RecruitingPhase 1 / Phase 2

Split Course Adaptive Radiation Therapy With Pembrolizumab With/Without Chemotherapy for Treating Stage IV Lung Cancer

SiCARIO (Split Course Adaptive Radioimmunotherapy) for the Treatment of Oligometastatic Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) Using Biologically-Adaptive Radiotherapy - A Phase I/II Study

Who can join

As published by the study on ClinicalTrials.gov. "Not stated" means the study hasn't said — ask the study team.

Age
18 Years and older
Sex
All sexes
Healthy volunteers
Not accepted
Compensation
Not stated

Other requirements are listed under Eligibility below. Only the study team can confirm whether you can join.

What to expect

No one can promise a trial will help you personally — that is what the research is trying to find out.

What participation involves

  • Time periods mentioned: 2 years
  • Procedures mentioned: Blood draws, MRI scans

Only what the study's summary and detailed description on ClinicalTrials.gov say. Time periods may describe the whole study or a part of it — ask the study team what applies to you.

Show the study's own words
  • "Cycles repeat every 21 days for 2 years in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity."
  • "Patients then continue to receive ipilmumab and nivolumab on the same schedule for up to 2 years in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity."
  • "Cycles repeat every 3 weeks for 2 years in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity."
  • "Patients also undergo collection of blood samples, as well as CT and MRI throughout the trial."
  • "After completion of study treatment, patients are followed up at 4 weeks, 12 weeks, and then every 12 weeks for 2 years."
Compensation
Not stated
  • Study-related exams and procedures are typically provided at no cost. This is how many trials work in general — confirm the details for this study with the study team.
  • Participants are monitored closely by the research team throughout the study.
  • Some participants may receive access to an investigational treatment, which is still being studied.
  • Your participation helps researchers learn whether this approach could help future patients.

About this study

In plain language

This study tests how safe and effective radiation adjusted to the cancer’s response is when given with immune-based treatment, with or without chemotherapy. It is for adults with non-small cell lung cancer that has spread far away or to nearby areas.

This phase I/II trial tests the safety and efficacy of split-course adaptive radiation therapy in combination with immunotherapy with or without chemotherapy for the treatment of patients with stage IV lung cancer or lung cancer that that has spread to nearby tissue or lymph nodes (locally advanced). Radiation therapy is a standard cancer treatment that uses high energy rays to kill cancer cells and shrink tumors. Split-course adaptive radiation therapy uses patient disease response to alter the intensity of the radiation therapy. Immunotherapy with monoclonal antibodies such as pembrolizumab, ipilimumab, cemiplimab, atezolizumab or nivolumab may help the body's immune system attack the cancer, and may interfere with the ability of tumor cells to grow and spread. Chemotherapy drugs like carboplatin, pemetrexed, and paclitaxel work in different ways to stop the growth of cancer cells, either by killing the cells, by stopping them from dividing, or by stopping them from spreading. Giving split-course adaptive radiation therapy with standard treatments like immunotherapy and chemotherapy may be more effective at treating stage IV or locally advanced lung cancer than giving them alone.

Compensation is read from the study's own description and may be missing — always confirm with the study team.

Eligibility

Who can join

  • You must be 18 or older and able to give written consent.
  • You must have confirmed stage IVA or IVB non-small cell lung cancer, or locally advanced cancer that cannot receive standard chemotherapy plus radiation. The cancer must be able to be assessed.
  • You must have a tumor sample less than 6 months old for testing PD-L1, a protein on cells.
  • You must be able to care for yourself and be out of bed for at least half the day.
  • Your organs must work well enough for treatment, and your study doctor must approve immune-based treatment.
  • Cancer in the brain is allowed if it can be fully managed with surgery or focused radiation before chemotherapy and immune-based treatment begin.
  • You must not be pregnant or breastfeeding. If you can become pregnant, you need a negative pregnancy test within 1 week before treatment.
  • You must follow birth control rules for the chemotherapy drugs. If you can become pregnant, you must use highly effective birth control during treatment and afterward as directed.

Who can't join

  • Your cancer includes small cell lung cancer, or your doctor prefers another whole-body treatment based on changes in your cancer’s genes.
  • You need radiation to the whole brain, or cancer causes fluid buildup in your belly or around your lungs that causes symptoms.
  • You had major surgery within 4 weeks that would prevent study treatment, or a lung illness required a hospital stay within 30 days.
  • You have a serious infection or an uncontrolled illness that could limit participation. People with hepatitis B or C must be on a stable dose of antiviral medicine.
  • You have an organ transplant needing immune-suppressing drugs, recently used certain immune-suppressing drugs, or had an autoimmune disease needing whole-body treatment in the past year.
  • You had another cancer within 3 years, with some exceptions; more than one cycle of immune checkpoint treatment for this cancer; or past radiation that makes study radiation unsafe.
  • You received a live weakened vaccine or a drug not allowed by the study within 30 days, or have a known severe allergy to a study treatment or its ingredients.
  • You are in another treatment trial, or the study doctor finds another reason participation would be unsafe or unsuitable. Observational studies and trial follow-up are allowed.

Simplified for readability. The official criteria below are what the study team uses.

Official eligibility criteria

Inclusion Criteria: * Age \>= 18 years at time of informed consent * • Histologically documented or cytologically confirmed diagnosis of stage IVA or IVB (M1b or M1c) or locally advanced (not eligible for standard of care \[SOC\] chemoradiation) non-small cell lung cancer with evaluable disease per Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) version (v) 1.1 criteria * Available tumor material (\< 6 months old) adequate for confirmation of programmed cell death 1 ligand 1 (PD-L1) expression per local standard of care testing * Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0-2 * Adequate organ function to receive therapy as determined by investigators and other treating physicians * Participants with brain metastases that can be comprehensively managed with surgery and/or stereotactic radiosurgery, prior to initiation of chemo-immunotherapy are allowed. Number of brain metastases allowed is not specified at eligibility is at discretion of investigator * Contraceptive use should be initiated or continued per guidance in labeling for approved chemotherapies * Female patients must be non-pregnant and not breastfeeding. * If woman of childbearing potential (WOCBP), must utilize highly effective contraceptive method (failure rate of \< 1% per year) throughout intervention period and continued per guidance specified in labeling for approved chemotherapies. Must have negative pregnancy test (serum or urine) within 1 week prior to initiation of first cycle of therapy * Eligible for immunotherapy-based systemic regimens per judgment of patient's study physician * Able to submit written informed consent Exclusion Criteria: * Mixed small cell histology * Confirmed candidate (per study physician) for alternative systemic therapy if preferred by treating physician (i.e. mEGFR, ALK, KRAS G12C or ROS1 mutations). Testing not required for enrollment * Brain metastases that would require administration of whole brain radiotherapy for management on required screening brain MRI within 21 days of day 1 of study treatment * Symptomatic malignant ascites or malignant pleural effusion (sampling not required). Pleural metastases are allowed if deemed targetable with radiotherapy * Major surgery (requiring general anesthesia or at discretion of study physician) within 4 weeks prior to study enrollment that would prevent treatment with SiCARIO regimen * History of organ transplant requiring therapeutic immunosuppression * Known clinically significant (per study physician) acute or chronic infections including human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV) or active tuberculosis (testing not required). Patients with HBV and HCV must be on stable dose of antiviral therapy on study entry * Uncontrolled intercurrent illness including, but not limited to, New York Heart Association (NYHA) class III-IV congestive heart failure, uncontrolled hypertension (average systolic blood pressure greater than or equal to 140 or average diastolic blood pressure greater than or equal to 90 despite optimal medical therapy), unstable angina pectoris, cardiac arrythmia, active peptic ulcer disease, bleeding diatheses or psychiatric illness that would limit in the judgment of the study physician * Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbation or other respiratory illness requiring hospitalization within 30 days of day 1 of study treatment * History of prior independent malignancy within 3 years of enrollment, except for adequately treated basal or squamous cell carcinoma of the skin, adequately treated carcinoma in situ (e.g. cervix or non-invasive bladder cancer) * Receipt of prior \>1 cycle of immune checkpoint inhibitor for current malignancy (prior cytotoxic chemotherapy is allowed) * Prior radiotherapy that would preclude delivery of protocol- based radiotherapy to normal organ tolerance per patient's study physician * Current or prior use of immunosuppressive medications within 28 days of enrollment with exception of intranasal or inhaled corticosteroids or systemic steroids at physiologic doses (equivalent to less than or equal to 10 mg/day of prednisone). Systemic steroids required during therapy for adverse event (AE) management and for residual neurologic complications from management of central nervous system (CNS) metastases are allowed at doses exceeding 10 mg/day of prednisone equivalents * Active autoimmune disease requiring systemic treatment within past 1 year * Receipt of live attenuated vaccine within 30 days of enrollment * Use of prohibited concomitant drug within 30 days of enrollment * Known severe (\>= grade 3 Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events \[CTCAE\]) hypersensitivity to study intervention or formulation * Concurrent enrollment in another clinical trial (unless observational or within follow-up period) * Any condition at discretion of investigator that will preclude participation in the study

Study sites (1)

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