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30th Annual Meeting and Associated Programs of the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC 2015)

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An open label randomized Phase III trial of nivolumab or nivolumab plus ipilimumab vs platinum doublet chemotherapy (PT-DC) in patients with chemotherapy-naïve stage IV or recurrent non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) (CheckMate 227)

Background

Patients with advanced NSCLC are treated with first-line PT-DC, which is associated with a median OS of 8–10 months and 1-year and 2-year survival rates of 30–40% and 10–15%, respectively. Nivolumab (a fully human IgG4 anti-programmed death-1 immune checkpoint inhibitor antibody) alone and in combination with ipilimumab (a fully human IgG4 cytotoxic T-lymphocyte antigen-4 immune checkpoint inhibitor antibody) has demonstrated encouraging clinical benefit across multiple tumor types. Two randomized Phase III trials demonstrated superior survival with nivolumab vs docetaxel in previously-treated patients with advanced squamous (SQ) (CheckMate 017) and non-squamous (non-SQ) NSCLC (CheckMate 057). Preliminary results of a Phase I study (CheckMate 012) of nivolumab with or without ipilimumab demonstrate acceptable safety and encouraging activity in first-line metastatic NSCLC across histologies. This Phase III trial (CheckMate 227) evaluates nivolumab monotherapy and nivolumab plus ipilimumab combination regimens vs PT-DC in patients with chemotherapy-naïve stage IV or recurrent SQ and non-SQ NSCLC.

Methods

Adult patients with stage IV or recurrent NSCLC, ECOG performance status ≤1, no prior systemic anti-cancer therapy, and measureable disease per RECIST version 1.1 are eligible. Tissue will be evaluated for programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) expression during screening. Patients who have untreated CNS metastases are ineligible. Patients will be randomized to nivolumab monotherapy, nivolumab plus ipilimumab combination regimens, or PT-DC. PT-DC will be administered according to histology (gemcitabine with cisplatin or carboplatin for SQ and pemetrexed with cisplatin or carboplatin for non-SQ). Patients will receive treatment until progression or unacceptable toxicity. The co-primary endpoints are overall survival and progression-free survival in patients receiving nivolumab monotherapy or nivolumab plus ipilimumab combination regimens vs patients receiving PT-DC. Secondary endpoints include objective response rate in nivolumab monotherapy or nivolumab plus ipilimumab combination regimens vs PT-DC and disease related symptom improvement measured by the Lung Cancer Symptom Scale in all patients.

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ClinicalTrials.gov identifier NCT02477826.

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Hellmann, M., Ramalingam, S., Reck, M. et al. An open label randomized Phase III trial of nivolumab or nivolumab plus ipilimumab vs platinum doublet chemotherapy (PT-DC) in patients with chemotherapy-naïve stage IV or recurrent non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) (CheckMate 227). j. immunotherapy cancer 3 (Suppl 2), P154 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1186/2051-1426-3-S2-P154

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