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Background:
One way to treat liver cancer is to deliver chemotherapy drugs only to the liver (and not to the whole body). Researchers want to see if adding the drug PDS01ADC can improve the treatment. The drug triggers the immune system to fight cancer.<TAB>
Objective:
To see if treatment with HAIPs to deliver liver-directed FUDR and Dexamethasone chemotherapy in combination with PDS01ADC is effective for certain cancers.
Eligibility:
People aged 18 and older who have cancer of the bile ducts that is only in the liver, or colorectal cancer that has spread to the liver, or cancer of the adrenal glands that has spread to the liver, who are also receiving or planning to receive standard systemic chemotherapy for their disease.
Design:
Participants will be screened with:
Medical history
Physical exam
Blood tests
Pregnancy test (if needed)
Tumor biopsy (if needed)
Electrocardiogram
Computed tomography (CT) scans
Participants will have an abdominal operation. A catheter will be placed into an artery that feeds blood to the liver. The catheter will then be attached to the HAIP. The HAIP will lay under the skin on the left side of the abdomen.
All participants will have liver-directed FUDR and Dexamethasone chemotherapy drugs or heparin with saline infused into the HAIP every 2 weeks. PDS01ADC will be injected under the skin every 4 weeks. They will receive this treatment until their cancer gets worse or they have bad side effects.
Participants will also receive standard systemic chemotherapy for their disease, assigned based on diagnosis, through an IV by their medical oncologist (at NIH or by a local provider) every 2 weeks.
Participants will have 2 study visits at NIH each month. They will have CT scans every 8 weeks. At visits, they will repeat some screening tests.
Participants will have a follow-up visit 1 month after treatment ends. Then they will be contacted every 6 months for 5 years.
Full description
Background:
Regional chemotherapy for hepatic malignancies takes advantage of the fact that tumors are perfused almost exclusively by the hepatic artery and, that the agent used (Floxuridine, FUDR) has a 95% first-pass metabolism by the liver.
Early clinical trials performed during the 1970's and 1980's demonstrated impressive response rates that led to the adoption of hepatic artery infusion pump chemotherapy (HAIP) at select centers; however, little has changed in the ensuing decades with respect to regional
therapy for the liver, although there has been continued and even renewed interest.
Dose reductions of FUDR are common after several treatments, which has limited both the magnitude and duration of treatment responses in many cases.
We posit that the logical and much-needed "next step" in regional therapy is to take advantage of the FUDR-induced tumor necrosis with an agent able to activate local tumor immunity for a synergistic effect.
PDS01ADC is an immunocytokine composed of two IL-12 heterodimers, each fused to the H-chain of the NHS76 antibody. The NHS76 IgG1 antibody has affinity for both single- and double-stranded DNA (dsDNA), and targets regions of tumor necrosis where DNA has become exposed. PDS01ADC targets necrotic areas of the tumor and activates immune cells in the tumor microenvironment to induce a Th1 polarization of lymphocytes and the release of IFN-gamma. IFN-gamma in turn induces a host of immunomodulatory effects that contribute to robust antitumor responses that are localized within the tumor microenvironment, with no systemic distribution or exposure to IL-12.
Data from a recent Phase I study demonstrate that subcutaneous administration of PDS01ADC is safe and a MTD has been determined. Moreover, preclinical models indicate that PDS01ADC synergizes with therapies able to effectively induce tumor necrosis, which may also minimize toxicity by limiting off-target exposure.
Objective:
-To determine the objective response rate (ORR) in participants with unresectable metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC), intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC), or adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC) with liver dominant disease treated with PDS01ADC in combination with HAIP in participants receiving systemic therapy
Eligibility:
Design:
-Open label, single center, non-randomized Phase II study
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Inclusion and exclusion criteria
Inclusion Criteria- All Cohorts
Participants must have a documented diagnosis of one of the following cancers:
Participants must have an identified medical oncologist who has recommended and is planning to oversee treatment with one of the following standard chemotherapy regimens (based on disease type) not to begin sooner than 28 days after initiation of study-directed HAIP intervention:
Age >= 18 years.
Negative serum or urine pregnancy test at screening for individuals of childbearing potential (IOCBP).
NOTE: IOCBP is defined as any individual who has experienced menarche and who has not undergone successful surgical sterilization or who is not postmenopausal. IOCBP must have a negative pregnancy test (HCG blood or urine) during screening.
Inclusion Criteria-Metastatic Colorectal Carcinoma
Participants must have histologically or cytologically confirmed diagnosis of colorectal adenocarcinoma metastatic to the liver (Cohort 1).
Participants must have measurable liver metastatic disease.
Participants must have received 1st line systemic chemotherapy.
ECOG performance status <= 1.
Participants must have adequate organ and marrow function as defined below:
Inclusion Criteria-Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma
Participants must have histologically or cytologically confirmed diagnosis of intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma confined to the liver (Cohort 2). Archival tumor sample may be used but if archival tissue is not available or is not adequate, tissue biopsy will be required.
Clinical or radiographic evidence of metastatic disease to regional (porta hepatis) lymph nodes will be allowed, provided it is amenable to resection.
Participants must have radiographically measurable disease.
Disease must be considered unresectable at the time of preoperative evaluation.
Participants must have received 1st line systemic chemotherapy.
ECOG performance status <=1.
Participants must have adequate organ and marrow function as defined below:
Inclusion Criteria-Adrenocortical Carcinoma
Participants must have histologically or cytologically confirmed diagnosis of adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC), also referred to as "adrenocortical cancer".
Participants must have received at least one line of systemic chemotherapy.
Participants must have measurable liver metastatic disease.
ECOG performance status <= 1.
Participants must have adequate organ and marrow function as defined below:
EXCLUSION CRITERIA:
Exclusion Criteria- All Cohorts
Participants who are receiving any other investigational agents.
Participants who have previously received rIL-12.
Participants with active autoimmune diseases, that might deteriorate when receiving an immunostimulatory agent with the exceptions:
History of organ transplant, except for transplants that do not require immunosuppression.
History of or active inflammatory bowel disease (e.g., Crohn s disease, ulcerative colitis).
Known hypersensitivity or allergic reactions attributed to any compounds of similar chemical or biologic composition to the study medication, such as recombinant IL-12 or other monoclonal antibodies and history of allergic reactions attributed to compounds of similar chemical composition to FUDR or heparin.
Clinically significant (i.e., active) cardiovascular disease: cerebral vascular accident/stroke < 6 months prior to enrollment, myocardial infarction < 6 months prior to enrollment, unstable angina, congestive heart failure (>= NYHA III) or serious cardiac arrhythmia requiring medication.
All conditions associated with significant necrosis of nontumor-bearing tissues.
Esophageal or gastroduodenal ulcers < 6 months prior to treatment.
Active ischemic bowel disease.
Psychiatric illness/social situations that would limit compliance with study requirements.
Active concurrent malignancies within the last five years other than colorectal primary except basal cell skin carcinoma and thyroid carcinoma.
Prior radiation to liver.
Participants with active Hepatitis B or C infection.
Significant acute or chronic infections (i.e., tuberculosis) history of exposure or history of positive tuberculosis test; plus, presence of clinical symptoms, physical or radiographic findings).
Any condition, including the presence of laboratory abnormalities and/or insufficient normal liver parenchyma, which places the participant at unacceptable risk if they were to participate in the study or confounds the ability to interpret data from the study.
Exclusion Criteria-Metastatic Colorectal Carcinoma
-Participants with incontrovertible radiographic evidence of disease outside of the colon/rectum (primary) and liver given unlikelihood of benefit from liver-directed therapy.
Note: Lung lesions seen on CT do not always represent metastases. They are very hard to qualify, therefore exception to this exclusion is participants with fewer than five lung lesions greater than 1 cm that have not increased in size by more than 10% over a 4-month period of time and are amenable to resection should subsequent problematic growth occur. Lesions less than 1 cm are indeterminant as far as etiology is concerned and will be ignored. Participants with liver metastases and oligometastatic lung lesions (we define oligometastatic as less than 5 amenable to thoracoscopic removal) are still likely to benefit from liver directed therapy.
Exclusion Criteria-Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma
-Presence of distant metastatic disease. Clinical or radiographic evidence of metastatic disease to regional lymph nodes will be allowed, provided it is amenable to resection.
Note: Lung lesions seen on CT do not always represent metastases. They are very hard to qualify, therefore exception to this exclusion is participants with fewer than five lung lesions greater than 1 cm that have not increased in size by more than 10% over a 4-month period of time and are amenable to resection should subsequent problematic growth occur. Lesions less than 1 cm are indeterminate as far as etiology is concerned and will be ignored. Participants with liver metastases and oligometastatic lung lesions (we define oligometastatic as less than 5 amenable to thoracoscopic removal) are still likely to benefit from liver directed therapy.
Exclusion Criteria-Adrenocortical Carcinoma
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70 participants in 3 patient groups
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Kathleen M Smith, R.N.; Jonathan M Hernandez, M.D.
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