Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common liver primary cancer with a high rate of mortality. Since the results of IMbrave150, immunotherapy have emerged as a standard of care for HCC patients advanced and/or unresectable in first line of treatment. The objective response rate was about 30%, but half of patients would present only stable disease and about 20% progressive disease. Faecalibacterium prausnitzii is one of the most abundant bacterial in human gut microbiota, around 5% of total bacteria in feces. For patients with metastatic melanoma, treated with ipilimumab, an antibody targeting CTLA-4 (Cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-associated antigen 4), patients with a baseline gut microbiota enriched with Faecalibacterium had a significantly better clinical outcomes. In patients with metastatic melanoma, the level of Faecalibacterium prausnitzi at baseline was predictive of response to anti-PD-1 (programmed death-1) or anti-CTLA-4 therapy. EXL01 is a pharmacological preparation of Faecalibacterium prausnitzii strains. Preclinical murine study suggests that the administration of EXL01 could reverse the resistance to ICI induced by antibiotics (unpublished data). We thus plan to test the concept of microbiota modification in patients treated with standard-of-care approved first-line immunotherapy for advanced HCC. We would include patients refractory to first-line treatment, and test the addition of EXL01 to standard-of-care approved first-line immunotherapy in order to reverse resistance.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
34
EXL01 contains an unmodified single strain of F. prausnitzii
hôpital Avicenne
Bobigny, France
ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITINGCHU de Bordeaux
Bordeaux, France
ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITINGHôpital Beaujon
Clichy, France
RECRUITINGCHU de Nantes Hotel Dieu
Nantes, France
ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITINGCentre de luttre contre le cancer Eugène Marquis
Rennes, France
RECRUITINGGustave ROUSSY
Villejuif, France
ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITINGObjective Response Rate at week12
ORR defined as the best observed overall tumor response (BOR) from inclusion to W12, according RECIST 1.1 criteria
Time frame: At week12
Adverse event
safety of atezolizumab-bevacizumab with bacterial supplementation EXL01
Time frame: Maximum 15 month after le first EXL01 administration
Overall tumor response
Overall tumor response according to the mRECIST, RECIST 1.1 and iRECIST.
Time frame: At week6; at week12; at month 6, at month12
Objective Response Rate at week12
ORR at week 12 according to mRECIST and iRECIST criteria
Time frame: at week 12
Objective Response Rate at M6 and M12
The ORR at M6, M12, according to the mRECIST, RECIST 1.1 and iRECIST criteria.
Time frame: At month 6, at month 12
The Disease control rate (DCR),
The Disease control rate (DCR), as the proportion of patients with BOR as CR, PR or stable disease (SD) defined according to the mRECIST, RECIST 1.1 and iRECIST criteria at W12, M6, M12.
Time frame: At week12; at month 6, at month12
The Progression-Free Survival
The Progression-Free Survival, defined as the time from patient inclusion to progression or death from any cause.
Time frame: Maximum 12 month after the fisrt EXL01 administration
Overall survival (OS)
The Overall Survival, defined as the time from patient inclusion to death from any cause
Time frame: Maximum 15 month after the fisrt EXL01 administration of the last patient
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