A Phase 2 interventional study of Durvalumab + Tremelimumab + RT in Locally Advanced Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma, sponsored by University of Erlangen-Nürnberg Medical School. Completed at 7 sites in Germany. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 100 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2024-04-11.
Sponsored by University of Erlangen-Nürnberg Medical School · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment
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Among 20 studies testing durvalumab in Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Head and Neck — none open to participants now, 3 under way, none of them phase 3. durvalumab · Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Head and Neck.
Among the 20 studies testing durvalumab in Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Head and Neck, this one is the 5th largest by enrollment, is one of 7 that started in 2018, is one of 7 in phase 2, and was the 13th registered.
2,019 studies on the registry are indexed under Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Head and Neck; 573 are open to participants now.
Browse Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Head and Neck studies →None of the 20 studies testing durvalumab in Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Head and Neck is open now. The open studies under Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Head and Neck, anywhere →
durvalumab: first FDA approval 2017 (IMFINZI), first EMA approval 2018. What it is approved for, and how studies give it, is on its page →
Of the 435 Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Head and Neck studies recruiting now, 311 (71%) set no upper age limit and 87 (20%) stop at 75 or younger; 5 take children under 18; 13 take healthy volunteers.
This study: 18 Years to 100 Years · all sexes · no healthy volunteers.
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20 studies; the count open now beside each. This study's row is marked.
A study in two phases is counted once above. Listed by phase, each with its combined phases: Phase 1 10 · Phase 2 11 · Phase 3 3
First in 2013; this study’s year is marked. 7 started in 2018.
By drug class, each counting the studies that test any of its medicines:
This study's enrollment of 120 is above the median of 48 across 1,653 interventional studies indexed under Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Head and Neck.
Median enrollment 40 across the 20 interventional studies. Of the 16 that completed or were terminated, 4 (25%) have results posted.
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5 of 20 have an industry lead sponsor. The 10 most frequent:
University of Erlangen-Nürnberg Medical School is the lead sponsor of 277 studies on the registry; 53 are open to participants now.
University of Erlangen-Nürnberg Medical School has 7 studies filed under Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Head and Neck — fewer than ten, so there is no comparison to draw.
None of the studies under way reaches primary completion within a year.
Among the 20 studies testing durvalumab in Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Head and Neck, from their registry updates:
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First-line treatment of locally advanced HNSCC with double checkpoint blockade and radiotherapy dependent on intratumoral CD8+ T cell Infiltration.
This is a single arm, open-label, prospective, non-randomized Phase II clinical trial of locally advanced HNSCC with double checkpoint blockade and radiotherapy dependent on intratumoral CD8+ T cell Infiltration.
All patients will initially be treated with the PD-L1 inhibitor Durvalumab (1500 mg q4w) and the CTLA-4 Inhibitor Tremelimumab (75 mg q4w / since Amendment 3 (01.04.2020): 300 mg absolute dose d5) and one cycle with Cisplatin (30mg/m² d1-3) and Docetaxel (75mg/m² d1). Treatment response will be evaluated clinically by endoscopy with biopsy. Changes of the CD8+ T cell density in the second biopsy compared to the first one before therapy will be used for patient selection. Patients with a stable or decreased CD8+ tumor infiltrating immune cell density or clinical progressive disease will receive standard CRT outside the trial. For these patients toxicity will be monitored until the first dose of the subsequent standard CRT. Patients with an increased CD8+ tumor infiltrating immune cell density and at least clinically stable disease will receive radioimmunotherapy with the PD-L1 Inhibitor Durvalumab and the CTLA4-Inhibitor Tremelimumab (altogether 4 doses q4w including the induction dose) followed by maintenance therapy with Durvalumab (8 additional doses q4w). The primary endpoint is feasibility. Feasibility criteria are receiving the protocol treatment until cycle 6 of antibody treatment and absence of any of the DLT defined in the protocol. A feasibility rate of ≥80% is expected. The efficacy of radioimmunotherapy and predictive character of changes of CD8+ tumor infiltrating immune cells after induction chemo-immunotherapy are further endpoints. The follow up period will be two years after the completion of radiotherapy.
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Women \<50 years of age would be considered post-menopausal if they have been amenorrheic for 12 months or more following cessation of exogenous hormonal treatments and if they have luteinizing hormone and follicle-stimulating hormone levels in the post-menopausal range for the institution or underwent surgical sterilization (bilateral oophorectomy or hysterectomy).
Women ≥50 years of age would be considered post-menopausal if they have been amenorrheic for 12 months or more following cessation of all exogenous hormonal treatments, had radiation-induced menopause with last menses >1 year ago, had chemotherapy-induced menopause with last menses >1 year ago, or underwent surgical sterilization (bilateral oophorectomy, bilateral salpingectomy or hysterectomy).
Exclusion Criteria:
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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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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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.
Cancer that has spread from where it began to other parts of the body. “Metastatic” cancer is cancer that has spread this way.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
The human immunodeficiency virus, which weakens the immune system.
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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.
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Anti-inflammatory medicines such as prednisone, prednisolone and dexamethasone — not the anabolic steroids used for muscle.
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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.
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.
Able to have children. For women this usually means from the first period until menopause, unless permanently unable to through surgery; for men, unless permanently sterile. Read who the line is about — participants, women, men, or their partners.
Criteria about it usually ask for contraception during the study and for a time after it.
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.
The other ingredients in a medicine besides the active drug, such as fillers, colours or preservatives.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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Investigational drug or device
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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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Metastases
Cancer that has spread from where it began to other parts of the body. “Metastatic” cancer is cancer that has spread this way.
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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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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.
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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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
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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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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.
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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.
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Reproductive potential
Able to have children. For women this usually means from the first period until menopause, unless permanently unable to through surgery; for men, unless permanently sterile. Read who the line is about — participants, women, men, or their partners.
Criteria about it usually ask for contraception during the study and for a time after it.
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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.
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Excipients
The other ingredients in a medicine besides the active drug, such as fillers, colours or preservatives.
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Durvalumab (1500 mg,q4W) + Tremelimumab (75 mg, q4W / since Amendment 3: 300 mg absolute dose d5) for up to a maximum of 4 doses/cycles combined with radiotherapy (35 x 2.0/1.8/1.6 Gy) followed by durvalumab monotherapy 1500mg via IV infusion q4W, starting 4 weeks after the last infusion of the combination, for up to a maximum of 8 additional durvalumab doses.
Combination Product: Durvalumab + Tremelimumab + RT
Drug pages: Durvalumab · Tremelimumab
Patients with an increased CD8+ tumor infiltrating immune cell density and at least clinically stable disease will receive radioimmunotherapy with the PD-L1 Inhibitor Durvalumab and the CTLA4-Inhibitor Tremelimumab (altogether 4 doses q4w including the induction dose) followed by maintenance therapy with Durvalumab (8 additional doses q4w).
Assessment of the number of participants receiving the protocol treatment until cycle 6 of antibody treatment
Feasibility means the number of participants receiving the protocol treatment
Time frame: At the end of cycle 6 of antibody treatment (each cycle is 4 weeks)
Assessment of the predictive character of changes of CD8+ tumor infiltrating immune cells after induction chemo-immunotherapy
Changes of the CD8+ T cell density in the second biopsy compared to the first one before therapy will be used for patient selection.
Time frame: At Baseline and week 4
Assessment of the absence of any dose-limiting toxicities
Feasibility means the number of dose-limiting toxicities of Grade 3 or higher toxicity that occurs during the trial
Time frame: At the time of cycle 1 (week 2) to the last cycle 5-12 (up to 2 years)
Progression free survival
All patients will receive tumor imaging (CT or MRI) 12 weeks after completion of radiotherapy and panendoscopy with biopsy.
Time frame: 12 weeks after completion of radiotherapy
Pathologically confirmed response
All patients will receive tumor imaging (CT or MRI) 12 weeks after completion of radiotherapy and panendoscopy with biopsy.
Time frame: 12 weeks after completion of radiotherapy
Overall survival
All patients will receive tumor imaging (CT or MRI) 12 weeks after completion of radiotherapy and panendoscopy with biopsy.
Time frame: 12 weeks after completion of radiotherapy
Assessment of predictive value of different tumor infiltrating immune cells and immunological tumor markers.
Longitudinal analysis of the immune phenotype in the peripheral blood.
Time frame: Baseline (week 0), each cycle is 4 weeks, at the end of cycle 1 (week 2), cycle 2 (week 6), cycle 3 (week 10), cycle 4 (week 14), cycle 5-12 (up to 2 years)
Assessment of predictive changes of different tumor infiltrating immune cells and immunological tumor markers.
Longitudinal analysis of the immune phenotype in the peripheral blood.
Time frame: Baseline (week 0), each cycle is 4 weeks, at the end of cycle 1 (week 2), cycle 2 (week 6), cycle 3 (week 10), cycle 4 (week 14), cycle 5-12 (up to 2 years)
Plan to share: No
Ran from Sep 2018 to primary completion in Sep 2021, 35 months.
Of 298 non-industry phase 2 interventional studies under Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Head and Neck, half reached primary completion within 56 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 37 and three quarters within 85. This study's 35 months is below that.
Counting every sponsor, half of 366 studies reached it within 53 months; a quarter within 35 and three quarters within 82.
How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.
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