NCT04700072CompletedPhase 1/2
Substudy 02D: Safety and Efficacy of Pembrolizumab in Combination With Investigational Agents or Pembrolizumab Alone in Participants With Melanoma Brain Metastasis (MK-3475-02D/KEYMAKER-U02)
A Phase 1/2 Open-Label Rolling-Arm Umbrella Platform Design of Investigational Agents With or Without Pembrolizumab or Pembrolizumab Alone in Participants With Melanoma (KEYMAKER-U02): Substudy 02D
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 28 Oct 2025
Brief summary (registry, in English)
Substudy 02D is part of a larger research study that is testing experimental treatments for melanoma, a type of skin cancer. The larger study is the umbrella study. The goal of substudy 02D is to evaluate the safety and efficacy of investigational treatment arms in programmed cell-death 1 (PD-1) naïve or PD-1 exposed participants with melanoma brain metastasis (MBM) and to identify the investigational agent(s) that, when used in combination, are superior to the current treatment options/historical control available. As of amendment 2 (effective 01DEC2022) enrollment into the treatment arm of pembrolizumab and lenvatinib has been discontinued.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Phase (registry)
- Phase 1/2
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 56 (actual)
- First submitted
- 5 Jan 2021
- Start date
- 3 May 2021
- Primary completion date
- 17 Oct 2025
- Lead sponsor
- Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
- Diseases
- Melanoma
- NCT number
- NCT04700072
- EU CT number
- 2023-506315-17-00
- EudraCT number
- 2020-003742-36
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional · Phase 1/2
- Participants enrolled: 56
- From 3 May 2021 to the primary completion date, 17 Oct 2025
- 42 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
Copied verbatim from ClinicalTrials.gov and grouped by topic. Only the trial team decides who can take part.
Prior treatment
- Has a diagnosis of immunodeficiency or is receiving immunosuppressive therapy within 10 days before the first dose of study intervention
- Has received stereotactic or highly conformal radiotherapy within 2 weeks before the start of dosing
- Has clinically significant hemoptysis or tumor bleeding within 2 weeks prior to the first dose of study drug
- Has received prior systemic anticancer therapy within 4 weeks prior to randomization/allocation
- Has received prior radiotherapy within 2 weeks of first dose of study intervention
- Has had major surgery \<3 weeks prior to first dose of study intervention
- Has received a live or live attenuated vaccine within 30 days prior to the first dose of study intervention
- Has had an allogeneic tissue/solid organ transplant
Other illness
- Has current or history of known leptomeningeal involvement
- Has untreated or unresolved intracranial hemorrhage from central nervous system (CNS) metastasis
- Has an active infection requiring systemic therapy
- Has a known additional malignancy that is progressing or requires active treatment within the past 2 years
- Has an active autoimmune disease that has required systemic treatment in the past 2 years
- Has known history of immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
- Has known history of hepatitis B or known hepatitis C virus
- Has a history of (noninfectious) pneumonitis that required steroids or current pneumonitis
- Has a history of whole brain irradiation
Other
- Has ocular melanoma
Who the study is looking for
- Has American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) Stage IV, M1D melanoma
- Is neurologically asymptomatic from brain metastases and has not received systemic corticosteroid therapy in the 10 days prior to beginning study intervention
- If capable of producing sperm, male participants agree to the following during the intervention period and for at least the time needed to eliminate each study intervention after the last dose of study intervention. The length of time required to continue contraception for each study intervention is:
- Lenvatinib: 7 days
- Abstains from penile-vaginal intercourse as their preferred and usual lifestyle (abstinent on a long-term and persistent basis) and agrees to remain abstinent. OR
- Uses contraception unless confirmed to be azoospermic
- Female participants are not pregnant or breastfeeding and are either not a woman of child-bearing potential (WOCBP) OR use a contraceptive method that is highly effective or are abstinent from heterosexual intercourse during the intervention period and for at least 120 days after the last dose of pembrolizumab or pembrolizumab/quavonlimab, or 30 days after the last dose of lenvatinib, whichever occurs last
- Has adequate organ function
- Female participants agree to abstain from breastfeeding during the study intervention period and for at least the time needed to eliminate study intervention after the last dose of study intervention. The length of time required for each study intervention is:
- MK-1308A: 120 days
- MK-3475: 120 days
- Lenvatinib: 30 days
Age in the registry: 18 years to 120 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (42)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Calvary Mater Newcastle ( Site 4404) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Waratah | Australia | Unknown status |
| Melanoma Institute Australia ( Site 4402) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Wollstonecraft | Australia | Unknown status |
| Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève (HUG)-Oncology ( Site 4603) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Geneva | Switzerland | Unknown status |
| CHUV Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois ( Site 4602) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Lausanne | Switzerland | Unknown status |
| Universitaetsspital Zuerich ( Site 4601) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Zurich | Switzerland | Unknown status |
| Hospital Clinic de Barcelona 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 |
| CHU De Bordeauxt Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Bordeaux Cedex | France | Completed |
| Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Marseille Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Marseille | France | Completed |
| Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Paris | France | Completed |
| Centre Hospitalier Lyon-Sud Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Pierre-Bénite | France | Completed |
| Institut Universitaire Du Cancer Toulouse-Oncopole Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Toulouse Cedex 9 | France | Completed |
| Institut Gustave Roussy Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Villejuif | France | Completed |
| Laiko General Hospital of Athens Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Athens | Greece | Completed |
| Athens Medical Center S.A. Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Thessaloniki | Greece | Completed |
| University of Szeged Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Szeged | Hungary | Completed |
| HaEmek Medical Center ( Site 4703) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Afula | Israel | Unknown status |
| Rambam Health Care Campus-Oncology ( Site 4704) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Haifa | Israel | Unknown status |
| Hadassah Ein Karem Jerusalem ( Site 4702) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Jerusalem | Israel | Unknown status |
| Rabin Medical Center-Oncology ( Site 4705) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Petah Tikva | Israel | Unknown status |
| Chaim Sheba Medical Center ( Site 4701) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Ramat Gan | Israel | Unknown status |
| Fondazione IRCCS - Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Milan | Italy | Completed |
| European Institute Of Oncology S.r.l. Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Milan | Italy | Completed |
| IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Tumori Fondazione Pascale Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Naples | Italy | Completed |
| Istituto Oncologico Veneto Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Padova | Italy | Completed |
| Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Senese Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Siena | Italy | Completed |
| Uniwersyteckie Centrum Kliniczne Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Gdansk | Poland | Completed |
| Uniwersytecki Szpital Kliniczny w Poznaniu Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Poznan | Poland | Completed |
| Narodowy Instytut Onkologii im Marii Sklodowskiej Curie Panstwowy Instytut Badawczy Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Warsaw | Poland | Completed |
| University of Colorado, Anschutz Cancer Pavilion ( Site 4012) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Aurora | United States | Unknown status |
| Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins ( Site 4022) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Baltimore | United States | Unknown status |
| Martha Morehouse Tower ( Site 4020) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Columbus | United States | Unknown status |
| Duke Cancer Institute ( Site 4005) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Durham | United States | Unknown status |
| Inova Schar Cancer Institute ( Site 4011) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Fairfax | United States | Unknown status |
| The Angeles Clinic and Research Institute ( Site 4009) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Los Angeles | United States | Unknown status |
| UCLA Hematology & Oncology ( Site 4004) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Los Angeles | United States | Unknown status |
| NYU Clinical Cancer Center ( Site 4002) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | New York | United States | Unknown status |
| Providence Saint John's Health Center ( Site 4010) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Santa Monica | United States | Unknown status |
| Cape Town Oncology Trials ( Site 4864) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Cape Town | South Africa | Unknown status |
| CANCERCARE LANGENHOVEN DRIVE ONCOLOGY CENTRE ( Site 4865) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Port Elizabeth | South Africa | Unknown status |
| LIFE GROENKLOOF-Mary Potter Cancer Centre ( Site 4861) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Pretoria | South Africa | Unknown status |
| Sandton Oncology Medical Group (Pty) Ltd-Research ( Site 4863) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Sandton | South Africa | Unknown status |
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