A Phase 2 interventional study of Durvalumab Plus Tremelimumab in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma, sponsored by Samsung Medical Center. Status unknown at 1 site in Korea, Republic of. Open to participants aged 20 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2021-08-10.
Sponsored by Samsung Medical Center · 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 14th 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: 20 Years and older · 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 31 is below 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:
Samsung Medical Center is the lead sponsor of 1,011 studies on the registry; 152 are open to participants now.
Of its 7 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 1 (14%) have results posted.
Samsung Medical Center has 1 study 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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Durvalumab 1500mg plus tremelimumab 75mg via IV infusion Q4W, starting on Week 0, for up to a maximum of 4 doses/cycles followed by durvalumab monotherapy 1500mg via IV infusion Q4W, starting 4 weeks after the last infusion of the combination until progression.).
Proton therapy 5 GyE x 5 fractions
H0: Objective response rate ≤10% H1: Objective response rate ≥35% According to Simon's two-stage optimal design (power of 90% and one-sided alpha of 0.05), this study needs total 27 evaluable patients. At the first stage, 11 patients would be enrolled. If two or more among them achieve objective response, the study will go forward the second stage. At the second stage, 16 additional patients (total 27 patients) would be enrolled. Among the total 27 evaluable patients, six or more objective responses are necessary for this drug to be evaluated further in the group of R/M HNSCC
The incidence of Head and neck cancer (HNC) is approximately 6% of all cases with a world annual incidence and nearly 90 to 95% of HNC is squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC). [1] For patients with recurrent or metastatic HNSCC (R/M HNSCC), cytotoxic-based chemotherapy remains the standard therapeutic option. The median survival of these patients treated with cytotoxic-based chemotherapy, however, is only 6 to 10 months. For those who are not candidates for chemotherapy, the prognosis is even worse with median survival of 3 to 6 months. [2-4] Thus, new therapeutic options for these patients are needed to improve the treatment outcomes.
We hypothesize that durvalumab plus tremelimumab combined with proton therapy would be effective in R/M HNSCC.
The combination of immunotherapy and RT can be effective regimen because immunologic response might be enhanced by RT through the alteration of microenvironment within the irradiated field, tumor antigen release and "abscopal effect" at distant metastatic sites. In addition, the benefit of proton therapy is to deliver RT dose just to target lesion. The irradiated volume can be significantly reduced with proton therapy compared to X-ray treatment, thus proton therapy will provide better quality of life compared to X-ray during palliative RT.
Patients in the durvalumab (MEDI4736) + tremelimumab combination therapy treatment group will receive durvalumab (MEDI4736) (1500mg Q4W) in combination with tremelimumab (75 mg IV Q4W) for up to 4 doses/cycles each, followed by durvalumab (MEDI4736) 1500mg Q4W until confirmed disease progression unless there is unacceptable toxicity, withdrawal of consent, or another discontinuation criterion is met. The first durvalumab (MEDI4736) monotherapy dose at 1500mg Q4W will be 4 weeks after the final dose of durvalumab (MEDI4736) in combination with tremelimumab.
Tremelimumab will be administered first; the durvalumab (MEDI4736) infusion will start approximately 1 hour (maximum 2 hours) after the end of the tremelimumab infusion. If there are no clinically significant concerns after the first cycle, then, at the discretion of the Investigator, all other cycles of durvalumab (MEDI4736) can be given immediately after the tremelimumab infusion has finished.
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proven HNSCC
Inoperable or disease
Age ≥18years
More than one previous chemotherapy including at least one platinum-based regimen
performance status of 0 to 1
At least two
⑦ Adequate organ function as evidenced by the following; ≥ 9.0 g/dl (ANC) > 1.0 x 109/L > 100 x 109/L serum ≤1.5 institutional (ULN); (SGOT) and/or ALT(SGPT) ≤ 2.5 x ULN unless liver metastases are present, in which case it must be ≤ 5 x ULN ≥ 40mL/min by Cockcroft-Gault formula or by 24-hour urine collection for determination of creatinine clearance
⑧ Body weight > 30kg
⑨ Evidence of status or negative urinary or serum pregnancy test for female pre-menopausal patients. Women will be considered post-menopausal if they have been amenorrheic for 12 months without an alternative medical cause. The following age-specific requirements apply: 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
⑩ Written form
⑪ Patients who could submit at least one unstained slide to evaluate the expression status (PD-L1 status, which is positive (expression > 1% of tumor cells) or negative, is the prerequisite for the enrollment. If the submitted slides are unacceptable for the analysis for PD-L1 and there is no remained slide, the patient cannot be enrolled)
⑫ Subject is willing and able to comply with the protocol for the duration of the study including undergoing treatment and scheduled visits and examinations including follow up.
Exclusion Criteria:
Any unresolved toxicity Grade ≥2 from previous anticancer therapy with the exception of alopecia, vitiligo, and the laboratory values defined in the inclusion criteria Patients with Grade ≥2 neuropathy will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis after consultation with the Study Physician.
Patients with irreversible toxicity not reasonably expected to be exacerbated by treatment with durvalumab or tremelimumab may be included only after consultation with the Study Physician.
Active or prior documented or inflammatory disorders (including inflammatory bowel disease [eg, colitis or Crohn's disease], diverticulitis [with the exception of diverticulosis], systemic lupus erythematosus, Sarcoidosis syndrome, or Wegener syndrome [granulomatosis with polyangiitis, Graves' disease, rheumatoid arthritis, hypophysitis, uveitis, etc]). The following are exceptions to this criterion:
Patients with vitiligo or alopecia Patients with hypothyroidism (eg, following Hashimoto syndrome) stable on hormone replacement Any chronic skin condition that does not require systemic therapy Patients without active disease in the last 5 years may be included but only after consultation with the study physician Patients with celiac disease controlled by diet alone
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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.
Cancer that has spread from where it began to other parts of the body. “Metastatic” cancer is cancer that has spread this way.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
“Side effects of earlier treatment resolved to grade 1 or less” means they have settled to mild or gone.
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.
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.
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.
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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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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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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).
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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).
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
“Side effects of earlier treatment resolved to grade 1 or less” means they have settled to mild or gone.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Durvalumab 1500mg plus tremelimumab 75mg via IV infusion Q4W, starting on Week 0, for up to a maximum of 4 doses/cycles followed by durvalumab monotherapy 1500mg via IV infusion Q4W, starting 4 weeks after the last infusion of the combination until progression.).
Drug: Durvalumab Plus Tremelimumab
Drug pages: Durvalumab · Tremelimumab
Durvalumab 1500mg plus tremelimumab 75mg via IV infusion Q4W, starting on Week 0, for up to a maximum of 4 doses/cycles followed by durvalumab monotherapy 1500mg via IV infusion Q4W, starting 4 weeks after the last infusion of the combination until progression.).
Response rate
according to RECIST version 1.1
Time frame: about 24months
Plan to share: Undecided
No publications or documents are linked to this record.
Ran from Apr 2018 to primary completion in Jun 2021, 38 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 38 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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