This clinical trial is a single-arm, non-randomized, prospective phase II study. The study aims to evaluate if the maintenance immunotherapy with cemiplimab in patients with AdrenoCortical Carcinoma (ACC), who obtained disease response or stabilization after first-line chemotherapy, may delay/prevent disease progression. The study will be conducted at ASST Spedali Civili Hospital, Brescia - Italy.
Adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC) is a rare malignancy affecting around 0.7-2 persons per one million population per year. The only pharmacological approach approved by FDA and EMA for the treatment of ACC is mitotane, which has an adrenolytic effect causing adrenocortical insufficiency. So, the drug should be administered in association with glucocorticoid replacement for the purpose only of restoring the daily cortisol requirement. Few therapeutic alternatives are available for metastatic ACC patients failing one to two lines of systemic treatment, so immunotherapy could represent a potential new treatment. The immune checkpoint inhibitors are the most promising immunotherapy agents in cancer pharmacology and have been also investigated in ACC. Bases on results of some clinical studies, immunotherapy has achieved long-term control in a small proportion of patients with metastatic ACC. We need to identify the patient subset destined to benefit most from this therapy and at what point in the therapeutic sequence of adrenal carcinoma should immunotherapy be introduced. We also need to implement strategies to overcome the intrinsic immuno-resistance of ACC. The current strategy in the management of advanced ACC is the administration of the EDP (etoposide, doxorubicin, cisplatin) scheme associated with mitotane followed by maintenance mitotane in patients not progressing on chemotherapy. Maintenance immunotherapy could be administered in combination with mitotane, enhancing its efficacy. In addition, the powerful adrenolytic effect of mitotane could keep cortisol production inhibited, facilitating the efficacy of immunotherapy. Maintenance therapy with cemiplimab in ACC patients after first-line chemotherapy may result in enhanced antitumor activity while avoiding potential interactions, including cross-resistance and cumulative toxicity.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
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Purpose
TREATMENT
350 mg IV Q3W
S.C. Oncologia - ASST Spedali Civili di Brescia
Brescia, Brescia, Italy
RECRUITINGEvaluation of efficacy of cemiplimab as a maintenance immunotherapy on PFS in patients with advanced ACC with no disease progression after 4-6 EDP-M cycles
Proportion of patients free from progression at 6 months after the end of first-line chemotherapy
Time frame: 36 months
Evaluation of the effect of cemiplimab as a maintenance therapy on Overall Survival (OS)
The time from the date of the study start to the date of death due to any cause will be measured.
Time frame: 36 months
Evaluation of the effect of cemiplimab on patients' Quality of Life (QoL)
The QoL will be assesed by EORTC QLQ-C30 (European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire) questionnaire. The QLQ-C30 is composed of both multi-item scales and single-item measures. These include five functional scales, three symptom scales, a global health status / QoL scale, and six single items. Each of the multi-item scales includes a different set of items - no item occurs in more than one scale. All of the scales and single-item measures range in score from 0 to 100. A high scale score represents a higher response level. Thus a high score for a functional scale represents a high / healthy level of functioning, a high score for the global health status / QoL represents a high QoL, but a high score for a symptom scale / item represents a high level of symptomatology / problems.
Time frame: 36 months
Evaluation of the safety profile of maintenance cemiplimab therapy
The safety profile of maintenance cemiplimab therapy will be evaluated by the frequency of Adverse Effects (AEs) and laboratory abnormalities as graded by NCI CTCAE v5.0.
Time frame: 36 months
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