A Study of Nivolumab and Ipilimumab Combined With Chemotherapy Compared to Chemotherapy Alone in First Line NSCLC

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether Nivolumab, Ipilimumab combined with chemotherapy is more effective than chemotherapy by itself when treating stage IV NSCLC as the first treatment given for the disease

Timeline

Start

2017-08-24

Primary completion

2019-08-16

Completion

2024-10-18

Outcome

Met primary endpoint

registry analysis (superiority test); Treatment A vs Treatment B; p = 0.0006; Hazard Ratio (HR) 0.69 (95% CI 0.56 to 0.86); Log-rank test stratified NCT03215706 ↗

paper overall survival in all randomly assigned patients was significantly longer in the experimental group than in the control group PMID 33476593 ↗

Publications

• Peters S, Paz-Ares LG, Reck M, Carbone DP, Brahmer JR, Borghaei H, Lu S, O'Byrne KJ, John T, Ciuleanu TE, Schenker M, Bernabe Caro R, Nishio M, Cobo M, Lee JS, Zurawski B, Pluzanski A, Aoyama T, Tschaika M, Devas V, Grootendorst DJ, Ramalingam SS. Long-Term Survival Outcomes With First-Line Nivolumab Plus Ipilimumab-Based Treatment in Patients With Metastatic NSCLC and Tumor Programmed Death-Ligand 1 Lower Than 1%: A Pooled Analysis. J Thorac Oncol. 2025 Jan;20(1):94-108. doi: 10.1016/j.jtho.2024.09.1439. Epub 2024 Oct 4.
• Reck M, Ciuleanu TE, Schenker M, Bordenave S, Cobo M, Juan-Vidal O, Reinmuth N, Richardet E, Felip E, Menezes J, Cheng Y, Mizutani H, Zurawski B, Alexandru A, Carbone DP, Lu S, John T, Aoyama T, Grootendorst DJ, Hu N, Eccles LJ, Paz-Ares LG. Five-year outcomes with first-line nivolumab plus ipilimumab with 2 cycles of chemotherapy versus 4 cycles of chemotherapy alone in patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer in the randomized CheckMate 9LA trial. Eur J Cancer. 2024 Nov;211:114296. doi: 10.1016/j.ejca.2024.114296. Epub 2024 Aug 25.
• Paz-Ares L, Ciuleanu TE, Cobo M, Schenker M, Zurawski B, Menezes J, Richardet E, Bennouna J, Felip E, Juan-Vidal O, Alexandru A, Sakai H, Lingua A, Salman P, Souquet PJ, De Marchi P, Martin C, Perol M, Scherpereel A, Lu S, John T, Carbone DP, Meadows-Shropshire S, Agrawal S, Oukessou A, Yan J, Reck M. First-line nivolumab plus ipilimumab combined with two cycles of chemotherapy in patients with non-small-cell lung cancer (CheckMate 9LA): an international, randomised, open-label, phase 3 trial. Lancet Oncol. 2021 Feb;22(2):198-211. doi: 10.1016/S1470-2045(20)30641-0. Epub 2021 Jan 18.

Drugs

Evaluation	Drug	Modality	Dose	Route
Subject	Carboplatin	Small molecule	—	Intravenous
Subject	Cisplatin	Other / unclassified	—	Intravenous
Subject	Ipilimumab	Monoclonal antibody	1 mg/kg	Intravenous
Subject	Nivolumab	Monoclonal antibody	360 mg	Intravenous
Subject	Paclitaxel	Small molecule	—	Intravenous
Subject	Pemetrexed	Small molecule	—	Intravenous

Indications