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NCT Number: NCT07174453

Trial to Evaluate irAEs With Different Standard of Care Dosing Strategies of Standard of Care Immunotherapies

Phase 3/4 open label, randomized two cohort study (2 arms in each cohort).

It is hypothesized that for people with a histologically or cytologically confirmed diagnosis of malignancy, the higher dose immunotherapy (every 6 weeks Pembrolizumab 400mg dose and every 4 weeks Nivolumab 480mg dose) has more immune-related adverse events irAEs compared to lower dose (every 3 weeks Pembrolizumab 200mg dose and every 2 weeks Nivolumab 240mg dose).

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Key information

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Phase 3

Primary location

The University of Kansas Cancer Center

Westwood, Kansas, 66205, United States

Location status: Recruiting

Location contact

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CONTACT

[email protected]

913-945-7552

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Ability of participant to understand this study, and participant willingness to sign a written informed consent.
  • Males and females age ≥ 18 years
  • ECOG Performance Status (PS) 0 - 2 (Appendix A.)
  • Females of childbearing potential must have a negative urine pregnancy test 72 hours prior to initiating treatment.
  • Histologically or cytologically confirmed diagnosis of solid tumor malignancy
  • Eligible to receive pembrolizumab or nivolumab based therapy
  • Any disease setting (neoadjuvant, adjuvant, unresectable, metastatic) or any line of therapy is allowed. NOTE: Standard of care combination agents(chemotherapy, targeted therapy, biologics) are allowed because irAEs are the primary objective
  • Adequate organ function, defined as follows:

Leukocytes (White Blood Cell [WBC]) >1.0 K/UL Absolute Neutrophil Count >1.0 K/UL Platelets > 50 K/UL Hemoglobin ≥ 7 g/dL Serum creatinine ≤ 1.5 x upper limit of normal (ULN) or calculated creatinine clearance ≥ 50 mL/min using the Cockcroft-Gault equation Total bilirubin ≤ 1.5 x ULN Aspartate aminotransferase and alanine aminotransferase ≤ 2.5 x ULN unless liver metastases are present, in which case they must be ≤ 5 x ULN

Exclusion criteria

  • Simultaneously enrolled in any therapeutic clinical trial
  • Concurrent or planned use of other immunotherapies or radiation
  • Has not recovered from irAEs due to prior immunotherapy treatment (>=grade 2 is considered not recovered). Conditions that meet grade 2 criteria but are considered clinically stable at the discretion of the investigator will be allowed.
  • Diagnosed with a psychiatric illness or is in a social situation that would limit compliance with study requirements
  • Currently pregnant or breastfeeding
  • Has a known allergic reaction to any excipient contained in the study drug formulation
  • Active Grade 3 (per the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE), Version 5.0 ) or higher viral, bacterial, or fungal infection within 2 weeks prior to the first dose of study treatment.

Treatment and study plan

Nivolumab

Drug

Immunotherapy

Other names: Opdivo

Pembrolizumab

Drug

Immunotherapy

Other names: Keytruda

Primary outcomes

  1. Proportions of grade ≥3 immune related adverse events (irAEs) between the two arms in each cohort

    Time frame: 12 weeks

    Measured by National Cancer Institute (NCI) Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) v 5.0

Secondary outcomes

  1. All grades of immune related adverse events (irAEs)

    Time frame: Start of treatment to EOT. Approximate time frame 6-12 months.

    Measured by National Cancer Institute (NCI) Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE), Version 5.0

  2. Time to resolution of immune related adverse events (irAEs)

    Time frame: Start of treatment to end of follow up. Approximate Time Frame: 2-3 Years

    Measured by The National Cancer Institute (NCI) Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE), Version 5.0

  3. Time of treatment discontinuation due to immune related adverse events (irAEs)

    Time frame: Start of treatment to discontinuation Approximate Time Frame: 12 Months

    Duration of time from start of treatment to discontinuation, determined by medical record

  4. Overall Response Rate (ORR)

    Time frame: Approximate time frame: 12 weeks

    Measured by response evaluation criteria in solid tumors (RECIST) and medical record.

  5. Disease-Free Survival (DFS)

    Time frame: 6 months, 1 year, and 2 yearsApproximate time frame 3 years.

    To assess absence of disease recurrence, as determined by medical record imaging.

  6. Progression-Free Survival (PFS)

    Time frame: 6 months, 1 year, and 2 yearsApproximate time frame 3 years.

    The duration of time from start of treatment until objective tumor progression or death, as determined by medical record imaging

  7. Overall Survival (OS)

    Time frame: Approximate time frame: 2 years

    Duration of time from start of treatment to death, determined by medical record

Study contacts

Contact information is provided by the study sponsor or research team.

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CONTACT

[email protected]

913-945-7552

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

University of Kansas Medical Center

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Registry information

Official study title

A Late Phase Randomized Open-Label Multi Cohort Trial to Evaluate irAEs With Different Standard of Care Dosing Strategies of Standard of Care Immunotherapies

Important dates

Study start
2025
Primary completion
2027
Study completion
2029
First posted
Sep 16, 2025
Registry last updated
Jul 1, 2026

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