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NCT06780098RecruitingPhase 2

Substudy 01I: A Study of Investigational Agents in Participants With Previously Treated Stage IV Squamous Non-small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) (MK-3475-01I/KEYMAKER-U01I)

KEYMAKER-U01 Substudy 01I: A Phase 2, Randomized, Umbrella Study With Rolling Arms of Investigational Agents in Participants With Previously Treated Stage IV Squamous Non-small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC)

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 7 Oct 2026

Brief summary (registry, in English)

Researchers are looking for other ways to treat metastatic squamous non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Squamous NSCLC is cancer that starts in squamous cells, which are flat cells that line the inside of the airways in the lungs. Metastatic means the cancer has spread to other parts of the body. Standard treatment (usual treatment) for metastatic squamous NSCLC is immunotherapy with or without chemotherapy. Immunotherapy is a treatment that helps the immune system fight cancer. Chemotherapy is medicine that destroys cancer cells or stops them from growing. However, standard treatment may not work or may stop working to treat metastatic squamous NSCLC. Researchers want to learn if study treatments that are antibody drug conjugates (ADCs) can treat metastatic squamous NSCLC that did not respond (get smaller or go away) to standard treatment. An ADC attaches to a protein on cancer cells and delivers treatment to destroy those cells. The main goals of this study are to learn about: * The cancer response to the study treatments compared to chemotherapy * The safety of the study treatments and if people tolerate them This study is one of the substudies being conducted under one pembrolizumab umbrella master protocol (MK-3475-U01/KEYMAKER-U01).

Status (registry)
Recruiting
Phase (registry)
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
144 (estimated)
First submitted
13 Jan 2025
Start date
28 May 2025
Primary completion date
2 Mar 2032
Lead sponsor
Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
Diseases
Lung cancer
NCT number
NCT06780098
EU CT number
2024-518839-11-00

What you commit to

  • Study type: Interventional · Phase 2
  • Planned participants: 144
  • From 28 May 2025 to the primary completion date, 2 Mar 2032
  • 48 sites in 11 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

  • Clinically severe pulmonary compromise resulting from intercurrent pulmonary illnesses including, but not limited to, any underlying pulmonary disorder (ie, pulmonary emboli within 3 months, severe asthma, severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, restrictive lung disease, pleural effusion, etc), or any autoimmune, connective tissue, or inflammatory disorders with pulmonary involvement (ie, rheumatoid arthritis, Sjogren's syndrome, sarcoidosis, etc), or prior pneumonectomy
  • Participants who have adverse events (AEs) (other than alopecia) due to previous anticancer therapies must have recovered to ≤Grade 1 or baseline
  • Has previously received docetaxel as monotherapy or in combination with other therapies
  • Active inflammatory bowel disease requiring immunosuppressive medication or previous clear history of inflammatory bowel disease (eg, Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, or chronic diarrhea)
  • Has not adequately recovered from major surgery or have ongoing surgical complications

Other illness

  • Diagnosis of small cell lung cancer or, for mixed tumors, presence of small cell elements
  • Has uncontrolled or significant cardiovascular disorder
  • Has clinically significant corneal disease
  • Known additional malignancy that is progressing or has required active treatment within the past 3 years
  • Evidence of any leptomeningeal disease
  • Has one or more of the following indicators of interstitial lung disease (ILD)/pneumonitis: any history of ILD/pneumonitis irrespective of steroid use (except for a history of radiation pneumonitis that did not require steroids), current diagnosis of ILD, clinical or radiographic suspicion of ILD
  • Active autoimmune disease that has required systemic treatment in the past 2 years. Replacement therapy (eg, thyroxine, insulin, or physiologic corticosteroid) is allowed
  • Active infection requiring systemic therapy
  • HIV-infected participants with a history of Kaposi's sarcoma and/or Multicentric Castleman's Disease
  • Known history of, or active, neurologic paraneoplastic syndrome
  • History of allogeneic tissue/solid organ transplant

Other

  • The main exclusion criteria include but are not limited to the following:
  • Has known untreated central nervous system (CNS) metastases and/or carcinomatous meningitis

Who the study is looking for

  • The main inclusion criteria include but are not limited to the following:
  • Histologically or cytologically confirmed diagnosis of Stage IV squamous non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)
  • Has documented disease progression per Response Evaluation Criteria In Solid Tumors 1.1 (RECIST 1.1), as assessed by investigator after receiving an anti-programmed cell death protein 1 (anti-PD-1)/programmed cell death ligand 1 (PD-L1) treatment and platinum-based chemotherapy for Stage IV disease
  • Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected participants must have well controlled HIV on antiretroviral therapy (ART)
  • Participants who are Hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) positive are eligible if they have received Hepatitis B virus (HBV) antiviral therapy for at least 4 weeks, and have undetectable HBV viral load
  • Participants with history of Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection are eligible if HCV viral load is undetectable

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

Full criteria on ClinicalTrials.gov

Sites (48)

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SiteCityCountrySite status
Centro de Estudios Clínicos SAGA ( Site 0161)
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SantiagoChileRecruiting
Fundación Arturo López Pérez ( Site 0160)
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SantiagoChileRecruiting
Bradfordhill ( Site 0162)
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SantiagoChileRecruiting
Beijing Cancer Hospital ( Site 0301)
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BeijingChinaRecruiting
Chongqing University Cancer Hospital ( Site 0304)
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ChongqingChinaRecruiting
Fujian Provincial Cancer Hospital ( Site 0310)
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FuzhouChinaRecruiting
Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital JiangBei International Branch Hospital ( Site 0309)
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NanjingChinaRecruiting
Guangxi Medical University Cancer Hospital ( Site 0303)
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NanningChinaRecruiting
Shanghai Chest Hospital ( Site 0308)
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ShanghaiChinaRecruiting
Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital ( Site 0300)
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ShanghaiChinaRecruiting
Henan Cancer Hospital ( Site 0311)
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ZhengzhouChinaRecruiting
Charite Universitaetsmedizin Berlin KöR
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BerlinGermanyRecruiting
Universitaetsklinikum Tuebingen AöR
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TuebingenGermanyRecruiting
Hospital Clinic de Barcelona
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BarcelonaSpainRecruiting
Institut Catala D'oncologia
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L'Hospitalet de LlobregatSpainRecruiting
Hospital Universitario Quironsalud Madrid
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Pozuelo de AlarcónSpainRecruiting
Hospital Universitario Virgen De La Macarena
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SevillaSpainRecruiting
Thoracic General Hospital of Athens "I Sotiria"
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AthensGreeceRecruiting
F. Therapis General
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AthensGreeceRecruiting
Athens Medical Center S.A.
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ThessalonikiGreeceRecruiting
Orszagos Koranyi Pulmonologiai Intezet
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Budapest XIIHungaryRecruiting
Gyor-Moson-Sopron Varmegyei Petz Aladar Egyetemi Oktato Korhaz
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GyőrHungaryRecruiting
Bacs-Kiskun Varmegyei Oktatokorhaz
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KecskemétHungaryRecruiting
Jasz-Nagykun-Szolnok Varmegyei Hetenyi Geza Korhaz-Rendelointézet
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SzolnokHungaryRecruiting
Református Pulmonológiai Centrum
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TörökbálintHungaryRecruiting
Rambam Health Care Campus ( Site 0076)
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HaifaIsraelRecruiting
Shaare Zedek Medical Center ( Site 0075)
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JerusalemIsraelRecruiting
Meir Medical Center ( Site 0071)
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Kfar SabaIsraelRecruiting
Rabin Medical Center ( Site 0074)
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Petah TikvaIsraelRecruiting
Sheba Medical Center ( Site 0070)
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Ramat GanIsraelRecruiting
Sourasky Medical Center ( Site 0077)
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Tel AvivIsraelRecruiting
Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Careggi
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FlorenceItalyRecruiting
Ospedale San Raffaele S.r.l.
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MilanItalyRecruiting
Fondazione IRCCS - Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori
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MilanItalyRecruiting
Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS
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RomeItalyRecruiting
Uniwersyteckie Centrum Kliniczne
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GdanskPolandRecruiting
Szpital Wojewodzki im. Mikolaja Kopernika w Koszalinie
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KoszalinPolandRecruiting
Wielkopolskie Centrum Pulmonologii i Torakochirurgii im. Eugenii i Janusza Zeylandow
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PoznanPolandRecruiting
Narodowy Instytut Onkologii im Marii Sklodowskiej Curie Panstwowy Instytut Badawczy
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WarsawPolandRecruiting
MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center ( Site 0033)
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BaltimoreUnited StatesRecruiting
Texas Oncology - DFW ( Site 8003)
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DallasUnited StatesRecruiting
Virginia Cancer Specialists (VCS) ( Site 0408)
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FairfaxUnited StatesRecruiting
University of Kentucky Chandler Medical Center ( Site 0019)
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LexingtonUnited StatesRecruiting
Baskent University Dr. Turgut Noyan Research and Training Center-ONCOLOGY ( Site 0141)
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AdanaTurkey (Türkiye)Recruiting
Hacettepe Universitesi Tip Fakultesi Hastanesi ( Site 0140)
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AnkaraTurkey (Türkiye)Recruiting
Ankara Bilkent Şehir Hastanesi. ( Site 0142)
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AnkaraTurkey (Türkiye)Recruiting
Istanbul Universitesi Cerrahpasa Tip Fakultesi ( Site 0144)
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IstanbulTurkey (Türkiye)Recruiting
Ege Universitesi Hastanesi ( Site 0143)
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IzmirTurkey (Türkiye)Recruiting

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