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Phase I Dose Escalation and Expansion Study of Tazemetostat in Combination with Topotecan and Pembrolizumab in Recurrent Small Cell Lung Cancer

This study is currently recruiting participants.

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Summary

Number

22-C-0005

Sponsoring Institute

National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Recruitment Detail

Type: Participants currently recruited/enrolled
Gender: Male & Female
Min Age: 18 Years
Max Age: N/A

Referral Letter Required

No

Population Exclusion(s)

Fetuses;
Pregnant Women

Keywords

SCLC;
Thoracic Neoplasm;
Carcinoma

Recruitment Keyword(s)

None

Condition(s)

Small Cell Lung Cancer;
Recurrent;
Relapsed

Investigational Drug(s)

Tazemetostat
Pembrolizumab

Investigational Device(s)

None

Intervention(s)

Drug: Topotecan
Drug: Pembrolizumab
Drug: Tazemetostat

Supporting Site

National Cancer Institute

Background:

Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is the most severe and deadly form of lung cancer. Most people diagnosed with SCLC survive only 9-10 months. Less than 5% survive 5 years. Many people respond to the first treatment, but the cancer often comes back. No major treatment advances for SCLC have occurred in 30 years. New treatments are needed. Tazemetostat which blocks a protein called EZH2 may make SCLC cells more susceptible to immunotherapy and chemotherapy.

Objective:

To test a whether the new combination of drugs (pembrolizumab, tazemetostat, topotecan) in people with relapsed SCLC.

Eligibility:

People aged 18 years and older with SCLC that returned after treatment.

Design:

-Participants will undergo screening. Their medical records will be reviewed. They will provide tissue and blood samples.

-Participants will receive drug treatment in 21-day cycles.

-Tazemetostat will be taken by mouth twice a day beginning 7 days before cycle 1. Then it will be taken every day during each cycle.

-Pembrolizumab will be given on the first day of each cycle. It is given through a tube attached to a needle inserted into a vein in the arm.

-Topotecan will be given through a vein in the arm on days 1-5 of each cycle.

-Participants will have tumor biopsies taken 3 times. A needle will be inserted into their bodies to get a sample of tissue. This will happen before participants begin any treatment, then again on the first days of cycle 1 and cycle 2. They will also have blood drawn throughout the study.

-The tissue samples will be used for genetic tests.

-Participants may take the study drugs as long as their cancer remains under control.

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Eligibility

INCLUSION CRITERIA:

-Patients enrolled to the primary cohort must have limited- or extensive-disease SCLC at diagnosis, with relapse at study entry with measurable disease per RECIST 1.1, and with prior therapy with platinum doublet. Patients with extensive stage disease should have received chemo-immunotherapy. Both platinum-sensitive and platinum-resistant patients will be included.

-Age >=18 years. Because no dosing or adverse event data are currently available on the use of pembrolizumab in combination with tazemetostat and topotecan in patients <18 years of age, children are excluded from this study.

-ECOG performance status <=2 (Karnofsky >=70%).

-Patients must have adequate organ and marrow function as defined below:

-- Leukocytes >= 3000/mcL

-- absolute neutrophil count >=1,500/mcL

-- platelets >=100,000/mcL

-- Hemoglobin >= 9 g/dL or > 5.6 mmol/L

-- total bilirubin <= 1.5 institutional upper limit of normal (ULN) OR direct bilirubin <=ULN for patients with total bilirubin levels >1.5 (SqrRoot) ULN

-- AST(SGOT)/ALT(SGPT) <=2.5 (SqrRoot) institutional ULN

-- creatinine <= 1.5 institutional ULN

OR

-- glomerular filtration rate (GFR) >=60 mL/min/1.73 m^2 unless data exists supporting safe use at lower kidney function values, no lower than 30 mL/min/1.73 m^2

Note: Creatinine clearance (CrCl) should be calculated per institutional standard. Glomerular filtration rate (GFR) can also be used in place of creatinine or CrCl.

- INR or PT <=1.5 (SqrRoot) ULN unless patient is receiving anticoagulant therapy as long as PT or PTT is within therapeutic range of intended use of anticoagulants

- aPTT <=1.5 (SqrRoot) ULN unless patient is receiving anticoagulant therapy as long as PT or PTT is within therapeutic range of intended use of anticoagulants

-Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients on effective anti-retroviral therapy with undetectable viral load (CD4 count of greater than 250 cells/mcL) within 6 months are eligible for this trial. They must not be receiving prophylactic therapy for an opportunistic infection.

-For patients with evidence of chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, the HBV viral load must be undetectable on suppressive therapy, if indicated.

-Patients with a history of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection must have been treated and cured. For patients with HCV infection who are currently on treatment, they are eligible if they have an undetectable HCV viral load.

-Patients with treated brain metastases are eligible if they are symptomatically stable while off steroid therapy for a minimum of 7 days.

-Patients should be class 2B or better on the New York Heart Association Functional Classification.

-Ability to understand and the willingness to sign a written informed consent document.

-The effects of pembrolizumab and tazemetostat on the developing human fetus are unknown. For this reason and because monoclonal antibodies, EZH2 inhibitors as well as other therapeutic agents used in this trial are known to be teratogenic, women of child-bearing potential and men must agree to use adequate contraception (hormonal or barrier method of birth control; abstinence) prior to study entry and for the duration of study treatment and for 6 months after the last dose of study treatment. Should a woman become pregnant or suspect she is pregnant while she or her partner is participating in this study, she should inform her treating physician immediately. Men treated or enrolled on this protocol must also agree to use adequate contraception prior to the study, for the duration of study participation, and 3 months after completion of study treatment administration.

EXCLUSION CRITERIA:

-Patients who have had chemotherapy, immune checkpoint inhibitors, or radiotherapy within 2 weeks (6 weeks for nitrosoureas or mitomycin C) prior to entering the study. Note: Patients who have had palliative radiotherapy may be included as long as they have recovered from any radiotherapy related adverse events (allow at least 3 days between radiotherapy completion and study treatment).

-Patients who have not recovered from adverse events due to prior anti-cancer therapy

(i.e., have residual toxicities > Grade 1).

Note: Patients with <= Grade 2 neuropathy or <= Grade 2 alopecia are an exception to this criterion and may qualify for the study.

Note: If patients received major surgery, they must have recovered adequately from the toxicity and/or complications from the intervention prior to starting therapy.

-Untreated immunodeficiency or receiving systemic steroid therapy or any other form of immunosuppressive therapy within 7 days prior to the first dose of trial treatment. The use of physiologic doses of corticosteroids may be approved after consultation with the study PI.

-Patients who are receiving any other investigational agents.

-Patients with symptomatic brain metastasis are not eligible due to their extremely poor prognosis and since it is unclear whether the investigational agent penetrates the blood-brain barrier. However, subjects who have had treatment for their brain metastasis and are symptomatically stable while off steroid therapy for a minimum of 7 days may be enrolled. The use of physiologic doses of corticosteroids may be approved after consultation with the study PI.

-History of allergic reactions attributed to compounds of similar chemical or biologic composition to pembrolizumab and tazemetostat or other agents used in study.

-Has an active autoimmune disease that has required systemic treatment in the past 2 years (i.e., with use of disease modifying agents, corticosteroids, or immunosuppressive drugs). Replacement therapy (e.g., thyroxine, insulin, or physiologic corticosteroid replacement therapy for adrenal or pituitary insufficiency, etc.) is not considered a form of systemic treatment.

-Has a history of (non-infectious) pneumonitis that required steroids or current pneumonitis.

-Patients with uncontrolled intercurrent illness but not limited to, ongoing or active infection, interstitial lung disease or active, non-infectious pneumonitis, symptomatic congestive heart failure, unstable angina pectoris, cardiac arrhythmia, or psychiatric illness/social situations that would limit compliance with study requirements.

-Patients with psychiatric illness/social situations that would limit compliance with study requirements.

-Pregnant women are excluded from this study because pembrolizumab as a monoclonal antibody, and tazemetostat as a EZH2 inhibitor may have the potential for teratogenic or abortifacient effects. Because there is an unknown but potential risk for adverse events in nursing infants secondary to treatment of the mother with pembrolizumab or tazemetostat, breastfeeding should be discontinued if the mother is treated with these agents and for 1 week after the last dose of tazemetostat. These potential risks may also apply to other agents used in this study.

-Has known active hepatitis B (e.g., HBsAg reactive) or hepatitis C.

-Has received a live vaccine within 30 days of planned treatment start. Seasonal flu vaccines that do not contain live virus are permitted.

-Has thrombocytopenia, neutropenia, or anemia of Grade >=3 (per CTCAE 5.0 criteria) or any prior history of myeloid malignancies, including myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS).

-Has abnormalities known to be associated with MDS (e.g. del 5q, chr 7 abn) and MPN (e.g. JAK2 V617F) observed in cytogenetic testing and DNA sequencing.

-Has a prior history of T-cell lymphoblastic lymphoma (T-LBL) or T-cell acute leukemia (T-ALL).


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Citations:

Not Provided

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Contacts:

Principal Investigator

Referral Contact

For more information:

Anish Thomas, M.D.
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
NIHBC 10 - CRC BG RM 4-5330
10 CENTER DR
BETHESDA MD 20892
(240) 760-7343
anish.thomas@nih.gov

Rasa Vilimas, R.N.
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
National Institutes of Health
Building 10
Room 8D44
10 Center Drive
Bethesda, Maryland 20892
(240) 858-3158
vilimasrj@mail.nih.gov

NCI Referral Office
National Institute of Health Clinical Center (CC), 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, United States: NCI Clinical Trials Referral Office
1-888-NCI-1937

Clinical Trials Number:

NCT05353439

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