Low-dose Pembrolizumab Plus Chemotherapy for the First-Line Treatment of Persistent, Recurrent, or Metastatic Cervical Cancer.

Summary

This is a phase II single-arm study of low-dose pembrolizumab (100mg, fixed-dose) plus chemotherapy in women aged 18 years or older with histologically confirmed persistent, recurrent, or metastatic cervical cancer who are ineligible for curative-intent treatment (surgery and/or radiation therapy) and who have not been previously treated with systemic chemotherapy, with the exception of chemotherapeutic agents used as radiosensitizers (cisplatin or carboplatin concurrent with radiation therapy).

Timeline

Start

2025-02-20

Primary completion

2026-04

Completion

2028-04

Publications

• Background Sung H, Ferlay J, Siegel RL, Laversanne M, Soerjomataram I, Jemal A, Bray F. Global Cancer Statistics 2020: GLOBOCAN Estimates of Incidence and Mortality Worldwide for 36 Cancers in 185 Countries. CA Cancer J Clin. 2021 May;71(3):209-249. doi: 10.3322/caac.21660. Epub 2021 Feb 4.
• Background Siegel RL, Miller KD, Wagle NS, Jemal A. Cancer statistics, 2023. CA Cancer J Clin. 2023 Jan;73(1):17-48. doi: 10.3322/caac.21763.
• Background Cohen PA, Jhingran A, Oaknin A, Denny L. Cervical cancer. Lancet. 2019 Jan 12;393(10167):169-182. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)32470-X.
• Background Kitagawa R, Katsumata N, Shibata T, Kamura T, Kasamatsu T, Nakanishi T, Nishimura S, Ushijima K, Takano M, Satoh T, Yoshikawa H. Paclitaxel Plus Carboplatin Versus Paclitaxel Plus Cisplatin in Metastatic or Recurrent Cervical Cancer: The Open-Label Randomized Phase III Trial JCOG0505. J Clin Oncol. 2015 Jul 1;33(19):2129-35. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2014.58.4391. Epub 2015 Mar 2.
• Background Colombo N, Dubot C, Lorusso D, Caceres MV, Hasegawa K, Shapira-Frommer R, Tewari KS, Salman P, Hoyos Usta E, Yanez E, Gumus M, Olivera Hurtado de Mendoza M, Samouelian V, Castonguay V, Arkhipov A, Toker S, Li K, Keefe SM, Monk BJ; KEYNOTE-826 Investigators. Pembrolizumab for Persistent, Recurrent, or Metastatic Cervical Cancer. N Engl J Med. 2021 Nov 11;385(20):1856-1867. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa2112435. Epub 2021 Sep 18.
• Background Ribas A, Hamid O, Daud A, Hodi FS, Wolchok JD, Kefford R, Joshua AM, Patnaik A, Hwu WJ, Weber JS, Gangadhar TC, Hersey P, Dronca R, Joseph RW, Zarour H, Chmielowski B, Lawrence DP, Algazi A, Rizvi NA, Hoffner B, Mateus C, Gergich K, Lindia JA, Giannotti M, Li XN, Ebbinghaus S, Kang SP, Robert C. Association of Pembrolizumab With Tumor Response and Survival Among Patients With Advanced Melanoma. JAMA. 2016 Apr 19;315(15):1600-9. doi: 10.1001/jama.2016.4059.
• Background Kang SP, Gergich K, Lubiniecki GM, de Alwis DP, Chen C, Tice MAB, Rubin EH. Pembrolizumab KEYNOTE-001: an adaptive study leading to accelerated approval for two indications and a companion diagnostic. Ann Oncol. 2017 Jun 1;28(6):1388-1398. doi: 10.1093/annonc/mdx076. No abstract available.
• Background Low JL, Huang Y, Sooi K, Ang Y, Chan ZY, Spencer K, Jeyasekharan AD, Sundar R, Goh BC, Soo R, Yong WP. Low-dose pembrolizumab in the treatment of advanced non-small cell lung cancer. Int J Cancer. 2021 Jul 1;149(1):169-176. doi: 10.1002/ijc.33534. Epub 2021 Mar 6.

Drugs

Indications

No indication recorded.