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Neoadjuvant Immune Checkpoint Inhibition and Novel IO Combinations in Early-stage Colon Cancer

Recruiting nowPhase 2Randomised

The trial at a glance
Registry number NCT03026140
Recruitment Recruiting now
Phase Phase 2
Design randomised, open label
Taking part 353 people (planned)
Who can join aged 18 Years and over
Run by The Netherlands Cancer Institute
Started
Main results expected
Record last updated

What is being tested

  • Drug Nivolumab
  • Drug Ipilimumab
  • Drug Celecoxib 200mg
  • Drug BMS-986253
  • Drug BMS-986016

What it is measuring

Incidence of adverse events during the treatment and follow-up (safety)

This is the trial's main question — the one it is designed and sized to answer. Anything else it reports is a secondary finding, and secondary findings are far more likely to be chance.

Phase 2. Tests whether the treatment works well enough to be worth a larger trial. Usually too small to prove it changes survival.

How the researchers describe it

In this exploratory study, patients with stage 1-3 adenocarcinoma of the colon with no signs of distant metastases will be treated with short-term immunotherapy + novel IO combinations (i.e. anti-IL 8, COX2-inhibitors, anti-LAG3). This treatment will be given during the window period until surgical resection of the tumor. The duration of treatment will be in between approximately 6 and 12 weeks.

Written by the trial’s sponsor, quoted from its ClinicalTrials.gov record.

What this trial is looking for

Genotype

  • dMMR / MSI-H
Disease

  • Colon

Read automatically from the criteria below, to make the list searchable. It is a summary of what the text mentions, not a decision about whether you qualify — and where the two disagree, the criteria are right and this is wrong.

Who the trial is looking for

Inclusion criteria

  • Signed written informed consent
  • Patients at least 18 years of age
  • Non-metastatic adenocarcinoma of the colon (and rectosigmoid considered as nonrectal and not undergoing neoadjuvant treatment)
  • No signs of distant metastases on CT-scan and physical examination;
  • dMMR cohorts 3+6: >cT3 and/or N+

Exclusion criteria

  • No signs of distant metastases
  • No signs of obstruction or macroscopic bleeding or suspicion of perforation
  • Colonoscopy must be performed after registration to obtain study-specific biopsies. If biopsies are not possible, patients cannot be included in the study
  • WHO performance status of 0 or 1
  • No previous treatment with immune checkpoint inhibitors targeting CTLA-4, PD-1 or PD-L1
  • For patients with MSS tumors: no current use of NSAIDs or COX2-inhibitors at registration and no active peptic ulcer, gastrointestinal bleeding, unstable ischemic heart disease of thrombus etiology or significant established ischemic heart disease, peripheral arterial disease and/or cerebrovascular disease
  • No radiotherapy prior to or planned post-surgery radiotherapy
  • No history of allergy to study drug components, severe hypersensitivity reaction to any monoclonal antibody, allergy or severe hypersensitivity to NSAIDs or COX2-I (MSS tumors)
  • No intercurrent illnesses, including but not limited to infections, unstable angina pectoris
  • No posi…

This is an extract. Whether you qualify is decided by the trial team against the full criteria, not by reading this page. Read the full eligibility criteria

Where it is running

Running at 6 sites. Listed in: Netherlands.

Individual hospitals, and whether each is currently open, are listed on the registry record. Sites open and close throughout a trial.

Worth asking your oncology team

Being listed here is not a recommendation, and no one page can tell you whether a trial is right for you. These are the questions it raises.

  • Is this trial open at a hospital I could realistically travel to?
  • Given my stage, my previous treatment and my tumour's molecular profile, would I be eligible?
  • What would I be giving up by joining — is the comparison arm the treatment I would otherwise be having?
  • What is already known about the safety of what is being tested?

The source

Registry record NCT03026140, registered by The Netherlands Cancer Institute on ClinicalTrials.gov, a public database run by the US National Library of Medicine. The details on this page come from that record and are only ever as current as the sponsor has kept it.

This is a listing of a registered clinical trial, reproduced for information. It is not a recommendation, this site has no connection to the trial or its sponsor, and being listed here says nothing about whether the treatment works. Talk to your own oncology team before pursuing any trial.

This article summarises published research for general information. It is not medical advice, and it is not a substitute for a conversation with your own oncology team, who know your case. Do not start, stop, or change any treatment or supplement on the basis of what you read here.


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