TALASUR trial: a single arm phase II trial assessing efficacy and safety of TALazoparib and Avelumab as maintenance therapy in platinum-Sensitive metastatic or locally advanced URothelial carcinoma

Abstract Background Urothelial carcinoma (UC) is the ninth most commonly diagnosed cancer worldwide, with a 3.8/1 male to female ratio. Platinum-based chemotherapy is the first line standard of care for fit patients with advanced UC. However, despite a response rate (RR) for approximately half of pa...

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Main Authors: Elodie Coquan, Bénédicte Clarisse, Justine Lequesne, Pierre-Emmanuel Brachet, Zoé Nevière, Emeline Meriaux, Isabelle Bonnet, Marie Castera, Nicolas Goardon, Jeremy Boutrois, Romain Travers, Florence Joly, Jean-Michel Grellard, Antoine Thiery-Vuillemin
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-022-10216-z
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author Elodie Coquan
Bénédicte Clarisse
Justine Lequesne
Pierre-Emmanuel Brachet
Zoé Nevière
Emeline Meriaux
Isabelle Bonnet
Marie Castera
Nicolas Goardon
Jeremy Boutrois
Romain Travers
Florence Joly
Jean-Michel Grellard
Antoine Thiery-Vuillemin
author_facet Elodie Coquan
Bénédicte Clarisse
Justine Lequesne
Pierre-Emmanuel Brachet
Zoé Nevière
Emeline Meriaux
Isabelle Bonnet
Marie Castera
Nicolas Goardon
Jeremy Boutrois
Romain Travers
Florence Joly
Jean-Michel Grellard
Antoine Thiery-Vuillemin
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description Abstract Background Urothelial carcinoma (UC) is the ninth most commonly diagnosed cancer worldwide, with a 3.8/1 male to female ratio. Platinum-based chemotherapy is the first line standard of care for fit patients with advanced UC. However, despite a response rate (RR) for approximately half of patients receiving standard chemotherapy, durable responses are rare (median progression-free progression (PFS) around 8 months). Recently, immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) have emerged as new therapeutic options. Among them, Avelumab, an anti-PD-L1 antibody, was assessed in maintenance treatment, demonstrating an overall survival improvement in the JAVELIN Bladder-100 phase III trial. These findings led to its approval as first line maintenance therapy for patients with locally advanced or metastatic UC who have not progressed on prior platinum-containing chemotherapy. However, disease progression as best response was noticed for 37% of patients under Avelumab as maintenance treatment. UC has targetable genomic alterations, including DNA damage repair (DDR) alterations. DDR deficiency is known to major sensitivity to both platinum-based chemotherapy and PD-1/PD-L1 blockade and the combination of ICI and PARP inhibitors showed promising results. It therefore warrants to assess the interest of combining ICI plus PARP inhibitors as maintenance treatment in UC patients. Methods The TALASUR trial is a single-arm multicenter phase 2 study aiming to assess the antitumor activity of the combination of Avelumab with Talazoparib among patients with locally advanced/metastatic UC in maintenance therapy after platinum-based chemotherapy. The primary objective is to determine the efficacy of the combination, assessed through PFS. Secondary objectives are as follows: safety profile of the association, objective response, duration of tumoral response, disease control rate, time to subsequent therapy, quality of life. A blood and tumor collections will be also constituted. Patient will receive the combination therapy of daily oral Talazoparib (1 mg/day) and intra-venous Avelumab 800 mg on days 1 and 15, in a 28-day cycle. Fifty patients will be enrolled. Discussion Talazoparib with Avelumab combination may have additive activity when administrated jointly. We hypothesize that combination will increase the antitumor activity in UC first line maintenance setting with an acceptable safety profile. Trial registration NCT04678362, registered December 21, 2020. Protocol version: Version 1.3 dated from 2020 09 11.
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spelling doaj.art-acfbd3288d034b809da2abcad858ad212022-12-22T04:20:24ZengBMCBMC Cancer1471-24072022-11-0122111110.1186/s12885-022-10216-zTALASUR trial: a single arm phase II trial assessing efficacy and safety of TALazoparib and Avelumab as maintenance therapy in platinum-Sensitive metastatic or locally advanced URothelial carcinomaElodie Coquan0Bénédicte Clarisse1Justine Lequesne2Pierre-Emmanuel Brachet3Zoé Nevière4Emeline Meriaux5Isabelle Bonnet6Marie Castera7Nicolas Goardon8Jeremy Boutrois9Romain Travers10Florence Joly11Jean-Michel Grellard12Antoine Thiery-Vuillemin13Medical Oncology Department, Centre François BaclesseClinical Research Department Centre François BaclesseClinical Research Department Centre François BaclesseMedical Oncology Department, Centre François BaclesseMedical Oncology Department, Centre François BaclesseMedical Oncology Department, Centre François BaclesseMedical Oncology Department, Centre François BaclesseClinical Research Department Centre François BaclesseGenetic and Oncology Biology Department, Centre François BaclesseClinical Research Department Centre François BaclesseNorthwest Data Center (CTD-CNO), Centre François BaclesseMedical Oncology Department, Centre François BaclesseClinical Research Department Centre François BaclesseMedical Oncology Department, CHRU Besançon Hôpital Jean MinjozAbstract Background Urothelial carcinoma (UC) is the ninth most commonly diagnosed cancer worldwide, with a 3.8/1 male to female ratio. Platinum-based chemotherapy is the first line standard of care for fit patients with advanced UC. However, despite a response rate (RR) for approximately half of patients receiving standard chemotherapy, durable responses are rare (median progression-free progression (PFS) around 8 months). Recently, immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) have emerged as new therapeutic options. Among them, Avelumab, an anti-PD-L1 antibody, was assessed in maintenance treatment, demonstrating an overall survival improvement in the JAVELIN Bladder-100 phase III trial. These findings led to its approval as first line maintenance therapy for patients with locally advanced or metastatic UC who have not progressed on prior platinum-containing chemotherapy. However, disease progression as best response was noticed for 37% of patients under Avelumab as maintenance treatment. UC has targetable genomic alterations, including DNA damage repair (DDR) alterations. DDR deficiency is known to major sensitivity to both platinum-based chemotherapy and PD-1/PD-L1 blockade and the combination of ICI and PARP inhibitors showed promising results. It therefore warrants to assess the interest of combining ICI plus PARP inhibitors as maintenance treatment in UC patients. Methods The TALASUR trial is a single-arm multicenter phase 2 study aiming to assess the antitumor activity of the combination of Avelumab with Talazoparib among patients with locally advanced/metastatic UC in maintenance therapy after platinum-based chemotherapy. The primary objective is to determine the efficacy of the combination, assessed through PFS. Secondary objectives are as follows: safety profile of the association, objective response, duration of tumoral response, disease control rate, time to subsequent therapy, quality of life. A blood and tumor collections will be also constituted. Patient will receive the combination therapy of daily oral Talazoparib (1 mg/day) and intra-venous Avelumab 800 mg on days 1 and 15, in a 28-day cycle. Fifty patients will be enrolled. Discussion Talazoparib with Avelumab combination may have additive activity when administrated jointly. We hypothesize that combination will increase the antitumor activity in UC first line maintenance setting with an acceptable safety profile. Trial registration NCT04678362, registered December 21, 2020. Protocol version: Version 1.3 dated from 2020 09 11.https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-022-10216-zUrothelial carcinomaPARP inhibitorsImmune checkpoint inhibitorsAnti–PD-L1Maintenance treatment
spellingShingle Elodie Coquan
Bénédicte Clarisse
Justine Lequesne
Pierre-Emmanuel Brachet
Zoé Nevière
Emeline Meriaux
Isabelle Bonnet
Marie Castera
Nicolas Goardon
Jeremy Boutrois
Romain Travers
Florence Joly
Jean-Michel Grellard
Antoine Thiery-Vuillemin
TALASUR trial: a single arm phase II trial assessing efficacy and safety of TALazoparib and Avelumab as maintenance therapy in platinum-Sensitive metastatic or locally advanced URothelial carcinoma
BMC Cancer
Urothelial carcinoma
PARP inhibitors
Immune checkpoint inhibitors
Anti–PD-L1
Maintenance treatment
title TALASUR trial: a single arm phase II trial assessing efficacy and safety of TALazoparib and Avelumab as maintenance therapy in platinum-Sensitive metastatic or locally advanced URothelial carcinoma
title_full TALASUR trial: a single arm phase II trial assessing efficacy and safety of TALazoparib and Avelumab as maintenance therapy in platinum-Sensitive metastatic or locally advanced URothelial carcinoma
title_fullStr TALASUR trial: a single arm phase II trial assessing efficacy and safety of TALazoparib and Avelumab as maintenance therapy in platinum-Sensitive metastatic or locally advanced URothelial carcinoma
title_full_unstemmed TALASUR trial: a single arm phase II trial assessing efficacy and safety of TALazoparib and Avelumab as maintenance therapy in platinum-Sensitive metastatic or locally advanced URothelial carcinoma
title_short TALASUR trial: a single arm phase II trial assessing efficacy and safety of TALazoparib and Avelumab as maintenance therapy in platinum-Sensitive metastatic or locally advanced URothelial carcinoma
title_sort talasur trial a single arm phase ii trial assessing efficacy and safety of talazoparib and avelumab as maintenance therapy in platinum sensitive metastatic or locally advanced urothelial carcinoma
topic Urothelial carcinoma
PARP inhibitors
Immune checkpoint inhibitors
Anti–PD-L1
Maintenance treatment
url https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-022-10216-z
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