CAR-T Hepatic Artery Infusions or Pancreatic Venous Infusions for CEA-Expressing Liver Metastases or Pancreas Cancer



Status:Active, not recruiting
Conditions:Liver Cancer, Cancer
Therapuetic Areas:Oncology
Healthy:No
Age Range:18 - Any
Updated:3/29/2019
Start Date:February 1, 2017
End Date:December 2019

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Phase Ib Trial of CAR-T Hepatic Artery Infusions or Pancreatic Venous Infusions Delivered With the Surefire Infusion System (SIS) for CEA-Expressing Liver Metastases or Pancreas Cancer

This is an open label, fixed dose, phase Ib trial of anti-CEA CAR-T cell infusions delivered
via the hepatic artery or splenic vein using the Surefire Infusion System (SIS) for patients
with CEA-expressing liver metastases or pancreas cancer.

Patients undergo leukapheresis from which peripheral blood mononuclear cells are purified. T
cells are activated and then re-engineered to express chimeric antigen receptors (CARs)
specific for CEA. Cells are expanded in culture and returned to the patient by percutaneous
hepatic artery infusion at specific cell doses. Prior to the first dose, each patient will
undergo diagnostic angiography to verify suitable arterial anatomy. Three anti-CEA CAR-T
doses per patient are planned at 1-week intervals. Low dose interleukin-2 will be given via
an ambulatory infusion pump for 4 weeks. Normal liver and tumor biopsies will be obtained at
the time of the initial diagnostic angiogram and during the final session following the 3rd
CAR-T infusion.

Patients with CEA+ liver metastases who exhibit in-liver control following CAR-T therapy who
also have CEA+ primary pancreatic tumors may be eligible to receive direct intrapancreatic
CAR-T retrograde venous infusions. A maximum of 2 infusions will be delivered. No additional
IL-2 will be given and there will be no additional biopsies.

Inclusion Criteria:

- Patient with histologically confirmed diagnosis of CEA+ adenocarcinoma and liver
metastases. Patient must have either histologic confirmation of the liver metastases
or histologic documentation of the primary tumor and definitive radiologic evidence of
liver involvement. Measurable disease is required with lesions of > 1.0 cm by CT.
Soluble CEA is not acceptable as the sole measure of disease. Limited extrahepatic
disease is acceptable if confined to the lungs or peritoneal cavity.

- Tumor must be CEA-expressing as demonstrated by elevated serum CEA levels (≥10ng/ml)
or immunohistochemistry on a biopsy specimen. Archived tissue is acceptable for
determination of CEA expression.

- Patient must be at least 18 years of age.

- Patient able to understand and sign informed consent.

- Patient with a life expectancy of greater than four months.

- Patient failed at least one line of standard systemic chemotherapy and has
unresectable disease.

- Patient with performance status of 0 to 1 (ECOG).

- Patient with adequate organ function as defined in protocol.

- Acceptable hepatic vascular anatomy as determined by CT, MR, or conventional
angiography. A nuclear medicine study will be performed to document the absence of a
significant hepatic-pulmonary shunt (<20%).

Exclusion Criteria:

- Female patients of childbearing age will be tested for pregnancy. Pregnant patients
will be excluded from the study. Males who are actively seeking to have children will
be made aware of the unknown risks of this study protocol on human sperm and the need
to practice birth control.

- Patients with serious or unstable renal, hepatic, pulmonary, cardiovascular,
endocrine, rheumatologic, or allergic disease based on history, physical exam and
laboratory tests will be excluded, as outlined in section 5.2.8.

- Patients with active clinical disease caused by CMV, hepatitis B or C, HIV or
tuberculosis will be excluded from the study.

- Patients who have had cytotoxic and/or radiation therapy within 4 weeks prior to entry
into the trial or 4 weeks prior to infusion will be excluded. Patients with other
concurrent malignancies will be excluded.

- Patients requiring systemic steroids will be excluded.

- Patients with unsuitable hepatic vascular anatomy will be excluded from the study.

- Patients with extrahepatic metastatic disease beyond the lungs or abdominal/
retroperitoneal lymph nodes.

- Patients with >50% liver replacement at time of treatment will be excluded.

- Previous external beam radiotherapy to the liver.

- Portal vein thrombosis.
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Providence, Rhode Island 02908
Principal Investigator: Steven C. Katz, MD
Phone: 401-456-2268
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Principal Investigator: Richard Schulick, MD
Phone: 303-724-2757
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