Fact CheckerSign in

NCT06743581Recruiting

Study of Neoadjuvant Cemiplimab and Dupilumab in Early-Stage Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

Phase I/II Study of Combined Treatment With Cemiplimab (Anti-PD-1) and Dupilumab (Anti-IL-4R) in Patients With Early-stage, Resectable NSCLC

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 17 Aug 2026

Brief summary (registry, in English)

This phase 1b/2a study evaluates the safety, feasibility, and efficacy of combining dupilumab (anti-IL-4Rα) and cemiplimab (anti-PD-1) in patients with early-stage, resectable NSCLC. Phase 1b focuses on safety and feasibility, using a 3+3 design to monitor dose-limiting toxicities (DLTs), while Phase 2a assesses the major pathological response (MPR) rate with a Simon's two-stage minimax design. Secondary endpoints include event-free survival, overall survival, and translational objectives such as deep immune monitoring from patient samples, with the trial expected to enroll 24 patients at CHUM over five years.

Status (registry)
Recruiting
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
24 (estimated)
First submitted
17 Dec 2024
Start date
19 Aug 2025
Primary completion date
Dec 2027
Lead sponsor
Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM)
Diseases
Lung cancer
NCT number
NCT06743581

What you commit to

  • Study type: Interventional
  • Planned participants: 24
  • From 19 Aug 2025 to the primary completion date, Dec 2027
  • 2 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

  • History of autoimmune disorders or use of immunomodulatory drugs (including dupilumab) within 2 months prior to treatment initiation.
  • Use of immunosuppressive drugs or systemic steroids within 7 days prior to treatment, except chronic steroids ≤10mg prednisone or equivalent.
  • Prior chemotherapy or radiotherapy for another primary tumor, or prior locoregional therapy to the target lesion. Therapy for a different cancer is acceptable.
  • Progressive malignancy requiring active treatment, except for certain stable cancers treated with curative intent

Other illness

  • Active autoimmune disease requiring systemic treatment in the past year, excluding replacement therapies like thyroxine or insulin.
  • Metastatic disease where surgery would not have curative intent.
  • Uncontrolled illness, including active infections requiring antibiotics, symptomatic heart failure, unstable angina, or psychiatric/social conditions impeding study compliance.
  • HIV infection with detectable viral load or not on a stable HAART regimen
  • Active Hepatitis B or C (PCR-detectable)
  • History of allogeneic hematopoietic or solid organ transplantation.
  • Documented hypersensitivity to protein therapeutics.
  • Any condition, therapy, or abnormality that may interfere with trial results, patient participation, or their best interest as per the investigator's judgment.

Lab values

  • No smoking history or confirmed tissue or ctDNA evidence of actionable driver alterations (e.g. EGFR mutation, ALK, or ROS1 rearrangements)

Other

  • Pregnancy or nursing, due to potential harm to the fetus or infant.

Who the study is looking for

  • Histological confirmation of NSCLC is required before treatment (however, patients with a smoking history and radiographic findings suggestive of NSCLC may consent prior to biopsy to combine research and diagnostic procedures.
  • Age ≥ 18 years.
  • ECOG performance status 0-1
  • Determined to be a surgical candidate for tumor resection by a multidisciplinary team.
  • Women of childbearing potential and men must use approved contraception during the study and for 4 months post-treatment. Pregnancy or suspected pregnancy must be reported immediately.
  • Adequate organ and marrow function.
  • Pre-treatment biopsies are mandatory, and tumors must be T1b or larger (\>1cm) and amenable to biopsy as determined by a multidisciplinary team.
  • Patients must consent to provide blood at designated study time points.
  • Patients must consent to core needle biopsies (at least 3 samples, as deemed safe by the performing surgeon/radiologist) prior to treatment initiation

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

Full criteria on ClinicalTrials.gov

Sites (2)

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

SiteCityCountrySite status
Centre Hospitalier de l'Universite de Montreal (CHUM)
Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status
MontrealCanadaNot yet recruiting
CHUM
Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status
MontrealCanadaRecruiting

This page is information, not medical advice. Discuss any trial with your doctor.