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NCT Number: NCT05844046

Sequential or Up-front Triple Treatment With Durvalumab, Tremelimumab and Bevacizumab for Non-resectable Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC) Patients

This is a randomized, open-label, multi-center, international, Phase II study to assess the efficacy and safety of sequential or up-front triple treatment with durvalumab, tremelimumab and bevacizumab for non-resectable hepatocellular carcinoma.

Patients will be randomized in a 1:1 ratio to one of the following arms:

Arm A: initial treatment with durvalumab plus tremelimumab followed by treatment escalation with the addition of bevacizumab upon radiological progression or in the absence of objective response

Arm B: up-front treatment with durvalumab, tremelimumab and bevacizumab

Patients will be stratified according to macrovascular invasion and etiology of liver disease (viral etiologies versus others).

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Key information

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Phase 2

Primary location

Hospital of the University of Munich, Munich, Germany

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Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

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

KEY INCLUSION CRITERIA

Age ≥18 years at the time of study entry

Confirmed HCC based on histopathological findings from tumor tissues.

Must not have received prior systemic therapy for HCC.

Not eligible for locoregional therapy for unresectable HCC. For patients who progressed after locoregional therapy for HCC, locoregional therapy must have been completed ≥28 days prior to the baseline scan for the current study.

Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer (BCLC) stage B (that is not eligible for locoregional therapy) or stage C

Child-Pugh Score class A

ECOG performance status of 0 or 1 at enrollment

At least 1 measurable lesion, not previously irradiated, that can be accurately measured at baseline as ≥10 mm in the longest diameter (except lymph nodes, which must have a short axis ≥15 mm) with computerized tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and that is suitable for accurate repeated measurements as per RECIST 1.1 guidelines. A lesion which progressed after previous ablation or TACE could be measurable if it meets these criteria.

Adequate organ and marrow function

KEY EXCLUSION CRITERIA

Previous study drug(s) assignment in the present study.

Radiotherapy treatment to more than 30% of the bone marrow or with a wide field of radiation within 28 days of the first dose of study drug(s).

Major surgical procedure or significant traumatic injury within 28 days prior to the first dose of study drug(s), abdominal surgery, abdominal interventions, or significant abdominal traumatic injury within 60 days prior to randomization

History of allogeneic organ transplantation (eg, liver transplant).

History of hepatic encephalopathy within past 12 months or requirement for medications to prevent or control encephalopathy

Clinically meaningful ascites

Patients with main portal vein thrombosis (i.e., thrombosis in the main trunk of the portal vein, with or without blood flow) on baseline imaging.

Patient currently exhibits symptomatic or uncontrolled hypertension

Active or prior documented autoimmune or inflammatory disorders, diverticulitis. Patients without active disease in the last 5 years are excluded unless discussed with the Study Physician and considered appropriate for study participation.

Patients co-infected with HBV and HCV, or co-infected with HBV and hepatitis D virus (HDV).

History of another primary malignancy except for the exceptions defined by the study protocol.

Mean QT interval corrected for heart rate using Fridericia's formula (QTcF) ≥470 ms calculated from 3 ECGs (within 15 minutes at 5 minutes apart).

Known fibrolamellar HCC, sarcomatoid HCC, or mixed cholangiocarcinoma and HCC.

History of active primary immunodeficiency.

Receipt of live attenuated vaccine within 30 days prior to the first dose of study drug(s). Note: Patients, if enrolled, should not receive live vaccine while receiving study drug(s) and up to 30 days after the last dose of study drug(s).

Major gastrointestinal bleeding within 4 weeks prior to randomization.

Patients with untreated or incompletely treated varices with bleeding or high-risk for bleeding. Patients must undergo an esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD), and all size of varices (small to large) must be assessed and treated per local standard of care prior to enrollment. Patients who have undergone an EGD within 6 months prior to randomization do not need to repeat the procedure. Those who have received banding and/or sclerotherapy and with no bleeding event within the prior 6 months are eligible provided that a re-endoscopy is performed and that varices remained obliterated, minimal or Grade I

Significant vascular disease including aortic aneurysm requiring surgical repair or peripheral arterial thrombosis with 6 months prior to randomization

History of abdominal or tracheoesophageal fistula or gastrointestinal perforation, or intra-abdominal abscess within 6 months prior to randomization.

Evidence of bleeding diathesis or significant coagulopathy

Severe, nonhealing or dehisced wound, active ulcer, or untreated bone fracture

Current or recent (within 10 days of randomization) use of acetylsalicyclic acid (=> 325 mg/day) or treatment with dipyramidole, ticlopidine, clopidogrel, and cilostazol

Current or recent (within 10 days prior to randomization) use of fulldose oral or parenteral anticoagulants or thrombolytic agents for therapeutic purpose. Prophylactic use of low molecularweight heparin is allowed.

Female patients who are pregnant or breastfeeding, or male or female patients of reproductive potential who are not willing to employ effective birth control from screening to 90 days after the last dose of durvalumab monotherapy or 180 days after the last dose of durvalumab plus tremelimumab combination therapy or bevacizumab therapy

Prior randomization or treatment in a previous durvalumab and/or tremelimumab clinical study regardless of treatment arm assignment.

Treatment and study plan

durvalumab, tremelimumab, bevacizumab

Biological

durvalumab, tremelimumab and bevacizumab will be administered in the respective arms either as up-front triple treatment or as combined treatment with durvalumab and tremelimumab followed by the addition of bevacizumab

Primary outcomes

  1. ORR

    Time frame: 24 months

    overall response rate

Secondary outcomes

  1. mOS

    Time frame: 24 months

    median overall survival

  2. PFS

    Time frame: 24 months

    Progression-free survival

  3. TTP

    Time frame: 24 months

    Time to progression

  4. ORR-BICR

    Time frame: 24 months

    Objective response rate acc. to BICR

Other outcomes

  1. DOR

    Time frame: 24 months

    Duration of response

  2. DCR

    Time frame: 24 months

    Disease control rate

  3. OS-18m

    Time frame: 18 months

    Proportion of patients alive at 18 months

  4. OS-24m

    Time frame: 24 months

    Proportion of patients alive at 24 months

  5. PFS-E

    Time frame: 24 months

    Progression-free survival from escalation treatment

  6. PFS on next treatment

    Time frame: 24 months

    PFS on next treatment

  7. TTFS

    Time frame: 24 months

    time to failure of strategy

  8. QOL

    Time frame: 24 months

    European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) 30-item core quality of life questionnaire (QLQ-C30)

  9. QOL

    Time frame: 24 months

    EORTC 18-item hepatocellular carcinoma quality of life questionnaire

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Enrico De Toni

Other

Registry information

Official study title

Sequential or Up-front Triple Treatment With Durvalumab, Tremelimumab and Bevacizumab for Non-resectable Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC) Patients (MONTBLANC)

Acronym: MONTBLANC

Important dates

Study start
2023
Primary completion
2026
Study completion
2026
First posted
May 6, 2023
Registry last updated
Jul 16, 2024

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