Intismeran With or Without Pembrolizumab After Surgery for Early Lung Cancer
Tests intismeran, with or without pembrolizumab, in adults after surgery for early lung cancer.
Key facts
- Who runs it
- Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
- Where
- Bergamo, Florence, Milan, Novara, Perugia, and Rome, ItalySee the 7 sitesAlso in 19 other countries, 131 sites
- Trial code
- NCT07513376
- EU 2025-522643-18-00
- JRCT2021260028
- U1111-1323-9950
- Registry title
- A Clinical Trial of Adjuvant Intismeran (V940) With or Without Pembrolizumab Coformulated With Berahyaluronidase Alfa (MK-3475A) in High-Risk Stage I Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (V940-014)
- Status
- Recruiting
- Phase
- Phase 3
- People taking part
- 876 people, planned
- Started
- 4 May 2026
- Expected to end
- 11 May 2038
- Type of study
- Interventional, 3 groupsOne group gets a placebo (a dummy treatment), for comparison.
- Treatments tested
- Intismeran
- Pembrolizumab coformulated with berahyaluronidase alfa
- Placebo
- Record updated
- 9 November 2026
Who can take part
AI summary
From the trial's eligibility criteria. Machine-read from the registry text on this page, so it can be wrong. The registry text below and the trial team decide who can take part.
The trial is looking for adults with high-risk Stage I non-small cell lung cancer whose tumor was completely removed by surgery and who have had no other cancer treatment.
- Age
- 18 years or older
- Sex
- Men and women
- Disease stage
- Pathological Stage I non-small cell lung cancer (tumor 4 cm (1.6 in) or smaller) after complete surgery, with at least 1 high-risk feature: tumor larger than 2cm (0.8 in), visceral pleural invasion, lymphovascular invasion, or high-grade histology
- Earlier treatment
- Complete surgical removal of the lung cancer. No other treatment for this Stage I cancer, such as chemotherapy, immunotherapy, targeted therapy, or radiotherapy.
- Biomarker or test result
- A tissue sample from the recent surgery and a blood sample are required.
Main reasons for not taking part
- Small cell lung cancer, or mixed tumors with small cell parts
- Serious heart disease within 12 months before randomization
- Another cancer that is getting worse or needed treatment in the past 3 years
- Active autoimmune disease needing systemic treatment in the past 2 years
- History of stem cell or solid organ transplant
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- The main inclusion criteria include but are not limited to the following:
- Has a histological diagnosis of pathological Stage I (tumor ≤4 cm) non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) per American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) 9th Edition with at least 1of the following high-risk pathologic features as assessed locally: tumor size >2cm, visceral pleural invasion, lymphovascular invasion, or high-grade histology
- Has undergone a complete surgical resection of the primary NSCLC
- Has not received other prior treatment outside of definitive surgery (including but not limited to chemotherapy, immunotherapy, targeted therapy, or radiotherapy) for their current Stage I NSCLC
- Has provided a tissue sample from recent surgery along with the required blood sample
- 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 prior to randomization
- Participants with history of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection are eligible if HCV viral load is undetectable at screening
Who cannot take part
- Has any clinically significant cardiovascular disease within 12 months before randomization, including a history of coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) or percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), valvular heart disease requiring surgical intervention, New York Heart Association Class III-IV heart failure, unstable angina, myocardial infarction (MI), pulmonary hypertension, cardiovascular accident (CVA), or hemodynamically unstable cardiac arrhythmia
- Participants who have not adequately recovered from major surgery or have ongoing surgical complications
- Has diagnosis of any 1 of the following: small cell lung cancer (SCLC) or, for mixed tumors, presence of small cell elements, neuroendocrine tumor with large cell components, sarcomatoid carcinoma, or two synchronous primary NSCLCs
- HIV-infected participants with a history of Kaposi's sarcoma and/or Multicentric Castleman's Disease
- Has known additional malignancy that is progressing or has required active treatment within the past 3 years
- Has active autoimmune disease that has required systemic treatment in the past 2 years. Hormonal supplementation (eg, thyroxine, insulin, or physiologic corticosteroid) is allowed
- Has history of (noninfectious) pneumonitis/interstitial lung disease that required steroids or has current pneumonitis/interstitial lung disease
- Has active infection requiring systemic therapy other than those permitted in protocol
- Has history of stem cell/solid organ transplant
- The main exclusion criteria include but are not limited to the following:
Check if you might fit
Answer for yourself. This is not a decision: only the study team can say whether you can take part.
- Which best describes your lung cancer?
- Has the cancer spread to other parts of the body, or is it too advanced to be removed by surgery?
Where in Italy
Also in 19 other countries, 131 sites
- Azienda Socio Sanitaria Territoriale Papa Giovanni XXIIIBergamo, ItalyTaking people
- Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria CareggiFlorence, ItalyTaking people
- Istituto Nazionale dei TumoriMilan, ItalyTaking people
- Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Maggiore della CaritàNovara, ItalyTaking people
- Azienda Ospedaliera di PerugiaPerugia, ItalyTaking people
- Azienda Ospedaliera S Giovanni AddolorataRome, ItalyTaking people
- Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCSRome, ItalyTaking people
About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
Researchers are looking for new ways to treat high-risk, localized non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) that has been removed with surgery.
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People with high-risk, localized NSCLC are often treated with surgery. Researchers want to learn if participants can receive 1 or 2 trial treatments to help prevent NSCLC from coming back after surgery. One trial medicine is intismeran (also called V940/mRNA-4157) and the other is subcutaneous pembrolizumab (also called SC pembrolizumab and MK-3475A). Intismeran is designed to help a person's immune system attack their specific cancer. SC pembrolizumab is an immunotherapy treatment which helps the immune system fight cancer.
The main purpose of this study is to evaluate whether adjuvant intismeran autogene (V940) in combination with SC pembrolizumab and berahyaluronidase alfa (MK-3475A) or intismeran monotherapy improves disease-free survival (DFS) compared with placebo in participants with completely resected high-risk Stage I NSCLC.
The 3 groups in the trial
- Arm A: Intismeran + Pembrolizumab with Berahyaluronidase AlfaTreatment being tested
Participants will receive intismeran 1 mg via intramuscular (IM) injection plus pembrolizumab coformulated with berahyaluronidase alfa 790 mg via subcutaneous (SC) injection.
Treatment: Intismeran and Pembrolizumab coformulated with berahyaluronidase alfa
- Arm B: IntismeranTreatment being tested
Participants will receive intismeran 1 mg via IM injection.
Treatment: Intismeran
- Arm C: PlaceboPlacebo, for comparison
Participants will receive dose-matched placebo via IM injection.
Treatment: Placebo
Questions to ask the study team
- How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
- Are travel costs paid?
- Can I keep my own doctor?
- What happens if I want to stop?
Contact the study team: see the registry record → Contacts and Locations
Print a page for my doctorData and sources
- Registry record
- Listed on ClinicalTrials.gov and on the EU's official list of trials (CTIS).
- Official title
- A Phase 3, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Study of Adjuvant Intismeran Autogene Plus Subcutaneous Pembrolizumab and Berahyaluronidase Alfa (MK-3475A) or Intismeran Autogene Monotherapy Versus Placebo in Participants With Completely Resected High-Risk Stage I Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (INTerpath-014)
- Plain-language title
- Intismeran With or Without Pembrolizumab After Surgery for Early Lung CancerGenerated from the registry record. The registry title is the official one.
- AI summary
- From the trial's eligibility criteria. Read by machine on 12 November 2026.
- Fit questions
- Built from NCT07513376, who can take part
- Record updated
- 9 November 2026