This research study is studying an immune-based cancer drug as a possible treatment for prostate cancer. The drug involved in this study is: -Nivolumab
This research study is a Phase II clinical trial. Phase II clinical trials test the safety and effectiveness of an investigational drug to learn whether the drug works in treating a specific disease. "Investigational" means that the drug is being studied. The FDA (the U.S. Food and Drug Administration) has not approved nivolumab for this specific disease but it has been approved for other uses. Nivolumab is an antibody inhibitor of the programmed death-1 (PD-1) pathway. By blocking PD-1, this medication may allow the immune system to recognize and fight cancer. In this research study, the investigators are investigating whether nivolumab has any activity in patients who have a rising PSA (prostate specific antigen) after previously undergoing surgery or radiation for prostate cancer. Although nivolumab was previously not found to have significant effect in advanced prostate cancer after all other therapies had failed, based on new research, the investigators are testing whether nivolumab could have a greater effect earlier in the disease course and before patients receive hormone therapies.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
31
Nivolumab is an antibody inhibitor of the programmed death-1 (PD-1) pathway. By blocking PD-1, this medication may allow the immune system to recognize and fight cancer
St. Elizabeth's Medical Center
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
DFCI South Shore
South Weymouth, Massachusetts, United States
Disease Control
Proportion of patients with high-risk biochemically-recurrent (BCR) prostate cancer (PCa) that experiences decline or stabilization in PSA (without symptomatic/radiographic progression) after 12 weeks of nivolumab treatment
Time frame: 12 weeks
Maximal change in prostate specific antigen (PSA) during nivolumab treatment
Time frame: 2 years
Best PSA response during nivolumab treatment as an absolute change relative to baseline
Time frame: 2 years
Change in PSA doubling time (PSADT) at end-of-study relative to baseline
Time frame: 2 years
Time from enrollment to development of radiographic metastatic disease
Time frame: 2 years
Time from enrollment to initiation of androgen deprivation therapy (ADT)
Time frame: 2 years
Treatment-related adverse events as assessed by CTCAE v5.0
Time frame: 2 years
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DFCI Londonderry
Londonderry, New Hampshire, United States