficult-to-correct hypokalemia, long QT syndrome, atrial fibrillation with resting heart rate >100 bpm, or severe valvular heart disease); g) active bleeding that cannot be controlled after medical treatment.
• Toxicity from previous antitumor treatments has not recovered to Grade ≤2 (NCI-CTCAE v5.0) or baseline, except for alopecia, skin pigmentation (allowed at any level), and immune-related adverse reactions requiring physiological replacement (e.g., hypothyroidism, hypopituitarism, type 1 diabetes).
• History of allogeneic bone marrow or organ transplantation.
• Previous history of allergic reactions, hypersensitivity reactions, or intolerance to antibody drugs (e.g., severe allergic reactions, immune-mediated hepatotoxicity, immune-mediated thrombocytopenia, or anemia).
• Pregnant and/or lactating females.
• Other conditions that, in the investigator's opinion, may affect the safety or compliance of the study drug treatment, including but not limited to moderate to large pleural/ascites/pericardial effusion, uncorrectable pleural/ascites/pericardial effusion, intestinal obstruction or subacute intestinal obstruction, psychiatric disorders, etc.
• Previous treatment with any immune checkpoint inhibitors in combination with anti-VEGF tyrosine kinase inhibitor, including but not limited to Regorafenib, Apatinib, Sulfatinib and Anlctinib.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

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

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm

Intervention / Treatment

Experimental: Patients resistant to PD1/PDL1 blockade; Patients with microsatellite instability-high digestive system cancers resistant to PD-1/PD-L1 blockade

Drug: KN046; KN046 is a recombinant humanized PD-L1/CTLA-4 bispecific single-domain antibody that blocks both PD-L1 interaction with PD-1 and CTLA-4 interaction with CD80/CD86.; Drug: Regorafenib; Regorafenib is a multi-target tyrosine kinase inhibitors and is one of the standard third-line therapy in mCRC; Drug: Apatinib; Apatinib is a novel, small molecule, selective vascular endothelial growth factor receptor-2 (VEGFR-2) tyrosine kinase inhibitor and is the second anti-angiogenic drug to be approved in China for the treatment of advanced or metastatic gastric cancer. It has been also reported to have anti-tumor efficacy in other kinds of digestive system cancers.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Progression free survival	Progression-free survival (PFS) is defined as the time from the date of the first dose to the earlier of the dates of the first objective documentation of radiographic progressive disease (PD) or death due to any cause.	Baseline up to withdrawal of consent, progressive disease, or unacceptable toxicity (whichever occurs first), up to 24 months post-dose

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Duration of response	Duration of response (DOR) is defined as the time from the date of the first response to the first objective documentation of radiographic progressive disease (PD) or death due to any cause.	Baseline up to withdrawal of consent, progressive disease, or unacceptable toxicity (whichever occurs first), up to 24 months post-dose
Overall survival	Overall survival (OS) is defined as the time from the date of first dose to the date of death from any cause.	Baseline up to withdrawal of consent, progressive disease, or unacceptable toxicity (whichever occurs first), up to 24 months post-dose
Overall response rate	Objective response rate (defined as CR+PR) will be reported based on investigator's evaluation.	Baseline up to withdrawal of consent, progressive disease, or unacceptable toxicity (whichever occurs first), up to 24 months post-dose
Disease control rate	Disease control rate (defined as CR+PR+SD) will be reported based on investigator's evaluation.	Baseline up to withdrawal of consent, progressive disease, or unacceptable toxicity (whichever occurs first), up to 24 months post-dose
treatment-related adverse event	A treatment-related adverse event (TRAE) is defined as any adverse event not present prior to the initiation of drug treatment or any adverse event already present that worsens in intensity or frequency following exposure to the drug treatment. TRAEs were graded using National Cancer Institute (NCI)-CTCAE version 5.0.	Informed consent to 30 days after last dose of treatment.

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Peking University Cancer Hospital & Institute
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: lin Shen, Peking University Cancer Hospital & Institute

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): October 25, 2023
• Primary Completion (Estimated): December 31, 2026
• Study Completion (Estimated): December 31, 2026

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: October 20, 2023
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: October 20, 2023
• First Posted (Actual): October 25, 2023

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): October 26, 2023
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: October 25, 2023
• Last Verified: October 1, 2023

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Digestive System Diseases; Neoplasms; Neoplasms by Site; Digestive System Neoplasms; Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action; Enzyme Inhibitors; Antineoplastic Agents; Protein Kinase Inhibitors; Apatinib
• Other Study ID Numbers: CGOG-KRAC-02

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