PBI-MST-01(NCT04541108) Substudy TAK-02: Intratumoral Microdosing of TAK-676 in HNSCC

NCT ID: NCT06062602

Last Updated: 2023-10-06

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

EARLY_PHASE1

Total Enrollment

15 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2021-07-26

Study Completion Date

2022-11-15

Brief Summary

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This is a multi-center, open-label Phase 0 substudy designed to study the localized pharmacodynamics (PD) of TAK-676 alone or in combination with Carboplatin, 5-FU, or Paclitaxel within the tumor microenvironment (TME) when administered intratumorally in microdose quantities via the CIVO device in patients diagnosed with Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma presenting with a surface accessible solid tumor for which there is a scheduled surgical intervention. This substudy is a cohort of the PBI-MST-01 Master Protocol.

Detailed Description

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CIVO is a research tool composed of a hand-held single-use sterile injector coupled with fluorescent tracking microspheres called CIVO GLO that mark the sites of drug microdose injection, enabling rapid assessment of multiple oncology drugs or drug combinations simultaneously within a patient's tumor. Tumor responses to cancer treatments are highly context-specific and often involve complex interactions between the anti-cancer therapy, genetically diverse tumor cells, and a heterogeneous TME. This complexity is rarely modeled accurately in preclinical translational models of cancer.

In this Phase 0 intratumoral microdosing substudy in human patients with Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma (who will be undergoing previously planned tumor and/or regional node dissection), we will evaluate the ability of TAK-676 to activate innate immune effector cells within the local tumor microenvironment. Additionally, this study will examine the effect of TAK-676 in combination with Carboplatin, or Paclitaxel, or in combination with 2 agents Carboplatin and 5-FU, or Carboplatin and Paclitaxel to study whether TAK-676 enhances the localized immune responses compared to both immunotherapy combinations or Carboplatin alone. All investigational drug combinations will be delivered intratumorally in subtherapeutic microdose quantities via the CIVO platform.

The CIVO Microdose Injection Device (MID) penetrates solid tumors and delivers subtherapeutic microdoses of up to eight anti-cancer agents, or combinations of anti-cancer agents, co-injected with CIVO GLO into discrete regions of the tumor. At the time of the planned surgical intervention (4 hours up to four days after the CIVO microdose injection), the injected tumor tissue is then excised and tumor responses are assessed via histological staining of tumor cross-sections sampled perpendicular to each injection column. Co-injection with CIVO GLO enables identification of each injection site during resection as well as in tissues stained for biomarker analysis. Because the platform delivers microdose amounts of each test agent, or combination, directly into the patient's tumor tissue, mechanistic hypotheses can be tested early in the drug development process, consistent with the goals of the 2006 FDA Exploratory Investigational New Drug (IND) Guidance for Industry.

Conditions

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Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NA

Intervention Model

SINGLE_GROUP

This is an exploratory clinical trial to evaluate intratumoral mechanistic effects of novel and approved agents on intact human tumors. This substudy is not blinded. This is a cohort substudy of a Master Protocol (PBI-MST-01, NCT 04541108) framework that describes the experimental workflow for use of the CIVO platform. Comparisons will not be made between substudy cohorts.
Primary Study Purpose

BASIC_SCIENCE

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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TAK-676, Carboplatin, 5-FU, & Paclitaxel

Patients who are scheduled for surgical biopsy or tumor resection surgery will be injected at least four hours to up to four days prior to surgery using the CIVO device. Each needle of the CIVO device will deliver up to 8.3 microliters of solution, including a vehicle control (sterile saline) or subtherapeutic microdoses of TAK-676, carboplatin, 5-fluorouracil (5- FU), or paclitaxel as single agents or in combination. Each microdose is simultaneously injected in a columnar fashion through each of 8, 5, or 3 needles (in a device configuration determined by tumor dimensions) into a single solid tumor or effaced metastatic lymph node.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

TAK-676

Intervention Type DRUG

Intratumoral microdose injection by the CIVO device.

Carboplatin

Intervention Type DRUG

Intratumoral microdose injection by the CIVO device.

5-FU

Intervention Type DRUG

Intratumoral microdose injection by the CIVO device.

Paclitaxel

Intervention Type DRUG

Intratumoral microdose injection by the CIVO device.

TAK-676 + Carboplatin

Intervention Type COMBINATION_PRODUCT

Intratumoral microdose injection by the CIVO device.

Carboplatin + Paclitaxel

Intervention Type COMBINATION_PRODUCT

Intratumoral microdose injection by the CIVO device.

Carboplatin + 5-FU

Intervention Type COMBINATION_PRODUCT

Intratumoral microdose injection by the CIVO device.

TAK-676 + Carboplatin + 5-FU

Intervention Type COMBINATION_PRODUCT

Intratumoral microdose injection by the CIVO device.

TAK-676 + Carboplatin + Paclitaxel

Intervention Type COMBINATION_PRODUCT

Intratumoral microdose injection by the CIVO device.

Interventions

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TAK-676

Intratumoral microdose injection by the CIVO device.

Intervention Type DRUG

Carboplatin

Intratumoral microdose injection by the CIVO device.

Intervention Type DRUG

5-FU

Intratumoral microdose injection by the CIVO device.

Intervention Type DRUG

Paclitaxel

Intratumoral microdose injection by the CIVO device.

Intervention Type DRUG

TAK-676 + Carboplatin

Intratumoral microdose injection by the CIVO device.

Intervention Type COMBINATION_PRODUCT

Carboplatin + Paclitaxel

Intratumoral microdose injection by the CIVO device.

Intervention Type COMBINATION_PRODUCT

Carboplatin + 5-FU

Intratumoral microdose injection by the CIVO device.

Intervention Type COMBINATION_PRODUCT

TAK-676 + Carboplatin + 5-FU

Intratumoral microdose injection by the CIVO device.

Intervention Type COMBINATION_PRODUCT

TAK-676 + Carboplatin + Paclitaxel

Intratumoral microdose injection by the CIVO device.

Intervention Type COMBINATION_PRODUCT

Other Intervention Names

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Paraplatin Adrucil Taxol

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

1. Ability and willingness to comply with the study's visit and assessment schedule.
2. Male or female ≥ 18 years of age at Visit 1 (Screening).
3. Pathologic diagnosis of Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma (HNSCC).
4. Ability and willingness to provide written informed consent. Voluntary written consent must be given before performance of any study related procedure not part of standard medical care, with the understanding that consent may be withdrawn by the patient at any time without prejudice to future medical care.
5. At least one lesion (primary tumor, recurrent tumor, or effaced metastatic lymph node) ≥ 2 cm in the shortest diameter that is surface accessible for CIVO injection that may be guided by ultrasound if appropriate and for which there is a planned surgical intervention. Treatment plan may include adjuvant radiation or chemotherapy, and patients should have no medical contraindication to surgery.
6. Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance score of 0-2.
7. Female patients who:

* Are postmenopausal for at least one year before the screening visit, OR
* Are surgically sterile, OR
* Are of childbearing potential who agree to practice a highly effective method of contraception and one additional effective (barrier) method at the same time (see examples below) from the time of signing the informed consent form (ICF) through four months after the tumor injection procedure OR agree to completely abstain from heterosexual intercourse.

Highly effective methods:

* Intrauterine device (IUD)
* Hormonal (birth control pills/oral contraceptives, injectable contraceptives, contraceptive patches, or contraceptive implants

Other effective methods (barrier methods):

* Latex condom
* Diaphragm with spermicide; Cervical cap; Sponge
* Agree to refrain from donating ova during study participation and up to four months after the tumor injection procedure.

Male patients, even if surgically sterile (i.e., status post-vasectomy), who:

* Agree to practice effective barrier contraception from the time of signing the ICF through four months after the tumor injection procedure OR agree to completely abstain from heterosexual intercourse.
* Agree to refrain from donating sperm during study participation and up to four months after the tumor injection procedure.

Exclusion Criteria

1. Tumors or effaced nodes that are anticipated by the Investigator to lack a sufficient volume of viable tumor tissue (based on available pre-operative imaging, pre-injection ultrasound imaging, or pathology reports) for CIVO injection due to size, location, necrosis, cysts, excessive stroma, or fibrosis.
2. Patients who have received neoadjuvant therapy associated with the surgical intervention described in Inclusion Criterion #5.
3. Tumors near or involving critical structures for which, in the opinion of the treating clinician, injection would pose undue risk to the patient.
4. Female patients who are:

* Both lactating and breastfeeding, OR
* Have a positive β-human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) pregnancy test at screening verified by the Investigator.
5. Any uncontrolled intercurrent illness, condition, serious medical or psychiatric illness, or circumstance that, in the opinion of the Investigator, could interfere with adherence to the study's procedures or requirements, or otherwise compromise the study's objectives.
6. Patients with a history of concurrent second cancers requiring active, ongoing systemic treatment.
7. Patients with active autoimmune diseases requiring treatment or a known history of uncontrolled autoimmune disorders.
8. Patients with known HIV/AIDS with uncontrolled viral load and cluster of differentiation 4 (CD4) less than 200, a known history of other relevant congenital or acquired immunodeficiencies, or known chronic hepatitis B/C.
9. Patients that have received a live vaccine within 4 weeks of the baseline/screening visit.
10. Use of any of the following ≤ 2 weeks prior to CIVO injection:

1. Chronic systemic immunosuppressive therapy or corticosteroids. Intranasal, inhaled, topical, or local corticosteroid injections (e.g., intra-articular injection), or steroids as premedication for hypersensitivity reactions (e.g., CT scan premedication) are exceptions to this criterion.
2. Biological response modifiers for treatment of active autoimmune disease.
3. Hematopoietic growth factors.
11. Patients with prior treatment with other stimulator of interferon genes (STING) agonist/antagonist and toll-like receptor (TLR) agonists, or cell therapies within 2 months of the baseline/screening visit.
12. Patients receiving concurrent systemic therapy (e.g., chemotherapy, targeted agent, or immunotherapy, etc.) or radiation therapy 4 weeks prior to screening through the planned surgical intervention.
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Takeda

INDUSTRY

Sponsor Role collaborator

Presage Biosciences

INDUSTRY

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Wendy Jenkins

Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR

Presage Biosciences Clinical Development

Locations

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LSU Health Sciences Center - Shreveport

Shreveport, Louisiana, United States

Site Status

Montefiore Medical Center

The Bronx, New York, United States

Site Status

University of Cincinnati Health

Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

Site Status

University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

References

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Gundle KR, Deutsch GB, Goodman HJ, Pollack SM, Thompson MJ, Davis JL, Lee MY, Ramirez DC, Kerwin W, Bertout JA, Grenley MO, Sottero KHW, Beirne E, Frazier J, Dey J, Ellison M, Klinghoffer RA, Maki RG. Multiplexed Evaluation of Microdosed Antineoplastic Agents In Situ in the Tumor Microenvironment of Patients with Soft Tissue Sarcoma. Clin Cancer Res. 2020 Aug 1;26(15):3958-3968. doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-20-0614. Epub 2020 Apr 16.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
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Klinghoffer RA, Bahrami SB, Hatton BA, Frazier JP, Moreno-Gonzalez A, Strand AD, Kerwin WS, Casalini JR, Thirstrup DJ, You S, Morris SM, Watts KL, Veiseh M, Grenley MO, Tretyak I, Dey J, Carleton M, Beirne E, Pedro KD, Ditzler SH, Girard EJ, Deckwerth TL, Bertout JA, Meleo KA, Filvaroff EH, Chopra R, Press OW, Olson JM. A technology platform to assess multiple cancer agents simultaneously within a patient's tumor. Sci Transl Med. 2015 Apr 22;7(284):284ra58. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aaa7489.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 25904742 (View on PubMed)

Frazier JP, Bertout JA, Kerwin WS, Moreno-Gonzalez A, Casalini JR, Grenley MO, Beirne E, Watts KL, Keener A, Thirstrup DJ, Tretyak I, Ditzler SH, Tripp CD, Choy K, Gillings S, Breit MN, Meleo KA, Rizzo V, Herrera CL, Perry JA, Amaravadi RK, Olson JM, Klinghoffer RA. Multidrug Analyses in Patients Distinguish Efficacious Cancer Agents Based on Both Tumor Cell Killing and Immunomodulation. Cancer Res. 2017 Jun 1;77(11):2869-2880. doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-17-0084. Epub 2017 Mar 31.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 28364003 (View on PubMed)

Dey J, Kerwin WS, Grenley MO, Casalini JR, Tretyak I, Ditzler SH, Thirstrup DJ, Frazier JP, Pierce DW, Carleton M, Klinghoffer RA. A Platform for Rapid, Quantitative Assessment of Multiple Drug Combinations Simultaneously in Solid Tumors In Vivo. PLoS One. 2016 Jun 30;11(6):e0158617. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0158617. eCollection 2016.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 27359113 (View on PubMed)

Moreno-Gonzalez A, Olson JM, Klinghoffer RA. Predicting responses to chemotherapy in the context that matters - the patient. Mol Cell Oncol. 2015 Jun 10;3(1):e1057315. doi: 10.1080/23723556.2015.1057315. eCollection 2016 Jan.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 27308571 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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PBI-MST-01

Identifier Type: OTHER

Identifier Source: secondary_id

MST01-TAK-02

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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