RecruitingAdvanced Esophageal AdenocarcinomaAdvanced Gastric AdenocarcinomaAdvanced Gastroesophageal Junction Adenocarcinoma

Adding Nivolumab to Usual Treatment for People With Advanced Stomach or Esophageal Cancer, PARAMUNE Trial

Eligible age

18+ yrs

Accepts

All genders

Locations

41 states

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About this study

This phase II/III trial compares the addition of nivolumab to the usual treatment of paclitaxel and ramucirumab to paclitaxel and ramucirumab alone in treating patients with gastric or esophageal adenocarcinoma that may have spread from where it first started to nearby tissue, lymph nodes, or distant parts of the body (advanced). A monoclonal antibody is a type of protein that can bind to certain targets in the body, such as molecules that cause the body to make an immune response (antigens). Immunotherapy with monoclonal antibodies, such as nivolumab, may help the body's immune system attack the cancer, and may interfere with the ability of tumor cells to grow and spread. Ramucirumab is a monoclonal antibody that may prevent the growth of new blood vessels that tumors need to grow. Paclitaxel is in a class of medications called antimicrotubule agents. It stops cancer cells from growing and dividing and may kill them. Adding nivolumab to ramucirumab and paclitaxel may work better to treat patients with advanced stomach or esophageal cancer.

Sponsor: National Cancer Institute (NCI)

You may qualify if…

✓ Participants must have advanced or locally unresectable gastric, gastroesophageal junction or esophageal adenocarcinoma
✓ Participants must have PD-L1 CPS (Combined Positive Score) ≥ 1. This test would have been performed as part of standard of care (SOC) pathology testing, using tissue obtained within two years prior to registration and collected prior to or after a frontline regimen
✓ Participants must have a histologically confirmed diagnosis of microsatellite stable (MSS) and HER2 negative gastric, gastroesophageal junction, or esophageal adenocarcinoma
✓ Participants must have documented unresectable and/or metastatic disease on CT or MRI imaging completed prior to registration. Imaging must have been completed within 28 days prior to registration for participants with measurable disease. CT scans or MRIs used to assess non-measurable disease must have been completed within 42 days prior to registration. All disease must be assessed and documented on the Baseline Tumor Assessment Form
✓ Participants with treated brain metastases must have no evidence of progression on the follow-up brain imaging after central nervous system (CNS)-directed therapy. All treatment for brain metastases must have been completed at least 28 days prior to registration
✓ Participants must have disease progression or intolerance to frontline standard of care (SOC) chemotherapy plus either nivolumab, pembrolizumab or any other PD-1 or PD-L1 inhibitor. Peri-operative chemotherapy plus nivolumab, pembrolizumab or any other PD-1 or PD-L1 inhibitor will count as one line if disease progression occurs while on the therapy or within 6 months of completing the chemotherapy plus nivolumab or pembrolizumab or other PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitor cycle
✓ Participants must not have received more than one prior line of systemic therapy defined as chemotherapy plus either nivolumab, pembrolizumab, or any other PD-1 or PD-L1 inhibitor, in the stage IV or unresectable setting. Peri-operative or adjuvant nivoluamb or other PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitors would count as one prior line of systemic therapy if patients progressed while on nivolumab (or other PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitors) or within 6 months of stopping it
✓ Note: Radiation or any other regional therapy options done to address local residual disease or metastatic disease would not count as a line of therapy. Maintenance therapy with a different form of fluoropyrimidine (i.e. switching from capecitabine to fluorouracil \[5FU\]) would not count as another line of therapy