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NCT04938817Active, not recruitingPhase 1/2

Safety and Efficacy Study of Investigational Agents as Monotherapy or in Combination With Pembrolizumab (MK-3475) for the Treatment of Extensive-Stage Small Cell Lung Cancer (ES-SCLC) in Need of Second-Line Therapy (MK-3475-B98/KEYNOTE-B98)

A Phase 1b/2 Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of Investigational Agents as Monotherapy or in Combination With Pembrolizumab for the Treatment of Participants With PD-1/L1-refractory Extensive-Stage Small Cell Lung Cancer in Need of Second-Line Therapy (KEYNOTE-B98)

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 1 Jun 2026

Brief summary (registry, in English)

This study is a rolling arm study of investigational agents as monotherapy or in combination with pembrolizumab in participants with anti-programmed cell death 1 (PD-1)/ programmed cell death ligand 1 (PD-L1) refractory ES-SCLC in need of second-line treatment. This study will have 2 parts: an initial safety lead-in to determine safety and tolerability for experimental combinations of investigational agents without an established recommended phase 2 dose (RP2D) followed by an efficacy evaluation. Investigational agents will initiate directly in or be added to the efficacy evaluation after an initial evaluation of safety and tolerability of the investigational agent has been completed in a separate study or in the safety lead-in of this study. If an RP2D for a combination being evaluated in the safety lead-in is established from another study, then the efficacy evaluation may begin at the determined RP2D. There will be no hypothesis testing in this study.

Status (registry)
Active, not recruiting
Phase (registry)
Phase 1/2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
110 (estimated)
First submitted
21 Jun 2021
Start date
19 Aug 2021
Primary completion date
10 Dec 2029
Lead sponsor
Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
Diseases
Lung cancer
NCT number
NCT04938817
EU CT number
2023-507687-38-00
EudraCT number
2020-005628-12

What you commit to

  • Study type: Interventional · Phase 1/2
  • Planned participants: 110
  • From 19 Aug 2021 to the primary completion date, 10 Dec 2029
  • 46 sites in 12 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

  • Arms A-E:
    • Has received prior systemic anticancer therapy including investigational agents within 4 weeks before start of study treatment
    • Has received prior radiotherapy within 2 weeks of start of study treatment
    • Has received lung radiation therapy \>30 Gray (Gy) within 6 months before the first dose of study treatment
    • Has received a live or live attenuated vaccine within 30 days before the first dose of study treatment
  • 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: completed treatment (e.g., whole brain radiation treatment, stereotactic radiosurgery, or equivalent) ≥14 days before the first dose of study intervention; have no evidence of new or enlarging brain metastases confirmed by post-treatment repeat brain imaging (using the same modality) performed ≥4 weeks after pretreatment brain imaging; and are neurologically stable without the need for steroids for ≥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 millimeter (mm) or less in size and 3 or less in number.
  • Arm E:
    • Received prior treatment with a CDH6-targeted agent or an ADC that consists of an exatecan derivative that is a topoisomerase I inhibitor (eg, trastuzumab deruxtecan, datopotamab deruxtecan)
    • Has received an investigational agent or has used an investigational device within 4 weeks (or 5 half-lives, whichever is shorter) prior to study intervention administration
    • Has Chronic steroid treatment (\>10 mg/day prednisone \[or equivalent\] per day), except for inhaled steroids for asthma or COPD, mineralocorticoids (e.g., fludrocortisone) for participants with orthostatic hypotension, topical steroids for mild skin conditions, low-dose supplemental corticosteroids for adrenocortical insufficiency, Premedication for treatment groups and/or premedication in case of any hypersensitivity, or intra-articular steroid injections
    • Is an HIV-infected participants with a history of Kaposi's sarcoma and/or Multicentric Castleman's Disease
    • Any history of pneumonitis/interstitial lung disease (ILD) irrespective of prior steroid use, current ILD, or suspected ILD, or ILD that cannot be ruled out at screening

Other illness

  • 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 (≥Grade 3) to any study treatment and/or any of its excipients
  • Has an active autoimmune disease that has required systemic treatment in past 2 years except replacement therapy (eg, thyroxine, insulin, or physiologic corticosteroid)
  • Has an active infection requiring systemic therapy

Lab values

  • Arms A-D:
    • Has had major surgery within 3 weeks before first dose of study treatment
    • Has a preexisting ≥Grade 3 gastrointestinal or non-gastrointestinal fistula
    • 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 (bright red blood of at least 0.5 teaspoon) within 3 weeks before the first dose of study treatment
    • Has gastrointestinal malabsorption or any other condition that might affect oral study intervention absorption
    • Has serious nonhealing wound, ulcer, or bone fracture within 28 days before the start of study treatment
    • Has any major hemorrhage or venous thromboembolic events within 3 months before the start of study treatment
    • Has a history of inflammatory bowel disease
    • Has a history of a gastrointestinal perforation within 6 months before the start of study treatment
    • Has a known history of, or active, neurologic paraneoplastic syndrome
    • Has received prior therapy with a receptor tyrosine kinase (RTK) inhibitor or anti-cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-associated protein 4 (CTLA-4), anti-immunoglobulin-like transcript (ILT)-4, or anti-lymphocyte-activation gene 3 (LAG-3) agents
    • Has received prior therapy with an anti-PD-1/L1 agent and was permanently discontinued from that treatment due to a treatment-related adverse event
    • Has received an investigational agent or has used an investigational device within 4 weeks prior to study intervention administration
    • Has radiographic evidence of encasement or invasion of a major blood vessel, or of intratumoral cavitation
    • Has symptomatic ascites, pleural effusion, or pericardial effusion
    • 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 a known history of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection
    • Has concurrent active HBV or HCV
    • Has progressive disease as initial response to first-line systemic chemotherapy in combination with PD-1/L1 inhibitor for ES-SCLC
    • Has had an allogenic tissue/solid organ transplant
    • Has a history of (noninfectious) pneumonitis/interstitial lung disease that required steroids or has current pneumonitis/interstitial lung disease

Other

  • The main exclusion criteria include but are not limited to the following:

Who the study is looking for

  • The main inclusion criteria include but are not limited to the following:
  • Arms A-E:
    • Has histologically or cytologically confirmed diagnosis of ES-SCLC in need of second-line therapy
    • Has progressed on or after treatment with an anti-programmed cell death 1 (PD-1)/ programmed cell death ligand 1 (PD-L1) monoclonal antibody (mAb) administered as part of first-line platinum-based systemic therapy for ES-SCLC
    • Has ES-SCLC defined as Stage IV (T any, N any, M1a/b/c) by the American Joint Committee on Cancer, Eighth Edition
    • Has received 1 prior line of systemic therapy for small cell lung cancer (SCLC)
    • If a woman of childbearing potential (WOCBP), participant must have a negative highly sensitive pregnancy test within 24 hours (for a urine test) or 72 hours (for a serum test) before the first dose of study treatment
    • Has measurable disease per RECIST 1.1 as assessed by local site investigator/radiology and verified by BICR
    • Has submitted an archival tumor tissue sample or newly obtained core, incisional, or excisional biopsy of a tumor lesion not previously irradiated
    • Has an Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0 to 1 assessed within 7 days before allocation/randomization
    • Participants who are Hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) positive are eligible if they have received Hepatitis B virus (HBV) antiviral therapy for at least 4 weeks and have undetectable HBV viral load before randomization
    • Participants with history of Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection are eligible if HCV viral load is undetectable at screening
    • Has a predicted life expectancy of \>3 months
  • Arms A-D:
    • Male participants must be abstinent from heterosexual intercourse or agree to use contraception during treatment for at least 7 days after the last dose of lenvatinib. No contraception is required if the participant is receiving pembrolizumab, pembrolizumab/quavonlimab, MK-4830, or favezelimab/pembrolizumab
    • Female participants are not pregnant or breastfeeding and are not a WOCBP or if are a WOCBP, are abstinent from heterosexual intercourse or are using contraception during the intervention period and for at least 120 days after the last dose of pembrolizumab, pembrolizumab/quavonlimab, MK-4830, or favezelimab/pembrolizumab or 30 days after the last dose of lenvatinib, whichever occurs last
    • Female participants must abstain from breastfeeding during the intervention period and for at least 120 days after the last dose of pembrolizumab, pembrolizumab/quavonlimab, MK-4830, or favezelimab/pembrolizumab or 7 days after the last dose of lenvatinib, whichever occurs last
  • Has adequately controlled blood pressure (BP) with or without antihypertensive medications, defined as BP ≤150/90 millimeters of mercury (mm Hg) with no change in antihypertensive medications within 1 week before allocation/randomization
  • Arm E:
    • If capable of producing sperm, the participant agrees to refrain from donating sperm and abstain from penile-vaginal intercourse or use a penile/external condom when having penile-vaginal intercourse with a nonparticipant of childbearing potential who is not currently pregnant. The length of time required to continue contraception for the study intervention R-Dx-d is 150 days
    • If a person of childbearing potential (POCBP) must use a contraceptive method that is highly effective (with a failure rate of \<1% per year), with low user dependency, or if they adhere to penile-vaginal intercourse abstinence 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 the study intervention after the last dose of study intervention. In addition, the participant agrees not to donate eggs (ova, oocytes) to others or freeze/store eggs during this period for the purpose of reproduction. The length of time required to continue contraception for the study intervention R-Dx-d is 210 days after the last dose

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

Full criteria on ClinicalTrials.gov

Sites (46)

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SiteCityCountrySite status
Krankenhaus Nord - Klinik Floridsdorf
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ViennaAustriaActive, not recruiting
Stadt Wien Wiener Gesundheitsverbund
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ViennaAustriaActive, not recruiting
The Prince Charles Hospital-Oncology Clinical Trials ( Site 4003)
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BrisbaneAustraliaUnknown status
Monash Health-Oncology Research ( Site 4005)
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ClaytonAustraliaUnknown status
Hollywood Private Hospital-Medical Oncology ( Site 4001)
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PerthAustraliaUnknown status
Westmead Hospital-Department of Medical Oncology ( Site 4004)
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WestmeadAustraliaUnknown status
Cross Cancer Institute ( Site 3004)
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EdmontonCanadaUnknown status
St. Marys Hospital Center ( Site 3000)
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MontrealCanadaUnknown status
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre ( Site 3003)
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TorontoCanadaUnknown status
Cantonal Hospital St.Gallen-Oncology & Hematology ( Site 3502)
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Sankt GallenSwitzerlandUnknown status
Hospital Clinic de Barcelona
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BarcelonaSpainActive, not recruiting
Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron
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BarcelonaSpainActive, not recruiting
Institut Catala D'oncologia
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L'Hospitalet de LlobregatSpainActive, not recruiting
Jasz-Nagykun-Szolnok Varmegyei Hetenyi Geza Korhaz-Rendelointézet
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SzolnokHungaryCompleted
Rambam Health Care Campus-Oncology ( Site 3600)
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HaifaIsraelUnknown status
Shaare Zedek Medical Center-Oncology ( Site 3602)
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JerusalemIsraelUnknown status
Meir Medical Center. ( Site 3601)
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Kfar SabaIsraelUnknown status
Rabin Medical Center-Oncology ( Site 3604)
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Petah TikvaIsraelUnknown status
Sheba Medical Center-ONCOLOGY ( Site 3603)
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Ramat GanIsraelUnknown status
European Institute Of Oncology S.r.l.
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MilanItalyActive, not recruiting
Humanitas Research Hospital
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RozzanoItalyActive, not recruiting
Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Senese
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SienaItalyActive, not recruiting
Chungbuk National University Hospital ( Site 4106)
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Cheongju-siSouth KoreaUnknown status
Seoul National University Bundang Hospital-Medical Oncology ( Site 4104)
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SeongnamSouth KoreaUnknown status
Samsung Medical Center ( Site 4100)
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SeoulSouth KoreaUnknown status
Asan Medical Center-Lung Cancer Center ( Site 4103)
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SeoulSouth KoreaUnknown status
Seoul National University Hospital ( Site 4101)
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SeoulSouth KoreaUnknown status
Narodowy Instytut Onkologii im Marii Sklodowskiej Curie Panstwowy Instytut Badawczy
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WarsawPolandActive, not recruiting
Krasnoyarsk Regional Oncology Dispensary, Named after Krizhanovsky ( Site 3708)
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KrasnoyarskRussiaUnknown status
N.N.Petrov Research Institute of Oncology-Department of Chemotherapy and Innovative Technologies ( Site 3703)
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Saint PetersburgRussiaUnknown status
GBUZ LOKB-Oncology department #1 ( Site 3701)
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Saint PetersburgRussiaUnknown status
Saint-Petersburg City Clinical Oncology Dispensary-Department of chemotherapy ( Site 3702)
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Saint PetersburgRussiaUnknown status
GBUZ "SPb CRPCstmc(o)" ( Site 3705)
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Saint PetersburgRussiaUnknown status
Scientific research institution of oncology named after N.N. Petrov-Thoracic oncology ( Site 3704)
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Saint PetersburgRussiaUnknown status
Northside Hospital-Northside Hospital Oncology Network ( Site 0156)
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AtlantaUnited StatesUnknown status
MFSMC-HJWCI-Oncology Research ( Site 0178)
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BaltimoreUnited StatesUnknown status
Cleveland Clinic-Taussig Cancer Center ( Site 0166)
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ClevelandUnited StatesUnknown status
Parkview Research Center at Parkview Regional Medical Center ( Site 0180)
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Fort WayneUnited StatesUnknown status
Banner MD Anderson Cancer Center ( Site 0152)
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GilbertUnited StatesUnknown status
St Francis Cancer Center-Research Office ( Site 0167)
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GreenvilleUnited StatesUnknown status
Baptist Health Lexington-Research ( Site 0158)
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LexingtonUnited StatesUnknown status
University of Kentucky Chandler Medical Center-Medical Oncology ( Site 0157)
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LexingtonUnited StatesUnknown status
Oncology Hematology West, PC dba Nebraska Cancer Specialists ( Site 0179)
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OmahaUnited StatesUnknown status
Oncology Hematology West, PC dba Nebraska Cancer Specialists ( Site 0172)
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OmahaUnited StatesUnknown status
UPMC Hillman Cancer Center ( Site 0177)
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PittsburghUnited StatesUnknown status
Virginia Cancer Institute ( Site 0169)
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RichmondUnited StatesUnknown status

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