A Phase II Basket Trial of Dual Anti-CTLA-4 and Anti-PD-1 Blockade in Rare Tumors (DART SWOG 1609) in Patients with Nonpancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors.
Publication/Presentation Date
6-2020
Abstract
Background: The potential therapeutic benefits of checkpoint inhibitors and their application to many different tumor types has been a key factor in the advancement of medical oncology since their first approval for metastatic melanoma in 2011. However, their efficacy in rare tumor types remains to be seen. This paper presents the results of combination therapy with both anti-CTLA and anti-PD-1 in the small bowel cohort of SWOG S1609 Dual Anti-CTLA-4 & Anti-PD-1 blockade in Rare Tumors (DART).
Methods: This study is designed as a prospective, open-label, multicenter phase 2 clinical trial of ipilimumab (1mg/kg intravenously every 6 weeks) plus nivolumab (240mg intravenously every 2 weeks) in rare tumors. Here we report the outcomes from patients diagnosed with small bowel cancer (SBC). The primary endpoints included overall response rate (ORR) (RECIST v1.1) (complete response (CR) and partial responses (PR)); progression-free survival (PFS), overall survival (OS), stable disease >6 months, and toxicity were the secondary endpoints.
Results: Twenty five patients were registered to the cohort and twenty three received therapy. The duodenum was the primary site of origin in 52% (N=11), 14% (N=3) arose in the ileum and 14% (N=3) arose in the jejunum. The primary site of origin was unknown in 19% (N=4). The overall response rate was 8% (CR, 4%, N= 1; PR, 4%, N= 1). The median PFS was 2 months; 6-month OS was 48% and median OS 6 months. The most common toxicities were diarrhea and fatigue (both 17%) followed by dyspnea (13%) with diarrhea, increased bilirubin, colitis and elevated lipase (all 4.3%) as the most common grade 3-5 immune-related adverse events.
Conclusions: Combination therapy with ipilimumab plus nivolumab in small bowel tumors resulted in an overall response rate of 8% with one partial and one complete response in twenty three treated patients.
Published In/Presented At
Kwang Chae, Y., Othus, M., Patel, S., Zalupski, M., Kasi, A., Khalil, M., Kalyan, A., Polite, B., Fenton, S., Gurung, S., McLeod, C., Giles, F., Chen, H., Sharon, E., Mayerson, E., Plets, M., Ryan, C., Blanke, C., & Kurzrock, R. (2020, June). A phase II basket trial of dual anti-CTLA-4 and anti-PD-1 blockade in rare tumors (DART) SWOG S1609: The small bowel tumor cohort. Presentation presented at AACR Annual Meeting, Virtual.
Disciplines
Medicine and Health Sciences | Oncology
Department(s)
Department of Medicine, Hematology-Medical Oncology Division, Department of Medicine Faculty
Document Type
Presentation