NCT04626479CompletedPhase 1/2
Substudy 03A: A Study of Immune and Targeted Combination Therapies in Participants With First Line (1L) Renal Cell Carcinoma (MK-3475-03A)
A Phase 1b/2 Study of Immune and Targeted Combination Therapies in Participants With RCC (U03): Substudy 03A in First Line Metastatic Participants
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 25 Sept 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
Substudy 03A is part of a larger research study that is testing experimental treatments for renal cell carcinoma (RCC). The larger study is the umbrella study (U03). The goal of substudy 03A is to evaluate the safety and efficacy of experimental combinations of investigational agents in participants with advanced first line (1L) clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC). This substudy will have two phases: a safety lead-in phase and an efficacy phase. The safety lead-in phase will be used to demonstrate a tolerable safety profile for the combination of investigational agents. There will be no hypothesis testing in this study.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Phase (registry)
- Phase 1/2
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 393 (actual)
- First submitted
- 10 Nov 2020
- Start date
- 16 Dec 2020
- Primary completion date
- 10 Aug 2026
- Lead sponsor
- Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
- Diseases
- Kidney cancer
- NCT number
- NCT04626479
- EU CT number
- 2023-506838-68-00
- EudraCT number
- 2019-003609-84
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional · Phase 1/2
- Participants enrolled: 393
- From 16 Dec 2020 to the primary completion date, 10 Aug 2026
- 56 sites in 14 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 urine protein ≥1 g/24 hours and has any of the following: (a) a pulse oximeter reading \<92% at rest, or (b) requires intermittent supplemental oxygen, or (c) requires chronic supplemental oxygen (d) active hemoptysis within 3 weeks prior to the first dose of study intervention
- Has had major surgery within 3 weeks before first dose of study interventions
- Has malabsorption due to prior GI surgery or disease
- Has received prior radiotherapy within 2 weeks of start of study intervention
- Has received a live or live attenuated vaccine within 30 days before the first dose of study drug; killed vaccines are allowed
- Has received more than 4 previous systemic anticancer treatment regimens
- Has a diagnosis of immunodeficiency or is receiving any form of immunosuppressive therapy within 7 days prior to the first dose of study intervention
- Has had an allogenic tissue/solid organ transplant
Other illness
- Has clinically significant cardiovascular disease within 12 months from the first dose of study intervention administration
- Has a history of lung disease
- Has a history of inflammatory bowel disease
- Has preexisting gastrointestinal (GI) or non-GI fistula
- Has known additional malignancy that is progressing or has required active treatment within the past 3 years
- Has an active autoimmune disease that has required systemic treatment in the past 2 years; replacement therapy is not considered a form of systemic treatment and is allowed
- Has an active infection requiring systemic therapy
- Has a known history of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection
- Has a known history of Hepatitis B
Other
- Has known central nervous system (CNS) metastases and/or carcinomatous meningitis
Who the study is looking for
- Has a histologically confirmed diagnosis of locally advanced/metastatic ccRCC
- Has received no prior systemic therapy for advanced RCC; prior neoadjuvant/adjuvant therapy for RCC is acceptable if completed ≥12 months before randomization/allocation.
- Is able to swallow oral medication
- Has adequate organ function
- Participants receiving bone resorptive therapy must have therapy initiated at least 2 weeks before randomization/allocation
- Has resolution of toxic effects of the most recent prior therapy to ≤Grade 1
- Has adequately controlled blood pressure (BP ≤150/90 mm Hg) with no change in hypertensive medications within 1 week before randomization/allocation
- Male participants are abstinent from heterosexual intercourse or agree to use contraception during treatment with and for at least 7 days after the last dose of lenvatinib and /or belzutifan; 7 days after lenvatinib and/or belzutifan is stopped, if the participant is only receiving pembrolizumab, pembrolizumab/quavonlimab, favezelimab/pembrolizumab or a combination of the aforementioned drugs, no contraception is needed
- Female participants must not be pregnant and not be a woman of childbearing potential (WOCBP) or is a WOCBP abstinent from heterosexual intercourse or using contraception during the intervention period and for at least 120 days after the last dose of pembrolizumab, pembrolizumab/quavonlimab, favezelimab/pembrolizumab for 30 days after the last dose of lenvatinib or belzutifan, whichever occurs last and must abstain from breastfeeding during the study intervention period and for at least 120 days after study intervention
Age in the registry: 18 years to 120 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (56)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blacktown Hospital ( Site 1601) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Blacktown | Australia | Unknown status |
| Austin Health ( Site 1600) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Heidelberg | Australia | Unknown status |
| Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital ( Site 1603) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Herston | Australia | Unknown status |
| St George Hospital ( Site 1602) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Kogarah | Australia | Unknown status |
| Jewish General Hospital ( Site 1100) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Montreal | Canada | Unknown status |
| Princess Margaret Cancer Centre ( Site 1101) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Toronto | Canada | Unknown status |
| Oncovida ( Site 2107) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Santiago | Chile | Unknown status |
| Bradfordhill-Clinical Area ( Site 2101) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Santiago | Chile | Unknown status |
| FALP-UIDO ( Site 2100) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Santiago | Chile | Unknown status |
| James Lind Centro de Investigacion del Cancer ( Site 2108) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Temuco | Chile | Unknown status |
| CIDO SpA-Oncology ( Site 2106) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Temuco | Chile | Unknown status |
| ONCOCENTRO APYS-ACEREY ( Site 2103) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Viña del Mar | Chile | Unknown status |
| Clinica Colsanitas S.A, Sede Clínica Universitaria Colombia-Center Investigator ( Site 1900) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Bogotá | Colombia | Unknown status |
| Fundación Valle del Lili ( Site 1901) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Cali | Colombia | Unknown status |
| Instituto Médico de Alta Tecnologia S.A.S ( Site 1904) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Montería | Colombia | Unknown status |
| Sociedad De Oncologia Y Hematologia Del Cesar-Oncology ( Site 1905) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Valledupar | Colombia | Unknown status |
| Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Barcelona | Spain | Completed |
| Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Madrid | Spain | Completed |
| Les Hopitaux Universitaires De Strasbourg Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Strasbourg Cedex 2 | France | Completed |
| Institut Universitaire Du Cancer Toulouse-Oncopole Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Toulouse Cedex 9 | France | Completed |
| Institut de cancérologie de Lorraine Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Vandoeuvre Les Nancy_ Cedex | France | Completed |
| Institut Gustave Roussy Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Villejuif | France | Completed |
| Velindre Cancer Centre Hospital ( Site 1407) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Cardiff | United Kingdom | Unknown status |
| Western General Hospital ( Site 1402) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Edinburgh | United Kingdom | Unknown status |
| The Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre ( Site 1405) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Glasgow | United Kingdom | Unknown status |
| Leicester Royal Infirmary ( Site 1408) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Leicester | United Kingdom | Unknown status |
| Barts Health NHS Trust ( Site 1401) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | London | United Kingdom | Unknown status |
| The Christie NHS Foundation Trust ( Site 1400) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Manchester | United Kingdom | Unknown status |
| Royal Preston Hospital ( Site 1406) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Preston | United Kingdom | Unknown status |
| Southampton General Hospital ( Site 1403) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Southampton | United Kingdom | Unknown status |
| Orszagos Onkologiai Intezet Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Budapest XII | Hungary | Completed |
| Rambam MC ( Site 1500) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Haifa | Israel | Unknown status |
| Hadassah Medical Center-Oncology ( Site 1504) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Jerusalem | Israel | Unknown status |
| Rabin Medical Center ( Site 1502) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Petah Tikva | Israel | Unknown status |
| Sheba Medical Center - Oncology Division ( Site 1501) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Ramat Gan | Israel | Unknown status |
| Sourasky Medical Center ( Site 1503) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Tel Aviv | Israel | Unknown status |
| Severance Hospital ( Site 1802) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Seoul | South Korea | Unknown status |
| Samsung Medical Center ( Site 1801) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Seoul | South Korea | Unknown status |
| Asan Medical Center ( Site 1800) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Songpagu | South Korea | Unknown status |
| Het Nederlands Kanker Instituut-Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Ziekenhuis Stichting Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Amsterdam | Netherlands | Completed |
| Erasmus Universitair Medisch Centrum Rotterdam (Erasmus MC) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Rotterdam | Netherlands | Completed |
| Universitair Medisch Centrum Utrecht Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Utrecht | Netherlands | Completed |
| Auckland City Hospital ( Site 1700) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Auckland | New Zealand | Unknown status |
| Centrum Onkologii Im. Prof. Franciszka Lukaszczyka W Bydgoszczy Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Bydgoszcz | Poland | Completed |
| Uniwersyteckie Centrum Kliniczne Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Gdansk | Poland | Completed |
| Narodowy Instytut Onkologii im Marii Sklodowskiej Curie Panstwowy Instytut Badawczy Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Warsaw | Poland | Completed |
| University of Chicago ( Site 1013) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Chicago | United States | Unknown status |
| UTSW Medical Center ( Site 1003) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Dallas | United States | Unknown status |
| Henry Ford Health System ( Site 1014) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Detroit | United States | Unknown status |
| Duke Cancer Institute ( Site 1015) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Durham | United States | Unknown status |
| University of Iowa ( Site 1012) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Iowa City | United States | Unknown status |
| Yale-New Haven Hospital-Yale Cancer Center ( Site 1011) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | New Haven | United States | Unknown status |
| Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center ( Site 1016) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | New York | United States | Unknown status |
| Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center ( Site 1002) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | New York | United States | Unknown status |
| UPMC Cancer Center/Hillman Cancer Center ( Site 1017) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Pittsburgh | United States | Unknown status |
| University of California at San Francisco ( Site 1008) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | San Francisco | United States | Unknown status |
This page is information, not medical advice. Discuss any trial with your doctor.