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Trial to Evaluate Safety and Efficacy of Vinorelbine With Metronomic Administration in Combination With Atezolizumab as Second-line Treatment for Patients With Stage IV Non-small Cell Lung Cancer
Sponsor: University Hospital, Brest
Summary
The majority of patients diagnosed with advanced NSCLC are treated with platinum-doublet chemotherapy regimens, except those harboring specific oncogenic drivers such as epidermal growth-factor-receptor (EGFR) mutations or anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) rearrangements. In the second-line setting, response rates remain low and median survival rarely exceeds 10 months. Over the past few years, several checkpoint inhibitors targeting programmed cell death protein-1 (PD1) or its ligand (PDL1) used as second-line therapies generated evidence of improving survival and, more recently, as first-line NSCLC treatment. Although pembrolizumab (anti-PD1) was recently approved as first-line treatment for patients with at least 50% of their NSCLC cells expressing PDL1, many patients are still not benefiting from this first-line agent. For patients with relapsed NSCLC, atezolizumab (anti-PDL1) prolonged survival compared to docetaxel in the phase II POPLAR and phase III OAK trials. Novel concepts of synergic action between immunotherapy and chemotherapy have emerged recently. However, those types of treatments are given for different durations: chemotherapy is allowed for only a short period (rarely exceeding 6 cycles), while anti-PDL1 can be continued for several months until loss of its clinical benefit. Metronomic chemotherapy is defined as low-dose and frequent chemotherapy administration, without prolonged drug-free breaks. Metronomic administration of oral vinorelbine has been tested against breast cancer and advanced refractory NSCLC. The combination could have immunostimulatory effects: induction of immunogenic cancer-cell death, enhancement of antigen presentation through dendritic cell modulation, increased cancer-cell immunogenicity, preferential depletion of regulatory T cells, modulation of myeloid-derived suppressor cells, enhancement of the cytotoxic activity of immune-effector cells.
Official title: Open Label Phase II Trial to Evaluate Safety and Efficacy of Vinorelbine With Metronomic Administration in Combination With Atezolizumab as Second-line Treatment for Patients With Stage IV Non-small Cell Lung Cancer
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - Any
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
80
Start Date
2019-01-24
Completion Date
2022-02-23
Last Updated
2026-06-30
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
Atezolizumab
Atezolizumab in IV infusions
Vinorelbine
Vinorelbine capsules
Locations (13)
CH Aix en Provence
Aix-en-Provence, France, France
CHRU de Brest - Hôpital Morvan
Brest, France, France
CLCC Caen
Caen, France, France
CH de Créteil
Créteil, France, France
Ch La Roche Sur Yon
La Roche-sur-Yon, France, France
CHU de Limoges - Hôpital DUPUYTREN
Limoges, France, France
CH MEAUX
Meaux, France, France
CH Pringy
Pringy, France, France
CH Quimper
Quimper, France, France
CHU de Rennes
Rennes, France, France
CHU Rouen
Rouen, France, France
CH Saint-Brieuc
Saint-Brieuc, France, France
Hia Saint Anne
Toulon, France, France