This study will evaluate whether the combination of sacituzumab govitecan (SG) and bevacizumab will result in shrinkage of brain metastases from patients with non-squamous non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), with disease progression on chemotherapy and immunotherapy.
Historically, the prognosis for patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) brain metastases (BM) was poor, but this paradigm is slowly shifting as current data with an immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) based regimen show that a subgroup of patients with BM can achieve long-term survival. For patients with disease progression in the brain after platinum-doublet chemotherapy and ICI, no good systemic treatment options exist and due to local treatments, systemic therapy is often delayed. Of note, most of these patients also have extra-cranial disease progression which needs to be treated. The current standard of care post chemo-ICI progression is docetaxel, with dismal outcomes. The same holds true for patients with NSCLC with an actionable genomic alteration. Upon exhaustion of targeted therapies and platinum-doublet chemotherapy with or without ICI, the standard of care is docetaxel with the same dismal outcomes. Therefore, new systemic therapies that are active systemically as well as intracranially are needed in this population. Antibody-drug-conjugates (ADC) are promising new drugs and several have entered testing in randomized phase III trials. In the majority of the trials evaluating ADCs, patients with untreated BM were excluded. Importantly, Sacituzumab Govitecan (SG), a TROP2-ADC, achieves therapeutic concentrations of SN-38, the active payload of SG, in the CNS. SG is evaluated versus docetaxel in the ongoing EVOKE-1 trial (NCT05089734) but patients with untreated BM are excluded. Preclinically, SG combined with bevacizumab, but not with cetuximab, significantly improved survival over SG alone. Bevacizumab combined with chemotherapy results in an impressive intracranial ORR of 61%. Of note, a possible pseudo response (a marked decrease in contrast enhancement and oedema on MR imaging that often occurs after the initiation of bevacizumab therapy, attributed to normalization of the blood-brain barrier), was not taken into account. Pharmacokinetic drug-drug interactions between bevacizumab and SG are not expected given the distinct proteolytic catabolism responsible for degradation of each monoclonal antibody (moiety). In addition, SN-38 is metabolized by UGT1A1, which is not affected by bevacizumab. Based on the data above, it is of interest to also evaluate SG combined with bevacizumab in patients with BM from NSCLC. This will be evaluated in patients with non-squamous non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), with disease progression on chemotherapy and immunotherapy.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
25
Sacituzumab govitecan 10mg/kg intravenous day 1 and day 8 of a 21-day cycle, + bevacizumab 15 mg/kg iv day 1 of a 21-day cycle till unacceptable toxicity or disease progression.
NKI-AvL
Amsterdam, Netherlands
RECRUITINGUniversity Medical Center Groningen
Groningen, Netherlands
RECRUITINGMaastricht University Medical Center
Maastricht, Netherlands
RECRUITINGbrain metastases overall response rate (ORR)
ORR is defined as the proportion of patients with best overall response of complete response (CR) or partial response (PR) based on central and local investigator's assessment according to RANO-BM criteria on brain MRI
Time frame: up to 24 months
brain metastases overall response rate (ORR) with correction for bevacizumab-pseudoresponse
ORR is defined as the proportion of patients with best overall response of complete response (CR) or partial response (PR) based on central and local investigator's assessment according to RANO-BM criteria on brain MRI with additional criteria for potential pseudo response due to bevacizumab
Time frame: up to 24 months
brain metastases disease control rate (DCR)
DCR is defined as the proportion of participants with Best Overall Response (BOR) of Complete Response (CR), Partial Response (PR), Stable Disease (SD) or Non-CR/Non-PD according to RANO-BM on brain MRI
Time frame: up to 24 months
CNS progression free survival (PFS)
PFS is the time from date of start of treatment to the date of event defined as the first documented progression or death due to any cause. PFS is based on local and central assessment according to RANO-BM on brain MRI
Time frame: up to 24 months
Extracranial ORR and DCR
ORR is defined as the proportion of patients with best overall response of complete response (CR) or partial response (PR) based on local investigator's assessment, DCR is defined as the proportion of participants with Best Overall Response (BOR) of Complete Response (CR), Partial Response (PR), Stable Disease (SD) or Non-CR/Non-PD according to RECIST 1.1, measured with CT
Time frame: up to 24 months
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Extracranial PFS
PFS is the time from date of start of treatment to the date of event defined as the first documented progression or death due to any cause. PFS is based on local assessment according to RECIST 1.1 based on CT
Time frame: up to 24 months
overall PFS
median overall PFS based on RANO-BM for BM and RECIST 1.1 for extracranial lesions as defined above
Time frame: up to 24 months
overall survival
OS is defined as the time from date of start of treatment to date of death due to any cause
Time frame: up to 33 months
Safety according to CTCAE v5.0
according to CTCAE v5.0
Time frame: up to 33 months