NCT07227402RecruitingPhase 3
A Clinical Study of Belzutifan and Zanzalintinib in People With Recurrent Kidney Cancer Following Adjuvant Therapy (MK-6482-033)
A Phase 3, Randomized, Open-label Study of Belzutifan + Zanzalintinib Versus Cabozantinib in Participants With Advanced RCC Who Experienced Disease Recurrence During or After Prior Adjuvant Anti-PD-1/L1 Therapy (LITESPARK-033)
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 3 Aug 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
Researchers are looking for more ways to treat advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC) that is recurrent. Researchers want to learn if recurrent advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC) responds (gets smaller or goes away) after treatment with belzutifan (MK-6482) and zanzalintinib compared to cabozantinib. The goal of this study is to learn if: People who take belzutifan and zanzalintinib live longer overall and without the cancer getting worse than people who take cabozantinib.
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Phase (registry)
- Phase 3
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 904 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 7 Nov 2025
- Start date
- 26 Nov 2025
- Primary completion date
- 27 Feb 2032
- Lead sponsor
- Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
- Diseases
- Kidney cancer
- NCT number
- NCT07227402
- EU CT number
- 2024-517136-21-00
- EudraCT number
- 2024-517136-21
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional · Phase 3
- Planned participants: 904
- From 26 Nov 2025 to the primary completion date, 27 Feb 2032
- 132 sites in 23 countries
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
Copied verbatim from ClinicalTrials.gov and grouped by topic. Only the trial team decides who can take part.
Prior treatment
- Had deep vein thrombosis within 3 months before randomization unless stable, asymptomatic, and treated with therapeutic anticoagulation for at least 4 weeks before randomization
- Has had major surgery within 8 weeks before randomization or has not adequately recovered from major surgery or has ongoing surgical complications
- Has symptomatic pleural effusion (for example cough, dyspnea, pleuritic chest pain), ascites, or pericardial fluid requiring drainage within 4 weeks prior to randomization
- Received a live or live-attenuated vaccine within 30 days before the first dose of study intervention
Other illness
- Has clinically significant cardiovascular disease within 12 months from first dose of study intervention, including New York Heart Association Class III or IV congestive heart failure, unstable angina, new-onset angina, pulmonary embolism, myocardial infarction, cerebral vascular accident, or cardiac arrhythmia associated with hemodynamic instability
- Has current pneumonitis/interstitial lung disease
- Has a gastrointestinal disorder including those associated with a high risk of perforation or fistula formation
- Has a serious active nonhealing wound/ulcer/bone fracture
- Has history of human immunodeficiency virus infection
- Has hepatitis B or hepatitis C virus
Lab values
- Has a left ventricular ejection fraction ≤50% or below the institutional (or local laboratory) normal range as determined by multigated acquisition or echocardiogram
Other
- The main exclusion criteria include but are not limited to the following:
- Has a requirement for hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis
- Has pharmacologically uncompensated, symptomatic hypothyroidism
Who the study is looking for
- The main inclusion criteria include but are not limited to the following:
- Has a histologically confirmed diagnosis of unresectable, advanced renal cell cancer (RCC) with clear cell component (with or without sarcomatoid features) i.e., Stage IV renal cell cancer per American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) (8th Edition)
- Has measurable disease per Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors 1.1 (RECIST 1.1)
- Has disease recurrence during adjuvant anti-programmed cell death 1/programmed cell death ligand 1 (PD-1/L1) therapy or recurrence ≤24 months following the last dose of adjuvant anti-PD-1/L1 therapy
- Has received no other prior systemic therapy for their RCC except for their adjuvant anti-PD-1/L1 therapy
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (132)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires. ( Site 0203) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Caba | Argentina | Recruiting |
| Asociación de Beneficencia Hospital Sirio Libanés ( Site 0205) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Caba | Argentina | Recruiting |
| Centro de Educación Médica e Investigaciones clínicas "Dr. Norberto Quirno" (CEMIC) ( Site 0208) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Caba. | Argentina | Recruiting |
| Hospital Aleman ( Site 0204) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | CABA | Argentina | Recruiting |
| Instituto Alexander Fleming ( Site 0202) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | CABA | Argentina | Recruiting |
| Hospital Privado Universitario de Córdoba ( Site 0207) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Córdoba | Argentina | Recruiting |
| Hospital Universitario Austral ( Site 0212) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Pilar | Argentina | Recruiting |
| Instituto de Oncología de Rosario ( Site 0209) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Rosario | Argentina | Recruiting |
| Sanatorio Parque ( Site 0201) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Rosario | Argentina | Recruiting |
| Ordensklinikum Linz GmbH Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Linz | Austria | Recruiting |
| Medical University of Vienna Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Vienna | Austria | Recruiting |
| Stadt Wien Wiener Gesundheitsverbund Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Vienna | Austria | Recruiting |
| Macquarie University-MQ Health Clinical Trials Unit ( Site 2100) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Sydney | Australia | Recruiting |
| Ziekenhuis Oost-Limburg Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Genk | Belgium | Recruiting |
| Universitair Ziekenhuis Gent Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Gent | Belgium | Recruiting |
| UZ Leuven Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Leuven | Belgium | Recruiting |
| Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe | Belgium | Recruiting |
| IPC - MT Instituto de Pesquisas Clínicas do Mato Grosso ( Site 0305) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Cuiabá | Brazil | Recruiting |
| Liga Norte Riograndense Contra o Câncer ( Site 0307) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Natal | Brazil | Recruiting |
| Hospital Moinhos de Vento ( Site 0309) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Porto Alegre | Brazil | Recruiting |
| Fundação Faculdade Regional de Medicina de São José do Rio Preto ( Site 0302) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | São José do Rio Preto | Brazil | Recruiting |
| Hospital Alemao Oswaldo Cruz ( Site 0311) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | São Paulo | Brazil | Recruiting |
| Centro de Investigacion Clinica UC CICUC ( Site 0402) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Santiago | Chile | Recruiting |
| Fundacion Arturo Lopez Perez ( Site 0401) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Santiago | Chile | Recruiting |
| Oncocentro Valdivia ( Site 0408) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Valdivia | Chile | Recruiting |
| Masarykuv Onkologicky Ustav Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Brno-Stred | Czechia | Recruiting |
| Nemocnice České Budějovice, a.s. Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | České Budějovice | Czechia | Recruiting |
| Fakultni nemocnice Hradec Kralove Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Hradec Králové | Czechia | Recruiting |
| University Hospital Olomouc Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Olomouc | Czechia | Recruiting |
| Fakultni nemocnice Ostrava Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Ostrava | Czechia | Recruiting |
| Fakultni Nemocnice Motol a Homolka Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Prague | Czechia | Recruiting |
| Vseobecna Fakultni Nemocnice V Praze Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Prague 2 | Czechia | Recruiting |
| 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 |
| HELIOS Klinikum Erfurt GmbH Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Erfurt | Germany | Recruiting |
| Universitaetsmedizin Goettingen Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Goettingen | Germany | Recruiting |
| University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Hamburg | Germany | Recruiting |
| St. Elisabeth Gruppe GmbH Katholische Kliniken Rhein-Ruhr Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Herne | Germany | Recruiting |
| Universitaetsklinikum Jena KöR Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Jena | Germany | Recruiting |
| Universitaetsklinikum Muenster AöR Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Muenster | Germany | Recruiting |
| Studienpraxis Urologie Susan Feyerabend MD Tilman Todenhoefer MD PhD GbR Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Nuertingen | Germany | Recruiting |
| Rostock University Medical Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Rostock | Germany | Recruiting |
| HELIOS Kliniken Schwerin GmbH Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Schwerin | Germany | Recruiting |
| Klinikum Der Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart gKAöR Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Stuttgart | Germany | Recruiting |
| Universitaetsklinikum Tuebingen AöR Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Tuebingen | Germany | Recruiting |
| Region Midtjylland Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Aarhus N | Denmark | Recruiting |
| Region Hovedstaden Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Herlev | Denmark | Recruiting |
| Odense University Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Odense C | Denmark | Recruiting |
| Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Barcelona | Spain | Recruiting |
| Hospital Clinic de Barcelona Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Barcelona | Spain | Recruiting |
| Hospital Universitario Reina Sofia Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Córdoba | Spain | Recruiting |
| Institut Català d'Oncologia Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Girona | Spain | Recruiting |
| Institut Catala D'oncologia Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | L'Hospitalet de Llobregat | Spain | Recruiting |
| Hospital Universitario Fundación Jiménez Díaz Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Madrid | Spain | Recruiting |
| Hospital Clínico San Carlos Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Madrid | Spain | Recruiting |
| Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal 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 Marqués de Valdecilla Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Santander | Spain | Recruiting |
| Fundación Instituto Valenciano de Oncología Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Valencia | Spain | Recruiting |
| Centre Hospitalier Universitaire D'Angers Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Angers | France | Recruiting |
| Centre Hospitalier de la Cote Basque Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Bayonne | France | Recruiting |
| Centre Hospitalier Universitaire De Bordeaux Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Bordeaux Cedex | France | Recruiting |
| Assistance Publique Hopitaux De Paris Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Creteil Cedex | France | Recruiting |
| Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Grenoble Alpes Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Grenoble Cedex 9 | France | Recruiting |
| Centre Hospitalier Departemental Vendee Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | La Roche Sur Yon Cedex 9 | France | Recruiting |
| Polyclinique De Limoges Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Limoges Cedex I | France | Recruiting |
| Centre De Cancerologue Du Grand Montpellier Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Montpellier | France | Recruiting |
| Medipole De Nancy Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Nancy | France | Recruiting |
| Hospices Civils de Lyon Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Pierre-Bénite | France | Recruiting |
| Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Rouen Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Rouen | France | Recruiting |
| Hospital Foch Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Suresnes | France | Recruiting |
| Addenbrookes Hospital ( Site 2005) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Cambridge | United Kingdom | Recruiting |
| Alexandra Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Athens | Greece | Recruiting |
| University General Hospital "ATTIKON" - General Hospital of West Attica "H AGIA VARVARA" Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Chaïdári | Greece | Recruiting |
| Metropolitan Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Pireas | Greece | Recruiting |
| Prince of Wales Hospital ( Site 2200) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Hong Kong | Hong Kong SAR China | Recruiting |
| Queen Mary Hospital ( Site 2201) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Hong Kong | Hong Kong SAR China | Recruiting |
| Klinicki bolnicki centar Sestre milosrdnice Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Grad Zagreb | Croatia | Recruiting |
| KBC Split Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Split | Croatia | Recruiting |
| University Hospital Centre Zagreb Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Zagreb | Croatia | Recruiting |
| Cork University Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Cork | Ireland | Recruiting |
| Tallaght University Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Dublin 24 | Ireland | Recruiting |
| St Vincent's University Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Dublin 4 | Ireland | Recruiting |
| Azienda Unita' Sanitaria Locale Toscana Sud Est Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Arezzo | Italy | Recruiting |
| Azienda Universitaria Ospedaliera Consorziale Policlinico Bari Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Bari | Italy | Recruiting |
| Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Di Bologna IRCCS Istituto Di Ricerca E Di Cura A Carattere Scientifico Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Bologna | Italy | Recruiting |
| Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Careggi Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Florence | Italy | Recruiting |
| IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Genoa | Italy | Recruiting |
| Fondazione IRCCS - Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Milan | Italy | Recruiting |
| Azienda Ospedaliera di Rilievo Nazionale Antonio Cardarelli Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Naples | Italy | Recruiting |
| Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria San Luigi Gonzaga Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Orbassano | Italy | Recruiting |
| Istituto Oncologico Veneto Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Padova | Italy | Recruiting |
| Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Parma Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Parma | Italy | Recruiting |
| Ospedale P. Pederzoli Casa di Cura Privata S.p.A. Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Peschiera del Garda | Italy | Recruiting |
| Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Rome | Italy | Recruiting |
| I.F.O. Istituti Fisioterapici Ospitalieri Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Rome | Italy | Recruiting |
| Humanitas Mirasole S.p.A. Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Rozzano | Italy | Recruiting |
| Chonnam National University Hwasun Hospital ( Site 2505) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Hwasun-gun | South Korea | Recruiting |
| Seoul National University Bundang Hospital ( Site 2504) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Seongnam | South Korea | Recruiting |
| Severance Hospital, Yonsei University Health System ( Site 2503) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Seoul | South Korea | Recruiting |
| Samsung Medical Center ( Site 2502) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Seoul | South Korea | Recruiting |
| Asan Medical Center ( Site 2501) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Seoul | South Korea | Recruiting |
| Chungnam National University Hospital ( Site 2506) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Taejŏn | South Korea | Recruiting |
| CIO - Centro de Inmuno-Oncología de Occidente ( Site 0503) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Guadalajara | Mexico | Recruiting |
| Higiea Oncologia ( Site 0504) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Mexico City | Mexico | Recruiting |
| I CAN ONCOLOGY CENTER S.A. DE C.V. ( Site 0507) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Monterrey | Mexico | Recruiting |
| Centro de Investigacion Clinica de Oaxaca ( Site 0502) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Oaxaca City | Mexico | Recruiting |
| Clinica Integral Internacional de Oncología ( Site 0506) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Puebla City | Mexico | Recruiting |
| Centrum Onkologii Im. Prof. Franciszka Lukaszczyka W Bydgoszczy Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Bydgoszcz | Poland | Recruiting |
| Pratia S.A. Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Cracow | Poland | Recruiting |
| Szpital Specjalistyczny Im. Ludwika Rydygiera W Krakowie Sp. z o.o. Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Cracow | Poland | Recruiting |
| Szpital Wojewodzki im. Mikolaja Kopernika w Koszalinie Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Koszalin | Poland | Recruiting |
| Wojewodzki Szpital im Sw Ojca Pio w Przemyslu Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Przemyśl | Poland | Recruiting |
| Mazowiecki Szpital Wojewodzki Im. Sw. Jana Pawła II W Siedlcach Sp. z o.o. Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Siedlce | Poland | Recruiting |
| Aidport sp z o.o. Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Skorzewo | Poland | Recruiting |
| Pratia S.A. Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Warsaw | Poland | Recruiting |
| National University Hospital ( Site 2400) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Singapore | Singapore | Recruiting |
| National Cancer Centre Singapore ( Site 2401) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Singapore | Singapore | Recruiting |
| China Medical University Hospital ( Site 2603) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Taichung | Taiwan | Recruiting |
| Taichung Veterans General Hospital ( Site 2602) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Taichung | Taiwan | Recruiting |
| Taipei Veterans General Hospital ( Site 2600) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Taipei | Taiwan | Recruiting |
| Chang Gung Memorial Hospital - Linkou Branch ( Site 2604) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Taoyuan | Taiwan | Recruiting |
| Alaska Oncology and Hematology ( Site 0133) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Anchorage | United States | Recruiting |
| Greater Baltimore Medical Center ( Site 0145) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Baltimore | United States | Recruiting |
| Carolina Oncology Specialists, PA ( Site 9002) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Charlotte | United States | Recruiting |
| Providence Medical Foundation ( Site 0141) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Fullerton | United States | Recruiting |
| Thompson Cancer Survival Center ( Site 0125) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Knoxville | United States | Recruiting |
| USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center ( Site 0126) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Los Angeles | United States | Recruiting |
| Cedars-Sinai Medical Center ( Site 0112) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Los Angeles | United States | Recruiting |
| Oncology Hematology West P.C. dba Nebraska Cancer Specialists ( Site 0131) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Omaha | United States | Recruiting |
| Metro-Minnesota Community Clinical Oncology ( Site 0144) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Saint Louis Park | United States | Recruiting |
| New England Cancer Specialists ( Site 0132) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Westbrook | United States | Recruiting |
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