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Testing MK-3475 (Pembrolizumab) After Surgery for Localized Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer and Locally Advanced Urothelial Cancer (AMBASSADOR)

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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT03244384
Recruitment Status : Active, not recruiting
First Posted : August 9, 2017
Last Update Posted : May 16, 2023
Sponsor:
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Study Description
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Brief Summary:
This phase III trial studies how well pembrolizumab works in treating patients with bladder cancer that has spread into the deep muscle of the bladder wall (muscle-invasive) or urothelial cancer that has spread from where it started to nearby tissue or lymph nodes (locally advanced). Monoclonal antibodies recognizing and blocking checkpoint molecules can enhance the patient's immune response and therefore help fight cancer. Pembrolizumab is one of the monoclonal antibodies that block the PD-1 axis and can interfere with the ability of tumor cells to grow.

Condition or disease Intervention/treatment Phase
Localized Renal Pelvis and Ureter Urothelial Carcinoma Locally Advanced Bladder Urothelial Carcinoma Locally Advanced Renal Pelvis and Ureter Urothelial Carcinoma Locally Advanced Ureter Urothelial Carcinoma Locally Advanced Urothelial Carcinoma Stage II Bladder Urothelial Carcinoma AJCC v6 and v7 Stage II Renal Pelvis and Ureter Cancer AJCC v7 Stage II Ureter Cancer AJCC v7 Stage III Bladder Urothelial Carcinoma AJCC v6 and v7 Stage III Renal Pelvis and Ureter Cancer AJCC v7 Stage III Ureter Cancer AJCC v7 Procedure: Biospecimen Collection Other: Clinical Observation Procedure: Computed Tomography Procedure: CT Urography Procedure: Cystoscopy Procedure: Magnetic Resonance Imaging Biological: Pembrolizumab Other: Pharmacological Study Other: Quality-of-Life Assessment Other: Questionnaire Administration Phase 3

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Study Design
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Study Type : Interventional  (Clinical Trial)
Estimated Enrollment : 739 participants
Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
Official Title: Phase III Randomized Adjuvant Study of Pembrolizumab in muScle invaSive and locAlly aDvanced urOthelial caRcinoma (AMBASSADOR) Versus Observation
Actual Study Start Date : September 21, 2017
Estimated Primary Completion Date : June 1, 2025
Estimated Study Completion Date : June 1, 2025

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Arms and Interventions
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Arm Intervention/treatment
Experimental: Arm A (pembrolizumab)
Patients receive pembrolizumab IV over 30 minutes on day 1. Treatment repeats every 21 days for up to 18 cycles in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients undergo a CT scan, CT urography, and/or MRI throughout the trial. Patients may also undergo a cystoscopy and blood sample collection during screening and on study.
 Procedure: Biospecimen Collection
Undergo blood sample collection
Other Names:
  • Biological Sample Collection
  • Biospecimen Collected
  • Specimen Collection

Procedure: Computed Tomography
Undergo a CT scan
Other Names:
  • CAT
  • CAT Scan
  • Computed Axial Tomography
  • Computerized Axial Tomography
  • Computerized axial tomography (procedure)
  • Computerized Tomography
  • CT
  • CT Scan
  • tomography

Procedure: CT Urography
Undergo a CT urography
Other Name: Urography Computed Tomography

Procedure: Cystoscopy
Undergo a cystoscopy
Other Name: CS

Procedure: Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Undergo a MRI
Other Names:
  • Magnetic Resonance
  • Magnetic resonance imaging (procedure)
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging Scan
  • Medical Imaging, Magnetic Resonance / Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
  • MR
  • MR Imaging
  • MRI
  • MRI Scan
  • NMR Imaging
  • NMRI
  • Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Biological: Pembrolizumab
Given IV
Other Names:
  • Keytruda
  • Lambrolizumab
  • MK-3475
  • SCH 900475

Other: Pharmacological Study
Correlative studies

Other: Quality-of-Life Assessment
Ancillary studies
Other Name: Quality of Life Assessment

Other: Questionnaire Administration
Ancillary studies
Active Comparator: Arm B (observation)
Patients undergo observation. Patients undergo a CT scan, CT urography, and/or MRI throughout the trial. Patients may also undergo a cystoscopy and blood sample collection during screening and on study.
 Procedure: Biospecimen Collection
Undergo blood sample collection
Other Names:
  • Biological Sample Collection
  • Biospecimen Collected
  • Specimen Collection

Other: Clinical Observation
Undergo observation
Other Name: observation

Procedure: Computed Tomography
Undergo a CT scan
Other Names:
  • CAT
  • CAT Scan
  • Computed Axial Tomography
  • Computerized Axial Tomography
  • Computerized axial tomography (procedure)
  • Computerized Tomography
  • CT
  • CT Scan
  • tomography

Procedure: CT Urography
Undergo a CT urography
Other Name: Urography Computed Tomography

Procedure: Cystoscopy
Undergo a cystoscopy
Other Name: CS

Procedure: Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Undergo a MRI
Other Names:
  • Magnetic Resonance
  • Magnetic resonance imaging (procedure)
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging Scan
  • Medical Imaging, Magnetic Resonance / Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
  • MR
  • MR Imaging
  • MRI
  • MRI Scan
  • NMR Imaging
  • NMRI
  • Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Other: Pharmacological Study
Correlative studies

Other: Quality-of-Life Assessment
Ancillary studies
Other Name: Quality of Life Assessment

Other: Questionnaire Administration
Ancillary studies


Outcome Measures
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Primary Outcome Measures :
  1. Overall survival [ Time Frame: From randomization to the date of death from any cause, assessed up to 5 years ]
    The stratified proportional hazards model will be the primary analysis. The hazard ratio and its 95% confidence interval from the stratified Cox model with a single treatment covariate will be reported. The unstratified hazard ratio will also be presented.

  2. Disease-free survival [ Time Frame: From randomization to the first metastatic recurrence (presence of any recurrent disease), or death, whichever occurs first, assessed up to 5 years ]
    The stratified proportional hazards model will be the primary analysis. The hazard ratio and its 95% confidence interval from the stratified Cox model with a single treatment covariate will be reported. The unstratified hazard ratio will also be presented.


Secondary Outcome Measures :
  1. Overall survival in PD-L1 positive and negative patients [ Time Frame: From randomization to the date of death from any cause, assessed up to 5 years ]
    The stratified proportional hazards model will be the primary analysis. The hazard ratio and its 95% confidence interval from the stratified Cox model with a single treatment covariate will be reported. The unstratified hazard ratio will also be presented.

  2. Disease-free survival in PD-L1 positive and negative patients [ Time Frame: From randomization to the first metastatic recurrence (presence of any recurrent disease), or death, whichever occurs first, assessed up to 5 years ]
    The stratified proportional hazards model will be the primary analysis. The hazard ratio and its 95% confidence interval from the stratified Cox model with a single treatment covariate will be reported. The unstratified hazard ratio will also be presented.


Eligibility Criteria
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Ages Eligible for Study:   18 Years and older   (Adult, Older Adult)
Sexes Eligible for Study:   All
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:   No
Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

  • PRE-REGISTRATION ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA
  • Histologically confirmed muscle-invasive urothelial carcinoma of the bladder, urethra, upper tract, or lymph node positive (LN+) disease; variant histology allowed as long as urothelial carcinoma is predominant (any amount of squamous differentiation is allowed); any component of neuroendocrine carcinoma is excluded
  • Paraffin tissue samples obtained by transurethral resection of muscle-invasive bladder tumor, upper tract resection, or radical cystectomy/nephrectomy/ureterectomy/nephroureterectomy/cystoprostatectomy or urethrectomy must be available; this specimen submission is mandatory prior to registration as results will be used for stratification; specimens from radical/definitive surgery (radical cystectomy/nephrectomy/ureterectomy /nephroureterectomy/cystoprostatectomy and LN dissection) are preferred over transurethral resection, if available

  • Patient must fit into one of the following three categories:

    • Patients who received neoadjuvant chemotherapy and pathologic stage at surgical resection is >= pT2 and/or N+ OR
    • Patients who are not cisplatin-eligible (according to >= 1 of the following criteria: Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group [ECOG] performance status of 2, creatinine clearance < 60 mL/min, grade >= 2 hearing loss, grade >= 2 neuropathy, or New York Heart Association class III heart failure and pathologic stage at surgical resection is >= pT3 or pN+) OR
    • Patients that decline adjuvant cisplatin-based or other systemic chemotherapy based on an informed discussion with the physician and pathologic stage at surgical resection is >= pT3 or pN+
  • The 7th edition of American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) staging will be utilized; patient must have had radical cystectomy (cystoprostatectomy for men) and lymph node dissection (for bladder primary), or nephrectomy, nephroureterectomy or ureterectomy (for uppertract tumors) or urethrectomy (in addition to a radical cystectomy-either simultaneously or in the past) >= 4 weeks but =< 16 weeks prior to pre-registration; patients who have had a partial cystectomy as definitive therapy are not eligible
  • No gross cancer at the surgical margins; microscopic invasive urothelial carcinoma positive margins are allowed; carcinoma in situ (CIS) at margins is considered negative margins
  • No evidence of residual cancer or metastasis after surgery; patients with upper tract urothelial carcinoma must have a negative cystoscopy within 3 months prior to pre-registration; if the bladder has been removed a cystoscopy is not required
  • No metastatic disease (or radiologic findings "concerning" for metastatic disease) on cross-sectional imaging (according to Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors [RECIST] version [v]1.1 criteria)
  • No active autoimmune disease or history of autoimmune disease that might recur, which may affect vital organ function or require immune suppressive treatment including systemic corticosteroids; these include but are not limited to patients with a history of immune related neurologic disease, multiple sclerosis, autoimmune (demyelinating) neuropathy, Guillain-Barre syndrome, myasthenia gravis; systemic autoimmune disease such as systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), connective tissue diseases, scleroderma, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), Crohn's, ulcerative colitis, hepatitis; and patients with a history of toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN), Stevens-Johnson syndrome, or phospholipid syndrome because of the risk of recurrence or exacerbation of disease; human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients on effective anti-retroviral therapy with undetectable viral load within 6 months are eligible
  • No current pneumonitis or prior history of non-infectious pneumonitis that required steroids within the previous 5 years
  • Patients with vitiligo, endocrine deficiencies including type I diabetes mellitus, thyroiditis managed with replacement hormones including physiologic corticosteroids are eligible
  • Patients with rheumatoid arthritis and other arthropathies, Sjogren's syndrome and psoriasis controlled with topical medication and patients with positive serology, such as antinuclear antibodies (ANA), anti-thyroid antibodies should be evaluated for the presence of target organ involvement and potential need for systemic treatment but should otherwise be eligible
  • No known active hepatitis B (e.g., hepatitis B surface antigen [HBsAg] reactive) or hepatitis C (e.g., hepatitis C virus [HCV] ribonucleic acid [RNA] [qualitative] is detected)
  • No live vaccine within 30 days prior to the first dose of study drug; examples of live vaccines include, but are not limited to, the following: measles, mumps, rubella, varicella/zoster (chicken pox), yellow fever, rabies, Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG), and typhoid vaccine; seasonal influenza vaccines for injection are generally killed virus vaccines and are allowed; however, intranasal influenza vaccines (e.g., FluMist) are live attenuated vaccines and are not allowed
  • No postoperative/adjuvant systemic therapy
  • No prior treatment with any therapy on the PD-1/PD-L1 axis
  • No treatment with any other type of investigational agent =< 4 weeks before pre-registration
  • No major surgery =< 4 weeks before pre-registration
  • No radiation therapy =< 4 weeks before pre-registration
  • No neoadjuvant chemotherapy =< 4 weeks before pre-registration
  • Not currently requiring hemodialysis
  • Age >= 18 years
  • Not pregnant and not nursing, because this study involves an investigational agent whose genotoxic, mutagenic and teratogenic effects on the developing fetus and newborn are unknown
  • ECOG performance status =< 2
  • Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) >= 1,200/mm^3
  • Leukocytes >= 3,000/ mm^3
  • Platelet count >= 75,000/mm^3
  • Hemoglobin >= 9 g/dL or >= 5.6 mmol/L

  • Total bilirubin =< 1.5 x upper limit of normal (ULN)

    • Bilirubin for patients with Gilbert's =< 3.0 x ULN
  • Calculated (calc.) creatinine clearance >= 30 mL/min (using either Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration [CKD-EPI] equation or Cockcroft-Gault formula)
  • Aspartate aminotransferase (AST)/alanine aminotransferase (ALT) =< 3.0 x upper limit of normal (ULN)
  • Serum albumin >= 2.8 g/dL
  • For women of childbearing potential only: a negative urine or serum pregnancy test done =< 7 days prior to pre-registration is required
  • REGISTRATION ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA: Results of central PD-L1 testing available; Q2 Solutions will forward the PD-L1 results to the statistical center and the statistical center will notify the site that the result is available; since the results with be blinded to the site the notification from the Alliance registration/randomization office will serve as a confirmation of this eligibility criteria; after sites receive the confirmation e-mail from Alliance they can register the patient
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT03244384


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Sponsors and Collaborators
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Investigators
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Principal Investigator: Andrea B Apolo Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology
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Responsible Party: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT03244384    
Other Study ID Numbers: NCI-2017-01425
NCI-2017-01425 ( Registry Identifier: CTRP (Clinical Trial Reporting Program) )
A031501
A031501 ( Other Identifier: Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology )
A031501 ( Other Identifier: CTEP )
U10CA180821 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
First Posted: August 9, 2017    Key Record Dates
Last Update Posted: May 16, 2023
Last Verified: April 2023

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Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Drug Product: Yes
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Device Product: No
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
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Carcinoma
Carcinoma, Transitional Cell
Ureteral Neoplasms
Kidney Neoplasms
Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Neoplasms
Urologic Neoplasms
Urogenital Neoplasms
Neoplasms by Site
Female Urogenital Diseases
 Female Urogenital Diseases and Pregnancy Complications
Urogenital Diseases
Ureteral Diseases
Urologic Diseases
Male Urogenital Diseases
Kidney Diseases
Pembrolizumab
Antineoplastic Agents, Immunological
Antineoplastic Agents
Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action