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CompletedNCT03911557Updated Nov 12, 2025

Durvalumab and Tremelimumab Combination in Somatically Hypermutated Recurrent Solid Tumors

A Phase 2 interventional study of Durvalumab and Tremelimumab in Tumor, Solid, sponsored by John L. Villano, MD, PhD. Completed at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2025-11-12.

Sponsored by John L. Villano, MD, PhD · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment

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  • Primary completion was Oct 2025, 1 year 1 month ago, and no results have been posted to the registry.

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Phase
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
14
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

This study will examine whether patients with relapsed/refractory solid tumors harboring evidence of somatic hypermutation (intermediate versus high tumor mutational burden) will exhibit improvement in disease progression-free survival with dual Tremelimumab and Durvalumab treatment.

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This study is phase II basket trial to evaluate the benefit of immunotherapy (Durvalumab and Tremelimumab combination) in treatment of relapse/refractory solid tumor patients whose tumors express a high tumor mutational burden (TMB high >20 mutations/MB) or moderate tumor mutational burden (10-20 mutations/MB) as based on next generation sequencing (NGS). The primary endpoint of the study is the TTP (time-to-progression) ratio or growth modulation index (GMI) which is defined for individual patients as the ratio of their TTP on the current therapy to their TTP on the most recent previous therapy.

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Conditions studied

  • Tumor, Solid

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Keywords

  • mutational burden
  • TMB
  • PD-1
  • CTLA-4
  • MEDI4736
  • durvalumab
  • tremelimumab
  • immune therapy
  • refractory
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In context

Neoplasms

10,824 studies on the registry are indexed under Neoplasms; 2,325 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 14 is below the median of 60 across 7,706 interventional studies indexed under Neoplasms.

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Lead sponsor

John L. Villano, MD, PhD is the lead sponsor of 4 studies on the registry; 1 is open to participants now.

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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. solid tumor patients not previously treated with /PD-L1 or anti-CTLA-4 immunotherapy whose tumors expressed a high tumor mutational burden (TMB) (TMB high >20 mutations/MB) or moderate TMB (10-20 mutations/MB) as based on next generation sequencing (NGS)
  2. Age >18 years at time of study entry
  3. (ECOG) performance status of at least 2 and greater than 3 months
  4. Accurate documentation of date of starting previous therapy and date of progression to establish TTP from most recent therapy
  5. Patient must have normal organ and marrow function independent of transfusion for at least 7 days prior to screening and independent of growth factor support for at least 14 days prior to screening as defined below:
  6. (ANC ≥1.5 (or 1.0) x (> 1500 per mm3)
  7. count ≥100 (or 75) x 109/L (>75,000 per mm3)
  8. Serum ≤1.5 x institutional (ULN). This will not apply to patients with confirmed Gilbert's syndrome, who will be allowed only in consultation with their physician.
  9. (SGOT)/ALT (SGPT) ≤2.5 x institutional upper limit of normal unless liver are present, in which case it must be ≤5x ULN
  10. Measured (CL) >40 mL/min or Calculated creatinine clearance CL>40 mL/min by the Cockcroft-Gault formula (Cockcroft and Gault 1976) or by 24-hour urine collection for determination of creatinine clearance
  11. The effects of MEDI4736 and tremelimumab on the developing human fetus are unknown. 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:
  12. 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)
  13. 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)
  14. Females of who are sexually active with a non-sterilized male partner must use at least 1 highly effective method of from the time of screening and must agree to continue using such precaution for 180 days after the last dose of durvalumab + tremelimumab combination therapy or 90 days after the last dose of durvalumab monotherapy. Non-sterilized male partners of female patient must use male condom plus spermicide throughout this period. Cessation of birth control after this point should be discussed with a responsible physician. Not engaging in sexual activity for the total duration of the drug treatment and the drug is an acceptable practice; however, periodic abstinence, the rhythm method, and the withdrawal method are not acceptable methods of birth control. Female patients should also refrain from breastfeeding throughout this period.
  15. Non-sterilized males who are sexually active with a female partner of childbearing potential must use a male condom plus spermicide from screening through 180 days after receipt of the final dose of durvalumab + tremelimumab combination therapy or 90 days after receipt of the final dose of durvalumab monotherapy. Not engaging in sexual activity is an acceptable practice; however, occasional abstinence, the rhythm method, and the withdrawal method are not acceptable methods of contraception. Male patients should refrain from sperm donation throughout this period
  16. Patient 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
  17. Body weight >30 kg
  18. Cohort specific eligibility requirements:
  19. Ability to undergo a fresh tumor for the purpose of screening for this clinical trial (including able and willing to give valid written consent) or the ability to access an available archival tumor sample taken less than 6 months prior to study enrollment if a fresh tumor biopsy is not feasible with an acceptable clinical risk and no antecedent treatment has been done.
  20. MSS tumor as documented by either: IHC testing that does not suggest loss of MLH-1, MSH-2, PMS2 or MSH6. OR PCR testing that does not suggest MSI

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Receipt of the last dose of anticancer therapy (chemotherapy, immunotherapeutic agent, endocrine therapy, targeted therapy, biologic therapy, tumor embolization, monoclonal antibodies) 30 days prior to the first dose of study drug
  2. Any unresolved toxicity Grade ≥2 from previous anticancer therapy with the exception of alopecia, vitiligo, and the laboratory values defined in the inclusion criteria

    1. Patients with Grade ≥2 neuropathy will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis after consultation with the Study Physician
    2. 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
  3. Major surgical procedure (as defined by the Investigator) within 28 days prior to the first dose of the IP ( product, in this study, specifically durvalumab + tremelimumab combination). Note: Local surgery of isolated lesions for palliative intent is acceptable
  4. History of allogenic organ transplantation
  5. Active or prior documented or inflammatory disorders (including inflammatory bowel disease [e.g., 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:

    1. Patients with vitiligo or alopecia
    2. Patients with hypothyroidism (e.g., following Hashimoto syndrome) stable on hormone replacement
    3. Any chronic skin condition that does not require systemic therapy
    4. Patients without active disease in the last 5 years may be included but only after consultation with the study physician
    5. Patients with celiac disease controlled by diet alone
  6. Uncontrolled intercurrent illness, including but not limited to, ongoing or active infection, symptomatic congestive heart failure, uncontrolled hypertension, unstable angina pectoris, cardiac arrhythmia, interstitial lung disease, serious chronic gastrointestinal conditions associated with diarrhea, or psychiatric illness/social situations that would limit compliance with study requirement, substantially increase risk of incurring AEs or compromise the ability of the patient to give written
  7. History of another primary except for

    1. Malignancy treated with curative intent and with no known active disease ≥5 years before the first dose of the IP ( durvalumab + tremelimumab combination ) and of low potential risk for recurrence
    2. Adequately treated non-melanoma skin cancer or lentigo maligna without evidence of disease
    3. Adequately treated carcinoma in situ without evidence of disease
  8. History of
  9. Patients with untreated , spinal cord compression, or leptomeningeal carcinomatosis should be excluded from this clinical trial because of their poor prognosis, because of symptoms that may arise form inflammatory reactions, and because they often develop progressive neurologic dysfunction that would confound the evaluation of neurologic and other adverse events. Patients whose brain metastases have been treated may participate provided they show radiographic stability (defined as 2 brain images, both of which are obtained after treatment to the brain metastases. These imaging scans should both be obtained at least four weeks apart and show no evidence of intracranial progression). In addition, any neurologic symptoms that developed either as a result of the brain metastases or their treatment must have resolved or be stable either, without the use of , or are stable on a steroid dose of \<10mg/day of prednisone or its equivalent and anti-convulsants for at least 14 days prior to the start of treatment
  10. History of active primary immunodeficiency
  11. Active infection including tuberculosis (clinical evaluation that includes clinical history, physical examination and radiographic findings, and TB testing in line with local practice), (known positive HBV surface antigen (HBsAg) result), , or (positive HIV 1/2 antibodies). Patients with a past or resolved HBV infection (defined as the presence of hepatitis B core antibody [anti-HBc] and absence of HBsAg) are eligible. Patients positive for hepatitis C (HCV) antibody are eligible only if polymerase chain reaction is negative for HCV RNA
  12. Current or prior use of medication within 14 days before the first dose of durvalumab or tremelimumab. The following are exceptions to this criterion:

    1. Intranasal, inhaled, topical steroids, or local steroid injections (e.g., intra articular injection)
    2. Systemic corticosteroids at physiologic doses not to exceed \<\<10 mg/day>> of prednisone or its equivalent
  13. Steroids as premedication for reactions (e.g., CT scan premedication) Receipt of within 30 days prior to the first dose of IP. Note: Patients, if enrolled, should not receive live vaccine whilst receiving IP and up to 30 days after the last dose of IP
  14. Female patients who are pregnant or breastfeeding or male or female patients of who are not willing to employ effective from screening to 90 days after the last dose of durvalumab monotherapy or180 days after the last dose of durvalumab + tremelimumab combination therapy
  15. Known allergy or hypersensitivity to any of the study drugs or any of the study drug .
  16. Prior exposure to immune mediated therapy with / anti-PDL1including durvalumab therapy combined with an CTLA-4 therapy including tremelimumab
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(32)

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Relapsed and refractory

Relapsed: the illness came back after treatment had worked. Refractory: it did not respond to treatment, or stopped responding while still on it.

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.

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.

Absolute neutrophil count (ANC)

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

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

Platelets

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

Bilirubin

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

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

ULN (upper limit of normal)

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

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

ALT and AST (liver enzymes)

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

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

Metastases

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

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Excipients

The other ingredients in a medicine besides the active drug, such as fillers, colours or preservatives.

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Study design

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

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Patients with moderate to high tumor mutational burden

    Patients with recurrent or refractory disease in solid tumors naïve to anti-PD-1/PD-L1 or anti-CTLA-4 immunotherapy and have moderate to high tumor mutational burden (TMB)

    Drug: Durvalumab and Tremelimumab

Interventions

  • DrugDurvalumab and Tremelimumab

    Durvalumab 1500mg + tremelimumab 75mg via IV infusion Q4W, starting on Week 1, for up to a maximum of 4 doses/cycles followed by durvalumab monotherapy 1500 mg via IV infusion Q4W, starting 4 weeks after the last infusion of the combination, for up to a maximum of 2 years of total therapy.

This study also gives Durvalumab, Tremelimumab. No intervention listed here names it: that was found by reading the record.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Time-to-progression ratio (TTP)

    The TTP (time-to-progression) ratio is defined for individual patients as the ratio of their TTP on the current therapy to their TTP on the most recent previous therapy

    Time frame: 2 years (baseline to follow-up)

Secondary outcomes

  1. Progression-free survival

    time to progression or death as measured from start of treatment

    Time frame: 2 years (baseline to follow-up)

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Study locations

1 site
  • Markey Cancer Center
    Lexington, Kentucky 40536, 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 reachedSimilar studies: half by the dot; the band is the middle halfHalf of similar studies reached it by the dot; the band is the middle half, from a quarter to three quarters

Ran from Jun 2019 to primary completion in Oct 2025, 76 months.

Of 335 non-industry phase 2 interventional studies under Neoplasms, half reached primary completion within 58 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 36 and three quarters within 99. This study's 76 months is above that.

Counting every sponsor, half of 514 studies reached it within 52 months; a quarter within 33 and three quarters within 92.

Neoplasms covers many different conditions, not one, so the studies compared here vary widely. Read these figures as a rough guide.

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

Registered
Apr 9, 2019
First posted
Apr 11, 2019
StartActual
Jun 8, 2019
Primary completionActual
Oct 10, 2025
CompletionActual
Oct 10, 2025
Last update
Nov 12, 2025
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 Nov 12, 2025, 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
NCT03911557
Lead sponsor
John L. Villano, MD, PhD
Responsible party
John L. Villano, MD, PhD (Professor, University of Kentucky) — Sponsor-investigator
First posted
Apr 11, 2019
Start date
Jun 8, 2019
Primary completion
Oct 10, 2025
Completion
Oct 10, 2025
Last update
Nov 12, 2025

Study contacts

John Villano, MD
principal investigator · University of Kentucky

Oversight

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