Testing Volrustomig against a placebo for locally advanced cervical cancer

Exclusion

• −History of anaphylaxis to any biologic therapy or vaccine.
• −Participants with a known allergy or hypersensitivity to the study intervention, or any excipients of the study intervention.
• −Patients should not enter the study if any of the following exclusion criteriaExclusion criteriaThe things that would prevent someone from taking part.Read more → are fulfilled:
• −Diagnosis of small cell (neuroendocrine) or mucinous adenocarcinoma of cervical cancer.
• −Evidence of metastatic disease.
• −Intent to administer a fertility-sparing treatment regimen.
• −History of organ transplant or allogenic stem cell transplant.
• −History of active primary immunodeficiency or active or prior documented autoimmune or inflammatory disorders.
• −Uncontrolled intercurrent illness.
• −History of another primary malignancy except for a) Malignancy treated with curative intent with no known active disease ≥2 years before the first dose of study intervention; b) Adequately treated nonmelanoma skin cancer or lentigo maligna, or carcinoma in situ without evidence of disease.
• −Unresolved toxicities from previous CCRT except for irreversible toxicity that is not reasonably expected to be exacerbated.
• −Prior history or presence of vesicovaginal, colovaginal, or rectovaginal fistula.
• −Patients who have undergone a previous hysterectomy, including a supracervical hysterectomy, or will have a hysterectomy as part of their initial cervical cancer therapy.
• −Any prior (besides prior CCRT) or concurrent treatment for cervical cancer.
• −Exposure to immune mediated therapy prior to the study for any indication.
• −Receipt of live attenuated vaccine within 30 days prior to the first dose of the study intervention.
• −Current or prior use of immunosuppressive medication within 14 days before the first dose of the study intervention is excluded. The following are exceptions to this criterion: a) Intranasal, inhaled, topical steroids, or local steroid injections (eg, intraarticular injection); b) Steroids as premedication for hypersensitivity reactions (eg, CT scan premedication or chemotherapy premedication) or a single dose for palliative purpose (eg, pain controlControl groupThe group a new treatment is measured against.Read more →); c) Physiologic doses of oral corticosteroids, ie, not exceeding 10 mg/day of prednisone (or equivalent) in the preceding 14 days.
• −Major surgical procedures within 4 weeks prior to the first dose of the study intervention or still recovering from prior surgery.