Pembrolizumab in High-risk Ductal Carcinoma in Situ (DCIS)

• Status: Recruiting
• Trial end date: 2021-12-31
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Female

Summary

This is a pilot study to investigate the change in the immune microenvironment of high risk ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) after short term exposure to pembrolizumab.

• Phase: Early Phase 1
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Laura Esserman
• Collaborators: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.; ModernaTX, Inc.
• Treatments: Pembrolizumab

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Plan on having surgical treatment to remove the lesion

2. Have at least 2 of the following high risk features associated with her DCIS - high-grade (grade II-III), palpable mass, hormone receptor negative (less than 1%), Her2 positive, young age (less than 45 years old), and large size (greater than 5 cm)

3. Patients with a history of tamoxifen and/or aromatase inhibitor use for treatment or prevention are eligible but should discontinue these medications at least 2 weeks prior to starting this trial

4. Be willing and able to provide written informed consent/assent for the trial.

5. Be >=18 years of age on day of signing informed consent.

6. Have an Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0 to 1

7. Demonstrate adequate organ function:

• All screening labs should be performed within 10 days of treatment initiation.

• Hematological Absolute Neutrophil Count (ANC) >=1,500/microliter (mcL) Platelets >=100,000/mcL Hemoglobin >=9 g/dL or >=5.6 mmol/L without transfusion or erythropoietin (EPO) dependency (within 7 days of assessment)

• Renal Serum creatinine <=1.5 X upper limit of normal (ULN) OR Measured or calculated creatinine clearance (GFR can also be used in place of creatinine or CrCl) >=60 mL/min for subject with creatinine levels > 1.5 X institutional ULN

• Hepatic Serum total bilirubin <=1.5 x ULN OR Direct bilirubin <= ULN for subjects with total bilirubin levels > 1.5 ULN aspartate aminotransferase (AST) / serum glutamic-oxaloacetic transaminase (SGOT) and alanine aminotransferase (ALT) / serum glutamic-pyruvic transaminase (SGPT) <= 2.5 X ULN Albumin >=2.5mg/dL

• Coagulation International Normalized Ratio (INR) or Prothrombin Time (PT) <=1.5 X ULN unless subject is receiving anticoagulant therapy as long as PT or PTT is within therapeutic range of intended use of anticoagulants Activated Partial Thromboplastin Time (aPTT) <=1.5 X ULN unless subject is receiving anticoagulant therapy as long as PT or PTT is within therapeutic range of intended use of anticoagulants

• Female subjects 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 (Reference Section 5.7.2). Subjects of childbearing potential are those who have not been surgically sterilized or have not been free from menses for > 1 year.

8. A female participant is eligible to participate if she is not pregnant, not breastfeeding, and at least one of the following conditions applies:

1. Not a woman of childbearing potential (WOCBP) OR

2. A WOCBP who agrees to follow the contraceptive guidance during the treatment period and for at least 90 days corresponding to time needed to eliminate any study treatment plus 30 days (a menstruation cycle) after the last dose of study treatment.

9. A male participant must agree to use a contraception during the treatment period and for at least 90 days corresponding to time needed to eliminate any study treatment plus an additional 120 days (a spermatogenesis cycle) after the last dose of study treatment and refrain from donating sperm during this period.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. 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.

2. Has a diagnosis of immunodeficiency or is receiving systemic steroid therapy or any other form of immunosuppressive therapy within 7 days prior to the first dose of trial treatment.

3. Is not interested in surgical treatment of her DCIS

4. Has invasive breast cancer. This does not include microinvasion.

5. Has a known history of active Bacillus Tuberculosis (TB)

6. Hypersensitivity to pembrolizumab or any of its excipients.

7. 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.

8. Has active autoimmune 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 (e.g.,, thyroxine, insulin, or physiologic corticosteroid replacement therapy for adrenal or pituitary insufficiency, etc.) is not considered a form of systemic treatment.

9. Has a history of (non-infectious) pneumonitis that required steroids or has current pneumonitis.

10. Has a history or current evidence of any condition, therapy, or laboratory abnormality that might confound the results of the trial, interfere with the subject's participation for the full duration of the trial, or is not in the best interest of the subject to participate, in the opinion of the treating investigator.

11. Has known psychiatric or substance abuse disorders that would interfere with cooperation with the requirements of the trial.

12. Is pregnant or breastfeeding, or expecting to conceive or father children within the projected duration of the trial, starting with the pre-screening or screening visit through 120 days after the last dose of trial treatment.

13. Has a known history of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) (HIV 1/2 antibodies).

14. Has a known history of Hepatitis B (defined as Hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) reactive) or known active Hepatitis C virus (HCV) (defined as HCV RNA [qualitative] is detected) infection. Note: no testing for Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C is required unless mandated by local health authority.

15. Has received a live vaccine within 30 days prior to the first dose of study drug. Examples of live vaccines include, but are not limited to, the following: measles, mumps, rubella, varicella/zoster (chicken pox), yellow fever, rabies, Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG), and typhoid vaccine. Seasonal influenza vaccines for injection are generally killed virus vaccines and are allowed; however, intranasal influenza vaccines (eg, FluMist®) are live attenuated vaccines and are not allowed.