Phase 1b/2 Study of Autologous CD30.CAR-T Cells in Combination with Nivolumab in Patients with Relapsed or Refractory Classical Hodgkin Lymphoma after Failure of Frontline Therapy (ACTION) (ASH 2022)
The efficacy and safety profile of programmed death (PD)-1 checkpoint inhibitors, nivolumab and pembrolizumab, in cHL have been well demonstrated (Chen et al., 2017; Kuruvilla et al., 2021; Younes et al., 2016), with FDA approval for r/r cHL. PD-1 checkpoint inhibitors, in combination with CD30-directed antibody therapy (brentuximab vedotin) or other chemotherapies, have also shown high efficacy in this setting (Advani et al., 2021; Mei et al., 2022; Moskowitz et al., 2021)...Following a leukapheresis procedure for manufacture of CD30.CAR-T cells, patients will be treated with 4 cycles of nivolumab every 4 weeks (Q4W), and a single infusion of CD30.CAR-T cells (given between nivolumab Cycles 2 and 3, and after lymphodepletion with bendamustine and fludarabine)...The key secondary objective is to evaluate potential anti-tumor activity, as assessed by the CR rate of autologous CD30.CAR-T in combination with nivolumab at EOT in 14 evaluable patients, as per Lugano Classification Revised Response System for malignant lymphoma (Cheson et al., 2014). Other secondary objectives are to assess the overall response rate (ORR), duration of response (DOR), and progression-free survival (PFS) of patients in the ASCT and non-ASCT groups.This study is ongoing and one patient has been enrolled to date.