This phase I trial tests the safety, side effects, and effectiveness of adoptive cell therapy (ACT) with total tumor messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA)-pulsed tumor-specific ex vivo-expanded autologous lymphocyte transfer cells (TTRNA-xALT), dendritic cell vaccine, total tumor mRNA-pulsed autologous dendritic cells (TTRNA-DC) and hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) in combination with pembrolizumab in treating patients with group 3 or 4 non-sonic hedgehog (SHH)/non-WNT medulloblastoma that has come back after a period of improvement (relapsed) or that is growing, spreading, or getting worse (progressive). ACT, including TTRNA-xALT, is a type of immunotherapy that uses the body's own immune cells, called T-cells to help fight tumors. Cells from the tumor and immune cells from the patients' blood are used to make a vaccine that may stimulate the T-cells to kill tumor cells and leave the normal cells alone. Before T-cells can become active against tumor cells, they require strong stimulation by dendritic cells, which are also part of the immune system. Although dendritic cells are very strong, the number of them in the body is not high enough to cause a powerful immune response. Therefore, more dendritic cells, such as TTRNA-DC, need to be made in a laboratory with cells collected from the patient's blood. Another type of cells collected during vaccine creation, called peripheral blood stem cells, help the bone marrow recover more quickly after chemotherapy and have been shown to enhance immune responses against the tumor. Immunotherapy with monoclonal antibodies, such as pembrolizumab, may help the body's immune system attack the tumor, and may interfere with the ability of tumor cells to grow and spread. Giving ACT with TTRNA-xALT, TTRNA-DC and hematopoietic stem cells in combination with pembrolizumab may be safe, tolerable, and/or effective in treating relapsed or progressive group 3 or 4 non-SHH/non-WNT medulloblastoma.
Study sponsor and potential other locations can be found on ClinicalTrials.gov for NCT06514898.
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United States
Florida
Gainesville
UF Health Cancer Institute - GainesvilleStatus: Active
Contact: John Allen Ligon
Phone: 352-273-9000
PRIMARY OBJECTIVE:
I. Evaluate the feasibility and safety of ACT + PD-1 blockade in children and young adults with relapsed/progressive medulloblastoma (MB).
SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:
I. Explore the immunologic and clinical (objective response rate) response to ACT + PD1 blockade in patients with relapsed/progressive medulloblastoma.
II. Evaluate baseline to post-immunotherapy functional anti-tumor immune responses in subjects that receive ACT + PD-1 blockade.
III. Analyze progression-free survival and overall survival after treatment with ACT + PD1 blockade in patients with relapsed/progressive medulloblastoma.
EXPLORATORY OBJECTIVE:
I. To determine the feasibility of generating 3 dimensional (3D) tumoroids (if additional tumor tissue available) from patients undergoing biopsy or definitive resection for relapsed/progressive medulloblastoma and observe if the addition of patient immune cells primed with tumor RNA can elicit an immune response.
OUTLINE:
SURGERY/BIOPSY: Patients undergo tumor resection or biopsy per standard of care.
MOBILIZED LEUKAPHERESIS: Starting 2-4 weeks after surgery, patients receive granulocyte colony-stimulating factor subcutaneously (SQ) or intravenously (IV) once daily (QD) on days 1-4, then undergo leukapheresis on day 5.
SALVAGE THERAPY: Starting 1-2 weeks after first leukapheresis, patients receive salvage chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy per treating physician for up 1-3 cycles and will resume 7-14 days after priming for an additional 1-3 cycles.
PRIMING PHASE: Starting within 2 weeks of 1-3 cycles of salvage therapy, patients receive TTRNA-DC with granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) intradermally (ID) on days 0, 14 and 21. Patients receive tetanus diphtheria (Td) vaccination intramuscularly (IM) prior to dendritic cell (DC) vaccine #1 and ID 4-24 hours prior to DC vaccine #3 (NOTE: Also prior to vaccines #5, #7 and #9 during Maintenance Phase).
NON-MOBILIZED LEUKAPHERESIS: Seven-14 days following priming phase, patients undergo non-mobilized leukapheresis.
MAINTENANCE PHASE: Starting within 7-14 days of non-mobilized leukapheresis, patients resume salvage therapy and receive TTRNA-DCs with GM-CSF ID once monthly (QM) for 1-3 doses within each cycle of salvage therapy.
ACT: Starting 1-2 weeks after last cycle of chemotherapy and prior to ACT, patients receive cyclophosphamide IV over 30-60 minutes QD for 2 days followed by fludarabine IV over 30 minutes QD for 5 days. On day 3 following last dose of cyclophosphamide and fludarabine, patients receive autologous CD34-positive peripheral blood stem cells (CD34+ HSC) IV and the next day receive TTRNA-xALT IV over up to 10-60 minutes on day 0 and TTRNA-DC vaccine ID on days 0, 14, and 28.
PD-1 BLOCKADE: Starting day 1 after TTRNA-xALT infusion patients receive pembrolizumab IV once every 3 weeks for up to 2 years in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
Additionally, patients may undergo chest x-ray and echocardiography (ECHO) when clinically indicated and blood sample collection and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) throughout the study.
After completion of study treatment, patients are followed up every 6 months
Lead OrganizationUF Health Cancer Institute - Gainesville
Principal InvestigatorJohn Allen Ligon