A Study of Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy Plus Nivolumab Versus Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy Plus Placebo, Followed by Surgical Removal and Adjuvant Treatment With Nivolumab or Placebo for Participants With Surgically Removable Early Stage Non-small Cell Lung Cancer

Summary

The main purpose of the study is to examine if periadjuvant (neoadjuvant, then adjuvant) immunotherapy will prolong event free survival in participants with early stage non-small cell lung cancer.

Timeline

Start

2019-11-05

Primary completion

2023-07-26

Completion

2027-07-30

Outcome

Met primary endpoint

registry analysis (superiority test); Nivolumab + SOC Chemotherapy vs Placebo + SOC Chemotherapy; p = 0.00025; Cox Proportional Hazard 0.58 (95% CI 0.43 to 0.78); Log Rank NCT04025879 ↗

Publications

• Provencio M, Awad MM, Spicer JD, Janssens A, Moiseyenko F, Gao Y, Watanabe Y, Alexandru A, Guisier F, Frost N, Franke F, Hiltermann TJN, He J, Tanaka F, Lu S, Coronado Erdmann C, Sathyanarayana P, Tran P, Devas V, Cascone T. Clinical outcomes with perioperative nivolumab by nodal status in patients with stage III resectable NSCLC: phase 3 CheckMate 77T exploratory analysis. Nat Cancer. 2026 Jan;7(1):169-181. doi: 10.1038/s43018-025-01104-z. Epub 2026 Jan 8.
• Tanaka F, Watanabe Y, Sugawara S, Okami J, Muto S, Okada M, Horio Y, Tsuboi M, Sato Y, Takamochi K, Horinouchi H, Tambo Y, Seike M, Okishio K, Coronado Erdmann C, Sathyanarayana P, Meadows-Shropshire S, Ito H. Perioperative Nivolumab in Resectable Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: A Subanalysis of Japanese Patients From CheckMate 77T. Cancer Sci. 2026 Mar;117(3):759-768. doi: 10.1111/cas.70300. Epub 2025 Dec 23.
• Cascone T, Awad MM, Spicer JD, He J, Lu S, Sepesi B, Tanaka F, Taube JM, Cornelissen R, Havel L, Karaseva N, Kuzdzal J, Petruzelka LB, Wu L, Pujol JL, Ito H, Ciuleanu TE, de Oliveira Muniz Koch L, Janssens A, Alexandru A, Bohnet S, Moiseyenko FV, Gao Y, Watanabe Y, Coronado Erdmann C, Sathyanarayana P, Meadows-Shropshire S, Blum SI, Provencio Pulla M; CheckMate 77T Investigators. Perioperative Nivolumab in Resectable Lung Cancer. N Engl J Med. 2024 May 16;390(19):1756-1769. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa2311926.
• Leal TA, Ramalingam SS. Neoadjuvant therapy gains FDA approval in non-small cell lung cancer. Cell Rep Med. 2022 Jul 19;3(7):100691. doi: 10.1016/j.xcrm.2022.100691.
• Hong WX, Sagiv-Barfi I, Czerwinski DK, Sallets A, Levy R. Neoadjuvant Intratumoral Immunotherapy with TLR9 Activation and Anti-OX40 Antibody Eradicates Metastatic Cancer. Cancer Res. 2022 Apr 1;82(7):1396-1408. doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-21-1382.

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