A Prospective, Randomized, Multicenter, Comparative Study of the Efficacy of Imatinib Resumption Combined with Atezolizumab Versus Imatinib Resumption Alone in Patients with Unresectable Advanced Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors (GIST) After Failure of Standard Treatments
This trial is a prospective, randomized (1:1 ratio), multicenter, comparative and phase II study, conducted in patients with unresectable advanced gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST) after failure of imatinib (disease progression),sunitinib and regorafenib (either disease progression or intolerance) In the first arm, patients will be treated with imatinib + atezolizumab (experimental arm), whereas in the second arm, patients will be treated with imatinib alone (control arm). The comparison between this two arms will allow to compare whether or not atezolizumab and imatinib is efficient for disease control, in terms of Progression-Free Survival improvement.
• I1. Male or female ≥ 18 years at the day of consenting to the study;
• I2. Patients must have histologically confirmed diagnosis of GIST (within the French Reference Network in Pathology of Sarcomas - RRePS network); archival tumor sample must be made available for translational research program (in case there is no sufficient archival tumor material available, a biopsy must be performed prior to treatment start); Nota Bene: mutational status and level of expression of PD1/PD-L1 will not be considered as selection criteria but will be studied as endpoints for translational objectives.
• I3. Locally advanced or metastatic disease confirmed as measurable according to the RECIST V1.1 (Appendix 1);
• I4. Patients who previously failed to at least imatinib, sunitinib and then regorafenib. Failure is defined for Imatinib as progressive disease, and for sunitinib and regorafenib as progressive disease and/or intolerance;
• I5. Performance Status of the ECOG of 0 or 1;
• I6. Adequate bone marrow and organ function defined by the following laboratory results:
• a. Bone marrow: i. Hemoglobin ≥ 9.0 g/dl, ii. Absolute Neutrophils Count (ANC) ≥ 1.5 G/l, iii. Lymphocytes count ≥ 0.5 G/l, iv. Platelets ≥ 100 G/l;
• b. Coagulation: i. Prothrombin time ≤ 1.5 x Upper Limit of the Normal (ULN) for patients without therapeutic anticoagulation.
• Patients with therapeutic anticoagulation must have stable dose of treatment.
• c. Hepatic function: i. Total serum bilirubin ≤ 1.5 x ULN (except patients with Gilbert's syndrome who must have total serum bilirubin ≤ 3.0 x ULN), ii. Transaminases (ASAT/ALAT) ≤ 2.5 x ULN (or ≤ 5.0 x ULN in case of documented liver metastases) iii. Alkaline Phosphatases ≤ 2.5 x ULN (or ≤ 5.0 x ULN in case of documented bone metastases),
• d. Renal function: i. Serum creatinine ≤ 1.5 x ULN or Cr. Cl. ≥ 40ml/min/1.73m² (MDRD or CKD-EPI formula);
• I7. Willingness and ability to comply with the study requirements;
• I8. Signed and dated informed consent indicating that the patient has been informed of all the aspects of the trial prior to enrolment;
• I9. Women of childbearing potential are required to have a negative serum pregnancy test within 72 hours prior to study treatment start. A positive urine test must be confirmed by a serum pregnancy test;
• I10. Women of childbearing potential and male patients must agree to use adequate highly effective contraception for the duration of study participation (Appendix 3);
• I11. Patient must be covered by a medical insurance;