NCT02332668RecruitingPhase 1/2
A Study of Pembrolizumab (MK-3475) in Pediatric Participants With an Advanced Solid Tumor or Lymphoma (MK-3475-051/KEYNOTE-051)
A Phase I/II Study of Pembrolizumab (MK-3475) in Children With Advanced Melanoma or a PD-L1 Positive Advanced, Relapsed or Refractory Solid Tumor or Lymphoma (KEYNOTE-051)
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 6 Jul 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
Researchers are looking for new ways to treat children with different types of melanoma (skin cancer), solid tumors, and lymphomas (blood cancers) that are any of these: * Advanced, which means cancer spread in the body or cannot be removed with surgery * Relapsed, which means cancer has come back after it had responded to previous treatment (responded means it stopped growing, gets smaller, or disappeared) * Refractory, which means cancer did not respond to previous treatment Pembrolizumab is an immunotherapy, which is a treatment that helps the immune system fight cancer. Researchers want to learn if different doses of pembrolizumab can cause at least 1 of the types of cancer to get smaller or go away. With Amendment 8, enrollment of participants with solid tumors and participants 6 months to under 12 years old with melanoma were closed. With Amendment 13, enrollment was closed for participants with relapsed refractory classical Hodgkin lymphoma (rrCHL), microsatellite instabilty-high (MSI-H) solid tumors, tumor-mutational burden-high (TMB-H) solid tumors, and participants 12 years old to \<18 years old with advanced melanoma.
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Phase (registry)
- Phase 1/2
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 370 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 6 Jan 2015
- Start date
- 19 Mar 2015
- Primary completion date
- 2 Feb 2028
- Lead sponsor
- Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
- Diseases
- Hodgkin lymphoma, Melanoma, Childhood cancers
- NCT number
- NCT02332668
- EU CT number
- 2022-501257-36-00
- EudraCT number
- 2014-002950-38
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional · Phase 1/2
- Planned participants: 370
- From 19 Mar 2015 to the primary completion date, 2 Feb 2028
- 19 sites in 11 countries
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Prior treatment
- Currently participating and receiving study therapy in, or has participated in a study of an investigational agent and received study therapy or used an investigational device within 4 weeks of the date of allocation/randomization
- Diagnosis of immunodeficiency or receiving systemic steroid therapy or any other form of immunosuppressive therapy within 7 days prior to the date of allocation/randomization
- Prior systemic anti-cancer therapy including investigational agent within 2 weeks prior to study Day 1 or not recovered from adverse events due to a previously administered agent
- Prior radiotherapy within 2 weeks of start of study treatment
- Known additional malignancy that is progressing or requires active treatment with the exception of basal cell carcinoma of the skin, squamous cell carcinoma of the skin or carcinoma in situ (eg, breast carcinoma, cervical carcinoma in situ) with potentially curative therapy, or in situ cervical cancer
- Pregnant or breastfeeding, or expecting to conceive or father children within the projected duration of the trial through 120 days after the last dose of study medication
- Received a live vaccine within 30 days of planned start of study medication
- Has undergone solid organ transplant at any time, or prior allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation within the last 5 years. (Participants who have had an allogeneic hematopoietic transplant \>5 years ago are eligible as long as there are no symptoms of Graft Versus Host Disease \[GVHD\].)
Other illness
- Severe hypersensitivity (≥ Grade 3) to pembrolizumab and/or any of its excipients
- Active autoimmune disease that has required systemic treatment in past 2 years; replacement therapy (such as thyroxine, insulin, or physiologic corticosteroid replacement therapy for adrenal or pituitary insufficiency) is acceptable
- Has a history of (non-infectious) pneumonitis that required steroids or current pneumonitis.
- Active infection requiring systemic therapy
- Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
- Hepatitis B or C
- Known history of active tuberculosis (TB; Bacillus tuberculosis)
- Known psychiatric or substance abuse disorders that would interfere with the requirements of the study
Lab values
- Prior therapy with an anti-programmed cell death (PD)-1, anti-PD-ligand 1 (anti-PD-L1), anti-PD-L2 agent, or any agent directed to another stimulatory or inhibitory T-cell receptor (eg, cytotoxic lymphocyte associated protein-4 \[CTLA-4\], OX-40, CD137)
- History or current evidence of any condition, therapy, or laboratory abnormality, or known severe hypersensitivity to any component or analog of the trial treatment, that might confound the results of the trial, or interfere with the participant's participation for the full duration of the study
Other
- Known active central nervous system (CNS) metastases and/or carcinomatous meningitis
- Tumor(s) involving the brain stem
Who the study is looking for
- Between 6 months and \<18 years of age on day of signing informed consent is documented.
- Histologically- or cytologically-documented, locally-advanced, or metastatic solid malignancy or lymphoma that is incurable and has failed prior standard therapy, or for which no standard therapy exists, or for which no standard therapy is considered appropriate
- Any number of prior treatment regimens
- Tissue (or lymph node biopsy for rrcHL participants) available from an archival tissue sample or, if appropriate, a newly obtained core or excisional biopsy of a tumor lesion not previously irradiated
- Advanced melanoma or PD-L1-positive advanced, relapsed, or refractory solid tumor or lymphoma
- Measurable disease based on RECIST 1.1 (Or based on IWG \[Cheson, 2007\] \[i.e., measurement must be \>15 mm in longest diameter or \>10 mm in short axis\] for rrcHL participants)
- Participants with neuroblastoma with only metaiodobenzylguanidine (MIBG)-positive evaluable disease may be enrolled
- Lansky Play Scale ≥50 for participants from 6 months up to and including 16 years of age; or Karnofsky score ≥50 for participants \>16 years of age
- Adequate organ function
- Female participants of childbearing potential should have a negative urine or serum pregnancy test within 72 hours before the first dose of study medication
- Female participant is not a woman of childbearing potential (WOCBP) or is a WOCBP who is abstinent from heterosexual intercourse or using contraception during the intervention period and for at least 120 days after the last dose of study intervention
- Contraceptive use by men should be consistent with local regulations regarding the methods of contraception for those participating in clinical studies.
- Demonstrate adequate organ function.
Age in the registry: 6 months to 17 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (19)
Sites in registry order. Save your city in your profile to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| MSD Brasil Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | São Paulo | Brazil | Recruiting |
| Universitaetsklinikum Muenster AöR Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Muenster | Germany | Recruiting |
| Universitaetsklinikum Tuebingen Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Tuebingen | Germany | Recruiting |
| Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Paris | France | Recruiting |
| Institut Gustave Roussy Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Villejuif | France | Recruiting |
| Merck Sharp & Dohme Ltd. Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | London | United Kingdom | Recruiting |
| Merck Sharp & Dohme Co. Ltd. Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Hod HaSharon | Israel | Recruiting |
| Bambino Gesu Childrens Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Rome | Italy | Recruiting |
| MSD Korea LTD Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Seoul | South Korea | Recruiting |
| Prinses Maxima Centrum voor Kinderoncologie B.V. Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Utrecht | Netherlands | Completed |
| Instituto Portugues de Oncologia do Porto Francisco Gentil, E.P.E. Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Porto | Portugal | Completed |
| Region Skane Skanes Universitetssjukhus Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Lund | Sweden | Recruiting |
| - Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Aurora | United States | Recruiting |
| - Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Boston | United States | Recruiting |
| - Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Chicago | United States | Recruiting |
| - Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Dallas | United States | Recruiting |
| - Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Fargo | United States | Recruiting |
| - Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | New York | United States | Recruiting |
| - Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Sioux Falls | United States | Recruiting |
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