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Brief Title: Efficacy and Safety of Pembrolizumab (MK-3475) in Combination With Chemoradiotherapy (CRT) Versus CRT Alone in Muscle-invasive Bladder Cancer (MIBC) (MK-3475-992/KEYNOTE-992)

A Phase 3, Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled Clinical Trial to Study the Efficacy and Safety of Pembrolizumab (MK-3475) in Combination With Chemoradiotherapy (CRT) Versus CRT Alone in Participants With Muscle-invasive Bladder Cancer (MIBC) (KEYNOTE-992)

INTRODUCTION

  • Org Study ID: 3475-992
  • Secondary ID: N/A
  • NCT ID: NCT04241185
  • Sponsor: Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC

BRIEF SUMMARY

Researchers are looking for new ways to treat muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC). MIBC is a type of cancer that has not spread from the muscles in the bladder to other parts of the body.

MIBC is treated by having surgery to remove the bladder (cystectomy). Not all people choose to have surgery and want to keep their bladder using other treatments.

Chemoradiotherapy (CRT)- is a type of non-surgical treatment for MIBC which combines Chemotherapy (a treatment with medicine to destroy cancer cells or stop them growing) and Radiation therapy (a treatment that uses beams of intense energy [like X-rays] to shrink or get rid of tumors).

Pembrolizumab is an immunotherapy, which is a treatment that helps the immune system fight cancer.

A placebo looks like the study medicine but has no study medicine in it. Using a placebo helps researchers better understand if the study medicine works.

The goal of this study is to learn: 1. If a study medicine pembrolizumab given with Chemoradiotherapy (CRT) can help people live longer without their cancer growing, spreading, or coming back compared to placebo given with CRT. 2.About the safety and how well people tolerate CRT alone or in combination with pembrolizumab.

  • Overall Status
    Recruiting
  • Start Date
    May 19, 2020
  • Phase
    Phase 3
  • Study Type
    Interventional

PRIMARY OUTCOMES

Primary Outcome 1 - Measure:

Primary Outcome 1 - Timeframe: N/A

CONDITION

  • Urinary Bladder Neoplasms

ELIGIBILITY

Inclusion Criteria:
* Has a histologically confirmed initial diagnosis of muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) with predominant urothelial histology

- * Has clinically nonmetastatic bladder cancer (N0M0)

- * Has planned and is eligible to receive chemoradiotherapy (CRT) and one of the protocol-specified radiosensitizing chemotherapy regimens

- * Has Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0, 1, or 2

- * Demonstrates adequate organ function

- * Male participants are eligible to participate if they agree to the following during the intervention period and for at least 90 days after the last dose of CRT treatment:
* Refrain from donating sperm

- * Be abstinent from heterosexual intercourse as their preferred and usual lifestyle (abstinent on a long term and persistent basis) and agree to remain abstinent; or must agree to use contraception unless confirmed to be azoospermic

- * A female participant is eligible to participate if she is not pregnant or breastfeeding, and at least one of the following conditions applies:
* Is not a woman of childbearing potential (WOCBP)

- * Is a WOCBP and using a contraceptive method that is highly effective (with a failure rate of <1% per year), with low user dependency or be abstinent from heterosexual intercourse as their preferred and usual lifestyle (abstinent on a long term and persistent basis), during the intervention period and for at least 180 days the time needed to eliminate each study intervention after the last dose of study intervention; and agrees not to donate eggs (ova, oocytes) to others or freeze/store for her own use for the purpose of reproduction during this period. The length of time required to continue contraception for each study intervention is as follows: MK-3475 - 120 days and CRT - 180 days
Exclusion Criteria:
* Has the presence of diffuse carcinoma in situ (CIS) (multiple foci of CIS) throughout the bladder

- * Has the presence of urothelial carcinoma (UC) at any site outside of the urinary bladder in the previous 2 years except for Ta stage/T1 stage/CIS of the upper tract if the participant has undergone a complete nephroureterectomy

- * Has a known additional malignancy that is progressing or has required active therapy within the past 3 years, except basal cell carcinoma of the skin, squamous cell carcinoma of the skin, superficial bladder cancer or other carcinoma in situ that has undergone potentially curative therapy

- * Has the presence of bilateral hydronephrosis

- * Has limited bladder function with frequency of small amounts of urine (< 30 mL), urinary incontinence, or requires self-catheterization or a permanent indwelling catheter - * Has received prior pelvic/local radiation therapy or any antineoplastic treatment for muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC). Treatment for non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) with intravesical instillation therapy that was completed ≥28 days prior to randomization is allowed. Prior systemic treatment of NMIBC is not permitted. - * Received prior therapy with an anti-PD-1 (programmed cell death protein 1), anti-PD-L1 (programmed death-ligand 1), or anti-PD-L2 (programmed cell death 1 ligand 2), or with an agent directed to another stimulatory or coinhibitory T-cell receptor (e.g., CTLA-4 [cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-associated protein 4], OX 40, or CD137 [cluster of differentiation 137]) - * Has received a live vaccine within 30 days before the first dose of study medication - * Is currently participating in or has participated in a study of an investigational agent or has used an investigational device within 4 weeks before the first dose of study medication - * Has known severe hypersensitivity (≥Grade 3) to the selected chemotherapy regimen, and/or any of their excipients and excipients of pembrolizumab - * Has a diagnosis of immunodeficiency or is receiving chronic systemic steroid therapy (in dosing exceeding 10 mg daily of prednisone equivalent) or any other form of immunosuppressive therapy within 7 days before the first dose of study medication - * Has an active autoimmune disease that has required systemic treatment in the past 2 years (ie, with use of disease modifying agents, corticosteroids or immunosuppressive drugs). Replacement therapy (eg, thyroxine, insulin, or physiologic corticosteroid replacement therapy for adrenal or pituitary insufficiency) is not considered a form of systemic treatment and is allowed - * Has a history of non-infectious pneumonitis that required steroids or has current pneumonitis - * Has an active infection requiring systemic therapy - * Has a known history of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection - * Has a known history of hepatitis B or known active hepatitis C virus infection - * Has a known history of active tuberculosis (TB; Bacillus tuberculosis) - * Has a known psychiatric or substance abuse disorder that would interfere with the participant's ability to cooperate with the requirements of the study - * Has had an allogenic tissue/solid organ transplant

Gender: All

Minimum Age: 18 Years

Maximum Age: N/A

Healthy Volunteers: No

OFFICIAL INFORMATION

Name: Medical Director

Role: Study Director

Affiliation: Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC

Overall Contact

Name: Toll Free Number

Phone: 1-888-577-8839

Email: Trialsites@merck.com

LOCATION

Facility Status Contact
Facility: Washington Cancer Institute at MedStar Washington Hospital Center ( Site 0041)
Washington, District of Columbia 20010
United States
Status: Recruiting Contact: Contact
Study Coordinator
202-877-9386

Facility: Summit Medical Group Cancer Center ( Site 6008)
Florham Park, New Jersey 07932
United States
Status: Recruiting Contact: Contact
Study Coordinator
855-413-2220

Facility: John Theurer Cancer Center at Hackensack University Medical Center ( Site 0005)
Hackensack, New Jersey 07601
United States
Status: Recruiting Contact: Contact
Study Coordinator
551-996-1379

Facility: New York Oncology Hematology P.C ( Site 0024)
Albany, New York 12206
United States
Status: Recruiting Contact: Contact
Study Coordinator
518-489-3612

Facility: Roswell Park Cancer Institute ( Site 6009)
Buffalo, New York 14203
United States
Status: Recruiting Contact: Contact
Study Coordinator
716-845-4922

Facility: Winthrop University Hospital ( Site 0069)
Mineola, New York 11501
United States
Status: Recruiting Contact: Contact
Study Coordinator
516-289-3772

Facility: New York University Perlmutter Cancer Center ( Site 0001)
New York, New York 10016
United States
Status: Recruiting Contact: Contact
Study Coordinator
212-731-6455

Facility: Cleveland Clinic Main ( Site 0062)
Cleveland, Ohio 44195
United States
Status: Recruiting Contact: Contact
Study Coordinator
866-223-8100

Facility: MidLantic urology ( Site 0070)
Bala-Cynwyd, Pennsylvania 19004
United States
Status: Recruiting Contact: Contact
Study Coordinator
610-667-0458

Facility: Carolina Urologic Research Center ( Site 0002)
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina 29572
United States
Status: Recruiting Contact: Contact
Study Coordinator
843-449-1010 ext. 257

Facility: Urology San Antonio Research ( Site 6010)
San Antonio, Texas 78229
United States
Status: Recruiting Contact: Contact
Study Coordinator
832-472-5482

Facility: West Virginia University - Charleston Area Medical Center ( Site 6003)
Charleston, West Virginia 25304
United States
Status: Recruiting Contact: Contact
Study Coordinator
304-388-5432

Facility: Froedtert and Medical College of Wisconsin ( Site 0022)
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53226
United States
Status: Recruiting Contact: Contact
Study Coordinator
414-805-8900