Lifileucel With Reduced Dose Fludarabine/Cyclophosphamide Lymphodepletion and Interleukin-2 for the Treatment of Patients With Unresectable or Metastatic Melanoma

Metastatic Melanoma Clinical Trial

Official title:

Reduced Dose Fludarabine/Cyclophosphamide Lymphodepletion Before Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocyte Therapy With Lifileucel in Metastatic Melanoma

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT06151847
• Other study ID #: STUDY00150697
• Secondary ID: NCI-2023-09309II
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: Phase 2
• Start date: December 21, 2023
• Est. completion date: November 27, 2025

Study information

• Verified date: February 2024
• Source: University of Kansas Medical Center
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This phase II trial tests how well lifileucel, with reduce dose fludarabine and cyclophosphamide for lymphodepletion and interleukin-2, work for treating patients with melanoma that cannot be removed by surgery (unresectable) or that has spread from where it first started (primary site) to other places in the body (metastatic).Lifileucel is made up of specialized immune cells called lymphocytes or T cells that are taken from a patient's tumor, grown in a manufacturing facility and infused back into the preconditioned patient to attack the tumor. Giving Lifileucel with a reduced dose of fludarabine and cyclophosphamide for lymphodepletion and interleukin -2 is being studied in patients with unresectable or metastatic melanoma.

Description:

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE: I. The percentage of total TIL clones as measured by the T-cell receptor (TCR) population shared between the tumor infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL) product and peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC). SECONDARY OBJECTIVES: I. To evaluate the efficacy parameters of lifileucel (LN-144) in combination with a reduced dose lymphodepletion in patients with unresectable or metastatic melanoma by assessing objective response rate (ORR), progression-free survival (PFS), and overall survival (OS). II. To characterize the safety profile of lifileucel (LN-144) in combination with a reduced dose lymphodepletion regimen in patients with unresectable or metastatic melanoma. EXPLORATORY OBJECTIVE: I. Blood and tumor samples will be banked for future correlative analyses, including flow cytometry, next generation sequencing, immunogenomics and RNA sequencing to characterize the immunome and microenvironment. OUTLINE: Patients undergo tumor resection surgery. After the lifileucel is manufactured (approximately 4 weeks later), patients receive cyclophosphamide intravenously (IV) on days -4 to -2 and fludarabine IV on days -4 to -1. Patients then receive lifileucel IV on day 0. Patients also receive up to 6 doses of intraleukin-2 IV. After completion of study treatment, patients are followed up at day 28, 42, 84, 126, 180, 365, month 18, and month 24.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 12
• Est. completion date: November 27, 2025
• Est. primary completion date: November 27, 2025
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 70 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Males and females age = 18 years Enrollment of patients = 70 years of age may be allowed at principal investigator discretion.
• Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status 0 - 1
• At least one measurable target lesion, as defined by Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) version (v) 1.1
• Lesions in previously irradiated areas (or other local therapy) should not be selected as target lesions, unless treatment was = 3 months prior to Screening, and there has been demonstrated disease progression in that lesion
• Women of childbearing potential must have a negative serum pregnancy test 48 hours prior to initiating treatment
• Patients with unresectable or metastatic melanoma (stage IIIc or stage IV)
• Patients must have progressed following 1-3 prior systemic therapy including a programmed cell death protein-1 (PD-1) blocking antibody; and if proto-oncogene B-Raf (BRAF) V600 mutation positive, a BRAF inhibitor or BRAF inhibitor in combination mitogen-activated extracellular signal-regulated kinase (MEK) inhibitor
• At least one resectable lesion (or aggregate of lesions resected) of a minimum 1.5 cm in diameter post-resection to generate TIL; surgical removal with minimal morbidity (defined as any procedure for which expected hospitalization is = 3 days)
• Adequate hematologic and organ function
• Patients must have recovered from all prior therapy-related adverse events (AEs) to = grade 1 (per Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events [CTCAE] version [v] 5.0), except for alopecia or vitiligo, prior to enrollment (tumor resection)
• Patients with documented = grade 2 diarrhea or colitis because of previous treatment with immune checkpoint inhibitor(s) must have been asymptomatic for at least 6 months and/or had a normal colonoscopy post-immune checkpoint inhibitor treatment, by visual assessment, prior to tumor resection
• Patients with immunotherapy-related endocrinopathies stable for at least 6 weeks (eg, hypothyroidism), and controlled with hormonal replacement (non-corticosteroids), are allowed
• Patients must have a washout period of = 28 days from prior anticancer therapy(ies) to

the start of the planned reduced dose lymphodepletion (RDL) preconditioning regimen:

• Targeted therapy: MEK/BRAF or other targeted agents
• Chemotherapy
• Immunotherapy: anti-CTLA-4/anti-PD-1, other monoclonal antibodies (mAb), or vaccine
• Palliative radiation therapy is permitted so long as it does not involve lesions being selected for TIL, or as target or non-target lesions. Washout is not required if all related toxicities have resolved to = grade 1 as per CTCAE v 5.0
• Women of child-bearing potential and men with partners of child-bearing potential must agree to practice sexual abstinence or to use the forms of contraception listed in Child-Bearing Potential/Pregnancy section for the duration of study participation and for 12 months following the last dose of IL-2 or until the first dose of the next anti-cancer therapy, whichever occurs first

Exclusion Criteria:

• Current or anticipating use of other anti-neoplastic or investigational agents while participating in this study
• Is pregnant or breastfeeding
• Patients who have active medical illness(es) that would pose increased risk for study participation, including active systemic infections requiring systemic antibiotics, coagulation disorders, or other active major medical illnesses of the cardiovascular, respiratory, or immune system
• Patients who have been shown to be BRAF mutation positive (V600), but have not received prior systemic therapy with a BRAF inhibitor alone or a BRAF inhibitor in combination with a MEK inhibitor
• Patients who have received an organ allograft or prior cell transfer therapy
• Patients with melanoma of uveal/ocular origin
• Patients who have a history of hypersensitivity to any component or excipient of Lifileucel or other study drugs
• Patients who have any form of primary immunodeficiency (such as severe combined immunodeficiency disease [SCID] and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome [AIDS])
• Patients who have a left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) < 45% or New York Heart Association (NYHA) functional classification class > 1
• Patients who have a documented forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1) of = 60%
• Patients who have had another primary malignancy within the previous 3 years (except for carcinoma in situ of the breast, cervix, or bladder; localized prostate cancer; and non-melanoma skin cancer that has been adequately treated)
• Patients with symptomatic and/or untreated brain metastases (of any size and any number)
• Other protocol defined inclusion/exclusion criteria could apply

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Clinical Stage IV Cutaneous Melanoma AJCC v8
• Melanoma
• Metastatic Melanoma
• Pathologic Stage IIIC Cutaneous Melanoma AJCC v8
• Skin Neoplasms
• Unresectable Melanoma

Intervention

Procedure:
• Biospecimen Collection
A tumor sample is resected from each patient and cultured ex vivo to expand the population of tumor infiltrating lymphocytes. After lymphodepletion, patients are infused with Lifileucel followed by IL-2

Drug:
• Cyclophosphamide
Given IV

Procedure:
• Echocardiography
Undergo echocardiography

Drug:
• Fludarabine
Given IV

Biological:
• Interleukin-2
Given IV
• Lifileucel
Given IV

Procedure:
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Undergo MRI
• Multigated Acquisition Scan
Undergo MUGA scan
• Tumor Resection
Undergo tumor resection

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	University of Kansas Cancer Center	Kansas City	Kansas

Sponsors (3)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Kansas Medical Center	Iovance Biotherapeutics, Inc., National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Percentage of total T-cell receptor (TCR) populations shared between the TIL product and peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs)	The TCR population is calculated as the frequencies of unique CDR3 sequences as measured by HTBIvc assay. Will be summarized with respect to mean and standard deviation. The percentage changes will also be presented with respect to visual diagrams for each person, e.g., waterfall plot	At day + 42
Secondary	Safety: Incidence of treatment emergent adverse events	Defined as all grades and any attribution until day 28 (EOT visit) after infusion, grade 3-4 of any attribution from day 28 to 6 months, only grade 3-4 attributed to study drugs after 6 months evaluated by Common Terminology Criteria in Adverse Events (CTCAE). Will be presented as percentage with 95% confidence intervals and tabulated by type and grade.	From start of treatment to 6 months after TIL
Secondary	Safety: Incidence of serious adverse events	Defined as all grades and any attribution until day 28 (EOT visit) after infusion, grade 3-4 of any attribution from day 28 to 6 months, only grade 3-4 attributed to study drugs after 6 months evaluated by CTCAE. Will be presented as percentage with 95% confidence intervals and tabulated by type and grade.	From start of treatment to 6 months after TIL
Secondary	Transfusion requirements	Defined as all grades and any attribution until day 28 (EOT visit) after infusion, grade 3-4 of any attribution from day 28 to 6 months, only grade 3-4 attributed to study drugs after 6 months evaluated by CTCAE. Will be presented as percentage with 95% confidence intervals and will be summarized with respect to mean and standard deviation.	From start of treatment to 6 months after TIL
Secondary	Length of hospital stay	Defined as all grades and any attribution until day 28 (EOT visit) after infusion, grade 3-4 of any attribution from day 28 to 6 months, only grade 3-4 attributed to study drugs after 6 months evaluated by CTCAE. Will be presented as percentage with 95% confidence intervals and will be summarized with respect to mean and standard deviation.	From start of treatment to 6 months after TIL
Secondary	Overall response rate	Measured by Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumor (RECIST) 1.1. Will be presented as percentage with 95% confidence internal using Clopper-Pearson Exact method.	From start of treatment until the end of treatment, up to 2 years
Secondary	Progression free survival	Will be summarized with Kaplan-Meir curves and estimation of medians with 95% confidence intervals.	From start of treatment until objective tumor progression or death, up to 2 years
Secondary	Overall survival	Will be summarized with Kaplan-Meir curves and estimation of medians with 95% confidence intervals.	From start of treatment to death due to any cause, up to 2 years