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NCT05600309CompletedPhase 3

A Study of Coformulated Favezelimab/Pembrolizumab (MK-4280A) Versus Standard of Care in Subjects With Previously Treated Metastatic PD-L1 Positive Colorectal Cancer (MK-4280A-007)-China Extension Study

A Phase 3 Study of MK-4280A (Coformulated Favezelimab [MK-4280] Plus Pembrolizumab [MK-3475]) Versus Standard of Care in Previously Treated Metastatic PD-L1 Positive Colorectal Cancer (KEYFORM-007)

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 26 Nov 2025

Brief summary (registry, in English)

The purpose of this China extension study is to assess the safety and efficacy of coformulated favezelimab/pembrolizumab (MK-4280A) in adult Chinese participants with metastatic colorectal cancer. The study will also compare MK-4280A with the standard of care treatment of regorafenib and TAS-102 (trifluridine and tipiracil). The primary study hypothesis is that coformulated favezelimab/pembrolizumab (MK-4280A) is superior to standard of care with respect to overall survival.

Status (registry)
Completed
Phase (registry)
Phase 3
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
94 (actual)
First submitted
26 Oct 2022
Start date
14 Jun 2022
Primary completion date
15 Aug 2024
Lead sponsor
Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
NCT number
NCT05600309

What you commit to

  • Study type: Interventional · Phase 3
  • Participants enrolled: 94
  • From 14 Jun 2022 to the primary completion date, 15 Aug 2024
  • 24 sites in 1 country
  • 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

  • Has previously been found to have deficient mismatch repair/microsatellite instability-high (dMMR/MSI-H) tumor status.
  • Has previously received regorafenib or TAS-102.
  • Has received prior systemic anticancer therapy including investigational agents within 28 days before randomization.
  • Has received prior radiotherapy within 2 weeks of start of study intervention. Participants must have recovered from all radiation-related toxicities, not require corticosteroids, and not have had radiation pneumonitis. A 1-week washout is permitted for palliative radiation (≤2 weeks of radiotherapy) to non-CNS disease.
  • Has received a live or live-attenuated vaccine within 30 days before the first dose of study intervention.
  • Has had an allogenic tissue/solid organ transplant.

Other illness

  • Has known active central nervous system (CNS) metastases and/or carcinomatous meningitis or leptomeningeal disease.
  • Has a history of acute or chronic pancreatitis.
  • Has neuromuscular disorders associated with an elevated creatine kinase (eg, inflammatory myopathies, muscular dystrophy, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, spinal muscular atrophy)
  • Has clinically significant cardiovascular disease within 12 months from 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 a known additional malignancy that is progressing or has required active treatment within the past 3 years.
  • Has severe hypersensitivity (≥Grade 3) to pembrolizumab 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 an active infection requiring systemic therapy (eg, tuberculosis, known viral or bacterial infections, etc.).
  • Has a known history of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection.
  • Has known history of Hepatitis B or known active Hepatitis C virus infection.

Lab values

  • A woman of childbearing potential who has a positive urine/serum pregnancy test within 24/72 hours prior to the first dose of study intervention.
  • Has received prior therapy with an anti-programmed cell death 1 (PD-1), anti-programmed death ligand 1 (PD-L1), or anti-programmed cell death ligand 2 (PD-L2), anti-lymphocyte activation gene 3 (LAG-3) antibody, with a tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI; eg, lenvatinib) other than rapidly accelerated fibrosarcoma (RAF) inhibitors (binimetinib is permitted if combined with a RAF inhibitor), or with an agent directed to another stimulatory or coinhibitory T-cell receptor (eg, cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-associated protein 4, OX-40, cluster of differentiation \[CD\] 137).
  • Has a history or current evidence of any condition, therapy, or laboratory abnormality that might confound the results of the study, interfere with the participant's participation for the full duration of the study, or is not in the best interest of the participant to participate, in the opinion of the treating investigator.

Other

  • Has urine protein greater than or equal to 1g/24h.

Who the study is looking for

  • Has a histologically confirmed colorectal adenocarcinoma that is metastatic and unresectable.
  • Has measurable disease per RECIST 1.1 as assessed by the local site investigator.
  • Has been previously treated for the disease and radiographically progressed on or after or could not tolerate standard treatment.
  • Submits an archival (≤ 5 years) or newly obtained tumor tissue sample or newly obtained tumor tissue sample that has not been previously irradiated.
  • Has an Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group Performance Score (ECOG PS) of 0 to 1 within 10 days prior to first dose of study intervention.
  • Has a life expectancy of at least 3 months, based on the investigator assessment.
  • Has the ability to swallow and retain oral medication and not have any clinically significant gastrointestinal abnormalities that might alter absorption.
  • Has adequate organ function.

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

Full criteria on ClinicalTrials.gov

Sites (24)

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

SiteCityCountrySite status
Jilin Cancer Hospital ( Site 1163)
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ChangchunChinaUnknown status
Xiangya Hospital Central South University ( Site 1171)
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ChangshaChinaUnknown status
Hunan Cancer Hospital ( Site 1174)
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ChangshaChinaUnknown status
The Third Xiangya Hospital of Central South University ( Site 1175)
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ChangshaChinaUnknown status
Changzhou Cancer Hospital-Department of Oncology ( Site 1183)
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ChangzhouChinaUnknown status
West China Hospital Sichuan University ( Site 1172)
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ChengduChinaUnknown status
Chongqing Cancer Hospital ( Site 1151)
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ChongqingChinaUnknown status
Fujian Province Cancer Hospital ( Site 1178)
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FuzhouChinaUnknown status
Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center ( Site 1150)
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GuangzhouChinaUnknown status
Southern Medical University Nanfang Hospital ( Site 1154)
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GuangzhouChinaUnknown status
The Sixth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University ( Site 1159)
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GuangzhouChinaUnknown status
Hainan General Hospital ( Site 1177)
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HaikouChinaUnknown status
Zhejiang Cancer Hospital ( Site 1180)
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HangzhouChinaUnknown status
Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital-Medical Oncology ( Site 1173)
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HangzhouChinaUnknown status
The Second Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University ( Site 1179)
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HefeiChinaUnknown status
Jinan Central Hospital ( Site 1167)
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JinanChinaUnknown status
Yunnan Province Cancer Hospital-Colorectal surgery ( Site 1169)
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KunmingChinaUnknown status
Guangxi Medical University Affiliated Tumor Hospital ( Site 1158)
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NanningChinaUnknown status
Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital ( Site 1170)
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ShanghaiChinaUnknown status
Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center ( Site 1176)
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ShanghaiChinaUnknown status
Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital ( Site 1161)
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TianjinChinaUnknown status
Hubei Cancer Hospital ( Site 1152)
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WuhanChinaUnknown status
Wuhan Union Hospital Cancer Center ( Site 1162)
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WuhanChinaUnknown status
Affiliated Hospital of Jiangnan University(Wuxi Fourth People's Hospital ) ( Site 1185)
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WuxiChinaUnknown status

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