BACKGROUND:
* Endometrial cancer (EC) is the most common gynecologic cancer in the US and the incidence peaks around 50-60 years of age. 5-year overall survival in patients with metastasis is around 20 percent and treatment after the second-line treatment has not been effective for long-term control.
* Pembrolizumab is approved for microsatellite instability (MSI)-high endometrial cancer which is rare.
* Pembrolizumab and lenvatinib combination therapy as second-line therapy in patients with advanced or metastatic EC showed promising antitumor activity. Recently, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved pembrolizumab and lenvatinib in patients with advanced endometrial cancer who received prior chemotherapy after decades of lapse in adding new treatment options with an improved progression free survival (PFS) 6.6 months (vs 3.8 months in standard care chemotherapy), overall response rate 30 percent and median duration of response of 9.2 months.
* HER2 is positive in 30 percent of endometrial cancer and anti-HER2 therapy has shown clinical benefit in metastatic EC. Trastuzumab is used off-label with chemotherapy and as maintenance.
* An autologous dendritic cell vaccine that is transduced with an adenoviral vector expressing extracellular domain and transmembrane domain of HER2 (AdHER2DC vaccine) was well tolerated and showed a preliminary clinical benefit of 33.3 percent among 21 evaluable patients (NCT01730118, total enrolled n=33). No cardiotoxicity was noted. Immunogenicity analysis in a limited number of patients suggested induction of both humoral and cellular immune responses.
* The combination of pembrolizumab and lenvatinib in EC showed antitumor activity with manageable toxicity but still showed the responses in a limited group of patients. To overcome the resistance to immune checkpoint inhibitors, the combination regimen to induce the antitumor immune response by the AdHER2 vaccine, control the negative immune regulators and hostile tumor microenvironment by vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) inhibitor lenvatinib, and an immune stimulatory cytokine IL-15 superagonist N-803 has the potential to make the tumor more responsive to the immunotherapy creating mutual synergy.
OBJECTIVES:
* Phase I: To estimate recommended Phase II dose (RP2D) of pembrolizumab, lenvatinib, N-803, and AdHER2DC vaccine in participants with HER2 positive endometrial cancer
* Phase II: To preliminarily assess the efficacy of a combination of pembrolizumab, lenvatinib, N-803, and AdHER2DC vaccine in participants with HER2 positive endometrial cancer as determined by the proportion of participants without progression at 6 months
ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA:
* Age \>=18 years.
* Metastatic or locally advanced endometrial cancer with HER2 immunohistochemistry (IHC) 1+, 2+ or 3+.
* Progressed after at least 1 line of standard of care (SOC) systemic therapy Participants may have received any number of prior cytotoxic agents.
* ECOG performance status \<=2 and adequate organ function.
DESIGN:
* An open-label, two-arm, phase I/II study of pembrolizumab, lenvatinib, N-803, and AdHER2.
* During Phase I, we will estimate recommended Phase II dose (RP2D) of the lenvatinib in combination with AdHER2DC vaccine, pembrolizumab, and N-803.
* During Phase II we will continue to evaluate the safety and examine the efficacy of the study regimen at the RP2D of the lenvatinib in combination with AdHER2 DC vaccine, pembrolizumab, and N-803.
* Participants will undergo apheresis, and AdHER2DC vaccine will be generated by transducing the participants monocyte-derived dendritic cells with AdHER2 vector.
* Treatment will be delivered for up to 1 year or until progression or unacceptable toxicity.
* Up to 27 participants will be treated on this trial.