NCT05016622

Booster Dose Trial

Safety and Efficacy of Booster Doses of COVID-19 Vaccine in Immunocompromised Patients With a Cancer Diagnosis

• Status: Terminated
• Phase: Phase 2
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 106 (actual)
• Sponsor: Montefiore Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The goal of this study is to assess the safety and effectiveness of COVID vaccine booster doses in patients with cancer who have not developed an antibody after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Emergency Use Authorized COVID primary vaccination series.

Detailed description

Cancer patients show increased morbidity with COVID-19 and need effective immunization strategies. Many healthcare regulatory agencies recommend administering 'booster' doses of COVID-19 vaccines beyond the standard two-dose series, for this group of patients. Therefore, studying the efficacy of these additional vaccine doses against SARS-CoV-2 and variants of concern is of utmost importance in this immunocompromised patient population. The investigator team designed a prospective single arm clinical trial for consenting patients with cancer who had received two doses of mRNA, or one dose of AD26.CoV2.S vaccine, and were administered a third dose of mRNA vaccine. Patients who had no or low responses to three mRNA COVID vaccines were administered a fourth dose of mRNA vaccine. Efficacy was assessed by changes in anti-spike antibody, T-cell activity, and neutralization activity, at baseline and 4 weeks. First Booster Dose ("3rd dose") study: Following the informed consent process patients are enrolled into the study. After drawing baseline laboratory samples that include spike antibody, a sample for T-cell assay, and a biobank sample, patients will receive a third mRNA vaccine (initially BNT162b2 per protocol, later amended to allow for a third mRNA-1273 vaccine after the Food and Drug Administration \[FDA\] authorized 'booster' doses in the fall of 2021). Patients who had received Ad26.CoV2.S vaccine will receive a BNT162b2 booster vaccine. Follow-up visits are scheduled at \~4 weeks and 4-6 months following the booster dose and laboratory sample collections will be repeated. Second Booster Dose ("4th dose") study: For patients who did not seroconvert after three doses or had low antibody response (\<1000 AU/mL as determined by in-house Abbott assay), it was hypothesized that a 'mix and match' strategy with a 2nd booster dose ("4th dose") of COVID-19 vaccine would induce seroconversion and improve boosting of humoral antibody responses. To study this, a protocol was designed wherein patients who had received their 1st booster dose ("3rd dose") of mRNA vaccines and had undetectable anti-S antibody or had an anti-S antibody level of \<1000 AU/mL measured at least 14 days after third dose would be randomized to an mRNA vs. adenoviral booster ("4th") vaccine dose. Responses would be then assessed at 4 weeks after the 2nd booster dose ("4th dose") through measurement of anti-S antibody results. Complete blood counts (CBC), quantitative immunoglobulin levels (IgG, IgA, and IgM), lymphocyte subsets, T-cell responses, and neutralization activity at baseline and 4 weeks will be assessed for each of these patients. Following the implementation of this protocol, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) published a statement that advised that the mRNA vaccines should be preferentially administered over the adenoviral vaccines given concern over rare side effects such as thrombocytopenia and thrombosis syndrome. Given this advisory, the protocol was amended to allow recruitment in a cohort that would receive a fourth dose of the BNT162b2 vaccine to comply with CDC guidelines.

Conditions

• Cancer

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BIOLOGICAL	BNT162b2 vaccine	Administer an additional dose of the BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine to patients with cancer who have a negative SARS-CoV-2 Spike IgG at least 14 days after 2 doses of the mRNA vaccines (BNT162b2/mRNA-1273) or 28 days after the adenoviral based Ad26CoV2.S vaccine.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-08-10
• Primary completion: 2022-04-20
• Completion: 2023-05-21
• First posted: 2021-08-23
• Last updated: 2024-07-31
• Results posted: 2024-07-31

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States

Regulatory

• FDA-regulated drug study