Informations générales
  • Catégorie de maladie Autres cancer (BASEC)
  • Study Phase Phase 2 (ICTRP)
  • État du recrutement recrutement en cours (BASEC/ICTRP)
  • Lieu de l’étude
    Aarau, Bâle, Berne, Fribourg, Lausanne, Luzern, Zurich
    (BASEC)
  • Responsable de l'étude Sabrina Chiquet trials@swisscancerinstitute.ch (BASEC)
  • Source(s) de données BASEC: Importé de 22.01.2026 ICTRP: Importé de 15.03.2026
  • Date de mise à jour 15.03.2026 02:00
HumRes67393 | SNCTP000006630 | BASEC2025-01487 | NCT07263438

Phase II Study to Assess the Efficacy of the Combination of Trimipramine and Atezolizumab with Bevacizumab in Patients with Recurrent Glioblastoma. PHENIX (SAKK 70/24)

  • Catégorie de maladie Autres cancer (BASEC)
  • Study Phase Phase 2 (ICTRP)
  • État du recrutement recrutement en cours (BASEC/ICTRP)
  • Lieu de l’étude
    Aarau, Bâle, Berne, Fribourg, Lausanne, Luzern, Zurich
    (BASEC)
  • Responsable de l'étude Sabrina Chiquet trials@swisscancerinstitute.ch (BASEC)
  • Source(s) de données BASEC: Importé de 22.01.2026 ICTRP: Importé de 15.03.2026
  • Date de mise à jour 15.03.2026 02:00

Résumé de l'étude

This is a two-arm study: In the first arm (48 patients), Trimipramine and Atezolizumab are added to the standard treatment (SoC), Bevacizumab, after the diagnosis of the first recurrence of a glioblastoma (GBM). The aim of this cohort is to evaluate the clinical efficacy of this triple combination in the treatment of recurrent GBM. In the second arm, patients with a medical indication for surgery of the first tumor recurrence will begin a combined treatment with Trimipramine and Atezolizumab prior to the planned surgical intervention. Bevacizumab will then be introduced simultaneously with Trimipramine and Atezolizumab. The aim of this cohort is to confirm the achievable Trimipramine levels in tumor tissue and in cerebrospinal fluid.

(BASEC)

Intervention étudiée

- Bevacizumab: This antibody is used to treat various types of cancer, including GBM, and is approved for this purpose. It acts as an angiogenesis inhibitor by preventing the formation of new blood vessels, thereby inhibiting tumor growth and metastasis formation.

 

- Trimipramine: This tricyclic antidepressant (TCA) is primarily used for the treatment of depression. It has also been shown to reprogram intracerebral macrophages. The side effects of TCAs can be well controlled at low doses. The most common side effects include drowsiness, dry mouth, constipation, blurred vision, and weight gain. Serious side effects may include arrhythmias, hypotension, and an increased risk of suicidal thoughts in young adults.

 

- Atezolizumab: This anti-PD-L1 antibody is used to treat various types of cancer. It is typically administered intravenously every three weeks. Atezolizumab blocks the inhibition of the immune response, allowing T-cells to effectively attack cancer cells. Common side effects include fatigue, loss of appetite, nausea, urinary tract infections, fever, and constipation. Serious side effects may include immune-mediated pneumonitis, hepatitis, colitis, endocrinopathies, and infusion-related reactions.

(BASEC)

Maladie en cours d'investigation

Recurrent Glioblastoma

(BASEC)

Critères de participation
- Signed informed consent. - Histologically or cytologically confirmed glioblastoma. - No surgeries or other invasive procedures within 4 weeks prior to registration. (BASEC)

Critères d'exclusion
- The patient must be in the first progression/recurrence and must not have received more than one chemotherapy. - The patient must not have prostate hypertrophy with urinary retention or angle-closure glaucoma at the time of registration. - All other experimental medications must be discontinued. (BASEC)

Lieu de l’étude

Aarau, Bâle, Berne, Fribourg, Lausanne, Luzern, Zurich

(BASEC)

Switzerland (ICTRP)

Sponsor

CHUV, Département d'oncologie, Lausanne Swiss Cancer Institute, Bern

(BASEC)

Contact pour plus d'informations sur l'étude

Personne de contact en Suisse

Sabrina Chiquet

+41 31 389 91 91

trials@swisscancerinstitute.ch

Swiss Cancer Institute

(BASEC)

Informations générales

0041 79 556 52 71

andreas.hottinger@chuv.ch

(ICTRP)

Nom du comité d'éthique approbateur (pour les études multicentriques, uniquement le comité principal)

Commission cantonale d'éthique du Vaud

(BASEC)

Date d'approbation du comité d'éthique

14.10.2025

(BASEC)


Identifiant de l'essai ICTRP
NCT07263438 (ICTRP)

Titre officiel (approuvé par le comité d'éthique)
CHUV- DO-Lundin-PHENIX (SAKK 70/24) Open-label phase II clinical trial to test the efficacy of the combination of trimipramine and atezolizumab with bevacizumab in patients with recurrent glioblastoma (BASEC)

Titre académique
Open-label Phase II Clinical Trial to Test the Efficacy of the Combination of Trimipramine and Atezolizumab With Bevacizumab in Patients With Recurrent Glioblastoma (ICTRP)

Titre public
Efficacy of the Combination of Trimipramine and Atezolizumab With Bevacizumab in Patients With Recurrent Glioblastoma: a Phase 2 Trial (ICTRP)

Maladie en cours d'investigation
GlioblastomaRecurrence Tumor (ICTRP)

Intervention étudiée
Drug: TrimipramineBiological: Cohort 1: AtezolizumabBiological: BevacizumabBiological: Cohort 2: AtezolizumabBiological: Cohort 2: Bevacizumab (ICTRP)

Type d'essai
Interventional (ICTRP)

Plan de l'étude
Allocation: Non-Randomized. Intervention model: Parallel Assignment. Primary purpose: Treatment. Masking: None (Open Label). (ICTRP)

Critères d'inclusion/exclusion
Inclusion Criteria:

- Histologically or cytologically confirmed glioblastoma, according to World Health
Organization [WHO] 2021 with unequivocal first progression after standard (6 weeks
radiotherapy [RT]) with concurrent & adjuvant temozolomide [TMZ] chemotherapy.

- Patients must be at least 3 months off the concomitant part of chemo-radiotherapy.

- Stable or decreasing dose of steroids for 7 days prior to the baseline

- Magnetic Resonance Imaging [MRI] scan.

- Maximum dose of dexamethasone (or equivalent) 4 mg at time of inclusion.

- No surgery or other invasive procedures (major surgical procedure, open biopsy or
significant traumatic injury) within 4 weeks prior to registration.

- No core biopsy or other minor surgical procedure within 7 days prior to
registration. (Placement of a central vascular access device, if performed at least
2 days prior to trial treatment administration, is allowed).

- Patients who require anti-convulsant therapy must be taking non-enzyme inducing
antiepileptic drugs [non-EIAED]. Patients previously on EIAED must be switched to
non-EIAED at least 2 weeks prior to registration.

- Measurable disease per Response Assessment in Neuro-Oncology [RANO] version 2.0
criteria. Recurrent disease must be at least one bi-dimensionally measurable
contrast-enhancing lesion with clearly defined margins by MRI scan, with minimal
diameters of 10 mm, visible on 2 or more axial slices 5 mm apart, based on MRI scan
done within 28 days prior to registration.

- Karnofsky performance status 70-100.

- Adequate bone marrow function: neutrophil count = 1.5 x 10^9/L, platelet count = 100
x 109/L, hemoglobin = 90 g/L.

- Adequate hepatic function: total bilirubin = 1.5 x Upper Limit of Normal [ULN]
(except for patients with Gilbert's syndrome = 3.0 x ULN), aspartate
aminotransferase [AST] and alanine transaminase [ALT] and alkaline phosphatase [AP]
= 2.5 x ULN.

- Adequate renal function: estimated glomerular filtration rate [eGFR] = 45
mL/min/1.73 m2 (according to Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration
[CKD-EPI] formula).

- Urine dipstick for proteinuria < 2+. Patients with = 2+ proteinuria on dipstick
urinalysis at baseline should undergo 24 hours urine collection and must demonstrate
= 1 g of protein/24 hours.

- Adequate coagulation function: International Normalized Ratio [INR] = 1.5 x ULN (the
ULN for INR is defined with the value 1.2 for all sites, in case no ULN is
documented in the laboratory certificates/sheets). Use of full-dose anticoagulants
is permitted as long as the INR is within therapeutic limits (according to the
medical standard in the institution) and the patient has been on a stable dose of
anticoagulants for at least two weeks before registration, as per American Society
for Clinical Oncology [ASCO] guidelines, low molecular weight heparin [LMWH] should
be the preferred approach. Concomitant anticoagulation with aspirin (up to 300
mg/day) and anticoagulation with LMWH is allowed.

- Women of childbearing potential must use highly effective contraception , are not
pregnant or breast-feeding and agree not to become pregnant during trial treatment
and until 6 months after the last dose of investigational drug. A negative pregnancy
test before inclusion into the trial is required for all women of childbearing
potential.

- Men agree not to donate sperm or to father a child during trial treatment and until
6 months after the last dose of investigational drug.

- Patient is able and willing to swallow trial drug as whole tablet.

Only for Cohort 2:

- Consent to giving access of part of the tumor tissue and Cerebrospinal Fluid [CSF]
obtained during the routine neurosurgical procedure for pharmacology and
translational studies. Tumor tissue will only be made available once it is
established that enough tumor tissue is available for standard neuropathological
analysis.

- Patients that have a medical indication for a neurosurgical resection from first
recurrent tumor.

Exclusion Criteria:

- Patient must be in first progression/recurrence and have not received more than one
line of chemotherapy (concurrent and adjuvant temozolomide). Treatment of Time to
Treatment Failure [TTF] fields (Optune) is allowed during first line but will be
stopped at registration.

- Patients must not have prostate enlargement with urinary retention or angle-closure
glaucoma at registration.

- Any other experimental drug must be discontinued at least 30 days prior to
registration

- Patients under ongoing treatment with an antidepressant must be eligible for a
switch to trimipramine. Patients currently under TriCyclic Antidepressant [TCAs]
(amitriptyline, clomipramine, nortriptyline, imipramine), selective serotonin
reuptake inhibitors (sertraline, paroxetine, fluvoxamine, citalopram, escitalopram)
or serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (venlafaxine, duloxetine) must
be weaned off these medications for at least 14 days before the introduction of
trimipramine.

Note: Patients treated with fluoxetine prior to enrollment will only be eligible for this
trial after a two-month washout period before starting the study treatment.

- Prior treatment with atezolizumab or any other immune checkpoint inhibitors.

- Prior treatment with bevacizumab or other Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor [VEGF]
inhibitors or VEGF-receptor signaling inhibitors.

- Concomitant or prior use of immunosuppressive medication within 5 half-lives before
registration, with the exceptions of intranasal and inhaled corticosteroids.

- Life expectancy of less than 12 weeks.

- Active systemic prior malignancy. Patients with a prior malignancy (basal cell
carcinoma of the skin, squamous carcinoma of the skin or carcinoma in situ of the
cervix) and treated with curative intention are eligible if all treatment of that
malignancy was completed at least 2 years before registration and the patient has no
evidence of disease at registration.

- Blood pressure combination treatment with more than two antihypertensive medications
or uncontrolled blood hypertension under properly antihypertensive medications.

- Severe or uncontrolled cardiovascular disease (congestive heart failure New York
Heart Association [NYHA] III or IV unstable angina pectoris, history of myocardial
infarction within the last six months, serious arrhythmias requiring medication
(with exception of atrial fibrillation or paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia).

- Have a heart rate corrected QT interval using Fridericia's formula [QTcF] (QTc = QT
/ RR^1/3) = 450 msec or other factors that increase the risk of QT prolongation or
arrhythmic events (e.g. heart failure, hypokalaemia, familial history of long QT
interval syndrome). Patients with bundle branch block and prolonged QTcF are
permitted with approval of the sponsor investigator.

- Presence of a grade 3 atrioventricular [AV] block on electrocardiogram [ECG].

- History of cerebrovascular accident or intracranial haemorrhage within 6 months
prior to registration.

- Known h (ICTRP)

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Critères d'évaluation principaux et secondaires
Cohort 1: Progression-free survival rate [PFSR];Cohort 2: Level of trimipramine in the tumor tissue and cerebrospinal fluid [CSF] (ICTRP)

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Date d'enregistrement
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Inclusion du premier participant
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Sponsors secondaires
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Contacts supplémentaires
Andreas Hottinger, MD, PhD, andreas.hottinger@chuv.ch, 0041 79 556 52 71 (ICTRP)

ID secondaires
CHUV- DO-Lundin-PHENIX (ICTRP)

Résultats-Données individuelles des participants
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Informations complémentaires sur l'essai
https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT07263438 (ICTRP)

Résultats de l'essai

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