NCT07489495RecruitingPhase 3
A Clinical Study of Belzutifan (MK-6482) and Zanzalintinib in People With Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC) (LITESPARK-034/LS-034/MK-6482-034)
A Phase 3, Randomized, Double-blind, Study of Belzutifan + Zanzalintinib Versus Belzutifan + Placebo in Participants With Advanced RCC Who Have Progressed on or After Both PD-1/L1 and VEGF-TKI Therapies in Sequence or in Combination (LITESPARK-034)
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 29 Oct 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
Researchers are looking for new ways to treat advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC). A standard (usual) treatment for certain people with RCC is belzutifan (a study medicine), which is a targeted therapy. Targeted therapy is a treatment that works to control how specific types of cancer cells grow and spread. Researchers want to learn if adding another targeted therapy called zanzalintinib (another study medicine) can treat more people with advanced RCC than belzutifan alone. The goal of this study is to learn if people who receive belzutifan and zanzalintinib live longer overall and without the cancer getting worse compared to people who receive belzutifan and placebo.
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Phase (registry)
- Phase 3
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 758 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 20 Mar 2026
- Start date
- 9 Apr 2026
- Primary completion date
- 27 Nov 2030
- Lead sponsor
- Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
- Diseases
- Kidney cancer
- NCT number
- NCT07489495
- EU CT number
- 2024-516993-31-00
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional · Phase 3
- Planned participants: 758
- From 9 Apr 2026 to the primary completion date, 27 Nov 2030
- 109 sites in 19 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
- Has 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
- Has not adequately recovered from major surgery or has ongoing surgical complications
Other illness
- Has clinically significant cardiovascular disease within 12 months from first dose of study intervention
- Has current pneumonitis/interstitial lung disease
- Has a history of human immunodeficiency virus infection
- Has Hepatitis B or Hepatitis C virus infection
- Has a known additional malignancy that is progressing or has required active treatment within the past 3 years
- Has a history of solid organ transplant
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
- For exclusion criteria: The main exclusion criteria include but are not limited to the following:
- Has any of the following: a pulse oximeter reading \<92% at rest, requires intermittent supplemental oxygen, or required chronic supplemental oxygen
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 carcinoma (RCC) with clear cell component (with or without sarcomatoid features) ie, Stage IV RCC per American Joint Committee on Cancer (8th Edition)
- Has measurable disease per Response Evaluation Criteria In Solid Tumors Version 1.1 (RECIST 1.1)
- Has received no more than 3 prior systemic regimens for RCC, including only 1 prior anti-Programmed Cell Death-1/Programmed Cell Death 1 Ligand 1 therapy
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (109)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Instituto Alexander Fleming ( Site 0252) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | CABA | Argentina | Recruiting |
| Centro Oncologico Korben ( Site 0254) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | CABA | Argentina | Recruiting |
| Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires ( Site 0253) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Ciudad de Buenos Aires | Argentina | Recruiting |
| Centro Oncológico Riojano Integral ( Site 0256) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | La Rioja | Argentina | Recruiting |
| Instituto de Investigaciones Clinicas Mar del Plata ( Site 0250) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Mar del Plata | Argentina | Recruiting |
| Centro Privado de RMI Río Cuarto S.A. II ( Site 0255) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Río Cuarto | Argentina | Recruiting |
| Sanatorio Parque ( Site 0251) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Rosario | Argentina | Recruiting |
| Instituto de Oncología de Rosario ( Site 0257) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Rosario | Argentina | Recruiting |
| COE (Centro Oncológico de Excelencia) ( Site 0259) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | San Juan | Argentina | Recruiting |
| Macquarie University ( Site 2700) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Macquarie University | Australia | Suspended |
| Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre ( Site 2702) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Melbourne | Australia | Suspended |
| Fiona Stanley Hospital ( Site 2704) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Murdoch | Australia | Suspended |
| Princess Alexandra Hospital ( Site 2703) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Woolloongabba | Australia | Suspended |
| Instituto do Câncer e Transplante de Curitiba ( Site 0300) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Curitiba | Brazil | Recruiting |
| Liga Norte Riograndense Contra o Câncer ( Site 0307) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Natal | Brazil | Recruiting |
| Hope - Humanizacao Em Oncologia, Pesquisa E Ensino ( Site 0306) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Ribeirão Preto | 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 |
| CEDOES ( Site 0303) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Vitória | Brazil | Recruiting |
| The Ottawa Hospital Cancer Centre ( Site 0003) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Ottawa | Canada | Recruiting |
| IC La Serena Research ( Site 0405) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | La Serena | Chile | Recruiting |
| Clínica Puerto Montt ( Site 0404) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Port Montt | Chile | Recruiting |
| Fundacion Arturo Lopez Perez ( Site 0401) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Santiago | Chile | Recruiting |
| Bradfordhill ( Site 0400) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Santiago | Chile | Recruiting |
| ONCOCENTRO APYS ( Site 0403) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Viña del Mar | Chile | Recruiting |
| Masarykuv Onkologicky Ustav Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Brno-Stred | 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 v Motole 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 |
| Universitaetsklinikum Augsburg Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Augsburg | Germany | Recruiting |
| Charite Universitaetsmedizin Berlin KöR Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Berlin | Germany | Recruiting |
| Universitaetsklinikum Heidelberg AöR Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Heidelberg | Germany | Recruiting |
| Universitaetsklinikum Jena KöR Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Jena | Germany | Recruiting |
| Klinikum der Technischen Universitaet Muenchen (TUM Klinikum) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Munich | 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 |
| Complejo Hospitalario Universitario Insular Materno Infantil Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | Spain | Recruiting |
| Institut Catala D'oncologia Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | L'Hospitalet de Llobregat | Spain | Recruiting |
| Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón 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 |
| University Hospital Virgen Del Rocio S.L. Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Sevilla | 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 |
| Centr Georges Francois Leclerc Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Dijon | France | Recruiting |
| Clinique Victor Hugo Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Le Mans | France | Recruiting |
| Hopital Europeen Marseille Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Marseille | France | Recruiting |
| Centre Antoine Lacassagne Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Nice Cedex 2 | France | Recruiting |
| Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Paris | France | Recruiting |
| Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Saint Etienne Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Saint-Priest-en-Jarez | France | Recruiting |
| Centre Hospitalier Universitaire De Toulouse Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Toulouse Cedex 9 | France | Recruiting |
| Institut Gustave Roussy Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Villejuif | France | Recruiting |
| University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust ( Site 2610) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Birmingham | United Kingdom | Recruiting |
| Addenbrookes Hospital ( Site 2605) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Cambridge | United Kingdom | Recruiting |
| Velindre Cancer Centre ( Site 2612) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Cardiff | United Kingdom | Recruiting |
| Western General Hospital ( Site 2608) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Edinburgh | United Kingdom | Recruiting |
| The Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre ( Site 2602) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Glasgow | United Kingdom | Recruiting |
| Leicester Royal Infirmary ( Site 2604) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Leicester | United Kingdom | Recruiting |
| University Hospital of Southampton ( Site 2606) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Southampton | United Kingdom | Recruiting |
| The Christie Hospital NHS Foundation Trust ( Site 2601) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Withington | United Kingdom | Recruiting |
| General Hospital of Athens - Alexandra 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 |
| Rambam Health Care Campus ( Site 1600) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Haifa | Israel | Recruiting |
| Meir Medical Center. ( Site 1603) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Kfar Saba | Israel | Recruiting |
| Rabin Medical Center ( Site 1602) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Petah Tikva | Israel | Recruiting |
| Sheba Medical Center ( Site 1601) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Ramat Gan | Israel | 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 |
| Istituto Romagnolo per lo Studio dei Tumori "Dino Amadori" - IRST S.r.l Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Meldola | Italy | Recruiting |
| Fondazione IRCCS - Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Milan | Italy | Recruiting |
| Istituto Oncologico Veneto Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Padova | Italy | Recruiting |
| Azienda Ospedaliera di Perugia Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Perugia | Italy | Recruiting |
| I.F.O. Istituti Fisioterapici Ospitalieri Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Rome | Italy | Recruiting |
| Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS 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 |
| Samsung Medical Center ( Site 2902) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Seoul | South Korea | Recruiting |
| Severance Hospital, Yonsei University Health System ( Site 2903) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Seoul | South Korea | Recruiting |
| Asan Medical Center ( Site 2901) 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 |
| Academisch Ziekenhuis Maastricht Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Maastricht | Netherlands | Recruiting |
| Sint Franciscus Vlietland Groep Stichting Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Schiedam | Netherlands | Recruiting |
| Haga Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | 's-Gravenhage | Netherlands | Recruiting |
| Pratia S.A. Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Cracow | Poland | Recruiting |
| Narodowy Instytut Onkologii im. Marii Sklodowskiej-Curie Panstwowy Instytut Badawczy Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Gliwice | 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 |
| Narodowy Instytut Onkologii im Marii Sklodowskiej Curie Panstwowy Instytut Badawczy Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Warsaw | Poland | Recruiting |
| Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center ( Site 0139) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Boston | United States | Recruiting |
| Dana Farber Cancer Institute ( Site 0135) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Boston | United States | Recruiting |
| UT Southwestern Medical Center ( Site 0119) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Dallas | United States | Recruiting |
| The West Clinic, P.C. ( Site 0115) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Germantown | United States | Recruiting |
| The Cancer and Hematology Centers ( Site 0123) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Grand Rapids | United States | Recruiting |
| University of Louisville, James Graham Brown Cancer Center ( Site 0133) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Louisville | United States | Recruiting |
| Norton Women's and Children's Hospital-Norton Cancer Institute - St. Matthews ( Site 0104) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Louisville | United States | Recruiting |
| Northwest Georgia Oncology Centers, a Service of Wellstar Cobb Hospital ( Site 0102) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Marietta | United States | Recruiting |
| Atlantic Health System Morristown Medical Center ( Site 0109) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Morristown | United States | Recruiting |
| Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center ( Site 0126) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | New York | United States | Recruiting |
| Washington University School of Medicine ( Site 0114) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | St Louis | United States | Recruiting |
| Adana Medical Park Seyhan Hastanesi ( Site 2505) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Adana | Turkey (Türkiye) | Recruiting |
| Ankara University Health Practice and Research Hospitals ( Site 2506) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Ankara | Turkey (Türkiye) | Recruiting |
| Trakya University Medical Faculty Hospital ( Site 2502) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Edirne | Turkey (Türkiye) | Recruiting |
| Koc Universitesi Hastanesi ( Site 2501) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Istanbul | Turkey (Türkiye) | Recruiting |
| Ege Universitesi Hastanesi ( Site 2503) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Izmir | Turkey (Türkiye) | Recruiting |
| Hacettepe Universite Hastaneleri ( Site 2500) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Sıhhiye | Turkey (Türkiye) | Recruiting |
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