About this trial
This phase I trial tests the safety and side effects of yttrium-90 (Y90) radioembolization combined with immunotherapy drugs tremelimumab and durvalumab in treating patients with intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (cancer of the bile ducts in the liver) that has spread to nearby tissue or lymph nodes (locally advanced) and cannot be removed by surgery (unresectable) who are not candidates for curative therapy or that has spread from where it first started (primary side) to multiple other places in the body (oligo-metastatic). Cholangiocarcinoma is a rare but aggressive cancer with limited curative options outside of surgery. Immunotherapy has shown modest benefit in hepatobiliary (liver, bile ducts, and gallbladder) cancers including cholangiocarcinoma. Radioembolization is a type of radiation therapy used to treat liver cancer that is advanced or has come back where tiny beads that hold the radioactive substance (radioisotope) yttrium Y90 are injected into or near the hepatic artery (the main blood vessel that carries blood to the liver). The beads collect in the tumor and the Y90 gives off radiation. This destroys the blood vessels that the tumor needs to grow and kills the tumor cells. A monoclonal antibody is a type of protein that can bind to certain targets in the body, such as molecules that cause the body to make an immune response (antigens). Immunotherapy with monoclonal antibodies, such as durvalumab and tremelimumab, may help the body's immune system attack the cancer, and may interfere with the ability of tumor cells to grow and spread. Giving Y90 radioembolization in combination with tremelimumab and durvalumab immunotherapy may be safe and beneficial in treating patients with locally advanced, unresectable or oligo-metastatic intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma who are not candidates for curative therapy.
Eligibility criteria
This trial does not accept healthy volunteersQualifiers
Age >= 18 years with body weight > 30 kg
Histologically or cytologically confirmed, locally advanced intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma that is not amenable to resection, transplantation, or thermal ablation. Oligometastatic intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma is also eligible. Specifically, such patients must have EITHER =< 3 malignant extrahepatic lymph nodes (short axis diameter >= 3cm) OR metastatic lesions in one organ other than liver (if only single lesion is present diameter MUST be < 3cm, if up to 3 lesions in one organ each lesion MUST be =< 1cm)
Measurable disease
Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status (PS) 0 or 1
Disqualifiers
Concurrent enrollment in another clinical study, unless it is an observational clinical study or during the follow up period of an interventional study
Surgery =< 28 days prior to registration
Chemotherapy =< 4 weeks prior to registration
History of > 1 prior systemic therapy for cholangiocarcinoma not including that in the adjuvant setting. Patients who progressed during or =< 6 months from completion of adjuvant therapy are excluded
Trial design
Sequential
Treatments tested in this trial
Angiography
Procedure/SurgeryUndergo mapping angiography
Biopsy
Procedure/SurgeryUndergo biopsy
Biospecimen Collection
Procedure/SurgeryUndergo blood sample collection
Computed Tomography
Procedure/SurgeryUndergo CT
Durvalumab
Biological/VaccineGiven IV
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Procedure/SurgeryUndergo MRI
Positron Emission Tomography
Procedure/SurgeryUndergo PET/CT
Tremelimumab
Biological/VaccineGiven IV
Yttrium-90 Microsphere Radioembolization
Procedure/SurgeryReceive transarterial Y90 radioembolization
Treatment groups
Trial outcomes
Primary outcomes
Incidence of Treatment-Emergent Adverse Events (Safety and Tolerability) (Cohort 1)
Dose-limiting toxicities (DLTs) will be defined as an adverse event (AE) attributed as definitely, probably, or possibility related to the study treatment in the first cycle. All the relevant results pertaining to toxicity will be examined in an exploratory and hypothesis-generating fashion. The number and severity of all adverse events will be tabulated and summarized in this patient population. The grade 3+ AEs will also be described and summarized in a similar fashion. Toxicity is defined as AEs that are classified as either possibly, probably, or definitely related to study treatment. Non-hematologic toxicities will be evaluated via the ordinal Common Terminology Criteria (CTC) standard toxicity grading. Hematologic toxicity measures of thrombocytopenia, neutropenia, and leukopenia will be assessed using continuous variables as the outcome measures (primarily nadir) as well as categorization via CTC standard toxicity grading. Overall toxicity will be explored and summarized.
Incidence of Treatment-Emergent Adverse Events (Safety and Tolerability) (Cohort 2)
DLTs will be defined as an AE attributed as definitely, probably, or possibility related to the study treatment in the first cycle. All the relevant results pertaining to toxicity will be examined in an exploratory and hypothesis-generating fashion. The number and severity of all adverse events will be tabulated and summarized in this patient population. The grade 3+ AEs will also be described and summarized in a similar fashion. Toxicity is defined as AEs that are classified as either possibly, probably, or definitely related to study treatment. Non-hematologic toxicities will be evaluated via the ordinal CTC standard toxicity grading. Hematologic toxicity measures of thrombocytopenia, neutropenia, and leukopenia will be assessed using continuous variables as the outcome measures (primarily nadir) as well as categorization via CTC standard toxicity grading. Overall toxicity will be explored and summarized.
Secondary outcomes
Overall efficacy
Will be assessed by response rate modified Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (mRECIST) and Positron Emission Tomography (PET) (PERCIST).
Median progression free survival
Timed endpoints and will be examined in an exploratory and hypothesis-generating fashion.
Median overall survival
Timed endpoints and will be examined in an exploratory and hypothesis-generating fashion.
Objective response rate (complete response and partial response)
Best response is defined to be the best objective status. The modified RECIST version 1.1, mRECIST and PERCIST criteria will be used for tumor evaluation and patients. Responses will be summarized by simple descriptive summary statistics delineating complete and partial responses as well as stable and progressive disease in this patient population (overall and by tumor group).
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