About this trial
This clinical trial plans to assess to what extent the on-treatment circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) can predict the subset of patients with NSCLC who will respond to immunotherapy treatment only and which patients will need both immunotherapy and chemotherapy modalities for their treatment regimen.
Eligibility criteria
This trial does not accept healthy volunteersQualifiers
Eligible patients will have newly diagnosed, previously untreated histologically documented Stage IV NSCLC
Eligible patients will be required to have positive PD-L1 expression ≥1% by IHC using Dako 22C3 assay.
Patients will require a baseline Guardant360 CDx test prior to enrollment
Patients willing to undergo serial ctDNA testing as required by protocol
Disqualifiers
Patients under the age of 18
Inability to provide informed consent by either the patient or the authorized representative
Patients with known EGFR, ALK, ROS1, MET, and RET oncogenic driver alterations that have approved first-line targeted therapies are excluded from the study (All patients must have a tissue or blood-based testing to identify these driver alterations)
Patients with no detectable ctDNA or ctDNA VAF ≤ 0.3% on Guardant360 CDx at baseline
Trial design
Parallel
Treatments tested in this trial
Nivolumab
DrugImmunotherapy
Ipilimumab
DrugImmunotherapy
Carboplatin
DrugChemotherapy
Paclitaxel
DrugChemotherapy
Pemetrexed
DrugChemotherapy
Treatment groups
Trial outcomes
Primary outcomes
Progression Free Survival (PFS)
To compare progression free survival in patients with on-treatment-ctDNA guided therapy continuation or escalation by addition of platinum-doublet chemotherapy to therapy continuation with Nivolumab-Ipilimumab regardless of on-treatment-ctDNA results.
Secondary outcomes
Progression Free Survival on Subsequent line of therapy (PFS2)
To compare progression free survival on subsequent line of therapy (PFS2) between patients with on-treatment-ctDNA guided therapy continuation or escalation by addition of platinum-doublet chemotherapy to therapy continuation with Nivolumab-Ipilimumab regardless of on-treatment-ctDNA results
Overall Survival
To compare overall survival (OS) in patients with on-treatment-ctDNA guided therapy continuation or escalation by addition of platinum-doublet chemotherapy to therapy continuation with Nivolumab-Ipilimumab regardless of on-treatment-ctDNA results
Objective Response Rate
To compare objective response rate (ORR) in patients with on-treatment-ctDNA guided therapy continuation or escalation by addition of platinum-doublet chemotherapy to therapy continuation with Nivolumab-Ipilimumab regardless of on treatment-ctDNA results.
Duration of Response
To compare duration of response (DOR) in patients with on-treatment-ctDNA guided therapy continuation or escalation by addition of platinum-doublet chemotherapy to therapy continuation with Nivolumab-Ipilimumab regardless of on-treatment-ctDNA results.
Sponsors and contacts
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Hackensack Meridian Health
Lead sponsor
MedSIR
Collaborator