Neoadjuvant Treatment Associated With Maintenance Therapy by Anti-PD1 Immunotherapy in Patients With Resectable Head and Neck Mucosal Melanoma

NCT03313206 | Active Not Recruiting Phase 2

• 2 other identifiers: 2017-001628-232017/2558
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 60
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The main objective will be to estimate the disease free survival (DFS) of patients with resectable head and neck mucosal melanomas treated by neo-adjuvant anti-PD1 (in combination or not with lenvatinib) followed by surgery, radiotherapy and maintenance immunotherapy in order to compare it to historical DFS results of this kind of patients treated by surgery and radiotherapy. Our primary end-point will be disease-free survival at 2 years

Conditions

Head and Neck Mucosal Melanomas

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Disease Free Survival

  Up to 2 years

Study Arms (2)

Cohort A

EXPERIMENTAL

The cohort A (Pembrolizumab only) will be opened in a first study step. Anti-PD1 antibody will be used (pembrolizumab, Merck®) intravenously at a dose of 200 mg every 3 weeks (4 injections maximum over 12 weeks), monotherapy

Drug: Pembrolizumab; Procedure: Surgery; Radiation: IMRT

Cohort B

EXPERIMENTAL

Up to 26 evaluable patients will be treated in the cohort B (Pembrolizumab with Lenvatinib) if they do not have any contraindication for receiving lenvatinib treatment, otherwise they will be treated in the cohort A if slots are available. In the cohort B, the neo-adjuvant anti-PD1 immunotherapy will be combined with orally lenvatinib at a daily dose of 20 mg for 6 weeks started on the day of the first anti-PD1 dose.

Drug: Pembrolizumab; Procedure: Surgery; Radiation: IMRT; Drug: Lenvatinib

Interventions

Pembrolizumab DRUG

Neo-adjuvant therapy : * Anti-PD1 antibody will be used (pembrolizumab, Merck®) intravenously at a dose of 200 mg every 3 weeks. The patient will receive 4 injections maximum over 12 weeks. According to the investigator's opinion, the 4th injection might be cancelled in order to perform surgery from week 10 and not after week 13. * Tumor response will be assessed 2 weeks after the last injection both clinically and radiologically (by CT-scan and MRI). Maintenance therapy by anti-PD1 antibody (pembrolizumab, Merck®) will be then used intravenously at a dose of 200 mg every 3 weeks for a maximum period of one year, starting one month after the end of radiotherapy.

Cohort A; Cohort B

Surgery PROCEDURE

Surgery will be performed (endoscopically if possible) 3 weeks after the last injection, at the earliest week 10 and at the latest at week 13 and will be completed by radiotherapy using IMRT technology according to the International and European Rhinologic Societies guidelines.

Cohort A; Cohort B

IMRT RADIATION

Surgery will be performed (endoscopically if possible) 3 weeks after the last injection, at the earliest week 10 and at the latest at week 13 and will be completed by radiotherapy using IMRT technology according to the International and European Rhinologic Societies guidelines.

Cohort A; Cohort B

Lenvatinib DRUG

up to 26 evaluable patients will be treated with pembrolizumab combined with orally lenvatinib at a daily dose of 20 mg for 6 weeks started on the day of the first anti-PD1 dose.

Cohort B

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Be willing and able to provide written informed consent/assent for the trial.
• Be \>/= 18 years of age on day of signing informed consent.
• Present with a resectable head and neck mucosal melanoma.
• Be eligible for surgical treatment (without any contraindications).
• Be eligible for adjuvant radiotherapy.
• Have measurable disease based on RECIST 1.1.
• Be willing to provide tissue from a newly obtained core or excisional biopsy of a tumor lesion. Newly-obtained is defined as a specimen obtained up to 6 weeks (42 days) prior to initiation of treatment on Day 1. Subjects for whom newly-obtained samples cannot be provided (e.g. inaccessible or subject safety concern) may submit an archived specimen only upon agreement from the Sponsor.
• Have a performance status of 0 or 1 on the ECOG Performance Scale.
• Demonstrate adequate organ function as defined in table 1, all screening labs should be performed within 10 days of treatment initiation.
• Female subject of childbearing potential should have a negative urine or serum pregnancy within 72 hours prior to receiving the first dose of study medication. If the urine test is positive or cannot be confirmed as negative, a serum pregnancy test will be required.
• Female subjects of childbearing potential should be willing to use 2 methods of birth control or be surgically sterile, or abstain from heterosexual activity for the course of the study through 120 days after the last dose of study medication. Subjects of childbearing potential are those who have not been surgically sterilized or have not been free from menses for \> 1 year.
• Male subjects should agree to use an adequate method of contraception starting with the first dose of study therapy through 120 days after the last dose of study therapy.
• Patient affiliated to a social security system or beneficiary of the same
• For the cohort B, patients must met the following additional criteria :
• Not having any contraindication for lenvatinib treatment

You may not qualify if:

• Is currently participating and receiving study therapy or has participated in a study of an investigational agent and received study therapy or used an investigational device within 4 weeks of the first dose of treatment.
• Has a metastatic disease.
• Has a non resectable melanoma.
• Has a diagnosis of immunodeficiency or is receiving systemic steroid therapy (except topical or inhaled steroids) or any other form of immunosuppressive therapy within 2 weeks prior to the first dose of trial treatment.
• Has a known history of active TB (Bacillus Tuberculosis)
• Hypersensitivity to pembrolizumab or any of its excipients.
• Has had a prior anti-cancer monoclonal antibody (mAb) within 4 weeks prior to D1 of study treatment or who has not recovered (i.e., ≤ Grade 1 or at baseline) from adverse events due to agents administered more than 4 weeks earlier.
• Has had prior chemotherapy, targeted small molecule therapy, or radiation therapy within 4 weeks or 5 half-life times (whatever the shorter) prior to study Day 1 or who has not recovered (i.e., ≤ Grade 1 or at baseline) from adverse events due to a previously administered agent.
• Note: Subjects with ≤ Grade 2 neuropathy are an exception to this criterion and may qualify for the study.
• Note: If subject received major surgery, they must have recovered adequately from the toxicity and/or complications from the intervention prior to starting therapy.
• Has a known additional malignancy that is progressing or requires active treatment. Exceptions include basal cell carcinoma of the skin or squamous cell carcinoma of the skin that has undergone potentially curative therapy or in situ cervical cancer.
• Has known active central nervous system (CNS) metastases and/or carcinomatous meningitis. Subjects with previously treated brain metastases may participate provided they are stable (without evidence of progression by imaging for at least four weeks prior to the first dose of trial treatment and any neurologic symptoms have returned to baseline), have no evidence of new or enlarging brain metastases, and are not using steroids for at least 7 days prior to trial treatment. This exception does not include carcinomatous meningitis which is excluded regardless of clinical stability.
• Has active autoimmune and/or immune mediated inflammatory disease that has required systemic treatment in the past 2 years (i.e. with use of disease modifying agents, corticosteroids or immunosuppressive drugs). Replacement therapy (eg., thyroxine, insulin, or physiologic corticosteroid replacement therapy for adrenal or pituitary insufficiency, etc.) is not considered a form of systemic treatment.
• Has known history of, or any evidence of active, non-infectious pneumonitis.
• Has an active infection requiring systemic therapy.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Gustave Roussy, Cancer Campus, Grand Paris: lead

Study Sites (1)

Gustave Roussy

Villejuif, Val De Marne, 94805, France

Location

Related Publications (1)

• Gorry C, McCullagh L, O'Donnell H, Barrett S, Schmitz S, Barry M, Curtin K, Beausang E, Barry R, Coyne I. Neoadjuvant treatment for stage III and IV cutaneous melanoma. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2023 Jan 17;1(1):CD012974. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD012974.pub2.

  PMID: 36648215 DERIVED

MeSH Terms

Interventions

pembrolizumab; Surgical Procedures, Operative; lenvatinib

Study Officials

• Antoine MOYA PLANA, MD

  Gustave Roussy, Cancer Campus, Grand Paris

  STUDY CHAIR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: phase 2
• Allocation: NON RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: SINGLE GROUP
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: October 13, 2017
• First Posted: October 18, 2017
• Study Start: May 28, 2018
• Primary Completion (Estimated): January 1, 2027
• Study Completion (Estimated): January 1, 2029
• Last Updated: January 20, 2026

Record last verified: 2026-01

Locations

FR (1)