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Resectable Non-Small Cell Lung CancerPhase 2Neo-KanNCT05472623

Neoadjuvant KRAS G12C Directed Therapy With Adagrasib (MRTX849) With or Without Nivolumab

A Phase 2 study testing Adagrasib and Adagrasib/Nivolumab in people with Resectable Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer, run by Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins at 1 site in United States.

Withdrawn

Withdrawn. The study stopped before anyone enrolled.

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Trial summary

This is an open label phase 2 clinical trial evaluating the clinical safety, feasibility and efficacy of neoadjuvant Adagrasib alone or in combination with nivolumab in patients with NSCLC with KRAS G12C mutation. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 years and older
Conditions the study is for
Resectable Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
What is being tested?
Adagrasib and Adagrasib/Nivolumab
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
0 participants
Where
1 siteUnited States
Study dates
21 Mar 2023to 1 Sep 2025
Phase
Phase 2
Are there results?
None posted in the registry

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 18 years and older
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Adult, Older adult

Who may be able to join

  • Age ≥18 years
  • Histologically confirmed diagnosis of NSCLC (squamous or nonsquamous) with KRAS G12C mutation.
  • Diagnostic core biopsy specimens must be reviewed by a faculty pathologist at the enrolling/treating institution, and biopsy tissue must be available for further biomarker evaluation. If no archived tissue is available, patients will require a repeat biopsy prior to initiation of study treatment. See section 6.5.1 and lab manual for details of pretreatment biopsy tissue required.
  • KRAS G12C mutation determined by any CLIA-certified testing platform on patient tumor tissue or plasma sample.
  • Stage IB-IIIA NSCLC
  • T2aN0, T3N0, T1-2N1, T3-4N1, T1-2N2. This includes T2aN0 tumors ≥3 cm. Subjects with N3 nodal involvement are not included.
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  • Primary resection option for potential cure as assessed by a faculty surgeon at treating institution.
  • ECOG performance status 0-1 (See Appendix B)
  • Adequate organ function within the screening period as follows:
  • Leukocytes ≥ 2,000/mm3
  • Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) ≥ 1000/mm3
  • Platelet count ≥ 100,000/mm3
  • Hemoglobin ≥ 9 g/dL
  • Creatinine ≤ 1.5 x institutional upper limit of normal (ULN) or creatinine clearance (CrCl) ≥60 mL/min
  • Total Bilirubin ≤ 1.5 x institutional ULN (except subjects with Gilbert Syndrome, who can have total bilirubin < 3.0 mg/dL)
  • AST(SGOT), ALT(SGPT), and alkaline phosphatase ≤ 3 x institutional ULN
  • Pulmonary Function Testing to include DLCO must be performed to determine feasibility of surgical resection.
  • Women of child-bearing potential (WOCBP):
  • Agree to use contraception while participating in this study, and for a period of 6 months following last dose of Adagrasib or nivolumab, as effects of these agents on the developing human fetus are unknown. Men whose partner is a WOCBP must also agree to use contraception during this period.
  • Negative pregnancy test (minimum sensitivity 25 IU/L or equivalent units of HCG) within two weeks of registration.
  • Women must not be breastfeeding or plan to breastfeed for the duration of therapy or 6 months after.
  • Completed informed consent process, including signing IRB/EC-approved informed consent form.
  • Willing and able to comply with clinical trial instructions and requirements. Subjects must be competent to report AEs, understand the drug dosing schedule, and use of medications to control AEs.

Who cannot join

  • Patients presenting with any of the following will not be included in the study:
  • NSCLC not amenable to curative intent resection based on evaluation by faculty surgeon at treating institution.
  • This includes any patient with pathologically confirmed N3 disease.
  • Prior systemic treatment for lung cancer including chemotherapy, immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy, or a therapy targeting KRAS G12C mutation.
  • Prior thoracic radiation.
  • Any concurrent malignancies for which active therapy is being received.
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  • Exceptions: non-melanoma skin cancers; in situ dysplasia of the bladder, gastric, breast, colon, or cervix
  • Brain metastases at time of screening.
  • All patients must have brain imaging prior to enrollment (MRI brain or CT brain with contrast preferred).
  • Active or prior documented autoimmune or inflammatory disease as follows (Arm B only):
  • Medically relevant autoimmune disease requiring systemic treatment within 2 years prior to the first dose of study treatment.
  • Systemic treatment with either corticosteroids (> 10 mg daily prednisone equivalents) or other immunosuppressive medications within 14 days of study drug administration (Arm B only). Inhaled or topical steroids are permitted.
  • Adrenal replacement doses > 10 mg daily prednisone equivalents are permitted in the absence of active autoimmune disease.
  • Major surgery within 4 weeks prior to first dose of study treatment.
  • History of allogeneic transplant or primary immunodeficiency.
  • Uncontrolled human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection or acute or chronic hepatitis B or C infection.
  • Patients treated for hepatitis C with no detectable viral load and patients treated for HIV with no detectable viral load for at least 1 month while on a stable regimen of agents that are not strong inhibitors of CYP3A4 are permitted.
  • HIV testing is not required in absence of clinical suspicion of HIV.
  • Any of the following cardiac abnormalities:
  • Unstable angina pectoris or myocardial infarction within the past 6 months.
  • Symptomatic or uncontrolled atrial fibrillation within the past 6 months.
  • Congestive heart failure ≥NYHA Class 3 within the past 6 months.
  • QTc ≥ 480 msec in screening ECG measured using standard institutional method or history of familial long QT syndrome.
  • Ongoing need for a medication with any of the following characteristics that cannot be switched to alternative treatment prior to study entry (see Appendix D): known risk of Torsades de Pointes; substrate of CYP3A with narrow therapeutic index; strong inducer or inhibitor of CYP3A and/or P-gp; strong inhibitor of BCRP; and proton pump inhibitors.
  • History of stroke or transient ischemic attack within 6 months prior to first dose of study treatment.
  • History of intestinal disease or major gastric surgery likely to alter absorption of study treatment or inability to swallow oral medications.
  • Underlying medical conditions that, in the Investigator's opinion, will make the administration of study drug hazardous or obscure the interpretation of toxicity or adverse events.
  • Women who are pregnant or nursing.
  • Prisoners or subjects who are involuntarily incarcerated or compulsorily detained for treatment of either a psychiatric or physical (e.g. infectious disease) illness.
  • Receipt of a live vaccine within 30 days prior to first dose of study treatment.

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country.

United States1 site
  • Johns Hopkins

    Baltimore, Maryland, 21231

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About this study

Official title: Phase 2 Trial of Neoadjuvant KRAS G12C Directed Therapy With Adagrasib (MRTX849) With or Without Nivolumab in Resectable Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (Neo-KAN)

This is an open label phase 2 clinical trial evaluating the clinical safety, feasibility and efficacy of neoadjuvant Adagrasib alone or in combination with nivolumab in patients with NSCLC with KRAS G12C mutation.

Read the detailed description

Approximately 30% of patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) present with resectable disease, but following surgery, the majority will experience relapse and death from the cancer. Despite significant advances in therapy for advanced NSCLC, no new systemic neoadjuvant therapies have been approved for resectable NSCLC without an EGFR driver mutation in over 15 years, and these patients are in critical need of new treatments to improve rates of cure. Currently, the standard approach for resectable stage II and III disease is 3-4 cycles of pre- or postoperative chemotherapy, which provides an absolute 5-year survival benefit of only 5% over surgery alone.

Neoadjuvant systemic therapy provides an opportunity to improve outcomes with surgery at a similar rate to adjuvant therapy, and is a more useful platform for advancing the development of new targeted and combination therapies. Pathologic complete response (pCR) and major pathologic response (MPR, ≤10% residual viable tumor) in the resected specimen serve as surrogate endpoints for event-free and overall survival, and are useful early efficacy endpoints to accelerate drug development. In resectable NSCLC, the rates of pCR and MPR with neoadjuvant immunotherapy alone are about 10% and 45% as compared to 4% and 20% with current standard of care chemotherapy. The recent approval of osimertinib in resected EGFR-mutated NSCLC has demonstrated the efficacy of targeted therapy in resectable disease, but is only available to a small minority of NSCLC patients.

KRAS is the most commonly mutated oncogene in cancer representing a vast unmet clinical need, particularly in NSCLC where it is associated with smoking history and mutated in 30% of lung adenocarcinomas. Activating KRAS mutations promote signaling pathways for growth, survival and differentiation. The most common mutant allele is KRAS G12C, present in 1 in 8 patients with NSCLC (12.5%), and represents an aggressive NSCLC phenotype with significantly higher risk of recurrence following resection in stage I-III disease.

Adagrasib is a novel small molecule inhibitor of KRAS G12C producing potent inhibition of KRAS-dependent signal transduction with high selectivity. Adagrasib has shown promise in advanced NSCLC, with 45% confirmed objective response rate and 96% disease control rate in the phase 1/2 KRYSTAL study.

Finally, the investigators anticipate enhanced efficacy of Adagrasib in combination with immune checkpoint blockade. Emerging clinical data suggests that Adagrasib reconditions the tumor immune microenvironment to become more immune-sensitive (e.g. in immune "cold" STK11 co-mutated tumors), and combination treatment with anti-PD-1 therapy resulted in increased durable responses compared to either agent alone in a murine model. Adagrasib is well-tolerated and has been safely combined with anti-PD1 therapy in a phase I trial. This will be the first study to bring this combination forward in resectable lung cancer.

This phase 2 clinical trial investigates the role of targeted KRAS G12C inhibition with and without the anti-PD-1 agent nivolumab in resectable NSCLC

Being tested
Adagrasib, Adagrasib/Nivolumab
Keywords
Adagrasib, Nivolumab, Neoadjuvant, Resectable, NSCLC

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • AdagrasibDrug

    Oral Adagrasib 600 mg twice daily for 6 weeks prior to surgery.

  • Adagrasib/NivolumabCombination product

    Oral Adagrasib 400 mg twice daily for 6 weeks and IV nivolumab 240mg every 2 weeks for 3 doses prior to surgery.

Study groups in NCT05472623
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
Arm AActive comparatorArm A treatment: Oral Adagrasib 600 mg twice daily for 6 weeks prior to surgery. Surgical Resection, then standard postoperative therapy(chemo +/- RT).
Receives: Drug: Adagrasib
Arm BActive comparatorArm B treatment: Oral Adagrasib 400 mg twice daily for 6 weeks and IV Nivolumab 240mg every 2 weeks for 3 doses prior to surgery. Surgical Resection, then standard postoperative therapy(chemo +/- RT).
Receives: Combination Product: Adagrasib/Nivolumab

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Pathologic complete response (pCR) rate

    Number of patients with absence of any residual viable tumor (0%) as determined by pathologic review of surgical resection specimens divided by total number of patients in each arm started on investigational therapy.

    Measured: Within 90 days of surgery

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted25 Jul 2022
  2. Study start21 Mar 2023
  3. Primary completion1 Jun 2025 (estimated)
  4. Study completion1 Sep 2025

Why it stopped: no participants enrolled across sites

Resources

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
Randomised
Intervention model
Sequential
Model description
The study will enroll patients with newly diagnosed, biopsy-proven stage IB-IIIA NSCLC deemed surgically resectable and fit for surgery by a multidisciplinary thoracic oncology team. The study will accrue 42 patients to the following two arms sequentially: * Arm A: oral Adagrasib 600 mg twice daily for 6 weeks prior to surgery (21 patients) * Arm B: oral Adagrasib 400 mg twice daily for 6 weeks and IV nivolumab 240 mg every 2 weeks for 3 doses prior to surgery (21 patients)
Masking
None (open label)
Enrolment
0 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT05472623
Sponsor's protocol ID
IRB00306149
Acronym
Neo-Kan
Status last verified
Sep 2025
First submitted
21 Jul 2022
Last updated
15 Sep 2025
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
Yes
FDA-regulated device
No
Individual data sharing
No

Publications

  • Luo J, Florez N, Donnelly A, Lou Y, Lu K, Ma PC, Spira AI, Ryan D, Husain H. Adagrasib Treatment After Sotorasib-Related Hepatotoxicity in Patients With KRASG12C-Mutated Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: A Case Series and Literature Review. JCO Precis Oncol. 2024 Apr;8:e2300644. doi: 10.1200/PO.23.00644.

    PubMed 38579193

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A Phase 2 study testing Adagrasib and Adagrasib/Nivolumab in people with Resectable Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer, run by Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins at 1 site in United States.

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 23 inclusion and 30 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: withdrawn, as of the sponsor's last update on 15 Sep 2025. 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 United States. 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?

The study was withdrawn before enrolling participants, so there are no results.

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?

Pathologic complete response (pCR) rate (time frame: Within 90 days of surgery). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?

On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT05472623, which also lists 1 linked publication.

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 15 Sep 2025.

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