Cobolimab and Dostarlimab for the Treatment of BCLC Stage B or C Liver Cancer
This phase II trial tests whether cobolimab and dostarlimab work to shrink tumors in patients with BCLC stage B or C liver cancer. Immunotherapy with monoclonal antibodies, such as cobolimab and dostarlimab, may help the body's immune system attack the cancer, and may interfere with the ability of tumor cells to grow and spread.
Inclusion Criteria
- Histologically or cytologically confirmed hepatocellular cancer
- Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer stage B or C
- Cirrhosis grade of Child-Pugh class A or B7
- Subjects with hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection are required to be receiving effective antiviral therapy and have a viral load less than 100 IU/mL. Antiviral therapy is not required for subjects with HCV infection
- Must have measurable disease, defined as at least one tumor lesion that can be accurately measured according to Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumor (RECIST v1.1)
- No prior systemic therapy for HCC
- Age >= 18 years
- Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status 0-1
- Resolved acute effects of any prior therapy to baseline or grade =< 1 National Cancer Institute (NCI) Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE)
- Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) >= 1000/ucl
- Platelet count >= 60,000/ucl
- Hemoglobin >= 8.5 mg/dl
- Measured or calculated creatinine clearance >= 40 mL/min using the Cockcroft-Gault formula
- Alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and aspartate aminotransferase (AST) =< 5 x upper limit of normal
- Total bilirubin =< 3 mg/dL
- Albumin >= 2.8 g/dL
- International normalized ratio (INR) or prothrombin time (PT) =< 2 x ULN unless patient is receiving anticoagulant therapy as long as PT or partial thromboplastin (PTT) is within therapeutic range of intended use of anticoagulants. Activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT) =< 2 x ULN unless patient is receiving anticoagulant therapy as long as PT or PTT is within therapeutic range of intended use of anticoagulants
- Prior local therapy, such as surgery, radioembolization, chemoembolization, or radiofrequency ablation is allowed if the index lesion(s) remains outside of the treatment field or has progressed since prior treatment
- Participants must agree to not donate blood during the study or for 90 days after the last dose of protocol therapy
- Female participant has a negative urine or serum pregnancy test within 7 days prior to taking study treatment if of childbearing potential and agrees to abstain from activities that could result in pregnancy from screening through 180 days after the last dose of study treatment, or is of nonchildbearing potential. Nonchildbearing potential is defined as follows (by other than medical reasons): * >= 45 years of age and has not had menses for > 1 year * Patients who have been amenorrhoeic for < 2 years without history of a hysterectomy and oophorectomy must have a follicle stimulating hormone value in the postmenopausal range upon screening evaluation * Post-hysterectomy, post-bilateral oophorectomy, or post-tubal ligation. Documented hysterectomy or oophorectomy must be confirmed with medical records of the actual procedure or confirmed by an ultrasound. Tubal ligation must be confirmed with medical records of the actual procedure, otherwise the patient must be willing to use 2 adequate barrier methods throughout the study, starting with the screening visit through 180 days after the last dose of study treatment. Information must be captured appropriately within the site's source documents. Note: Abstinence is acceptable if this is the established and preferred contraception for the patient
- Participant must be able to understand the study procedures and agree to participate in the study by providing written informed consent
Exclusion Criteria
- Participant must not be simultaneously enrolled in any interventional clinical trial
- Participant must not have had major surgery =< 3 weeks prior to initiating protocol therapy and participant must have recovered from any surgical effects
- Participants must not have received investigational therapy =< 4 weeks, or within a time interval less than at least 5 half-lives of the investigational agent, whichever is shorter, prior to initiating protocol therapy
- Active or untreated central nervous system (CNS) and leptomeningeal metastases are excluded
- Prior therapy with any medication targeting PD-1, PD-L1, or TIM-3
- Participant must not have a known hypersensitivity to TSR-042 (DOSTARLIMAB) and TSR-022 (COBOLIMAB) components or excipients
- Participants with active malignancy (other than HCC) or a prior malignancy within the past 2 years are excluded. Participants with completely resected cutaneous melanoma (early stage), basal cell carcinoma, cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma, cervical carcinoma in-situ, breast carcinoma in-situ, and localized prostate cancer are eligible
- Participant must not have serious, uncontrolled medical disorder, or nonmalignant systemic disease as determined by the treating physician. Examples include, but are not limited to uncontrolled ventricular arrhythmia, uncontrolled major seizure disorder, unstable spinal cord compression, or superior vena cava syndrome
- Unstable angina, new onset angina within last 3 months, myocardial infarction within last 6 months and current congestive heart failure New York Heart Association class II or higher
- Known history of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection
- Active tuberculosis infection or other microbial infection or any active systemic infection requiring parenteral antibiotic therapy. All prior infections must have resolved following optimal therapy
- Participant 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
- History of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, interstitial lung disease, bronchial asthma, organizing pneumonia, bronchiolitis obliterans, drug-induced pneumonitis, or idiopathic pneumonitis
- History of organ transplantation including allogeneic bone marrow transplantation
- Participant has a diagnosis of immunodeficiency or has been receiving systemic steroid therapy or any other form of immunosuppressive therapy within 7 days prior to initiating protocol therapy
- Participant has received a live vaccine within 7 days of initiating protocol therapy
- Psychiatric illness/social situations that would limit compliance with study requirements
- Pregnant, lactating, breastfeeding, or intending to become pregnant during the study and for 180 days after the study
Additional locations may be listed on ClinicalTrials.gov for NCT03680508.
See trial information on ClinicalTrials.gov for a list of participating sites.
PRIMARY OBJECTIVE:
I. Assess the objective response rate (ORR) as determined by Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) version (v)1.1 of advanced hepatocellular cancer (HCC) patients treated with TSR-022 (COBOLIMAB) and TSR-042 (DOSTARLIMAB).
SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:
I. Determine the ORR as determined by the immune related Response Criteria (irRC), duration of response (DOR), time to progression (TTP), progression free survival (PFS), overall survival (OS), and alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) response of study participants.
II. Evaluate the safety profile of treated patients.
CORRELATIVE SCIENCE OBJECTIVES:
I. Assess association between response and survival endpoints and HCC TIM-3 gene signature.
II. Correlate circulating cell free deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and circulating tumor DNA with clinical outcomes of treated patients.
III. Correlate PD-L1 expression and TIM-3 expression on tumor cells and tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) with clinical outcomes of treated patients.
IV. Correlate cytokine levels with clinical outcomes of treated patients.
OUTLINE:
Patients receive cobolimab intravenously (IV) over 30 minutes and dostarlimab IV over 30 minutes on day 1. Cycles repeat every 21 days for up to 2 years in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients undergo blood sample collection and computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) throughout the trial.
After completion of study treatment, patients are followed up every 3 months.
Trial PhasePhase II
Trial Typetreatment
Lead OrganizationUniversity of Hawaii Cancer Center
Principal InvestigatorJared D. Acoba
- Primary IDACOBA-2017-2
- Secondary IDsNCI-2022-02774
- ClinicalTrials.gov IDNCT03680508