T Cell Receptor Immunotherapy for Patients With Metastatic Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

Squamous Cell Carcinoma Clinical Trial

Official title:

A Phase II Study Using Autologous Young Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes Derived From Patients With Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Following Non-Myeloablative Lymphocyte Depleting Preparative Regimen

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02133196
• Other study ID #: 140104
• Secondary ID: 14-C-0104
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: Phase 2
• Start date: October 23, 2014
• Est. completion date: October 23, 2025

Study information

• Verified date: June 3, 2024
• Source: National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC)
• Contact: NCI SB Immunotherapy Recruitment Center
• Phone: (866) 820-4505
• Email: irc[@]nih.gov
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Background:

The NCI Surgery Branch has developed an experimental therapy that involves taking white blood cells from patients' tumors, growing them in the laboratory in large numbers, and then giving the cells back to the patient. These cells are called Tumor Infiltrating Lymphocytes, or TIL and we have given this type of treatment to over 100 patients. In this study, we are selecting a specific subset of white blood cells from the tumor that we think are the most effective in fighting tumors and will use only these cells in making the tumor fighting cells.

Objective:

The purpose of this study is to see if these specifically selected tumor fighting cells can cause non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) tumors to shrink and to see if this treatment is safe.

Eligibility:

• Adults age 18-72 with NSCLC who have a tumor that can be safely removed.

Design:

• Work up stage: Patients will be seen as an outpatient at the NIH clinical Center and undergo a history and physical examination, scans, x-rays, lab tests, and other tests as needed

• Surgery: If the patients meet all of the requirements for the study they will undergo surgery to remove a tumor that can be used to grow the TIL product.

• Leukapheresis: Patients may undergo leukapheresis to obtain additional white blood cells. {Leukapheresis is a common procedure, which removes only the white blood cells from the patient.}

• Treatment: Once their cells have grown, the patients will be admitted to the hospital for the conditioning chemotherapy, the TIL cells and aldesleukin. They will stay in the hospital for about 4 weeks for the treatment.

Follow up: Patients will return to the clinic for a physical exam, review of side effects, lab tests, and scans about every 1-3 months for the first year, and then every 6 months to 1 year as long as their tumors are shrinking. Follow up visits take up to 2 days.

Description:

Background:

• Patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) have few approved therapeutic options and those that exist are of transient benefit.

• Recent clinical experiences with experimental agents that release checkpoints on the host immune response (such as anti-PD-1 and anti-PDL1 antibody) have induced tumor regressions in patients with NSCLC.

• Data from sequencing the genomes of human cancers have shown that, like malignant melanoma, NSCLC has a very high rate of tumor-specific genomic mutation.

• In metastatic melanoma, a tumor infiltrating lymphocyte cell therapy product (TIL) can mediate the regression of bulky disease at any site when administered to an autologous patient with high dose aldesleukin following a non-myeloablative but lymphodepleting chemotherapy preparative regimen.

• Recent studies on tumor infiltrating lymphocytes from melanoma have demonstrated that they can frequently recognize tumor-specific mutated proteins as foreign antigens and that is one hypothesis as to why melanoma is such an immunogenic tumor.

• We propose to investigate the feasibility, safety, and efficacy of growing and administering an autologous tumor infiltrating lymphocyte product (TIL) to patients with metastatic NSCLC.

Objectives:

Primary objective:

-To determine the rate of tumor regression in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who receive an autologous tumor infiltrating lymphocyte product (TIL) plus aldesleukin following a lymphodepleting preparative regimen.

Eligibility:

• Patients who are 18 years of age or older and less than or equal to 72 must have:

• Advanced NSCLC refractory to standard therapy

• A site of tumor that can be excised with minimal morbidity and mortality or that requires excision for clinical indications

• At least one remaining site of measurable disease

• Normal basic laboratory values.

• Patients may not have:

• Concurrent major medical illnesses that preclude aldesleukin administration or immunosuppression;

• Severe hepatic function impairment due to liver metastatic burden;

• Any form of immunodeficiency;

• Severe hypersensitivity to any of the agents used in this study;

• Symptomatic brain metastases or more than 3 CNS metastases

Design:

• Patients will undergo biopsy or resection to obtain tumor for generation of autologous tumor infiltrating lymphocyte cultures and autologous cancer cell lines.

• The TIL product will be generated according to current TIL-lab standard operating procedures, using interleukin-2 and OKT3 antibody.

• All patients will receive a non-myeloablative lymphocyte depleting preparative regimen of cyclophosphamide and fludarabine

• Cohort 1 will receive TIL on day 0 and then begin high-dose aldesleukin (720,000 IU/kg IV); cohort 2 will receive TIL on day 0 and then begin low-dose aldesleukin (72,000 IU/kg IV). Assignment to this cohort will be made if there are concomitant medical conditions that would preclude the use of high-dose aldesleukin

• Clinical and immunologic response will be evaluated about 4-6 weeks after TIL infusion.

• For both cohorts 1 and 2, using a Phase II design, 21 patients will be initially enrolled in each group to assess toxicity and tumor responses. If two or more of the first 21 patients per group show a clinical response (PR or CR), accrual will continue to 41 patients, targeting a 20% goal for objective response. In order to allow for a small number of non evaluable patients, a total of 85 patients may be enrolled over 5 years.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 85
• Est. completion date: October 23, 2025
• Est. primary completion date: October 23, 2024
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 72 Years

Eligibility

• INCLUSION CRITERIA:

1. Measurable metastatic (stage IV) or unresectable non-small cell lung cancer (including but not limited to squamous cell carcinoma, adenosquamous carcinoma, or adenocarcinomas) with at least one lesion that is resectable for TIL generation. (Note: neuroendocrine tumors are not eligible.)

2. Patients with 3 or fewer brain metastases that are less than 1 cm in diameter and asymptomatic are eligible. Lesions that have been treated with stereotactic radiosurgery must be clinically stable for 1 month after treatment for the patient to be eligible. Patients with surgically resected brain metastases are eligible.

3. All patients must have had at least one appropriate first line systemic therapy and progressed.

4. Clinical performance status of ECOG 0 or 1.

5. Age Greater than or equal to 18 years of age and less than or equal to 72 years of age.

6. Patients of both genders must be willing to practice birth control from the time of enrollment on this study and for four months after treatment.

7. Willing to sign a durable power of attorney

8. Able to understand and sign the Informed Consent Document

I. Hematology:

• Absolute neutrophil count greater than 1000/mm3 without support of filgrastim

• Normal WBC (> 2500/mm3).

• Hemoglobin greater than 8.0 g/dl. Subjects may be transfused to reach this cut-off.

• Platelet count greater than 80,000/mm3

j. Serology:

• Seronegative for HIV antibody. (The experimental treatment being evaluated in this protocol depends on an intact immune system. Patients who are HIV seropositive can have decreased immune competence and thus may be less responsive to the experimental treatment and more susceptible to its toxicities.)

• Seronegative for active hepatitis B, and seronegative for hepatitis C antibody. If hepatitis C antibody test is positive, then patient must be tested for the presence of antigen by RTPCR and be HCV RNA negative.

k. Chemistry:

• Serum ALT/AST less than or equal to2.5 times the upper limit of normal.

• Serum creatinine less than or equal to 1.6 mg/dl.

• Total bilirubin less than or equal to 2 mg/dl, except in patients with Gilbert s Syndrome, who must have a total bilirubin less than or equal to 3 mg/dl.

l.Women of child-bearing potential must have a negative pregnancy test or evidence that they are not pregnant (e.g., ultrasound or serial HCG measurements) prior to the start of treatment because of the potentially dangerous effects of the treatment on the fetus.

m. Patients must have completed any prior systemic therapy at the time of enrollment.

Note: Patients may have undergone minor surgical procedures or local radiotherapy within the past 4 weeks, as long as related major organ toxicities have recovered to grade 1 or less.

n. More than two weeks must have elapsed since any prior palliation for major bronchial occlusion or bleeding at the time the patient receives the preparative regimen, and patient s toxicities must have recovered to a grade 1 or less.

o. Subjects must be co-enrolled in protocol 03-C-0277

EXCLUSION CRITERIA:

1. Women who are breastfeeding because of the potentially dangerous effects of the treatment on the infant.

2. Ongoing need for pharmacological immunosuppression, including steroids

3. Active systemic infections (e.g.: requiring anti-infective treatment), coagulation disorders or any other active or uncompensated major medical illnesses.

4. Major bronchial occlusion or bleeding not amenable to palliation.

5. Any form of primary immunodeficiency (such as Severe Combined Immunodeficiency

Disease and AIDS).

6. Concurrent opportunistic infections (The experimental treatment being evaluated in this protocol depends on an intact immune system. Patients who have decreased immune competence may be less responsive to the experimental treatment and more susceptible to its toxicities.)

7. History of severe immediate hypersensitivity reaction to any of the agents used in this study.

8. For select patients with a clinical history prompting cardiac evaluation: last known LVEF less than or equal to 45%.

9. For select patients with a clinical history prompting pulmonary evaluation: known FEV1 less than or equal to 50%

10. Any of the following will exclude patients from the high-dose aldesleukin arm, but may be eligible for the low-dose aldesleukin arm:

• Greater than 2 invasive thoracic procedures

• Poor exercise tolerance

• Greater than 66 years of age

• Clinically significant patient history which in the judgment of the Principal Investigator would compromise the patient s ability to tolerate high-dose.

11. Patients who are receiving any other investigational agents.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Adenocarcinoma
• Adenosquamous Carcinoma
• Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
• Advanced NSCLC
• Carcinoma
• Carcinoma, Adenosquamous
• Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung
• Lung Neoplasms
• Squamous Cell Carcinoma

Intervention

Drug:
• Aldesleukin
Aldesleukin 720,000 (Arm 1) or 72,000 (Arm 2) IU/kg IV (based on total body weight) over 15 minutes every 8 hours (+/- 1 hour) beginning within 24 hours of cell infusion and continuing for up to a maximum of 9 doses in Arm 1 and 12 doses in Arm 2.
• Fludarabine
Days -7 to -3: Fludarabine 25 mg/m2/day IVPB daily over 30 minutes for 5 days.
• Cyclophosphamide
Days -7 and -6: Cyclophosphamide 60 mg/kg/day X 2 days IV in 250 ml D5W with Mesna 15 mg/kg/day X 2 days over 1 hour.

Biological:
• Young TIL
Day 0: Cells will be infused intravenously (IV) on the Patient Care Unit over 20-30 minutes.

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, 

References & Publications (2)

Boni C, Tiseo M, Boni L, Baldini E, Recchia F, Barone C, Grossi F, Germano D, Matano E, Marini G, Labianca R, Di Costanzo F, Bagnulo A, Pennucci C, Caroti C, Mencoboni M, Zanelli F, Prochilo T, Cafferata MA, Ardizzoni A; Gruppo Oncologico Italiano di Ricerca Clinica (GOIRC). Triplets versus doublets, with or without cisplatin, in the first-line treatment of stage IIIB-IV non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients: a multicenter randomised factorial trial (FAST). Br J Cancer. 2012 Feb 14;106(4):658-65. doi: 10.1038/bjc.2011.606. Epub 2012 Jan 12. — View Citation

Delbaldo C, Michiels S, Rolland E, Syz N, Soria JC, Le Chevalier T, Pignon JP. Second or third additional chemotherapy drug for non-small cell lung cancer in patients with advanced disease. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2007 Oct 17;(4):CD004569. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD004569.pub2. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Response rate	Percentage of patients who have a clinical response to treatment (objective tumor regression)	6 and 12 weeks after cell infusion, then every 3 months x3, then every 6 months x 2 years, then per PI discretion
Secondary	Phenotypic and functional characteristics of TIL	Find in vitro characteristics of the infused cells which correlate with in vivo antitumor activity. Evaluation of the activity, specificity, and telomere length of infused TIL.	2-4 years post cell infusion
Secondary	Frequency and severity of treatment-related adverse events	Aggregate of all adverse events, as well as their frequency and severity	30 days after end of treatment
Secondary	Feasibility of generating TIL from patients with NSCLC		3-6 months post cell harvest

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