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TerminatedNCT02423954NivoPlusUpdated Jul 2, 2018

Study of Nivolumab Plus Chemotherapy in Patients With Advanced Cancer (NivoPlus)

A Phase 1/2 interventional study of Temsirolimus and Irinotecan in Advanced Cancer, Pancreatic Cancer and Renal Cell Cancer, sponsored by Western Regional Medical Center. Terminated at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2018-07-02.

Sponsored by Western Regional Medical Center · Phase 1/2, Interventional, and Treatment

Why this study was terminated
Investigator no longer at site to enroll patients or write up data
Phase
Phase 1/2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
33
Allocation
Non-randomized
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

Determine Phase 2 dose of study drug

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Determine the recommended phase 2 dose (RP2D) of chemotherapy in combination with nivolumab in subjects with advanced cancer.

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Conditions studied

  • Advanced Cancer
  • Pancreatic Cancer
  • Renal Cell Cancer
  • Non Small Cell Lung Cancer
  • Colorectal Carcinoma
  • Endometrial
  • Uterine
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In context

Pancreatic Neoplasms

3,896 studies on the registry are indexed under Pancreatic Neoplasms; 1,007 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 33 is below the median of 47 across 2,932 interventional studies indexed under Pancreatic Neoplasms.

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Lead sponsor

Western Regional Medical Center is the lead sponsor of 23 studies on the registry; none are open to participants now.

Of its 6 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 6 (100%) have results posted.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years and older
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

Go through the criteria one by one — yes, no or not sure — and take the list to your doctor or the study team. Kept in this browser only.

Inclusion criteria

  1. Patient at least 18 years old and has definitive or cytologically confirmed solid tumor.
  2. Patient has one or more metastatic tumors measurable by CT scan (or PET/CT, if patient is allergic to CT contrast media). Tumor sites that are considered measureable must not have received prior radiation therapy. For metastatic tumors not measurable by CT and/or PET/CT, there needs to be tumor measuring at least 1cm in one dimension by digital calipers on physical exam.
  3. Patients can be enrolled only on one of the treatment arms on this trial.
  4. The investigator will select the appropriate treatment arm for the patient with the following requirements: (a) Patients cannot have had prior progression or intolerance on the single agent chemotherapy and then enrolled on an arm with that same single agent chemotherapy plus nivolumab (b) The chemotherapy on the arm selected must be considered standard of care or its components listed in the NCCN guidelines (www.nccn.org) for that cancer type.
  5. Have recovered from acute toxicities of prior treatment:

    • > 3 weeks must have elapsed since receiving any agent.
    • > 2 weeks must have elapsed since receiving any radiotherapy, or ≥ 3 weeks or 5 half-lives whichever is shorter for treatment with cytotoxic or biologic agents ( ≥ 6 weeks for mitomycin or nitrosoureas). Chronic treatment with non-investigational gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogs or other hormonal or supportive care is permitted.
  6. Patient has adequate biological parameters as demonstrated by the following blood counts at time of screening:
  7. (ANC) > 1500 mm3, count ≥ 100×109 L, ≥ 9 g/dL. Subject can be given packed red blood cell transfusion
  8. Calculated > 40 ml/min by Cockroft-Gault equation:

    [CreatClear = Sex * ((140 - Age) / (SerumCreat)) * (Weight / 72); where Sex = 1 for men and 0.85 for women], total 1.5 times the (ULN) range, /ALT ≤ 3 times the upper limit of normal (ULN) range.

  9. Thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) within institutional normal limits. If TSH is above the upper limit of normal range, then a free T4 within institutional normal limits is acceptable. If thyroid replacement therapy is initiated then patient may be screened and enrolled once the above criterion is met.
  10. Persistent prior systemic therapy non-hematologic AE grade ≤ 2 (except alopecia or correctable electrolyte abnormality with supplementation)
  11. Patient has a performance status (KPS) ≥ 70.
  12. Women of (i.e., women who are pre-menopausal or not surgically sterile) must be willing to use an acceptable method (abstinence, oral contraceptive or double barrier method) for the duration of the study and for 5 months following the last dose of nivolumab and 30 days following the last dose of chemotherapy on this trial on this trial, and must have a negative urine or serum pregnancy test within 2 weeks prior to beginning treatment on this trial. If a female subject or female partner of a male subject becomes pregnant during this period then patient will be recommended to seek appropriate obstetric care. The study will not be monitoring subjects or female partners of subjects for pregnancy after the last dose of study drug or chemotherapy.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria for Phase Ib and II:

  1. Active clinically serious infection > (version 4.03) Grade 2.
  2. Serious non-healing wound, ulcer, or bone fracture.
  3. Patient has known . Baseline imaging of the brain is required within 28 days prior to randomization.
  4. Prior therapy with a mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) inhibitor for the RCC subjects, prior therapy with irinotecan or topotecan for NSCLC subjects, and prior therapy with irinotecan for CRC patients.
  5. Inability to complete process and adhere to the protocol treatment plan and follow-up requirements.
  6. Patient has known active infection with , , or (patients are NOT required to be tested for the presence of such viruses prior to therapy on this protocol).
  7. Requiring daily dose ≥ 10 mg prednisone or equivalent per day.
  8. Patient has undergone major surgery, other than diagnostic surgery (e.g., surgery done to obtain a for diagnosis without removal of an organ), within 4 weeks prior to Day 1 of treatment in this study.
  9. Patient has serious medical risk factors involving any of the major organ systems, or serious psychiatric disorders, which could compromise the patient's safety or the study data integrity.
  10. Patient will be receiving any other anti-cancer therapy during participation in this trial.
  11. Prior treatment with nivolumab is not allowed. Prior receipt of other inhibitors or PD-L1 inhibitors is allowed.
  12. Active or prior documented disease requiring systemic treatment within the past 2 years.
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(23)

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Histologically or cytologically confirmed

The diagnosis was confirmed by looking at a sample under a microscope: tissue from a biopsy or surgery (histology), or cells from a fluid or needle sample (cytology).

Your pathology report is the document that shows this.

Metastases

Cancer that has spread from where it began to other parts of the body. “Metastatic” cancer is cancer that has spread this way.

Investigational drug or device

A drug or device being studied in a clinical trial.

It may be new, or already approved and being studied for another use, dose or form. Criteria often leave out people who took part in another study of one within a recent period, commonly 30 days or five half-lives.

Absolute neutrophil count (ANC)

The number of neutrophils, white blood cells that help fight infection, in a given amount of blood. Too few raises the risk of infection.

It is a count, not a percentage of the white cells. Limits are written in units that mean the same: ≥ 1.5 × 10⁹/L is ≥ 1,500 per mm³ (µL). Each lab has its own reference range.

Platelets

Blood cells that help blood clot. Too few raises the risk of bleeding and bruising. A usual adult range is about 150–400 × 10⁹/L (150,000–400,000 per µL); each lab has its own reference range.

Hemoglobin (Hb)

The protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen. A low level is anaemia, which can cause tiredness and breathlessness. Measured in g/dL or g/L (9 g/dL is 90 g/L).

Creatinine clearance (CrCl)

How quickly the kidneys clear creatinine, a waste product, from the blood. A study may estimate it from a blood test with age, weight and sex (often by the Cockcroft–Gault formula), or measure it using blood and urine collected over a set time. Given in mL/min; higher is better.

Bilirubin

A yellow substance made when red blood cells are broken down, which the liver clears. A high level can mean a problem with the liver or the bile ducts.

Criteria often allow more for people with Gilbert’s syndrome, a harmless inherited condition that raises bilirubin.

ULN (upper limit of normal)

The top of the normal range for a blood test, as set by the laboratory that runs it. Each lab prints its own range next to your result.

“≤ 2.5 × ULN” means the result can be up to two and a half times that top value.

ALT and AST (liver enzymes)

Two enzymes measured in a routine blood test of the liver. Higher levels can mean the liver is under strain or damaged. SGPT and SGOT are older names for ALT and AST.

Criteria usually give a limit as a multiple of the upper limit of normal (ULN), often higher when cancer has spread to the liver.

Karnofsky performance status (KPS)

A 0–100 scale of how well someone can carry out everyday activities. 100 is no complaints and no signs of illness; 70 is able to look after yourself but not to work or keep up normal activity; 50 is needing considerable help and frequent medical care.

Studies often ask for 60 or 70 and above. Your doctor gives the score.

Childbearing potential

Able to become pregnant: from the first period until menopause, unless permanently unable to through surgery (removal of the womb, or of both ovaries or both fallopian tubes).

Criteria for people of childbearing potential usually ask for a negative pregnancy test and for contraception during the study and for a time after it.

Contraception

Ways of preventing pregnancy. “Highly effective” methods fail less than 1% of the time a year when used correctly — for example an IUD or an implant.

Criteria usually say which methods count and how long to keep using them after the last dose, sometimes for male participants too. Some studies accept a partner’s vasectomy if it was confirmed successful and that person is the participant’s only sexual partner.

CTCAE grade

The US National Cancer Institute’s scale of how severe an adverse event is — any unwanted medical event during a study, such as a symptom, an illness or an abnormal test result, whether or not a treatment caused it. Whether it did is judged separately.

1
Mild.
2
Moderate.
3
Severe.
4
Life-threatening.
5
Death due to the event.

“Side effects of earlier treatment resolved to grade 1 or less” means they have settled to mild or gone.

Brain metastases

Cancer deposits in the brain from a cancer that started elsewhere in the body (CNS metastases include the spinal cord).

Studies differ: some leave out any brain metastases, some accept ones treated and stable for some weeks. Check what this study allows.

Informed consent

Before you join, the study team explains what taking part involves — its purpose, what happens, the risks and possible benefits — and answers your questions, so you can decide freely. Consent is usually recorded on a form (the informed consent form, ICF) signed by you or, where the law allows, by someone legally authorised to decide for you.

You can keep asking questions during the study, you are told of new information that matters, and you can choose to leave at any time.

HIV

The human immunodeficiency virus, which weakens the immune system.

Many studies now accept people whose HIV is controlled on treatment, judged by the viral load and the CD4 count. Check the limits this study sets.

Hepatitis B tests

Hepatitis B is a virus that infects the liver. These are separate tests: HBsAg positive usually means a current infection (a recent vaccination can briefly cause it too); total anti-HBc (HBcAb) positive means an infection now or in the past; HBV DNA measures how much virus is in the blood.

Some studies accept a past infection if HBV DNA is undetectable, sometimes with antiviral medicine during the study. Check what this study allows.

Hepatitis C tests

Hepatitis C is a virus that infects the liver. An HCV antibody test can stay positive after an infection has cleared (and is occasionally positive without one); an HCV RNA test shows whether the virus is there now.

After treatment, hepatitis C counts as cured when HCV RNA is still undetectable 12 weeks or more after the treatment ended. Studies often accept people cured this way.

Corticosteroids (steroids)

Anti-inflammatory medicines such as prednisone, prednisolone and dexamethasone — not the anabolic steroids used for muscle.

Studies differ in what they allow: check which steroid medicines, routes (tablets, injections, creams, inhalers, eye drops) and doses this study accepts.

Biopsy and archival tissue

A biopsy takes a small piece of tissue to examine. “Archival tissue” is a sample already taken, for example at diagnosis, and kept by the hospital.

Whether a stored sample will do depends on when it was taken, how much there is and what the study needs. Ask whether the study accepts your stored sample or needs a new biopsy.

PD-1, PD-L1 and checkpoint inhibitors

PD-1, PD-L1 and CTLA-4 are proteins that act as brakes on the immune system. Checkpoint inhibitors, such as pembrolizumab or nivolumab, block them so the immune system can attack a cancer.

PD-L1 can also be measured in a tumour sample. Some scores count stained tumour cells only (TPS); others also count certain immune cells (CPS). The study names the score and the minimum it uses.

Autoimmune disease

A condition in which the immune system attacks the body’s own tissues, such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, psoriasis, type 1 diabetes or inflammatory bowel disease.

Immunotherapy studies often leave out active autoimmune disease, and some name exceptions, such as thyroid disease on replacement hormone. Check the exceptions this study lists.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 1 / Phase 2
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Non-randomized
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
33 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Arm 1

    Temsirolimus 25 mg every 14 days + nivolumab

    Drug: Temsirolimus · Drug: nivolumab

  • Experimental
    Arm 2

    Irinotecan 150 mg/m2 every 14 days + nivolumab

    Drug: Irinotecan · Drug: nivolumab

  • Experimental
    Arm 3

    Irinotecan + capecitabine + nivolumab irinotecan 175 mg/m2 on day 1 every 14 days + capecitabine 1000 mg PO BID days 1-5 on, days 6-7 off, each 7 day period

    Drug: Irinotecan + capecitabine · Drug: nivolumab

Interventions

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. The recommended phase 2 dose (RP2D) of chemotherapy in combination with nivolumab in subjects with advanced cancer.

    phase 2 dosing of nivolumab + chemotherapy

    Time frame: up to 4 weeks

Secondary outcomes

  1. Frequency of grade 3 or higher treatment-related adverse events by CTCAE 4.03

    Identify adverse Events

    Time frame: up to 12 months

  2. Response rate by irRC and response evaluation criteria in solid tumors (RECIST) 1.1 criteria1,2

    Identify tumor response

    Time frame: 12 weeks

  3. The overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS)

    Assess time until death after treatment

    Time frame: up to 12 months

  4. Quantify changes in amount of blood proteins and circulating tumor DNA in patients enrolled on this study

    Assess tumor marker levels

    Time frame: up to 12 months

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Study locations

1 site
  • Cancer Treatment Center of America @ Western Regional Medical Center
    Goodyear, Arizona 85338, United States
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: Undecided

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Jul 2, 2018, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT02423954
Lead sponsor
Western Regional Medical Center
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Apr 22, 2015
Start date
Apr 2015
Primary completion
Nov 1, 2017
Completion
Nov 1, 2017
Last update
Jul 2, 2018

Study contacts

Jordan Waypa, MSN, FNP
study director · Western Regional Medical Center
Cynthia Lynch, MD
principal investigator · Western Regional Medical Center

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
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