About this trial
Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) (also called "immunotherapy") are an effective family of anti-cancer drugs, but they can cause serious side effects. Some evidence suggests these side effects might happen because ICIs interact with other drugs that you may already be taking, making those drugs work differently, or causing more side effects. The purpose of this study is to see whether ICIs impact how the liver processes other drugs. To do this, participants will be given a probe cocktail of 7 different FDA-approved drugs that are processed in different ways in the liver.
Eligibility criteria
This trial does not accept healthy volunteersQualifiers
≥ 18 years old at the time of informed consent
Diagnosed with cancer AND initiating therapy with single agent or combination therapy that includes an immune checkpoint inhibitor (e.g., atezolizumab, cemiplimab, durvalumab, ipilimumab, nivolumab, pembrolizumab, relatlimab, tremelimumab)
Ability to provide written informed consent and HIPAA authorization
Disqualifiers
Actively pregnant or breastfeeding
Body weight less than 50 kg or a BMI >35
Low baseline hemoglobin, defined as <10 g/dL
Note: if a prospective patient's hemoglobin returns to the normal range, they can be re-screened for trial inclusion)
Trial design
Crossover
Treatments tested in this trial
ICI Therapy
DrugLow dose of a cocktail of probe substrates for eight major CYP enzymes/drug transporters.
Treatment groups
Trial outcomes
Primary outcomes
Change in plasma concentrations from drug exposure during ICI therapy
Toxicity concentrations for CYP/transporter substrate drugs in plasma
Associations between pro-inflammatory cytokine concentrations and CYP/transporter probe drug concentrations in plasma
Secondary outcomes
Assess associations between T cells populations and CYP/transporter probe drug concentrations
Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs)
Concentrations of endogenous biomarkers
Plasma or urine
CYP/transporter endogenous biomarker concentrations
Plasma or urine correlated with plasma concentrations of pro-inflammatory cytokines
Correlation of concentration of population of activated T cells and CYP/transporter endogenous biomarkers
Plasma or urine
Sponsors and contacts
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