NCT06556563RecruitingPhase 3
EF-41/KEYNOTE D58: Phase 3 Study of Optune Concomitant With Temozolomide Plus Pembrolizumab in Newly Diagnosed Glioblastoma
A Phase 3, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Study of Optune® (TTFields, 200 kHz) Concomitant With Maintenance Temozolomide and Pembrolizumab Versus Optune® Concomitant With Maintenance Temozolomide and Placebo for the Treatment of Newly Diagnosed Glioblastoma (EF-41/KEYNOTE D58).
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 19 Aug 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
This is a multicenter, two-arm, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study of Optune® (Tumor Treating Fields at 200 kHz) together with maintenance Temozolomide (TMZ) chemotherapy agent and pembrolizumab compared to Optune® together with maintenance TMZ and placebo in newly diagnosed Glioblastoma (GBM) patients. The primary objective of the study is to evaluate the Overall Survival (OS).
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Phase (registry)
- Phase 3
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 741 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 13 Aug 2024
- Start date
- 3 Feb 2025
- Primary completion date
- 30 Apr 2029
- Lead sponsor
- NovoCure GmbH
- Diseases
- Glioblastoma
- NCT number
- NCT06556563
- EU CT number
- 2024-513550-30-00
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional · Phase 3
- Planned participants: 741
- From 3 Feb 2025 to the primary completion date, 30 Apr 2029
- 103 sites in 12 countries
- 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
- Ongoing requirement for \>2 mg dexamethasone (or equivalent), due to intracranial mass effect.
- Has received prior systemic anti-cancer therapy including investigational agents within 4 weeks prior to randomization.
- Received a live or live-attenuated vaccine within 30 days before the first dose of study intervention. Administration of killed vaccines are allowed.
- Is currently participating in or has participated in a study of an investigational agent or has used an investigational device within 4 weeks prior to the first study treatment.
- Has a diagnosis of immunodeficiency or is receiving chronic systemic steroid therapy (in dosing exceeding 10 mg daily of prednisone equivalent) or any other form of immunosuppressive therapy within 7 days prior the first dose of study medication. Has a known additional malignancy that is progressing or has required active treatment within the past 3 years.
Other illness
- Has a history of (noninfectious) pneumonitis/interstitial lung disease that required steroids or has current pneumonitis/interstitial lung disease.
- Early progressive disease after the end of TMZ/RT. If pseudo progression is suspected, additional imaging studies should be performed to rule out true progression.
- Infratentorial or leptomeningeal disease.
Lab values
- Has received prior therapy with an anti-Programmed Cell Death 1 (PD-1), anti- Programmed Cell Death-Ligand 1(PD-L1), or anti Programmed Cell Death-Ligand 2 (PD-L2) agent or with an agent directed to another stimulatory or co-inhibitory T-cell receptor (e.g.Cytotoxic T-Lymphocyte-Associated protein 4 (CTLA-4), OX 40, CD137).
Who the study is looking for
- The participant (or legally acceptable representative) has provided documented informed consent for the study.
- Be ≥ 18 years of age on day of providing informed consent.
- Participant with new diagnosis of GBM according to World Health Organization (WHO) 2021 Classification.
- Recovered from maximal debulking surgery (gross total resection, partial resection and biopsy-only patients are all acceptable), Gliadel wafers placement at the time of surgical resection is not allowed.
- Have completed standard adjuvant chemoradiotherapy of radiotherapy (RT) according to local practice (56-64 Gy), and concomitant TMZ chemotherapy.
- Amenable to treatment with Optune concomitant with maintenance TMZ (150-200 mg/m\^2 daily x 5, Q28 days).
- Have an Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) Performance Status of 0 to 1 assessed within 7 days before randomization.
- Stable or decreasing dose of corticosteroids (dexamethasone ≤ 2mg or equivalent) for the last 7 days prior to randomization, if applicable.
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (103)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cross Cancer Institute Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Edmonton | Canada | Recruiting |
| Hamilton Health Sciences-Juravinski Cancer Centre Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Hamilton | Canada | Recruiting |
| CHUM Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Montreal | Canada | Recruiting |
| Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital, Clinical Research Unit Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Montreal | Canada | Recruiting |
| The Ottawa Hospital Cancer Centre Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Ottawa | Canada | Recruiting |
| Centre intégré universitaire de santé et de services sociaux de l'Estrie - Centre hospitalier universitaire de Sherbrooke (CIUSSS de l'Estrie-CHUS) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Sherbrooke | Canada | Recruiting |
| University Health Network - Princess Margaret Cancer Centre Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Toronto | Canada | Recruiting |
| University Hospital Basel Medical Oncology Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Basel | Switzerland | Active, not recruiting |
| Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Lausanne | Switzerland | Active, not recruiting |
| University Hospital Zurich Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Zurich | Switzerland | Active, not recruiting |
| Fakultni Nemocnice Motol A Homolka Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Prague 5 | Czechia | Active, not recruiting |
| Charite Universitaetsmedizin Berlin KöR Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Berlin | Germany | Active, not recruiting |
| Universitaetsklinikum Essen (AoR) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Essen | Germany | Active, not recruiting |
| Goethe University Frankfurt Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Frankfurt Am Main | Germany | Active, not recruiting |
| Universitaetsklinikum Muenster AöR Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Muenster | Germany | Active, not recruiting |
| ICO l'Hospitalet - Hospital Duran i Reynals Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Barcelona | Spain | Active, not recruiting |
| Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Barcelona | Spain | Active, not recruiting |
| Hospital Universitario Reina Sofia Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Córdoba | Spain | Active, not recruiting |
| Hospital Universitario Virgen de las Nieves Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Granada | Spain | Active, not recruiting |
| Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Madrid | Spain | Active, not recruiting |
| Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Madrid | Spain | Active, not recruiting |
| Hospital Clínico San Carlos Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Madrid | Spain | Active, not recruiting |
| Hospital Universitario La Paz Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Madrid | Spain | Active, not recruiting |
| University Hospital Virgen Del Rocio S.L. Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Sevilla | Spain | Active, not recruiting |
| Hospital Universitario Y Politecnico La Fe Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Valencia | Spain | Active, not recruiting |
| Hospices Civils de Lyon Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Bron | France | Active, not recruiting |
| Centre Hospitalier Regional De Marseille Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Marseille | France | Active, not recruiting |
| Hopital Saint Louis Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Paris | France | Active, not recruiting |
| Assistance Publique Hopitaux De Paris Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Paris Cedex 13 | France | Active, not recruiting |
| Oncopole Claudius Regaud Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Toulouse Cedex 9 | France | Active, not recruiting |
| Queen Elizabeth Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Birmingham | United Kingdom | Active, not recruiting |
| Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Cambridge | United Kingdom | Active, not recruiting |
| Velindre Cancer Centre Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Cardiff | United Kingdom | Active, not recruiting |
| Western General Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Edinburgh | United Kingdom | Active, not recruiting |
| The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre (Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Liverpool | United Kingdom | Active, not recruiting |
| Charing Cross Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | London | United Kingdom | Active, not recruiting |
| The Christie Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Manchester | United Kingdom | Active, not recruiting |
| Mount Vernon Cancer Centre Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Northwood | United Kingdom | Active, not recruiting |
| Weston Park Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Sheffield | United Kingdom | Active, not recruiting |
| Southampton General Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Southampton | United Kingdom | Active, not recruiting |
| Royal Marsden Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Sutton | United Kingdom | Active, not recruiting |
| Rambam Medical Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Haifa | Israel | Active, not recruiting |
| Rabin Medical Center- Beilinson Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Petah Tikva | Israel | Active, not recruiting |
| Chaim Sheba Medical Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Ramat Gan | Israel | Active, not recruiting |
| Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Tel Aviv | Israel | Active, not recruiting |
| Azienda Unita Sanitaria Locale Di Bologna Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Bologna | Italy | Active, not recruiting |
| IRCCS Foundation Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Milan | Italy | Active, not recruiting |
| Azienda Sanitaria Locale Napoli 1 Centro Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Naples | Italy | Active, not recruiting |
| Istituto Oncologico Veneto Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Padova | Italy | Active, not recruiting |
| Humanitas Mirasole S.p.A. Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Rozzano | Italy | Active, not recruiting |
| Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Senese Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Siena | Italy | Active, not recruiting |
| Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Citta Della Salute E Della Scienza Di Torino Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Turin | Italy | Active, not recruiting |
| Kyushu University Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Fukuoka | Japan | Recruiting |
| Hokkaido University Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Hokkaido | Japan | Recruiting |
| Tokai University Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Isehara | Japan | Recruiting |
| Kanazawa University Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Ishikawa | Japan | Recruiting |
| Kumamoto University Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Kumamoto | Japan | Recruiting |
| Kyoto University Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Kyoto | Japan | Recruiting |
| Kyorin University Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Mitaka | Japan | Recruiting |
| Nagoya University Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Nagoya | Japan | Recruiting |
| Saitama Medical University International Medical Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Saitama | Japan | Recruiting |
| Tohoku University Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Sendai | Japan | Recruiting |
| National Cancer Center Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Tokyo | Japan | Recruiting |
| Fujita Health University Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Toyoake-shi | Japan | Recruiting |
| Centrum Onkologii Im. Prof. Franciszka Lukaszczyka W Bydgoszczy Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Bydgoszcz | Poland | Active, not recruiting |
| Narodowy Instytut Onkologii im. Marii Sklodowskiej-Curie Panstwowy Instytut Badawczy Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Gliwice | Poland | Active, not recruiting |
| Wojewodzkie Wielospecjalistyczne Centrum Onkologii i Traumatologii im. M. Kopernika w Lodzi Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Lodz | Poland | Active, not recruiting |
| University of Maryland Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Baltimore | United States | Active, not recruiting |
| Tufts Medical Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Boston | United States | Active, not recruiting |
| Northwestern Memorial Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Chicago | United States | Active, not recruiting |
| University of Cincinnati Cancer Institute Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Cincinnati | United States | Active, not recruiting |
| University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center* Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Cleveland | United States | Active, not recruiting |
| The Cleveland Clinic Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Cleveland | United States | Active, not recruiting |
| Duke University Medical Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Durham | United States | Active, not recruiting |
| Inova Schar Cancer Institute Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Fairfax | United States | Active, not recruiting |
| UF Health Neuromedicine Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Gainesville | United States | Active, not recruiting |
| John Theurer Cancer Center/ Hackensack Meridian Health Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Hackensack | United States | Active, not recruiting |
| University of Texas - MD Anderson Cancer Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Houston | United States | Active, not recruiting |
| The University of Texas Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Houston | United States | Active, not recruiting |
| Mayo Clinic Florida Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Jacksonville | United States | Active, not recruiting |
| Northwell Health Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Lake Success | United States | Active, not recruiting |
| University of Kentucky Medical Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Lexington | United States | Active, not recruiting |
| University of Southern California Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Los Angeles | United States | Active, not recruiting |
| Norton Cancer Institute Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Louisville | United States | Active, not recruiting |
| Miami Cancer Institute Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Miami | United States | Active, not recruiting |
| Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Minneapolis | United States | Active, not recruiting |
| Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey University Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | New Brunswick | United States | Active, not recruiting |
| Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Newport Beach | United States | Active, not recruiting |
| Columbia University Irving Medical Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | New York | United States | Active, not recruiting |
| Stanford Cancer Institute Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Palo Alto | United States | Active, not recruiting |
| Thomas Jefferson University, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Clinical Trials Organization Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Philadelphia | United States | Active, not recruiting |
| Mayo Clinic Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Phoenix | United States | Active, not recruiting |
| UPMC Hillman Cancer Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Pittsburgh | United States | Active, not recruiting |
| Rhode Island Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Providence | United States | Active, not recruiting |
| Renown Regional Medical Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Reno | United States | Active, not recruiting |
| Mayo Clinic - Rochester Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Rochester | United States | Active, not recruiting |
| Huntsman Cancer Institute/University of Utah Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Salt Lake City | United States | Active, not recruiting |
| University of California Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | San Francisco | United States | Active, not recruiting |
| Swedish Medical Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Seattle | United States | Active, not recruiting |
| Washington University Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | St Louis | United States | Active, not recruiting |
| Moffitt Cancer Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Tampa | United States | Active, not recruiting |
| Montefiore Medical Center- Montefiore Medical Park Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | The Bronx | United States | Active, not recruiting |
| MedStar Georgetown University Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Washington D.C. | United States | Active, not recruiting |
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