About this trial
This is a prospective, single arm, phase II clinical trial of neoadjuvant Tebentafusp (KIMMTRAK®) in patients with locally advanced primary uveal melanoma. Patients must be HLA-A\*02:01 with large, surgically unresectable (other than complete enucleation of the eye) primary uveal melanoma. The efficacy of this treatment will be assessed with the Simon's two stage design. The choice of design is guided by a desire to stop the trial early if the actual regression rate of primary uveal melanoma is 1% or lower.
Eligibility criteria
This trial does not accept healthy volunteersQualifiers
Male or female patient age ≥ 18 years of age at the time of informed consent.
Ability to provide and understand written informed consent prior to any study procedures.
Willingness to undergo tumor biopsies at baseline and post-Tebentafusp treatment.
Treatment naïve primary uveal melanoma with T3 or T4 category tumor size that are surgically unresectable (other than complete enucleation of eye).
Disqualifiers
Symptomatic uveal melanoma that requires immediate ophthalmological intervention such as enucleation.
Evidence of metastatic disease.
Previous treatment with Tebentafusp.
Serum creatinine > 1.5 x upper limit of normal (ULN) and/or creatinine clearance (calculated using Cockcroft-Gault Formula, or measured) < 50 mL/minute
Trial design
Single group
Treatments tested in this trial
Tebentafusp-Tebn
DrugTebentafusp will be administered as follows: 20mcg on Day 1, 30mcg on Day 8, 68 mcg on Day 15, and weekly doses of 68 mcg thereafter.
Treatment groups
Trial outcomes
Primary outcomes
Regression of primary uveal melanoma after Tebentafusp treatment in 20% of treated patients.
Regression is defined as ≥ 20% reduction in tumor volume. All estimates of rates will be presented with corresponding 95% exact confidence intervals. For regression rate, the method of Atkinson and Brown will be used to allow for the two-stage design.
Secondary outcomes
Incidence of adverse events (AEs)
Will be graded by National Cancer Institute Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (AE) version 5.0. All estimates of rates will be presented with corresponding 95% exact confidence intervals. AEs will be reported for each dose level and presented as tables of frequency of AEs by body system and by worse severity grade observed. AE term start and end date, severity, seriousness, outcome, action taken regarding study drugs and relationship to each study drug will also be reported. The summary tables will also discuss AEs leading to death and AEs leading to study drug(s) discontinuation. Tables should indicate related and unrelated events. Laboratory data will be presented by dose level at each observation time. Values outside normal limits will be identified and summarized by frequency distribution.
Detection of plasma circulating tumor-derived deoxyribonucleic acid (ctDNA) and correlation of antitumor response
Plasma of patients will be collected for all patients at baseline (within 28 days of first dose), cycle 2 day 1, post-tebentafusp (within 14 days of last dose), and at the 3 month post-treatment evaluation. ctDNA response will be measured (defined as ≥0.3 log reduction) in ctDNA-evaluable patients as measured using Signatera assay and correlated with eye tumor regression.
Detection of aqueous humor ctDNA and correlation of antitumor response
Aqueous humor of patients will be collected at baseline and post-tebentafusp; if no ctDNA is detectable in the aqueous humor after 5 patients we will stop collecting aqueous ctDNA for the rest of the patients. ctDNA response will be measured (defined as ≥0.3 log reduction) in ctDNA-evaluable patients as measured using Signatera assay and correlated with eye tumor regression.
Other outcomes
Assessment of visual acuity loss at baseline (prior to Tebentafusp treatment), prior to plaque brachytherapy, and 3) following plaque brachytherapy (after resolution of any radiation side effects/edema).
Ophthalmological examination for assessment of disease: this will be performed within 48 hours prior to Cycle 1 Day 1, Cycle 1 Day 8, and Cycle 2 Day 1. Additional ophthalmological examinations may be performed if clinically indicated. All ophthalmological examinations must be performed and interpreted by a qualified ocular oncologist. Examination will include clinical eye examination, ophthalmic ultrasound, wide-angle fundus imaging, and optical coherence tomography
Change in radiation dose to the fovea.
Change in modeled radiation dose at critical eye structures before and after neoadjuvant Tebentafusp therapy
Enucleation vs plaque brachytherapy post-treatment
Assessment of proportion of patients who had planned enucleation prior to therapy, but following Tebentafusp treatment were suitable for plaque brachytherapy.
Sponsors and contacts
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Thomas Jefferson University
Lead sponsor
Immunocore Ltd
Collaborator