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For full trial details, please see the original record at https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02046733




Registration number
NCT02046733
Ethics application status
Date submitted
17/01/2014
Date registered
28/01/2014
Date last updated
8/11/2024

Titles & IDs
Public title
Small Cell Lung Carcinoma Trial With Nivolumab and IpiliMUmab in LImited Disease
Scientific title
A Randomised Open-label Phase II Trial of Consolidation With Nivolumab and Ipilimumab in Limited-stage SCLC After Chemo-radiotherapy
Secondary ID [1] 0 0
2013-002609-78
Secondary ID [2] 0 0
ETOP/IFCT 4-12
Universal Trial Number (UTN)
Trial acronym
STIMULI
Linked study record

Health condition
Health condition(s) or problem(s) studied:
Limited Stage Small Cell Lung Cancer 0 0
Small Cell Lung Cancer 0 0
Condition category
Condition code
Cancer 0 0 0 0
Lung - Mesothelioma
Cancer 0 0 0 0
Lung - Non small cell
Cancer 0 0 0 0
Lung - Small cell

Intervention/exposure
Study type
Interventional
Description of intervention(s) / exposure
Treatment: Drugs - Ipilimumab
Treatment: Drugs - Nivolumab

Experimental: Nivolumab + Ipilimumab - - Induction: Nivolumab at a dose of 1 mg/kg i.v. followed (on the same day) by Ipilimumab at a dose of 3 mg/kg i.v. once every 3 weeks, 4 cycles

- Maintenance: Nivolumab 240 mg i.v. once every 2 weeks, for a maximum of 12 months from start of maintenance

No intervention: Observation - no further treatment; tumour assessment, follow-up documentation and collection of biological material will be done according to the same schedule as Arm 1.


Treatment: Drugs: Ipilimumab
Induction phase: i.v. 3 mg/kg, once every 3 weeks × 4 cycles, to start within 6-8 weeks (42-56 days) from start of chemotherapy cycle 4, and not more than 2 weeks (14 days) after the date of randomisation)

Treatment: Drugs: Nivolumab
Induction phase: Nivolumab i.v. 1 mg/kg, once every 3 weeks × 4 cycles, to start within 6-8 weeks (42-56 days) from start of chemotherapy cycle 4, and not more than 2 weeks (14 days) after the date of randomisation) Maintenance Phase: Nivolumab 240 mg i.v once every 2 weeks for a maximum of 12 months from start of maintenance (the first dose of maintenance nivolumab will be administered 3 weeks after the last IMP doses of induction Phase).
Intervention code [1] 0 0
Treatment: Drugs
Comparator / control treatment
Control group

Outcomes
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Progression-free Survival (PFS)
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From the date of randomization until documented progression (PD) according to RECIST v1.1 or death from any cause (whichever occurred first), up to 4.5 years.
Secondary outcome [1] 0 0
Overall Survival (OS)
Timepoint [1] 0 0
From the date of randomization until death from any cause, up to 5.5 years.
Secondary outcome [2] 0 0
Objective Response (OR)
Timepoint [2] 0 0
From randomisation to termination of trial treatment, for a maximum of 12 months from start of maintenance phase.
Secondary outcome [3] 0 0
Time-to-treatment Failure (TTF)
Timepoint [3] 0 0
From the date of randomization to treatment failure for any reason, up to 4.5 years.
Secondary outcome [4] 0 0
Adverse Events
Timepoint [4] 0 0
Adverse events were assessed from randomization to 100 days after the last dose of study treatment, up to 4.5 years.

Eligibility
Key inclusion criteria
Inclusion Criteria for enrolment:

* Histologically or cytologically confirmed small cell lung carcinoma.
* Untreated limited-stage disease (with the exception of one cycle of chemotherapy given prior to enrolment) as defined by stage I-IIIB based on 7th TNM classification (IASLC classification for SCLC proposal). M0 proven by whole body FDG-PET CT including a contrast-enhanced CT of thorax and upper abdomen (incl. liver, kidney, adrenals); OR contrast-enhanced CT of thorax and upper abdomen (incl. liver, kidney, adrenals) and bone scan; AND brain MRI (or contrast enhanced CT of the brain) within 28 days before start of chemotherapy.
* Age = 18 years.
* ECOG performance status 0-1.
* Adequate haematological function: haemoglobin > 9 g/dL, neutrophils count >1.5×109/L, platelet count > 100 × 109/L.
* Adequate liver function: total bilirubin < 2.5 × ULN, ALT and/or AST < 2.5 × ULN, alkaline phosphatase < 5 ULN.
* Adequate renal function: Calculated creatinine clearance = 30 mL/min (Cockroft-Gault).
* Pulmonary function FEV1 of 1.0L or > 40% predicted value and DLCO > 40% predicted value.
* Patient capable of proper therapeutic compliance, and accessible for correct follow-up.
* Women of childbearing potential, including women who had their last menstrual period in the last 2 years, must have a negative serum or urine pregnancy test within 7 days before beginning of chemotherapy.
* All sexually active men and women of childbearing potential must use an effective contraceptive method (two barrier methods or a barrier method plus a hormonal method) during the study treatment and for a period of at least 12 months following the last administration of trial drugs.
* Measurable or evaluable disease (according to RECIST 1.1 criteria). Not eligible: patients with only one measurable or evaluable tumour lesion which was resected or irradiated prior to enrolment.
* Written Informed Consent (IC) must be signed and dated by the patient and the investigator prior to any trial-related intervention for a) Chemo-radiotherapy treatment and PCI, and subsequent randomisation, including mandatory biological samples b) Optional biological material collection, long-term storage and future use of biological material for translational research.
Minimum age
18 Years
Maximum age
No limit
Sex
Both males and females
Can healthy volunteers participate?
No
Key exclusion criteria
Exclusion Criteria for enrolment:

* Patient with mixed small-cell and non-small-cell histologic features.
* Patient with pleural or pericardial effusions proven to be malignant.
* Patients who have had in the past 5 years any previous or concomitant malignancy EXCEPT adequately treated basal or squamous cell carcinoma of the skin, in situ carcinoma of the cervix or bladder, in situ ductal carcinoma of the breast (if no RT was involved).
* Patients with other serious diseases or clinical conditions, including but not limited to uncontrolled active infection and any other serious underlying medical processes that could affect the patient's capacity to participate in the study.
* Ongoing clinically serious infections requiring systemic antibiotic or antiviral, antimicrobial, antifungal therapy.
* Known or suspected hypersensitivity to nivolumab or ipilimumab or any of their excipients.
* Substance abuse, medical, psychological or social conditions that may interfere with the patient's participation in the study or evaluation of the study results.
* Documented history of severe autoimmune or immune mediated symptomatic disease that required prolonged (more than 2 months) systemic immunosuppressive (e.g. steroids) treatment, such as but not limited to ulcerative colitis and Crohn´s disease, rheumatoid arthritis, systemic progressive sclerosis (scleroderma), systemic lupus erythematosus, or autoimmune vasculitis (eg, Wegener's granulomatosis).
* Subjects with an autoimmune paraneoplastic syndrome requiring concurrent immunosuppressive treatment.
* Interstitial lung disease or pulmonary fibrosis.
* Women who are pregnant or in the period of lactation.
* Sexually active men and women of childbearing potential who are not willing to use an effective contraceptive method during the study.
* Patients with any concurrent anticancer systemic therapy (except for chemotherapy cycle 1).
* HIV, active Hepatitis B or Hepatitis C infection.
* Previous radiotherapy to the thorax (prior to inclusion), including RT for breast cancer.
* Planned radiotherapy to lung of mean dose > 20 Gy or V20 > 35 %.
* Patients who received treatment with an investigational drug agent during the 3 weeks before enrolment in the study.
* Prior chemotherapy or radiotherapy for SCLC. Exception: one cycle of chemotherapy (as specified to section 10.2 of the protocol) may be administered prior to enrolment.

Inclusion Criteria for randomisation:

* Chemo-radiotherapy completed per protocol: 4 cycles of chemotherapy, =85% of PTV of thoracic radiotherapy, as well as completed, mandatory PCI.
* Non-PD after chemo-radiotherapy and PCI.
* ECOG performance status 0-2.
* Recovery of all adverse events to a grade =1, except for fatigue, appetite, oesophagitis and renal impairment (where =2 is allowed) and alopecia (any grade).
* Women of childbearing potential, including women who had their last menstrual period in the last 2 years, must have a negative serum or urine pregnancy test within 7 days before randomisation.

Exclusion criteria for randomisation:

* Less than 4 cycles of chemotherapy administered, less than 85% PTV of thoracic radiotherapy delivered, or PCI not completed.
* Progressive disease after chemo-radiotherapy and PCI.

Study design
Purpose of the study
Treatment
Allocation to intervention
Randomised controlled trial
Procedure for enrolling a subject and allocating the treatment (allocation concealment procedures)
Methods used to generate the sequence in which subjects will be randomised (sequence generation)
Masking / blinding
Open (masking not used)
Who is / are masked / blinded?



Intervention assignment
Parallel
Other design features
Phase
Phase 2
Type of endpoint/s
Statistical methods / analysis

Recruitment
Recruitment status
Completed
Data analysis
Reason for early stopping/withdrawal
Other reasons
Date of first participant enrolment
Anticipated
Actual
18/12/2015
Date of last participant enrolment
Anticipated
Actual
Date of last data collection
Anticipated
Actual
1/02/2022
Sample size
Target
Accrual to date
Final
222
Recruitment in Australia
Recruitment state(s)
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Bendigo Hospital - Bendigo
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Coffs Harbour Health Campus - Coffs Harbour
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Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital (QLD) - Herston
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Royal Hobart Hospital - Hobart
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NNSWLHD - The Tweed Hospital - Lismore
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Austin Hospital - Melbourne
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Riverina Cancer Centre - Mount Kuring-gai
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Port Macquarie Base Hospital - Port Macquarie
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Epworth HealthCare - Richmond - Richmond
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Princess Alexandra Hospital - Woolloongabba
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- Bendigo
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- Coffs Harbour
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- Herston
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- Hobart
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- Lismore
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- Melbourne
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- Mount Kuring-gai
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- Port Macquarie
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- Richmond
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- Woolloongabba
Recruitment outside Australia
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Belgium
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Leuven
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France
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Avignon
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France
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Caen
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France
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Clamart
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France
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Clermont-Ferrand
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France
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Creteil
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France
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Grenoble
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France
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Le Mans
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France
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Lyon
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France
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Marseille
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France
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Montpellier
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Mulhouse
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Nantes
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France
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Nice
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France
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Orléans
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France
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Paris
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France
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Rennes
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France
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Strasbourg
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France
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Suresnes
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France
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Toulon
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France
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Toulouse
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France
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Tours
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France
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Villejuif
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Germany
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Esslingen
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Germany
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Grosshansdorf
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Germany
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München
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Germany
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Oldenburg
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Germany
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Trier
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Germany
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Tübingen
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Netherlands
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Amsterdam
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Netherlands
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Maastricht
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Spain
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Alicante
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Spain
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Barakaldo
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Barcelona
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Madrid
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Oviedo
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Toledo
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Valencia
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Lausanne
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Switzerland
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Zürich
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United Kingdom
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Leeds
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London
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United Kingdom
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Manchester

Funding & Sponsors
Primary sponsor type
Other
Name
ETOP IBCSG Partners Foundation
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Other
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Intergroupe Francophone de Cancerologie Thoracique
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Country [1] 0 0
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Other
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Ludwig Center for Cancer Research of Lausanne
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Other collaborator category [3] 0 0
Other
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Frontier Science Foundation, Hellas
Address [3] 0 0
Country [3] 0 0
Other collaborator category [4] 0 0
Commercial sector/industry
Name [4] 0 0
Bristol-Myers Squibb
Address [4] 0 0
Country [4] 0 0

Ethics approval
Ethics application status

Summary
Brief summary
Despite the fact that the majority of the patients with limited disease SCLC will respond very well to the standard treatment, a great proportion will relapse within 12 - 24 months.

Several studies in patients with lung cancer suggested a possible favourable association between the increased presence of immunologically active cells in the tumour and survival. Nivolumab and ipilimumab are proteins, which help your immune system to attack and destroy cancer cells by your immune cells. Early clinical trials with nivolumab and ipilimumab have shown activity in a broad range of cancers, including SCLC.

The aim of the current study is to investigate the efficacy (how well the treatment works) and tolerability (how severe the side effects are) of the standard treatment (chemotherapy and radiotherapy) alone, compared with the standard treatment followed by nivolumab and ipilimumab in patients with limited SCLC.
Trial website
https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02046733
Trial related presentations / publications
Lynch TJ, Bondarenko I, Luft A, Serwatowski P, Barlesi F, Chacko R, Sebastian M, Neal J, Lu H, Cuillerot JM, Reck M. Ipilimumab in combination with paclitaxel and carboplatin as first-line treatment in stage IIIB/IV non-small-cell lung cancer: results from a randomized, double-blind, multicenter phase II study. J Clin Oncol. 2012 Jun 10;30(17):2046-54. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2011.38.4032. Epub 2012 Apr 30. Erratum In: J Clin Oncol. 2012 Oct 10;30(29):3654.
Reck M, Bondarenko I, Luft A, Serwatowski P, Barlesi F, Chacko R, Sebastian M, Lu H, Cuillerot JM, Lynch TJ. Ipilimumab in combination with paclitaxel and carboplatin as first-line therapy in extensive-disease-small-cell lung cancer: results from a randomized, double-blind, multicenter phase 2 trial. Ann Oncol. 2013 Jan;24(1):75-83. doi: 10.1093/annonc/mds213. Epub 2012 Aug 2.
Margolin K, Ernstoff MS, Hamid O, Lawrence D, McDermott D, Puzanov I, Wolchok JD, Clark JI, Sznol M, Logan TF, Richards J, Michener T, Balogh A, Heller KN, Hodi FS. Ipilimumab in patients with melanoma and brain metastases: an open-label, phase 2 trial. Lancet Oncol. 2012 May;13(5):459-65. doi: 10.1016/S1470-2045(12)70090-6. Epub 2012 Mar 27.
Public notes

Contacts
Principal investigator
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Solange Peters, MD PhD
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European Thoracic Oncology Platform (ETOP)
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Summary Results

For IPD and results data, please see https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02046733