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A Study of Encorafenib Plus Cetuximab Taken Together With Pembrolizumab Compared to Pembrolizumab Alone in People With Previously Untreated Metastatic Colorectal Cancer

Running, not taking new patients. This trial is running but has stopped taking new participants. It is listed here because its results are worth waiting for, not because it can be joined.

Running, not taking new patientsPhase 2Randomised

The trial at a glance
Registry number NCT05217446
Recruitment Running, not taking new patients
Phase Phase 2
Design randomised, open label
Taking part 108 people (final)
Who can join aged 16 Years and over
Run by Pfizer
Started
Main results expected
Record last updated

What is being tested

  • Drug Encorafenib
  • Biological Cetuximab
  • Biological Pembrolizumab

What it is measuring

Progression-free Survival (PFS)

This is the trial's main question — the one it is designed and sized to answer. Anything else it reports is a secondary finding, and secondary findings are far more likely to be chance.

Phase 2. Tests whether the treatment works well enough to be worth a larger trial. Usually too small to prove it changes survival.

How the researchers describe it

The purpose of this study is to learn about the effects of three study medicines (encorafenib, cetuximab, and pembrolizumab) given together for the treatment of colorectal cancer that:

* is metastatic (spread to other parts of the body);
* has the condition of genetic hypermutability (tendency to mutation) or impaired DNA mismatch repair (MMR)
* has a certain type of abnormal gene called "BRAF" and;
* has not received prior treatment.

All participants in this study will receive pembrolizumab at the study clinic as an intravenous (IV) infusion (given directly into a vein) at the study clinic.

In addition, half of the participants will take encorafenib by mouth at home every day and cetuximab by IV infusion at the study clinic.

The study team will monitor how each participant is doing with the study treatment during regular visits at the study clinic.

Written by the trial’s sponsor, quoted from its ClinicalTrials.gov record.

What this trial is looking for

Genotype

  • BRAF V600E
  • dMMR / MSI-H
Disease

  • Metastatic
Treatment

  • Not yet treated

Read automatically from the criteria below, to make the list searchable. It is a summary of what the text mentions, not a decision about whether you qualify — and where the two disagree, the criteria are right and this is wrong.

Who the trial is looking for

Inclusion Criteria

  • Locally confirmed microsatellite instability-high/ deficient mismatch repair (MSI-H/dMMR) stage IV colorectal carcinoma
  • Locally confirmed BRAF V600E mutation in tumor tissue or blood
  • Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0 or 1
  • Have not received prior systemic regimens for metastatic disease.
  • Measurable disease per RECIST 1.1
  • Adequate organ function

Exclusion Criteria

  • Colorectal adenocarcinoma that is RAS mutant or for which RAS mutation status is unknown
  • Known active central nervous system metastases and/or carcinomatous meningitis; leptomeningeal disease
  • Immunodeficiency or active autoimmune disease requiring systemic treatment in the past 2 years
  • Presence of acute or chronic pancreatitis
  • Clinically significant cardiovascular diseases (eg, thromboembolic or cerebrovascular accident events ≤ 12 wks prior)
  • Received a live or live-attenuated vaccine within 30 days of planned start of study medication
  • Previous treatment with any selective BRAF inhibitor (eg, encorafenib, dabrafenib, vemurafenib, XL281/BMS-908662) or any epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) inhibitor (eg, cetuximab, panitumumab).
  • Previous treatment with an immune checkpoint inhibitor (eg, anti-programmed cell death [PD-1], anti-PD-L1 or anti-PD-L2 agent); or with an agent directed to another stimulatory or co-inhibitory T-cell recep…

This is an extract. Whether you qualify is decided by the trial team against the full criteria, not by reading this page. Read the full eligibility criteria

Where it is running

Running at 59 sites. Listed in: Australia, Belgium, Canada, Czechia, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, United Kingdom, United States.

Individual hospitals, and whether each is currently open, are listed on the registry record. Sites open and close throughout a trial.

Worth asking your oncology team

Being listed here is not a recommendation, and no one page can tell you whether a trial is right for you. These are the questions it raises.

  • Is this trial open at a hospital I could realistically travel to?
  • Given my stage, my previous treatment and my tumour's molecular profile, would I be eligible?
  • What would I be giving up by joining — is the comparison arm the treatment I would otherwise be having?
  • What is already known about the safety of what is being tested?

The source

Registry record NCT05217446, registered by Pfizer on ClinicalTrials.gov, a public database run by the US National Library of Medicine. The details on this page come from that record and are only ever as current as the sponsor has kept it.

This is a listing of a registered clinical trial, reproduced for information. It is not a recommendation, this site has no connection to the trial or its sponsor, and being listed here says nothing about whether the treatment works. Talk to your own oncology team before pursuing any trial.

This article summarises published research for general information. It is not medical advice, and it is not a substitute for a conversation with your own oncology team, who know your case. Do not start, stop, or change any treatment or supplement on the basis of what you read here.


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