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NCT Number: NCT07269080

STM-06: POLARIS-POlymetastic Lesion Ablative Radiotherapy With Immunotherapy Study

This is a non-randomized two-arm trial, specifically a pilot study in which patients with advanced solid tumor cancer with 3-10 metastatic lesions who are on immunotherapy will receive ablative RT to up to 10 lesions. After study intervention, participants will undergo ctDNA collection at 8 weeks after completion of ablative RT Post-treatment disease assessments, including imaging and serial ctDNA monitoring, as well as any additional treatments, will be at the discretion of the treating oncologist. Approximately 28 subjects (14 per cohort) will be enrolled. For subjects who do not complete the full planned course of RT for any reason, a final study visit should be performed approximately 30 days after the last fraction of radiation. If a subject is discontinued from the study with an ongoing adverse event or an unresolved clinically significant laboratory result, the clinical investigative team will attempt to provide follow-up until a satisfactory clinical resolution of the laboratory result or adverse event is achieved.

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Key information

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Phase 1

Primary location

University of Illinois at Chicago

Chicago, Illinois, 60612, United States

Location status: Recruiting

Location contact

Ryan Nguyen, DO

CONTACT

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

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

Inclusion criteria

  • Age ≥ 18 years of age at the time of consent
  • ECOG (0, 1, or 2) within 30 days prior to registration.
  • Subjects with advanced solid tumors with at least 3 but no more than 10 sites of metastatic disease, excluding the primary tumor.
  • Disease site must be outside of the GI tract (including esophagus, stomach, small or large bowel, and mesenteric lymph nodes), brainstem, and skin.
  • Demonstrates adequate organ function. All screening labs are to be obtained within 30 days prior to registration.
  • Able to provide written informed consent and HIPAA authorization for release of personal health information via an approved UIC Institutional Review Board (IRB) informed consent form and HIPAA authorization. If a subject is unable to consent, a Legally Authorized Representative (LAR) may provide consent on their behalf.
  • Women of childbearing potential must not be pregnant or breastfeeding. A negative serum or urine pregnancy test is required per institutional practice guidelines.
  • As determined at the discretion of the enrolling physician or protocol designee, the ability of the subject to understand and comply with study procedures for the entire length of the study.
  • Have a life expectancy of at least 3 months.
  • Subjects receiving treatment for >3 months with an FDA-approved immunotherapy agent such as a PD-1 inhibitor, a PD-L1 inhibitor, a CTLA-4 inhibitor, or an LAG-3 inhibitor; either as monotherapy or in combination with another FDA-approved immunotherapy agent. Subjects may have received prior combination cytotoxic chemotherapy and immunotherapy, but must be receiving only immunotherapy for at least 30 days prior to registration.
  • Cohort A: Subjects with investigator-assessed stable disease or partial response after > 3 months of immunotherapy treatment prior to registration
  • Cohort B: Subjects with oligo-progression defined as having at least 3 sites of disease during their disease course, with at least 1 but up to 5 sites of progressive disease within 3 months of registration. Subjects must have investigator-assessed stable disease, partial response, or complete response as prior best response to immunotherapy and have been on immunotherapy for at least 3 months prior to registration.

Exclusion criteria

  • Inability to treat all sites of disease
  • >10 metastatic lesions at any point in the disease course
  • History of interstitial lung disease or G3 or worse pneumonitis
  • Malignant pleural effusion
  • Active infection requiring IV antibiotics
  • Active autoimmune disease requiring immunosuppression in the last two years from enrollment.
  • Significant medical comorbidities precluding radiotherapy as determined by the treating physician.
  • Use of systemic corticosteroids equivalent to prednisone ≥10 mg daily within 14 days prior to registration, or requirement for systemic corticosteroids at screening for disease control, unless used as physiologic replacement (e.g., adrenal insufficiency). Subjects who require systemic steroids ≥10 mg/day for clinical management will be ineligible.
  • Substantial overlap with a previously treated radiation volume.
  • For patients with liver metastases, moderate/severe liver dysfunction (Child-Pugh B or C)
  • Patients with symptomatic brain metastases, a single metastasis greater than 5 cm in size, or any brain metastasis greater than 3 cm in size. Patients with total brain metastases volume exceeding 30 cc.
  • Clinical or radiologic evidence of spinal cord compression.
  • Metastatic disease involving the GI tract (esophagus, stomach, small or large bowel, mesenteric lymph nodes), disease in the brainstem, or skin
  • Pregnant or nursing
  • Any prior or concurrent malignancy whose natural history or treatment has the potential to interfere with the safety or efficacy assessment of this investigational regimen, as determined by the treating medical oncologist.
  • Other major comorbidity, as determined by the study PI

Treatment and study plan

Ablative radiation treatment

Radiation

Ablative radiation for all metastases should be completed within 3 weeks of the first dose of radiation. Metastases may be treated on an everyday or every other day schedule.

Primary outcomes

  1. To estimate the proportion of patients with advanced tumors and polymetastatic disease on immunotherapy who achieve a molecular response (>50% ctDNA reduction) at 8 weeks following ablative radiation therapy

    Time frame: Baseline to 8 weeks following the end of ablative radiation therapy

Secondary outcomes

  1. To evaluate 6-month and 12-month overall survival (OS)

    Time frame: Registration date until the off-study date, approximately 12 months after the end of radiation therapy

    Overall survival is defined as the time from the first dose to death due to any cause, incidence of serious adverse events in all groups according to CTCAE version 6.

  2. To evaluate 6-month and 12-month progression-free survival (PFS)

    Time frame: Registration date until the off-study date, approximately 12 months after the end of radiation therapy

    Progression-free survival is defined as the time from the time of enrollment to disease progression or death, whichever occurs first

  3. To evaluate overall response rate

    Time frame: Registration date until the off-study date, approximately 12 months after the end of radiation therapy

    Overall response rate is defined as partial response (PR) or complete response (CR) occurring at any point during treatment, as assessed by the treating physician

  4. To evaluate all grades of treatment-related adverse events (TRAEs)

    Time frame: Treatment start until the off-study date, approximately 12 months after the end of radiation therapy

    Treatment related adverse events will be assessed by CTCAE version 6.

Other outcomes

  1. To assess the concentration of circulating immune cells before and after concurrent radiation and immunotherapy

    Time frame: Baseline until 48 weeks post-radiation treatment

Study contacts

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

Omer Qazi

CONTACT

[email protected]

(312) 413-1069

Ryan Nguyen, DO

CONTACT

[email protected]

(312) 996-9424

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

University of Illinois at Chicago

Other

Registry information

Acronym: STM-06

Important dates

Study start
2025
Primary completion
2028
Study completion
2028
First posted
Dec 8, 2025
Registry last updated
Mar 2, 2026

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