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Trial details imported from ClinicalTrials.gov

For full trial details, please see the original record at https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT04261855




Registration number
NCT04261855
Ethics application status
Date submitted
6/02/2020
Date registered
10/02/2020
Date last updated
22/11/2023

Titles & IDs
Public title
Targeted Therapy and Avelumab in Merkel Cell Carcinoma
Scientific title
A Phase Ib/II Study of Combination Avelumab With Peptide Receptor Radionuclide Therapy or Conventional Fractionated Radiotherapy in Patients With Metastatic Merkel Cell Carcinoma
Secondary ID [1] 0 0
10.17
Universal Trial Number (UTN)
Trial acronym
GoTHAM
Linked study record

Health condition
Health condition(s) or problem(s) studied:
Metastatic Merkel Cell Carcinoma 0 0
Condition category
Condition code
Cancer 0 0 0 0
Malignant melanoma
Cancer 0 0 0 0
Non melanoma skin cancer
Cancer 0 0 0 0
Kidney

Intervention/exposure
Study type
Interventional
Description of intervention(s) / exposure
Treatment: Drugs - Avelumab
Treatment: Other - External Beam Radiation Therapy (EBRT)
Treatment: Other - Lutetium-177 (177Lu)-DOTATATE

Experimental: Arm A - Avelumab plus External Beam Radiation Therapy (EBRT)

Experimental: Arm B - Avelumab plus Lutetium-177 (177Lu)-DOTATATE


Treatment: Drugs: Avelumab
All patients will receive avelumab intravenously (IV) at 10 mg/kg every 2 weeks for 24 months or until unacceptable toxicity or evidence of disease progression

Treatment: Other: External Beam Radiation Therapy (EBRT)
Patients allocated to Arm A will receive EBRT on 2 occasions, 8-10 weeks apart

Treatment: Other: Lutetium-177 (177Lu)-DOTATATE
Patients allocated to Arm B will receive 177-Lu-DOTATATE treatment on 2 occasions, 8-10 weeks apart
Intervention code [1] 0 0
Treatment: Drugs
Intervention code [2] 0 0
Treatment: Other
Comparator / control treatment
Control group

Outcomes
Primary outcome [1] 0 0
Progression Free Survival (PFS) at 12 months
Timepoint [1] 0 0
3 years
Secondary outcome [1] 0 0
Progression Free Survival (PFS) at 24 months
Timepoint [1] 0 0
4 years
Secondary outcome [2] 0 0
Overall Survival (OS) at 12 and 24 months
Timepoint [2] 0 0
4 years
Secondary outcome [3] 0 0
Best Objective Response Rate (ORR) according to RECIST v1.1
Timepoint [3] 0 0
4 years
Secondary outcome [4] 0 0
The safety and tolerability of 177Lu-DOTATATE or EBRT in combination with avelumab.
Timepoint [4] 0 0
4 years
Secondary outcome [5] 0 0
Rate of treatment discontinuation due to toxicity
Timepoint [5] 0 0
4 years

Eligibility
Key inclusion criteria
* Patient is 18 years of age or older and who has provided written informed consent.
* Patient has histologically confirmed metastatic MCC.
* Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of =2 .
* Willing and able to comply with all study protocol requirements for the duration of the study.
* Patient must have measurable disease by CT or MRI per RECIST version 1.1 criteria.
* Patient is treatment naïve (no prior systemic therapy for unresectable or metastatic MCC). Note that prior chemotherapy is permitted in the adjuvant setting for loco-regional disease. Prior radiation is permitted for treatment of the primary or loco-regional disease.
* At least 2 weeks since the completion of prior therapy, including surgery or radiotherapy.
* Screening laboratory values, obtained within 14 days prior to registration/randomisation must meet the criteria specified in the protocol.
* Women of childbearing potential (WOCBP) must use appropriate method(s) of contraception
* WOCBP must have a negative serum or urine pregnancy test within within 7 days prior to the start of avelumab treatment and should be performed every 4 weeks in line with other safety bloods or clinical reviews.
* Male patients who are sexually active with a WOCBP must use any contraceptive method with a failure rate of less than 1% per year.
* Patient must be agreeable to have archival tumour material collected
Minimum age
18 Years
Maximum age
No limit
Sex
Both males and females
Can healthy volunteers participate?
No
Key exclusion criteria
* Patient is excluded if they have ever had any brain or leptomeningeal metastases.
* Prior exposure to immune checkpoint inhibitors (e.g. anti-CTLA-4, anti-PD-1/PD-L1/PD-L2, etc.) or any other antibody or drug specifically targeting T-cell co-stimulation or immune checkpoint pathways.
* Prior exposure to 177Lu-DOTATATE.
* Prior malignancy within the previous 2 years, except for locally curable cancers that have been apparently cured (e.g. basal or squamous cell skin cancer, superficial bladder cancer or carcinoma in situ of the cervix, colon, bladder or breast).
* Life expectancy of 6 months or less.
* An active, known or suspected autoimmune disease that might deteriorate when receiving an immunostimulatory agent. Patients are permitted to enrol if they have vitiligo, type I diabetes mellitus, residual hypothyroidism due to autoimmune condition only requiring hormone replacement, psoriasis not requiring systemic treatment, or conditions not expected to recur in the absence of an external trigger.
* Current use of immunosuppressive medication, with exceptions detailed in the protocol
* Prior organ transplantation, including allogeneic stem-cell transplantation.
* Known history of testing positive for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or known acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).
* Positive test for hepatitis B virus (HBV) surface antigen and/or confirmatory hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA (if anti-HCV antibody tested positive at Screening).
* Pregnant or breastfeeding.
* Uncontrolled intercurrent illness including, but not limited to, ongoing or active infection, symptomatic congestive heart failure, unstable angina pectoris, cardiac arrhythmia, or psychiatric illness/social situations that would limit compliance with study requirements.
* Patients should be excluded if they have a condition requiring systemic treatment with either corticosteroids (> 10 mg daily prednisone equivalents) or other immunosuppressive medications within 14 days of study drug administration.
* Persisting toxicity related to prior therapy (NCI CTCAE v5.0 Grade > 1); however, alopecia, sensory neuropathy Grade = 2, or other Grade = 2 not constituting a safety risk based on Investigator's judgement are acceptable.
* Known prior severe hypersensitivity to investigational product or any component in its formulations, including known hypersensitivity reactions to monoclonal antibodies (NCI CTCAE v5.0 Grade 3).
* Patients with symptomatic or impending cord compression unless appropriately treated beforehand and clinically stable.
* Use of any live vaccines against infectious diseases (e.g., influenza, varicella, etc.) within 30 days of registration.

Study design
Purpose of the study
Treatment
Allocation to intervention
Non-randomised 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 1
Type of endpoint/s
Statistical methods / analysis

Recruitment
Recruitment status
Recruiting
Data analysis
Reason for early stopping/withdrawal
Other reasons
Date of first participant enrolment
Anticipated
Actual
8/10/2020
Date of last participant enrolment
Anticipated
Actual
Date of last data collection
Anticipated
1/07/2027
Actual
Sample size
Target
38
Accrual to date
Final
Recruitment in Australia
Recruitment state(s)
NSW,QLD,SA,VIC,WA
Recruitment hospital [1] 0 0
Lake Macquarie Private Hospital - Gateshead
Recruitment hospital [2] 0 0
Royal North Shore Hospital - Sydney
Recruitment hospital [3] 0 0
Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital - Brisbane
Recruitment hospital [4] 0 0
Princess Alexandra Hospital - Brisbane
Recruitment hospital [5] 0 0
Royal Adelaide Hospital - Adelaide
Recruitment hospital [6] 0 0
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre - Melbourne
Recruitment hospital [7] 0 0
Sir Charles Gaidner Hospital - Perth
Recruitment postcode(s) [1] 0 0
2290 - Gateshead
Recruitment postcode(s) [2] 0 0
2065 - Sydney
Recruitment postcode(s) [3] 0 0
4029 - Brisbane
Recruitment postcode(s) [4] 0 0
4102 - Brisbane
Recruitment postcode(s) [5] 0 0
5000 - Adelaide
Recruitment postcode(s) [6] 0 0
3000 - Melbourne
Recruitment postcode(s) [7] 0 0
6009 - Perth

Funding & Sponsors
Primary sponsor type
Other
Name
Melanoma and Skin Cancer Trials Limited
Address
Country

Ethics approval
Ethics application status

Summary
Brief summary
10.17 GoTHAM is intended as a signal-seeking, biomarker, phase Ib/II study that will evaluate the safety and anti-tumour activities of the novel combination of avelumab with 177-Lu-DOTATATE (a type of peptide receptor radionuclide therapy; PRRT) or external beam radiation therapy (EBRT) in patients with metastatic Merkel cell carcinoma (mMCC).
Trial website
https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT04261855
Trial related presentations / publications
Public notes

Contacts
Principal investigator
Name 0 0
Shahneen Sandhu, MBBS, FRACP
Address 0 0
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Australia
Country 0 0
Phone 0 0
Fax 0 0
Email 0 0
Contact person for public queries
Name 0 0
Melanoma and Skin Cancer Trials Coordinator
Address 0 0
Country 0 0
Phone 0 0
+61 3 9903 9022
Fax 0 0
Email 0 0
[email protected]
Contact person for scientific queries



Summary Results

For IPD and results data, please see https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT04261855