Adoptive therapy with TCR gene-engineered T cells to treat patients with MAGE-C2-positive melanoma and head and neck cancer.
- Conditions
- 10040900maligne melanomaskin cancerhead and neck squamous cell carcinomauveal melanoma1003005410027656
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 20
Patients must be >= 18 years of age.
Patients must have:
- inoperable stage IIIc or stage IV cutaneous melanoma, including ocular or
mucosal melanoma, progressing after standard of care therapy, or
recurrent/metastatic HNSCC
Patients must be HLA-A2 positive.
The primary tumor and/or metastasis have to be positive for MAGE-C2
Patients must have a clinical performance status of ECOG 0 or 1.
Patients of both genders must be willing to practice a highly effective method
of birth control during treatment and for four months after receiving the
preparative regimen.
Patients must be able to understand and sign the Informed Consent document.
Life expectancy of less than three months.
Requirement for systemic steroid therapy.
Patients who have active/symptomatic CNS metastases.
Patients with pleural effusion or ascites.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <p>Primary endpoints:<br /><br>Phase I<br /><br>• AEs according to CTCAE 5.0<br /><br>• Recommended Phase II dose<br /><br>• Feasibility to deliver this sequence of treatment<br /><br><br /><br>Phase II<br /><br>• Objective response rate according to RECIST v1.1<br /><br>• PFS<br /><br>• OS</p><br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <p>Secondary and exploratory endpoints<br /><br>Phase I & II<br /><br>• Persistence and function of MC2-specific T cells in peripheral blood.<br /><br>• Systemic release of inflammatory cytokines after administration of autologous<br /><br>MC2 TCR T cells<br /><br>• Immune parameters, in particular T cell parameters, in blood and tumor<br /><br>tissues (when available) prior to and during treatment.<br /><br>• Global DNA hypomethylation and histone acetylation in PBMCs after epigenetic<br /><br>treatment and administration of autologous MC2 TCR T cells</p><br>