Nivolumab and/or Ipilimumab With or Without Azacitidine in Treating Patients With Myelodysplastic Syndrome

Running, not enrolling · Phase 2

Conditions studied: Leukemia, Myelodysplastic Syndrome, Recurrent Myelodysplastic Syndrome

In brief

This phase II trial studies the side effects of nivolumab and/or ipilimumab with or without azacitidine and to see how well they work in treating patients with myelodysplastic syndrome. Monoclonal antibodies, such as nivolumab and ipilimumab, may block cancer growth in different ways by targeting certain cells. Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as azacitidine, work in different ways to stop the growth of cancer cells, either by killing the cells, by stopping them from dividing, or by stopping them from spreading. Giving nivolumab and/or ipilimumab with or without azacitidine may work better in treating myelodysplastic syndrome.

Key facts

Study ID: NCT02530463
Run by: M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
People needed: 99
Starts: 2015-09-08
Expected to finish: 2027-09-30
Last updated by the study team: 2026-03-05

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

Patients with MDS (up to 20% blasts) of any risk as defined as:
Previously untreated
Previously treated with hypomethylating agent (HMA) agent; patients need to have relapsed or progressed after any number of cycles of HMA therapy; patients that do not respond to HMA therapy will also be allowed in the study; relapse or progression will be measured by International Working Group (IWG) 2006 criteria; no response will be lack of clinical benefit after at least 6 cycles of HMA therapy
Creatinine =< 2.0 x upper limit of normal (ULN)
Serum bilirubin =< 2.0 x ULN
Aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and alanine aminotransferase (ALT) =< 2.0 x ULN
Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status =< 2
Females of childbearing potential must have a negative serum or urine beta human chorionic gonadotropin (beta-hCG) pregnancy test result within 24 hours prior to the first dose of treatment and must agree to use an effective contraception method to avoid pregnancy for 23 weeks (30 days plus the time required for nivolumab to undergo five half-lives) after the last dose of investigational drugs; females of non-childbearing potential are those who are postmenopausal greater than 1 year or who have had a bilateral tubal ligation or hysterectomy
Males who have partners of childbearing potential must agree to use an effective contraceptive method during the study and a period of 31 weeks after the last dose of investigational drug
Patients or their legally authorized representative must provide written informed consent

You may not qualify if…

Second malignancy currently requiring active therapy, except breast or prostate cancer stable on or responding to endocrine therapy
Any major surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, biologic therapy, immunotherapy, experimental therapy within 2 weeks prior to the first dose of the study drugs
Patients with any other known concurrent severe and/or uncontrolled medical condition (e.g. uncontrolled diabetes; cardiovascular disease including congestive heart failure New York Heart Association [NYHA] class III or IV, myocardial infarction within 6 months, and poorly controlled hypertension; chronic renal failure; or active uncontrolled infection) which, in the opinion of the investigator could compromise participation in the study
Patients unwilling or unable to comply with the protocol
History of pneumonitis
Patients who are on high dose steroid (equivalent of prednisone more than 10 mg a day) or immune suppression medications
Patients with autoimmune diseases (e.g., rheumatoid arthritis, systemic progressive sclerosis [scleroderma], systemic lupus erythematosus, autoimmune vasculitis [e.g., Wegener's granulomatosis])
Patients with a history of inflammatory bowel disease such as Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis
Patients known to be positive for hepatitis B surface antigen expression or with active hepatitis C infection (positive by polymerase chain reaction or on antiviral therapy for hepatitis C within the last 6 months); patients with history of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) disease are also excluded from the study
Current therapy with other systemic anti-neoplastic or anti-neoplastic investigational agents
Females who are pregnant or lactating
Prior treatment with allogeneic stem cell transplantation

Where it is running

M D Anderson Cancer Center — Houston, Texas, United States

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