Study of Pembrolizumab (MK-3475) in Participants With Advanced Solid Tumors (MK-3475-028/KEYNOTE-28)

Solid Tumor Clinical Trial

Official title:

Phase IB Study of Pembrolizumab (MK-3475) in Subjects With Select Advanced Solid Tumors

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02054806
• Other study ID #: 3475-028
• Secondary ID: 142515MK-3475-02
• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 1
• Start date: February 17, 2014
• Est. completion date: April 30, 2021

Study information

• Verified date: February 2023
• Source: Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This study will assess the efficacy and safety of pembrolizumab (MK-3475) administered to participants with incurable advanced biomarker-positive solid tumors that have not responded to current therapy or for which current therapy is not appropriate.

The study hypothesis is that administration of pembrolizumab to participants with some types of solid tumors will result in a clinically meaningful response rate.

Description:

Qualified participants who complete up to ~2 years of pembrolizumab treatment but progress after discontinuation may be eligible for a second course of pembrolizumab for up to ~1 additional year, at the Investigator's discretion. Per protocol, response or progression during this second course will not count towards efficacy outcome measures and adverse events during this second course will not count towards safety outcome measures.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 477
• Est. completion date: April 30, 2021
• Est. primary completion date: April 30, 2021
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Histologically or cytologically documented locally-advanced and/or metastatic solid malignancy that is incurable, and has failed prior standard therapy or for which standard therapy is not appropriate

• Have biomarker-positive solid tumor

• Have measurable disease based on Response Criteria in Solid Tumors Version 1.1 (RECIST 1.1)

• Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) Performance status of 0 or 1

• Adequate organ function

• Female participants of childbearing potential must be willing to use an adequate method of contraception for the course of the study through 120 days after the last dose of study medication

• Male participants of childbearing potential must agree to use an adequate method of contraception starting with the first dose of study medication through 120 days after the last dose of study medication

Exclusion Criteria:

• Is currently participating and receiving study therapy or has participated in a study of an investigational agent and received study therapy or used an investigational device within 4 weeks of the first dose of treatment

• Diagnosis of immunodeficiency or receiving systemic steroid therapy or any other form of immunosuppressive therapy within 7 days prior to the first dose of trial treatment

• Prior anti-cancer therapy with a monoclonal antibody (mAb) within 4 weeks prior to study Day 1 or not recovered from adverse events due to mAbs administered more than 4 weeks earlier

• Prior chemotherapy, targeted small molecule therapy, or radiation therapy within 2 weeks (12 weeks for measurable sites of central nervous system [CNS] disease) prior to study Day 1 or not recovered from adverse events due to a previously administered agent

• Known additional malignancy that is progressing or requires active treatment excepting basal cell carcinoma of the skin, squamous cell carcinoma of the skin that has undergone potentially curative therapy, or in situ cervical cancer

• Known active CNS metastases and/or carcinomatous meningitis

• Has an active autoimmune disease that has required systemic treatment in past 2 years (i.e. with use of disease modifying agents, corticosteroids or immunosuppressive drugs). Replacement therapy (e.g., thyroxine, insulin, or physiologic corticosteroid replacement therapy for adrenal or pituitary insufficiency, etc.) is not considered a form of systemic treatment

• Has evidence of interstitial lung disease or a history of (non-infectious) pneumonitis that required steroids or has current pneumonitis

• Active infection requiring systemic therapy

• Known psychiatric or substance abuse disorders that would interfere with cooperation with the requirements of the trial

• Pregnant, breastfeeding, or expecting to conceive or father children within the projected duration of the trial, starting with the pre-screening or screening visit through 120 days after the last dose of trial treatment

• Has previously participated in any other pembrolizumab (MK-3475) trial, or received prior therapy with an anti-PD-1, anti-PD-L1, and anti-PD-L2 (including ipilimumab or any other antibody or drug specifically targeting T-cell co-stimulation or checkpoint pathways)

• Known history of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)

• Known active Hepatitis B or Hepatitis C

• Has received a live vaccine within 30 days of planned start of study medication. Examples of live vaccines include, but are not limited to, the following: measles, mumps, rubella, varicella/zoster (chicken pox), yellow fever, rabies, Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG), and typhoid vaccine. Seasonal influenza vaccines for injection are generally killed virus vaccines and are allowed; however, intranasal influenza vaccines (e.g. FluMist®) are live attenuated vaccines and are not allowed.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Neoplasms
• Solid Tumor

Intervention

Biological:
• Pembrolizumab
IV infusion

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC

References & Publications (11)

Alley EW, Lopez J, Santoro A, Morosky A, Saraf S, Piperdi B, van Brummelen E. Clinical safety and activity of pembrolizumab in patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma (KEYNOTE-028): preliminary results from a non-randomised, open-label, phase 1b tria — View Citation

Cohen RB, Delord JP, Doi T, Piha-Paul SA, Liu SV, Gilbert J, Algazi AP, Damian S, Hong RL, Le Tourneau C, Day D, Varga A, Elez E, Wallmark J, Saraf S, Thanigaimani P, Cheng J, Keam B. Pembrolizumab for the Treatment of Advanced Salivary Gland Carcinoma: F — View Citation

Doi T, Piha-Paul SA, Jalal SI, Saraf S, Lunceford J, Koshiji M, Bennouna J. Safety and Antitumor Activity of the Anti-Programmed Death-1 Antibody Pembrolizumab in Patients With Advanced Esophageal Carcinoma. J Clin Oncol. 2018 Jan 1;36(1):61-67. doi: 10.1 — View Citation

Frenel JS, Le Tourneau C, O'Neil B, Ott PA, Piha-Paul SA, Gomez-Roca C, van Brummelen EMJ, Rugo HS, Thomas S, Saraf S, Rangwala R, Varga A. Safety and Efficacy of Pembrolizumab in Advanced, Programmed Death Ligand 1-Positive Cervical Cancer: Results From — View Citation

Hsu C, Lee SH, Ejadi S, Even C, Cohen RB, Le Tourneau C, Mehnert JM, Algazi A, van Brummelen EMJ, Saraf S, Thanigaimani P, Cheng JD, Hansen AR. Safety and Antitumor Activity of Pembrolizumab in Patients With Programmed Death-Ligand 1-Positive Nasopharynge — View Citation

O'Neil BH, Wallmark JM, Lorente D, Elez E, Raimbourg J, Gomez-Roca C, Ejadi S, Piha-Paul SA, Stein MN, Abdul Razak AR, Dotti K, Santoro A, Cohen RB, Gould M, Saraf S, Stein K, Han SW. Safety and antitumor activity of the anti-PD-1 antibody pembrolizumab i — View Citation

Ott PA, Bang YJ, Berton-Rigaud D, Elez E, Pishvaian MJ, Rugo HS, Puzanov I, Mehnert JM, Aung KL, Lopez J, Carrigan M, Saraf S, Chen M, Soria JC. Safety and Antitumor Activity of Pembrolizumab in Advanced Programmed Death Ligand 1-Positive Endometrial Canc — View Citation

Ott PA, Elez E, Hiret S, Kim DW, Morosky A, Saraf S, Piperdi B, Mehnert JM. Pembrolizumab in Patients With Extensive-Stage Small-Cell Lung Cancer: Results From the Phase Ib KEYNOTE-028 Study. J Clin Oncol. 2017 Dec 1;35(34):3823-3829. doi: 10.1200/JCO.201 — View Citation

Ott PA, Piha-Paul SA, Munster P, Pishvaian MJ, van Brummelen EMJ, Cohen RB, Gomez-Roca C, Ejadi S, Stein M, Chan E, Simonelli M, Morosky A, Saraf S, Emancipator K, Koshiji M, Bennouna J. Safety and antitumor activity of the anti-PD-1 antibody pembrolizuma — View Citation

Rugo HS, Delord JP, Im SA, Ott PA, Piha-Paul SA, Bedard PL, Sachdev J, Le Tourneau C, van Brummelen EMJ, Varga A, Salgado R, Loi S, Saraf S, Pietrangelo D, Karantza V, Tan AR. Safety and Antitumor Activity of Pembrolizumab in Patients with Estrogen Recept — View Citation

Varga A, Piha-Paul S, Ott PA, Mehnert JM, Berton-Rigaud D, Morosky A, Yang P, Ruman J, Matei D. Pembrolizumab in patients with programmed death ligand 1-positive advanced ovarian cancer: Analysis of KEYNOTE-028. Gynecol Oncol. 2019 Feb;152(2):243-250. doi — View Citation

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Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Overall Response Rate (ORR)	Overall response rate (ORR) was defined as the percentage of participants who experienced a complete response (CR; disappearance of all target lesions) or a Partial Response (PR; at least a 30% decrease in the sum of diameters of target lesions) and was assessed using modified Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) 1.1 by the investigator.	Up to approximately 86 months
Secondary	Number of Participants Who Experienced an Adverse Event (AE)	An AE is any untoward medical occurrence in a clinical study participant, temporally associated with the use of study intervention, whether or not considered related to the study intervention. An AE can therefore be any unfavorable and unintended sign (including an abnormal laboratory finding), symptom, or disease (new or exacerbated) temporally associated with the use of a study intervention. The number of participants with at least one AE was assessed.	Up to approximately 28 months
Secondary	Number of Participants Who Discontinued From Study Treatment Due to an AE	An AE is any untoward medical occurrence in a clinical study participant, temporally associated with the use of study intervention, whether or not considered related to the study intervention. An AE can therefore be any unfavorable and unintended sign (including an abnormal laboratory finding), symptom, or disease (new or exacerbated) temporally associated with the use of a study intervention. The number of participants who discontinued treatment due to an AE was assessed.	Up to approximately 25 months
Secondary	Progression Free Survival (PFS)	PFS was defined as the time from the date of allocation to the date of the first documentation of disease progression, as determined by investigator per modified RECIST 1.1 or death due to any cause (whichever occurred first). Disease progression was defined as at least 20 percent (%) increase (including an absolute increase of at least 5 millimeter [mm]) in the sum of diameter of target lesions, taking as reference the smallest sum and/or unequivocal progression of existing non-target lesions and/or appearance of 1 or more new lesions. PFS was estimated and analyzed using Kaplan-Meier method.	Up to approximately 86 months
Secondary	Overall Survival (OS)	OS was defined as the time from the date of allocation to the date of death due to any cause. Participants who were lost to follow-up and those who were alive at the end of the trial were censored at the date of last assessment.	Up to approximately 86 months
Secondary	Duration of Response (DOR)	For participants who demonstrated a confirmed CR (disappearance of all target lesions) or PR (at least a 30% decrease in the sum of diameters of target lesions) per modified RECIST 1.1, DOR was defined as the time from first documented evidence of a CR or PR until progressive disease (PD) or death. DOR for participants who had not progressed or died at the time of analysis was censored at the date of their last tumor assessment. Per modified RECIST 1.1, PD was defined as at least a 20% increase in the sum of diameters of target lesions. In addition to the relative increase of 20%, the sum must also have demonstrated an absolute increase of at least 5 mm. The appearance of one or more new lesions was also considered PD. DOR assessments were based on investigator with confirmation. The DOR according to modified RECIST 1.1 for all participants who experienced a confirmed CR or PR was reported. Per protocol, participants were analyzed according to disease type.	Up to approximately 86 months