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Cancer Immunotherapeutic (PCI) Strategy in Triple Negative Breast Cancer Patients

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Status and phase

Begins enrollment in 1 month
Phase 1

Conditions

Triple Negative Breast Cancer

Treatments

Other: pVAC tools neoantigen prediction algorithm
Drug: Pembrolizumab
Drug: Doxorubicin
Drug: Cyclophosphamide
Drug: Paclitaxel
Biological: Personalized cancer immunotherapeutic (PCI)
Drug: poly-ICLC
Drug: AB248 (CD8-selective IL-2 mutein fusion protein)
Drug: Carboplatin

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT07300475
25-x465

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a phase 1 clinical trial to evaluate the safety, feasibility and immunogenicity of a personalized cancer immunotherapeutic (PCI) strategy with or without CD8-selective IL-2 mutein fusion protein in patients with triple negative breast cancer undergoing neoadjuvant chemoimmunotherapy.

Enrollment

30 estimated patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Step 0 Inclusion Criteria:

  • Newly diagnosed, previously untreated, locally advanced non-metastatic triple negative breast cancer (as defined by the most recent ASCO/CAP guidelines). Permissible staging per AJCC is as follows:

    • T1c, N1-N2
    • T2, N0-N2
    • T3, N0-N2
  • At least 18 years of age.

  • Adequate tissue available for nucleic acid isolation/PCI design.

  • Adequate cardiac function per treating physician and a candidate for the KEYNOTE 522 regimen (or receiving the KEYNOTE 522 regimen for no more than one month).

  • Ability to understand and willingness to sign an IRB approved written informed consent document. Legally authorized representatives may sign and give informed consent on behalf of study participants.

Step 0 Exclusion Criteria:

  • Prior or concurrent malignancy whose natural history has the potential to interfere with the safety or efficacy assessment of the investigational regimen. Patients with prior or concurrent malignancy that does NOT meet that definition are eligible for this trial.
  • Received prior chemotherapy, targeted therapy, or radiation therapy within the past 12 months.
  • Received prior therapy with an anti-PD-1, anti-PD-L1, or anti-PD-L2 agent, or with an agent directed to another co-inhibitory T-cell receptor.
  • Currently receiving any other investigational agents.
  • A history of allergic reactions attributed to compounds of similar chemical or biologic composition to any agents used in the study.
  • Received a live vaccine within 30 days of the first dose of pembrolizumab.
  • Active autoimmune disease that has required systemic treatment in the past 2 years.
  • Diagnosis of immunodeficiency or receiving systemic steroid therapy or any other form of immunosuppressive therapy within 7 days prior to the first dose of pembrolizumab.
  • History of (non-infectious) pneumonitis that required steroids, or current pneumonitis.
  • Uncontrolled intercurrent illness including, but not limited to: ongoing or active infection, symptomatic congestive heart failure, unstable angina pectoris, or cardiac arrhythmia. Patients with a known history or current symptoms of cardiac disease, or history of treatment with cardiotoxic agents, should have a clinical risk assessment of cardiac function using the New York Heart Association Function Classification; to be eligible for this trial, patients should be a class 2B or better.
  • Pregnant and/or breastfeeding. Women of childbearing potential must have a negative pregnancy test within 7 days of study entry.
  • Known history of active TB (bacillus tuberculosis).
  • Known history of HIV.
  • Evidence of chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) that is detectable on suppressive therapy. Patients with evidence of chronic HBV infection with undetectable HBV viral load on suppressive therapy are eligible. HBV testing not required in the absence of known history of infection.
  • History of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection that has not been cured or that has a detectable viral load. Patients with a history of HCV that has been treated and cured are eligible. Patients with HCV infection who are currently on treatment and have an undetectable HCV viral load are eligible. HCV testing not required in the absence of known history of infection.

Step 1 Inclusion Criteria:

  • ECOG performance status ≤ 1 within 10 days of initiation of PCI

  • Adequate bone marrow and organ function as defined below:

    • Absolute neutrophil count ≥ 1.0 K/cumm
    • Platelets ≥ 100 K/cumm
    • Hemoglobin ≥ 8.0 g/dL
    • Total bilirubin ≤ 1.5 x IULN
    • AST(SGOT)/ALT(SGPT) ≤ 3.0 x IULN
    • Creatinine clearance > 30 mL/min by Cockcroft-Gault
  • The effects of the PCI on the developing human fetus are unknown. For this reason, women of childbearing potential and men must agree to use adequate contraception prior to study entry, for the duration of study participation, and for 6 months after last dose of PCI. Should a woman become pregnant or suspect she is pregnant while participating in this study or should a man suspect he has fathered a child, s/he must inform her treating physician immediately.

  • Received at least 4 months of the KEYNOTE 522 regimen.

Step 1 Exclusion Criteria:

  • Currently receiving any other investigational agents.
  • Pregnant and/or breastfeeding.
  • Experiencing ongoing AEs related to the SOC KEYNOTE 522 regimen that have not resolved to < grade 3.

Trial design

Primary purpose

Treatment

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

30 participants in 2 patient groups

Arm 1: Neoadjuvant SOC KEYNOTE 522 + Adjuvant PCI + Pembrolizumab
Experimental group
Description:
Patients will be treated with standard of care (SOC) neoadjuvant chemoimmunotherapy according to the KEYNOTE 522 regimen for eight 21-day cycles. Patients will take a 2-week drug holiday from the end of SOC neoadjuvant chemoimmunotherapy to the start of personalized cancer immunotherapeutic (PCI). Patients will receive 5 doses of the PCI + poly-ICLC on Days 1, 4, 8, 15, and 22. Patients will undergo the SOC surgery on Day 29 +/- 5 days. Following surgery, patients will receive 3 additional doses of the PCI + poly-ICLC. Patients will receive 9 doses of SOC adjuvant pembrolizumab on a 21-day cycle. The PCI + poly-ICLC will be given on Days 43, 64, and 85.
Treatment:
Drug: Carboplatin
Drug: poly-ICLC
Biological: Personalized cancer immunotherapeutic (PCI)
Drug: Paclitaxel
Drug: Cyclophosphamide
Drug: Doxorubicin
Other: pVAC tools neoantigen prediction algorithm
Drug: Pembrolizumab
Arm 2: Neoadjuvant SOC KEYNOTE 522 + Adjuvant PCI + Pembrolizumab+AB248
Experimental group
Description:
Patients will be treated with standard of care (SOC) neoadjuvant chemoimmunotherapy according to the KEYNOTE 522 regimen for eight 21-day cycles. Patients will take a 2-week drug holiday from the end of SOC neoadjuvant chemoimmunotherapy to the start of personalized cancer immunotherapeutic (PCI). Patients will receive 5 doses of the PCI + poly-ICLC on Days 1, 4, 8, 15, and 22. Patients will also receive 2 doses of AB248 on Days 8 and 22. Patients will undergo the SOC surgery on Day 29 +/- 5 days. Following surgery, patients will receive 3 additional doses of the PCI + poly-ICLC. Patients will receive 9 doses of SOC adjuvant pembrolizumab on a 21-day cycle. The PCI + poly-ICLC will be given on Days 43, 64, and 85.
Treatment:
Drug: Carboplatin
Drug: AB248 (CD8-selective IL-2 mutein fusion protein)
Drug: poly-ICLC
Biological: Personalized cancer immunotherapeutic (PCI)
Drug: Paclitaxel
Drug: Cyclophosphamide
Drug: Doxorubicin
Other: pVAC tools neoantigen prediction algorithm
Drug: Pembrolizumab

Trial contacts and locations

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Central trial contact

Katherine Clifton, M.D.; William Gillanders, MD

Data sourced from clinicaltrials.gov

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