NCT04974398Active, not recruitingPhase 3
A Study of Penpulimab (AK105) in the First-line Treatment of Recurrent or Metastatic Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma
A Randomized, Double-blind, Multi-center Phase III Study of Penpulimab (AK105) Combined With Chemotherapy Versus Placebo Combined With Chemotherapy in the First-line Treatment of Recurrent or Metastatic Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 13 Apr 2025
Brief summary (registry, in English)
This study is a randomized, double-blind, multi-center phase III clinical study to compare the efficacy and safety of penpulimab combined with chemotherapy and placebo combined with chemotherapy in the first-line treatment of recurrent or metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma.
- Status (registry)
- Active, not recruiting
- Phase (registry)
- Phase 3
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 296 (actual)
- First submitted
- 13 Jul 2021
- Start date
- 16 Aug 2021
- Primary completion date
- 23 Feb 2026
- Lead sponsor
- Akeso
- Diseases
- Childhood cancers
- NCT number
- NCT04974398
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional · Phase 3
- Participants enrolled: 296
- From 16 Aug 2021 to the primary completion date, 23 Feb 2026
- 56 sites in 5 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
- Participation in treatment with an investigational drug or use of an investigational device within 4 weeks before first study dosing.
- Have previously received immunotherapy, including immune checkpoint inhibitors, immune checkpoint agonists , immune cell therapy, and other treatments against tumor immune mechanism.
- Active autoimmune disease requiring systemic treatment within 2 years prior to initial administration, or as an autoimmune disease that can recur or for which treatment is planned determined by the investigator.
- Unresolved toxicity from prior anti-tumor therapy, defined as toxicity that has not recovered .
- Received a live vaccine within 30 days before the first dose or planned to receive a live vaccine during the study.
Other illness
- Subjects have had another malignancy within 3 years before the first dose, except nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Subjects with other malignancies that have been cured by local therapy such as basal or cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma, superficial bladder cancer, cervix or breast carcinoma in situ are not excluded.
- Active or past history of definite inflammatory bowel disease (e.g., Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis).
- History of immunodeficiency; those who test positive for HIV antibody; current chronic use of systemic corticosteroids or immunosuppressive agents.
- Known active tuberculosis (TB) (suspected of having active TB need to undergo clinical examination for exclusion of such possibility); known active syphilis infection.
- Known history of allotransplantation and allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.
- Has known active Hepatitis B or Hepatitis C.
- Known allergy to any study drug component; known history of serious hypersensitivity to other monoclonal antibodies.
Other
- Subjects with pathologically diagnosed nasopharyngeal adenocarcinoma or sarcoma.
- Active or untreated CNS metastases.
- Subjects with peripheral neuropathy.
- Pregnant or nursing (lactating) women.
Who the study is looking for
- Voluntarily signed written Informed Consent Form(ICF).
- Main study: Age of ≥ 18 years and ≤ 75 years at the time of enrollment.
- Substudy: Age of ≥ 12 years and \< 18 years. Weight≥ 35KG.
- Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0 or 1.
- Expected survival of ≥ 3 months.
- Histologically or cytologically confirmed nasopharyngeal carcinoma.
- Subjects with primary metastatic (nasopharyngeal carcinoma, stage IVB defined by the Union for International Cancer Control and the American Joint Committee on Cancer Staging System edition 8) nasopharyngeal carcinoma who are not suitable for local treatment or radical treatment; subjects who have a local-regional recurrence and/or distant metastasis more than 6 months after the completion of prior radical treatment (radiotherapy with induction, concurrent, adjuvant chemotherapy); No systemic treatment has been received for recurrent or metastatic diseases, not amendable to local treatment or have received local treatment for the local-regional recurrent disease
- At least one measurable lesion according to RECIST v1.1;
- Has adequate organ function.
- All female and male subjects of reproductive potential must agree to use an effective method of contraception, as determined by the Investigator, during and for 150 days after the last dose of study treatment.
Age in the registry: 12 years to 75 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chris O'Brien Lifehouse Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Camperdown | Australia | Unknown status |
| St Vincent's Public Hospital Sydney Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Darlinghurst | Australia | Unknown status |
| Sir Charles Gardner Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Heidelberg | Australia | Unknown status |
| Austin Health Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Nedlands | Australia | Unknown status |
| Genesis Care North Shore Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | St Leonards | Australia | Unknown status |
| Hospital de Cancer de Barretos - Fundacao Pio XII Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Barretos | Brazil | Unknown status |
| Grupo Oncoclínicas Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Botafogo | Brazil | Unknown status |
| Hospital Bruno Born Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Lajeado | Brazil | Unknown status |
| Hospital Nossa Senhora da Conceição Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Porto Alegre | Brazil | Unknown status |
| Centro de Estudos e Pesquisa de Hematologia Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Santo André | Brazil | Unknown status |
| Instituto do Cancer do Estado de Sao Paulo - ICESP Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | São Paulo | Brazil | Unknown status |
| Centro de Câncer A. C. Camargo Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | São Paulo | Brazil | Unknown status |
| Alberta Health Services, Tom Baker Cancer Centre Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Calgary | Canada | Unknown status |
| Toronto Sunnybrook Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Toronto | Canada | Unknown status |
| Hunan Cancer Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Changsha | China | Unknown status |
| The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Changsha | China | Unknown status |
| Sichuan Cancer Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Chengdu | China | Unknown status |
| Dongguan People's Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Dongguan | China | Unknown status |
| Fujian Cancer Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Fuzhou | China | Unknown status |
| Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Guangzhou | China | Unknown status |
| the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Guangzhou | China | Unknown status |
| Zhujiang Hospital of Southern Medical University Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Guangzhou | China | Unknown status |
| Guangzhou Panyu Central Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Guangzhou | China | Unknown status |
| Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Guangzhou | China | Unknown status |
| The Sixth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Guangzhou | China | Unknown status |
| Affiliated Cancer Hospital and Institute of Guangzhou Medical University Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Guangzhou | China | Unknown status |
| The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Guangzhou | China | Unknown status |
| The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Pharmaceutical University Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Guangzhou | China | Unknown status |
| Affiliated Hospital of Guilin Medical University Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Guilin | China | Unknown status |
| Guizhou Cancer Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Guiyang | China | Unknown status |
| Hainan General Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Haikou | China | Unknown status |
| The First Affiliated Hospital of Hainan Medical University Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Haikou | China | Unknown status |
| Zhejiang Cancer Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Hangzhou | China | Unknown status |
| The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Hefei | China | Unknown status |
| The First Affiliated Hospital of University of South China Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Hengyang | China | Unknown status |
| Jiangmen Central Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Jiangmen | China | Unknown status |
| Yunnan Cancer Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Kunming | China | Unknown status |
| The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Luzhou | China | Unknown status |
| Jiangxi Cancer Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Nanchang | China | Unknown status |
| The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Nanchang | China | Unknown status |
| The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Nanning | China | Unknown status |
| The People's Hospital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Nanning | China | Unknown status |
| Guangxi Medical University Cancer Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Nanning | China | Unknown status |
| Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Shanghai | China | Unknown status |
| Cancer Hospital of Shantou University Medical College Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Shantou | China | Unknown status |
| Shenzhen People's Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Shenzhen | China | Unknown status |
| Taizhou Hospital of Zhejiang Province Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Taizhou | China | Unknown status |
| Hubei Cancer Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Wuhan | China | Unknown status |
| The First Affiliated hospital of Xiamen University Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Xiamen | China | Unknown status |
| Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical University Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Zhanjiang | China | Unknown status |
| The Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Zhuhai | China | Unknown status |
| University of Michigan Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Ann Arbor | United States | Unknown status |
| Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Atlanta | United States | Unknown status |
| City of Hope Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Duarte | United States | Unknown status |
| Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | New York | United States | Unknown status |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | New York | United States | Unknown status |
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