Inclusion Criteria:
- - Patients with cutaneous melanoma or unknown primary melanoma may enroll.
Patients with
uveal or mucosal or acral-lentiginous melanoma are excluded.
- - A male participant must agree to use a contraception as detailed in Appendix 3 of this
protocol during the treatment period and for at least 120 days after the last dose of
study treatment and refrain from donating sperm during this period.
- - A female participant is eligible to participate if she is not pregnant (see Appendix
3), not breastfeeding, and at least one of the following conditions applies:
- Not a woman of childbearing potential (WOCBP) as defined in Appendix 3; OR.
- - A WOCBP who agrees to follow the contraceptive guidance in Appendix 3 during the
treatment period and for at least 120 days after the last dose of study treatment.
- - Participants must have progressed on treatment with an anti-PD(L)1 ICI administered
either as monotherapy or in combination with other checkpoint inhibitors or other
standard/investigational therapies.
PD-1 treatment progression is defined by meeting
all the following criteria:
- - Has received at least 2 doses of an approved anti-PD(L)1 ICI administered as a single
agent, in combination with chemotherapy, and/or in combination with other
investigational therapy.
- - Participants who progressed on/within 3 months of adjuvant therapy with anti-PD(L)1
ICI will eligible.
- - Demonstrated disease progression after anti-PD-1/L1 as defined by RECIST v1.1.
The
initial evidence of PD is to be confirmed by a second assessment no sooner than 4
weeks from the date of the first documented PD.
- - Progressive disease has been documented within 12 weeks from the last dose of
anti-PD-1/anti-PD-L1 mAb.
- - Patients with CNS disease are eligible if CNS metastases are treated and deemed stable
prior to date of enrollment.
- - Willingness to repeatedly receive FMT administered endoscopically (colonoscopy or
sigmoidoscopy) following necessary bowel preparation pre-procedure.
- - Presence of measurable disease based on RECIST 1.1.
- - Patients need to have at least one measurable lesion and a separate lesion for biopsy.
Patients with only 1 lesion may be enrolled after discussion with
Sponsor-Investigator.
- - Able to provide newly obtained core or excisional biopsy of a tumor lesion not
previously irradiated to undergo tumor biopsy (core, punch, incisional or excisional).
- - Have an Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0 to 1.
- - Have adequate organ function as defined in Table 4.1.
11-1 below. Specimens must be
collected within 28 days prior to the start of study intervention.
- - Patients who are hepatitis B positive (i.e. HBsAg positive) or have a history of
history of hepatitis B (i.e. HBcAb positive, or history of documented hepatitis B
infection) are eligible if they have received hepatitis B directed antiviral therapy
for at least 4 weeks and have undetectable HBV viral load (HBV DNA) prior to
enrollment.
- - Patients who are hepatitis C positive (i.e. HCV antibody reactive) or have a history
of history of hepatitis C (i.e. history of documented hepatitis C infection) are
eligible if they have received and completed hepatitis C directed antiviral therapy at
least 4 weeks and have undetectable HCV viral load (HCV RNA) prior to enrollment.
Exclusion Criteria:
- - Diagnosis of non-cutaneous melanoma histologies including mucosal melanoma,
ocular/choroidal melanoma, and acral-lentiginous melanoma.
- - Receipt of prior agent(s) targeting the intestinal microbiome including but not
limited to: FMT, defined bacterial consortia, single bacterial species and/or
microbiota derived peptides.
- - Prior chemotherapy, targeted therapy, and/or small molecule therapy within 2 weeks (or
4 half lives) prior to study Day 1.
- - Prior therapy with lenvatinib or other systemic anti-angiogenic therapy.
- - Prior radiotherapy within 2 weeks of start of study intervention.
- - Has had major surgery within 3 weeks prior to first dose of study interventions.
- - Has preexisting ≥Grade 3 gastrointestinal or non-gastrointestinal fistula.
- - Has urine protein ≥1 g/24 hours.
Note: Participants with proteinuria ≥2+ (≥100 mg/dL)
on urine dipstick testing (urinalysis) will undergo 24-hour urine collection for
quantitative assessment of proteinuria.
- - Has a LVEF below the institutional (or local laboratory) normal range, as determined
by multigated acquisition (MUGA) or echocardiogram (TTE).
- - Has radiographic evidence of encasement or invasion of a major blood vessel, or of
intratumoral cavitation.
- - Prolongation of QTcF interval to >480 ms.
- - Has clinically significant cardiovascular disease within 12 months from first dose of
study intervention, including New York Heart Association Class III or IV congestive
heart failure, unstable angina, myocardial infarction, cerebral vascular accident, or
cardiac arrhythmia associated with hemodynamic instability.
- - Gastrointestinal malabsorption or any other condition that might affect the absorption
of lenvatinib.
- - Active hemoptysis (bright red blood of at least 0.5 teaspoon) within 3 weeks prior to
the first dose of study drug.
- - Presence of an absolute contraindication(s) to FMT administration.
- - Severe dietary allergies (e.g. shellfish, nuts, seafood)
- Inflammatory bowel disease.
- - Patients who have not adequately recovered (i.e., ≤Grade 1 or at baseline or ≤Grade 2
endocrinopathy) from adverse events (AEs) due to a previously administered agent.
- - A WOCBP who has a positive urine pregnancy test at Screening (see Appendix 3).
If the
urine test is positive or cannot be confirmed as negative, a serum pregnancy test will
be required.
- - Has received a 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-Guérin (BCG), and typhoid vaccine)
- Seasonal influenza vaccines for injection are generally killed virus vaccines and are
allowed; however, intranasal influenza vaccines (eg, FluMist®) are live attenuated
vaccines and are not allowed.
- - Has a diagnosis of immunodeficiency, immunosuppression and/or is receiving chronic
systemic steroid therapy (in dosing exceeding 10 mg daily of prednisone equivalent) or
any other form of immunosuppressive therapy within 14 days prior to the first dose of
study drug.
- - Has active autoimmune disease that has required systemic treatment in the past 2 years
(i.e. with use of disease modifying agents, corticosteroids or immunosuppressive
drugs).
- - Concurrent non-hematologic malignancy within 3 years of data of first planned dose of
therapy except for tumors with a negligible risk of metastasis and/or death as defined
below:
- Adequately treated non-invasive malignancies including but not limited to melanoma in
situ (MIS), cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (cSCC), in situ cSCC, basal cell
carcinoma (BCC), CIS of cervix, or DCIS/LCIS of breast.
- - Low-risk early-stage prostate adenocarcinoma (T1-T2a N0 M0 and Gleason score ≤6 and
PSA ≤10 ng/mL) for which the management plan is active surveillance, or prostate
adenocarcinoma with biochemical-only recurrence with documented PSA doubling time of >
12 months for which the management plan is active surveillance.
- - Indolent hematologic malignancies for which the management plan is active surveillance
including but not limited to CLL/indolent lymphoma.
- - Active (i.e., symptomatic or growing) central nervous system (CNS) metastases.
- - Patients with leptomeningeal disease are excluded.
- - Has severe hypersensitivity (≥Grade 3) to anti-PD(L)1 inhibitor.
- - Has a systemic disease that requires systemic pharmacologic doses of corticosteroids
greater than 10 mg daily prednisone (or equivalent).
- - Has a history of interstitial lung disease or active, non-infectious pneumonitis that
required steroids or has current pneumonitis.
- - Any active infection requiring systemic therapy.
- - Active TB (Bacillus Tuberculosis).
- - Active COVID-19 infection and/or exposure to SARS-CoV-2 as defined below:
- Positive SARS-CoV-2 result on nasopharyngeal and/or stool specimens (by RT-PCR test)
- Active COVID-19 infection (per CDC guidelines)
- Exposure to active COVID-19 infected patient (as confirmed using SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR
test or other approved test) as defined per CDC guidelines.
- - Active human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection.
- - Concurrent active Hepatitis B (defined as HBsAg positive and/or detectable HBV DNA)
and Hepatitis C virus (defined as anti-HCV Ab positive and detectable HCV RNA)
infection.
- - Has a history or current evidence of any condition, therapy, or laboratory abnormality
that mighconfound the results of the study, interfere with the participant's
participation for the full duration of the study, or is not in the best interest of
the participant to participate, in the opinion of the treating investigator.
- - Has known psychiatric or substance abuse disorders that would interfere with
cooperation with the requirements of the trial.
- - Is pregnant or breastfeeding or expecting to conceive or father children within the
projected duration of the study, starting with the Screening visit through 120 days
after the last dose of trial treatment.
- - Has had an allogenic tissue/solid organ transplant.
