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Comparing sac-TMT with Pembrolizumab for non-small cell lung cancer

Official title: Pembrolizumab With or Without Maintenance Sacituzumab Tirumotecan (Sac-TMT; MK-2870) in Metastatic Squamous Non-small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) [MK-2870-023]

Phase 3 Study of Pembrolizumab in Combination With Carboplatin/Taxane (Paclitaxel or Nab-paclitaxel) Followed by Pembrolizumab With or Without Maintenance MK-2870 in the First-line Treatment of Metastatic Squamous Non-small Cell Lung Cancer

Condition: Non-small Cell Lung CancerSponsor: Merck Sharp & Dohme LLCTarget enrollment: 851
  • Phase 3
  • 2 groups
  • Sites in Kingston, Kitchener and 2 more cities
  • Recruiting
Kingston Health Sciences Centre-Kingston General Hospital Site ( Site 0100), Kingston, OntarioWaterloo Regional Health Network (WRHN) ( Site 0153), Kitchener, OntarioSt. Marys Hospital Center ( Site 0105), Montreal, QuebecMcGill University Health Centre ( Site 0103), Montreal, QuebecCentre integre universitaire de sante et de services sociaux de la Mauricie-et-du-centre-du-quebec ( Site 0106), Trois-Rivières, Quebec

Interventions (5)

  • Biological therapy

    Pembrolizumab

    Intravenous (IV) infusion

  • Biological therapy

    sac-TMT

    IV infusion

  • Medication

    Carboplatin

    Participants receive AUC 6 or AUC 5 mg/mL/min IV infusion on Day 1 of each 21-day cycle for 4 cycles as background therapy during the study.

Canadian Sites (5)

5 of 5 recruiting

  • Kingston Health Sciences Centre-Kingston General Hospital Site ( Site 0100)

    Kingston, Ontario

    Recruiting
  • Waterloo Regional Health Network (WRHN) ( Site 0153)

    Kitchener, Ontario

    Recruiting
  • St. Marys Hospital Center ( Site 0105)

    Montreal, Quebec

    Recruiting

Eligibility Criteria

See who this study is looking for35 criteria

The trial’s own eligibility text, word for word from the registry. Only the trial site can say who takes part.

Inclusion

  • +Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected participants must have well controlled HIV on antiretroviral therapy (ART)
  • +Participants who are hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg)-positive are eligible if they have received hepatitis B virus (HBV) antiviral therapy for at least 4 weeks and have undetectable HBV viral load before allocation
  • +Participants with history of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection are eligible if HCV viral load is undetectable at screeningScreeningThe checks done before joining, to see whether a study fits.Read more →
  • +Histologically or cytologically confirmed diagnosis of squamous non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) \[Stage IV: M1a, M1b, M1c, American Joint Committee on Cancer Staging Manual, version 8\]
  • +Measurable disease per Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumours (RECIST) 1.1 as assessed by the local siteTrial siteA hospital or clinic where a study is actually run.Read more → investigatorPrincipal investigatorThe doctor or researcher responsible for running the study at a site.Read more →/radiology
  • +Has life expectancy ≥3 months
  • +Has Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group Performance Status (ECOG PS) score of 0 or 1 assessed within 7 days prior to allocation
  • +Archival tumor tissue sample or newly obtained core, incisional, or excisional biopsy of a tumor lesion not previously irradiated has been provided
  • +Participants who have adverse eventsAdverse eventAny medical problem that happens during a study, whether or not the treatment caused it.Read more → (AEs) due to previous anticancer therapies must have recovered to Grade ≤1 or baselineBaselineYour starting measurements, taken before treatment begins.Read more → (participants with endocrine-related AEs who are adequately treated with hormone replacement are eligible)
  • +Has adequate organ function
  • +For Maintenance only (prior to randomizationRandomisedWhich group you go into is decided by chance, not by you or your doctor.Read more →): is without disease progression of their NSCLC, as determined by BICR using RECIST 1.1 after completion of study-specified Induction with an evaluable scan at Week 12 or most recent scan before randomization
  • +For Maintenance only (prior to randomization): has ECOG PS of 0 or 1 as assessed at the Prerandomization Visit
  • +For Maintenance only (prior to randomization): all AEs (with the exception of alopecia, Grade ≤2 fatigue, Grade ≤2 peripheral neuropathy, and Grade ≤2 endocrine-related AEs requiring treatment or hormone replacement) have recovered
  • +For Maintenance only (prior to randomization): has not experienced a pneumonitis/interstitial lung disease (ILD) event during the study-specified induction

Exclusion

  • Severe hypersensitivity (≥Grade 3) to study intervention and/or any of its excipients or to another biologic therapy
  • HIV-infected participants who have been newly diagnosed or with a history of Kaposi's sarcoma and/or Multicentric Castleman's Disease
  • Diagnosis of small cell lung cancer or, for mixed tumors, presence of small cell elements
  • History of documented severe dry eye syndrome, severe Meibomian gland disease and/or blepharitis, or severe corneal disease that prevents/delays corneal healing
  • Active inflammatory bowel disease requiring immunosuppressive medication or previous history of inflammatory bowel disease (eg, Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, or chronic diarrhea)
  • Has uncontrolled, significant cardiovascular disease or cerebrovascular disease including New York Heart Association Class III or IV congestive heart failure, unstable angina, myocardial infarction, uncontrolled symptomatic arrhythmia, prolongation of QTcF interval to \>480 ms, and other serious cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases within 6 months before study intervention
  • Received prior therapy with an anti-programmed cell death 1 protein (PD-1), anti-programmed cell death ligand 1 (PD-L1), or anti programmed cell death ligand 2 (PD-L2) agent, or with an agent directed to another stimulatory or coinhibitory T-cell receptor (eg, cytotoxic T lymphocyte-associated protein 4, OX-40, CD137). Note: Prior treatment with an anti-PD-1 or anti-PD-L1 agent for nonmetastatic NSCLC is allowed as long as therapy was completed at least 12 months before diagnosis of metastatic NSCLC
  • Received prior treatment with a trophoblast cell-surface antigen 2 (TROP2)-targeted antidrug conjugate (ADC)
  • Received a live or live-attenuated vaccine within 30 days before the first dose of study intervention
  • Received prior treatment with a topoisomerase I inhibitor-containing ADC
  • Is currently receiving a strong inducer/inhibitor of CYP3A4 that cannot be discontinued for the duration of the study (the required washout periodWashout periodA gap with no treatment, so the previous one clears your system.Read more → before starting sac-TMT is 2 weeks)
  • Has a known additional malignancy that is progressing or has required active treatment within the past 3 years.
  • Has known central nervous system (CNS) metastases/carcinomatous meningitis
  • Active autoimmune disease that has required systemic treatment in the past 2 years (replacement therapy \[eg, thyroxine, insulin, or physiologic corticosteroid\] is allowed)
  • Has a history of (noninfectious)pneumonitis/ILD that required steroids, has current pneumonitis/ILD, or has suspected ILD or pneumonitis that cannot be ruled out by standard diagnostic assessments at ScreeningScreeningThe checks done before joining, to see whether a study fits.Read more →
  • Active infection requiring systemic therapy
  • History of allogeneic tissue/solid organ transplant
  • Received prior systemic chemotherapy or other targeted or biological antineoplastic therapy for their metastatic NSCLC. Note: Prior treatment with chemotherapy and/or radiation as a part of neoadjuvant or adjuvant therapy or chemoradiation therapy for nonmetastatic NSCLC is allowed as long as therapy was completed at least 12 months before diagnosis of metastatic NSCLC
  • Received radiation therapy to the lung that is \>30 Gray within 6 months of start of study intervention
  • Received prior radiotherapy within 2 weeks of start of study intervention, or radiation-related toxicities, requiring corticosteroids
  • Participants who have not adequately recovered from major surgery or have ongoing surgical complications
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In plain language

Assembled directly from this trial’s registry record. Every sentence traces to a field below — nothing here is generated or interpreted.

Learning 
What this study is

This study is testing a treatment for a condition.

Phase 3Phase 3A large study comparing a treatment against the current standard.Read more → — a large study comparing this against the current standard, usually across many hospitals.

From the trial registry

Built from these fields:

  • designModule.designInfo.primaryPurpose
  • designModule.phases
Who receives what

There are 2 groups in this study.

Group A receives Pembrolizumab and sac-TMT, together with one or more of: Carboplatin, Paclitaxel and Nab-paclitaxel.

Registry label: A: Maintenance Arm A: Pembrolizumab + sac-TMT

Group B, the comparison group, receives Pembrolizumab, together with one or more of: Carboplatin, Paclitaxel and Nab-paclitaxel.

Registry label: B: Maintenance Arm B: Pembrolizumab Monotherapy

From the trial registry

Built from these fields:

  • armsInterventionsModule.armGroups[].label
  • armsInterventionsModule.armGroups[].type
  • armsInterventionsModule.armGroups[].interventionNames
How the study is run

Which group you would be placed in is decided by chance, like a coin flip — not by you and not by your doctor.

This study is open-labelOpen-labelEveryone knows which treatment is being given — nothing is hidden.Read more →: everyone knows which treatment is being given, including you and the study team.

From the trial registry

Built from these fields:

  • designModule.designInfo.allocation
  • designModule.designInfo.maskingInfo.masking
Is there a placebo?

This study does not list a placeboPlaceboA dummy treatment with no active medicine, used for comparison.Read more → group.

One group receives an existing treatment, so the two can be compared.

From the trial registry

Built from these fields:

  • armsInterventionsModule.armGroups[].type
  • armsInterventionsModule.armGroups[].interventionNames
Who the study is looking for

The study lists a minimum age of 18 years, with no upper limit given.

The study is open to people of any sex.

The study does not accept healthy volunteersHealthy volunteerSomeone without the condition being studied who takes part anyway.Read more →.

These are the criteria the study lists. Only the trial siteTrial siteA hospital or clinic where a study is actually run.Read more → can decide whether someone can take part.

From the trial registry

Built from these fields:

  • eligibilityModule.minimumAge
  • eligibilityModule.sex
  • eligibilityModule.healthyVolunteers
How big and how long

The study aims to enrol about 851 people.

The study is currently expected to finish around August 2031.

The main measurement is taken over: Up to ~50 months.

From the trial registry

Built from these fields:

  • designModule.enrollmentInfo.count
  • statusModule.completionDateStruct.date
  • outcomesModule.primaryOutcomes[].timeFrame
What the study measures

Overall survival (OS) — measured over Up to ~50 months.

From the trial registry

Built from these fields:

  • outcomesModule.primaryOutcomes[].measure
  • outcomesModule.primaryOutcomes[].timeFrame

Source: NCT06422143 on ClinicalTrials.gov. The full registry text is further down this page — this summary never replaces it.

Not medical advice. What do these terms mean?

What is being tested — in plain terms

About PembrolizumabBiological

Intravenous (IV) infusion

From the trial registry — its own words, unedited.

What a biological is here: A treatment made from or by living systems — such as antibodies, vaccines, or cell-based therapies.

Read the full explanation → · in clinical review

About sac-TMTBiological

IV infusion

From the trial registry — its own words, unedited.

What a biological is here: A treatment made from or by living systems — such as antibodies, vaccines, or cell-based therapies.

Read the full explanation → · in clinical review

About CarboplatinDrug

Participants receive AUC 6 or AUC 5 mg/mL/min IV infusion on Day 1 of each 21-day cycle for 4 cycles as background therapy during the study.

From the trial registry — its own words, unedited.

What a drug is here: A medicine — a chemical or small-molecule treatment — given as the thing being studied.

Read the full explanation → · in clinical review

About PaclitaxelDrug

Participants receive 200 mg/m\^2 or 175 mg/m\^2 IV infusion on Day 1 of each 21-day cycle for 4 cycles as background therapy during the study.

From the trial registry — its own words, unedited.

What a drug is here: A medicine — a chemical or small-molecule treatment — given as the thing being studied.

Read the full explanation → · in clinical review

About Nab-paclitaxelDrug

Participants receive 100 mg/m\^2 IV infusion on Days 1, 8 and 15 of each 21-day cycle for 4 cycles as background therapy during the study.

From the trial registry — its own words, unedited.

What a drug is here: A medicine — a chemical or small-molecule treatment — given as the thing being studied.

Read the full explanation → · in clinical review

Common questions

Answered from this trial’s registry record. Where the record doesn’t say, these answers say so rather than filling the gap.

Am I eligible for this trial?

Only the trial siteTrial siteA hospital or clinic where a study is actually run.Read more → can decide whether someone can take part. Concord cannot make that determination, and neither can any tool that has not examined you.

What the study lists: a minimum age of 18 years.

The full inclusionInclusion criteriaThe things you must have or be for a study to consider you.Read more → and exclusion criteriaExclusion criteriaThe things that would prevent someone from taking part.Read more → are published on this page, exactly as the study team wrote them.

The useful next step is to bring this trial to your doctor. Answering a few questions first gives them something concrete to review.

From the trial registry
  • eligibilityModule.minimumAge
  • eligibilityModule.eligibilityCriteria
Is there a placebo?

This study does not list a placeboPlaceboA dummy treatment with no active medicine, used for comparison.Read more → group.

One group receives an existing treatment so the two can be compared.

From the trial registry
  • armsInterventionsModule.armGroups[].type
Would I know which treatment I am getting?

This study is open-labelOpen-labelEveryone knows which treatment is being given — nothing is hidden.Read more →: everyone knows which treatment is being given, including you and the study team.

Which group you would be placed in is decided by chance, like a coin flip — not by you and not by your doctor.

From the trial registry
  • designModule.designInfo.maskingInfo.masking
  • designModule.designInfo.allocation
Who can join?

The study lists a minimum age of 18 years, with no upper limit given.

It is open to people of any sex.

It does not accept healthy volunteersHealthy volunteerSomeone without the condition being studied who takes part anyway.Read more →.

Only the trial siteTrial siteA hospital or clinic where a study is actually run.Read more → can confirm whether a particular person can take part.

From the trial registry
  • eligibilityModule.minimumAge
  • eligibilityModule.sex
  • eligibilityModule.healthyVolunteers
How long would this take?

The study's main measurement is taken over: Up to ~50 months.

The study as a whole is currently expected to finish around 2031-08-15.

How long any one person takes part can differ from the study length. The study team can tell you what the schedule looks like in practice.

From the trial registry
  • outcomesModule.primaryOutcomes[].timeFrame
  • statusModule.completionDateStruct.date
How many people are taking part?

The study aims to enrol about 851 people.

From the trial registry
  • designModule.enrollmentInfo.count
Where is this happening?

This study lists 6 locations, including: Kingston, Ontario, Canada; Kitchener, Ontario, Canada; Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada; Ypsilanti, Michigan, United States; Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.

Sites can open and close during a study, so confirm with the team before travelling.

From the trial registry
  • trial_locations

About This Trial

This is a phase 3 study of pembrolizumab in combination with carboplatin/taxane (paclitaxel or nab-paclitaxel) followed by pembrolizumab with or without maintenance sacituzumab tirumotecan (sac-TMT; MK-2870) in first-line treatment of metastatic squamous non-small cell lung cancer. It is hypothesized that pembrolizumab with maintenance sacituzumab tirumotecan is superior to pembrolizumab without sacituzumab tirumotecan maintenance with respect to overall survival (OS).

Other Sites (2)

Trinity Health Saint Joseph Mercy Hospital Ann Arbor ( Site 9552)

Ypsilanti, Michigan, United States

Allina Health Cancer Institute - Abbott Northwestern Hospital ( Site 0146)

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

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