Safety and Tolerability Evaluation of Sintilimab in Combination With Radiation in Stage IV NSCLC Patients

NCT ID: NCT03812549

Last Updated: 2025-03-04

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

PHASE1

Total Enrollment

29 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2019-01-18

Study Completion Date

2022-07-08

Brief Summary

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This pilot phase I trial aims to investigate the safety and tolerability of anti-programmed cell death-1 (PD-1) monoclonal antibody Sintilimab (also called IBI308) in combination with concurrent stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) and low dose radiotherapy (LDRT) in treating patients with stage IV non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

At least 29 participants will be enrolled in this study. All will take part at West China Hospital, Sichuan University.

Detailed Description

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This exploratory phase I study will be conducted in two steps:

Step A: A low dose radiotherapy (LDRT) dose escalation, 6 patients per cohort (a total of 18 patients) will be enrolled to determine the maximum tolerated dose (MTD), dose-limiting toxicity (DLT) and recommended dose for expansion (RDE) for lung LDRT.

Step B: A lung LDRT dose expansion

All eligible patients will receive lung SBRT dosed at 30 Gy in 3 fractions, in combination with LDRT at different dose levels (decried as below) starting from the 2nd day of SBRT, followed by sintilimab monotherapy starting within 7 days after radiation completed. Sintilimab will be given at 200mg every 3 weeks until disease progression, unacceptable toxicities, the patient withdraws informed consent, or sintilimab reaches a maximum of up to 24 months.

Patients in the dose escalation will receive lung LDRT at 3 cohorts with increasing dose levels: 2 Gy in 1 fraction in dose level 1, 4 Gy in 2 fractions in dose level 2, 10Gy in 5 fractions in dose level 3.

A cohort of 17 patients will receive lung LDRT at the RDE determined during the dose escalation phase in combination with SBRT and Sintilimab to obtain additional safety and response data.

Conditions

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Stage IV NSCLC

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NA

Intervention Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Sintilimab Combined with SBRT and LDRT

Period 1-Dose escalation cohort. Dose Level 1: Stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) dose at 30 Gy/3f + Low Dose Radiotherapy (LDRT, 2 Gy in 1 fraction) + anti-PD-1 inhibitor 200mg.

Dose Level 2: Stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) dose at 30 Gy/3f + Low Dose Radiotherapy (LDRT, 4 Gy in 2 fractions) + anti-PD-1 inhibitor 200mg.

Dose Level 3: Stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) dose at 30 Gy/3f + Low Dose Radiotherapy (LDRT, 10 Gy in 5 fractions) + anti-PD-1 inhibitor 200mg.

Period 2 - Expansion cohort. SBRT dose at 30 Gy/3f + LDRT + anti-PD-1 inhibitor 200mg, LDRT dose at RDE determined in Period 1.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Sintilimab

Intervention Type DRUG

Patients will receive treatment with Sintilimab 200mg every 3 weeks for a maximum of 24 months.

stereotactic body radiation therapy

Intervention Type RADIATION

Radiation treatment utilized in this trial consists of SBRT with a standard doses to 30 Gy/3f

Low Dose Radiotherapy

Intervention Type RADIATION

LDRT at dose escalation levels: 2 Gy/1f, 4 Gy/2f, 10 Gy/5f with conventional external beam radiation.

Interventions

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Sintilimab

Patients will receive treatment with Sintilimab 200mg every 3 weeks for a maximum of 24 months.

Intervention Type DRUG

stereotactic body radiation therapy

Radiation treatment utilized in this trial consists of SBRT with a standard doses to 30 Gy/3f

Intervention Type RADIATION

Low Dose Radiotherapy

LDRT at dose escalation levels: 2 Gy/1f, 4 Gy/2f, 10 Gy/5f with conventional external beam radiation.

Intervention Type RADIATION

Other Intervention Names

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IBI308 SBRT LDRT

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

1. Patients with histologically or cytologically confirmed stage IV NSCLC.
2. Enough tumor tissue samples.
3. No previous radiation, chemotherapy, immunotherapy. Patients who have received neoadjuvant or adjuvant chemotherapy 12 months before enrollment is permitted.
4. At least three measurable disease according to RECIST 1.1 that meet SBRT and LDRT radiation requirement as protocol defined
5. PD-L1 expression positive (TPS \>1%)
6. Be ≥18 years of age on day of signing informed consent and ≤75 years old.
7. ECOG 0-1.
8. Patients must have normal organ and marrow function as defined below: Total bilirubin \</= 1.5 mg/dL. Aminotransferase (AST) Serum Glutamic Oxaloacetic Transaminase (SGOT)/ Alanine Aminotransferase (ALT) Serum Glutamic-Pyruvic Transaminase (SGPT) \<2.5 X institutional upper limit of normal (patients with liver involvement will be allowed \</= 5.0 X institutional upper normal limit) \*WBC \>/= 3500/uL, ANC \>/= 1500/uL \*Platelets \>/= 90K \*Hemoglobin \>/= 9g/dL \*Creatinine \</= 1.5 x ULN.
9. Be willing and able to provide written informed consent/assent for the trial.
10. Patients should be able to tolerate a course of radiotherapy as assessed by the investigator.
11. No contradiction to radiation per radio-oncologists' judgments
12. Life expectancy of \> 6 months.

Exclusion Criteria

1. EGFR/ALK/ROS-1 mutation or mutation status unknown.
2. Has evidence of interstitial lung disease or active, non-infectious pneumonitis.
3. Subjects with coronary bypass operation.
4. Subjects with insufficient heart function, liver function and kidney function.
5. Subjects with severe uncontrollable psychotic symptoms.
6. Treatment with systemic corticosteroids or other systemic immunosuppressive medications (including but not limited to prednisone, dexamethasone, cyclophosphamide, azathioprine, methotrexate, thalidomide, anti-tumor necrosis factor agents) within 4 weeks prior to enrollment or anticipated requirement for systemic immunosuppressive medications during the trial.
7. Subjects with active, known or suspected autoimmune disease such as interstitial pneumonia, uveitis, Crohn's disease, autoimmune thyroiditis. Subjects with cured childhood asthma, type I diabetes mellitus only requiring hormone replacement.
8. Known history of allogeneic organ or allogeneic hemopoietic stem cell transplantation.
9. Known hypersensitivity or allergy to monoclonal antibody.
10. Subjects with a history of interstitial lung disease.
11. Uncontrolled concomitant disease, including but not limited to :

1)Active or poorly controlled severe infection 2)Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection (HIV antibody positive) 3)Known acute or chronic active hepatitis B (HBV DNA positive) infection or acute or chronic active hepatitis C (HCV antibody positive and HCV RNA positive) infection 4)Active tuberculosis 5)Symptomatic congestive heart failure (New York Heart Association grade III-IV) or symptomatic, poorly controlled arrhythmia 6)Uncontrolled hypertension (SBP ≥ 160mmHg or DBP ≥ 100mmHg) 7)Prior arterial thromboembolism event, including myocardial infarction, unstable angina, stroke and transient ischemic attack, within 6 months of enrollment 8)Concomitant disease needs anticoagulant therapy 9)Uncontrolled hypercalcemia(Ca2+\>1.5mmol/L or Ca \>12mg/dl or corrected Serum Calcium \>ULN),or Symptomatic hypercalcemia during diphosphonate therapy

12\. Other primary malignancy, with the exception of: (radical Non-melanoma skin cancer or cured cervical in-situ carcinoma;).

13\. Subjects with other diseases or abnormal Lab test results which might increase the risk of enrollment and treatment or Interfere with the interpretation of study results could be excluded according to the judgments of investigator.

14\. Pregnant or lactating women.
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

70 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Innovent Biologics (Suzhou) Co. Ltd.

INDUSTRY

Sponsor Role collaborator

Sichuan University

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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You Lu

Chair of Department of Thoracic Oncology

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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You Lu, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

West China Hospital

Locations

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West China Hospital, Sichuan University

Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Site Status

Countries

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China

References

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Reference Type BACKGROUND
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Kaur P, Asea A. Radiation-induced effects and the immune system in cancer. Front Oncol. 2012 Dec 17;2:191. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2012.00191. eCollection 2012.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
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Bernstein MB, Krishnan S, Hodge JW, Chang JY. Immunotherapy and stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (ISABR): a curative approach? Nat Rev Clin Oncol. 2016 Aug;13(8):516-24. doi: 10.1038/nrclinonc.2016.30. Epub 2016 Mar 8.

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Park SS, Dong H, Liu X, Harrington SM, Krco CJ, Grams MP, Mansfield AS, Furutani KM, Olivier KR, Kwon ED. PD-1 Restrains Radiotherapy-Induced Abscopal Effect. Cancer Immunol Res. 2015 Jun;3(6):610-9. doi: 10.1158/2326-6066.CIR-14-0138. Epub 2015 Feb 19.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
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Postow MA, Callahan MK, Barker CA, Yamada Y, Yuan J, Kitano S, Mu Z, Rasalan T, Adamow M, Ritter E, Sedrak C, Jungbluth AA, Chua R, Yang AS, Roman RA, Rosner S, Benson B, Allison JP, Lesokhin AM, Gnjatic S, Wolchok JD. Immunologic correlates of the abscopal effect in a patient with melanoma. N Engl J Med. 2012 Mar 8;366(10):925-31. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1112824.

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Du J, Su S, Li H, Shao J, Meng F, Yang M, Qian H, Zou Z, Qian X, Liu B. Low dose irradiation increases adoptive cytotoxic T lymphocyte migration in gastric cancer. Exp Ther Med. 2017 Dec;14(6):5711-5716. doi: 10.3892/etm.2017.5305. Epub 2017 Oct 13.

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Brooks ED, Chang JY. Time to abandon single-site irradiation for inducing abscopal effects. Nat Rev Clin Oncol. 2019 Feb;16(2):123-135. doi: 10.1038/s41571-018-0119-7.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 30401936 (View on PubMed)

Provided Documents

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Document Type: Study Protocol and Statistical Analysis Plan

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Other Identifiers

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IHC-001

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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