NCT05727904RecruitingPhase 3
Study to Investigate Lifileucel Regimen Plus Pembrolizumab Compared With Pembrolizumab Alone in Participants With Untreated Advanced Melanoma.
A Phase 3, Multicenter, Randomized, Open-label, Parallel Group, Treatment Study to Assess the Efficacy and Safety of the Lifileucel (LN-144, Autologous Tumor Infiltrating Lymphocytes [TIL]) Regimen in Combination With Pembrolizumab Compared With Pembrolizumab Monotherapy in Participants With Untreated, Unresectable or Metastatic Melanoma
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 24 Sept 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
This is a Phase 3, multicenter, open-label, randomized, parallel group, treatment study to assess the efficacy and safety of lifileucel in combination with pembrolizumab compared with pembrolizumab alone in participants with untreated, unresectable or metastatic melanoma. Participants randomized to the pembrolizumab monotherapy arm who subsequently have a blinded independent central review- verified confirmed progressive disease (PD) will be offered lifileucel monotherapy in an optional crossover period.
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Phase (registry)
- Phase 3
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 670 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 6 Feb 2023
- Start date
- 30 Mar 2023
- Primary completion date
- 1 Mar 2028
- Lead sponsor
- Iovance Biotherapeutics, Inc.
- Diseases
- Melanoma
- NCT number
- NCT05727904
- EU CT number
- 2022-503140-41-00
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional · Phase 3
- Planned participants: 670
- From 30 Mar 2023 to the primary completion date, 1 Mar 2028
- 87 sites in 20 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 received more than 1 prior line of therapy.
- Participant received prior therapy for metastatic disease
- Participants with a BRAF V600 mutation-positive tumor received prior adjuvant/neoadjuvant ICI therapy only
- Participant had another primary malignancy within the previous 3 years (except for those that do not require treatment or were curatively treated \>1 year ago, and in the judgment of the investigator do not pose a significant risk of recurrence.)
Other illness
- Participant has an active medical illness(es) that, in the opinion of the investigator, would pose increased risks for study participation, such as systemic infections; seizure disorders; coagulation disorders; or other active major medical illnesses of the cardiovascular, respiratory, or immune systems.
- Participant has a history of allogeneic cell or organ transplant.
- Other protocol defined inclusion/exclusion criteria could apply.
Other
- Participant has melanoma of uveal/ocular origin.
- Participant has symptomatic untreated brain metastases.
- Participant has any form of primary or acquired immunodeficiency (eg, SCID or AIDS).
Who the study is looking for
- Participant has a histologically or pathologically confirmed diagnosis of Stage IIIC, IIID, or IV unresectable or metastatic melanoma.
- In the investigator's assessment, the participant has an Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0 or 1 and an estimated life expectancy of \> 6 months.
- Participant is assessed as having at least one resectable lesion (or aggregate lesions) for lifileucel generation.
- Participant must have at least one measurable disease as defined by RECIST 1.1 following tumor resection.
- Participants must have adequate organ function.
- Participants of childbearing potential or those with partners of childbearing potential must be willing to practice an approved method of highly effective birth control.
- Participants who are \> 70 years of age may be allowed to enroll after the investigator discusses with the medical monitor.
Age in the registry: 18 years to 70 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (87)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flinders Medical Centre Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Bedford Park | Australia | Recruiting |
| Greenslopes Private Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Greenslopes | Australia | Recruiting |
| Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Melbourne | Australia | Recruiting |
| Fiona Stanley Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Murdoch | Australia | Recruiting |
| Westmead Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Westmead | Australia | Recruiting |
| UZ Brussel Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Jette | Belgium | Recruiting |
| Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Montreal | Canada | Recruiting |
| Princess Margaret Cancer Centre Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Toronto | Canada | Recruiting |
| Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois Lausanne Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Lausanne | Switzerland | Recruiting |
| Fakultni nemocnice Hradec Kralove Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Hradec Králové | Czechia | Completed |
| Charite Universitaetsmedizin Berlin KöR Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Berlin | Germany | Recruiting |
| Technische Universitaet Dresden Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Dresden | Germany | Recruiting |
| University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Hamburg | Germany | Recruiting |
| Universitaetsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Lübeck | Germany | Recruiting |
| Klinikum rechts der Isar der TU Muenchen AöR Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Munich | Germany | Recruiting |
| LMU Klinikum Muenchen AöR Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Munich | Germany | Recruiting |
| Universitäts-klinikum Würzburg Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Würzburg | Germany | Recruiting |
| Hospital Clinic de Barcelona Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Barcelona | Spain | Recruiting |
| Hospital Universitari Dexeus Grupo Quironsalud Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Barcelona | Spain | Recruiting |
| Institut Catala D'oncologia Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | L'Hospitalet de Llobregat | Spain | Recruiting |
| Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Madrid | Spain | Recruiting |
| Hospital Universitario HM Sanchinarro Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Madrid | Spain | Recruiting |
| Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Madrid | Spain | Recruiting |
| Clinica Universidad de Navarra Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Madrid | Spain | Recruiting |
| Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Madrid | Spain | Recruiting |
| Hospital Universitario Regional de Málaga Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Málaga | Spain | Recruiting |
| Clínica Universidad de navarra Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Pamplona | Spain | Recruiting |
| Hospital Universitario Quironsalud Madrid Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Pozuelo de Alarcón | Spain | Recruiting |
| Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Santander | Spain | Recruiting |
| Hospital Universitario Virgen De La Macarena Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Sevilla | Spain | Recruiting |
| Hospital General Universitario de Valencia Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Valencia | Spain | Recruiting |
| HUS-Yhtymae Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Helsinki | Finland | Recruiting |
| Institut Paoli-Calmettes Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Marseille | France | Recruiting |
| Hospital Hotel Dieu Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Nantes | France | Recruiting |
| Hopital Saint Louis Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Paris | France | Recruiting |
| Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Birmingham | United Kingdom | Recruiting |
| Royal Marsden Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Chelsea | United Kingdom | Recruiting |
| Beaston West of Scotland Canter Centre Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Glasgow | United Kingdom | Recruiting |
| Sarah Cannon Research Institute UK Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | London | United Kingdom | Recruiting |
| Guy's Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | London | United Kingdom | Recruiting |
| Freeman Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Newcastle upon Tyne | United Kingdom | Recruiting |
| Laiko General Hospital of Athens Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Athens | Greece | Completed |
| General University Hospital Of Patras Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Patras | Greece | Completed |
| Hadassah medical Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Jerusalem | Israel | Recruiting |
| Sheba medical center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Ramat Gan | Israel | Recruiting |
| Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Tel Aviv | Israel | Withdrawn |
| Centro di Riferimento Oncologico di Aviano Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Aviano | Italy | Recruiting |
| Istituto Romagnolo per lo Studio dei Tumori "Dino Amadori" - IRST S.r.l Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Meldola | Italy | Recruiting |
| Istituto Europeo di Oncologia s.r.l Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Milan | Italy | Recruiting |
| IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Tumori Fondazione Pascale Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Naples | Italy | Recruiting |
| Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Pisana Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Pisa | Italy | Recruiting |
| Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Senese Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Siena | Italy | Recruiting |
| Bundang Medical Center - CHA University Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Seongnam-si | South Korea | Recruiting |
| Severance Hospital, Yonsei University Health System Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Seoul | South Korea | Recruiting |
| Samsung Medical Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Seoul | South Korea | Recruiting |
| Seoul National University Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Seoul | South Korea | Recruiting |
| Korea University Anam Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Seoul | South Korea | Recruiting |
| Het Nederlands Kanker Instituut-Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Ziekenhuis Stichting Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Amsterdam | Netherlands | Recruiting |
| Centrum Onkologii Ziemi Lubelskiej im sw Jana z Dukli Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Lublin | Poland | Completed |
| Narodowy Instytut Onkologii im Marii Sklodowskiej Curie Panstwowy Instytut Badawczy Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Warsaw | Poland | Completed |
| Sahlgrenska University Hospital-Vastra Gotalandsregionen Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Goteborg | Sweden | Recruiting |
| National Cancer Centre Singapore Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Singapore | Singapore | Recruiting |
| Institute of Oncology Ljubljana Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Ljubljana | Slovenia | Completed |
| University of Colorado Cancer Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Aurora | United States | Recruiting |
| Baptist Cancer Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Bartlett | United States | Recruiting |
| National Cancer Institute Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Bethesda | United States | Recruiting |
| University of Alabama at Birmingham: The Kirklin Clinic Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Birmingham | United States | Recruiting |
| MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Camden | United States | Recruiting |
| University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Chicago | United States | Withdrawn |
| Oncology Hematology Care Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Cincinnati | United States | Recruiting |
| Ohio State University Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Columbus | United States | Recruiting |
| Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Hospital dba Karmanos Cancer Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Detroit | United States | Withdrawn |
| Henry Ford Health Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Detroit | United States | Withdrawn |
| City of Hope Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Duarte | United States | Recruiting |
| St. Luke's Cancer Center - Anderson Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Easton | United States | Withdrawn |
| Swedish Cancer Institute Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Edmonds | United States | Recruiting |
| University of Kansas Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Kansas City | United States | Withdrawn |
| Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) - Norris Cotton Cancer Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Lebanon | United States | Recruiting |
| USC / Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Los Angeles | United States | Recruiting |
| University of Louisville - James Graham Brown Cancer Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Louisville | United States | Withdrawn |
| University of Minnesota Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Minneapolis | United States | Recruiting |
| SCRI Oncology Partners Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Nashville | United States | Recruiting |
| Orlando Health Cancer Institute Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Orlando | United States | Recruiting |
| Allegheny Health Network Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Pittsburgh | United States | Recruiting |
| Virginia Commonwealth University Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Richmond | United States | Withdrawn |
| Intermountain Health Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Salt Lake City | United States | Recruiting |
| California Pacific Medical Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | San Francisco | United States | Withdrawn |
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