Cemiplimab and Cetuximab Prior Salvage Surgery in Patients With Recurrent Oral Cavity and HPV-negative Oropharyngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma

Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phasePhase 2
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age18+
SponsorM.D. Anderson Cancer Center

About this trial

To learn if giving cemiplimab and cetuximab before salvage surgery can help to control recurrent oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma.

Eligibility criteria

Qualifiers

Subjects .18 years with histology-proven locoregionally recurrent oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma or HPV-negative OPSCC

HPV testing is required only in oropharyngeal sites and must be negative

Amenable to salvage surgery

Disease recurrence at least 3 months after completion of curative-intent therapy, which must include at least surgery and post operatory radiation. Previous systemic therapy is the curative-setting is not required but allowed (e.g., neoadjuvant chemotherapy, concurrent chemotherapy).

Disqualifiers

Disease recurrence within 3 months after completion of definitive treatment (including surgery, post operatory, systemic therapy)

Distant metastatic disease (M1), visceral and/or distant nodal

Prior treatment with an t immune checkpoint inhibitor agent in the curative setting is allowed if over 1 year from the date of completion (last dose)

Subjects with a condition requiring corticosteroid therapy (>10 mg prednisone/day or equivalent) within 14 days of the first dose of study drug.

Trial design

Treatments tested in this trial

  • Cemiplimab
  • Cetuximab

Treatment groups

17 Participants
are divided into 1 treatment group

Sponsors and collaborators

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Lead sponsor

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals

Collaborator