NCT03797326CompletedPhase 2
Efficacy and Safety of Pembrolizumab (MK-3475) Plus Lenvatinib (E7080/MK-7902) in Previously Treated Participants With Select Solid Tumors (MK-7902-005/E7080-G000-224/LEAP-005)
A Multicenter, Open-label Phase 2 Study of Lenvatinib (E7080/MK-7902) Plus Pembrolizumab (MK-3475) in Previously Treated Subjects With Selected Solid Tumors (LEAP-005)
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 4 May 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The purpose of this study is to determine the safety and efficacy of combination therapy with pembrolizumab (MK-3475) and lenvatinib (E7080/MK-7902) in participants with triple negative breast cancer (TNBC), ovarian cancer, gastric cancer, colorectal cancer (CRC), glioblastoma (GBM), biliary tract cancers (BTC), or pancreatic cancer.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Phase (registry)
- Phase 2
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 611 (actual)
- First submitted
- 7 Jan 2019
- Start date
- 12 Feb 2019
- Primary completion date
- 28 Oct 2024
- Lead sponsor
- Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
- Diseases
- Triple-negative breast cancer, Pancreatic cancer, Colorectal cancer, Liver and biliary tract cancer, Gastric and esophageal cancer, Glioblastoma, Ovarian cancer
- NCT number
- NCT03797326
- EudraCT number
- 2018-003747-37
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional · Phase 2
- Participants enrolled: 611
- From 12 Feb 2019 to the primary completion date, 28 Oct 2024
- 88 sites in 17 countries
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
Built from the registry fields of ClinicalTrials.gov. It describes the study, not your situation.
Who cannot take part
Copied verbatim from ClinicalTrials.gov and grouped by topic. Only the trial team decides who can take part.
Prior treatment
- Has present or progressive accumulation of pleural, ascitic, or pericardial fluid requiring drainage or diuretic drugs within 2 weeks prior to enrollment (applies to all cohorts except the ovarian cancer cohort)
- Has clinical significant hemoptysis or tumor bleeding within 2 weeks prior to the first dose of study treatment
- Has had major surgery within 3 weeks prior to first dose of study interventions
- Has biologic response modifiers therapy (e.g. granulocyte colony-stimulating factor) within 4 weeks before study entry
- Has received prior systemic anti-cancer therapy including investigational agents within 4 weeks prior to study treatment start
- If participant received major surgery, they must have recovered adequately from the toxicity and/or complications from the intervention prior to starting study treatment
- Has received prior radiotherapy within 2 weeks of start of study treatment. Participants must have recovered from all radiation-related toxicities, not require corticosteroids, and not have had radiation pneumonitis. A 1-week washout is permitted for palliative radiation (≤2 weeks of radiotherapy) to non-central nervous system (CNS) disease
- Has received a live vaccine within 30 days prior to the first dose of study treatment
- Is currently participating in or has participated in a study of an investigational agent or has used an investigational device within 4 weeks prior to the first dose of study treatment
- Has a diagnosis of immunodeficiency or is receiving chronic systemic steroid therapy (in dosing exceeding 10 mg daily of prednisone equivalent) or any other form of immunosuppressive therapy within 7 days prior the first dose of study treatment
- Has had an allogenic tissue/solid organ transplant (large organ transplants, stem-cell transplant requiring chronic immunosuppressant therapy necessary to prevent graft rejection)
- For GBM Participants:
- Has received Optune® TTFields within 2 weeks of study intervention
Other illness
- Has gastrointestinal malabsorption or any other condition that might affect the absorption of lenvatinib
- Has radiographic evidence of encasement or invasion of a major blood vessel or of intratumoral cavitation. Participants with portal vein invasion (Vp4), inferior vena cava, or cardiac involvement based on imaging in the BTC cohort are not eligible for enrollment
- Has significant cardiovascular impairment within 12 months of the first dose of study treatment, such as history of congestive heart failure greater than New York Heart Association (NYHA) Class II, unstable angina, myocardial infarction or cerebrovascular accident (CVA), or cardiac arrhythmia associated with hemodynamic instability
- Has a history of arterial thromboembolism within 12 months of start of study treatment
- Has a known additional malignancy that is progressing or has required active treatment within the past 3 years.
- Has a serious nonhealing wound, ulcer or bone fracture
- Has preexisting ≥Grade 3 gastrointestinal (GI) or non-gastrointestinal fistula
- Has severe hypersensitivity (≥Grade 3) to pembrolizumab and/or any of its excipients
- Has an active autoimmune disease that has required systemic treatment in past 2 years
- Has a history of (non-infectious) pneumonitis that required steroids or has current pneumonitis
- Has an active infection requiring systemic therapy
- Has a known history of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection
- Has a known history of hepatitis B or known active hepatitis C virus infection
- Has a known history of active tuberculosis (TB; Bacillus tuberculosis)
- Has presence of multifocal tumor, diffuse leptomeningeal or extracranial disease
- Has evidence of intratumoral or peritumoral hemorrhage on baseline magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan other than those that are grade ≤ 1 and either post-operative or stable on at least 2 consecutive MRI scans
Lab values
- Has received prior therapy with lenvatinib, an anti-PD-1, anti-PD-L1, or anti PD-L2 agent or with an agent directed to another stimulatory or co-inhibitory T-cell receptor (e.g. cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-associated protein 4 \[CTLA-4\], Tumor necrosis factor receptor superfamily, member 4 \[OX 40\], tumor necrosis factor receptor superfamily member 9 \[CD137\])
Other
- Has known intolerance to lenvatinib (and/or any of the excipients)
- Has known active CNS metastases and/or carcinomatous meningitis
- Has tumors involving the brain stem
- Is pregnant or breastfeeding or expecting to conceive or father children within the projected duration of the study, starting with the screening visit through 120 days after the last dose of study treatment
- Has carcinomatous meningitis
- Has recurrent tumor greater than 6 cm in maximum diameter
- Has tumor primarily localized to the brainstem or spinal cord
Who the study is looking for
- Has a histologically or cytologically-documented, advanced (metastatic and/or unresectable) solid tumor that is incurable and for which prior standard systemic therapy has failed in one of the following cohorts: TNBC, Ovarian Cancer, Gastric Cancer, Colorectal Cancer, GBM, BTC (intrahepatic, extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma and gall bladder cancer; excludes Ampulla of Vater), Pancreatic Cancer
- Must have progressed on or since the last treatment
- Has measurable disease per RECIST 1.1 (RANO for the GBM cohort) as assessed by the local site investigator/radiology and confirmed by BICR
- Has provided a PD-L1 evaluable archival tumor tissue sample or newly obtained core or excisional biopsy of a tumor lesion not previously irradiated
- Male participants agree to use approved contraception during the treatment period for at least 7 days after the last dose of lenvatinib, or refrain from heterosexual intercourse during this period
- Female participants are not pregnant or breastfeeding, and are not a woman of childbearing potential (WOCBP), OR are a WOCBP that agrees to use contraception during the treatment period (or 14 days prior to the initiation of study treatment for oral contraception) and for at least 120 days post pembrolizumab, or 30 days post lenvatinib, whichever occurs last
- Has an Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0 to 1 within 3 days of study treatment initiation
- Has adequate organ function
- For Triple Negative Breast Cancer Participants:
- Has received one or 2 prior lines of therapy
- Has Lactate Dehydrogenase (LDH) \<2.0 x Upper Limit of Normal (ULN)
- Has locally determined results for estrogen receptor, progesterone receptor, and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 tumor analyses
- For Ovarian Cancer Participants:
- \- Has primary ovarian cancer and has received 3 prior lines of therapy.
- For Gastric Cancer Participants:
- \- Has received 2 prior lines of therapy. Note: Gastric cancer will include participants with both gastric and gastroesophageal junction (GEJ) adenocarcinoma. Participants with squamous cell carcinoma histology are not eligible
- For Colorectal Cancer Participants:
- \- Has received 2 prior lines of therapy
- For GBM Participants:
- Has failed initial systemic therapy for newly diagnosed GBM
- Have the following time periods elapsed before the projected start of scheduled study treatment: 1) at least 3 weeks from prior surgical resection, 2) at least 1 week from stereotactic biopsy, 3) at least 6 months from completion of prior radiotherapy, 4) at least 4 weeks (or 5 half-lives, whichever is shorter) from any investigational agent, 5) at least 4 weeks from cytotoxic therapy, 6) at least 6 weeks from antibodies, 7) at least 4 weeks (or 5 half-lives, whichever is shorter) from other antitumor therapies and 1 week for cancer vaccines
- Be neurologically stable (e.g. without a progression of neurologic symptoms or requiring escalating doses of systemic steroid therapy within last 2 weeks) and clinically stable
- Has histologically confirmed World Health Organization (WHO) Grade IV GBM
- Has locally determined result for O\^6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase (MGMT) analysis
- For Biliary Tract Cancer Participants:
- Has received 1 prior line of therapy
- Child-Pugh Score, Class A: well-compensated disease. Child-Pugh Score of 5-6
- For Pancreatic Cancer Participants:
- Has pathologically (histologically or cytologically) confirmed pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma that is metastatic at enrollment
- Has received one or 2 prior lines of therapy
- Has received prior therapy with at least 1 (platinum-containing regimen or gemcitabine-containing regimen) but no more than 2 prior systemic therapies for unresectable or metastatic pancreatic cancer
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (88)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| CEMIC ( Site 2104) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Buenos Aires | Argentina | Unknown status |
| Hospital Aleman ( Site 2100) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Buenos Aires | Argentina | Unknown status |
| IDIM Instituto de Diagnostico e Investigaciones Metabolicas ( Site 2101) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Caba | Argentina | Unknown status |
| Fundacion Favaloro para la Docencia e Investigacion Medica ( Site 2106) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires | Argentina | Unknown status |
| Hospital Britanico de Buenos Aires ( Site 2109) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Ciudad de Buenos Aires | Argentina | Unknown status |
| Instituto de Oncologia de Rosario ( Site 2105) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Rosario | Argentina | Unknown status |
| Royal Brisbane and Women s Hospital ( Site 0901) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Herston | Australia | Unknown status |
| Alfred Health ( Site 0902) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Melbourne | Australia | Unknown status |
| Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital ( Site 0903) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Nedlands | Australia | Unknown status |
| BC Cancer - Abbotsford ( Site 0200) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Abbotsford British Columbia | Canada | Unknown status |
| Hamilton Health Sciences-Juravinski Cancer Centre ( Site 0208) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Hamilton | Canada | Unknown status |
| Centre Hospitalier de l Universite de Montreal - CHUM ( Site 0210) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Montreal | Canada | Unknown status |
| CHU de Quebec Universite de Laval ( Site 0206) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Québec | Canada | Unknown status |
| Sunnybrook Research Institute ( Site 0207) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Toronto | Canada | Unknown status |
| Princess Margaret Cancer Centre ( Site 0202) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Toronto | Canada | Unknown status |
| CancerCare Manitoba ( Site 0201) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Winnipeg | Canada | Unknown status |
| Ospedale Regionale di Bellinzona e Valli ( Site 1703) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Bellinzona | Switzerland | Unknown status |
| Inselspital Universitaetsspital Bern ( Site 1705) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Bern | Switzerland | Unknown status |
| Kantonsspital Graubuenden ( Site 1704) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Chur | Switzerland | Unknown status |
| Hopitaux Universitaires de Geneve HUG ( Site 1701) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Geneva | Switzerland | Unknown status |
| Kantonsspital St. Gallen ( Site 1702) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Sankt Gallen | Switzerland | Unknown status |
| Universitaetsspital Zurich ( Site 1700) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Zurich | Switzerland | Unknown status |
| Fundacion Arturo Lopez Perez ( Site 1201) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Santiago | Chile | Unknown status |
| Hospital Clinico Universidad de Chile ( Site 1200) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Santiago | Chile | Unknown status |
| Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile ( Site 1202) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Santiago | Chile | Unknown status |
| Centro Investigación del Cáncer James Lind ( Site 1203) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Temuco | Chile | Unknown status |
| Instituto Nacional de Cancerologia E.S.E ( Site 1102) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Bogotá | Colombia | Unknown status |
| Fundacion Valle del Lili ( Site 1101) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Cali | Colombia | Unknown status |
| Fundacion Colombiana de Cancerologia Clinica Vida ( Site 1105) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Medellín | Colombia | Unknown status |
| Oncologos del Occidente S.A. ( Site 1106) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Pereira | Colombia | Unknown status |
| Universitaetsklinikum Frankfurt ( Site 0306) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Frankfurt am Main | Germany | Unknown status |
| SRH Wald-Klinikum Gera GmbH ( Site 0309) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Gera | Germany | Unknown status |
| Universitaetsklinikum Jena ( Site 0302) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Jena | Germany | Unknown status |
| Universitaetsklinikum Regensburg ( Site 0304) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Regensburg | Germany | Unknown status |
| Robert Bosch GmbH ( Site 0307) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Stuttgart | Germany | Unknown status |
| HELIOS Dr. Horst Schmidt Kliniken Wiesbaden ( Site 0301) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Wiesbaden | Germany | Unknown status |
| Hospital Clinic i Provincial ( Site 0703) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Barcelona | Spain | Unknown status |
| Clinica Universitaria de Navarra ( Site 0704) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Madrid | Spain | Unknown status |
| Hospital Ramon y Cajal ( Site 0702) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Madrid | Spain | Unknown status |
| Hospital Universitario Gregorio Maranon ( Site 0701) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Madrid | Spain | Unknown status |
| Centre Oscar Lambret ( Site 0401) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Lille | France | Unknown status |
| Centre Leon Berard ( Site 0405) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Lyon | France | Unknown status |
| Centre Antoine Lacassagne ( Site 0404) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Nice | France | Unknown status |
| Institut de Cancerologie de l Ouest Centre Rene Gauducheau ( Site 0402) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Saint-Herblain | France | Unknown status |
| Institut Claudius Regaud IUCT Oncopole ( Site 0403) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Toulouse | France | Unknown status |
| Institut Gustave Roussy ( Site 0400) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Villejuif | France | Unknown status |
| Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust ( Site 0803) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Cambridge | United Kingdom | Unknown status |
| Leicester Royal Infirmary. Univ. Hosp. of Leicester NHS Trust ( Site 0804) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Leicester | United Kingdom | Unknown status |
| Royal Marsden Hospital (Sutton) ( Site 0800) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | London | United Kingdom | Unknown status |
| Guy's Hospital ( Site 0806) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | London | United Kingdom | Unknown status |
| Christie NHS Foundation Trust ( Site 0805) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Manchester | United Kingdom | Unknown status |
| Soroka Medical Center ( Site 0601) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Beersheba | Israel | Unknown status |
| Rambam Medical Center ( Site 0602) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Haifa | Israel | Unknown status |
| Hadassah Ein Kerem Medical Center ( Site 0604) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Jerusalem | Israel | Unknown status |
| Chaim Sheba Medical Center ( Site 0600) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Ramat Gan | Israel | Unknown status |
| Sourasky Medical Center ( Site 0603) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Tel Aviv | Israel | Unknown status |
| Istituto Nazionale Tumori Fondazione Pascale ( Site 1400) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Naples | Italy | Unknown status |
| Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli ( Site 1403) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Roma | Italy | Unknown status |
| Istituto Clinico Humanitas Research Hospital ( Site 1402) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Rozzano | Italy | Unknown status |
| Policlinico Le Scotte - A.O. Senese ( Site 1401) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Siena | Italy | Unknown status |
| Seoul National University Hospital ( Site 1000) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Seoul | South Korea | Unknown status |
| Severance Hospital Yonsei University Health System ( Site 1001) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Seoul | South Korea | Unknown status |
| Asan Medical Center ( Site 1002) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Songpagu | South Korea | Unknown status |
| Arkhangelsk Clinical Oncological Dispensary ( Site 1600) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Arkhangelsk | Russia | Unknown status |
| Republican Clinical Oncology Dispensary of Tatarstan MoH ( Site 1603) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Kazan' | Russia | Unknown status |
| Russian Oncological Research Center n.a. N.N. Blokhin ( Site 1604) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Moscow | Russia | Unknown status |
| Scientific Research Oncology Institute n.a. N.N.Petrov ( Site 1610) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Saint Petersburg | Russia | Unknown status |
| City Clinical Oncology Center ( Site 1608) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Saint Petersburg | Russia | Unknown status |
| Leningrad Regional Oncology Center ( Site 1609) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Saint Petersburg | Russia | Unknown status |
| Chulalongkorn University ( Site 5001) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Bangkok | Thailand | Unknown status |
| Siriraj Hospital ( Site 5003) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Bangkok | Thailand | Unknown status |
| Ramathibodi Hospital. ( Site 5002) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Bangkok | Thailand | Unknown status |
| National Cheng Kung University Hospital ( Site 3003) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Tainan | Taiwan | Unknown status |
| National Taiwan University Hospital ( Site 3000) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Taipei | Taiwan | Unknown status |
| Lehigh Valley Hospital- Cedar Crest ( Site 0047) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Allentown | United States | Unknown status |
| University of Colorado, Anschutz Cancer Pavilion ( Site 0007) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Aurora | United States | Unknown status |
| Mary Crowley Cancer Research Centers - Medical City Hospital ( Site 0049) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Dallas | United States | Unknown status |
| City of Hope ( Site 0002) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Duarte | United States | Unknown status |
| Sanford Fargo Medical Center ( Site 0059) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Fargo | United States | Unknown status |
| West Cancer Center - East Campus ( Site 0018) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Germantown | United States | Unknown status |
| Cedars Sinai Medical Center ( Site 0003) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Los Angeles | United States | Unknown status |
| University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center ( Site 0017) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Madison | United States | Unknown status |
| Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey ( Site 0009) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | New Brunswick | United States | Unknown status |
| Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone Health ( Site 0023) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | New York | United States | Unknown status |
| University of Florida-Health Cancer Center-Orlando ( Site 0015) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Orlando | United States | Unknown status |
| University of California Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center ( Site 0005) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Sacramento | United States | Unknown status |
| Swedish Medical Center ( Site 0021) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Seattle | United States | Unknown status |
| Sanford Cancer Center ( Site 0058) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Sioux Falls | United States | Unknown status |
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