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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

Full criteria on ClinicalTrials.gov

Sites (42)

Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.

SiteCityCountrySite status
Calvary Mater Newcastle ( Site 4404)
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WaratahAustraliaUnknown status
Melanoma Institute Australia ( Site 4402)
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WollstonecraftAustraliaUnknown status
Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève (HUG)-Oncology ( Site 4603)
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GenevaSwitzerlandUnknown status
CHUV Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois ( Site 4602)
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LausanneSwitzerlandUnknown status
Universitaetsspital Zuerich ( Site 4601)
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ZurichSwitzerlandUnknown status
Hospital Clinic de Barcelona
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BarcelonaSpainCompleted
Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal
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MadridSpainCompleted
CHU De Bordeauxt
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Bordeaux CedexFranceCompleted
Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Marseille
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MarseilleFranceCompleted
Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris
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ParisFranceCompleted
Centre Hospitalier Lyon-Sud
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Pierre-BéniteFranceCompleted
Institut Universitaire Du Cancer Toulouse-Oncopole
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Toulouse Cedex 9FranceCompleted
Institut Gustave Roussy
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VillejuifFranceCompleted
Laiko General Hospital of Athens
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AthensGreeceCompleted
Athens Medical Center S.A.
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ThessalonikiGreeceCompleted
University of Szeged
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SzegedHungaryCompleted
HaEmek Medical Center ( Site 4703)
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AfulaIsraelUnknown status
Rambam Health Care Campus-Oncology ( Site 4704)
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HaifaIsraelUnknown status
Hadassah Ein Karem Jerusalem ( Site 4702)
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JerusalemIsraelUnknown status
Rabin Medical Center-Oncology ( Site 4705)
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Petah TikvaIsraelUnknown status
Chaim Sheba Medical Center ( Site 4701)
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Ramat GanIsraelUnknown status
Fondazione IRCCS - Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori
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MilanItalyCompleted
European Institute Of Oncology S.r.l.
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MilanItalyCompleted
IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Tumori Fondazione Pascale
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NaplesItalyCompleted
Istituto Oncologico Veneto
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PadovaItalyCompleted
Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Senese
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SienaItalyCompleted
Uniwersyteckie Centrum Kliniczne
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GdanskPolandCompleted
Uniwersytecki Szpital Kliniczny w Poznaniu
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PoznanPolandCompleted
Narodowy Instytut Onkologii im Marii Sklodowskiej Curie Panstwowy Instytut Badawczy
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WarsawPolandCompleted
University of Colorado, Anschutz Cancer Pavilion ( Site 4012)
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AuroraUnited StatesUnknown status
Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins ( Site 4022)
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BaltimoreUnited StatesUnknown status
Martha Morehouse Tower ( Site 4020)
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ColumbusUnited StatesUnknown status
Duke Cancer Institute ( Site 4005)
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DurhamUnited StatesUnknown status
Inova Schar Cancer Institute ( Site 4011)
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FairfaxUnited StatesUnknown status
The Angeles Clinic and Research Institute ( Site 4009)
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Los AngelesUnited StatesUnknown status
UCLA Hematology & Oncology ( Site 4004)
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Los AngelesUnited StatesUnknown status
NYU Clinical Cancer Center ( Site 4002)
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New YorkUnited StatesUnknown status
Providence Saint John's Health Center ( Site 4010)
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Santa MonicaUnited StatesUnknown status
Cape Town Oncology Trials ( Site 4864)
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Cape TownSouth AfricaUnknown status
CANCERCARE LANGENHOVEN DRIVE ONCOLOGY CENTRE ( Site 4865)
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Port ElizabethSouth AfricaUnknown status
LIFE GROENKLOOF-Mary Potter Cancer Centre ( Site 4861)
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PretoriaSouth AfricaUnknown status
Sandton Oncology Medical Group (Pty) Ltd-Research ( Site 4863)
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SandtonSouth AfricaUnknown status

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