Patients with locally advanced unresectable or metastatic programmed cell death ligand (PD-L1) positive triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) will be treated with radiation to one-four sites of metastasis amenable to radiation (sites of disease to be selected at the discretion of the treating radiation oncologist) followed by initiation of systemic therapy with pembrolizumab plus nab-paclitaxel/paclitaxel. Patients will be treated with pembrolizumab plus nab-paclitaxel/paclitaxel within 7 days of completion of radiation. Repeat imaging of all sites of disease will be performed every 9 weeks and response will be assessed according to RECIST 1.1.
Patients with locally advanced unresectable or metastatic PD-L1 positive TNBC will be treated with radiation to one-four sites of metastasis amenable to radiation (sites of disease to be selected at the discretion of the treating radiation oncologist) followed by initiation of systemic therapy with pembrolizumab plus nab-paclitaxel/paclitaxel. Patients will be treated with pembrolizumab plus nab-paclitaxel/paclitaxel within 7 days of completion of radiation. Repeat imaging of all sites of disease will be performed every 9 weeks and response will be assessed according to RECIST 1.1. This is a two-stage, single-arm phase II study. Utilizing time-to-event outcomes, the investigators assumed an uninteresting 1-year PFS rate of 39% and a positive 1-year PFS rate of 60%. The first stage will enroll 17 subjects, with an additional 12 subjects to be enrolled in stage 2 if the trial is not stopped due to futility, for a total of 29 subjects. Enrollment will not be paused after the first stage of enrollment. At the time of the interim analysis the investigators would expect approximately 12 patients to have completed 1-year follow-up.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
All patients are encouraged to receive nab-paclitaxel 100 mg/m2 IV D1 and D8 every 21 days (in combination with pembrolizumab) for at least 4-6 cycles per institutional standards and treating physicians' recommendations.
Paclitaxel can be substituted for nab-paclitaxel at the discretion of the treating physician 80 mg/m2 IV D1 and D8 every 21 days.
The treating radiation oncologist will select 1-4 sites of metastatic disease to target with radiation. All sites of disease may be targeted with radiation. Sites of metastatic disease planned to be biopsied should not be radiated.
University of Colorado Hospital
Aurora, Colorado, United States
1 year progression free survival rate
To determine the efficacy of radiotherapy in combination with chemotherapy plus immunotherapy as defined by 1-year PFS rate in patients with PD-L1-positive metastatic TNBC.
Time frame: 36 months
Rate of in-field tumor control
In-field tumor control will be defined as stable disease (SD), partial remission (PR), or complete remission (CR), of the target lesion, by RECIST 1.1 criteria.
Time frame: 36 months
Determine overall response rate (ORR)
Determined by RECIST 1.1
Time frame: 36 months
Determine clinical benefit rate (CBR)
Defined as SD, PR + CR, of the target lesion, by RECIST 1.1 criteria.
Time frame: 36 months
Duration of response
Duration of response by RECIST 1.1
Time frame: 36 months
Progression free survival
PFS will be measured from the date of initiation of nab-paclitaxel/paclitaxel plus pembrolizumab to the time of tumor progression or death from any cause
Time frame: 36 months
Evaluate the tolerability of radiotherapy added to the combination of chemotherapy and immunotherapy
Adverse events will be assessed according to NCI CTCAE v5.0.
Time frame: 36 months
Evaluate change in immune cell populations by IHC.
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Patients will receive pembrolizumab 200 mg D1 every 21 days.
Serial tumor biopsies will be obtained in a subset of patients and changes in immune cell populations and activation profiles will be evaluated by IHC.
Time frame: 36 months
Evaluate change in immune cell populations in blood samples using flow cytometry and gene expression profiling.
Peripheral blood samples will be obtained pre-treatment and at various timepoints after treatment and evaluated by flow cytometry for B cell, NK cell, and CD8, CD4, and regulatory T cell populations including markers of activation and exhaustion (TIM-3, , LAG-3, and PD-L1) and gene expression. Fold change compared to baseline will be determined.
Time frame: 36 months
Evaluate changes in markers of immune cell activation using IHC.
Serial tumor biopsies will be obtained in a subset of patients and changes in immune cell populations and activation profiles will be evaluated by IHC.
Time frame: 36 months