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NCT05723562Active, not recruitingPhase 2

A Study of Dostarlimab in Untreated dMMR/MSI-H Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer

A Phase 2, Single-Arm, Open-Label Study With Dostarlimab Monotherapy in Participants With Untreated Stage II/III dMMR/MSI-H Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 26 May 2026

Brief summary (registry, in English)

The purpose of this study is to investigate dostarlimab monotherapy in participants with locally advanced Mismatch-repair deficient (dMMR)/Microsatellite instability-high (MSI-H) rectal cancer who have received no prior treatment. Participants who achieve complete clinical response (cCR) following dostarlimab treatment will undergo non-operative management (NOM), including close surveillance for recurrent disease. The goal of the study is to determine if Dostarlimab therapy alone is an effective treatment that can allow participants to avoid chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery.

Status (registry)
Active, not recruiting
Phase (registry)
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
154 (actual)
First submitted
2 Feb 2023
Start date
3 Apr 2023
Primary completion date
2 Nov 2026
Lead sponsor
GlaxoSmithKline
NCT number
NCT05723562
EudraCT number
2022-003289-18

What you commit to

  • Study type: Interventional · Phase 2
  • Participants enrolled: 154
  • From 3 Apr 2023 to the primary completion date, 2 Nov 2026
  • 37 sites in 10 countries
  • Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them

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Who cannot take part

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Prior treatment

  • Participant has received prior radiation therapy, systemic therapy, or surgery for management of rectal cancer.
  • Has received or plans to receive an organ or stem cell transplant that uses donor stem cells (allogeneic stem cell transplant).

Other illness

  • Participant has distant metastatic disease.
  • Participant has any history of interstitial lung disease or pneumonitis
  • Participant has a known additional malignancy that progressed or required active treatment within the past 2 years. Exceptions include adequately treated superficial skin cancers, superficial bladder cancers, and other in situ cancers.
  • Participant has an active autoimmune disease that has required systemic treatment in the past 2 years (i.e., with use of disease-modifying agents, corticosteroids, or immunosuppressive drugs). Replacement therapy (e.g., thyroxine, insulin, or physiologic corticosteroid replacement therapy for adrenal or pituitary insufficiency) is not considered a form of systemic treatment.
  • Participant has a history of severe allergic and/or anaphylactic reactions to chimeric, human or humanized antibodies, fusion proteins, or has known allergies to dostarlimab or its excipients.

Lab values

  • Participant has experienced any of the following with prior immunotherapy: any imAE of Grade ≥3, immune-related severe neurologic events of any grade (e.g., myasthenic syndrome/myasthenia gravis, encephalitis, Guillain Barré Syndrome, or transverse myelitis), exfoliative dermatitis of any grade (Stevens-Johnson Syndrome, toxic epidermal necrolysis, or DRESS syndrome), or myocarditis of any grade. Non clinically significant laboratory abnormalities are not exclusionary.

Who the study is looking for

  • Participant has histologically confirmed Stage II to III (T3-T4, N0, or T any, N+), locally advanced rectal cancer
  • Participant has radiologically and endoscopically evaluable disease.
  • Participant has a tumor which can be categorized as dMMR or MSI-H by local or central assessment

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

Full criteria on ClinicalTrials.gov

Sites (37)

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MontrealCanadaUnknown status
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OttawaCanadaUnknown status
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SherbrookeCanadaUnknown status
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TorontoCanadaUnknown status
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BerlinGermanyUnknown status
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DresdenGermanyUnknown status
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DüsseldorfGermanyUnknown status
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FrankfurtGermanyUnknown status
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MünchenGermanyUnknown status
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BarcelonaSpainUnknown status
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GranadaSpainUnknown status
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MadridSpainUnknown status
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SantanderSpainUnknown status
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ValenciaSpainUnknown status
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BesançonFranceUnknown status
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MarseilleFranceUnknown status
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ParisFranceUnknown status
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PessacFranceUnknown status
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RennesFranceUnknown status
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Leeds West YorkshireUnited KingdomUnknown status
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LondonUnited KingdomUnknown status
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SuttonUnited KingdomUnknown status
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MilanItalyUnknown status
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PadovaItalyUnknown status
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RomaItalyUnknown status
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ChibaJapanUnknown status
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KanagawaJapanUnknown status
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OsakaJapanUnknown status
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SeoulSouth KoreaUnknown status
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UtrechtNetherlandsUnknown status
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AlbuquerqueUnited StatesUnknown status
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DallasUnited StatesUnknown status
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Los AngelesUnited StatesUnknown status
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NashvilleUnited StatesUnknown status
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New YorkUnited StatesUnknown status
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PittsburghUnited StatesUnknown status
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RichmondUnited StatesUnknown status

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