A pilot trial of neoantigen DNA vaccine in combination with nivolumab/ipilimumab and prostvac in metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer (mHSPC).

Authors

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Koral Shah

Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO

Koral Shah , Aravinda Ganapathy , Ariel Borkowski , Nakul Shah , Dhruv Bansal , Rachel Beck , Eric Marshall Knoche , Joel Picus , Melissa Andrea Reimers , Bruce J. Roth , James L. Gulley , Robert Schreiber , Russell Kent Pachynski

Organizations

Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, Division of Oncology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, Washington University in St. Louis, St Louis, MO, Division of Oncology, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, Washington University School of Medicine, Division of Medical Oncology, St. Louis, MO, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, Genitourinary Malignancies Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, Department of Pathology and Immunology, and Bursky Center for Human Immunology and Immunotherapy Programs, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO

Research Funding

Other Foundation
Other Foundation

Background: Treatment with immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) alone results in suboptimal response rates in prostate cancer. Prostvac-VF Tricom is a therapeutic vaccine that incorporates DNA for the shared self-antigen PSA. Personalized neoantigen vaccines based on specific mutated epitopes may have the ability to overcome immunoresistance seen with self-antigens. Even in low mutational burden tumors like prostate cancer, T cell responses against neoantigens have been correlated with favorable clinical outcomes. Thus, we hypothesized that the combination of shared antigen and neoantigen vaccines with dual ICB will induce robust immune responses and improve clinical outcomes. Methods: This Phase I clinical trial (NCT03532217) enrolled patients from 2018-2021. Eligible patients had histologically confirmed high risk mHSPC, must have completed a course of docetaxel and received continuous androgen deprivation therapy. Patients were treated with Prostvac-VF in combination with ipilimumab/nivolumab within 60 days of the last docetaxel dose. Then, patients were continued on monthly nivolumab with their personalized neoantigen vaccine administered via intramuscular electroporation. The primary objectives of this study were to assess the feasibility, safety/tolerability, and immune responses of this combination strategy. Key secondary objectives include failure free survival, milestone overall survival (OS), PSA responses, and radiographic progression free survival. Results: Nineteen patients were enrolled and treated on trial, and feasibility was shown with 15 (79%) receiving neoantigen vaccines. Four patients did not receive neoantigen vaccines (2 for progressive disease, 2 for ICB toxicity). Treatment was well-tolerated with only 2 (2.4%) grade 3 treatment related adverse events (TRAEs) of colitis, and no grade 4+ TRAEs. The common grade 1-2 TRAEs were diarrhea (10%), injection site reactions (10%), rash (7.4%), and fatigue (6%). Median follow-up to date is 22.6 (11.3-39.6) months, with median OS not yet reached and 2 year milestone OS of 75%. Six (31.5%) patients had PSA progression per PCWG2 criteria while on treatment, with the median time to PSA progression not yet reached for the total population. Increases in activation/co-stimulatory/co-inhibitory seen after treatment with Prostvac/ICB, suggest immune priming. Sample collection is complete and immune correlative analyses are ongoing. Final safety/tolerability and preliminary correlative and clinical outcomes will be reported. Conclusions: This is the first clinical trial evaluating the use of personalized neoantigen vaccines in a combination immunotherapeutic approach in mHSPC patients. Clinical trial information: NCT03532217.

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Abstract Details

Meeting

2022 ASCO Annual Meeting

Session Type

Poster Session

Session Title

Genitourinary Cancer—Prostate, Testicular, and Penile

Track

Genitourinary Cancer—Prostate, Testicular, and Penile

Sub Track

Prostate Cancer– Advanced/Hormone-Sensitive

Clinical Trial Registration Number

NCT03532217

Citation

J Clin Oncol 40, 2022 (suppl 16; abstr 5068)

DOI

10.1200/JCO.2022.40.16_suppl.5068

Abstract #

5068

Poster Bd #

251

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