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NCT04924101CompletedPhase 2

Efficacy and Safety of Pembrolizumab Plus Investigational Agents in Combination With Chemotherapy as First-Line Treatment in Extensive-Stage Small Cell Lung Cancer (ES-SCLC) (MK-3475-B99/ KEYNOTE-B99)

A Phase 2 Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of Pembrolizumab Plus Investigational Agents in Combination With Etoposide and Cisplatin or Carboplatin for the First-Line Treatment of Participants With Extensive-Stage Small Cell Lung Cancer (KEYNOTE-B99)

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 13 Aug 2026

Brief summary (registry, in English)

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the use of investigational agents (MK-4830, boserolimab (MK-5890) and lenvatinib (MK-7902)) in combination with pembrolizumab (MK-3475) and etoposide/platinum chemotherapy for the first-line treatment of participants with extensive-stage small cell Lung Cancer (ES-SCLC). No formal hypothesis testing will be performed for this study.

Status (registry)
Completed
Phase (registry)
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
122 (actual)
First submitted
9 Jun 2021
Start date
15 Jul 2021
Primary completion date
23 Jun 2025
Lead sponsor
Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
Diseases
Lung cancer
NCT number
NCT04924101
EU CT number
2023-506538-56-00
EudraCT number
2020-005649-17

What you commit to

  • Study type: Interventional · Phase 2
  • Participants enrolled: 122
  • From 15 Jul 2021 to the primary completion date, 23 Jun 2025
  • 49 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 had major surgery within 3 weeks before first dose of study interventions
  • Has clinically significant cardiovascular disease or major arterial thromboembolic event within 12 months before first dose of study intervention, including New York Heart Association Class III or IV congestive heart failure, unstable angina, myocardial infarction, cerebral vascular accident, or cardiac arrhythmia associated with hemodynamic instability
  • Has active hemoptysis within 3 weeks before the first dose of study intervention
  • Has serious nonhealing wound, ulcer, or bone fracture within 28 days before first dose of study intervention
  • Has any major hemorrhage or venous thromboembolic events within 3 months before the first dose of study intervention. Participants with venous thrombosis diagnosed more than 3 months before the first dose of study intervention must be on stable doses of anticoagulants
  • Has a history of a gastrointestinal perforation within 6 months before the first dose of study intervention
  • Has received prior therapy with an anti-programmed cell death 1 protein (anti-PD-1), anti-programmed cell death ligand 1 (anti-PD-L1), or anti programmed cell death ligand 2 (anti-PD-L2) agent or with an agent directed to another stimulatory or coinhibitory T-cell receptor
  • Has received prior treatment (chemotherapy, radiotherapy, or surgical resection) including investigational agents for SCLC
  • Is expected to require any other form of antineoplastic therapy for SCLC, including radiation therapy, while on study
  • Has received a live or live-attenuated vaccine within 30 days before the first dose of study intervention
  • Is currently participating in or has participated in a study of an investigational agent or has used an investigational device within 4 weeks before the first dose of study intervention
  • 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 intervention
  • Has known active central nervous system (CNS) metastases and/or carcinomatous meningitis. Participants with brain metastases may participate only if they satisfy all of the following: a) Completed treatment at least 14 days before the first dose of study intervention b) Have no evidence of new or enlarging brain metastases confirmed by posttreatment repeat brain imaging performed at least 4 weeks after pretreatment brain imaging, and c) Are neurologically stable without the need for steroids for at least 7 days before the first dose of study intervention as per local site assessment. Participants with untreated brain metastases will be allowed if they are asymptomatic, the investigator determines there is no immediate CNS-specific treatment required, there is no significant surrounding edema, and the brain metastases are of 5 mm or less in size and 3 or fewer in number
  • Has had an allogenic tissue/solid organ transplant

Other illness

  • Has a preexisting ≥Grade 3 gastrointestinal or non-gastrointestinal fistula
  • Has gastrointestinal malabsorption or any other condition that might affect oral study intervention absorption
  • Has a history of inflammatory bowel disease
  • Is considered a poor medical risk due to a serious, uncontrolled medical disorder or nonmalignant systemic disease
  • Has symptomatic ascites, pleural effusion, or pericardial effusion. A participant who is clinically stable following treatment for these conditions is eligible
  • Has a known additional malignancy that is progressing or has required active treatment within the past 3 years
  • Has a history of severe hypersensitivity reaction to any study intervention and/or any of its excipients
  • Has an active autoimmune disease that has required systemic treatment in past 2 years
  • Has a history of (noninfectious) pneumonitis/interstitial lung disease that required steroids or has current pneumonitis/interstitial lung disease
  • Has a known history of, or active, neurologic paraneoplastic syndrome
  • Has an active infection requiring systemic therapy
  • Has a known history of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and/or Hepatitis B virus infection or an active Hepatitis C infection
  • Has a known psychiatric or substance abuse disorder that would interfere with the participant's ability to cooperate with the requirements of the study

Lab values

  • Has a left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) below the institutional (or local laboratory) normal range, as determined by multiple gated acquisition (MUGA) or echocardiogram (ECHO)
  • Prolongation of QT interval with Fridericia's correction (QTcF) interval to \>480 ms
  • Has a history or current evidence of any condition, therapy, laboratory abnormality, or other circumstance that might confound the results of the study, interfere with the participant's participation for the full duration of the study, such that it is not in the best interest of the participant to participate, in the opinion of the treating investigator

Other

  • Has urine protein ≥1 g/24 hours
  • Has radiographic evidence of encasement or invasion of a major blood vessel, or of intratumoral cavitation. A participant that meets this exclusion criterion but is otherwise deemed eligible for the study may be randomized across the specific intervention groups.

Who the study is looking for

  • Has histologically or cytologically confirmed diagnosis of extensive-stage small cell lung cancer (ES-SCLC) in need of first-line therapy
  • Has ES-SCLC defined as Stage IV (T any, N any, M1a/b/c) by the American Joint Committee on Cancer, Eighth Edition
  • Male participants are eligible to participate if they 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 as follows: Lenvatinib (7 days); Etoposide, Cisplatin, or Carboplatin (180 days) and Pembrolizumab, MK-4830, or (no contraception measures); refrain from donating sperm plus either be abstinent from heterosexual intercourse as their preferred and usual lifestyle (abstinent on a long-term and persistent basis) and agree to remain abstinent or must agree to use contraception per protocol unless confirmed to be azoospermic
  • A female participant is eligible to participate if she is not pregnant or breastfeeding, and at least one of the following conditions applies: Is not a woman/women of childbearing potential (WOCBP) or is a WOCBP and uses a contraceptive method that is highly effective with low user dependency or be abstinent from heterosexual intercourse as their preferred and usual lifestyle (abstinent on a long-term and persistent basis), during the intervention period and for at least the time needed to eliminate each study intervention after the last dose of study intervention and agrees not to donate eggs to others or freeze/store for her own use for the purpose of reproduction during this period. The length of time required to continue contraception for each study intervention is as follows: Lenvatinib (30 days), Etoposide, Cisplatin, or Carboplatin (180 days), and Pembrolizumab, MK-4830, or Boserolimab (120 days)
  • A WOCBP must have a negative highly sensitive pregnancy test (urine or serum as required by local regulations) within 24 hours (urine test) or 72 hours (serum test) before the first dose of study intervention
  • Abstains from breastfeeding during the study intervention period and for at least 120 days after study intervention
  • Has measurable disease per RECIST 1.1 as assessed by local site investigator/radiology and verified by blinded independent central review (BICR)
  • Submits an archival tumor tissue sample or newly obtained core, incisional, or excisional biopsy of a tumor lesion not previously irradiated where such sample exist
  • Has an Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0 or 1 assessed within 7 days before randomization
  • Has adequate organ function within 10 days before the first dose of study intervention
  • Has adequately controlled blood pressure (BP) with or without antihypertensive medications, defined as BP ≤150/90 mm Hg with no changes in antihypertensive medications within 1 week before randomization

Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers

Full criteria on ClinicalTrials.gov

Sites (49)

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SiteCityCountrySite status
Wiener Gesundheitsverbund
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ViennaAustriaCompleted
Krankenhaus Nord - Klinik Floridsdorf
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ViennaAustriaCompleted
Hamilton Health Sciences-Juravinski Cancer Centre ( Site 2003)
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HamiltonCanadaUnknown status
Kingston Health Sciences Centre-Kingston General Hospital Site ( Site 2005)
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KingstonCanadaUnknown status
St. Marys Hospital Center ( Site 2000)
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MontrealCanadaUnknown status
Cantonal Hospital St.Gallen-Oncology & Hematology ( Site 2502)
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Sankt GallenSwitzerlandUnknown status
Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron
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BarcelonaSpainCompleted
Complejo Hospitalario Universitario Insular Materno Infantil
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Las Palmas de Gran CanariaSpainCompleted
Institut Catala D'oncologia
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L'Hospitalet de LlobregatSpainCompleted
Semmelweis University
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Budapest VIIIHungaryCompleted
Koranyi National Institute For Pulmonology
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Budapest XIIHungaryCompleted
Jasz-Nagykun-Szolnok Varmegyei Hetenyi Geza Korhaz-Rendelointézet
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SzolnokHungaryCompleted
Református Pulmonológiai Centrum
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TörökbálintHungaryCompleted
Zala Varmegyei Szent Rafael Korhaz
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ZalaegerszegHungaryCompleted
Rambam Health Care Campus-Oncology ( Site 2600)
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HaifaIsraelUnknown status
Shaare Zedek Medical Center ( Site 2602)
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JerusalemIsraelUnknown status
Meir Medical Center ( Site 2601)
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Kfar SabaIsraelUnknown status
Rabin Medical Center-Oncology ( Site 2604)
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Petah TikvaIsraelUnknown status
Sheba Medical Center-ONCOLOGY ( Site 2603)
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Ramat GanIsraelUnknown status
Ospedale San Raffaele S.r.l.
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MilanItalyCompleted
European Institute Of Oncology S.r.l.
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MilanItalyCompleted
Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Senese
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SienaItalyCompleted
Chungbuk National University Hospital ( Site 1107)
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Cheongju-siSouth KoreaUnknown status
Seoul National University Bundang Hospital ( Site 1104)
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SeongnamSouth KoreaUnknown status
Seoul National University Hospital ( Site 1101)
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SeoulSouth KoreaUnknown status
Severance Hospital, Yonsei University Health System-Medical oncology ( Site 1105)
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SeoulSouth KoreaUnknown status
Samsung Medical Center ( Site 1100)
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SeoulSouth KoreaUnknown status
Asan Medical Center-Department of Oncology ( Site 1103)
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SeoulSouth KoreaUnknown status
The Catholic University Of Korea St. Vincent's Hospital ( Site 1106)
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SuwonSouth KoreaUnknown status
Warminsko-Mazurskie Centrum Chorob Pluc w Olsztynie
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OlsztynPolandCompleted
Narodowy Instytut Onkologii im Marii Sklodowskiej Curie Panstwowy Instytut Badawczy
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WarsawPolandCompleted
Krasnoyarsk Regional Oncology Dispensary, Named after Krizhanovsky ( Site 2708)
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KrasnoyarskRussiaUnknown status
GBUZ "SPb CRPCstmc(o)" ( Site 2705)
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Saint PetersburgRussiaUnknown status
Scientific research institution of oncology named after N.N. Petrov-Thoracic oncology ( Site 2704)
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Saint PetersburgRussiaUnknown status
N.N.Petrov Research Institute of Oncology-Department of Chemotherapy and Innovative Technologies ( S
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Saint PetersburgRussiaUnknown status
Georgia Cancer Specialists ( Site 0106)
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AtlantaUnited StatesUnknown status
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus ( Site 0104)
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AuroraUnited StatesUnknown status
MFSMC-HJWCI-Oncology Research ( Site 0128)
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BaltimoreUnited StatesUnknown status
Cleveland Clinic-Taussig Cancer Center ( Site 0116)
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ClevelandUnited StatesUnknown status
Parkview Research Center at Parkview Regional Medical Center ( Site 0130)
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Fort WayneUnited StatesUnknown status
Banner MD Anderson Cancer Center ( Site 0102)
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GilbertUnited StatesUnknown status
St Francis Cancer Center-Research Office ( Site 0117)
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GreenvilleUnited StatesUnknown status
Baptist Health Lexington-Research ( Site 0108)
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LexingtonUnited StatesUnknown status
Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone Hospital - Long Island ( Site 0114)
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MineolaUnited StatesUnknown status
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center ( Site 0115)
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New YorkUnited StatesUnknown status
Oncology Hematology West, PC dba Nebraska Cancer Specialists ( Site 0129)
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OmahaUnited StatesUnknown status
Oncology Hematology West, PC dba Nebraska Cancer Specialists ( Site 0122)
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OmahaUnited StatesUnknown status
UPMC Hillman Cancer Center ( Site 0127)
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PittsburghUnited StatesUnknown status
Virginia Cancer Institute ( Site 0119)
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RichmondUnited StatesUnknown status

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