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A Study of INCMGA00012 in Metastatic Merkel Cell Carcinoma (POD1UM-201)

A Phase 2 Study of INCMGA00012 in Participants With Metastatic Merkel Cell Carcinoma (POD1UM-201)

Status
Completed
Phases
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT03599713
Enrollment
107
Registered
2018-07-26
Start date
2019-02-25
Completion date
2024-06-28
Last updated
2025-08-05

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Conditions

Metastatic Merkel Cell Carcinoma

Keywords

Metastatic merkel cell carcinoma, anti-PD-1 antibody, immunoglobulin G4 (IgG4) monoclonal antibody, INCMGA00012

Brief summary

The purpose of this study is to assess the clinical activity and safety of INCMGA00012 in participants with advanced/metastatic Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC).

Interventions

DRUGRetifanlimab

INCMGA00012 administered at 500 milligrams (mg) by intravenous infusion once every 4 weeks

Sponsors

Incyte Corporation
Lead SponsorINDUSTRY

Study design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

* Signed informed consent. * Diagnosis of MCC with distant metastatic disease or recurrent, advanced locoregional disease not amenable to surgery or radiation * Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance status of 0 to 1. * Measurable disease according to RECIST v1.1. * Availability of tumor tissue (fresh or archival) for central pathology review. * Willingness to avoid pregnancy or fathering children based on protocol-defined criteria.

Exclusion criteria

* Prior systemic therapy for MCC, including chemotherapy and prior PD-1 or PD-L1-directed therapy. * Treatment with anticancer drugs or participation in another interventional clinical study within 21 days before the first administration of study drug. * Has not recovered to ≤ Grade 1 or baseline from toxic effects of prior therapy (with the exceptions for anemia not requiring transfusion support and any grade of alopecia) and/or complications from prior surgical intervention within 7 days before starting study treatment. * Radiation therapy administered within 2 weeks of first dose of study treatment or radiation therapy to the thoracic region that is \> 30 Gy within 6 months of the first dose of study treatment. * Known central nervous system (CNS) metastases and/or carcinomatous meningitis. * History of second malignancy within 3 years (with exceptions). * Laboratory values outside the protocol-defined range at screening. * Clinically significant pulmonary, cardiac, gastrointestinal or autoimmune disorders. * Active bacterial, fungal, or viral infections, including hepatitis A, B, and C. * Receipt of a live vaccine within 28 days of planned start of study therapy. * Current use of protocol-defined prohibited medication. * Known hypersensitivity to another monoclonal antibody that cannot be controlled with standard measures (eg, antihistamines and corticosteroids). * Inability or unlikely, in the opinion of the investigator, to comply with the Protocol requirements. * Participant who is pregnant or breastfeeding.

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Objective Response Rate (ORR)up to 26.8 monthsORR was defined as the percentage of participants with a confirmed overall response of complete response (CR) or partial response (PR), per Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) version 1.1 (v1.1), as determined by Independent Central Radiographic Review (ICR), at any post-Baseline visit until the first progressive disease (PD) or new anti-cancer therapy. CR: disappearance of all target and non-target lesions and no appearance of any new lesions. Any pathological lymph nodes (whether target or non-target) must have a reduction in the short axis to \<10 millimeters (mm). PR: complete disappearance or at least a 30% decrease in the sum of the diameters of target lesions, taking as a reference the baseline sum diameters, no new lesions, and no progression of non-target lesions.

Secondary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Disease Control Rate (DCR)up to 57.1 monthsDCR was defined as the percentage of participants with a confirmed overall response (CR and PR) or stable disease (SD) (non-CR/non-PD) lasting at least 6 months from the start of treatment, until the first PD or new anti-cancer therapy, per RECIST v1.1 as determined by ICR. CR: disappearance of all target and non-target lesions and no appearance of any new lesions. Any pathological lymph nodes (whether target or non-target) must have a reduction in the short axis to \<10 mm. PR: complete disappearance or at least a 30% decrease in the sum of the diameters of target lesions, taking as a reference the baseline sum diameters, no new lesions, and no progression of non-target lesions. PD: progression of a target or non-target lesion or presence of a new lesion. SD: no change in target lesions to qualify for CR, PR, or PD.
Progression-free Survival (PFS)up to 57.1 monthsAccording to RESIST v1.1, PFS was defined the time from the start of therapy until disease progression, or death due to any cause, as determined by ICR. Evaluation of target lesions: PD: ≥20% increase in the sum of diameters of target lesions, taking as reference the smallest sum on study. The sum must also demonstrate an absolute increase of at least 5 mm. (Note: the appearance of one or more new lesions is also considered PD). Evaluation of non-target lesions: PD: Unequivocal progression of existing non-target lesions. (Note: the appearance of one or more new lesions is also considered PD).
Overall Survivalup to 60.4 monthsOverall survival was defined as the time in months between the first dose date (Day 1) and the date of death due to any cause.
Duration of Response (DOR)up to 55.3 monthsDOR was defined as the time from an initial objective response (CR or PR) per RECIST v1.1 until PD, or death due to any cause, as determined by ICR. CR: disappearance of all target and non-target lesions and no appearance of any new lesions. Any pathological lymph nodes (whether target or non-target) must have a reduction in the short axis to \<10 mm. PR: complete disappearance or at least a 30% decrease in the sum of the diameters of target lesions, taking as a reference the baseline sum diameters, no new lesions, and no progression of non-target lesions. PD: progression of a target or non-target lesion or presence of a new lesion. A Kaplan-Meier estimate (estimated median) of the distribution function is reported.
First-dose Cmax of Retifanlimabpreinfusion, 10 minutes postinfusion (± 10 minutes), and 4 hours postinfusion (± 10 minutes) on Day 1 of Cycle 1Cmax was defined as the maximum observed plasma concentration.
First-dose Cmin of Retifanlimabpreinfusion, 10 minutes postinfusion (± 10 minutes), and 4 hours postinfusion (± 10 minutes) on Day 1 of Cycle 1Cmin was defined as the minimum observed plasma concentration over the dose interval.
First-dose AUC0-t of Retifanlimabpreinfusion, 10 minutes postinfusion (± 10 minutes), and 4 hours postinfusion (± 10 minutes) on Day 1 of Cycle 1AUC0-t was defined as the area under the plasma concentration-time curve from time zero to time t.
Number of Participants With Any Treatment-emergent Adverse Event (TEAE)up to 846 days (up to approximately 2.3 years)An adverse event (AE) is any untoward medical occurrence associated with the use of a drug in humans, whether or not considered drug related. An AE can therefore be any unfavorable and unintended sign (including an abnormal laboratory finding), symptom, or disease (new or exacerbated) temporally associated with the use of study treatment. A TEAE was defined as either an AE reported for the first time or a worsening of a pre-existing event after the first dose of study drug until 90 days after the last dose of study drug. An AE with onset on/after starting a new anticancer therapy was not summarized as a TEAE.

Countries

Australia, Canada, Czechia, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

Participant flow

Pre-assignment details

Participants were enrolled and treated at 34 study centers in Italy, France, the United States, Poland, Canada, Switzerland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom.

Participants by arm

ArmCount
Chemotherapy: Naïve
Participants with recurrent, advanced locoregional disease or distant metastatic disease who did not receive any prior chemotherapy received retifanlimab 500 milligrams (mg), administered by intravenous (IV) infusion over 60 minutes on Day 1 of each 28-day cycle (Q4W).
101
Chemotherapy: Refractory
Participants with disease not responding to prior chemotherapy received retifanlimab 500 mg, administered by IV infusion over 60 minutes on Day 1 Q4W.
6
Total107

Withdrawals & dropouts

PeriodReasonFG000FG001
Overall StudyDeath383
Overall StudyDiscontinued Due to End of Study423
Overall StudyLost to Follow-up40
Overall StudyWithdrawal by Subject170

Baseline characteristics

CharacteristicChemotherapy: RefractoryTotalChemotherapy: Naïve
Age, Continuous63.8 years
STANDARD_DEVIATION 10.46
70.7 years
STANDARD_DEVIATION 10.52
71.1 years
STANDARD_DEVIATION 10.44
Ethnicity (NIH/OMB)
Hispanic or Latino
0 Participants1 Participants1 Participants
Ethnicity (NIH/OMB)
Not Hispanic or Latino
6 Participants81 Participants75 Participants
Ethnicity (NIH/OMB)
Unknown or Not Reported
0 Participants25 Participants25 Participants
Race (NIH/OMB)
American Indian or Alaska Native
0 Participants0 Participants0 Participants
Race (NIH/OMB)
Asian
0 Participants1 Participants1 Participants
Race (NIH/OMB)
Black or African American
0 Participants0 Participants0 Participants
Race (NIH/OMB)
More than one race
0 Participants0 Participants0 Participants
Race (NIH/OMB)
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander
0 Participants0 Participants0 Participants
Race (NIH/OMB)
Unknown or Not Reported
0 Participants22 Participants22 Participants
Race (NIH/OMB)
White
6 Participants84 Participants78 Participants
Sex: Female, Male
Female
1 Participants34 Participants33 Participants
Sex: Female, Male
Male
5 Participants73 Participants68 Participants

Adverse events

Event typeEG000
affected / at risk
EG001
affected / at risk
EG002
affected / at risk
deaths
Total, all-cause mortality
39 / 1013 / 642 / 107
other
Total, other adverse events
83 / 1015 / 688 / 107
serious
Total, serious adverse events
26 / 1012 / 628 / 107

Outcome results

Primary

Objective Response Rate (ORR)

ORR was defined as the percentage of participants with a confirmed overall response of complete response (CR) or partial response (PR), per Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) version 1.1 (v1.1), as determined by Independent Central Radiographic Review (ICR), at any post-Baseline visit until the first progressive disease (PD) or new anti-cancer therapy. CR: disappearance of all target and non-target lesions and no appearance of any new lesions. Any pathological lymph nodes (whether target or non-target) must have a reduction in the short axis to \<10 millimeters (mm). PR: complete disappearance or at least a 30% decrease in the sum of the diameters of target lesions, taking as a reference the baseline sum diameters, no new lesions, and no progression of non-target lesions.

Time frame: up to 26.8 months

Population: Full Analysis Set (FAS): all participants enrolled in the study who received at least 1 dose of study drug as of 15 October 2020 (selected to allow for at least 60 chemotherapy-naïve participants to be followed for at least 6 months after first response assessment). Analysis was based on the chemotherapy-naïve subset of the FAS. Confidence intervals (CIs) were calculated based on the exact method for binomial distributions.

ArmMeasureValue (NUMBER)
Chemotherapy: NaïveObjective Response Rate (ORR)52.3 percentage of participants
Secondary

Disease Control Rate (DCR)

DCR was defined as the percentage of participants with a confirmed overall response (CR and PR) or stable disease (SD) (non-CR/non-PD) lasting at least 6 months from the start of treatment, until the first PD or new anti-cancer therapy, per RECIST v1.1 as determined by ICR. CR: disappearance of all target and non-target lesions and no appearance of any new lesions. Any pathological lymph nodes (whether target or non-target) must have a reduction in the short axis to \<10 mm. PR: complete disappearance or at least a 30% decrease in the sum of the diameters of target lesions, taking as a reference the baseline sum diameters, no new lesions, and no progression of non-target lesions. PD: progression of a target or non-target lesion or presence of a new lesion. SD: no change in target lesions to qualify for CR, PR, or PD.

Time frame: up to 57.1 months

Population: Safety Evaluable Population. Analysis was based on the chemotherapy-naïve subset of the population. CIs were calculated based on the exact method for binomial distributions.

ArmMeasureValue (NUMBER)
Chemotherapy: NaïveDisease Control Rate (DCR)60.4 percentage of participants
Secondary

Duration of Response (DOR)

DOR was defined as the time from an initial objective response (CR or PR) per RECIST v1.1 until PD, or death due to any cause, as determined by ICR. CR: disappearance of all target and non-target lesions and no appearance of any new lesions. Any pathological lymph nodes (whether target or non-target) must have a reduction in the short axis to \<10 mm. PR: complete disappearance or at least a 30% decrease in the sum of the diameters of target lesions, taking as a reference the baseline sum diameters, no new lesions, and no progression of non-target lesions. PD: progression of a target or non-target lesion or presence of a new lesion. A Kaplan-Meier estimate (estimated median) of the distribution function is reported.

Time frame: up to 55.3 months

Population: Safety Evaluable Population: all enrolled participants who received at least 1 dose of study drug. Analysis was based on the chemotherapy-naïve subset of the population. Only those participants who had confirmed CR or PR prior to PD or start of new anticancer therapy were assessed. The 95% CI was calculated using the Brookmeyer and Crowley's method and Klein and Moeschberger's method with log-log transformation.

ArmMeasureValue (NUMBER)
Chemotherapy: NaïveDuration of Response (DOR)NA months
Secondary

First-dose AUC0-t of Retifanlimab

AUC0-t was defined as the area under the plasma concentration-time curve from time zero to time t.

Time frame: preinfusion, 10 minutes postinfusion (± 10 minutes), and 4 hours postinfusion (± 10 minutes) on Day 1 of Cycle 1

Population: PK Evaluable Population

ArmMeasureValue (MEAN)Dispersion
Chemotherapy: NaïveFirst-dose AUC0-t of Retifanlimab1770 day*mg/LStandard Deviation 549
Secondary

First-dose Cmax of Retifanlimab

Cmax was defined as the maximum observed plasma concentration.

Time frame: preinfusion, 10 minutes postinfusion (± 10 minutes), and 4 hours postinfusion (± 10 minutes) on Day 1 of Cycle 1

Population: Pharmacokinetic (PK) Evaluable Population: all participants who received at least 1 dose of study drug and have provided a Baseline and at least 1 post-dose PK sample

ArmMeasureValue (MEAN)Dispersion
Chemotherapy: NaïveFirst-dose Cmax of Retifanlimab144 micrograms per milliliter (μg/mL)Standard Deviation 32.6
Secondary

First-dose Cmin of Retifanlimab

Cmin was defined as the minimum observed plasma concentration over the dose interval.

Time frame: preinfusion, 10 minutes postinfusion (± 10 minutes), and 4 hours postinfusion (± 10 minutes) on Day 1 of Cycle 1

Population: PK Evaluable Population

ArmMeasureValue (MEAN)Dispersion
Chemotherapy: NaïveFirst-dose Cmin of Retifanlimab20.5 μg/mLStandard Deviation 7.23
Secondary

Number of Participants With Any Treatment-emergent Adverse Event (TEAE)

An adverse event (AE) is any untoward medical occurrence associated with the use of a drug in humans, whether or not considered drug related. An AE can therefore be any unfavorable and unintended sign (including an abnormal laboratory finding), symptom, or disease (new or exacerbated) temporally associated with the use of study treatment. A TEAE was defined as either an AE reported for the first time or a worsening of a pre-existing event after the first dose of study drug until 90 days after the last dose of study drug. An AE with onset on/after starting a new anticancer therapy was not summarized as a TEAE.

Time frame: up to 846 days (up to approximately 2.3 years)

Population: Safety Evaluable Population

ArmMeasureValue (COUNT_OF_PARTICIPANTS)
Chemotherapy: NaïveNumber of Participants With Any Treatment-emergent Adverse Event (TEAE)92 Participants
Chemotherapy: RefractoryNumber of Participants With Any Treatment-emergent Adverse Event (TEAE)5 Participants
Secondary

Overall Survival

Overall survival was defined as the time in months between the first dose date (Day 1) and the date of death due to any cause.

Time frame: up to 60.4 months

Population: Safety Evaluable Population. Analysis was based on the chemotherapy-naïve subset of the population. Median overall survival time was estimated using the Kaplan-Meier method. CI for median overall survival time was calculated using the method of Brookmeyer and Crowley.

ArmMeasureValue (MEDIAN)
Chemotherapy: NaïveOverall SurvivalNA months
Secondary

Progression-free Survival (PFS)

According to RESIST v1.1, PFS was defined the time from the start of therapy until disease progression, or death due to any cause, as determined by ICR. Evaluation of target lesions: PD: ≥20% increase in the sum of diameters of target lesions, taking as reference the smallest sum on study. The sum must also demonstrate an absolute increase of at least 5 mm. (Note: the appearance of one or more new lesions is also considered PD). Evaluation of non-target lesions: PD: Unequivocal progression of existing non-target lesions. (Note: the appearance of one or more new lesions is also considered PD).

Time frame: up to 57.1 months

Population: Safety Evaluable Population. Analysis was based on the chemotherapy-naïve subset of the population. Median PFS time was estimated using the Kaplan-Meier method. The CI for median PFS time was calculated using the method of Brookmeyer and Crowley.

ArmMeasureValue (MEDIAN)
Chemotherapy: NaïveProgression-free Survival (PFS)16.03 months

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 14, 2026