Background:
- Recurrent respiratory papillomatosis (RRP) is a rare papillomatous disease of the
respiratory tract that is caused by Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) types 6 or 11.
- RRP can progress to cause severe voice disturbance, airway compromise, fatal
pulmonary lesions, and rarely invasive cancers.
- There is no approved systemic therapy for RRP. Participants require repeated
surgical procedures for disease debridement and control.
- Translational research studies have shown high levels of vascularity in papilloma
tissue driven in part by high levels of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF)-A
mRNA, vascular endothelial growth factor receptors (VEGFR)-1 and VEGFR-2 and
elevated serum levels of VEGF-A, particularly in cases of aggressive RRP.
- Papillomas are also infiltrated by immunosuppressive myeloid and regulatory T-cells.
- Systemic inhibition of VEGF signaling may reduce VEGF-driven angiogenesis in
papillomas and reduce chemotaxis and expansion of immunosuppressive myeloid cells
and regulatory T-cells.
- Bevacizumab is a recombinant humanized monoclonal antibody that binds all active
forms of VEGF-A.
- Bevacizumab is FDA approved for the treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer,
non-small cell lung cancer, metastatic renal cell carcinoma, recurrent glioblastoma,
cervical cancer, epithelial ovarian cancer, fallopian tube cancer and primary
peritoneal cancer and was selected for its demonstrated activity in a variety of
cancers and for its acceptable safety profile.
- Use of systemic bevacizumab in patients with severe and/or tracheal RRP has not been
studied prospectively in controlled clinical studies, but clinical safety and
activity has been reported in retrospective single institution case series.
- Bevacizumab resistance can develop in cancer patients due to a variety of tumor
escape mechanisms that are unlikely to occur in RRP patients with normal endothelial
cells, but bevacizumab re-treatment for recurrent RRP has not been evaluated in
controlled clinical studies.
Objective:
-To determine the percentage of participants with an increase in their surgery-free
interval during treatment with systemic bevacizumab
Eligibility:
- Histologically confirmed diagnosis of RRP
- A history of 2 or more surgeries in the last 12 months in order to control laryngeal
and/or tracheal RRP
- At least one of the following:
- A Derkay score of 8 or greater
- Pulmonary RRP with disease measurable by Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid
Tumors (RECIST) 1.1
- Tracheal involvement with RRP that has required two or more clinical
interventions in the last 12 months
- Tracheostomy
- Age >=18 years old
- Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) Performance Score of 0 or 1
Design:
- This is a phase II, single arm clinical trial evaluating systemic bevacizumab.
- Participants will receive bevacizumab (10 mg/kg IV) every three weeks for 3 cycles
and then every 6 weeks for a total treatment course of 11 cycles for approximately 1
year total.
- Operative examination under anesthesia (EUA) with biopsies for research and possible
papilloma debulking for safety will be performed before dose 1, optional EUA for
research biopsies may be performed following dose 2 and at cycles 6 and 11.
- Participants may undergo standard-of-care operative EUA with papilloma cleanout
during the 1-year treatment period as clinically indicated at the NIH.
- The mean surgery-free interval during the 1-year treatment period will be compared
to the mean surgery-free interval in the 12 months prior to treatment.
- Participants will also be assessed for papilloma recurrence and surgery-free
interval at 6, 12, 24 weeks and every 3 months after that until 1 year following
completion of treatment.
- A total of 20 evaluable participants will be treated on study.
- During the follow up period, up to 15 participants who develop sufficient papilloma
recurrence to require a clinical intervention may be re-treated with 11 additional
cycles of bevacizumab (10 mg/kg IV) following the same schedule as the initial
treatment.
- Prior to the initiation of re-treatment, an optional operative EUA with biopsies for
research and possible papilloma debulking for safety may be performed.