TheraSphere With Durvalumab and Tremelimumab for HCC

Last updated: March 27, 2025
Sponsor: Boston Scientific Corporation
Overall Status: Active - Recruiting

Phase

2

Condition

Carcinoma

Liver Disorders

Digestive System Neoplasms

Treatment

Tremelimumab immunotherapy

Durvalumab (Imfinzi) immunotherapy

TheraSphere Y-90 glass microsphere therapy

Clinical Study ID

NCT05063565
S2472
  • Ages > 18
  • All Genders

Study Summary

The objective of the ROWAN clinical study is to assess the efficacy of local tumor control in HCC patients who receive TheraSphere followed by durvalumab and tremelimumab.

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

Inclusion Criteria:

  1. Participants must be aged ≥18 years at the time of screening.

  2. Written informed consent and any locally required authorization (e.g., HealthInsurance Portability and accountability Act in the US, European Union (EU) dataprivacy regulations in the EU) obtained from the patient/legal representative priorto performing any protocol-related procedures, including screening evaluations.

  3. Life expectancy ≥6 months.

  4. HCC, diagnosed by radiographic imaging or histology.

  5. Patient not a candidate for liver resection, thermal ablation, or transplantation atthe time of study entry.

  6. ECOG 0 or 1

  7. Measurable disease by mRECIST criteria (e.g. ≥10mm of enhancement).

  8. Tumor volume ≤35% of whole liver volume (determined by imaging).

  9. Future liver remnant volume (FLRV) ≥30% of whole liver volume. FRLV is the volume ofliver not planned to be treated with TheraSphere and free of HCC.

  10. Dosimetry criteria for tumor(s) and normal tissue can be determined.

  11. Patients with previous liver resection or ablation ≥6 months from end of previoustreatment to TheraSphere administration.

  12. Previous transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) is permitted if:

  13. Previous TACE performed ≥8 months before TheraSphere administration and

  14. Result of previous TACE was CR and

  15. Current tumor is not a recurrence of previously treated lesion

  16. Patients with portal vein thrombosis (PVT) Vp0, Vp1, or Vp2.

  17. Patients with HBV or HCV infection are to have documented virology status ofhepatitis as confirmed by HBV and HCV serology test:

  18. Patients with HBV infection: HBV DNA load should be ≤2000 IU/mL obtained within 42 days prior to initiation of study treatment, and Anti-HBV treatment (perlocal standard of care; e.g., entecavir) for a minimum of 14 days prior tostudy entry and willingness to continue treatment for the length of the study

  19. Patients with chronic HCV infection are allowed in the study: for untreatedpatients, AST/ALT should be ≤3xULN and for treated patients, antiviraltreatment (per local standard of care) should be stopped for a minimum of 14days prior to study entry and AST/ALT should be ≤3xULN

  20. Patients with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection are eligible, providedthe HIV infection is well controlled with no current or previous AIDS-relatedcomplications and CD4+ T-cell (CD4+) counts ≥ 350 cells/uL

  21. Negative serum pregnancy test in females of childbearing potential.

  22. Adequate contraception for the patient and his/her sexual partner.

  23. Adequate renal and marrow function as defined below:

  24. Hemoglobin (hgB) ≥9.0 g/dL

  25. Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) ≥1.5 x 109/L

  26. Platelet count ≥75 x 109/L

  27. Measured or calculated creatinine clearance ≥45 mL/min as determined byCockcroft-Gault (using actual body weight)

  28. Absolute lymphocyte count ≥0.5 X 109/L

  29. Adequate liver function, as defined by

  30. Child-Pugh A

  31. Albumin-bilirubin (ALBI) score 1 or 2 with upper limit for ALBI score ≤ -2.Patients with confirmed Gilbert's syndrome may not have an evaluable bilirubinvalue; therefore, ALBI score should not be considered for such patients.Patients with Gilbert's syndrome will be eligible with any bilirubin value, aslong as Albumin level is ≥ 34 g/L.

  32. AST and ALT <3 x ULN.

  33. Body weight >30 kg and BMI ≥18 kg/m2.

Exclusion

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Any contraindication to angiography or selective visceral catheterization.

  2. Cone Beam CT (CBCT) or Technetium-99m macroaggregated Albumin (99mTc-MAA) hepaticarterial perfusion scintigraphy shows any deposition to the gastrointestinal tractthat may not be corrected by angiographic techniques.

  3. 99mTc-MAA hepatic arterial perfusion scintigraphy shows poor tumor and/or portalvein thrombosis (PVT) targeting that would lead to a dose that does not meet theliver dosing criteria.

  4. Shunting of blood to the lungs that could result in delivery of >30 Gy to the lungsin a single treatment or >50 Gy cumulative dose to the lungs in case of multipleTheraSphere treatments, as seen on 99mTc-MAA hepatic arterial perfusionscintigraphy.

  5. Vp3, Vp4, hepatic vein invasion, or inferior vena cava (IVC) invasion

  6. Extrahepatic metastases (patients with extrahepatic spread [EHS]):

  7. EHS is any extrahepatic lesion that, according to clinical symptoms, histology,or imaging data, is highly suspicious of being metastases.

  8. For patients with bone pain/neurological symptoms (deficit, seizure or else) atbaseline and suspected of metastases at screening, a bone scan/brain MRI isrecommended prior to study entry.

  9. Extrahepatic non-target non-measurable lesions (<1 cm per RECIST 1.1) areacceptable if considered not suspicious by the investigator.

  10. Any previous systemic HCC treatment

  11. Prior exposure to immune mediated therapy for other disease, such as other anti-PD- 1, anti-PDL-1, anti-PDL-2, anti-CTLA-4, antibodies, etc.

  12. Previous liver radiation (external beam radiation therapy (EBRT) or peptide receptorradionuclide therapy (PRRT)).

  13. Concurrent treatment for HCC or treatment in the last 4 weeks in another clinicalstudy, unless it is an observational study (non-interventional) or during anon-interventional follow-up stage of an interventional study, or prior inclusion inthis study

  14. Hepatic encephalopathy present at study entry and/or episodes of encephalopathy (Grade ≥ 2) within 6 months prior to study inclusion.

  15. HCC with infiltrative disease that is not evaluable by mRECIST.

  16. Pulmonary insufficiency (defined by an arterial oxygen pressure (PaO2) of <60 mmHg,or oxygen saturation (SaO2) of <90% (Roussos & Koutsoukou, 2003) or clinicallyevident chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)).

  17. Medical history of radiation pneumonitis or recent pneumonitis, regardless ofcausality

  18. History of any organ allograft, including bone marrow allo and autograft.

  19. History of active primary/acquired immunodeficiency, that makes patients unsuitablefor additional immunotherapy in this study (per investigator and as detailed inexclusion criterion #18).

  20. Active or prior documented autoimmune or inflammatory disorders (including but notlimited to, inflammatory bowel disease [e.g. ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease],systemic lupus erythematosus, Sarcoidosis syndrome, or Wegener syndrome [granulomatosis with polyangiitis, Graves' disease, rheumatoid arthritis,hypophysitis, uveitis, etc]). The following are exceptions to this criterion:

  21. Patients with vitiligo or alopecia

  22. Patients with hypothyroidism (e.g. following Hashimoto's syndrome) stable onhormone replacement therapy

  23. Any chronic skin condition that does not require systemic therapy.

  24. Patients without active disease in the last 5 years may be included but onlyafter consultation with the Sponsor Study physician.

  25. Patients with celiac disease controlled by diet alone.

  26. Current or prior use of immunosuppressive medication within 14 days before the firstdose of durvalumab. The following are exceptions to this criterion:

  27. Intranasal, inhaled, topical steroids, or local steroid injections (e.g.intra-articular injection)

  28. Systemic corticosteroids at physiologic doses not to exceed 10 mg/day ofprednisone or its equivalent.

  29. Steroids as premedication for hypersensitivity reactions (e.g. CT scanpremedication).

  30. History of gastrointestinal bleeding within 42 days prior to study inclusion, activeGI bleeding and any bleeding diathesis or coagulopathy that is not correctable byusual therapy or hemostatic agents (e.g. closure device). Patients with knownvarices that have not bled or which have been clinically addressed can enter thestudy. No endoscopic exploration is required before study inclusion.

  31. Presence of biliary stent or sphincterotomy within one year prior to studyinclusion.

  32. History of malignancy, other than HCC, within three years, except the condition isone of the following:

  33. Adequately treated carcinoma in situ of the cervix, early squamous cellcarcinoma or basal cell carcinoma of the skin, localized prostate cancer,breast ductal carcinoma in situ, or low-grade endometrial carcinoma with nomyometrial invasion

  34. Localized prostate cancer under active surveillance.

  35. Other cancer when there is a negligible risk of recurrence or progression ordeath (5-year OS rate > 90%).

  36. Major surgical procedure (as defined by the Investigator) within 42 days prior tostudy inclusion.

  37. A history of severe allergy or intolerance to contrast agents, narcotics, sedativesor atropine that cannot be managed medically.

  38. Known allergy or hypersensitivity to any of the study drugs or any of the study drugexcipients that cannot be managed medically.

  39. Active infection including tuberculosis (clinical evaluation that includes clinicalhistory, physical examination and radiographic findings, and tuberculosis testing inline with local practice), HBV and HVC co-infection, HBV and Hep D co-infection,human immunodeficiency virus (HIV 1/2 antibodies) plus HCV or HBV co-infection.

  40. Receipt of live attenuated vaccine within 30 days prior to the first dose ofdurvalumab and/or tremelimumab. Note: patients, if enrolled, should not receive livevaccine whilst receiving durvalumab and/or tremelimumab and up to 30 days after thelast dose of durvalumab and/or tremelimumab.

  41. Female patients who are pregnant or breastfeeding and who do not want to stopbreastfeeding. Male or female patients of reproductive potential who are not willingto employ any effective birth control method from screening and for at least 90 daysafter TheraSphere administration, 90 days after the last dose of durvalumab, and 6months after the last dose of tremelimumab.

  42. Unstable chronic disease or evidence of any disease or condition that would placethe patient at undue risk and preclude safe use of TheraSphere, durvalumab andtremelimumab treatment as deemed by the site principal investigator.

  43. Patients who are not able to follow the TheraSphere, durvalumab or tremelimumabtreatment requirements. For France Patients Only

  44. Persons deprived of their liberty by a judicial or administrative decision, personssubject to psychiatric care under articles L. 3212-1 and L. 3213-1 who are notcovered by the provisions of Article L. 1121-8 and persons admitted to a health orsocial establishment for purposes other than research, including:

  45. Pregnant, parturient, breast-feeding women (see also inclusion criterion 16 andexclusion criterion 27)

  46. Minors (see also inclusion criterion 1)

  47. Persons receiving psychiatric treatment (see also exclusion criteria 28)

  48. Persons admitted to a health or social establishment for purposes other thanresearch

  49. Person of full age under curatorship

  50. Adult subject to a mandate for future protection, a family authorization, or aguardianship measure

  51. Person not affiliated or not beneficiary of a social security scheme

Study Design

Total Participants: 100
Treatment Group(s): 3
Primary Treatment: Tremelimumab immunotherapy
Phase: 2
Study Start date:
November 03, 2023
Estimated Completion Date:
June 30, 2027

Study Description

A global open-label, prospective, multi-center Phase II trial designed to assess the safety and efficacy of TheraSphere administered before initiation of Durvalumab with Tremelimumab in HCC patients who are not a candidate for resection, thermal ablation or liver transplant at the time of study entry.

Connect with a study center

  • CHU Nantes

    Rennes, Cedex 35042
    France

    Active - Recruiting

  • Hôpital Beaujon

    Clichy Cedex, Hauts De Seine 92110
    France

    Active - Recruiting

  • CHU Grenoble

    Grenoble, Isere 38043
    France

    Active - Recruiting

  • CHU Angers - Hôpital Hôtel Dieu

    Angers Cedex 9,
    France

    Active - Recruiting

  • CHU de Bordeaux - Hôpital Haut-Lévêque

    Clermont-Ferrand,
    France

    Active - Recruiting

  • CHU Montpellier

    Montpellier, 34295
    France

    Active - Recruiting

  • CHU Angers - Hôpital Hôtel Dieu

    Nantes,
    France

    Active - Recruiting

  • CRLCC Eugene Marquis

    Rennes,
    France

    Active - Recruiting

  • IRCCS - Regina Elena Cancer Institute

    Roma,
    Italy

    Active - Recruiting

  • Azienda Sanitaria Universitaria Integrata Friuli Centrale (ASU FC)

    Udine,
    Italy

    Active - Recruiting

  • Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias

    Oviedo, Asturias
    Spain

    Active - Recruiting

  • Clinica Universidad de Navarra

    Pamplona, Navarre 31008
    Spain

    Active - Recruiting

  • Clinica Universidad de Navarra

    Madrid,
    Spain

    Active - Recruiting

  • Hospital Gregorio Maranon

    Madrid,
    Spain

    Active - Recruiting

  • Hospital Universitario Virgen de las Nieves

    Madrid,
    Spain

    Active - Recruiting

  • Hospital. Ramon Y Cajal

    Madrid,
    Spain

    Active - Recruiting

  • University of Arizona- Banner Health

    Tucson, Arizona 85724
    United States

    Site Not Available

  • University of California San Diego

    San Diego, California 92093
    United States

    Active - Recruiting

  • University of California San Francisco

    San Francisco, California 94143
    United States

    Active - Recruiting

  • Georgetown University

    Washington, District of Columbia 20007
    United States

    Active - Recruiting

  • MedStar Washington Hospital Center

    Washington, District of Columbia 20010
    United States

    Active - Recruiting

  • Mayo Clinic

    Jacksonville, Florida 32224
    United States

    Active - Recruiting

  • Rush University Medical Center

    Chicago, Illinois 60612
    United States

    Active - Recruiting

  • University of Chicago Hospital

    Chicago, Illinois 60637
    United States

    Active - Recruiting

  • Indiana University

    Indianapolis, Indiana 46202
    United States

    Active - Recruiting

  • Ochsner Clinic Foundation

    New Orleans, Louisiana 70121
    United States

    Active - Recruiting

  • University of Minnesota

    Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455
    United States

    Active - Recruiting

  • Washington University (Barnes-Jewish Hospital)

    Saint Louis, Missouri 63101
    United States

    Active - Recruiting

  • Columbia University Irving Medical Center

    New York, New York 10032
    United States

    Site Not Available

  • Columbia University Medical Center

    New York, New York 10032
    United States

    Site Not Available

  • NYU Langone Health

    New York, New York 10016
    United States

    Site Not Available

  • Intermountain Health

    Salt Lake City, Utah 84157
    United States

    Active - Recruiting

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