Radioembolization With Tremelimumab and Durvalumab for Locally Advanced Unresectable or Oligo-Metastatic Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma

Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phasePhase 1
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age18+
SponsorMayo Clinic

About this trial

This phase I trial tests the safety and side effects of yttrium-90 (Y90) radioembolization combined with immunotherapy drugs tremelimumab and durvalumab in treating patients with intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (cancer of the bile ducts in the liver) that has spread to nearby tissue or lymph nodes (locally advanced) and cannot be removed by surgery (unresectable) who are not candidates for curative therapy or that has spread from where it first started (primary side) to multiple other places in the body (oligo-metastatic). Cholangiocarcinoma is a rare but aggressive cancer with limited curative options outside of surgery. Immunotherapy has shown modest benefit in hepatobiliary (liver, bile ducts, and gallbladder) cancers including cholangiocarcinoma. Radioembolization is a type of radiation therapy used to treat liver cancer that is advanced or has come back where tiny beads that hold the radioactive substance (radioisotope) yttrium Y90 are injected into or near the hepatic artery (the main blood vessel that carries blood to the liver). The beads collect in the tumor and the Y90 gives off radiation. This destroys the blood vessels that the tumor needs to grow and kills the tumor cells. A monoclonal antibody is a type of protein that can bind to certain targets in the body, such as molecules that cause the body to make an immune response (antigens). Immunotherapy with monoclonal antibodies, such as durvalumab and tremelimumab, may help the body's immune system attack the cancer, and may interfere with the ability of tumor cells to grow and spread. Giving Y90 radioembolization in combination with tremelimumab and durvalumab immunotherapy may be safe and beneficial in treating patients with locally advanced, unresectable or oligo-metastatic intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma who are not candidates for curative therapy.

Eligibility criteria

Qualifiers

Age >= 18 years with body weight > 30 kg

Histologically or cytologically confirmed, locally advanced intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma that is not amenable to resection, transplantation, or thermal ablation. Oligometastatic intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma is also eligible. Specifically, such patients must have EITHER =< 3 malignant extrahepatic lymph nodes (short axis diameter >= 3cm) OR metastatic lesions in one organ other than liver (if only single lesion is present diameter MUST be < 3cm, if up to 3 lesions in one organ each lesion MUST be =< 1cm)

Measurable disease

Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status (PS) 0 or 1

Disqualifiers

Concurrent enrollment in another clinical study, unless it is an observational clinical study or during the follow up period of an interventional study

Surgery =< 28 days prior to registration

Chemotherapy =< 4 weeks prior to registration

History of > 1 prior systemic therapy for cholangiocarcinoma not including that in the adjuvant setting. Patients who progressed during or =< 6 months from completion of adjuvant therapy are excluded

Trial design

Treatments tested in this trial

  • Angiography
  • Biopsy
  • Biospecimen Collection
  • Computed Tomography
  • Durvalumab
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Positron Emission Tomography
  • Tremelimumab
  • Yttrium-90 Microsphere Radioembolization

Treatment groups

16 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groups

Sponsors and collaborators