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Clinical Benefit and Biomarker Analysis of Combination of PD-1/PD-L1 Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors and Radiotherapy

Recruiting
Conditions
HNSCC
NSCLC
Esophageal Cancer
Urothelial Carcinoma
Renal Cell Carcinoma
Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Skin
Small Cell Bronchial Carcinomas
Interventions
Other: Conventional Therapy acc. to prevailing clincal approved schemes
Registration Number
NCT04892849
Lead Sponsor
University of Erlangen-Nürnberg Medical School
Brief Summary

Inhibitors of the programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1)/PD-L1 immune checkpoint signaling pathway are already approved in the treatment of various tumor entities in relapsed or metastatic stages. Different exploratory trials suggest that the combination of radiotherapy and PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitors is highly effective, especially in oligometastatic stages and if all lesions are treated with ablative radiotherapy. In addition, the role of predictive biomarkers is becoming increasingly important for future therapy algorithms. First data, also from our group, indicate clearly that dynamic changes of immune cells and their activation markers in the peripheral blood (immune matrix) can be used as predictive biomarkers. During the planned STICI-02 trial predictive immune matrix derived from the STICI01 trial (NCT03453892) will be validated in the groups of patient suffering from HNSCC (palliative), NSCLC (separately palliative and adjuvant) and "other solid tumors" (including in particular esophageal carcinomas, urothelial and renal carcinomas, small cell bronchial carcinomas and squamous cell carcinomas of the skin \[depending on the current drug approval\]). Within the framework of scientific accompanying projects, the predictive value of markers in tumor tissue and of pattern radiomics analyses will be analyzed accompanying the immunophenotyping in peripheral blood. The side effects

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
RECRUITING
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
200
Inclusion Criteria
  • Patients treatable for HNSCC (palliative), NSCLC (separately palliative and adjuvant) or "other solid tumour"
  • Indication for system therapy with a PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitor according to clinical standards
  • Patients without or with radiation of one or more metastases
  • Age at least 18 years
Exclusion Criteria
  • Melanoma patients
  • Fertile patients who refuse effective contraception during study treatment
  • Persistent drug and/or alcohol abuse
  • Patients not able or willing to behave according to study protocol
  • Patients in care
  • Patients that are not able to speak German
  • Patients which are imprisoned according to legal or governmental order

Both gender are included into the study, a maximum age was not defined.

Study & Design

Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Study Design
Not specified
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Trial cohortConventional Therapy acc. to prevailing clincal approved schemesThe study cohort consist of patients suffering from HNSCC (palliative), NSCLC (separately palliative and adjuvant) and "other solid tumors" (including in particular esophageal carcinomas, urothelial and renal carcinomas, small cell bronchial carcinomas and squamous cell carcinomas of the skin \[depending on the current drug approval\]) which will be treated with ICI (PD-1/PD-L1) and potential radiation of metastases at Department of Radiation Oncology of Universitätsklinikum Erlangen.
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
OverallsurvivalFrom inclusion till death of subject or up to 5 years, whichever came first.

Prospective investigation of the survival of the patients.

Longitudinal ImmunophenotypeDay 0 till progression or end of study up to 5 years or till change to conventional treatment without ICI, whichever came first.

Longitudonal Immunophenotyping of the patients: Detection of about 30 distinct immune cell (sub)types together with their activation markers during treatement.

Predictors in pattern recognition analysesDay 0 till progression or end of study up to 5 years or till change to conventional treatment without ICI, whichever came first.

Identification of possible predictors in pattern recognition analyses from clinical imaging data sets.

Immune-associated side effectsDay 0 till progression or end of study up to 5 years or till change to conventional treatment without ICI, whichever came first.

Detection of immune-associated side effects

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Treatment response (according to RECIST and iRECIST criteria)From date of inclusion to the trial until the date of first documented iRECIST progression or date of death from any cause, whichever came first, assessed up to 5 years

RECIST and iRECIST criteria will used to analyse the response of the patient to the respective treatement

Progression free survivalFrom date of inclusion to the trial until the date of first documented iRECIST progression or date of death from any cause, whichever came first, assessed up to 5 yeras

survival of the patient without progression of malignant disesase

Detection of adverse events according to NCI CTAE (v4.0)From date of inclusion to the trial until the date of first documented iRECIST progression or date of death from any cause, or till change to conventional treatment , whichever came first, assessed up to 5 years.

The adverse effects of Immunecheckpoint and Radiotherapy is recorded by official questionaire

Attempt to establish an immune matrix of responding/non-responding patientsThe analyses are conducted at time points before (day 0) and before every prescription of ICI (every 14 to 21 days) till progression or end of study up to 5 years or till change to conventional treatment without ICI.

Analysis of clincal, MRI and imunnologic, molecular data to develop an biomarkermatrix with processes of machine learning

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Department of Radiation Oncology, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen

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Erlangen, Bavaria, Germany

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