Hepatocellular CarcinomaPhase 2NCT03163992
Pembrolizumab in Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma as Second-line Treatment After Failure of Sorafenib
A Phase 2 study testing Pembrolizumab in people with Hepatocellular Carcinoma, run by Samsung Medical Center at 1 site in South Korea.
Trial summary
This is a single-arm, single-center, open-label trial of pembrolizumab (MK-3475) in subjects with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma as second-line treatment after failure of sorafenib. Approximately 60 subjects will be enrollment to evaluate the efficacy and safety of pembrolizumab. Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Ages 20 years and older
- Conditions the study is for
- Hepatocellular Carcinoma
- What is being tested?
- Pembrolizumab
- Could I receive a placebo?
- No, everyone receives an active treatment
- How many people
- 60 participants
- Where
- 1 siteSouth Korea
- Study dates
- 26 Dec 2017to 17 May 2021
- Phase
- Phase 2
- Are there results?
- Yes, posted in the registrySummary in the doctors' view
Key requirements
Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.
- Ages 20 years and older
- All sexes
- No healthy volunteers
- Adult, Older adult
Who may be able to join
- Be willing and able to provide written informed consent/assent for the trial. The subject may also provide consent for Biomedical Research. However, the subject may participate in the main trial without participating in Biomedical Research.
- Have histologically or cytologically confirmed diagnosis of HCC (fibrolamellar and mixed hepatocellular/cholangiocarcinoma subtypes are not eligible) based on pathology report.
- Have Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer (BCLC) Stage C disease, or BCLC Stage B disease not amenable to locoregional therapy or refractory to locoregional therapy, and not amenable to a curative treatment approach.
- Have a Child-Pugh class A liver score
- Has experienced documented objective radiographic or clinical disease progression during first-line sorafenib therapy.
- Have measurable disease based on RECIST1.1 as determined by investigator.
- Be willing to provide fresh tissue for biomarker analysis, and, based on the adequacy of the tissue sample quality for assessment of biomarker status. Repeat samples may be required if adequate tissue is not provided. Newly obtained endoscopic biopsy specimens are preferred to archived samples and formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded (FFPE) block specimens are preferred to slides.
Who cannot join
- Is currently participating and receiving study therapy or has participated in a study of an investigational agent and received study therapy or used an investigational device within 4 weeks of the first dose of treatment.
- Has received sorafenib within 14 days of first dose of study medication.
- Has had esophageal or gastric variceal bleeding within the last 6 months. All subjects will be screened for esophageal varices, unless such screening has been performed in the past 12 months before first dose of treatment. If varices are present, they should be treated according to institutional standards before starting study treatment.
- Had a solid organ transplant.
- Has active autoimmune disease that has required systemic treatment in past 2 years (i.e., with use of disease-modifying agents, corticosteroids, or immunosuppressive drugs). Replacement therapy (e.g., thyroxine, insulin, or physiologic corticosteroid replacement therapy for adrenal or pituitary insufficiency, etc.) is not considered a form of systemic treatment.
- Has a diagnosis of immunodeficiency or is receiving systemic steroid therapy or any other form of immunosuppressive therapy within 7 days prior to the first dose of trial treatment.
- Has received locoregional therapy to liver (transcatheter chemoembolization [TACE], transcatheter embolization [TAE], radiation, radioembolization, or ablation) or major surgery to liver or other site within 4 weeks prior to the first dose of study drug. Minor surgery (e.g., simple excision, tooth extraction) must have occurred at least 7 days prior to the first dose of study treatment (Cycle 1, Day 1).
Trial locations and contacts
1 site in 1 country.
About this study
Official title: Pembrolizumab in HCC
This is a single-arm, single-center, open-label trial of pembrolizumab (MK-3475) in subjects with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma as second-line treatment after failure of sorafenib.
Approximately 60 subjects will be enrollment to evaluate the efficacy and safety of pembrolizumab.
Read more
Enrollment will begin with all subjects without regard for PD-L1 expression status.
An evaluable specimen for PD-L1 status must be available and confirmed prior to enrollment.
All study subjects will be evaluated every 6 weeks (+/- 7 days) following the date of IP drug adminstration for the first 12 months and every 12 weeks (+/- 7 days) thereafter until progression of disease is documented with radiologic imaging (computed tomography or magnetic resonance imaging).
The primary efficacy endpoint is ORR (objective response rate) per RECIST 1.1.
Read the detailed description
Each subject will participate in the trial from the time the subject signs the Informed Consent Form (ICF) through the final contact. After a screening phase of up to 28 days, eligible subjects will receive treatment beginning on Day 1 of each 3week dosing cycle for pembrolizumab.
Treatment with pembrolizumab will continue until documented disease progression, unacceptable adverse event(s),intercurrent illness that prevents further administration of treatment, investigators' decision to withdraw the subject, subject withdraws consent, pregnancy of the subject, noncompliance with trial treatment or procedure requirements, subject receives 24 months of pembrolizumab, or administrative reasons requiring cessation of treatment. After the end of treatment, each subject will be followed for 30 days for adverse event monitoring (serious adverse events and events of clinical interest will be collected for 90 days after the end of treatment or 30 days after the end of treatment if the subject initiates new anticancer therapy, whichever is earlier).
Subjects who discontinue after 24months of therapy for reasons other than disease progression or intolerability or who discontinue after attaining a CR may be eligible for up to one year of retreatment after they have experienced radiographic disease progression.
Subjects who discontinue for reasons other than disease progression will have post-treatment follow-up for disease status until disease progression, initiating a non-study cancer treatment, withdrawing consent, or becoming lost to follow-up. All subjects will be followed by telephone for overall survival until death, withdrawal of consent, or the end of the study.
- Conditions
- Hepatocellular Carcinoma
- Being tested
- Pembrolizumab
- Medical subject headings
- Carcinoma, Hepatocellular
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
PembrolizumabDrug
Also called MK3475
Pembrolizumab (MK-3475) 200 mg every 3 weeks (Q3W)
| Study group | Role | What they receive |
|---|---|---|
| pembrolizumab | Experimental | Pembrolizumab (MK-3475) 200 mg every 3 weeks (Q3W) Receives: Drug: Pembrolizumab |
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
Overall Response Rate
Overall response rate (ORR) is defined as the proportion of patients who have a partial or complete response to therapy; it does not include stable disease and is a direct measure of drug tumoricidal activity. (biomarker negative vs biomarker Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma)
Per Response Evaluation Criteria In Solid Tumors Criteria (RECIST v1.0) for target lesions and assessed by CT or MRI Complete Response (CR); Disappearance of all target lesions Partial Response (PR); >=30% decrease in the sum of the longest diameter of target lesions Overall Response (OR) = CR + PR
Measured: through study completion, an average of 24 months
Secondary outcomes (1)
Progression-free Survival (PFS) and Overall Survival (OS)
Progression-free survival (PFS) was defined as the time from the started of treatment until the date of disease progression or death resulting from any cause.
Overall survival was measured from the started of treatment to the date of death from any cause.
Progression is defined using Response Evaluation Criteria In Solid Tumors Criteria (RECIST v1.0), as a 20% increase in the sum of the longest diameter of target lesions, or a measurable increase in a non-target lesion, or the appearance of new lesions.
Progression-free survival (PFS) is the length of time during and after the treatment of a disease, such as cancer, that a patient lives with the disease but it does not get worse.
Measured: through study completion, an average of 24 months
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted23 May 2017
- Study start26 Dec 2017
- Primary completion17 May 2021
- Study completion17 May 2021
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Posted resultsParticipant flow, outcome measures and adverse events reported by the sponsor.
- Other trials for Hepatocellular CarcinomaStudies of the same condition, open and under way.
- More trials run by Samsung Medical CenterThe sponsor's other registered studies.
- What the trial phases meanHow a treatment moves from first tests in people to approval.
More details
For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.
Study design
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase 2
- Primary purpose
- Treatment
- Allocation
- Not applicable
- Intervention model
- Single group
- Model description
- Pembrolizumab (MK-3475) 200 mg every 3 weeks (Q3W)
- Masking
- None (open label)
- Enrolment
- 60 participants (actual)
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- Samsung Medical Center
- Sponsor type
- University, hospital or other
- Responsible party
- Principal investigator, Jeeyun Lee, Samsung Medical Center
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT03163992
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- 2016-12-127
- Status last verified
- Aug 2022
- First submitted
- 26 Apr 2017
- Last updated
- 8 Aug 2022
- Results posted
- Yes, on ClinicalTrials.gov
- Data monitoring committee
- No
- FDA-regulated drug
- Yes
- FDA-regulated device
- No
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 8 Aug 2022. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official title
- Pembrolizumab in HCC
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT03163992
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- 2016-12-127
- Conditions
- Hepatocellular Carcinoma
- Phase
- Phase 2
- Study type
- Interventional
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Enrolment
- 60 participants (actual)
- Lead sponsor
- Samsung Medical CenterUniversity, hospital or other
- Study start
- 26 Dec 2017 (actual)
- Primary completion
- 17 May 2021 (actual)
- Study completion
- 17 May 2021 (actual)
- First posted
- 23 May 2017 (actual)
- Results
- Posted 4 Aug 2022
Clinical summary
The research question as the sponsor registered it. This describes what the study plans to test, not what it found.
This is a single-arm, single-center, open-label trial of pembrolizumab (MK-3475) in subjects with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma as second-line treatment after failure of sorafenib.
Approximately 60 subjects will be enrollment to evaluate the efficacy and safety of pembrolizumab.
Enrollment will begin with all subjects without regard for PD-L1 expression status.
An evaluable specimen for PD-L1 status must be available and confirmed prior to enrollment.
All study subjects will be evaluated every 6 weeks (+/- 7 days) following the date of IP drug adminstration for the first 12 months and every 12 weeks (+/- 7 days) thereafter until progression of disease is documented with radiologic imaging (computed tomography or magnetic resonance imaging).
The primary efficacy endpoint is ORR (objective response rate) per RECIST 1.1.
Detailed description
Each subject will participate in the trial from the time the subject signs the Informed Consent Form (ICF) through the final contact. After a screening phase of up to 28 days, eligible subjects will receive treatment beginning on Day 1 of each 3week dosing cycle for pembrolizumab.
Treatment with pembrolizumab will continue until documented disease progression, unacceptable adverse event(s),intercurrent illness that prevents further administration of treatment, investigators' decision to withdraw the subject, subject withdraws consent, pregnancy of the subject, noncompliance with trial treatment or procedure requirements, subject receives 24 months of pembrolizumab, or administrative reasons requiring cessation of treatment. After the end of treatment, each subject will be followed for 30 days for adverse event monitoring (serious adverse events and events of clinical interest will be collected for 90 days after the end of treatment or 30 days after the end of treatment if the subject initiates new anticancer therapy, whichever is earlier).
Subjects who discontinue after 24months of therapy for reasons other than disease progression or intolerability or who discontinue after attaining a CR may be eligible for up to one year of retreatment after they have experienced radiographic disease progression.
Subjects who discontinue for reasons other than disease progression will have post-treatment follow-up for disease status until disease progression, initiating a non-study cancer treatment, withdrawing consent, or becoming lost to follow-up. All subjects will be followed by telephone for overall survival until death, withdrawal of consent, or the end of the study.
Study design
- Primary purpose
- Treatment
- Allocation
- Not applicable
- Intervention model
- Single group
- Masking
- None (open label)
- Number of arms
- 1
- Model description
- Pembrolizumab (MK-3475) 200 mg every 3 weeks (Q3W)
| Arm | Type | Receives |
|---|---|---|
| pembrolizumab | Experimental | Drug: PembrolizumabPembrolizumab (MK-3475) 200 mg every 3 weeks (Q3W) |
Who may qualify
- Ages
- 20 years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
- Age groups
- Adult, Older adult
Key inclusion criteria (7 listed)
- Be willing and able to provide written informed consent/assent for the trial. The subject may also provide consent for Biomedical Research. However, the subject may participate in the main trial without participating in Biomedical Research.
- Have histologically or cytologically confirmed diagnosis of HCC (fibrolamellar and mixed hepatocellular/cholangiocarcinoma subtypes are not eligible) based on pathology report.
- Have Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer (BCLC) Stage C disease, or BCLC Stage B disease not amenable to locoregional therapy or refractory to locoregional therapy, and not amenable to a curative treatment approach.
- Have a Child-Pugh class A liver score
- Has experienced documented objective radiographic or clinical disease progression during first-line sorafenib therapy.
Key exclusion criteria (7 listed)
- Is currently participating and receiving study therapy or has participated in a study of an investigational agent and received study therapy or used an investigational device within 4 weeks of the first dose of treatment.
- Has received sorafenib within 14 days of first dose of study medication.
- Has had esophageal or gastric variceal bleeding within the last 6 months. All subjects will be screened for esophageal varices, unless such screening has been performed in the past 12 months before first dose of treatment. If varices are present, they should be treated according to institutional standards before starting study treatment.
- Had a solid organ transplant.
- Has active autoimmune disease that has required systemic treatment in past 2 years (i.e., with use of disease-modifying agents, corticosteroids, or immunosuppressive drugs). Replacement therapy (e.g., thyroxine, insulin, or physiologic corticosteroid replacement therapy for adrenal or pituitary insufficiency, etc.) is not considered a form of systemic treatment.
Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening; this overview does not establish that a patient qualifies. Full inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Interventions
| Intervention | Type | Arms |
|---|---|---|
| PembrolizumabAlso: MK3475Pembrolizumab (MK-3475) 200 mg every 3 weeks (Q3W) | Drug | pembrolizumab |
Primary outcome
Overall Response Rate
Time frame: through study completion, an average of 24 months
Overall response rate (ORR) is defined as the proportion of patients who have a partial or complete response to therapy; it does not include stable disease and is a direct measure of drug tumoricidal activity. (biomarker negative vs biomarker Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma) Per Response Evaluation Criteria In Solid Tumors Criteria (RECIST v1.0) for target lesions and assessed by CT or MRI Complete Response (CR); Disappearance of all target lesions Partial Response (PR); >=30% decrease in the sum of the longest diameter of target lesions Overall Response (OR) = CR + PR
1 secondary outcome
Progression-free Survival (PFS) and Overall Survival (OS)
Time frame: through study completion, an average of 24 months
Results and safety
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Research links
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govLast updated by the sponsor 8 Aug 2022.
- Posted resultsParticipant flow, baseline, all outcome measures and adverse events.
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Referral and contact
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The record lists no contact. Use the official record to reach the sponsor.
1 site in 1 country: see every site and its status.
Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
A Phase 2 study testing Pembrolizumab in people with Hepatocellular Carcinoma, run by Samsung Medical Center at 1 site in South Korea.
The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.
Who may be eligible to take part?
The sponsor lists 7 inclusion and 7 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.
Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?
The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 8 Aug 2022. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.
Where is the study taking place?
The record lists 1 site in South Korea. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.
What are the possible benefits and risks?
They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.
What does this phase mean?
Phase 2 studies give the treatment to a larger group to see whether it has the intended effect and to keep checking safety.
Not every study follows the same path, and some studies (observational studies, device studies) have no phase.
Are results available for this study?
Yes. Results are posted in the registry (first posted 4 Aug 2022). A summary is in the For doctors view, and the full results are on ClinicalTrials.gov.
How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?
The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.
What does the primary outcome measure?
Overall Response Rate (time frame: through study completion, an average of 24 months). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.
Where can I read the original study information?
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?
No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.
How often is this information updated?
AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 8 Aug 2022.