E.1 Medical condition or disease under investigation |
E.1.1 | Medical condition(s) being investigated |
Unresectable, metastatic or recurrent synovial sarcomas |
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E.1.1.1 | Medical condition in easily understood language |
Advanced synovial sarcoma (Soft tissue tumours) |
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E.1.1.2 | Therapeutic area | Diseases [C] - Cancer [C04] |
MedDRA Classification |
E.1.2 Medical condition or disease under investigation |
E.1.2 | Version | 19.1 |
E.1.2 | Level | PT |
E.1.2 | Classification code | 10042863 |
E.1.2 | Term | Synovial sarcoma |
E.1.2 | System Organ Class | 10029104 - Neoplasms benign, malignant and unspecified (incl cysts and polyps) |
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E.1.3 | Condition being studied is a rare disease | Yes |
E.2 Objective of the trial |
E.2.1 | Main objective of the trial |
• Determine the response rate in patients with unresectable, metastatic or recurrent synovial sarcoma treated with lymphodepletion and Treg depletion followed by adoptive immunotherapy with T cells engineered to recognize an HLA-A2 restricted NY-ESO-1 derived peptide (Cohort 1)
• Determine the response rate and duration of response of adoptive immunotherapy with NY ESO 1c259T cells in patients with synovial sarcoma and low-level expression of NY ESO 1 (Cohort 2)
• Determine the response rate and duration of response of adoptive immunotherapy with NY ESO 1c259T cells in patients with synovial sarcoma treated with a lymphodepleting regimen containing cyclophosphamide as a single cytotoxic agent (Cohort 3)
• Determine the response rate and duration of response of adoptive immunotherapy with NY ESO 1c259T cells in patients with synovial sarcoma treated with a lymphodepleting regimen containing cyclophosphamide and fludarabine cytotoxic agents at reduced total doses (Cohort 4)
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E.2.2 | Secondary objectives of the trial |
• Determine the safety of treatment with adoptively transferred NY-ESO-1c259T. • When possible, assess whether patients with progressive disease following NY-ESO-1c259T T-cell infusion or who do not respond (Cohorts 3 and 4) experience a response following a second dose
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E.2.3 | Trial contains a sub-study | No |
E.3 | Principal inclusion criteria |
1. Pathologically or histologically confirmed synovial sarcoma that has been treated with a standard chemotherapy regimen containing ifosfamide and/or doxorubicin, is intolerant of or not actively responding to this regimen and remains: • unresectable or (intent is not to enrol patients with resectable tumors) • metastatic or progressive/persistent or recurrent 2. Patients must have measurable disease in order to allow assessment of an anti-tumor response 3. Pathologic review by a central laboratory designated by the Sponsor and confirming NY-ESO-1 expression by immunohistochemistry (IHC). Patients must have proven positive tumor sample for NY-ESO-1 as follows: Cohort 1: Positive expression is defined as 2+ or 3+ by IHC in ≥ 50% cells Cohort 2: Positive expression is defined as ≥ 1+ by IHC in ≥ 1% cells but not to exceed 2+ or 3+ in ≥ 50% cells Cohort 3: Positive expression is defined as 2+ or 3+ by IHC in ≥ 50% cells Cohort 4: Positive expression is defined as 2+ or 3+ by IHC in ≥ 50% cells 4. HLA-A*02:01, HLA-A*02:05, and/or HLA-A*02:06 by high resolution testing 5. Patient is ≥4 years of age on the day the Informed Consent is signed 6. Patients must be >18 kg, for apheresis safety purposes 7. Patients may have received salvage chemotherapy or other therapies. Prior Therapies All previous cytotoxic chemotherapy, monoclonal antibody therapy, or immune therapy should be washed out 3 weeks before apheresis and must be completed at least 3 weeks prior to pre-infusion lymphodepleting chemotherapy Systemic corticosteroid or other immunosuppressive therapy should be washed out 2 weeks before apheresis and must be completed at least 2 weeks prior to pre-infusion lymphodepleting chemotherapy Biologic or other approved molecular targeted small molecule inhibitors should be washed out 1 week or 5 half-lives (whichever is longer) before apheresis and must be completed at least 1 week or 5 half-lives (whichever is longer) prior to pre-infusion lymphodepleting chemotherapy Any grade 3 or 4 hematologic toxicity of previous therapy must have resolved to grade 2 or less (or to values specified below) prior to apheresis and any grade 3 or 4 toxicity must have resolved to grade 2 or less (or to values specified below) prior to pre-infusion lymphodepleting chemotherapy 8. Performance status: ECOG 0-1, or for children ≤10 years of age, Lansky >60 9. Life expectancy >3 months 10. Patient must have adequate organ function as indicated by the following laboratory values below Absolute Neutrophil count (ANC) ≥ 1.0 x10^9/L Platelets ≥ 75 x10^9/L (not achieved by transfusion) Creatinine clearance ≥ 40 ml/min Patients <65 yrs of age can be assessed using estimated creatinine clearance calculated using the Cockcroft and Gault formula Patients ≥65 yrs of age must have renal function measured either by 24-hour urine creatinine collection or by nuclear medicine GFR measurement, according to standard practice at the treating institution Serum total bilirubin < 2 mg/dl (If patient has Gilberts syndrome: total bilirubin <3xULN and direct bilirubin <35%) Serum AST and ALT ≤ 2.5 x Upper Limit of Normal Left ventricular ejection fraction ≥40%, or Fractional Shortening ≥28% 11. Ability to give informed consent prior to any study-specific procedures. Any standard of care procedures (e.g., lab tests, scans) can be used for purposes of assessing study eligibility as long as all other requirements as stated in the protocol are met. For patients <18 years of age (or the legal minimum age in the relevant country) their legal guardian must give informed consent. Pediatric patients will be included in age-appropriate discussion in order to obtain verbal assent 12. Female patients of childbearing potential (FCBP) must have a negative urine or serum pregnancy test. NOTE: FCBP is defined as not surgically sterilized and premenopausal FCBP must agree to use an effective method of contraception, starting at the first dose of chemotherapy for at least 12 months thereafter and 4 months after the gene modified cells are no longer detected in the blood due to the known expression of the target antigen on fetal germ line tissues and placenta Effective methods of contraception include: intra-uterine device, injectable hormonal contraception, oral contraception, or 2 adequate barrier methods (e.g. diaphragm with spermicide, cervical cap with spermicide, or female condom with spermicide - spermicides alone are not an adequate method of contraception) Abstinence (relative to heterosexual activity) can be used as the sole method of contraception if it is consistently employed as the subject’s preferred and usual lifestyle 13. Male patients must be willing to practice birth control starting at the first dose of chemotherapy and for 4 months thereafter or longer (if indicated in the country specific monograph/label for cyclophosphamide). Effective methods of contraception are detailed in Inclusion criterion #12
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E.4 | Principal exclusion criteria |
1. Clinically significant systemic illness (e.g. serious active infections or significant cardiac, pulmonary, hepatic or other organ dysfunction), that in the judgment of the PI would compromise the patient’s ability to tolerate protocol therapy or significantly increase the risk of complications 2. Untreated CNS metastasis. Extradural masses that have not invaded the brain parenchyma or parameningeal tumors without evidence for leptomeningeal spread will not render the patient ineligible. Patients with previous CNS tumor involvement that has been treated and is stable for at least 6 weeks are eligible. 3. Previous treatment with genetically engineered NY-ESO-1 specific T cells. 4. Pregnant or breastfeeding females (due to risk to fetus or newborn). 5. Active HIV, HBV, HCV or HTLV 1 or 2 infection as defined below (due to increased risk of complications during the lymphodepleting regimen and confounding effects on the immune system): • Positive serology for HIV. • Active hepatitis B infection as demonstrated by test for hepatitis B surface antigen. Subjects who are hepatitis B surface antigen negative but are hepatitis B core antibody positive must have undetectable hepatitis B DNA and receive prophylaxis against viral reactivation. Prophylaxis should be initiated prior to lymphodepleting therapy and continued for 6 months. • Active hepatitis C subjects as demonstrated by test for hepatitis C RNA. Subjects who are HCV antibody positive will be screened for HCV RNA by any RT PCR or bDNA assay. Eligibility will be determined based on a negative screening value. • Positive serology for HTLV 1 or 2. 6. Subject has history of active, chronic or recurrent (within the last year prior to enrolment) severe autoimmune or immune mediated disease requiring steroids or other immunosuppressive treatments.
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E.5 End points |
E.5.1 | Primary end point(s) |
(1) Determine the response rate in patients with unresectable, metastatic or recurrent synovial sarcoma treated with lymphodepletion and Treg depletion followed by adoptive immunotherapy with T cells engineered to recognize an HLA-A2 restricted NY-ESO-1 derived peptide (Cohort 1).
(2)Determine the response rate and duration of response of adoptive immunotherapy with NY-ESO-1c259T cells in patients with synovial sarcoma and low-level expression of NY-ESO-1 (Cohort 2).
(3)Determine the response rate and duration of response of adoptive immunotherapy with NY-ESO-1c259T cells in patients with synovial sarcoma patients treated with a lymphodepleting regimen containing cyclophosphamide as a single cytotoxic agent (Cohort 3).
(4) Determine the response rate and duration of response of adoptive immunotherapy with NY-ESO-1c259T cells in patients with synovial sarcoma treated with a lymphodepleting regimen containing cyclophosphamide and fludarabine cytotoxic agents at reduced total doses (Cohort 4). |
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E.5.1.1 | Timepoint(s) of evaluation of this end point |
Response is evaluated post infusion of NY-ESO-1c259T at 4, 8, 12 weeks, 6, 9 and 12 months, then every 3 months until 2 years, then every 6 months until 5 years post infusion, until progression or discontinuation. |
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E.5.2 | Secondary end point(s) |
(1) Determine the safety of treatment with adoptively transferred NY-ESO-1c259T. (2) When possible, assess whether patients with progressive disease following NY-ESO-1c259T or who do not respond (Cohorts 3 and 4) experience a response following a second dose.
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E.6 and E.7 Scope of the trial |
E.6 | Scope of the trial |
E.6.1 | Diagnosis | No |
E.6.2 | Prophylaxis | No |
E.6.3 | Therapy | No |
E.6.4 | Safety | Yes |
E.6.5 | Efficacy | Yes |
E.6.6 | Pharmacokinetic | No |
E.6.7 | Pharmacodynamic | No |
E.6.8 | Bioequivalence | No |
E.6.9 | Dose response | No |
E.6.10 | Pharmacogenetic | Yes |
E.6.11 | Pharmacogenomic | Yes |
E.6.12 | Pharmacoeconomic | No |
E.6.13 | Others | No |
E.7 | Trial type and phase |
E.7.1 | Human pharmacology (Phase I) | No |
E.7.1.1 | First administration to humans | No |
E.7.1.2 | Bioequivalence study | No |
E.7.1.3 | Other | No |
E.7.1.3.1 | Other trial type description | |
E.7.2 | Therapeutic exploratory (Phase II) | Yes |
E.7.3 | Therapeutic confirmatory (Phase III) | No |
E.7.4 | Therapeutic use (Phase IV) | No |
E.8 Design of the trial |
E.8.1 | Controlled | No |
E.8.1.1 | Randomised | No |
E.8.1.2 | Open | No |
E.8.1.3 | Single blind | No |
E.8.1.4 | Double blind | No |
E.8.1.5 | Parallel group | No |
E.8.1.6 | Cross over | No |
E.8.1.7 | Other | No |
E.8.2 | Comparator of controlled trial |
E.8.2.1 | Other medicinal product(s) | Information not present in EudraCT |
E.8.2.2 | Placebo | Information not present in EudraCT |
E.8.2.3 | Other | Information not present in EudraCT |
E.8.3 |
The trial involves single site in the Member State concerned
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E.8.4 | The trial involves multiple sites in the Member State concerned | No |
E.8.4.1 | Number of sites anticipated in Member State concerned | 1 |
E.8.5 | The trial involves multiple Member States | No |
E.8.5.1 | Number of sites anticipated in the EEA | 1 |
E.8.6 Trial involving sites outside the EEA |
E.8.6.1 | Trial being conducted both within and outside the EEA | Yes |
E.8.6.2 | Trial being conducted completely outside of the EEA | No |
E.8.6.3 | If E.8.6.1 or E.8.6.2 are Yes, specify the regions in which trial sites are planned |
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E.8.7 | Trial has a data monitoring committee | No |
E.8.8 |
Definition of the end of the trial and justification where it is not the last
visit of the last subject undergoing the trial
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Last visit of the last subject undergoing the trial. |
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E.8.9 Initial estimate of the duration of the trial |
E.8.9.1 | In the Member State concerned years | 5 |
E.8.9.1 | In the Member State concerned months | 0 |
E.8.9.1 | In the Member State concerned days | 0 |
E.8.9.2 | In all countries concerned by the trial years | 5 |
E.8.9.2 | In all countries concerned by the trial months | 0 |
E.8.9.2 | In all countries concerned by the trial days | 0 |