This phase II trial studies how well standard of care hypofractionated radiation therapy followed by durvalumab with or without tremelimumab works in treating patients with hepatocellular cancer (liver cancer) that has spread to other places in the body (advanced) and that is growing, spreading, or getting worse (progressing). In some patients, cancer cells and immune cells start to express signals that stop the body's immune system from killing the cancer. New drugs being developed, such as durvalumab and tremelimumab, are designed to target and block these signals and may help increase the immune response to prevent or slow down cancer growth. Hypofractionated radiation therapy delivers higher doses of radiation therapy over a shorter period of time and may help the immune system work even better. Giving durvalumab with or without tremelimumab after radiation therapy may work better than radiation therapy alone in treating patients with liver cancer.
PRIMARY OBJECTIVE: I. Determine Objective Response Rate (ORR) (per Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) version 1.1, excluding radiotherapy (RT)-treated lesions as targets) of Durvalumab (D), and D + Tremelimumab (T) after palliative RT in advanced Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) participants with or without progression on prior programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) immune checkpoint inhibitor. SECONDARY OBJECTIVES: I. To determine the safety and tolerability of study interventions. II. Determine the efficacy of treatment interventions defined as progression-free survival (PFS), duration of response (DOR), and overall survival (OS). EXPLORATORY OBJECTIVES: I. Profile peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC) immune cells and plasma samples before RT, after RT, and during D or D + T immunotherapy. II. Explore relationship between peripheral blood and PBMC immune profiles, safety/tolerability, and clinical outcomes. III. Profile immune cells in archival pre-treatment tumor tissue for all patients and on-/post-treatment tumor samples and/or non-tumor liver tissue samples when available and explore for relationship with safety/tolerability and clinical outcomes. IV. Determine incidence of tumor PD-L1 expression by immunohistochemistry (IHC) in pre-treatment archival tumor samples in all patients, and in on-/post-treatment tumor samples if repeat tumor sampling is obtained for clinical indications. V. Explore relationship between tumor PD-L1 status and clinical outcomes. VI. Explore relationship between viral hepatitis status, viral load, safety/tolerability, and clinical outcomes. VII. Measure tumor marker alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) response to immunotherapy plus RT and explore for relationship with clinical outcomes. VIII. Explore relationship between site of RT (liver, bone, other soft tissue), number of RT sites (1 or \> 1), safety/tolerability, clinical outcomes, and changes in immune cell profiles on treatment. OUTLINE: All participants receive 5-fraction RT as standard treatment for symptomatic or high-risk metastases and will be sequentially assigned to treatment Arm 1. Arm 1 will be closed after the 6th patient is enrolled. Subsequent participants will be enrolled directly into Arm 2 (progression on prior PD(L)-1 immune checkpoint inhibitor) or Arm 3 (no prior PD(L)-1 immune checkpoint inhibitor). After completing up to 2 years of treatment, treatment for participants with ongoing clinical benefit will be decided on a case-by-case basis and follow-ed up for survival endpoints for approximately 3 years after the first treatment.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
21
Given IV
Undergo hypofractionated RT
Given IV
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, California, United States
RECRUITINGObjective response rate (ORR)
Response is defined per Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors 1.1 as a complete response (CR) or Partial Response (PR) (CR+PR=ORR) excluding radiation therapy-treated lesions. Response will be assessed after participants complete 5 fractions of standard palliative radiotherapy (RT). Proportion of participants with a confirmed response and corresponding exact confidence intervals will be reported by Arm. Participants with unevaluable or unknown response status will be considered non-responders
Time frame: Up to 2 years
Proportion of participants with reported treatment-related adverse events
The proportion of participants with reported adverse events that are determined to be definitely, possibly, or probably related to the study treatment will be reported by arm
Time frame: Up to 2 years
Median Duration of overall response (DOR)
The period measured from the time that measurement criteria are met for complete or partial response (whichever status is recorded first) until the first date that recurrent or progressive disease is objectively documented, taking as reference the smallest measurements recorded since treatment started
Time frame: Up to 2 years
Median Duration of overall Complete Response (DOCR)
The period measured from the time that measurement criteria are met for complete response (whichever status is recorded first) until the first date that recurrent or progressive disease is objectively documented, taking as reference the smallest measurements recorded since treatment started
Time frame: Up to 2 years
Median Duration of overall Complete Response (DOSD)
measurement from first dose of protocol therapy until the criteria for disease progression is met, taking as reference the smallest measurements recorded since registration. To be assigned a status of stable disease, measurements must have met the stable disease criteria at least once after study entry at a minimum interval of not less than six weeks
Time frame: Up to 2 years
Median Overall survival (OS)
Survival will be measured from the date of entry on study and from first dose of protocol therapy to the date of death due to any cause. Censoring will be performed using the date of last known contact for those who are alive at the time of analysis
Time frame: Up to 3 years
Median Progression-free survival
Progression will be calculated in months from date of first dose of protocol therapy to date of first documented radiographic and/or clinical disease progression or death from any cause. For cases without progression, follow-up will be censored at the date of last disease assessment without progression, unless death occurs within no more than 3 months following the date last known progression-free, and any death will be counted as a failure. For participants who discontinued from study for other reasons than progression or death, progression-free survival will be censored at the date last known to be progression-free.
Time frame: Up to 3 years
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