Clinical trial • Phase II • Oncology

durvalumab for Non-small cell lung cancer (Stage III)

Phase II trial of durvalumab for Non-small cell lung cancer (Stage III).

Overview

Trial Therapeutic Area
Oncology
Trial Disease
Non-small cell lung cancer (Stage III)
Trial Stage
Phase II
Drug Modality
Monoclonal antibody

Key dates

Initial CTIS Submission Date
03-07-2024
First CTIS Authorization Date
30-07-2024

Trial design

Randomised, open-label, conventional arm: combined standard radiotherapy (60-66 gy in 2 gy fractions) with concurrent standard of care (soc) platinum-based chemotherapy. (experimental arm: fdg-pet-based small volume accelerated radiotherapy [60.5-66 gy in 2.75 gy fractions for larger tumor nodules / 53.9-58.8 gy in 2.45 gy fractions for residual target volume] with concurrent soc platinum-based chemotherapy.)-controlled Phase II trial in Germany.

Randomised
Yes
Open Label
Yes
Comparator
Conventional Arm: combined standard radiotherapy (60-66 Gy in 2 Gy fractions) with concurrent standard of care (SoC) platinum-based chemotherapy. (Experimental Arm: FDG-PET-based small volume accelerated radiotherapy [60.5-66 Gy in 2.75 Gy fractions for larger tumor nodules / 53.9-58.8 Gy in 2.45 Gy fractions for residual target volume] with concurrent SoC platinum-based chemotherapy.)
Target Sample Size
100

Eligibility

Recruits 100 No vulnerable population selected; study enrolment restricted to adults (Patients aged 18 years or older). Written informed consent is required from each participant ("Written informed consent"); separate subject information and informed consent documents are provided, including pregnancy-specific and child/parent-facing documents in the document list. No assent process for minors is applicable because minors are excluded by age criteria..

Pregnancy Exclusion
Pregnancy or breast-feeding
Vulnerable Population
No vulnerable population selected; study enrolment restricted to adults (Patients aged 18 years or older). Written informed consent is required from each participant ("Written informed consent"); separate subject information and informed consent documents are provided, including pregnancy-specific and child/parent-facing documents in the document list. No assent process for minors is applicable because minors are excluded by age criteria.

Inclusion criteria

  • {"criterion_text":"- Written informed consent\n- Adequate bone marrow and organ function at enrolment a) Hemoglobin ≥9.0 g/dL b) Absolute neutrophil count >1.5 × 109/L c) Platelet count >100 × 109/L d) Serum bilirubin ≤1.5 × upper limit of normal (ULN) e) Alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and aspartate aminotransferase (AST) ≤2.5 × ULN f) Measured creatinine clearance (CrCl) >40 mL/min or calculated CL >40 mL/min as determined by Cockcroft-Gault (using actual body weight)\n- Body weight of >30 kg at enrolment\n- Evidence of post-menopausal status, or negative urinary or serum pregnancy test for female pre-menopausal patients. Women will be considered post-menopausal if they are amenorrhoic for 12 months or more without an alternative medical cause. The following age-specific requirements apply: a. Women <50 years old would be considered post-menopausal if they have been amenorrhoic for 12 months or more following cessation of exogenous hormonal treatments with luteinizing hormone and folliclestimulating hormone levels in the post-menopausal range for the institution b. Women ≥50 years old would be considered post-menopausal if they have been amenorrhoic for 12 months or more following cessation of all exogenous hormonal treatments, radiation-induced oophorectomy with last menses >1 year ago, chemotherapy-induced menopause with >1 year interval since last menses, or surgical sterilization (bilateral oophorectomy or hysterectomy)\n- Women of childbearing potential (WOCBP) and male patients with partners of childbearing potential must agree to always use a highly effective form of contraception according to the Clinical Trials Facilitation and Coordination Group during the treatment phase of this study and for at least 90 days after the last dose durvalumab or 6 months after the last dose of chemotherapy, whichever occurs last\n- Patients irrespective of sex and gender, aged 18 years or older at the time of signing the ICF\n- Patients must be willing and able to comply with scheduled visits, treatment schedule, laboratory testing, and other requirements of the study as determined by the investigator\n- Patients with histologically or cytologically documented NSCLC who present with locally advanced, unresectable (Stage III) disease (according to version 8 of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer Staging Manual in Thoracic Oncology (IASLC Staging Manual in Thoracic Oncology 2016))\n- Patients fit for simultaneous chemoradiotherapy and consolidation immunotherapy according to interdisciplinary consensus\n- Histologically proven PD-L1-expression of ≥ 1% (tumor proportion score; TPS) in tumor sample as assessed in routine staging using a validated test such as Ventana SP236 assay\n- Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status (PS) of 0 or 1 at enrolment\n- Tumor assessment by FDG-PET CT within 21 days prior to start of chemoradiotherapy.\n- Adequate pulmonary function test results a. Pre- or post-bronchodilator forced expiratory volume 1 of 1.0 L or >40% of predicted AND b. Diffusing capacity of the lung for carbon monoxide (DLCO) >30% of predicted"}

Exclusion criteria

  • {"criterion_text":"- Mixed small cell and NSCLC histology\n- Current use of ongoing long-term immunosuppressive medication. The following are exceptions to this criterion a. Intranasal, inhaled, topical steroids, or local steroid injections (e.g., intra articular injection) b. Systemic corticosteroids at physiologic doses not to exceed 10 mg/day of pred-nisone or its equivalent c. Steroids as premedication for hypersensitivity reactions (e.g., CT scan premedication)\n- History of allogeneic organ transplantation\n- Active or prior documented autoimmune or inflammatory disorders including inflammatory bowel disease [e.g., colitis or Crohn's disease], diverticulitis [with the exception of diverticulosis], systemic lupus erythematosus, Sarcoidosis syndrome, Wegener syndrome [granulomatosis with polyangiitis, Graves' disease, rheumatoid arthritis, hypophysitis, uveitis, etc.]). The following are exceptions to this criterion: a. Patients with vitiligo or alopecia b. Patients with hypothyroidism (e.g., following Hashimoto syndrome) stable on hormone replacement c. Any chronic skin condition that does not require systemic therapy d. Patients without active disease in the last 5 years at randomization may be included but only after consultation with the local study physician e. Patients with celiac disease controlled by diet alone\n- Uncontrolled intercurrent illness, including but not limited to, ongoing or active infection, symptomatic congestive heart failure, uncontrolled hypertension, unstable angina pectoris, cardiac arrhythmia, ILD, serious chronic gastrointestinal conditions associated with diarrhea, or psychiatric illness/social situations that would limit compliance with study requirement, substantially increase risk of incurring AEs, or compromise the ability of the patient to give written informed consent\n- Patients with oxygen dependence\n- Acute inflammation of mediastinal lymph nodes/mediastinal lymphadenopathy in the context of active pneumoconiosis, sarcoidosis or tuberculosis\n- History of another primary malignancy except for a) Basal cell carcinoma of the Skin b) Second malignancy diagnosed > 2 years prior to NSCLC diagnosis if after curative treatment without persistence or progression at baseline. Patients with a previous history of radiation therapy are eligible provided field overlap is minimal and the risk of toxicity to tissues in the overlapping region(s) is deemed to be acceptable by treating radiation oncologist. c) Adequately treated non-melanoma skin cancer or lentigo maligna without evi-dence of disease d) Adequately treated carcinoma in situ without evidence of disease\n- History of leptomeningeal carcinomatosis\n- Positive diagnostic test for hepatitis B (hepatitis B surface antigen) or hepatitis C (hepatitis C antibody or hepatitis C RNA)\n- Known active infection of tuberculosis or human immunodeficiency virus\n- Neuroendocrine tumour, except of large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma of the lung\n- Known allergy or hypersensitivity to concomitant chemotherapy and durvalumab or any of the excipients\n- Any medical contraindication to treatment with platinum-based doublet chemotherapy as listed in the applying SmPCs\n- Patients who have disease considered for surgical treatment as part of their care plan, such as Pancoast or superior sulcus tumors.\n- Concurrent enrolment in another clinical study, unless it is an observational (noninterventional) clinical study or the follow-up period of an interventional study\n- Participation in another clinical study with an investigational product during the 4 weeks prior to enrolment\n- Pregnancy or breast-feeding\n- Distant metastases\n- Malignant pleural effusion or pericardial effusion\n- Acute superior vena cava obstruction\n- Receipt of prior or current cancer treatment for NSCLC, including but not limited to, surgical resection, radiation therapy, investigational agents, hemotherapy, and mAbs. Exception: Prior surgical resection of limited metachronous NSCLC (i.e., stage I or II) is permitted.\n- Receipt of live attenuated vaccine within 30 days prior to the start of therapy. Note: Patients, if enrolled, should not receive live vaccine during treatment phase and up to 30 days end of treatment\n- Major surgical procedure (as defined by the Investigator) within 28 days prior start of treatment.\n- Prior exposure to immune-mediated therapy, including but not limited to, other anti-CTLA-4, anti-PD-1, anti-PD-L1 (including durvalumab), and anti-PD-L2 antibodies, including therapeutic anticancer vaccines"}

Endpoints

Primary endpoints

  • {"endpoint_text":"- Completion rate defined as rate of patients having received: • the prescribed radiotherapy dose ± 2 fractions and","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Completion rate defined as rate of patients having received the prescribed radiotherapy dose ± 2 fractions (as stated in endpoint text)."}
  • {"endpoint_text":"- simultaneous platinum-based chemotherapy and","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Component of the composite completion rate (i.e., receipt of simultaneous platinum-based chemotherapy as part of completion)."}
  • {"endpoint_text":"- immunotherapy consolidation with durvalumab starting within 42 days after the last dose of chemoradiotherapy and","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Component of the composite completion rate (i.e., initiation of durvalumab consolidation within 42 days after last chemoradiotherapy dose)."}
  • {"endpoint_text":"- either at least 3 doses of durvalumab or less than 3 doses of durvalumab in case immunotherapy was permanently discontinued due to documented extrathoracic immune-related toxicity.","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Component of the composite completion rate describing durvalumab exposure: either ≥3 doses received or <3 doses if stopped for documented extrathoracic immune-related toxicity."}

Secondary endpoints

  • {"endpoint_text":"- Safety endpoints: Adverse events grade ≥ 3 (according to NCI CTCAE v5.0), SAEs, unexpected AEs","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Adverse events graded per NCI CTCAE v5.0; includes SAEs and unexpected AEs."}
  • {"endpoint_text":"- Efficacy endpoints: • Time to locoregional progression: time from randomization to progression in the primary tumor or any of mediastinal lymph nodes","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Measured as time from randomization to documented progression in primary tumour or mediastinal lymph nodes."}
  • {"endpoint_text":"- Time to locoregional in-RT-field progres-sion: time from randomization to progres-sion in primary tumor or mediastinal lymph nodes within the target volume","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Measured as time from randomization to progression within the radiotherapy target volume."}
  • {"endpoint_text":"- Time to locoregional out-of-RT-field progression: time from randomization to progression in mediastinal lymph nodes outside the target volume","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Measured as time from randomization to progression in mediastinal lymph nodes outside the radiotherapy target volume."}
  • {"endpoint_text":"- Time to distant progression: time from randomization to appearance of metasta-ses elsewhere","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Measured as time from randomization to first documented distant metastasis."}
  • {"endpoint_text":"- Progression-free survival (PFS)","definition_or_measurement_approach":""}
  • {"endpoint_text":"- Overall survival (OS)","definition_or_measurement_approach":""}
  • {"endpoint_text":"- Objective response rate (ORR) defined as the proportion of randomized patients with best response of complete or partial response","definition_or_measurement_approach":"ORR measured as proportion of randomized patients with best overall response of complete response (CR) or partial response (PR) per the trial's response criteria."}
  • {"endpoint_text":"- Disease control rate (DCR) defined as the proportion of randomized patients with best response of complete response, partial response, or stable disease","definition_or_measurement_approach":"DCR measured as proportion of randomized patients with best response of CR, PR, or stable disease (SD)."}
  • {"endpoint_text":"- Quality of Life: EORTC QLQ-C30 and QLQ-LC13: Change in symptoms, functioning, and global healthstatus/QoL","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Patient-reported outcomes assessed using EORTC QLQ-C30 and QLQ-LC13 instruments; change from baseline in symptoms, functioning and global health/QoL."}
  • {"endpoint_text":"- Radiotherapy quality: Percentage of patients without major proto-col deviations regarding radiotherapy quality","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Measured as percentage of patients without major protocol deviations in radiotherapy quality (per radiotherapy QA procedures)."}

Recruitment

Planned Sample Size
100
Recruitment Window Months
55
Consent Approach
Written informed consent required ("Written informed consent"). Participants must be aged 18 years or older and provide consent themselves. Subject information and informed consent form documents are available (document titles include German and English versions and a pregnancy-specific ICF); patient-facing documents in German are listed. No assent from minors is applicable because minors are excluded by age criteria.

Geography

Total Number Of Sites
10
Total Number Of Participants
100

Germany

Earliest CTIS Part Ii Submission Date
05-01-2024
Latest Decision Or Authorization Date
05-02-2025
Processing Time Days
397
Number Of Sites
10
Number Of Participants
100

Sites

Site Name
Klinikum der Universitaet Muenchen AöR
Department Name
Department of Radiotherapy and Radiation Oncology
Contact Person Name
Chukwuka Eze
Site Name
Kliniken Maria Hilf GmbH Moenchengladbach
Department Name
Klinik für Strahlentherapie und Radiologische Onkologie
Contact Person Name
Ursula Nestle
Site Name
Vinzenz Von Paul Kliniken gGmbH
Department Name
Klinik für Strahlentherapie und Palliativmedizin
Contact Person Name
Thomas Hehr
Contact Person Email
studienzentrum@vinzenz.de
Site Name
Universitätsklinikum Essen
Department Name
Klinik für Strahlentherapie
Contact Person Name
Christoph Pöttgen
Contact Person Email
christoph.poettgen@uk-essen.de
Site Name
Pius-Hospital Oldenburg
Department Name
Hematology and Oncology
Contact Person Name
Frank Griesinger
Site Name
Universitaet Des Saarlandes
Department Name
Klinik für Strahlentherapie und Radioonkologie
Contact Person Name
Markus Hecht
Site Name
Technische Universitaet Dresden
Department Name
Klinik und Poliklinik für Strahlentherapie und Radioonkologie
Contact Person Name
Rebecca Bütof
Site Name
Universitaetsmedizin Goettingen
Department Name
Department for Radiotherapy and Radiooncology
Contact Person Name
Rami El Shafie
Site Name
Medical Center - University Of Freiburg
Department Name
Department of Radiation Oncology, Medical Center University of Freiburg, Germany
Contact Person Name
Tanja Schimek-Jasch
Site Name
Praxisnetzwerk Hämatologie/int. Onkologie , Überörtliche Berufsausübungsgemeinschaft
Department Name
-
Contact Person Name
Ernst Rodermann
Contact Person Email
studie@onkologie-rheinsieg.de

Sponsor

Primary sponsor

Full Name
TheraOp gGmbH
Organisation Type
Laboratory/Research/Testing facility
Country Of Registered Address
Germany

Third parties

  • {"country":"Germany","full_name":"Alcedis GmbH","duties_or_roles":"codes: 1,10,11,12,5,6,7,8","organisation_type":"Pharmaceutical company"}

Investigational products

Investigational Product Name
IMFINZI 50 mg/mL concentrate for solution for infusion.
Active Substance
durvalumab
Modality
Monoclonal antibody
Routes Of Administration
INTRACAVERNOUS USE
Route
INTRACAVERNOUS USE
Authorisation Status
Authorised (EU marketing authorisation number EU/1/18/1322/001)
Maximum Dose
1500 mg
Combination Treatment
Yes

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