Locally Advanced Basal Cell Carcinoma

This study evaluates the time spent on obtaining insurance approval and drugs, means of insurance coverage, out-of-pocket costs for patients, and the surgical outcomes after neoadjuvant treatment is completed in skin cancer patients receiving "off label" and "on label" neoadjuvant treatment. "Neoadjuvant therapy" means cancer treatment given before surgery. However, in many instances, neoadjuvant therapy is used as an "off-label" approach for several types of skin cancers. "Off-label" means that the FDA has not yet approved its use for that type of cancer. Therefore, insurance approval of these "off-label" treatments could be delayed compared to label use, and "off-label" treatments may require several weeks of pre-authorization. There is evidence that the delayed start of cancer treatment can lead to poorer outcomes.

Open label, randomized study in patients with LaBCC not eligible or refusing surgery or radiation therapy according to the evaluation of a local interdisciplinary tumor board. The primary objective of the study is to evaluate the efficacy of L19IL2 or L19TNF or L19IL2/L19TNF, the secondary objectives of this study are to evaluate efficacy, safety and pharmacokinetics of immunocytokines. A minimum of 60 patients and a maximum of 180 evaluable patients will be randomized in a 1:1:1 ratio to one of the three different treatment arms of the study and will receive intralesional injections of: (i) Monotherapy 13 Mio IU (\~2.17 mg) L19IL2; or (ii) Monotherapy 0.4 mg L19TNF; or (iii) Combination of 13 Mio IU L19IL2 + 0.4 mg L19TNF, once weekly for 4 consecutive weeks. Newly injectable lesions occurring within the 4-week treatment period of the initial target lesion will also receive multiple intratumoral administrations of immunocytokines once weekly for up to 4 weeks. Patients will be followed for a maximum of 156 weeks after beginning of treatment

Open-label, single-arm, multicentre study in patients with locally advanced BCC amenable to intratumoral injection, who have progressed on or are intolerant to systemic therapy as determined by a local multidisciplinary tumor board. The primary objective of the study is to evaluate the activity of intratumoral L19IL2/L19TNF, while the secondary objective is to assess the safety and efficacy. The patients will receive multiple intratumoral administrations of combined L19IL2 and L19TNF to all injectable cutaneous and subcutaneous lesions once weekly for up to 4 weeks: for those who have a partial response or stable disease as their best response, a second 4-week course L19IL2/L19TNF of four weekly injections may be administered as per treating physician judgement. Patients will be followed for a maximum of 160 weeks after beginning of treatment.

Background: Oral hedgehog inhibitors vismodegib and sonidegib have been used for the treatment of locally advanced (laBCC), metastatic basal cell carcinoma (mBCC) and in basal cell nevus syndrome (BCNS) patients. In the Netherlands, targeted therapy with vismodegib and sonidegib has been available since 2013 and 2021, respectively. No direct comparative studies have been performed between the two oral hedgehog inhibitors (HHI) vismodegib and sonidegib yet . In addition, data for sonidegib are not yet available. Objective: The aim of this study is 1) to evaluate the effectiveness of oral HHIs in the treatment of laBCC, mBCC and BCNS patients and 2) to compare the oral HHIs vismodegib and sonidegib. Study design: prospective registration study that includes all patients, regardless of age and gender, with histologically proven basal cell carcinoma receiving treatment with either vismodegib or sonidegib in the Netherlands. Patient, tumor and treatment information was gathered from patient records. Main study parameters/endpoints: The primary outcome for measuring efficacy/tumor response was median progression free survival (PFS) where the decrease, stagnation or increase in tumor size is measured by maximum diameter. Secondary outcomes are frequency, severity and reversibility of treatment-emergent adverse events and disease-specific quality of life expressed as mean scores on the EORTC-QLQ-C30 and aBCCdex questionnaires.