Clinical trial for Advanced Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma
Official title Immunotherapy (Nivolumab and Ipilimumab) With and Without a Live Biotherapeutic Product (EXL01) for the Treatment of Metastatic Renal Cell Cancer
ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT07128680
What this study is testing
What is Ipilimumab?
An investigational monoclonal antibody being studied for advanced clear cell renal cell carcinoma. It is designed to block CTLA-4, a protein that downregulates immune responses, thereby enhancing T‑cell activity against tumor cells.
Also referred to as Yervoy.
Plain-language explanation of the investigational treatment. It is being studied and is not an approved or proven therapy. The study team can confirm the details.
- What it's testing
- The study wants to see if the combination is safe and if it works better than the drugs alone for people with metastatic kidney cancer.
- Who it's for
- It is looking for adults with advanced or metastatic clear‑cell or sarcomatoid kidney cancer, including stage III or IV disease.
- What's involved
- Participants will receive the two drugs, with or without the bacteria product, and will have regular clinic visits, blood tests, imaging scans, and safety monitoring.
- Time commitment
- The trial lasts about 12 months, with frequent visits during the first few months and then periodic follow‑ups for up to a year.
- Phase 1: an early, usually small safety study
- Time commitment: about 2 years
- Which group you join is decided by chance.
A plain-language read of the study's public ClinicalTrials.gov listing. The study team confirms the details.
Who can take part
Ages 18 and older
You may be able to join if
- Documented informed consent of the participant and/or legally authorized representative
- Assent, when appropriate, will be obtained per institutional guidelines
- Agreement to allow the use of archival tissue from diagnostic tumor biopsies
- If unavailable, exceptions may be granted with study principal investigator (PI) approval
- Age: ≥ 18 years at time of signing informed consent
You likely can't join if
- Prior treatment with an anti-PD-1, anti-PD-L1, anti-PD-L2, anti-CD137, or anti-CTLA-4 antibody, or any other antibody or drug specifically targeting...
- Current use, or intent to use probiotics, prebiotics, bacterial fortified foods and other natural supplements ≤ 2 week prior to treatment initiation...
- Any botanical preparation (e.g. herbal supplements or traditional Chinese medicines) intended to treat the disease under study or provide supportive...
- Fecal microbiota transplant within 3 months prior to screening
- Note: Patients must have recovered adequately from the toxicity and/or complications from the treatment prior to starting study intervention
- Patients requiring chronic antibiotic therapy at the time of study enrollment
See the full eligibility criteria
Who can join
- Documented informed consent of the participant and/or legally authorized representative
- Assent, when appropriate, will be obtained per institutional guidelines
- Agreement to allow the use of archival tissue from diagnostic tumor biopsies
- If unavailable, exceptions may be granted with study principal investigator (PI) approval
- Age: ≥ 18 years at time of signing informed consent
- Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) ≤ 2
- Life expectancy \> 3 months
- Histologically confirmed renal cell carcinoma with clear cell renal cell carcinoma component with or without sarcomatoid component
- Advanced (not amenable to curative surgery or radiation therapy) or metastatic (American Joint Committee on Cancer [AJCC] stage IV) renal cell carcinoma with any disease risk disease by International Metastatic RCC...
- One prior adjuvant or neoadjuvant therapy for completely resectable RCC if recurrence occurred at least 6 months after the last dose of adjuvant or neoadjuvant therapy, provided that the patient has fully recovered from...
- Measurable disease per Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) 1.1
- Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) ≥ 1,000/mm\^3
- NOTE: Growth factor is not permitted within 14 days of ANC assessment unless cytopenia is secondary to disease involvement
- Platelets ≥ 100,000/mm\^3
- NOTE: Platelet transfusions are not permitted within 14 days of platelet assessment unless cytopenia is secondary to disease involvement
- Hemoglobin ≥ 9g/dL
- NOTE: Red blood cell transfusions are not permitted within 14 days of hemoglobin assessment unless cytopenia is secondary to disease involvement
- Total bilirubin ≤ 1.5 X upper limit of normal (ULN) (except for people with Gilbert Syndrome, who may have total bilirubin up to 3.0 mg/dL)
- Aspartate aminotransferase (AST) ≤ 3.0 x ULN
- Alanine aminotransferase (ALT) ≤ x ULN
- Creatinine clearance of ≥ 30 mL/min per 24-hour urine test or the Cockcroft-Gault formula or serum creatinine \< 1.5 x upper limit of normal (ULN)
- If not receiving anticoagulants: International normalized ratio (INR) OR prothrombin (PT) ≤ 1.5 x ULN
- If on anticoagulant therapy: PT must be within therapeutic range of intended use of anticoagulants
- If not receiving anticoagulants: Activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT) ≤ 1.5 x ULN
- If on anticoagulant therapy: aPTT must be within therapeutic range of intended use of anticoagulants
- If seropositive for HIV, hepatitis C virus (HCV) or hepatitis B virus (HBV), nucleic acid quantitation must be performed. Viral load must be undetectable.
- Meets other institutional and federal requirements for infectious disease titer requirements
- Note infectious disease testing to be performed within 28 days prior to day 1 of protocol therapy
- Women of childbearing potential (WOCBP): negative urine or serum pregnancy test within 72 hours of study start
- If the urine test is positive or cannot be confirmed as negative, a serum pregnancy test will be required
- Sexually active fertile people and their partners must agree to use medically accepted methods of contraception (e.g., barrier methods, including male condom, female condom, or diaphragm with spermicidal gel) during the...
- Female people of childbearing potential must not be pregnant at screening. Female people are considered to be of childbearing potential unless one of the following criteria is met: documented permanent sterilization...
- Note: Documentation may include review of medical records, medical examinations, or medical history interview by study site
What rules you out
- Prior treatment with an anti-PD-1, anti-PD-L1, anti-PD-L2, anti-CD137, or anti-CTLA-4 antibody, or any other antibody or drug specifically targeting T-cell co-stimulation or checkpoint pathways
- Current use, or intent to use probiotics, prebiotics, bacterial fortified foods and other natural supplements ≤ 2 week prior to treatment initiation and during the period of treatment
- Any botanical preparation (e.g. herbal supplements or traditional Chinese medicines) intended to treat the disease under study or provide supportive care
- Fecal microbiota transplant within 3 months prior to screening
- Note: Patients must have recovered adequately from the toxicity and/or complications from the treatment prior to starting study intervention
- Patients requiring chronic antibiotic therapy at the time of study enrollment
- Cardiac events such as myocardial infarction (MI) within the past 6 months
- NYHA (New York Heart Association) heart failure class III-IV
- Uncontrolled atrial fibrillation or hypertension
- Active interstitial lung disease (ILD)/pneumonitis or history of ILD/pneumonitis requiring treatment with systemic steroids
- Known medical condition (e.g., a condition associated with diarrhea or acute diverticulitis) that, in the investigator's opinion, would increase the risk associated with study participation or study drug administration...
- Receipt of any type of cytotoxic, biologic, or other systemic anticancer therapy (including investigational) within 4 weeks before first dose of study treatment
- Radiation therapy for bone metastasis within 2 weeks or any other radiation therapy within 4 weeks before first dose of study treatment.
- Known brain metastases or cranial epidural disease unless adequately treated with radiotherapy and/or surgery (including radiosurgery) and stable for at least 4 weeks prior to first dose of study treatment after...
- Administration of a live, attenuated vaccine within 30 days before first dose of study treatment
- Any condition requiring systemic treatment with either corticosteroids (\> 10 mg daily prednisone equivalent) or other immunosuppressive medications within 14 days before first dose of study treatment
- Note: Inhaled, intranasal, intra-articular, or topical steroids are permitted. Adrenal replacement steroid doses ≤ 10 mg daily prednisone equivalent are permitted.
- History of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, organizing pneumonia, drug-induced pneumonitis, idiopathic pneumonitis, or evidence of active pneumonitis on screening chest CT scan
- Active inflammatory intestinal disease (Crohn disease, Hemorrhagic recto-colitis, coeliac disease) or any serious chronic intestinal disease with uncontrolled diarrhea
- Known positive test for tuberculosis infection where there is clinical or radiographic evidence of active mycobacterial infection
- Major surgery within 28 days (4 weeks) prior to first dose of study treatment
- Note: Participants who had surgery \> 4 weeks prior to screening must have recovered adequately from any toxicity and/or complications from the surgery or trauma prior to starting study intervention
- Malabsorption syndrome
- Uncompensated/symptomatic hypothyroidism
- Moderate to severe hepatic impairment (Child-Pugh B or C)
- Requirement for hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis
- History of solid organ or allogenic stem cell transplant
- Other clinically significant disorders that would preclude safe study participation.
- Type 1 diabetes mellitus.
- Hypothyroidism only requiring hormone replacement.
- Skin disorders (e.g., vitiligo, psoriasis, or alopecia) not requiring systemic treatment.
- Conditions not expected to recur in the absence of an external trigger
- Gastrointestinal (GI) obstruction, poor oral intake, or difficulty in taking oral medication or difficulties in swallowing; nasogastric tubes are not permitted or unwillingness or inability to receive IV administration
- Known history or newly diagnosed GI parasitic infection within 3 months prior to screening. Patients must have recovered adequately from the toxicity and/or complications from the treatment prior to starting study...
- Previously identified allergy or hypersensitivity to components of the study treatment formulations or history of severe infusion-related reactions to monoclonal antibodies.
- A patient with a known serious hypersensitivity to any component of the drug formulation for EXL01, or any other live biotherapeutic product (LBP), should not receive EXL01
- Hypersensitivity to soy products
- Any other active malignancy at time of first dose of study treatment or diagnosis of another malignancy within 3 years prior to first dose of study treatment that requires active treatment, except for locally curable...
- Females only: Pregnant or breastfeeding
- Any other condition that would, in the Investigator's judgment, contraindicate the patient's participation in the clinical study due to safety concerns with clinical study procedures
- Prospective participants who, in the opinion of the investigator, may not be able to comply with all study procedures (including compliance issues related to feasibility/logistics)
The study team makes the final eligibility decision.
Where it is enrolling
- Duarte, California, United States
- Irvine, California, United States
Compensation & support
A stipend or payment for your time may be offered.
No amount is published here because ClinicalTrials.gov has no reliable field for payment or travel support. Ask the study team what's actually covered (payment for your time, travel, parking, or other study costs), and never join a trial for the compensation alone.
Questions & answers
Do participants get paid in this trial?
This study's listing includes signals that participants may be compensated or receive a stipend. Amounts vary and are set by the study team, so confirm the details with them.
Is it free to join, and do I need insurance?
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How long does this study last?
The study runs about 2 years per participant, based on its public description. The team confirms the exact schedule and number of visits before you enroll.
Who can join this trial?
This study is enrolling all sexes, 18 years and older. The study team makes the final eligibility decision.
Where is this trial taking place?
This study is enrolling now at Duarte, California, United States; Irvine, California, United States. Enter your location above to see the nearest enrolling site and check your eligibility.
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