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NCT number NCT03905135
Other study ID # 190076
Secondary ID 19-C-0076
Status Completed
Phase Phase 1
First received
Last updated
Start date June 7, 2019
Est. completion date May 17, 2022

Study information

Verified date August 2022
Source National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC)
Contact n/a
Is FDA regulated No
Health authority
Study type Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Background: Some T-cell lymphomas and leukemias do not respond to standard treatment. Researchers hope to develop a treatment that works better than current treatments. Objective: To test if interleukin (IL-5) combined with avelumab is safe and effective for treating certain cancers. Eligibility: People ages 18 and older with relapsed T-cell leukemias and lymphomas for which no standard treatment exists or standard treatment has failed Design: Participants will be screened with: - Medical history - Physical exam - Blood, urine, heart, and lung tests - Possible tumor biopsy - Bone marrow biopsy: A small needle will be inserted into the hipbone to take out a small amount of marrow. - Computed tomography (CT) or positron emission tomography (PET) scans and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI): Participants will lie in a machine that takes pictures of the body. Participants will get the study drugs for 6 cycles of 28 days each. They will have a midline catheter inserted: A tube will be inserted into a vein in the upper chest. They will get Interleukin-15 (IL-5) as a constant infusion over the first 5 days of every cycle. They will get avelumab on days 8 and 22 of each cycle. They will be hospitalized for the first week of the first cycle. Participants will have tests throughout the study: - Blood and urine tests - Another tumor biopsy if their disease gets worse - Scans every 8 weeks - Possible repeat MRI - Another bone marrow biopsy at the end of treatment, if there was lymphoma in the bone marrow before treatment, and they responded to treatment everywhere else. After they finish treatment, participants will have visits every 60 days for the first 6 months. Then visits will be every 90 days for 2 years, and then every 6 months for 2 years. Visits will include blood tests and may include scans.


Description:

Background: Mature T-cell cancers are a phenotypically heterogeneous group of malignancies which constitute 10-15% of all non-Hodgkin lymphomas (NHL). Patients with relapsed/refractory T cell lymphomas have limited therapeutic options, making new therapeutic approaches extremely important. The immunologic effects of recombinant human Interleukin-15 (rhIL-15), a stimulatory cytokine that promotes the differentiation and activation of NK cells, monocytes and long-term cluster of differentiation 8 (CD8) + memory T-cells, has been assessed in several Phase 1 trials in cancer patients. Avelumab is an anti-programmed death ligand-1 (PD-L1) fully human immunoglobulin G1 (IgG1) antibody that inhibits programmed cell death protein 1 (PD1)/PD-L1 interactions while leaving the PD1/programmed cell death ligand 2 (PD-L2) pathway intact and enhances immune activation against tumor cells. It has received United States (U.S.) Food and Drug Administration (FDA) accelerated approval for the treatment of patients with metastatic Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) and urothelial carcinoma. Unlike other approved anti-PD-L1/PD1 antibodies, avelumab induces lysis of tumor cells via antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC), indicating an additional mechanism of action. However, avelumab has not shown ADCC against normal immune cell subsets in humans. A significant number of T-cell malignancies express PD-L1, and since the anti-PD-L1 antibody avelumab has shown ADCC activity in vitro, agents that may enhance ADCC by increasing number and activity of Fc-binding effector cells such as rhIL15 could improve efficacy of avelumab in these diseases. Objectives: To determine the safety and toxicity profile and the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) of continuous intravenous infusion (civ) recombinant human interleukin-15 (rhIL-15) administration in combination with standard intravenous (IV) avelumab treatment Eligibility: Age >= 18 years of age Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of <= 1 Histologically or cytologically confirmed relapsed and/or refractory T-cell lymphoma other than adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATLL), angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma (AITL), peripheral T-cell lymphoma T follicular helper phenotype (PTCL-TFH) and enteropathy-associated T-cell lymphoma (EATL). Adequate organ and marrow function Design: Open-label, single-center, non-randomized Phase 1 study Standard 3 + 3 design will be used to determine the MTD of dose-escalated rhIL-15 with fixed dose avelumab with a small expansion cohort at the MTD Maximum 6 cycles (28-day cycle) of combination therapy To explore all dose levels, including further evaluation in a dose expansion cohort, the accrual ceiling will be set at 30 patients.


Recruitment information / eligibility

Status Completed
Enrollment 8
Est. completion date May 17, 2022
Est. primary completion date March 25, 2021
Accepts healthy volunteers No
Gender All
Age group 18 Years and older
Eligibility - INCLUSION CRITERIA: - Patients must have histologically or cytologically proven relapsed/refractory T-cell lymphoma other than adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATLL), angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma (AITL), peripheral T-cell lymphoma T follicular helper phenotype (PTCL-TFH), or enteropathy-associated T-cell lymphoma (EATL), confirmed by the Laboratory of Pathology, National Cancer Institute (NCI) - Patients with CD30 (also known as TNFRSF8) + mycosis fungoides/Sezary syndrome (MF/SS) or CD30+ anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL) must have relapsed after or become intolerant to treatment with brentuximab vedotin. - A formalin fixed tissue block or 15 slides of tumor sample (archival or fresh) must be available for performance of correlative studies. NOTE: Patients must be willing to have a tumor biopsy if prior tissue or adequate archival tissue is not available (i.e., post-enrollment and prior to treatment). - Disease must be measurable with at least one measurable lesion by response evaluation criteria in lymphoma (RECIL) 2017 or Modified Severity-Weighted Assessment Tool (mSWAT) criteria or have an abnormal clonal T-cell population detectable by peripheral blood flow cytometry - Age greater than or equal to 18 years NOTE: Because no dosing or adverse event data are currently available on the use of rhIL-15 in combination with avelumab in patients <18 years of age, children are excluded from this study, but will be eligible for future pediatric trials - Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status less than or equal to 1 - Adequate organ and marrow function as defined: - Absolute neutrophil count greater than 1,000/mcL - Absolute lymphocyte count greater than or equal to 500/mcL - Hemoglobin greater than or equal to 9 g/dL - Platelets greater than 100,000/mcL - Total bilirubin less than or equal to 1.5 X institutional upper limit of normal (ULN) - Aspartate aminotransferase (AST) Serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase (SGOT)/Alanine aminotransferase (ALT) Serum glutamic pyruvic transaminase (SGPT) less than or equal to 2.5 X institutional ULN - Serum creatinine less than or equal to 1.5 X institutional ULN OR - Creatinine clearance greater than or equal to 50 mL/min/1.73 m^2 for patients with creatinine levels greater than 1.5 institutional ULN - Negative serum or urine pregnancy test at screening for women of childbearing potential (WOCBP) NOTE: WOCBP is defined as any female who has experienced menarche and who has not undergone successful surgical sterilization or who is not postmenopausal. WOCBP must have a negative pregnancy test (human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) blood or urine) during screening. - Women of child-bearing potential and men must agree to use adequate contraception (hormonal or barrier method of birth control; abstinence) prior to study entry, for the duration of study participation, and 30 days after completion of rhIL-15 and avelumab administration. Should a woman become pregnant or suspect she is pregnant while she or her partner is participating in this study, she should inform her treating physician immediately. - Ability of subject to understand and the willingness to sign a written informed consent document EXCLUSION CRITERIA: - Patients with the following T-cell leukemias/lymphomas: adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATLL), angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma (AITL), peripheral T-cell lymphoma T follicular helper phenotype (PTCL-TFH), and enteropathy-associated T-cell lymphoma (EATL). - Chemotherapy and anti-tumor antibodies within 4 weeks (6 weeks for nitrosoureas or mitomycin C); other tumor-directed systemic therapy and radiation therapy within 2 weeks. - Persisting toxicity related to prior therapy of grade > 1, with the exception of the following: alopecia, sensory neuropathy grade less than or equal to 2, or other grade less than or equal to 2 not constituting a safety risk based on investigator's judgment - Patients who are receiving any other investigational agents - Patients who have had prior therapy with any antibody/drug targeting programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1)/programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) Tcell coregulatory proteins (immune checkpoints) - Current use of immunosuppressive medication, EXCEPT for the following: - Intranasal, inhaled, topical steroids, or local steroid injection (e.g., intra-articular injection) - Systemic corticosteroids at physiologic doses less than or equal to 10 mg/day of prednisone or equivalent; or, - Steroids as premedication for hypersensitivity reactions (e.g., computed tomography (CT) scan premedication) - Patients with known central nervous system (CNS) involvement should be excluded from this clinical trial because of their poor prognosis and because they often develop progressive neurologic dysfunction that would confound the evaluation of neurologic and other adverse events - Patients with previous malignant disease other than the target malignancy within the last 5 years with the exception of basal or squamous cell carcinoma of the skin or cervical carcinoma in situ - Patients with history of any organ transplantation, including allogenic stem cell transplantation - Received a live vaccine within 4 weeks of the first dose of avelumab. Vaccination with a live vaccine while on trial is prohibited. NOTE: Seasonal influenza vaccines for injection are generally inactivated flu vaccines and are allowed; however intranasal influenza vaccines (e.g., Flu-Mist) are live attenuated vaccines, and are not allowed - Patients with history of allergic reactions attributed to compounds of similar chemical or biologic composition to recombinant human Interleukin-15 (rhIL-15) or avelumab - Patients with uncontrolled intercurrent illness including, but not limited to, ongoing or active infection requiring systemic therapy, or psychiatric illness/social situations that would limit compliance with study requirements - Inability or refusal to practice effective contraception during therapy or the presence of pregnancy or active breastfeeding. Based on its mechanism of action, avelumab can cause fetal harm when administered to a pregnant woman. Animal studies have demonstrated that inhibition of the PD-1/PD-L1 pathway can lead to increased risk of immune-mediated rejection of the developing fetus resulting in fetal death. These potential risks may also apply to other agents used in this study - Patients with active bacterial infections, documented human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection or positive screening serology, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) evidence for active or chronic hepatitis B or hepatitis C, or positive screening hepatitis B virus (HBV)/hepatitis C virus (HCV) serology without documentation of successful curative treatment - Patients with active or history of any autoimmune disease, unrelated to their malignancy, including asthma requiring chronic inhaled or oral corticosteroids, or with history of asthma requiring mechanical ventilation; patients with a history of mild asthma that are on or can be switched to non-corticosteroid bronchodilator regimens are eligible - Cardiovascular disease: Clinically significant (i.e., active) cardiovascular disease: cerebral vascular accident/stroke (< 6 months prior to enrollment), myocardial infarction (< 6 months prior to enrollment), unstable angina, congestive heart failure (greater than or equal to New York Heart Association Classification Class II), or serious cardiac arrhythmia requiring medication - Other severe acute or chronic medical conditions including immune colitis, inflammatory bowel disease, immune pneumonitis, pulmonary fibrosis or psychiatric conditions including recent (within the past year) or active suicidal ideation or behavior; or laboratory abnormalities that may increase the risk associated with study participation or study treatment administration or may interfere with the interpretation of study results and, in the judgment of the investigator, would make the patient inappropriate for entry into this study

Study Design


Intervention

Drug:
rhIL-15
Interleukin-15 (IL-15) will be administered by continuous intravenous infusion in a dose-escalation fashion with a starting dose level of 1 mcg/kg/day, a second dose level of 2 mcg/kg/day, a third dose level at 3 mcg/kg/day, and a fourth dose level at 4 mcg/kg/day on days 1-5 of each of six cycles.
rhIL-15
Interleukin-15 (IL-15) will be administered by continuous intravenous infusion at the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) or maximum administered dose (MAD) on days 1-5 of each of six cycles
Biological:
Avelumab
Avelumab (intravenous (IV) over 1 hour) will be administered at a dose of 10 mg/kg on days 8 and 22 of each of six cycles.

Locations

Country Name City State
United States National Institutes of Health Clinical Center Bethesda Maryland

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor Collaborator
National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type Measure Description Time frame Safety issue
Other Number of Participants With a Dose-limiting Toxicity (DLT) A dose-limiting toxicity (DLT) is defined as: any grade 3, 4, or 5 toxicity if not incontrovertibly due to disease progression or an extraneous cause, and deemed possibly, probably or definitely related to interleukin-15 (IL-5) or avelumab by the principal investigator (PI) or designee during the first 28 days of treatment. Grade 3 is severe. Grade 4 is life threatening. Grade 5 is death related to adverse event. First 28 days of treatment
Other Number of Participants With Serious and/or Non-serious Adverse Events Assessed by the Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE v5.0) Here is the number of participants with serious and/or non-serious adverse events assessed by the Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE v5.0). A non-serious adverse event is any untoward medical occurrence. A serious adverse event is an adverse event or suspected adverse reaction that results in death, a life-threatening adverse drug experience, hospitalization, disruption of the ability to conduct normal life functions, congenital anomaly/birth defect or important medical events that jeopardize the patient or subject and may require medical or surgical intervention to prevent one of the previous outcomes mentioned. Date treatment consent signed to date off study, approximately 21 months and 18 days for the dose level 1 and 3 months and 19 days for the dose level 2.
Primary Maximum Tolerated Dose (MTD) of Interleukin 15 The MTD is the dose level at which no more than 1 of up to 6 participants experience a dose-limiting toxicity (DLT) during the DLT evaluation window(s), or the dose below that at which at least 2 (of =6) participants have DLT. A dose-limiting toxicity (DLT) is defined as: any grade 3, 4, or 5 toxicity, if not incontrovertibly due to disease progression or an extraneous cause, and deemed possibly, probably or definitely related to interleukin-15 (IL-5) by the principal investigator (PI) or designee during the first 28 days of treatment. Grade 3 is severe. Grade 4 is life threatening. Grade 5 is death related to adverse event. First 28 days of treatment
Secondary Mean Progression Free Survival (PFS) PFS is defined as the duration of time from the date of study enrollment until time of disease relapse, disease progression, or death, whichever occurs first. Disease relapse is Disease progression is >20% increase in the sum of longest diameters of target lesions or appearance of a new lesion assessed by the Response Evaluation Criteria in Lymphoma (RECIL) 2017 criteria. From study opening through May 2022 when the study was completed with a maximum follow up of approximately 2 years and 11 months for any participant.
Secondary Mean Event-free Survival (EFS) EFS is defined as the duration of time from the date of study enrollment until time of disease relapse, disease progression, alternative therapy for lymphoma given (such as radiation), or death, whichever occurs first, and was estimated using Kaplan-Meier curves along with a 95% confidence interval. Disease relapse is Disease progression is >20% increase in the sum of longest diameters of target lesions or appearance of a new lesion assessed by the Response Evaluation Criteria in Lymphoma (RECIL) 2017 criteria. From study opening through May 2022 when the study was completed with a maximum follow up of approximately 2 years and 11 months for any participant.
Secondary Mean Overall Survival (OS) OS is defined as the time from the date of study enrollment until time of death from any cause and was estimated using Kaplan-Meier curves along with a 95% confidence interval. From study opening through May 2022 when the study was completed with a maximum follow up of approximately 2 years and 11 months for any participant.
Secondary Overall Response in Participants With Greater Than or Equal to 50% Programmed Death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) Expressing Tumor Cells Response was assessed by the Response Evaluation Criteria in Lymphoma (RECIL) 2017 criteria and reported along with a 95% confidence interval. Complete response is complete disappearance of all target lesions. Partial response is =30% decrease in the sum of longest diameters of target lesions but not a complete response. Minor response is =10% decrease in the sum of longest diameters of target lesions but not a partial response. Stable disease is <10% decrease or =20% increase in the sum of longest diameters of target lesions. Disease progression is >20% increase in the sum of longest diameters of target lesions or appearance of a new lesion. From the time the subject began protocol treatment until end of treatment, progression or start of another therapy or approximately 2 years
Secondary Number of Participants With Overall Best Response OR is the best response recorded from the start of the treatment until disease progression/recurrence (taking as reference for progressive disease the smallest measurements recorded since the treatment started). Complete response is complete disappearance of all target lesions. Partial response is =30% decrease in the sum of longest diameters of target lesions but not a complete response. Minor response is =10% decrease in the sum of longest diameters of target lesions but not a partial response. Stable disease is <10% decrease or =20% increase in the sum of longest diameters of target lesions. Disease progression is >20% increase in the sum of longest diameters of target lesions or appearance of a new lesion assessed by the Response Evaluation Criteria in Lymphoma (RECIL) 2017 criteria. 6 cycles (each cycle is 28 days) - approximately 168 days
Secondary Mean Duration of Response (DOR) DOR is measured from the time measurement criteria are met for complete response (CR) or partial response (PR) (whichever is recorded first) until the first date that recurrent or progressive disease is objectively documented (taking as reference for progressive disease the smallest measurements recorded since the treatment started), death, or, in the absence of progressive disease (PD), date of last assessment. The response rate was assessed by the Response Evaluation Criteria in Lymphoma (RECIL) 2017 criteria and reported along with a 95% confidence interval. Complete response is complete disappearance of all target lesions. Partial response is =30% decrease in the sum of longest diameters of target lesions but not a complete response. Disease progression is >20% increase in the sum of longest diameters of target lesions or appearance of a new lesion. From the time that response to therapy is first documented until progressive disease is observed or the subject is lost to follow-up or approximately 2 years.
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