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Metastatic CancerPhase 1NCT01585415

Vemurafenib and White Blood Cell Therapy for Advanced Melanoma

A Phase 1 study testing Vemurafenib, Young TIL and Cyclophosphamide in people with Metastatic Cancer and Melanoma, run by National Cancer Institute (NCI) at 1 site in United States.

Terminated

Stopped early. The study ended before it was planned to and will not resume.

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Trial summary

Background: One possible treatment for advanced melanoma involves collecting white blood cells from the person with cancer and growing them in a laboratory. The cells can then be given back to the donor. This study will use this white blood cell treatment with the cancer treatment drug vemurafenib. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 to 66 years
Conditions the study is for
Metastatic Cancer, Melanoma
What is being tested?
Vemurafenib, Young TIL and Cyclophosphamide
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
12 participants
Where
1 siteUnited States
Study dates
9 Apr 2012to 21 Jul 2016
Phase
Phase 1
Are there results?
None posted in the registry

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 18 to 66 years
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Adult, Older adult

Who may be able to join

None listed.

Who cannot join

  • Prior cell transfer therapy which included a myeloablative chemotherapy regimen (i.e. 1200 TBI or 200 TBI plus chemotherapy).
  • Previous treatment with Vemurafenib.
  • Women of child-bearing potential who are pregnant or breastfeeding because of the potentially dangerous effects of the treatment on the fetus or infant.
  • Systemic steroid therapy requirement.
  • Active systemic infections, coagulation disorders or other active major medical illnesses of the cardiovascular, respiratory or immune system, as evidenced by a positive stress thallium or comparable test, myocardial infarction, cardiac arrhythmias, obstructive or restrictive pulmonary disease.
  • Any form of primary immunodeficiency (such as Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Disease and AIDS).
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  • 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.)
  • History of severe immediate hypersensitivity reaction to any of the agents used in this study.
  • History of coronary revascularization or ischemic symptoms.
  • Any patient known to have an LVEF less than or equal to 45 percent.
  • In patients > 60 years old, documented LVEF of less than or equal to 45 percent.

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country.

United States1 site
  • National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, 9000 Rockville Pike

    Bethesda, Maryland, 20892

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About this study

Official title: A Pilot Trial of the Combination of Vemurafenib With Adoptive Cell Therapy in Patients With Metastatic Melanoma

Background:

  • One possible treatment for advanced melanoma involves collecting white blood cells from the person with cancer and growing them in a laboratory. The cells can then be given back to the donor. This study will use this white blood cell treatment with the cancer treatment drug vemurafenib. Vemurafenib targets melanoma cells that have a mutation in the B-raf gene, and may be able to make them shrink.
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Objectives:

  • To see if vemurafenib and white blood cell therapy is a safe and effective treatment for advanced melanoma.

Eligibility:

  • Individuals at least 18 years and less than or equal to 66 years of age who have advanced melanoma that contains the B-raf genetic mutation.

Design:

  • Participants will be screened with a physical exam and medical history. Blood and urine samples will be collected.
  • White blood cells will be collected from tumor cells. These cells will be collected during surgery or a tumor biopsy.
  • Participants will have leukapheresis to collect additional white blood cells for the procedure.
  • Participants will take vemurafenib twice a day, starting 3 weeks before receiving the white blood cells.
  • Participants will have 1 week of chemotherapy to prepare their immune system to accept the white blood cells.
  • Participants will receive an infusion of their collected white blood cells. They will also receive aldesleukin for up to 5 days to boost the immune system s response to the white blood cells. They will remain in the hospital until they have recovered from the treatment.
  • Participants will have frequent follow-up visits to monitor the outcome of the treatment.
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Background:

Adoptive cell therapy (ACT) with tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL) can mediate the regression of bulky metastatic melanoma when administered to the autologous patient along with high-dose aldesleukin (IL-2) following a non-myeloablative lymphodepleting chemotherapy preparative regimen.

Vemurafenib (VEM) administration has been shown to mediate objective responses in 50-60 percent of patients with metastatic melanoma bearing a BRAF mutation though many of these responses are transient.

There are several reasons to suggest that the combination of ACT with VEM will synergize in the destruction of melanoma including 1) rapid tumor destruction by VEM may provide a vaccine-like stimulus to the transferred TIL; 2) VEM has been shown to upregulate the expression of melanoma antigens; 3)VEM may make residual melanoma cells more sensitive to immune damage.

Objectives:

The primary objective is to determine the safety of the administration of vemurafenib in conjunction with ACT consisting of autologous TIL infused along with high dose aldesleukin following a non-myeloablative lymphodepleting preparative regimen.

The secondary objectives are:

  • To gain preliminary information concerning the ability of the combination therapy to mediate clinical tumor regression in patients with metastatic melanoma.
  • To study the immunologic impact of VEM administration on the lymphoid infiltrate in melanoma deposits.

Eligibility:

Patients greater than or equal to 18 years old with pathologically confirmed diagnosis of

metastatic melanoma that expresses the VtoE BRAF mutation and VtoK BRAF mutation.

Patients with measurable disease, absolute neutrophil count greater than 1000/mm(3) and platelet count greater than 100,000/mm(3).

No serious comorbid conditions such as active systemic infections, coagulation disorders, or other active major medical illnesses of the cardiovascular, respiratory or immune systems.

Design:

Patients will undergo biopsy or resection to obtain tumor for generation of autologous TIL cultures.

When cryopreserved TIL are available patients will begin the administration of VEM 960 mg (day 1) twice daily until disease progression or patients are taken off protocol.

On day -7, patients will begin a non-myeloablative lymphocyte depleting preparative regimen of cyclophosphamide (60 mg/kg/day IV) on days -7 and -6 and fludarabine (25 mg/m2/day IV) on days -5 through -1.

On day 0, patients will receive between 1x109 to 2x1011 young TIL and then begin high dose aldesleukin (720,000 IU/kg IV every 8 hours for up to 15 doses).

Clinical and immunologic responses will be evaluated about 4-6 weeks after the last dose of aldesleukin.

This pilot trial will accrue 25 patients.

Being tested
Vemurafenib, Young TIL, Cyclophosphamide, Fludarabine, Aldesleukin
Keywords
Tumor Infiltrating Lymphocytes, Immunotherapy, Adoptive Cell Therapy, B Raf Inhibitor
Medical subject headings
Neoplasm Metastasis, Melanoma

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • VemurafenibDrug

    Vemurafenib will administered orally twice a day at a dose of 960 mg from day -21 (+/- 7 days)until disease progression or patients are taken off protocol.

  • Young TILBiological

    Young TIL will be administered intravenously on day 0(1x10e9 to 2x10e11) in the Patient Care Unit over 20-30 minutes via non-filtered tubing, gently agitating the bag during infusion to prevent cell clumping.

  • CyclophosphamideDrug

    Cyclophosphamide 60 mg/kg/day X 2 days IV in 250 ml D5W with Mesna 15 mg/kg/day X 2 days over 1 hr.

  • FludarabineDrug

    Fludarabine 25 mg/m2/day IVPB daily over 30 minutes for 5 days.

  • AldesleukinDrug

    Aldeskeukin 720,000 IU/kg IV (based on total body weight)over 15 minutes every eight hours (+/- 1 hour) beginning within 24 hours of cell infusion and continuing for up to 5 days (maximum of 15 doses)

Study groups in NCT01585415
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
Single ArmExperimentalTwo weeks prior to the start of the preparative regimen, patients will begin taking vemurafenib. Patients will then receive lymphocyte depleting preparative regimen of cyclophosphamide and fludarabine, followed by young TIL and high dose aldesleukin
Receives: Drug: Vemurafenib; Biological: Young TIL; Drug: Cyclophosphamide; Drug: Fludarabine; Drug: Aldesleukin

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Determine the safety of the administration of vemurafenib in conjunction with ACT consisting of autologous TIL infused along with high dose aldesleukin following a non-myeloablative lymphodepleting preparative regimen.

    Measured: approximately 1 year

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted25 Apr 2012 (estimated)
  2. Study start9 Apr 2012
  3. Primary completion21 Jul 2016
  4. Study completion21 Jul 2016

Resources

More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase 1
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Non-randomised
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrolment
12 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT01585415
Sponsor's protocol ID
120114
Other IDs
12-C-0114
Status last verified
21 Jul 2016
First submitted
24 Apr 2012
Last updated
21 Nov 2019
Results posted
No

Publications

  • Boni A, Cogdill AP, Dang P, Udayakumar D, Njauw CN, Sloss CM, Ferrone CR, Flaherty KT, Lawrence DP, Fisher DE, Tsao H, Wargo JA. Selective BRAFV600E inhibition enhances T-cell recognition of melanoma without affecting lymphocyte function. Cancer Res. 2010 Jul 1;70(13):5213-9. doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-10-0118. Epub 2010 Jun 15.

    PubMed 20551059
  • Dudley ME, Yang JC, Sherry R, Hughes MS, Royal R, Kammula U, Robbins PF, Huang J, Citrin DE, Leitman SF, Wunderlich J, Restifo NP, Thomasian A, Downey SG, Smith FO, Klapper J, Morton K, Laurencot C, White DE, Rosenberg SA. Adoptive cell therapy for patients with metastatic melanoma: evaluation of intensive myeloablative chemoradiation preparative regimens. J Clin Oncol. 2008 Nov 10;26(32):5233-9. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2008.16.5449. Epub 2008 Sep 22.

    PubMed 18809613
  • Chapman PB, Hauschild A, Robert C, Haanen JB, Ascierto P, Larkin J, Dummer R, Garbe C, Testori A, Maio M, Hogg D, Lorigan P, Lebbe C, Jouary T, Schadendorf D, Ribas A, O'Day SJ, Sosman JA, Kirkwood JM, Eggermont AM, Dreno B, Nolop K, Li J, Nelson B, Hou J, Lee RJ, Flaherty KT, McArthur GA; BRIM-3 Study Group. Improved survival with vemurafenib in melanoma with BRAF V600E mutation. N Engl J Med. 2011 Jun 30;364(26):2507-16. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1103782. Epub 2011 Jun 5.

    PubMed 21639808

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A Phase 1 study testing Vemurafenib, Young TIL and Cyclophosphamide in people with Metastatic Cancer and Melanoma, run by National Cancer Institute (NCI) at 1 site in United States.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 0 inclusion and 11 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: stopped early, as of the sponsor's last update on 21 Nov 2019. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 1 site in United States. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

What does this phase mean?

Phase 1 studies test a treatment in a small group of people for the first time or in a new way, mainly to check safety and find the right dose.

Not every study follows the same path, and some studies (observational studies, device studies) have no phase.

Are results available for this study?

The study was stopped early. Results are not available in the source record.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Determine the safety of the administration of vemurafenib in conjunction with ACT consisting of autologous TIL infused along with high dose aldesleukin following a non-myeloablative lymphodepleting preparative regimen. (time frame: approximately 1 year). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?

On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT01585415, which also lists 3 linked publications.

Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 21 Nov 2019.

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