This phase I trial tests the safety, side effects, and best dose of an HPV-specific donor T-cell infusion in treating patients with advanced HPV16-associated head and neck squamous cell cancer that has come back after a period of improvement (recurrent) or that has spread from where it first started (primary site) to other places in the body (metastatic). A donor T-cell infusion is an infusion of a donor's white blood cells (donor lymphocyte infusion [DLI]) and may help the patient's immune system see the tumor cells and destroy them. Scientists have found that a family of viruses called HPV can cause certain cancers, particularly in the head and neck. Most of these cancers are caused by a specific type of HPV called HPV16. This research is being done to see if giving HPV16+ cancer patients an HPV-specific donor T-cell infusion, from a donor who received an HPV vaccine series, causes a stronger immune response and may more effectively treat the cancer. Giving an HPV-specific donor T-cell infusion may be safe, tolerable and/or effective in treating patients with advanced HPV16-associated head and neck squamous cell cancer.
Study sponsor and potential other locations can be found on ClinicalTrials.gov for NCT04713046.
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United States
Maryland
Baltimore
Johns Hopkins University/Sidney Kimmel Cancer CenterStatus: Active
Contact: Tanguy Y. Seiwert
Phone: 410-955-8893
PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:
I. Evaluate the safety and feasibility non-myeloablative (NMA) allogeneic bone marrow transplant (alloBMT) from donors vaccinated with human papillomavirus vaccine series (PVX1) using post-transplant cyclophosphamide (PTCy) based immunosuppression in patients with recurrent or metastatic (R/M) HPV16-associated malignancy. (Arm A)
II. Determine the maximum tolerated dose (MTD), safety and feasibility of haploidentical CD4+ T cells infused after cyclophosphamide (Cy) in patients with R/M HPV16-associated malignancy. (Arm B)
SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:
I. Document the toxicities of alloBMT and allogeneic HPV-specific CD4+ T cells in patients with recurrent or metastatic HPV16-associated malignancy progressed after first-line treatment.
II. Characterize effects of therapy on T cells and myeloid cells in the tumor microenvironment after alloBMT and/or DLI.
III. Characterize the clinical anti-tumor effects of therapy (response rate, overall and progression-free survivals) of alloBMT and/or DLI.
IV. Estimate the times to neutrophil and platelet recovery, and incidences of graft failure, grades II-IV and III-IV acute graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) by day 90 and 180, chronic GVHD by day 180 and 1 year, disease progression and non-relapse mortality by day 90, day 180, and 1 year after transplantation.
OUTLINE: This is a dose escalation study of CD8+ T Cell-Depleted DLI. Patients are randomized to 1 of 2 arms.
ARM A:
* CONDITIONING: Patients receive fludarabine intravenously (IV) over 30‐60 minutes once daily (QD) on days -6 to -2 and cyclophosphamide IV over 1-2 hours QD on days -6 to -5. Patients then undergo total body irradiation (TBI) once on day -1.
* ALLOGENEIC BONE MARROW TRANSPLANT: Patients receive T‐cell replete bone marrow graft once on day 0. Patients may receive CD8+ T cell-depleted DLI IV once on day 90 as clinically indicated for disease progression.
ARM B:
* Patients receive cyclophosphamide IV over 1-2 hours QD on days -2 to -1 and receive CD8+ T cell-depleted DLI IV once on day 0.
Additionally, patients undergo echocardiography (ECHO) during screening as well as computed tomography (CT) scan, positron emission tomography (PET)/CT scan, or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and blood sample collection throughout the study. Patients may undergo biopsy as clinically indicated.
After completion of study treatment, patients are followed up at days 14, 28, 42, 56, 84, 90, 112, 180, 270 and day 365 and then at least yearly until disease progression or death.
Lead OrganizationJohns Hopkins University/Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center
Principal InvestigatorTanguy Y. Seiwert