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The Purpose of This Research Study is to See if Combining Gemcitabine, Cisplatin and Durvalumab Chemotherapy Treatments With a Direct Tumor Therapy Yittrium-90 (Y-90) Will Work Better Together to Shrink Tumors and Control Cancer

A Phase II Single-center, Open-label, Single Arm Study of Induction Gemcitabine, Cisplatin and Durvalumab Followed by Gemcitabine, Cisplatin and Yttrium-90 (Y-90) Radioembolization for the Treatment of Locally Advanced Unresectable Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma

Status
Recruiting
Phases
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT05422690
Enrollment
16
Registered
2022-06-16
Start date
2024-06-12
Completion date
2028-09-30
Last updated
2026-07-15

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma

Brief summary

The purpose of this research is to see if combining gemcitabine, cisplatin and Durvalumab chemotherapy treatments with a direct tumor therapy called Yittrium-90, will work better together to shrink the tumor and control cancer.

Interventions

DRUGInduction Chemotherapy Triplet Therapy

Gemcitabine 1000 mg/m2, Cisplatin 25 mg/m2 infused on both day 1 and day 8 of a 21-day cycle. Durvalumab 1500 mg will be given on day 1 of each cycle.

RADIATIONConcurrent Y-90 treatment

Patients will undergo a Y-90 treatment planning consultation by the treating interventional radiologist during cycle 1. One or two cycles (depending on tumor size) of cisplatin, 25 mg/m2 and gemcitabine 300 mg/m2 given on day 1 and day 8 in combination with Yttrium-90 (Y-90) microspheres which will be given on day 3-7 or day 10-21 at the discretion of the interventional radiologist, separated in time by at least 2 days from a chemo infusion during that cycle

DRUGConsolidation Doublet Therapy:

Gemcitabine 1000 mg/m2 and Cisplatin 25 mg/m2 given on days 1 and 8 of a 21-day cycle with durvalumab 1500 mg given on day 1 of each cycle for 3-5 additional cycles. For the cycle directly after Y-90, gemcitabine will be kept at a dose of 300 mg/m2 to minimize risk of toxicity.

Sponsors

Inova Health Care Services
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE

Intervention model description

Treatments are repeated every 21 days. Chemotherapy will be administered on days 1 and 8 of the 21 day cycle. For the first two cycles, treatment will consist of three drugs, gemcitabine, cisplatin and Durvalumab. After these two cycles, the Durvalumab will be removed from the treatment plan and participants will continue on trial with gemcitabine and cisplatin alone for 6 additional cycles (8 total cycles, or 6 months total of treatment). During the 3rd and possibly the 4th cycle, these drugs will be given at a reduced dose as y-90 treatment to the tumors in your liver will also be given. The interventional team will administer y-90 during these cycles as either one dose during cycle 3, or two doses, one during cycle 3 and one during cycle 4 if there is too much cancer to treat all at once. The remaining cycles of treatment will be with gemcitabine and cisplatin by themselves.

Eligibility

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

Inclusion criteria

* Adult males and females at least 18 years of age * Histologically and/or cytologically confirmed iCCA that is previously untreated or, if systemic therapy has been rendered for prior disease, has been administered at least 6 months before the development of recurrent or de novo new sites of disease. * Unresectable disease, as deemed by the Inova multidisciplinary tumor board (i.e. disease that cannot be safely resected with negative margins, leaving 2 adjacent segments of liver with intact portal venous and hepatic arterial inflow and intact biliary and hepatic venous outflow with the future liver remnant of sufficient volume to avoid postoperative liver insufficiency) * Measurable disease per RECIST 1.1 at least 2 cm in size * Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status score of 0 or 1 * Noncirrhotic liver - patients should not have a preexisting diagnosis of cirrhosis either diagnosed via biopsy or with features consistent with cirrhosis on imaging (e.g. shrunken liver with nodularity consistent with cirrhosis). Child-Pugh score must be less than 5. * No evidence of extrahepatic disease, except for regional adenopathy that would be resected as part of a standard oncologic surgical procedure * Adequate organ function as indicated by the following laboratory values (Table 1) * Ability to complete testing in the protocol * Able and willing to consent to protocol

Exclusion criteria

* Female patients who are pregnant or breast-feeding * History of allogeneic organ transplantation. * Active or history of autoimmune disease or immune deficiency, including, but not limited to, myasthenia gravis, myositis, autoimmune hepatitis, systemic lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease, antiphospholipid antibody syndrome, Wegener granulomatosis, Sjögren syndrome, Guillain-Barré syndrome, or multiple sclerosis, with the following exceptions: * Patients with a history of autoimmune-related hypothyroidism who are on thyroid-replacement hormone are eligible for the study. * Patients with controlled type 1 diabetes on an insulin regimen are eligible for the study. * Patients with vitiligo or alopecia. * Any chronic skin condition that does not require systemic therapy. * Patients without an active autoimmune disease in the last 5 years may be included but only after consultation with the study physician. * Patients with diet controlled celiac disease. * Current or recent use of immunosuppressive medication within 14 days before durvalumab initiation except if: * Intranasal, inhaled, topical or local steroid injections * Systemic corticosteroids at physiologic doses that do not exceed 10 mg/day of prednisone or its equivalent. * Steroids as premedication for hypersensitivity reactions, (i.e. CT scan premedication). * Child-Pugh B7 or greater cirrhosis * Extrahepatic or perihilar cholangiocarcinoma * Gallbladder cancer * Pancreatic or ampullary cancer * Portal vein thrombosis involving the main portal vein or first order right or left portal vein branches * Extrahepatic disease, other than regional lymph nodes that would be removed at time of surgery as part of a routine oncologic procedure for iCCA * Previous treatment with chemotherapy, intra-arterial or radiotherapy for iCCA is exclusionary, with the exception of adjuvant therapy with capecitabine which is allowed. * Contraindication to durvalumab, gemcitabine, or cisplatin * Active hepatitis B or C for which patients refuse treatment. Patients who are newly diagnosed with active disease as part of protocol screening and are agreeable to initiate on antiviral treatment are allowed to enroll. * Contraindication found during work-up angiography, including significant lung shunting (lung dose \>30 Gy for a single treatment or \>50 Gy cumulative), or non-manageable extrahepatic deposition of technetium Tc 99m macroaggregated albumin on scintigraphy performed after planning angiography * \> 75% hepatic tumor burden * Inability to protect non-target arteries to intestines or solid organs from radioembolization * Serum albumin \< 3 g/dL * Serum bilirubin \> 2 mg/dL, serum aspartate aminotransferase or alanine aminotransferase \> 5 times upper limit of normal * Concomitant illness that would prevent adequate patient assessment or in the investigators' opinion pose an added risk for study participants. * Life-threatening intercurrent illness * Anticipated poor compliance * Prisoners or subjects who are involuntarily incarcerated * Persons with decisional incapacity/cognitive impairment * Any history or evidence of severe illness or any other condition that would make the patient, in the opinion of the investigator unsuitable for the study * Subject is enrolled in a separate interventional clinical trial

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Assessing the objective response rate (ORR) at 6 months in patients with locally advanced, unresectable intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (iCCA)6 monthsBest response in terms of tumor shrinkage (by RECIST 1.1 criteria including complete + partial responses) obtained during protocol therapy.

Secondary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Assessing Progression Free Survival (PFS)48 monthstime from treatment initiation to disease progression, death or last patient contact
Hepatic Progression-Free Survival (HPFS)48 monthstime from treatment initiation to hepatic disease progression, death or last patient contact
Overall Survival (OS)48 monthsTime from treatment initiation to death due to any cause or last patient contact
Disease Control Rate (DCR)48 monthsComplete Response + Partial Response + Stable Disease (by RECIST 1.1 and mRECIST criteria) obtained during protocol therapy.
R0 resection rate6 monthsRate of patients that achieve an R0 resection at 6 months.
treatment related impact on quality of life48 monthsSelf-assessed metric of treatment-related impact on Quality of Life (QOL) as measured by the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy - Hepatobiliary (FACT-Hep) questionnaire with measures of Physical Well-Being, Social/Family Well-Being, Emotional Well-Being, Functional Well-Being, Hepatobiliary Cancer Subscale using a 5 point scale ((0) Not at all (1) A little bit; (2) Somewhat; (3) Quite a bit; (4) Very much). Better performance status, i.e. higher score, is associated with a higher quality of life.
safety and toxicity rate48 monthsDevelopment of Treatment Toxicities (grade 3 non-hematologic toxicities persisting beyond 2 weeks despite best supportive care, any grade 3 hematologic toxicities, or any toxicity grade 4 or higher) assessed as per NCI's CTCAE v5.0 criteria.
rate of downstaging to surgery6 monthsRate of downstaging to surgery that occurs during protocol therapy at 6 months.

Countries

United States

Contacts

CONTACTKeary Janet, BS
keary.janet@inova.org571-472-0024
CONTACTElahe Mollapour
elahe.mollapour@inova.org
PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATORArthur A. Winer, MD

Inova Schar Cancer Institute

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Jul 16, 2026