This study is to determine if Healthy Donor FMT (hdFMT) improves the body's ability to fight cancer in patients with relapsed/refractory PD-L1 Positive NSCLC.
The study evaluating the addition of Healthy Donor FMT (hdFMT) to pembrolizumab in PD-1 R/R NSCLC will be conducted over a 104-week period. Patients with anti-PD-1 R/R NSCLC are eligible to enroll. Prior exposure to microbiome modulating therapy is exclusionary. Suitable patients will be identified at the time of progression upon PD-1 monotherapy or PD-1 containing regimens. Patients will undergo a 35-day screening evaluation consisting of systemic staging scans, tumor biopsy, stool/blood serologic studies to confirm suitability. Once enrolled, patients will be seromatched with a suitable donor. Suitable donors are advanced cancer patients who have undergone PD-1 monotherapy and are currently in durable remission (median PFS \>24 months from initiation of PD-1 therapy) with no ongoing irAE as delineated below. Patients will receive Healthy Donor FMT (hdFMT) (induction) via colonoscopy on C1D1 and C3D1. R-FMT (maintenance) via sigmoidoscopy on C4D1 and will be repeated every 9 weeks. All patients will additionally receive pembrolizumab at 200mg every three weeks. Patients will be treated until disease progression or intolerable toxicity or completion of 2 years of therapy, whichever comes first.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
26
FMT is a procedure in which fecal matter or stool is collected from a tested donor, mixed with a saline or other solution, strained and infused into the colon by performing a colonoscopy and sigmoidoscopy, or, administered orally in the form of capsules. The FMT consists of introducing normal bacterial flora contained in the stool collected from a healthy donor into the small intestine. In this case, the hdFMT will be administered on Cycle 1 Day 1 and Cycle 3 Day 1 during Treatment Phase 1 and every 9 weeks starting with Cycle 4 Day 1 during Treatment Phase 2.
Pembrolizumab, 200mg, will be administered as a 30-minute IV infusion every 3 weeks starting Cycle 1 Day 1 (same day as the FMT), and continue on Day 1 of each 21-day cycle.
UPMC Hillman Cancer Center
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
RECRUITINGObjective Response Rate (ORR) per RECIST v1.1
The proportion of patients with objective response (Complete Response (CR) or Partial Response (PR)) to R-FMT and pembrolizumab treatment in PD-1 primary refractory NSCLC as assessed per RECIST v1.1. CR: Disappearance of all target lesions. Any pathological lymph nodes (whether target or non-target) must have reduction in short axis to \<10 mm. For non-target lesions: Disappearance of all non-target lesions and normalization of tumor marker level. All lymph nodes must be non-pathological in size (\<10mm short axis); PR: At least a 30% decrease in the sum of diameters of target lesions, taking as reference the baseline sum diameters.
Time frame: Up to 5 years
Incidence of Adverse Events Related to Treatment
Frequency of Adverse Events and specifically ≥grade 2 irAEs per CTCAE v5.0 in PD-1 primary refractory NSCLC in patients treated with Healthy Donor FMT (hdFMT) and pembrolizumab, to assess overall safety, feasibility and tolerability of treatment.
Time frame: Up to 5 years
Objective Response Rate (ORR) per iRECIST
The proportion of patients Complete Response (irCR) or Partial Response (irPR) to treatment as assessed per iRECIST. irCR:Disappearance of non-nodal lesions.All pathologic lymph nodes \<10 mm (short axis) (2 consecutive measurements ≥4 weeks apart); irPR :≥30% decrease from baseline (2 consecutive measurements ≥4 weeks apart). Disappearance of all non-nodal lesions.All pathologic lymph nodes \<10 mm (Non-Target Lesions:Any other than disappearance of all non-nodal lesions and reduction of pathologic lymph nodes \<10 mm). Baseline tumor burden: sum of single diameters (short axis for nodal lesions, longest diameter for other lesions) for target lesions. In subsequent scans, the diameters of new measurable lesions are added to the tumor burden. Re-treatment: ≤5 target lesions (=/≠ original lesions) are selected and a new baseline tumor burden will be established. (no distinct iRECIST assessment until radiographic progression per RECIST 1.1 is observed).
Time frame: Up to 5 years
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CD8+ TIL and intra-tumoral myeloid cell density
Percentage of CD8+ T cells in intra-tumoral myeloid cells in pre-treatment biopsy samples assess using multiplex IHC.
Time frame: Up to 5 years
Progression-free Survival (PFS)
The median length of time from initiation of study drug(s) disease progression as defined by RECIST v1.1, or death. Progressive Disease (PD): ≥20% increase in the sum of diameters of target lesions, taking as reference the smallest sum on study (this includes the baseline sum if that is the smallest on study). The sum must also demonstrate an absolute increase of ≥5 mm. The appearance ≥1 new lesion(s) is considered progression.
Time frame: Up to 5 years
Overall Survival (OS)
The median length of time that patients remain alive after treatment.
Time frame: Up to 5 years
6-month Progression-free Survival
Percentage of patients without disease progression at 6 months after start of treatment, per RECIST v1.1. Progressive Disease (PD): ≥20% increase in the sum of diameters of target lesions, taking as reference the smallest sum on study (this includes the baseline sum if that is the smallest on study). The sum must also demonstrate an absolute increase of ≥5 mm. The appearance ≥1 new lesion(s) is considered progression.
Time frame: Up to 6 months
1-year Progression-free Survival (PFS)
Percentage of patients without disease progression at 1 year after start of treatment, per RECIST v1.1. Progressive Disease (PD): ≥20% increase in the sum of diameters of target lesions, taking as reference the smallest sum on study (this includes the baseline sum if that is the smallest on study). The sum must also demonstrate an absolute increase of ≥5 mm. The appearance ≥1 new lesion(s) is considered progression.
Time frame: Up to 1 year
2-year Progression-free Survival (PFS)
Percentage of patients without disease progression at 2 years after start of treatment, per RECIST v1.1. Progressive Disease (PD): ≥20% increase in the sum of diameters of target lesions, taking as reference the smallest sum on study (this includes the baseline sum if that is the smallest on study). The sum must also demonstrate an absolute increase of ≥5 mm. The appearance ≥1 new lesion(s) is considered progression.
Time frame: Up to 2 years
1-year Overall Survival (OS)
Percentage of patients that are alive at 1 year after start of treatment.
Time frame: Up to 1 year
2-year Overall Survival (OS)
Percentage of patients that are alive at 2 years after start of treatment.
Time frame: Up to 2 years