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TerminatedNCT03265080NEOUpdated Feb 24, 2023

A Study of ADXS-NEO Expressing Personalized Tumor Antigens

A Phase 1 interventional study of ADXS-NEO and Pembrolizumab in Colon Cancer Metastatic, Head and Neck Cancer Metastatic and Metastatic Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer, sponsored by Advaxis, Inc.. Terminated at 5 sites in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2023-02-24.

Sponsored by Advaxis, Inc. · Phase 1, Interventional, and Treatment

Why this study was terminated
Business decision

From the registry’s dates

  • Primary completion was Oct 2019, 7 years ago, and no results have been posted to the registry.

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Phase
Phase 1
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
13
Allocation
Non-randomized
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Where this study stands

Counted across the records on this site · 2026-11-14

Among 3,366 studies in Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung with a site in United States — 518 open to participants now, 892 under way, 142 of them phase 3. Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung · United States.

Enrollment
2,489th of 2,993
13 · median 56
Started
2018
with 160 others
Phase 1
926 of 3,366
133 open now
Registered
1,904th of 3,366
by date

Among the 3,366 studies in Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung with a site in United States, this one is the 2,489th largest by enrollment of the 2,993 interventional ones that give a count, is one of 161 that started in 2018, is one of 926 in phase 1, and was the 1,904th registered.

Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung

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This study: 18 Years and older · all sexes · no healthy volunteers.

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Study summary

This is a Phase 1, open-label, multicenter study of ADXS-NEO administered alone and in combination with pembrolizumab in participants with select advanced or metastatic solid tumors. This study will be performed in 2 phases, a safety phase (Part A and Part B) and an efficacy phase (Part C).

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Mutation-derived tumor antigens, which are often unique to each participant's tumor, represent a new source of targets for cancer immunotherapy. These mutations, which arise during tumorigenesis, are expressed only by the tumor and, as such, may be recognized as newly formed antigens, or neoantigens, by the participant's T cells. The lack of expression of participant-specific tumor mutations in nonmalignant cells suggests that vaccines targeting these tumor mutations have a low risk of autoimmunity and may represent a safer therapeutic approach than many of those currently available. The development of a Listeria monocytogenes (Lm)-based vaccine that expresses these participant-specific tumor antigens and that activates tumor-killing T cells has the potential to be a highly effective form of immunotherapy. In addition, the Lm platform, because it mediates tumor control through multiple mechanisms, may exhibit more robust anti-tumor activity than other vaccine platforms. Thus, the targeting of participant-specific mutation-derived tumor antigens and the concurrent stimulation of host immunity provides a rational approach for boosting anti-tumor immunity, as monotherapy and in combination with anti-programmed cell death protein-1 (PD-1) inhibitors.

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Conditions studied

  • Colon Cancer Metastatic
  • Head and Neck Cancer Metastatic
  • Metastatic Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
  • Urothelial Carcinoma
  • Metastatic Melanoma
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Who can participate

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

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Inclusion criteria

  1. Have (ECOG) performance status of 0 to 1.
  2. Screening tumor must be adequate for the identification of nonsynonymous somatic mutations (NSMs) by whole exome sequencing and for the development of ADXS-NEO. Biopsies may be repeated for participants whose Screening biopsies are found to be inadequate for the development of ADXS-NEO. Biopsy should be excisional, incisional or core needle. Fine needle aspiration is generally inadequate.
  3. Participant population for Part A (ADXS-NEO monotherapy) is as follows:

    1. Histological or cytological diagnosis of colorectal cancer (CRC) excluding known microsatellite instability (MSI)-high sub-types, metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of head and neck (SCCHN) or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) that have progressed or have become intolerant to standard therapy, and whose disease may allow management with other available therapies (or a treatment break, if appropriate) for up to approximately 12 weeks following Screening tumor biopsy. More than one form of anti-tumor therapy is allowed during this interval.
    2. For metastatic CRC, up to 4 lines of approved therapy in the advanced or metastatic setting are allowed, including approved antibody and targeted agent therapy. Participants may be eligible if they have received additional upon discussion with and approval by the Sponsor. Participants are excluded if they are known to have MSI-high tumors. If the status of microsatellite stability is not known, participants are eligible. The determination of microsatellite stability for CRC may be made by local testing on any available tissue prior to study entry.
    3. For metastatic SCCHN, up to 2 lines of approved therapy in the advanced or metastatic setting are allowed, including approved antibody therapy and immunotherapy if eligible. Participants may be eligible if they have received additional lines of therapy upon discussion with and approval by the Sponsor.
    4. For metastatic NSCLC, up to 3 lines of approved therapy in the advanced or metastatic setting are allowed, including approved antibodies, targeted agents and immunotherapy if eligible. Tumors harboring squamous and/or non-squamous histologies are eligible. Tumors harboring squamous and/or non-squamous histologies with neuroendocrine or small cell components may be eligible upon discussion with and approval by the Sponsor.
    5. Prior exposure to immunotherapy including, but not limited to, anti-PD1 or anti-Programmed death ligand-1 (PDL-1) antibodies is allowed but not required. Participants who received prior treatment with such agents must meet the following criteria: (a) Full resolution of prior -related adverse events and no treatment for these adverse events for at least 3 weeks prior to the first infusion of ADXS-NEO; and (b) no history of severe immune related adverse events (irAE) from prior exposure to checkpoint inhibitors. Severe irAEs are defined as any (CTCAE) Grade 4 toxicity requiring treatment with or Grade 3 toxicity requiring corticosteroid treatment (greater than 10 mg/day prednisone or equivalent dose) for greater than 12 weeks.
  4. Participant population for Part B and Part C (ADXS-NEO + pembrolizumab) is as follows:

    1. Histological or cytological diagnosis of NSCLC, SCCHN, urothelial carcinoma, or melanoma.
    2. Participant has received, and then progressed or been intolerant to up to 3 lines of prior therapy in the advanced or metastatic setting, including approved chemotherapy, targeted therapy, immunotherapy and antibody therapy, if eligible. Participants who have received >3 lines of prior therapy may be eligible upon discussion with and approval by the Sponsor.
    3. For NSCLC: Participants with metastatic NSCLC whose tumors express PD-L1 (tumor proportion score [TPS] ≥1%) as determined by a Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved test are eligible, with disease progression on or after platinum-containing chemotherapy. Participants with estimated (EGFR) or anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) genomic tumor aberrations should have disease progression on FDA-approved therapy for these aberrations prior to enrolment.
    4. For SCCHN: participants with recurrent or metastatic SCCHN with disease progression on or after platinum-containing chemotherapy are eligible.
    5. For urothelial carcinoma:

      • Participants with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma who are not eligible for cisplatin-containing chemotherapy and whose tumors express PD-L1 [Combined Positive Score (CPS) ≥10] as determined by an FDA-approved test, or participants who are not eligible for any platinum-containing chemotherapy regardless of PD-L1 status, are eligible.
      • Participants with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma who have disease progression during or following platinum-containing chemotherapy or within 12 months of or adjuvant treatment with platinum-containing chemotherapy, are eligible.
    6. For melanoma: participants with unresectable or metastatic melanoma are eligible.
  5. Has evaluable or for response assessment per v1.1.
  6. Has adequate organ function.
  7. Has no major existing comorbidities or medical conditions that will preclude therapy in the view of the Investigator.
  8. Baseline blood oxygen saturation on room air of > 95%
  9. Resolution to Grade ≤1 by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) CTCAE, Version 4.03 of all toxic effects of prior anti-tumor therapy within 3 weeks of first dose of study treatment except for alopecia.
  10. A female participant is eligible to participate if she is not pregnant, not breastfeeding, and at least one of the following conditions applies:

    1. Not a woman of (WOCBP) OR
    2. A WOCBP who agrees to follow the guidance during the study treatment period and for at least 120 days after the last dose of study treatment.
  11. Female participants of childbearing potential must have a negative urine or serum pregnancy test within 72 hours prior to receiving any dose of ADXS-NEO. If the urine test is positive or cannot be confirmed as negative, a serum pregnancy test will be required.
  12. A male participant is eligible to participate if he agrees to follow the contraceptive guidance during the study treatment period and for at least 120 days after the last dose of study treatment.
  13. Provide written for the trial including mandatory biopsy of accessible lesion(s) during Screening (Parts A, B and C), and mandatory on-treatment biopsy (Parts A and B; if there is no complete resolution of lesions and if the safety risk for biopsy remains acceptable).

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion:

  1. Has a newly diagnosed tumor and a curative treatment option or approved therapy is available.
  2. Known active central nervous system (CNS) and/or carcinomatous meningitis. Participants with previously treated may participate provided that they are stable (without evidence of progression by imaging for at least 4 weeks prior to the first dose of trial treatment and any neurologic symptoms have returned to baseline), have no evidence of new or enlarging brain metastases, and are not using for at least 7 days prior to first dose of ADXS-NEO (Part A) or pembrolizumab (Part B and Part C). If a participant does not meet these criteria, the participant may be eligible upon discussion and agreement between the Sponsor and Investigator based upon the participant's specific case.
  3. Any active disease or a documented history of autoimmune disease, or history of a syndrome that required systemic steroids or medications, except for participants with Grade ≤2 vitiligo or resolved childhood asthma/atopy or uncomplicated dermatitis.
  4. History of recently (within previous 12 months) active diverticulitis, symptomatic peptic ulcer disease, colitis, inflammatory bowel disease or any gastrointestinal diseases that, in the opinion of the Investigator and Sponsor's medical monitor would pose a risk to the participant safety.
  5. History of other active for \< 2 years prior to enrollment. Basal cell carcinoma of the skin, squamous cell carcinoma of the skin, or in situ cancer that has undergone potentially curative therapy or is felt by the Investigator to be at low risk for recurrence is allowed.
  6. History or evidence of cardiovascular risk including any of the following:

    1. History or evidence of arrhythmias (ventricular fibrillation, ventricular tachycardia, supraventricular tachycardia, atrial tachycardia/flutter, atrial fibrillation with rapid ventricular response, second or third degree atrioventricular block, and sick sinus syndrome).

      Exception: Participants with controlled atrial fibrillation for >30 days prior to enrollment are eligible. Controlled atrial fibrillation is defined as atrial fibrillation with no ventricular response which requires no change in medication/dosage or addition of new medication or hospital admission within 30 days prior to enrollment.

    2. History of acute coronary syndromes (e.g., myocardial infarction and unstable angina) and/or coronary angioplasty within 6 months prior to enrollment.
    3. History or evidence of Class ≥II congestive heart failure as defined by (NYHA).
    4. Chronic hypertension (defined as a systolic blood pressure >140 mm Hg and/or diastolic blood pressure >90 mm Hg which cannot be controlled by anti-hypertensive therapy).
    5. Participants with intra-cardiac defibrillators.
    6. Abnormal cardiac valve morphology (Grade ≥2). Participants with grade 1 abnormalities can be entered on study. Participants with moderate valvular thickening should not be entered on study. History of arterial thrombosis (e.g., stroke or ) in the past 3 months.
  7. Psychiatric or substance abuse disorders that would interfere with cooperation with the requirements of the trial.
  8. Is pregnant or breastfeeding, or expecting to conceive or father children within the projected duration of the trial, starting with the Screening visit(s) through 120 days after the last dose of study treatment.
  9. Active infection requiring systemic therapy or is dependent on or currently receiving antibiotics that cannot be discontinued before dosing. (NOTE: Participants who discontinue an antibiotic prior to dosing must wait at least 5 half-lives after the last dose of antibiotic before receiving ADXS-NEO (Part A) or pembrolizumab (Part B and Part C).
  10. Treatment with immune modulators including, but not limited to, chronic immunosuppressive dose of corticosteroid (>10 mg/day of prednisone or equivalent), cyclosporine, or tacrolimus within 4 weeks prior to enrollment. If the participant was receiving corticosteroids, taper or discontinuation must be completed at least 1 week prior to the first dose of ADXS-NEO (Part A) or pembrolizumab (Part B and Part C). Occasional topical corticosteroids and/or inhaled corticosteroids are allowed for a dose equivalency of ≤10 mg prednisone taken orally per week.
  11. Known allergy to any component of the study treatment formulation(s).
  12. Known history of (HIV).
  13. Known active (e.g., hepatitis B surface antigen [HBsAg] reactive) or (e.g., Hepatitis C virus ribonucleic acid [HCV RNA] [qualitative] is detected).
  14. Implanted medical device(s) that pose a high risk for colonization and/or cannot be easily removed (e.g., prosthetic joints, artificial heart valves, pacemakers, defibrillators, orthopedic screw[s], metal plate[s], bone graft[s], or other implant[s]). NOTE: More common devices and prosthetics that include arterial and venous stents, dental and breast implants, urinary catheters, and venous access devices (e.g., Port-a-Cath or Mediport) are permitted. The Sponsor must be contacted prior to consenting any participant who has any other device and/or implant.
  15. (i.e., documented sensitivity/allergy) to trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole and ampicillin.
  16. Contraindication to non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs).
  17. In the opinion of the investigator, participant has rapidly progressing disease, OR has \<6 months, OR would be unable to receive at least one dose of ADXS-NEO.

    Prior/Concomitant Therapy

  18. Monoclonal antibody or biologic therapy within 5 half-lives or 28 days, whichever is shorter, prior to first dose of ADXS-NEO (Part A) or pembrolizumab (Part B and Part C). Participants undergoing therapy with pembrolizumab at the time of Screening (Part B) may continue pembrolizumab without the above-mentioned if stable.
  19. Received anticancer chemotherapy, surgical treatment, and/or radiation therapy (except palliative radiation therapy for disease-related pain in consultation with the Sponsor's medical monitor) within 3 weeks of first dose of ADXS-NEO (Part A) or pembrolizumab (Part B and Part C).
  20. Because of a possible interaction between attenuated Lm and phosphoinositide 3-kinases (PI3K) inhibitor (may be directly involved in regulation of TNFα production and enhance Lm virulence), participants receiving a PI3K or TNFα inhibitor within 3 weeks of first dose of study treatment, or are expected to receive such agents at any time during the treatment period, are excluded.
  21. Received a within 30 days prior to the first dose of ADXS-NEO (Part A) or pembrolizumab (Part B and Part C).
  22. Major surgery, including surgery for a new artificial implant and/or medical device, which is permitted by the protocol, within 6 weeks prior to initiation of ADXS-NEO (Part A) or pembrolizumab (Part B and Part C). NOTE: All toxicities and/or complications must have recovered to baseline or Grade 1 prior to the initiation of study treatment. Consult with the Sponsor prior to enrolling participants who recently had major surgery or who have a new artificial implant, and/or devices.

    Prior/Concurrent Clinical Study Experience

  23. Currently participating in or has participated in a study of an agent or is using an investigational device within 3 weeks of enrollment.
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(29)

Underlined terms in the criteria open these too. Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.

ECOG performance status

A scale of how much an illness limits everyday activity. For people being assessed to join a study, scores run from 0 (fully active) to 4; lower is more active.

0
Fully active, no restrictions.
1
Limited in strenuous activity, but walking and able to do light work, such as housework or office work.
2
Walking and able to look after yourself, but unable to work; up and about more than half of waking hours.
3
Able to look after yourself only in part; in bed or a chair more than half of waking hours.
4
Unable to look after yourself at all; in bed or a chair all day.

Studies most often ask for 0–1 or 0–2. Your doctor gives the score; the WHO scale uses the same steps. The full scale also has 5, which records death.

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.

Metastases

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

Line of therapy

A line of therapy is one course of treatment, which may combine several drugs. First-line is the first course given; second-line follows when that stops working or is not tolerated.

“Two prior lines” means two courses that count separately under the study’s rules — not simply two drugs. Ask the study team if you are unsure how yours are counted.

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.

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.

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.

GFR and eGFR (kidney filtering)

GFR (glomerular filtration rate) is how much blood the kidneys filter each minute. It is usually estimated from a blood test — eGFR, by formulas such as CKD-EPI or MDRD — and some studies ask for it to be measured directly instead. Usually given in mL/min/1.73 m².

Check the method, the units and the minimum the study states. A value of 90 or above is in the normal-or-high range, but kidney damage can show in other tests too.

Adjuvant and neoadjuvant

Neoadjuvant treatment is given before the main treatment (usually surgery), often to shrink a tumour. Adjuvant treatment is given after it, to lower the chance of the cancer coming back.

Measurable disease

The amount of disease can be tracked with a defined measurement, so the study can see whether it shrinks or grows. It might be a tumour measured on a scan or, in some blood cancers such as myeloma, a marker measured in blood or urine.

The criteria or the study team say which measurement counts — having no tumour visible on a scan does not by itself rule you out.

RECIST

The standard rules for measuring tumours on CT or MRI scans, to tell whether a cancer is shrinking, stable or growing during treatment.

“Measurable disease per RECIST 1.1” usually means at least one tumour 10 mm or more at its longest on a CT scan, or a lymph node 15 mm or more across its short axis.

Clinically significant

Judged by the study doctor to matter for your health or for the study. It is a doctor’s decision, so ask the study team if you are unsure whether something counts.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Immunosuppression

A weakened immune system. It can come from an illness, such as HIV or some blood cancers, or from medicines that turn the immune system down, for example after an organ transplant or for an autoimmune disease; steroids at higher doses count.

Read whether the line is about a condition or about medicines, and which medicines and doses it means.

Cancer (malignancy)

Malignancy means cancer. Criteria about another or earlier malignancy ask whether you have had a different cancer, usually within a set number of years.

Some are commonly allowed, such as treated skin cancers other than melanoma and early cancers removed completely — check the exceptions this study lists.

NYHA class (heart failure)

The New York Heart Association’s four classes of how much heart failure limits physical activity.

I
No limits: ordinary activity causes no undue tiredness or breathlessness.
II
Slight limits: comfortable at rest, ordinary activity causes symptoms.
III
Marked limits: comfortable at rest, less than ordinary activity causes symptoms.
IV
Symptoms even at rest; any activity makes them worse.

Studies set their own limit — many outside heart failure leave out class III–IV, while heart failure studies may ask for a particular class. Check the class this study names.

TIA (transient ischaemic attack)

A “mini-stroke”: temporary stroke-like symptoms caused by reduced blood flow to part of the brain, spinal cord or eye, without signs of a new stroke on a scan.

Stroke symptoms need emergency care at once, even if they go away.

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.

Contraindication

A reason a treatment, test or procedure should not be given to a particular person, such as an allergy, another illness or a medicine they take.

Life expectancy

The study doctor’s estimate of how long someone is likely to live. Criteria use it so that people can stay in the study long enough for it to answer its question.

Washout period

A planned gap after a treatment, so that its effects can lessen before the study treatment or a study assessment. Ask the study team and the doctor who prescribed it before changing any medicine.

Live vaccines

Vaccines made with a weakened form of the germ, such as measles–mumps–rubella (MMR), chickenpox and yellow fever. They can be risky when the immune system is weakened. Flu injections are not live; the nasal flu spray is.

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.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 1
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Non-randomized
Intervention model
Sequential assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
13 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Part A

    Dose cohorts of 3 participants each will be treated. Initiation of dosing will be staggered by at least 4 weeks for participants in the first cohort, also known as intra-cohort staggering. Two dose levels of ADXS-NEO will be explored: 1 x 10\^9 and 1 x 10\^8 colony forming unit (CFU).

    Biological: ADXS-NEO

  • Experimental
    Part B

    Two dose levels of ADXS-NEO will be explored (i.e., 1 x 10\^8 and 5 x 10\^8 CFU) in combination with 200 mg of pembrolizumab.

    Biological: ADXS-NEO · Biological: Pembrolizumab

  • Experimental
    Part C

    ADXS-NEO will be explored at 1 x 10\^8 CFU in combination with 200 mg of pembrolizumab in an expansion cohort.

    Biological: ADXS-NEO · Biological: Pembrolizumab

Interventions

  • BiologicalADXS-NEO

    Intravenous infusion

  • BiologicalPembrolizumab

    Intravenous infusion

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Incidence of Treatment-Emergent Adverse Events

    Time frame: From the first dose up to 20 months

  2. Maximum tolerated dose

    Time frame: 4 weeks

Secondary outcomes

  1. Objective Response Rate (ORR) According to Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) v1.1

    Time frame: Baseline to measured progressive disease or start of new anticancer therapy (approximately 15 months)

  2. ORR According to immune Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (iRECIST)

    Time frame: Baseline to measured progressive disease or start of new anticancer therapy (approximately 15 months)

  3. Disease Control Rate (DCR) According to RECIST v1.1

    Time frame: Baseline to measured progressive disease or death due to any cause (approximately 15 months)

  4. DCR According to iRECIST

    Time frame: Baseline to measured progressive disease or death due to any cause (approximately 15 months)

  5. Duration of Response (DoR) According to RECIST v1.1

    Time frame: Baseline to measured progressive disease or death due to any cause (approximately 15 months)

  6. DOR According to iRECIST

    Time frame: Baseline to measured progressive disease or death due to any cause (approximately 15 months)

  7. Progression Free Survival (PFS) According to RECIST v1.1

    Time frame: Baseline to measured progressive disease or death due to any cause (approximately 15 months)

  8. PFS According to iRECIST

    Time frame: Baseline to measured progressive disease or death due to any cause (approximately 15 months)

  9. Overall Survival

    Time frame: Baseline to death due to any cause (approximately 20 months)

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Study locations

5 sites
  • Honor Health
    Scottsdale, Arizona 85258, United States
  • UCLA
    Los Angeles, California 90404, United States
  • Ochsner Clinic Foundation - Ochsner Cancer Institute
    New Orleans, Louisiana 70121, United States
  • Atlantic Health System
    Morristown, New Jersey 07960, United States
  • Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey
    New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903, United States
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References and documents

Publications

  • Hecht JR, Sheeri S, Heyburn J, Parsi M , Gutierrez AA, Tsai F. Clinical and immunogenicity data of a personalized neoantigen-Listeria vaccine in cancer patients: preliminary results. IO Combinations 360. Philadelphia, PA 20 June 2019.
  • Tsai F, Goldman JW, Kosoff R, Heyburn JW, Sands T, Sheeri S, Petit R, Gutierrez AA, Hecht JR. Safety and Immunogenicity of a Personalized Neoantigen-Listeria Vaccine in Cancer Patients. Frontiers in Cancer Immunotherapy, The New York Academy of Sciences, May 14-15, 2019,New York, NY
  • Hecht JR, Goldman JW, Hayes S, Balli D, Princiotta MF, Dennie JG, Heyburn J, Sands T, Sheeri S, Petit R, Gutierrez AA, Tsai F. Safety and immunogenicity of a personalized neoantigen -Listeria vaccine in cancer patients. AACR Annual Meeting 2019.

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reached

Ran from Mar 2018 to primary completion in Oct 2019, 18 months.

How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.

Registered
Jul 12, 2017
First posted
Aug 29, 2017
StartActual
Mar 28, 2018
Primary completionActual
Oct 24, 2019
CompletionActual
Nov 12, 2020
Last update
Feb 24, 2023
What these dates mean
Start.
When the first participant enrolled; while estimated, when the study expects to open to recruitment.
Primary completion.
When the last participant was examined or treated to collect data for the study's main question, its primary outcome. A study that stopped early gives the date its data collection stopped.
Completion.
When the last participant's last visit took place, for every outcome, secondary ones and side effects included: the end of the study. Often later than primary completion, sometimes the same day.
Actual and Est.
Actual means the registry says the date has happened. Est. (estimated) is a date the sponsor plans or expects. It can still move, and the sponsor is expected to change it to actual once it has passed.
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Feb 24, 2023, 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
NCT03265080
Lead sponsor
Advaxis, Inc.
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Aug 29, 2017
Start date
Mar 28, 2018
Primary completion
Oct 24, 2019
Completion
Nov 12, 2020
Last update
Feb 24, 2023

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
Yes
FDA-regulated device
No
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