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NCT Number: NCT05950139

Peptide Vaccine To Prevent Acquired Resistance In Patients With Advanced ALK+ NSCLC

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety of a cancer peptide vaccine to prevent or delay acquired resistance in advanced ALK+ lung cancer patients currently on ALK targeted therapy.

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Key information

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Phase 1 / Phase 2

Primary location

Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore, Maryland, 21287, United States

Location status: Recruiting

Location contact

Vincent Lam, MD

CONTACT

[email protected]

410-955-8964

Vincent Lam, MD

PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

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

Inclusion criteria

  • Histologically or cytologically confirmed diagnosis of stage IV NSCLC (or recurrent NSCLC not a candidate for definitive multimodality therapy)
  • Documented ALK rearrangement as detected by: (1) fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH), (2) immuno-histochemistry (IHC), (3) tissue next-generation sequencing (NGS), or (4) circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) NGS
  • Ongoing treatment with crizotinib, ceritinib, alectinib, brigatinib, or lorlatinib with at least stable disease ≥ 4 months
  • No known presence of the specific ALK acquired resistance alterations targeted by the study vaccine
  • Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0 to 1
  • Males or females at least 18 years old

Exclusion criteria

  • Known additional malignancy that is progressing or has required active treatment within the past 3 years. Adequately resected non-melanoma skin cancer, curatively treated in-situ disease, and other solid tumors treated with potentially curative therapy are allowed.
  • Cytotoxic chemotherapy within 14 days of first dose of study vaccine or concurrent with study vaccine
  • Anti-neoplastic immunotherapy within 28 days of first dose of study vaccine or concurrent with study vaccine
  • Systemic immune suppression:
  • Use of chronic oral or systemic steroid medication (topical or inhalational steroids are permitted)
  • Other clinically relevant systemic immune suppression
  • Symptomatic central nervous system (CNS) metastasis. Asymptomatic CNS disease requiring increasing dose of corticosteroids within 7 days prior to study enrollment is also not permitted
  • Current spinal cord compression (symptomatic or asymptomatic and detected by radiographic imaging). Patients with leptomeningeal disease and without cord compression are allowed

Treatment and study plan

Peptide Vaccine

Biological

Peptide vaccine

Primary outcomes

  1. Incidence of treatment-related adverse events

    Time frame: Up to 2 years

    The safety of administering the ALK peptide vaccine will be assessed by the occurrence of the following adverse events:

    • Grade 3 or above drug-related toxicities
    • Drug-related toxicity by grade
    • Vaccine site reactions after vaccine injections
    • Immune-related adverse events (AEs)
    • Unacceptable toxicities
    • Treatment-emergent changes from normal to abnormal values in key laboratory parameters
  2. Vaccine-specific immune response

    Time frame: Up to 2 years

    Vaccine-specific response will be evaluated by the fold change in interferon-producing mutant-ALK-specific CD8 and CD4 T cells in the peripheral blood.

Study contacts

Contact information is provided by the study sponsor or research team.

Vincent Lam, MD

CONTACT

[email protected]

410-955-8964

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins

Other

Collaborators

  • Oncovir, Inc.

Registry information

Official study title

Pilot Study of a Prophylactic Cancer Peptide Vaccine in Advanced ALK+ NSCLC

Acronym: ARCHER

Important dates

Study start
2024
Primary completion
2027
Study completion
2029
First posted
Jul 18, 2023
Registry last updated
Jul 28, 2026

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This listing is for discovery and informational purposes only. It is not medical advice, does not guarantee that a study is recruiting, and does not determine eligibility. Contact the study team and a qualified healthcare professional when considering participation.

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