Study Design:
CLOVER-1 is a multicenter, open-label, Phase 2 study evaluating IV administration of iopofosine in patients with relapsed/refractory B-cell malignancies (including multiple myeloma (MM), chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma (CLL/SLL), lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma/Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinemia (LPL/WM), marginal zone lymphoma (MZL), mantle cell lymphoma (MCL), diffuse large b-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), and central nervous system lymphoma (CNSL) who have failed prior standard therapy. The primary objective of the study is to determine the clinical benefit rate (CBR) following the infusion of iopofosine. Secondary objectives included determination of overall response rate, progression free survival, time to next treatment, overall survival, duration of response and toxicity profile. Iopofosine was provided by Cellectar Biosciences, Inc. for this study. The study (NCT02952508) was reviewed and approved by Institutional Review Board of each participating center. All patients signed informed consent prior to enrollment.
Patients:
Adult patients with progressing relapsed or refractory MM were eligible if they had measurable disease by either M protein of 0.5 g/dl, urine m-protein of >200 mg/24 hours, or serum free light chains (FLC) of 10 mg/dl or more. Subjects were required to have an, ECOG performance status 0-2, an estimated life expectancy of at least 6 months and adequate bone marrow, renal, hepatic, and coagulation function. MM patients were required to have received at least 3 prior lines of therapy including a PI, IMID, anti-CD38 antibody and must have been at least 100 days post transplant. Important exclusion criteria included; prior total or hemi-body irradiation or external beam radiation resulting in greater than 20% of total bone marrow receiving greater than 20 Grays, any anti-cancer therapy within two weeks of study drug infusion, clinically significant bleeding within six months, major surgery within 6 weeks, uncontrolled hypertension, cardiac arrhythmia, or peripheral vascular disease, HIV or viral hepatitis.
Treatment:
Treatment consisted of iopofosine infusions given over 15-30 minutes. Subjects received a fractionated dose of 30 mCi/m2 iopofosine as 15 mCi/m2 on Day 1, and 15 mCi/m2 on Day 15 (±1 day). Subjects could receive an optional second cycle of iopofosine in the same split dose regimen, at the discretion of the investigator.
All MM subjects also receive concurrent low dose dexamethasone (40 mg by mouth weekly for up to 12 weeks), with the first dose of dexamethasone given within 24 hours prior to the iopofosine infusion and continued weekly thereafter. Adjustments in dexamethasone dose due to age or intolerance were allowed at the investigator’s discretion.
All subjects received thyroid protection, consisting of saturated potassium iodine; Lugol’s solution or potassium iodide tablets, starting 24 hours before iopofosine and extending for 14 after the final iopofosine dose in each cycle. This sequence was repeated in patients undergoing a second cycle of therapy.
Safety assessments:
We used version 4.03 of the Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) for assessment of the toxicity profile.
Clinical response assessment:
To assess antitumor activity of iopofosine subjects were divided into two dosing groups, receiving either < 60 or ³ 60 mCi total administered dose of iopofoine. Due to significant variability of radiation infused by body surface area and thereby the absorbed dose, total administered dose provides a more accurate measure of the actual radiation received by the subjects. Response was evaluated using the International Myeloma Working Group Uniform Response Criteria for Multiple Myeloma.12