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Nivolumab in Recurrent and/or Metastatic SCCHN

Phase 2
Completed
Conditions
Recurrent and/or Metastatic Platinum-refractory SCCHN
Interventions
Registration Number
NCT03226756
Lead Sponsor
UNICANCER
Brief Summary

Recurrent and/or metastatic Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Head and Neck (SCCHN) are a common clinical situation and although this group of patients has very heterogeneous disease characteristics, they share a dismal prognosis with a median survival time around 6-11 months and a relatively poor quality of life.

Immunotherapy approaches have recently demonstrated clinical efficacy in more than twenty cancer types, including melanoma, renal cell carcinoma, non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and SCCHN. Nivolumab demonstrated significant overall survival benefit as treatment for recurrent SCCHN in a randomized phase III Study CA209141 conducted on a cohort of 361 patients (240 in the nivolumab arm and 121 in the standard therapy arm), presenting this condition and whose disease had progressed within 6 months after platinum-based chemotherapy. In this study, treatment with nivolumab resulted in significantly longer survival than treatment with standard therapy with a median overall survival of 7.5 months vs 5.1 months (p=0.01).

The main objective of the study is to provide additional insight into the frequency of high-grade AEs related to nivolumab and their outcome, and thus supplement the growing safety database of nivolumab-treated recurrent and/or metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck patients.

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
351
Inclusion Criteria

Not provided

Exclusion Criteria

Not provided

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
SINGLE_GROUP
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
NivolumabNivolumab InjectionAll patients enrolled in the study will received Nivolumab injections, 3mg/kg IV, every 2 weeks, up to 12 cycles (1 cycle = 28 days).
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Incidence for high-grade (CTCAE v4.0 Grade 3-4-5) adverse events of interest (AEI). AEI are adverse reactions known to be related to nivolumab (i.e. skin, endocrinopathy, gastrointestinal, hepatic, renal, pulmonary, and hypersensitivity adverse events)Last dose + 100 days

The rate (and its 95%CI) of patients who report at least one high-grade (Grade 3-4 and Grade 5) adverse events of interest will be provided.

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Time to onset of grade 3+ AEIlast dose + 100 days

The time to onset of grade 3+ AEI will be estimated by Kaplan-Meier product-limit method. Time to onset is calculated from first dosing date to the grade 3+ onset date. If a patient never experienced the given grade 3+ AEI, the patient will be censored at the date of last dose + 100 days (or at the last contact date if it occurs before date of last dose + 100 days.

Duration of all immune modulating medications given for the select event and summary of patients with resolution of AEs after initiating these therapies.Last dose + 100 days

The total duration of all immune modulating medications given for the event will be presented by mean, standard deviation, median, minimum and maximum.

Rate of patients with at least one or more doses of nivolumab delayed (or cancelled) due to AEUp to 24 months of treatment

The rate of patients with one or more doses of nivolumab cancelled due to AE will be estimated.

Time to resolution of grade 3-4 AEI to grade 1the time from the date of grade 3-4 until the date of grade 1, assessed up to 36 months.

Time to resolution of grade 3-4 will be estimated by Kaplan-Meier method among patients who had experienced this type of AEI from the grade 3-4 AEI onset date to date of AEI grade 1. If an AEI is ongoing at the time of analysis, the time to resolution will be censored at the last contact date.

Rate of patients with nivolumab definitely withdrawn due to AEUp to 24 months of treatment

The rate of patients with nivolumab definitively withdrawn due to AEs will be estimated.

Rate of AEI of maximum grade 1-2Last dose + 100 days

The rate of patients with AEI of highest grade 1-2 during the observation period will be provided.

Overall survival (OS)Up to 36 months.

Overall survival is defined as the time from date of inclusion to date of death due to any cause. Patients last known to be alive will be censored at date of last contact. Overall survival will be estimated by Kaplan Meier method.

Rate of Nivolumab-related deathsUp to 36 months.

A monitoring of Nivolumab-related deaths is set-up separately in 2 subgroups of the cohort: among patients with ECOG performance status (PS)of 2 and among patients with ECOG performance status of 0 or 1. The monitoring is the same in the two subgroups. We expect that around half of the patients will have performance status of 2.

In each subgroup, the monitoring of nivolumab-related deaths will start at the occurrence of the second related death in that subgroup.

Rate of patients who received immune modulating medication or hormonal replacement therapyLast dose + 100 days

Management of high-grade adverse events will be characterized by measuring percentage of patients who received immune modulating medication, \> 10 mg prednisone equivalents, hormonal replacement therapy in all treated patients and in patients who have experience high-grade adverse events of interest.

Progression free survival (PFS)Up to 36 months.

Progression-free survival is defined as the time since the inclusion in the trial to the first event among progression and death, whatever the cause of death. Progression is defined according to RECIST 1.1. Patients last known to be alive without progression having occurred before will be censored at date of last contact. Progression free survival will be estimated by Kaplan Meier method.

Objective response rate (ORR) (complete response and partial response according to RECIST 1.1 and to iRECIST) during nivolumab treatmentThe time between the fist dose of treatment until the best response, assessed up to 36 months.

The rate of patients with objective response (complete response or partial response) will be provided. The response is the best response obtained at the evaluations performed during treatment and at the end of treatment. Two evaluations of the response will be done: one according to the RECIST 1.1 criteria and one according the Immune-related Response Criteria (iRECIST).

Pseudo progressionThe time between the first dose of treatment until the first confirmed progression, assessed up to 36 months.

Pseudo-progressions will be described (rate, time of occurrence). Pseudo-progression is defined as a progression according to RECIST 1.1 under treatment (≥ 20% increase in the sum of diameters of target lesions or unequivocal progression of existing non target lesions or new lesion) that is not confirmed, as per iRECIST, at the next evaluation done 4 to 6 weeks later.

Trial Locations

Locations (18)

Centre Jean Perrin

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Clermont-Ferrand, France

Centre Antoine Lacassagne

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Nice, France

Centre Paul Strauss

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Strasbourg, France

Centre Oscar Lambret

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Lille, France

Institut Curie Saint Cloud

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Saint Cloud, France

Gustave Roussy

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Villejuif, France

Hopital Tenon

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Paris, France

Institut de Cancérologie de l'Ouest

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Angers, France

ICM Val d'Aurelle

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Montpellier, France

Centre Eugène Marquis

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Rennes, France

Centre Georges Francois Leclerc

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Dijon, France

Centre Léon Bérard

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Lyon, France

Institut Curie

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Paris, France

Institut Jean Godinot

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Reims, France

CHU Bordeaux

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Bordeaux, France

Centre Francois Baclesse

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Caen, France

Institut Claudius Regaud

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Toulouse, France

Institut de Cancérologie de Lorraine

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Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy, France

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