This clinical trial is being done in people with advanced extrapulmonary neuroendocrine carcinoma, a rare cancer that starts outside the lungs and has spread or cannot be removed with surgery. The study will compare obrixtamig given into a vein together with carboplatin and etoposide with carboplatin and etoposide alone, which is standard chemotherapy. The purpose of the study is to see whether adding obrixtamig helps people live longer.
People in the study are placed into one of the treatment groups by chance. Treatment is given as intravenous infusion, which means medicine is delivered slowly through a vein. The study is planned to follow people over time while they receive treatment and after treatment ends to see how they do. The trial also watches for side effects, including cytokine release syndrome, a strong immune reaction, and ICANS, which is a group of brain and nerve symptoms that can happen with some immune treatments.
Obrixtamig is also known by the code name BI 764532. It is a type of treatment called a T cell engager, which is designed to help the immune system find and attack cancer cells that have DLL3 on their surface. The study is for previously untreated cancer that is DLL3-positive, meaning the cancer cells have this marker.
Who Can Join the Study?
Have a poorly differentiatedunresectablelocally advanced or metastaticextrapulmonary neuroendocrine carcinoma. Poorly differentiated means the cancer cells look very abnormal under a microscope. Unresectable means it cannot be removed with surgery. Locally advanced means it has grown into nearby areas. Metastatic means it has spread to other parts of the body. Extrapulmonary means it started outside the lungs.
Have a tumor with a Ki-67 level above 20% or a mitotic rate above 20 mitoses per 2 mm². Ki-67 is a test that shows how fast the cancer cells are growing. Mitotic rate means how many cells are dividing in a small area of the tumor.
Be eligible no matter where the cancer started, including if the original site is unknown.
If the tumor has more than one type of cancer tissue, the neuroendocrine carcinoma part must be the main part and make up more than 70% of the whole tumor. Neuroendocrine carcinoma is a cancer made from hormone-related cells.
Have had no previous systemic treatment for the unresectable locally advanced or metastatic cancer, except for having completed one cycle of standard platinum plus etoposide treatment. Systemic treatment means treatment that works throughout the body, such as chemotherapy.
May have had chemotherapy or radiation before surgery, if it was given with the goal of cure and at least 6 months have passed between finishing that treatment and being diagnosed with the unresectable locally advanced or metastatic disease.
Have already completed one cycle of standard first-line treatment with platinum plus etoposide before randomization. First-line treatment means the first treatment given for the cancer. Platinum can be carboplatin or cisplatin, and etoposide is a chemotherapy medicine.
Meet the requirements to continue receiving chemotherapy as first-line standard care within 28 days after the start of the first chemotherapy cycle.
Have enough stored tumor tissue from a previous biopsy or surgery, kept in a special preserved form called FFPE tissue. FFPE means the tissue was fixed in formalin and embedded in paraffin so it can be tested later.
Have tumor tissue that tests positive for DLL3 expression using the study test. DLL3 is a protein found on some cancer cells; expression means the protein is present.
Have an ECOG performance status of 0 or 1. ECOG is a scale that shows how well a person can do daily activities. A score of 0 means fully active, and 1 means only slight limitation in activity.
Be a male or female participant who is at least 18 years old, or older if the legal age of consent in the country is above 18 years, at the time of signing the consent form.
Who Cannot Join the Study?
Having leptomeningeal disease or carcinomatous meningitis, which means cancer has spread to the thin layers around the brain and spinal cord.
Having Merkel cell carcinoma, a rare type of skin cancer.
Having medullary thyroid carcinoma, a cancer that starts in the thyroid gland.
Having neuroendocrine prostate cancer, a cancer of the prostate with neuroendocrine features.
Having a well-differentiated neuroendocrine tumor of any grade, meaning a slower-growing type of neuroendocrine tumor under the WHO 5th edition classification.
Having a past well-differentiated neuroendocrine tumor that changed into a poorly differentiated neuroendocrine carcinoma, meaning the cancer became a more aggressive type.
Having had previous treatment with obrixtamig or other DLL3-targeting therapies, which are treatments designed to attack a protein called DLL3, including T-cell engagers, cell therapies, antibody-drug conjugates, or radiopharmaceuticals.
Having received anti-PD-1 or anti-PD-L1 treatment during the first cycle of standard platinum + etoposide chemotherapy, which is the usual first cancer treatment used in this study.
Having side effects from previous treatments that have not improved to Grade 1 or lower, meaning only mild or no side effects, or back to the level before the first chemotherapy cycle started.
Not being allowed to join if the remaining side effects are more than mild, except for certain cases that may still be allowed: hair loss, tiredness up to moderate level, absence of periods or menstrual changes, nerve damage up to moderate level, hormone problems controlled with replacement medicine, or stable side effects that cannot improve but have stayed the same for at least 4 weeks.
Other exclusion criteria also apply, so there may be additional reasons a person cannot take part.
BI 764532 is an experimental medicine given by infusion into a vein. It is being tested in this trial to see if adding it to standard treatment can help people with DLL3-positive advanced neuroendocrine cancer live longer. It is designed to attach to cancer cells and immune cells, helping the immune system find and attack the cancer.
Carboplatin is a chemotherapy medicine given by infusion into a vein. It is part of the standard treatment in this study and is used to help kill cancer cells or stop them from growing.
Etoposide is a chemotherapy medicine given by infusion into a vein. It is also part of the standard treatment and works together with carboplatin to treat the cancer by slowing or stopping cancer cell growth.
Avtozma is a medicine given by infusion into a vein that is used as background treatment in the trial. It is a form of tocilizumab and is commonly used to help control strong immune reactions, especially if the study treatment causes inflammation or an immune-related side effect.
Advanced or metastatic extrapulmonary neuroendocrine carcinoma – A rare cancer that begins in hormone-producing cells outside the lungs and has spread to other parts of the body or cannot be removed by surgery. It usually grows quickly and may spread early to nearby tissues, lymph nodes, or distant organs. Symptoms can vary depending on where the cancer starts and where it spreads.
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