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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
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

Full criteria on ClinicalTrials.gov

Sites (56)

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SiteCityCountrySite status
Chris O'Brien Lifehouse
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CamperdownAustraliaUnknown status
St Vincent's Public Hospital Sydney
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DarlinghurstAustraliaUnknown status
Sir Charles Gardner
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HeidelbergAustraliaUnknown status
Austin Health
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NedlandsAustraliaUnknown status
Genesis Care North Shore
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St LeonardsAustraliaUnknown status
Hospital de Cancer de Barretos - Fundacao Pio XII
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BarretosBrazilUnknown status
Grupo Oncoclínicas
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BotafogoBrazilUnknown status
Hospital Bruno Born
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LajeadoBrazilUnknown status
Hospital Nossa Senhora da Conceição
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Porto AlegreBrazilUnknown status
Centro de Estudos e Pesquisa de Hematologia
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Santo AndréBrazilUnknown status
Instituto do Cancer do Estado de Sao Paulo - ICESP
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São PauloBrazilUnknown status
Centro de Câncer A. C. Camargo
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São PauloBrazilUnknown status
Alberta Health Services, Tom Baker Cancer Centre
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CalgaryCanadaUnknown status
Toronto Sunnybrook Hospital
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TorontoCanadaUnknown status
Hunan Cancer Hospital
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ChangshaChinaUnknown status
The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University
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ChangshaChinaUnknown status
Sichuan Cancer Hospital
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ChengduChinaUnknown status
Dongguan People's Hospital
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DongguanChinaUnknown status
Fujian Cancer Hospital
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FuzhouChinaUnknown status
Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University
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GuangzhouChinaUnknown status
the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University
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GuangzhouChinaUnknown status
Zhujiang Hospital of Southern Medical University
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GuangzhouChinaUnknown status
Guangzhou Panyu Central Hospital
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GuangzhouChinaUnknown status
Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University
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GuangzhouChinaUnknown status
The Sixth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University
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GuangzhouChinaUnknown status
Affiliated Cancer Hospital and Institute of Guangzhou Medical University
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GuangzhouChinaUnknown status
The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University
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GuangzhouChinaUnknown status
The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Pharmaceutical University
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GuangzhouChinaUnknown status
Affiliated Hospital of Guilin Medical University
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GuilinChinaUnknown status
Guizhou Cancer Hospital
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GuiyangChinaUnknown status
Hainan General Hospital
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HaikouChinaUnknown status
The First Affiliated Hospital of Hainan Medical University
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HaikouChinaUnknown status
Zhejiang Cancer Hospital
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HangzhouChinaUnknown status
The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University
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HefeiChinaUnknown status
The First Affiliated Hospital of University of South China
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HengyangChinaUnknown status
Jiangmen Central Hospital
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JiangmenChinaUnknown status
Yunnan Cancer Hospital
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KunmingChinaUnknown status
The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University
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LuzhouChinaUnknown status
Jiangxi Cancer Hospital
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NanchangChinaUnknown status
The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University
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NanchangChinaUnknown status
The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University
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NanningChinaUnknown status
The People's Hospital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region
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NanningChinaUnknown status
Guangxi Medical University Cancer Hospital
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NanningChinaUnknown status
Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center
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ShanghaiChinaUnknown status
Cancer Hospital of Shantou University Medical College
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ShantouChinaUnknown status
Shenzhen People's Hospital
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Taizhou Hospital of Zhejiang Province
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Hubei Cancer Hospital
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WuhanChinaUnknown status
The First Affiliated hospital of Xiamen University
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XiamenChinaUnknown status
Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical University
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ZhanjiangChinaUnknown status
The Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University
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ZhuhaiChinaUnknown status
University of Michigan
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Ann ArborUnited StatesUnknown status
Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University
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AtlantaUnited StatesUnknown status
City of Hope
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DuarteUnited StatesUnknown status
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
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New YorkUnited StatesUnknown status
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
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New YorkUnited StatesUnknown status

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