Recruiting
Phase 3

Pembrolizumab & Nivolumab

Sponsor:

University of Kansas Medical Center

Code:

NCT07174453

Conditions

Solid Tumor Malignancies

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Interventions

Nivolumab

Pembrolizumab

Study Details

Brief summary:

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).

Conditions

Solid Tumor Malignancies

Study ID

NCT07174453

Start date

Oct 7, 2025

Status verified date

Jun, 2026

Completion date

Oct 1, 2029

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Oct 1, 2027

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Ability of participant to understand this study, and participant willingness to sign a written informed consent.
2. Males and females age ≥ 18 years
3. ECOG Performance Status (PS) 0 - 2 (Appendix A.)
4. Females of childbearing potential must have a negative urine pregnancy test 72 hours prior to initiating treatment.
5. Histologically or cytologically confirmed diagnosis of solid tumor malignancy
6. Eligible to receive pembrolizumab or nivolumab based therapy
7. 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
8. 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:

1. Simultaneously enrolled in any therapeutic clinical trial
2. Concurrent or planned use of other immunotherapies or radiation
3. 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.
4. Diagnosed with a psychiatric illness or is in a social situation that would limit compliance with study requirements
5. Currently pregnant or breastfeeding
6. Has a known allergic reaction to any excipient contained in the study drug formulation
7. 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.

Study Design

Enrollment

192 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Randomized

Intervention Model

Parallel Assignment

Primary purpose

Treatment

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

experimental: Arm 1

Pembrolizumab Cohort- Dose: 200 mg Route: IV Schedule: Once every 3 weeks Overall Treatment Duration per Participation: Average of 12 months Cycle Length: Per SOC (3 weeks)

Nivolumab Cohort- Dose: 240 mg Route: IV Schedule: Once every 2 weeks Overall Treatment Duration per Participation: Average of 12 months Cycle Length: Per SOC (2 weeks)

experimental: Arm 2

Nivolumab Cohort- Dose: 480 mg Route: IV Schedule: Once every 4 weeks Overall Treatment Duration per Participant: Average of 12 months Cycle length: Per SOC (4 weeks)

Pembrolizumab Cohort- Dose: 400 mg Route: IV Schedule: Once every 6 weeks Overall Treatment Duration per Participant: Average of 12 months Cycle length: Per SOC (6 weeks)

Interventions

Nivolumab

Immunotherapy

Pembrolizumab

Immunotherapy

Primary outcome measure

  • Proportions of grade ≥3 immune related adverse events (irAEs) between the two arms in each cohort [ Time Frame: 12 weeks ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Locations

The University of Kansas Cancer Center

Recruiting

Westwood, Kansas, United States, 66205

Contacts

More Information

Sponsor

University of Kansas Medical Center

Last update posted

Jul 1, 2026

Last verified

Jun, 2026

Keywords

  • Immunotherapy

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by University of Kansas Medical Center on 2026-07-01.