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Cancer Head NeckPhase 1NCT05408871

Non-invasive Measurement of PD-L1 Levels With Positron Emission Tomography (PET) in Head and Neck Malignancies and Intracranial Metastases

A Phase 1 study testing adnectin 18F-BMS-986192 Head and Neck Cancer and adnectin 18F-BMS-986192 Brain Metastases in people with Cancer Head Neck and Metastatic Cancer, run by Yale University 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

This study aims to determine the feasibility of non-invasive quantitative PD-L1 measurement using [a novel PD-L1 positron emission tomography (PET) tracer and perform immunohistochemistry based measurement of PD-L1 levels within resected lesions in head and neck cancer and brain metastases. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 years and older
What is being tested?
adnectin 18F-BMS-986192 Head and Neck Cancer and adnectin 18F-BMS-986192 Brain Metastases
Type of treatment
Injection or infusion
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
7 participants
Where
1 siteUnited States
Study dates
21 Feb 2023to 31 Jan 2024
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 years and older
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Adult, Older adult

Who may be able to join

  • Patients with resectable squamous cell carcinoma of the oropharynx (HPV positive and HPV negative).
  • Resectability will be confirmed by a surgical co-investigator.
  • If available, HPV-association determined by institutional p16 testing (CINtec antibody demonstrating strong and diffuse nuclear and cytoplasmic staining is at least 70% of cells).
  • Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) > 1500/microliter, absolute lymphocyte count (ALC) >1000/microliter, hemoglobin > 9 g/dl, platelets > 100,000/microliter.
  • aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and alanine transaminase (ALT) < 5 x upper limit of normal. Bilirubin < 1.5 x upper limit of normal.
  • Albumin > 0 g/dl.
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  • Creatinine < 5 x upper limit of normal.
  • Women of child-bearing potential must have a negative serum pregnancy test within 7 days prior to treatment
  • Patients with brain metastases
  • Tumor size equal or greater than 1 cm
  • Resectability or need for laser interstitial thermal therapy (LITT) will be confirmed by a surgical co-investigator.
  • Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) > 1500/microliter, absolute lymphocyte count (ALC) >1000/microliter, hemoglobin > 9 g/dl, platelets > 100,000/microliter
  • AST and ALT < 5 x upper limit of normal. Bilirubin < 1.5 x upper limit of normal.
  • Albumin > 0 g/dl.
  • Creatinine < 5 x upper limit of normal.
  • Women of child-bearing potential must have a negative serum pregnancy test within 7 days prior to treatment

Who cannot join

  • Medical contraindication to surgery.
  • Full dose anticoagulation.
  • Concomitant invasive malignancy, or malignancy within 2 years except for hormonally responsive breast or prostate cancer, resected non-melanoma skin cancer, resected uterine cervical carcinoma.
  • Inability to give informed consent.
  • Prior systemic therapy, radiation or gross resection for the tumor under study.
  • Women may not be pregnant or breast-feeding.
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  • Receipt of other systemic therapy including investigational agents, radiation or gross resection for treatment of the tumor under study.
  • Medical contraindication to brain surgery.
  • Full dose anticoagulation.
  • Inability to give informed consent.
  • Women may not be pregnant or breast-feeding.

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country.

United States1 site
  • Yale University PET Center

    New Haven, Connecticut, 06519

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About this study

Official title: Pilot Study of Non-invasive Measurement of PD-L1 Levels With Positron Emission Tomography (PET) in Head and Neck Malignancies and Intracranial Metastases

This study aims to determine the feasibility of non-invasive quantitative PD-L1 measurement using [a novel PD-L1 positron emission tomography (PET) tracer and perform immunohistochemistry based measurement of PD-L1 levels within resected lesions in head and neck cancer and brain metastases.

Read the detailed description

This study aims to validate a non-invasive quantitative imaging method of whole tumors using a novel PD-L1 positron emission tomography (PET) tracer in patients with head and neck cancer who undergo resection of primary tumor and locoregional lymph node metastases thus providing an excellent model to perform correlative studies with immunohistochemistry (IHC).

The investigators will extend the study to patients with brain metastases because there is a critical need for a non-invasive test for PD-L1 in this population, as biopsy of these lesions is rare.

In this study, the investigators will image patients with brain metastases, which are predominantly from lung cancer and melanoma, that are planned to undergo biopsy. The ultimate goal of this research is to validate quantitative PD-L1 PET imaging in determining PD-L1 expression within primary and metastatic cancer without the need for biopsy and identify parameters of PD-L1 quantitative PET that will allow its translation into clinical practice. This method can then be used to determine which patients may benefit from immunotherapy.

The primary objective of this study aims to test the difference in non-invasive quantitative PD-L1 PET measures (VT) of lesions between different groups of PD-L1 levels (PD-L1 ≥90% vs <1%) in head and neck cancer primary lesions.

Secondary objectives:

  1. To establish lesion level association between immunohistochemistry measures of PD-L1 levels within primary head and neck cancer lesions (as the outcome) and PD-L1 PET measures (VT);
  2. To establish lesion level association between immunohistochemistry measures of PD-L1 levels within locoregional metastases within the neck and resected normal lymph nodes (as the outcome) and PD-L1 PET measures (VT).
  3. To establish lesion level association between the degree of tumor inflammatory cell infiltration on IHC in primary head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) lesions (as the outcome) and PD-L1 PET measures (VT);
  4. To establish lesion level association between the degree of tumor inflammatory cell infiltration on IHC in metastatic head and neck SCC lesion (as the outcomes) and PD-L1 PET measures (VT).

Tertiary objective:

To establish lesion level correlation of IHC measures of total/tumor/inflammatory cell PD-L1 levels to PD-L1 (VT) on PET in brain metastases

Being tested
adnectin 18F-BMS-986192 Head and Neck Cancer, adnectin 18F-BMS-986192 Brain Metastases
Medical subject headings
Head and Neck Neoplasms, Neoplasm Metastasis, Lung Neoplasms

What participants receive

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

  • adnectin 18F-BMS-986192 Head and Neck CancerDrug

    Also called [18F]PDL192

    Head and Neck Cancer: PET imaging will be performed after initial diagnosis and within 2 weeks of MRI or CT of the neck done as standard of care. MRI will include T1 weighted pre and post gadolinium spin echo, diffusion weighted imaging, and T2 weighted imaging. CT of the head and neck with contrast will be performed per standard clinical protocol. Patients will get one intravenous line and one radial artery line placed prior to imaging and up to 5.5mCi (204MBq) of [18F] PDL192 tracer will be administered intravenously, as a bolus, once the patient is positioned on the scanner. 42 PET data will be acquired at single bed position and in list mode for 120 min after the start of tracer administration. Samples will be drawn from radial artery line.

  • adnectin 18F-BMS-986192 Brain MetastasesDrug

    Also called [18F]PDL192

    Brain Metastases: Recruited patients will undergo standard clinical MRI within 2 weeks prior to PET, including T1 weighted pre- and post-gadolinium spin-echo and gradient-echo imaging, diffusion weighted imaging, susceptibility weighted imaging (2D SWI), T2 weighted imaging, 3D FLAIR, and combined DCE and dynamic susceptibility contrast (DSC) perfusion (DCE perfusion will be performed first, DSC perfusion will utilize T2 spin echo images). DCE perfusion will be processed on syngo Tissue 4D software (Siemens). DSC perfusion will be processed with syngo MR Perfusion Engine (Siemens). Patients will get one intravenous line and one radial artery line placed prior to imaging and up to 5.5mCi (204MBq) of [18F] PDL192 tracer will be administered intravenously, as a bolus, once the patient is positioned on the scanner. 42 PET data will be acquired at single bed position and in list mode for 120 min after the start of tracer administration. Samples will be drawn from radial artery line.

Study groups in NCT05408871
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
Head and neck cancerExperimentalParticipants with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma who plan to undergo tumor resection and lymph node resection.
Receives: Drug: adnectin 18F-BMS-986192 Head and Neck Cancer
Brain MetastasesExperimentalParticipants with metastases to the brain from melanoma, lung cancer, breast cancer.
Receives: Drug: adnectin 18F-BMS-986192 Brain Metastases

What is being measured

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

  1. Non-invasive quantitative PD-L1 levels will be measured using PET measures (VT) of lesions for the groups of PD-L1 levels (PD-L1 ≥90% vs <1%, PD-L1 ≥50% vs <1%) in head and neck cancer primary lesions

    To test the difference in non-invasive quantitative PD-L1 PET measures (VT) of lesions between different groups of PD-L1 levels (PD-L1 ≥90% vs <1%) in head and neck cancer primary lesions

    Measured: from with in 2 weeks perioperative up to postoperative

Secondary outcomes (4)
  1. Immunohistochemistry vs PET measure of PD-L1 levels in head and neck cancer primary lesion

    To establish lesion level association comparing immunohistochemistry measures of PD-L1 levels within primary head and neck cancer lesions and PD-L1 PET measures (VT) using Pearson correlation between pathology based measure and imaging based measure.

    Measured: from with in 2 weeks perioperative up to postoperative

  2. Immunohistochemistry vs PET measure of PD-L1 levels in head and neck cancer locoregional neck metastatic lesions and resected normal lymph nodes

    To establish lesion level association comparing immunohistochemistry measures of PD-L1 levels within locoregional metastases within the neck and resected normal lymph nodes (as the outcome) and PD-L1 PET measures (VT) using Pearson correlation between pathology based measure and imaging based measure.

    Measured: from with in 2 weeks perioperative up to postoperative

  3. Immunohistochemistry vs PET measure of infiltrating inflammatory cells in head and neck cancer primary lesion

    To establish lesion level association comparing the degree of tumor inflammatory cell infiltration seen on IHC in primary head and neck SCC lesions (as the outcome) and PD-L1 PET measures (VT) using Pearson correlation between pathology based measure and imaging based measure.

    Measured: from with in 2 weeks perioperative up to postoperative

  4. Immunohistochemistry vs PET measure of infiltrating inflammatory cells in head and neck cancer locoregional neck metastatic lesions and resected normal lymph nodes

    To establish lesion level association comparing the degree of tumor inflammatory cell infiltration on IHC in metastatic head and neck SCC lesion (as the outcomes) and PD-L1 PET measures (VT) using Pearson correlation between pathology based measure and imaging based measure.

    Measured: from with in 2 weeks perioperative up to postoperative

Timeline

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

  1. First posted7 Jun 2022
  2. Study start21 Feb 2023
  3. Primary completion31 Jan 2024
  4. Study completion31 Jan 2024

Why it stopped: PI changed institutions

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
Diagnosis
Allocation
Non-randomised
Intervention model
Parallel groups
Model description
Patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma who plan to undergo tumor resection and lymph node resection (Aim1). Patients with metastases to the brain from melanoma, lung cancer, breast cancer (Aim 2).12 patients with head and neck cancer will be recruited for Aim 1. 12 patients with brain metastases will be recruited for Aim 2.
Masking
None (open label)
Enrolment
7 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT05408871
Sponsor's protocol ID
2000031462
Other IDs
1R21CA259964-01A1
Status last verified
Feb 2024
First submitted
1 Jun 2022
Last updated
15 Feb 2024
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
Yes
FDA-regulated drug
Yes
FDA-regulated device
No
Individual data sharing
No

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A Phase 1 study testing adnectin 18F-BMS-986192 Head and Neck Cancer and adnectin 18F-BMS-986192 Brain Metastases in people with Cancer Head Neck and Metastatic Cancer, run by Yale University 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 16 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 15 Feb 2024. 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 (reason given: PI changed institutions). 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?

Non-invasive quantitative PD-L1 levels will be measured using PET measures (VT) of lesions for the groups of PD-L1 levels (PD-L1 ≥90% vs <1%, PD-L1 ≥50% vs <1%) in head and neck cancer primary lesions (time frame: from with in 2 weeks perioperative up to postoperative). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?
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 15 Feb 2024.

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