Details

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Title A Phase II Study of the Addition of Pembrolizumab to Postoperative Radiotherapy in Resected High Risk Cutaneous Squamous Cell Cancer of the Head and Neck

IRB CASE6316

CC 17-069

Hospital Fairview, Hillcrest, Main Campus

Phase Phase 2

Disease Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Head & Neck , Head and Neck

Drug Pembrolizumab

Description

Description

Primary Objective
  • To assess safety and estimate 1-year PFS of postoperative RT + concurrent and adjuvant Pembrolizumab in high risk resected cSCC-HN.
Secondary Objectives
  • To evaluate the relationship of baseline PD-L1 expression by tumor and tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) to preliminary efficacy.
  • To phenotype tumor infiltrating lymphocytes and peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBLs), and investigate tumor suppressor populations including Tregs, MDSCs and CD8 suppressor cells and assess ex vivo for effector function by cytokine production and cytotoxicity assays as well as suppressor function in assays with autologous PBLs.
Inclusion Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

  1. Histologic diagnosis of cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck that has been resected with no evidence of gross residual disease (margin positivity is acceptable).
  2. Patients must have undergone resection of the disease and demonstrate high risk pathologic features including:
    • T4
    • Node positive disease
    • T2/T3N0 disease with any 1 additional feature, including:
      • Recurrent Disease
      • Perineural invasion
      • Lymphovascular space invasion
      • Poorly differentiated histology
      • Positive Margins
      • Satellitosis or in-transit metastases
  3. Patients are required to have CT neck and chest or PET/CT and have no documented evidence of distant metastases
  4. Patients must not have a history of the following immunosuppressive conditions: bone marrow transplantation, lymphoid malignancies, or organ transplants and/or chronic rheumatic conditions that require active immunosuppressive therapy.
  5. Patients may not have had prior therapy with a checkpoint inhibitor (e.g. anti-CTLA-4, anti-PD-1 or anti-PD-L1 therapy);
  6. Patients may not have had prior radiotherapy (>30Gy) to the area requiring treatment that would result in any overlap of tissue in both fields
  7. Patients may have received chemotherapy or radiation for a previous, curatively treated malignancy provided at least 2 years have elapsed and there is no current evidence of disease (patients with previous or concurrent additional skin cancers are eligible)
  8. Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) Performance Status 0-1
  9. Age ≥ 18
  10. Female subject of childbearing potential should have a negative urine or serum pregnancy within 72 hours prior to receiving the first dose of study medication. If the urine test is positive or cannot be confirmed as negative, a serum pregnancy test will be required.
  11. Female subjects of childbearing potential should be willing to use 2 methods of birth control or be surgically sterile, or abstain from heterosexual activity for the course of the study through 120 days after the last dose of study medication (Reference Section 5.7.2). Subjects of childbearing potential are those who have not been surgically sterilized or have not been free from menses for > 1 year.
  12. Male subjects should agree to use an adequate method of contraception starting with the first dose of study therapy through 120 days after the last dose of study therapy.
  13. Patients must have adequate laboratory values:
    • Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) ≥1,500 /mcL
    • Platelets ≥100,000 / mcL
    • Hemoglobin ≥9 g/dL or ≥5.6 mmol/L without transfusion or EPO dependency (within 7 days of assessment)
    • Serum creatinine OR ≤1.5 X upper limit of normal (ULN) OR Measured or calculated creatinine clearance ≥60 mL/min for subject with creatinine levels > 1.5 X institutional ULN (GFR can also be used in place of creatinine or CrCl)
    • Serum total bilirubin ≤ 1.5 X ULN OR Direct bilirubin ≤ ULN for subjects with total bilirubin levels > 1.5 ULN
    • AST (SGOT) and ALT (SGPT) 2.5 X ULN OR ≤ 5 X ULN for subjects with liver metastases
    • Albumin ≥2.5 mg/dL
    • International Normalized Ratio (INR) or Prothrombin Time (PT) ≤1.5 X ULN unless subject is receiving anticoagulant therapy as long as PT or PTT is within therapeutic range of intended use of anticoagulants ≤1.5 X ULN unless subject is receiving anticoagulant therapy
    • Activated Partial Thromboplastin Time (aPTT) as long as PT or PTT is within therapeutic range of intended use of anticoagulants
Exclusion Criteria

Exclusion Criteria

  1. Is currently participating and receiving study therapy or has participated in a study of an investigational agent and received study therapy or used an investigational device within 4 weeks of the first dose of treatment.
  2. Has a known history of active TB (Bacillus Tuberculosis)
  3. Hypersensitivity to pembrolizumab.
  4. Has a history of the following immunosuppressive conditions: bone marrow transplantation, lymphoid malignancies, or organ transplants and/or chronic rheumatic conditions that require active immunosuppressive therapy
  5. Has had a prior anti-cancer monoclonal antibody (mAb) within 4 weeks prior to study Day 1 or who has not recovered (i.e., ≤ Grade 1 or at baseline) from adverse events due to agents administered more than 4 weeks earlier.
  6. Has had prior chemotherapy, targeted small molecule therapy, or radiotherapy within 2 weeks prior to study Day 1 or who has not recovered (i.e., ≤ Grade 1 or at baseline) from adverse events due to a previously administered agent. Note: Subjects with ≤ Grade 2 neuropathy are an exception to this criterion and qualify for the study. Note: If subject received major surgery, they must have recovered adequately from the toxicity and/or complications from the intervention prior to starting therapy.
  7. Has a known additional malignancy that is progressing or requires active treatment. Exceptions include basal cell carcinoma of the skin or a separate primary squamous cell carcinoma of the skin.
  8. Has metastatic disease.
  9. Has known history of, or any evidence of active, non-infectious pneumonitis.
  10. Has an active infection requiring systemic therapy.
  11. 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.
  12. Has known psychiatric or substance abuse disorders that would interfere with cooperation with the requirements of the trial.
  13. Is pregnant or breastfeeding, or expecting to conceive or father children within the projected duration of the trial, starting with the pre-screening or screening visit through 120 days after the last dose of trial treatment.
  14. Has received prior therapy with an anti-PD-1, anti-PD-L1, or anti-PD-L2 agent.
  15. Has known active Hepatitis B (e.g., HBsAg reactive) or Hepatitis C (e.g., HCV RNA [qualitative] is detected).
  16. Has received a live vaccine within 30 days of planned start of study therapy.