Neoadjuvant Dupilumab and Toripalimab in MSS CRC Subjects With Resectable Liver Metastases
Master Protocol for A Phase 1b/2 Study of Neoadjuvant Immunotherapy in Microsatellite Stable (MSS) Colorectal Cancer (CRC) Subjects With Resectable Liver Metastases
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
- Procedures mentioned: Injections
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
- "Dupilumab is administered as a subcutaneous injection."
- 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 dupilumab and toripalimab before surgery to see how safe they are and how well they work. It is for adults with MSS colorectal cancer, a type of colon or rectal cancer, that has spread to the liver and can be removed by surgery.
This Phase 1b/2 trial will evaluate the safety and efficacy of neoadjuvant immunotherapy in microsatellite stable (MSS) colorectal cancer (CRC) subjects with resectable liver metastases.
Compensation is read from the study's own description and may be missing — always confirm with the study team.
Eligibility
Who can join
- Be at least 18 years old.
- Have colon or rectal cancer confirmed by testing as non-MSI-H/pMMR, meaning its DNA repair system still works.
- Have cancer that has spread to the liver and can be removed by surgery. Scans suggesting liver spread may be accepted.
- If liver spread was found at diagnosis, have had no treatment. If it appeared after the original tumor was removed, have had no follow-up chemotherapy or finished it more than 3 months before consent.
- Be fully active or able to do light work. The study doctor may allow a stable, long-term disability.
- Meet blood test rules for blood cells, kidneys, liver, and blood clotting. The study doctor may allow some exceptions.
- Women who can become pregnant and men must agree to use birth control during the study and for 3 months after treatment.
- Be able to understand and agree to join in writing. A legally authorized person may give consent for the participant.
Who can't join
- Have a history of autoimmune disease, where the immune system attacks the body, or needed whole-body treatment for it in the past year. Some skin conditions, stable low thyroid function, and diet-controlled celiac disease are allowed.
- Used an immune-changing drug or dupilumab within 8 weeks of consent; had chemotherapy for MSS cancer or local treatment to the study tumor within 3 months; or are using experimental cancer drugs.
- Have cancer outside the liver that cannot be treated with surgery or local treatment aimed at a cure. Another cancer that is growing and needs treatment may also exclude you, with some exceptions.
- Have an uncontrolled illness, an infection needing antibiotics, or another health or personal issue that makes participation unsafe or difficult. A short antibiotic course finished before treatment may be allowed.
- Are pregnant or breastfeeding. Breastfeeding must stop before joining.
- Have a condition causing a weak immune system, used immune-suppressing treatment within 7 days before study treatment, or had a stem cell transplant from a donor or an organ transplant. Some low-dose steroids and hormone replacement are allowed.
- Have HIV with detectable virus, no stable antiviral treatment, or a CD4 immune cell count below 200. Active hepatitis B or C may also exclude you, though antiviral treatment started at least 14 days before baseline is allowed.
- Have a documented allergy to protein-based treatments, such as vaccines, antibody drugs, or immune globulin.
Simplified for readability. The official criteria below are what the study team uses.
Official eligibility criteria
INCLUSION CRITERIA: Histological diagnosis of non-MSI-H/pMMR CRC • Subjects who have biology-proven non-MSI-H/pMMR CRC and with radiographic findings suggestive of liver metastases may be eligible. Resectable liver metastases including: * synchronous liver metastases (present at the time of diagnosis of MSS CRC) and treatment-naïve * metachronous liver metastasis (developed after resection of the primary tumor) without prior adjuvant chemotherapy * metachronous liver metastasis (developed after resection of the primary tumor) with adjuvant chemotherapy completed greater than 3 months from the time of consent. Surgical candidate for resection Age ≥ 18 years. Rationale: Because no dosing or adverse event data are currently available on the use of dupilumab in combination with toripalimab in subjects \<18 years of age, children are excluded from this study. ECOG Performance Status 0-1 (Karnofsky ≥60%,) • Subjects with performance status \>1 carrying long-term disability (such as cerebral palsy) where the disability is not acute nor progressive, and unlikely to significantly affect their response to therapy may be enrolled at the investigator's discretion Women of child-bearing potential (WOCBP) and men must agree to use adequate contraception upon study entry, for the duration of study participation, and for 3 months following completion of therapy. * A female of child-bearing potential is any woman (regardless of sexual orientation, having undergone a tubal ligation, or remaining celibate by choice) who meets the following criteria: * Has not undergone a hysterectomy or bilateral oophorectomy; or * Has not been naturally postmenopausal for at least 12 consecutive months (i.e., has had menses at any time in the preceding 12 consecutive months). Ability to understand and the willingness to sign a written informed consent. Legally authorized representatives may sign and give informed consent on behalf of study participants. Adequate organ and marrow function as defined: * Hematologic o Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) ≥1,000 /mcL * Platelets ≥75,000 /mcL * Hemoglobin ≥8 g/dL * Renal\* o Serum creatinine ≤1.5 X upper limit of normal (ULN) OR Measured or calculated (Creatinine clearance should be calculated per institutional standard) creatinine clearance (GFR can also be used in place of creatinine or CrCl) ≥45 mL/min for subjects with creatinine levels \> 1.5 X institutional ULN * Hepatic\* o Serum total bilirubin ≤ 1.5 X ULN OR Direct bilirubin ≤ ULN for subjects with total bilirubin levels \> 1.5 ULN; ≤ 3 X ULN for subjects with liver metastases o AST ≤ 2.5 X ULN OR ≤ 5 X ULN for subjects with liver metastases * ALT ≤ 2.5 X ULN OR ≤ 5 X ULN for subjects with liver metastases * Albumin \>2.5 mg/dL * Coagulation\* * International Normalized Ratio (INR) or Prothrombin Time (PT) ≤1.5 X ULN unless subject is receiving anticoagulant therapy as long as PT is within therapeutic range of intended use of anticoagulants * Activated Partial Thromboplastin Time (aPTT) ≤1.5 X ULN unless subject is receiving anticoagulant therapy as long as PTT is within therapeutic range of intended use of anticoagulants \* If laboratory criteria are not met due to what the investigator determines to be a biologic cause (e.g. Gilbert's syndrome causing elevated bilirubin or excessive muscle mass affecting creatinine) or drug-related cause (e.g. elevating in transaminases due to HAART therapy, elevated INR due to anticoagulation) then the lab values will not be used to exclude subject from this trial. This determination will be made by PI. EXCLUSION CRITERIA: History of autoimmune disorder with the following exceptions: * Vitiligo, alopecia, psoriasis or any chronic skin condition that does not require systemic therapy * Hypothyroidism (e.g. following autoimmune thyroiditis) stable on thyroid replacement * Celiac disease controlled by diet alone Treatment, for any reason, with an immunomodulatory drug, within 8 weeks from time of consent. Prior treatment with dupilumab within the last 8 weeks. Prior treatment with chemotherapy for MSS CRC or locoregional therapy to the target lesion (that will be biopsied and subsequently resected) within 3 months prior to entering the study. • Previous therapy for a different cancer (a different primary) is acceptable. Use of investigational agents for treatment of cancer. Subjects with extrahepatic metastases that are not amendable to resectable or locoregional therapy, for whom the intent of surgery would not be curative. Uncontrolled intercurrent illness including, but not limited to, ongoing or active infection requiring antibiotics (exception is a brief (≤10 days) course of antibiotics to be completed before initiation of treatment), symptomatic congestive heart failure, unstable angina pectoris, or psychiatric illness/social situations that would limit compliance with study requirements, as determined the treating investigator. Pregnant or nursing women due to the potential for congenital abnormalities and the potential of this regimen to harm nursing infants. • Breastfeeding should be discontinued prior to study enrollment. Has a diagnosis of primary immunodeficiency or is receiving systemic steroid therapy or any other form of immunosuppressive therapy within 7 days prior to the first dose of trial treatment. • Chronic steroids equivalent to ≤ 10mg prednisone are permitted. Has active autoimmune disease that has required systemic treatment in the past 1 year (i.e. with use of disease modifying agents, corticosteroids or immunosuppressive drugs). • Replacement therapy (e.g. thyroxine, insulin, or physiologic corticosteroid replacement therapy for adrenal or pituitary insufficiency, etc.) is permitted. Has a known additional malignancy that is progressing and requires active treatment. • Exceptions include: basal cell carcinoma of the skin or squamous cell carcinoma of the skin that has undergone potentially curative therapy or in situ cervical or anal cancer, prostate cancer on stable dose of hormonal therapy without rising PSA, and breast cancer treated with curative intent now on hormonal therapy. Has a history or current evidence of any condition, therapy, or laboratory abnormality that might confound the results of the trial, interfere with the subject's participation for the full duration of the trial, or is not in the best interest of the subject to participate, in the opinion of the treating Investigator. HIV positive with detectable viral load, or anyone not on stable anti-viral (HAART) regimen, or with \<200 CD4+ T cells/microliter in the peripheral blood. HIV testing is mandatory for patients with no known history of HIV. For such patients, HIV testing will be considered SOC. Has known active Hepatitis B (e.g., HBV detected by PCR (\>200 IU/ml) or known active Hepatitis C (e.g., HCV RNA \[qualitative\] is detected). • Subjects who started antiviral therapy \>/=14days from baseline are permitted. History of allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation or solid organ transplantation. Documented allergic or hypersensitivity response to any protein therapeutics (e.g., recombinant proteins, vaccines, intravenous immune globulins, monoclonal antibodies, receptor traps) Principle investigator believes that for one or multiple reasons the subject will be unable to comply with all study visits, or if they believe the trial is not clinically in the best interest of the subject.
Study sites (1)
NY
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai · New York, NY 10029Lisa Fitzgerald · Study contact · (917) 748-0962 · lisa.fitzgerald@mssm.eduRashmi Unawane · Study contact · 212-824-2385 · Rashmi.Unawane@mssm.eduDan Feng · Principal investigatorMore trials in New York