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NCT Number: NCT03983954

Naptumomab Estafenatox in Combination With Durvalumab in Subjects With Selected Advanced or Metastatic Solid Tumor, Including a Cohort Expansion in Esophageal Cancer.

This Phase 1b is a dose escalation, MTD expansion and cohort expansions study to assess the safety and tolerability of a combination of NAP with durvalumab in subjects with selected advanced or metastatic solid tumors.

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This study is active but is not currently recruiting participants.

Key information

Conditions

ER+ Breast Cancer Adenocarcinoma Adenocarcinoma Of Esophagus Adenoma Adnexal Diseases Bladder Cancer Breast Diseases Breast Neoplasms Carcinoma Carcinoma, Hepatocellular Carcinoma, Renal Cell Carcinoma, Squamous Cell Cervical Squamous Cell Carcinoma Colorectal Cancer Metastatic Digestive System Diseases Digestive System Neoplasms Endocrine Gland Neoplasms Endocrine System Diseases Endometrial Cancer Endometrial Neoplasms Esophageal Cancer Esophageal Diseases Esophageal Neoplasms Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma Female Urogenital Diseases Female Urogenital Diseases and Pregnancy Complications GastroEsophageal Cancer Gastrointestinal Diseases Gastrointestinal Neoplasms Genital Diseases Genital Diseases, Female Genital Diseases, Male Genital Neoplasms, Female Genital Neoplasms, Male Gonadal Disorders HER2-negative Breast Cancer Head and Neck Neoplasms Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma Hepatocellular Carcinoma Kidney Diseases Kidney Neoplasms Liver Diseases Liver Neoplasms Male Urogenital Diseases Melanoma Mesothelioma NSCL2 Gene Mutation NSCLC Neoplasms Neoplasms by Histologic Type Neoplasms by Site Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial Neoplasms, Mesothelial Neoplasms, Nerve Tissue Neoplasms, Squamous Cell Neuroectodermal Tumors Neuroendocrine Tumors Nevi and Melanomas Ovarian Cancer Ovarian Diseases Ovarian Neoplasms Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma Prostate Cancer Prostatic Diseases Prostatic Neoplasms Renal Cell Carcinoma Skin Diseases Skin Neoplasms Skin and Connective Tissue Diseases Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Head and Neck Triple Negative Breast Cancer Triple Negative Breast Neoplasms Urinary Bladder Diseases Urinary Bladder Neoplasms Urogenital Diseases Urogenital Neoplasms Urologic Diseases Urologic Neoplasms Urothelial Cancer Uterine Diseases Uterine Neoplasms

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Phase 1

Primary location

Shalby Hospital, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

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About this study

This Phase 1b study was originally designed for patients with tumors reported to have a high probability of expressing the 5T4 antigen. An amended protocol extended the eligibility criteria of patients recruited to the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) cohort, to include colorectal cancer (CRC) and GE carcinomas.

Following the Dose Escalation part, antibodies binding to NAP have been shown to interfere with drug exposure, which makes it unlikely that patients could effectively receive more than 3 cycles of NAP. Obinutuzumab pretreatment was added to the combination of durvalumab and NAP given at the 2 highest safe dose levels of the combination of durvalumab and NAP in the dose-escalation part of this Phase 1b study (3 patients per dose level), and to the MTD expansion part that included several cohorts.

The combination of NAP/durvalumab combination will be further evaluated at the Recommended Phase 2 Dose (RP2D) established in the dose- escalation part, (10 µg/kg/dose), in an expansion cohort of subjects with advanced/metastatic carcinoma of the esophagus.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Subjects must meet all of the following criteria to participate in this study:

  • Adult at least 18 years of age
  • For the Dose-escalation and MTD Expansion Cohorts: Histologically and/or cytologically confirmed solid tumor from the following list, that is metastatic/advanced, and for which no curative therapy exists:
  • Pancreatic adenocarcinoma
  • High-grade serous ovarian cancer
  • Cervical squamous cell carcinoma
  • Prostate cancer
  • ER+/HER2- or triple-negative breast cancer
  • NSCLC including driver mutation positive.
  • Mesothelioma
  • Renal cell carcinoma
  • Bladder/urothelial cancer
  • Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma
  • Melanoma
  • Hepatocellular carcinoma
  • Endometrial cancer
  • MTD Expansion Cohort only: 5T4-positive colorectal cancer and 5T4 positive GE cancer
  • For the Esophageal Expansion Cohort: Subjects must have histologically confirmed locally advanced or metastatic ESCC or AC of the esophagus or GEJ (Siewert type 1).
  • Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0 or 1.
  • All patients must provide signed informed consent prior to any study specific procedures that are not part of standard medical care.
  • In the MTD Expansion Cohort only, an archival or fresh biopsy will be acceptable at baseline. A second biopsy on Cycle 2 Day 4 is optional for patients who provided a fresh biopsy at baseline or have a tumor sample available from up to 3 months prior to study entry. Patients enrolled in the MTD expansion cohort after prior exposure to a CPI should have a baseline biopsy obtained after completion of the last prior CPI therapy.

For the Esophageal Cohort Expansion: Subjects must have adequate tumor tissue (as defined in the laboratory manual) for biomarker analysis. If the archival tissue was taken > 1 year prior to screening into the trial, a fresh biopsy is required. Patients enrolled in Group 2 should have a baseline biopsy obtained after completion of the last prior CPI therapy. Bone samples, fine needle aspirates, brushings, cell pellets, and lavage are not acceptable samples.

  • Presence of clinically and/or radiologically documented disease. All radiology studies must be performed within 28 days prior to Cycle 1 Day 1 (first NAP treatment day)
  • Dose-escalation part: patients do not need to have measurable disease by RECIST 1.1
  • MTD Dose Expansion: patients must have measurable disease by iRECIST/RECIST 1.1. Previously irradiated lesions may be considered measurable if there has been demonstrated progression in these lesions.
  • For the Esophageal Cohort Expansion: Patients must have measurable disease per iRECIST/RECIST version 1.1 by local investigator/ radiology assessment, unresectable based on documented opinion, or refusing surgery.
  • Previous therapy:

a. Dose Escalation and MTD Expansion: i. All patients must have received at least 1 standard systemic cancer therapy for their tumor type and progressed following their most recent regimen. There is no limit to the number of prior cytotoxic regimens received.

ii. Treatment-naïve patients will be eligible only if they refused standard treatment.

iii. Patients with prior anti-PD-1, anti PD-L1, or anti-CTLA4 therapy are eligible if they have received such therapy for a minimum of 6 months and if they have documented progression of their disease on or off such therapy.

b. Esophageal Cohort Expansion: i. Group 1 - no prior CPI: Subjects with only ESCC who may have received up to 1 prior chemotherapy as a line for metastatic disease or up to 2 prior chemotherapies if they also received neoadjuvant/adjuvant systemic therapy, but no prior CPI.

If subjects received prior chemotherapy for metastatic disease, they should have documented radiographic or clinical progression.

ii. Group 2 - prior CPI: Subjects with either ESCC or AC of the esophagus or GEJ (Siewert type 1) who must not have had more than 2 prior lines of therapy. Patients will be allowed to have up to 2 prior regimens for metastatic disease, or up to 3 prior therapies if they also received neoadjuvant/adjuvant systemic therapy.

Subjects are eligible provided that they have received CPI therapy for at least 9 weeks, provided that they have documented progression of their disease on such therapy, and provided that the prior CPI was not discontinued for toxicity.

No more than 1 prior CPI treatment is allowed (prior combination of anti-PD-[L]1 and anti-CTLA-4 is acceptable).

Subjects with AC that is HER 2/neu negative.

  • Subjects with known, suspected, or documented parenchymal brain metastases, unless treated with surgery and/or radiation, with the subject neurologically stable and off pharmacologic doses of systemic glucocorticoids (equivalent to < 10 mg/day of prednisone); subjects with leptomeningeal metastases are not eligible. Subjects should have completed brain radiation at least 14 days before start of obinutuzumab treatment.
  • Prior treatment with chemotherapy or other systemic antineoplastic therapy within 21 days; prior experimental therapy within 21 days or 5 half-lives, whichever is shorter.
  • The use of immunosuppressive agents within 28 days of obinutuzumab administration including, but not limited to, cyclosporine, mycophenolate, azathioprine, methotrexate, adalimumab, infliximab, vedolizumab, tofacitinib, dupilumab, rituximab, etc. Pharmacologic doses of glucocorticoids defined as glucocorticoid equivalents of > 10 mg/day of prednisone (except when required for study medications or used prior to administration of radiographic contrast material in subjects with allergies) are not acceptable within 14 days of obinutuzumab administration. Subjects are permitted to receive topical, intranasal, inhalational, and intra ocular glucocorticoids.
  • Adequate hematologic and organ function:
  • White blood cells (WBC) ≥ 3000/μL
  • Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) ≥ 1500/μL
  • Platelets ≥ 100,000/μL
  • Hemoglobin ≥ 9 g/dL
  • Serum creatinine ≤ 1.5 mg/dL or calculated creatinine clearance (CrCL) > 40 mL/sec by Cockcroft-Gault (using actual body weight)
  • Aspartate aminotransferase (AST) ≤ 2.5 × upper limit of normal (ULN); alanine aminotransferase (ALT) ≤ 2.5 × ULN (for patients with known liver involvement AST and ALT ≤ 5 × ULN); bilirubin ≤ 1.5 mg/dL (unless diagnosed with Gilbert's syndrome)
  • International normalized ratio (INR) or prothrombin time (PT) and activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT) ≤ 1.5 × ULN. Subjects on anticoagulant therapy should be discussed with the Medical Monitor.
  • Patients must be willing and able to comply with scheduled visits, drug administration plan, hospitalization for treatment (if needed) and scheduled follow-up visits and examinations as outlined in the protocol, including procedures undertaken to perform fresh tumor biopsies if needed.
  • Must have a life expectancy of at least 3 months.
  • Negative pregnancy test (serum) for women of childbearing potential.
  • Female participants must be ≥ 1 year post-menopausal, surgically sterile, or using 1 highly effective form of birth control (a highly effective method of contraception is defined as one that can achieve a failure rate of less than 1% per year when used consistently and correctly.) Women of childbearing potential must agree to use 1 highly effective method of birth control. They should have been stable on their chosen method of birth control for a minimum of 3 months before entering the study until 90 days after the last dose of NAP + durvalumab combination therapy or durvalumab monotherapy. Non sterilized male partners of a female subject of childbearing potential must use a male condom plus spermicide throughout this period.
  • Male participants who intend to be sexually active with a female partner of childbearing potential must be surgically sterile or using an acceptable method of contraception from the time of Screening throughout the total duration of the study and until 90 days after the last dose of NAP + durvalumab combination therapy or durvalumab monotherapy to prevent pregnancy in a partner. Male participants must not donate or bank sperm during this same time period.

Treatment and study plan

Obinutuzumab, naptumomab estafenatox and durvalumab

Combination Product

Obinutuzumab is given intravenous (I.V.) 1,000 mg concentrate for solution for infusion, as pre-treatment.

Dose escalation and MTD Expansion: NAP is given as an intravenous (I.V.) bolus injection at multiple doses.

Durvalumab is given at a dose of 1120 mg, I.V, 1- 1.5 hours after completion of the administration of NAP on the second day of each 21-day cycle, and when administered as monotherapy at a dose of 1500 mg delivered once every 28 days.

Esophageal cohort expansion: NAP is given as an intravenous (I.V.) bolus injection at multiple doses on cycles 1-6 and one dose per cycle starting cycle 7. Durvalumab is given at a dose of 1120 mg, I.V, 1- 1.5 hours after completion of the administration of NAP on the second day of each 21-day cycle during cycles 1-6, and at a dose of 1500 mg delivered once every 28 days starting cycle 7.

Other names: (ABR-217620; NAP), (IMFINZI; MEDI4736), [Gazyva]

Naptumomab estafenatox and durvalumab

Combination Product

NAP was given as an intravenous (I.V.) bolus injection at multiple doses. Durvalumab was given at a dose of 1120 mg, I.V, 1- 1.5 hours after completion of the administration of NAP on the second day of each 21-day cycle, and when administered as monotherapy at a dose of 1500 mg delivered once every 28 days.

Other names: (ABR-217620; NAP), (IMFINZI; MEDI4736)

Primary outcomes

  1. Part A: Dose Escalation / MTD Expansion: The incidence and characteristics of adverse events, associated with ascending doses of NAP in combination with a set dose of durvalumab

    Time frame: From day 1 up to 90 days following last dose of study drug

    Number of participants with infusion reactions, Dose Limiting Toxicity (DLT) during the first cycle of treatment and/or, any adverse events graded as per NCI Common Toxicity Criteria (CTC).

  2. Part A: Dose Escalation / MTD Expansion: The incidence and characteristics of adverse events, associated with ascending doses of NAP in combination with a set dose of durvalumab and following pretreatment with obinutuzumab.

    Time frame: From day -13 up to 90 days following last dose of study drug

    Number of participants with infusion reactions (e.g. fever, chills, hypotension, tachycardia etc.), occurrence of any Dose Limiting Toxicity (DLT) during the first cycle of treatment and/or , any clinically significant changes from baseline graded as per NCI Common Toxicity Criteria (CTC).

  3. Part A: Dose Escalation / MTD Expansion: The RP2D either with or without obinutuzumab pretreatment

    Time frame: From day -13 up to 90 days following last dose of study drug

    based on the observed safety effects in the DE and MTD expansion cohorts.

  4. Part B: Esophageal Cohort Expansion - ORR

    Time frame: 24 month

    The ORR by immune therapy-based Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumours (iRECIST) of the combination of NAP with durvalumab in subjects with advanced/metastatic:

    • ESCC without exposure to prior anti PD-1/PD-L1 therapy (Group 1), OR
    • Squamous cell carcinoma or AC of the esophagus or GEJ who have received prior anti PD-1/PD-L1 therapy (Group 2).

Secondary outcomes

  1. Part A: Dose Escalation / MTD Expansion: Disease parameters: ORR, DOR, PFS, OS

    Time frame: From date of initiation of treatment until the date of first documented progression or date of death from any cause, whichever came first, assessed up to 6 months post last patient in.

    Tumor assessment for ORR, DOR and PFS according to the iRECIST and conventional RECIST 1.1. OS will be based on death events.

  2. Part A: Dose Escalation: Establish Recommended Phase 2 Dose (RP2D)

    Time frame: From Day 1 up to end of cycle 3 of dose escalation cohort without obinutuzumab

    RP2D will be determined based on the observed effects of the MTD.

  3. Part A: Dose Escalation / MTD Expansion: Assessment of anti-NAP antibody levels and human anti-murine antibody (HAMA) levels at the beginning of each treatment cycle.

    Time frame: From start of treatment till end of cycle 3 in dose escalation and end of cycle 6 in MTD expansion (each cycle is 21 days).

    Blood levels of ADAs and HAMA

  4. Part A: Dose Escalation / MTD Expansion: Assessment of NAP plasma levels at select time points

    Time frame: From start of treatment till end of cycle 3 in dose escalation and end of cycle 6 in MTD expansion (each cycle is 21 days).

    Pharmacokinetic calculations will be based on individual subject NAP plasma concentrations over time

  5. Part B: Esophageal Cohort Expansion: ORR

    Time frame: 24 month

    • The ORR by RECIST version 1.1 criteria, of the combination of NAP with durvalumab in subjects who are CPI naïve (ESCC; Group 1) and in subjects previously treated with a CPI (ESCC, AC; Group 2).
  6. Part B: Esophageal Cohort Expansion: OS, PFS, DOR, rate & duration of disease control

    Time frame: 24 month

    • To assess the following efficacy parameters in each group:
    • OS, defined as time of enrolling on study (start of any study treatment) to death from whatever cause.
    • PFS (by iRECIST and RECIST 1.1.), defined as the time of enrolling on study (start of any study treatment) to disease progression or death from whatever cause.
    • DOR (by iRECIST and RECIST 1.1.) in subjects who achieve an objective response (CR or PR) defined as the time from first evidence of response to PD.
    • Rate and duration of disease control (by iRECIST and RECIST 1.1.) in patients with CR, PR, or SD.
  7. Part B: Esophageal Cohort Expansion: safety and tolerability

    Time frame: 24 month

    • Assessment of the safety and tolerability of NAP/durvalumab combination:
    • Safety will be measured by the incidence of treatment emergent adverse events (TEAEs), changes from baseline in vital signs, findings on physical examinations, ECGs, blood chemistry, complete blood count (CBC), urine and thyroid function laboratory tests, and graded per NCI CTCAE.
    • Adverse events of special interest will include immune-based, tissue specific autoimmune conditions (e.g., colitis, pneumonitis).
    • Tolerability will be measured by dose interruptions, dose reductions (NAP) and discontinuations due to drug-related AEs.
  8. Part B: Esophageal Cohort Expansion: Assessment of NAP plasma levels at select time points and ADAs

    Time frame: 24 month

    • Assessment of plasma levels of total NAP and ADAs (to be analyzed centrally at Labcorp).

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

NeoTX Therapeutics Ltd.

Industry

Collaborators

  • AstraZeneca

Registry information

Official study title

Phase 1B, Open-Label, Dose Escalation and Cohort Expansions Trial of Naptumomab Estafenatox (NAP, ABR-217620) in Combination With Durvalumab (MEDI4736) in Subjects With Selected Advanced or Metastatic Solid Tumors

Important dates

Study start
2019
Primary completion
2027
Study completion
2027
First posted
Jun 12, 2019
Registry last updated
Nov 28, 2025

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