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WithdrawnNCT03419559Updated Apr 16, 2019

Study of Autologous Tumor Infiltrating Lymphocytes (LN-145) In Combo With Durvalumab in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

A Phase 2 interventional study of LN-145 and Durvalumab in Non Small Cell Lung Cancer, sponsored by Iovance Biotherapeutics, Inc.. Withdrawn at 8 sites in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2019-04-16.

Sponsored by Iovance Biotherapeutics, Inc. · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment

Why this study was withdrawn
The treatment landscape for NSCLC has evolved in the past year. An additional NSCLC arm will be added to the IOV-COM-202 study using TIL + pembrolizumab.

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Phase
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
0
Allocation
Not applicable
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
2,918th of 2,993
0 · median 56
Started
2018
with 160 others
Phase 2
1,078 of 3,366
119 open now
Registered
1,976th 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 2,918th largest by enrollment of the 2,993 interventional ones that give a count, is one of 161 that started in 2018, is one of 1,078 in phase 2, and was the 1,976th registered.

Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung

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Study summary

This study is a Phase 2, open-label, multicenter study evaluating adoptive cell therapy (ACT) with autologous TIL therapy (LN-145) in combination with Anti-PD-L1 inhibitor durvalumab.

Read the detailed description

LN-145 is an adoptive cell transfer therapy that utilizes an autologous TIL manufacturing process, as originally developed by the NCI. The cell transfer therapy used in this study involves patients receiving a nonmyeloablative (NMA) lymphocyte depleting preparative regimen, followed by infusion of autologous TIL followed by the administration of a regimen of IL-2.

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Conditions studied

  • Non Small Cell Lung Cancer

Keywords

  • LN-145
  • Cell Therapy
  • Autologous Adoptive Cell Transfer
  • Cellular Immuno-therapy
  • TIL
  • IL-2
  • Durvalumab
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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

  • Confirmed diagnosis of Stage III or Stage IV NSCLC and progressed after ≤ 3 lines of prior systemic therapy in the locally advanced or setting
  • Have at least 1 lesion resectable for TIL generation
  • as defined by v1.1
  • Male or female, ≥ 18 years of age
  • (ECOG) performance status of 0 or 1, and estimated of ≥ 3 months
  • Adequate bone marrow function at screening
  • Adequate organ function at screening
  • A from prior anticancer therapy(ies) of a minimum duration is required prior to first study treatment
  • Recovered from all prior anticancer therapy-related AEs to Grade 1 or less (per v4.03) prior to enrollment
  • Female patients of and male patients with partners of childbearing potential patient must agree to use while on study and during the timeframes as specified following the last dose of study drug(s) received, or until the first dose of the subsequent anticancer therapy, whichever is longer
  • Evidence of status or negative urine or serum pregnancy test for female premenopausal patients

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • History of other , except for the following: adequately treated nonmelanoma skin cancer, curatively treated in-situ cancer of the cervix, curatively-treated thyroid cancer, or other solid tumors curatively treated with no evidence of disease for ≥ 3 years
  • Patients who have received prior cell therapy
  • Patients who have received prior : such as anti-PD-1, anti-PD-L1 inhibitors, and durvalumab
  • Active or prior documented or inflammatory disorders
  • History of primary or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, history of allogeneic organ transplant that requires therapeutic
  • Received live or attenuated vaccination within 28 days prior to the start of NMA-LD
  • Patients with a history of to any component of the study drugs
  • Mean ≥ 470 msec
  • Patients who have a (LVEF) of \< 45% or who are (NYHA) Class 2 or higher
  • Serious illnesses or medical conditions, which would pose increased risk for study participation and/or compliance with the protocol
  • Patients who have obstructive or restrictive pulmonary disease and have a documented (forced expiratory volume in 1 second) of ≤ 60%
  • Active central nervous system and/or
  • Female patients who are pregnant or breastfeeding
  • Active infection including tuberculosis (TB), , , or
  • Current or prior use of immunosuppressive medication within 28 days before the first dose of study treatment, with the exceptions of intranasal and inhaled or systemic corticosteroids at physiological doses, which are not to exceed 10 mg/day of prednisone, or an equivalent corticosteroid
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(24)

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Metastases

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Postmenopausal

Periods have stopped for good: usually no period for 12 months in a row without another medical reason, sometimes confirmed by a blood test (FSH).

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.

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.

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.

Hypersensitivity

An allergy, or another reaction of the immune system, to a substance. “Hypersensitivity to the study drug” means a known allergic reaction to it — not every side effect a medicine can have.

QT and QTc

On an ECG, the QT interval is the time the heart’s lower chambers take to activate electrically and recover in each beat. QTc is that time adjusted for heart rate (QTcF by Fridericia’s formula, QTcB by Bazett’s). Some medicines lengthen it, and a long QTc can raise the risk of a dangerous heart rhythm.

The study may name a correction formula and a limit in milliseconds, often around 450–480.

LVEF (left ventricular ejection fraction)

The share of blood the heart’s main pumping chamber (the left ventricle) pushes out with each beat, measured by an echocardiogram (heart ultrasound) or a MUGA scan. About 50–70% is normal.

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.

FEV1

From a breathing test (spirometry): how much air you can blow out in the first second. Often given as a percentage of what is expected for your age, height and sex.

Leptomeningeal disease

Cancer that has spread to the leptomeninges, the thin layers covering the brain and spinal cord, and the fluid between them. It is not the same as brain metastases.

Criteria often treat it separately, and many studies leave it out even where treated brain metastases are allowed.

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.

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.

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.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 2
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
0 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    LN-145 in combination with durvalumab

    After nonmyeloablative (NMA) lymphodepletion, patients are infused with their autologous TIL (LN-145) followed by IL-2 administration.

    Biological: LN-145 · Drug: Durvalumab

Interventions

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Objective Response Rate

    To evaluate efficacy using the objective response rate (ORR)

    Time frame: A maximum of 24 months

  2. ≥ Grade 3 Treatment-Emergent Adverse Event

    To evaluate the safety as measured by any ≥ Grade 3 treatment-emergent adverse event (TEAE) rate

    Time frame: A maximum of 24 months

Secondary outcomes

  1. Duration of Response

    To further evaluate efficacy such as the duration of response (DOR)

    Time frame: A maximum of 24 months

  2. Progression Free Survival

    To further evaluate efficacy such as progression free survival (PFS)

    Time frame: A maximum of 24 months

  3. Overall Survival

    To further evaluate efficacy such as overall survival (OS)

    Time frame: A minimum of 5 years

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Study locations

8 sites
  • University of California San Diego, Moores Cancer Center
    La Jolla, California 92093, United States
  • University of California, Los Angeles, Santa Monica Hematology/Oncology
    Los Angeles, California 90095, United States
  • University of Louisville James Graham Brown Cancer Center
    Louisville, Kentucky 40202, United States
  • Karmanos Cancer Institute
    Detroit, Michigan 48201, United States
  • Morristown Medical Center Atlantic Hematology Oncology
    Morristown, New Jersey 07960, United States
  • UPMC Cancer Center
    Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15232, United States
  • Vanderbilt University
    Nashville, Tennessee 37232, United States
  • University of Washington Medical Center
    Seattle, Washington 98195-0001, United States
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reached

Started Feb 2018 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Dec 2021, 46 months after the start.

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

Registered
Jan 14, 2018
First posted
Feb 5, 2018
StartActual
Feb 28, 2018
Primary completionEst.
Dec 2021
CompletionEst.
Dec 2024
Last update
Apr 16, 2019
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 Apr 16, 2019, 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
NCT03419559
Lead sponsor
Iovance Biotherapeutics, Inc.
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Feb 5, 2018
Start date
Feb 28, 2018
Primary completion
Dec 2021 (estimated)
Completion
Dec 2024 (estimated)
Last update
Apr 16, 2019

Study contacts

Iovance Medical Monitor
study director · Iovance Biotherapeutics, Inc.

Oversight

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