Major skin cancer trial pits new drug duo against standard treatment

NCT ID NCT05352672

Summary

This large, late-stage trial is comparing a new two-drug combination (fianlimab + cemiplimab) against the current standard treatment (pembrolizumab) for people with advanced melanoma that cannot be removed by surgery. The main goal is to see if the new combination helps patients live longer without their cancer getting worse. The study will also closely track side effects and how the treatment affects quality of life.

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Contacts and locations

Locations

  • AZ Groeninge

    Kortrijk, West-Vlaanderen, 8500, Belgium

  • AZ Nikolaas

    Sint-Niklaas, West-Vlaanderen, 9100, Belgium

  • Acad.Fridon Todua Medical Center- Research Institute of Clinical Medicine

    Tbilisi, 0112, Georgia

  • Alfred Hospital

    Melbourne, Victoria, 3004, Australia

  • Andrew Love Cancer Centre

    Geelong, Victoria, 3220, Australia

  • Animi Unidade de Tratamento Oncologico

    Lages, Santa Catarina, 88501-001, Brazil

  • Antiguo Hospital Civil de Guadalajara Fray Antonio Alcalde

    Guadalajara, Jalisco, 44280, Mexico

  • Aou Citta della Salute e della Scienza di Torino - SC Dermatologia U

    Torino, 10126, Italy

  • Azienda Ospedaliera Santa Croce i Carle

    Cuneo, 12100, Italy

  • Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Pisana

    Pisa, Tuscany, 56126, Italy

  • Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Maggiore della Carita - Oncology

    Novara, 28100, Italy

  • Azienda Sanitaria Universitaria del Friuli Centrale

    Udine, 33100, Italy

  • Azienda Socio Sanitaria Territoriale (ASST) degli Spedali Civili di Brescia

    Brescia, 25123, Italy

  • Baskent University

    Yüreğir, Adana, 01230, Turkey (Türkiye)

  • Besancon Regional University Hospital Center

    Besançon, Doubs, 25000, France

  • Bezmialem University

    Istanbul, 34093, Turkey (Türkiye)

  • Bradford Hill

    Santiago, 8940575, Chile

  • CHU Charles Nicolle

    Rouen, Normandy, 76031, France

  • CHU Estaing

    Clermont-Ferrand, 63003, France

  • CHU de St Etienne

    Saint Priest En Jarez, Pays de la Loire Region, 42270, France

  • CHU-Dijon

    Dijon, Burgundy, 21000, France

  • Calvary North Adelaide Hospital

    North Adelaide, South Australia, 5006, Australia

  • Campus Bio-Medico di Roma

    Rome, 00128, Italy

  • Cancer Center of Adjara

    Batumi, 6000, Georgia

  • Cape Town Oncology Trials

    Cape Town, Western Cape, 7570, South Africa

  • Cardiomed

    Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, 400015, Romania

  • Catalan Institute Of Oncology

    Girona, 17007, Spain

  • Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO) Hospitalet

    Barcelona, 08908, Spain

  • Catarina Pesquisa Clinica

    Itajaí, Santa Catarina, 88301-220, Brazil

  • Centre Hospitalier Le Mans

    Le Mans, Pays de la Loire Region, 72037, France

  • Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) de Lille

    Lille, Hauts-de-France, 59000, France

  • Centre Hospitalier Universitaire De Poitiers

    Poitiers, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, 86000, France

  • Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Grenoble Alpes

    La Tronche, Isere, 38700, France

  • Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Universite Catholique de Louvain Namur Site Sainte Elisabeth

    Namur, B5000, Belgium

  • Centre Leon Berard

    Lyon, 69008, France

  • Centro De Atencion E Investigacion Clinica En Oncologia SCP

    Mérida, Yucatán, 97134, Mexico

  • Centro De Estudios Y Prevention Del Cancer

    Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, 29038, Mexico

  • Centro Estatal de Cancerologia

    Chihuahua City, 31000, Mexico

  • Centro Integral Oncologico HM Clara Campal

    Madrid, 28050, Spain

  • Centro Medico Austral

    Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, 1408, Argentina

  • Centro Medico Monte Carmelo

    Arequipa, 054, Peru

  • Centro Oncologia de Precision Universidad Mayor

    Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan, 7560907, Chile

  • Centro Oncologico del Norte

    Antofagasta, 1240000, Chile

  • Centro de Investigacion Pergamino

    Pergamino, Buenos Aires, B2700CPM, Argentina

  • Centro de Investigaciones Medicas y Desarrollo LC S.R.L. (LC Investigacion)

    Buenos Aires, 1125, Argentina

  • Centro de Pesquisa em Oncologia PUCRS

    Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, 90619900, Brazil

  • Centrul De Oncologie Euroclinic

    Iași, 7000106, Romania

  • Charite Universitaetsmedizin Berlin

    Berlin, 10117, Germany

  • Chu De Bordeaux

    Bordeaux, Gironde, 33075, France

  • Clinica Internacional SA

    Lima, 15036., Peru

  • Clinica Oncosalud

    San Borja, Lima region, 41, Peru

  • Clinica Peruano Americana (Private practice)

    Trujillo, La Libertad, 13001, Peru

  • Clinique Sainte Anne

    Strasbourg, 67000, France

  • Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc

    Brussels, 1200, Belgium

  • Cochin Hospital

    Paris, Île-de-France Region, 75014, France

  • Cork University Hospital

    Cork, T12 EC8P, Ireland

  • Cross Cancer Institute

    Edmonton, Alberta, T6G172, Canada

  • DIABAID - Instituto de Asistencia Integral en Diabetes

    Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, 1061, Argentina

  • Dermatologie

    Dessau, Saxony-Anhalt, 06847, Germany

  • Dicle University - Medical Faculty Campus

    Diyarbakır, 21200, Turkey (Türkiye)

  • Dr. Everett Chalmers Hospital

    Fredericton, New Brunswick, E3B 5N5, Canada

  • Ege University

    Izmir, Bornova, 35100, Turkey (Türkiye)

  • Elbekliniken Stade Buxtehude

    Buxtehude, Lower Saxony, 21614, Germany

  • Exelsus

    San Miguel de Tucumán, 4000, Argentina

  • FAICIC S. de R.L. de C.V.

    Veracruz, 91900, Mexico

  • FAICIC S. de R.L. de C.V.

    Veracruz, 91910, Mexico

  • FPO IRCCS Candiolo

    Candiolo, Torino, 10060, Italy

  • Fachklinik Hornheide

    Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, 48157, Germany

  • Fn Kralovske Vinohrady, Dermatological Clinic

    Vinohrady, Prague, 10034, Czechia

  • Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori.

    Milan, 20133, Italy

  • Fundacao Faculdade Regional de Medicina de Sao Jose do Rio Preto

    São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo, 15090-000, Brazil

  • Fundacao Pio XII - Hospital de Amor

    Barretos, São Paulo, 14784400, Brazil

  • Fundacao Pio XII - Hospital de Amor Amazonia

    Porto Velho, Rondônia, 76834-899, Brazil

  • Galway University Hospital

    Galway, Connacht, H91 YR71, Ireland

  • Gaziantep Medicalpoint Hospital

    Gaziantep, Sehitkamil, 27584, Turkey (Türkiye)

  • Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service

    Southport, Queensland, 4215, Australia

  • Groote Schuur Hospital

    Cape Town, Western Cape, 7925, South Africa

  • Gulhane Training and Research Hospital

    Ankara, 06010, Turkey (Türkiye)

  • Gustave Rroussy

    Villejuif, Val de Marne / Ile de France, 94805, France

  • H. Germans Trias i Pujol, ICO-Badalona

    Badalona, Barcelona, 08916, Spain

  • Helios Kliniken Schwerin

    Schwerin, 19055, Germany

  • Helios Klinikum Erfurt

    Erfurt, Thuringia, D-99089, Germany

  • Hemomed

    São Paulo, 01236030, Brazil

  • Hopital Ambroise Pare

    Boulogne, 92104, France

  • Hopital Avicenne

    Bobigny, Île-de-France Region, 93000, France

  • Hospices Civils de Lyon

    Pierre-Bénite, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, 69495, France

  • Hospital Bruno Born

    Lajeado, Rio Grande do Sul, 95900-022, Brazil

  • Hospital Clinico Universidad de Chile

    Santiago, Independencia, 8380456, Chile

  • Hospital Clinico Universitario Virgen De La Arrixaca

    El Palmar, Murcia, 30120, Spain

  • Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Maranon

    Madrid, 28007, Spain

  • Hospital Goyeneche

    Arequipa, 04000, Peru

  • Hospital Henri Mondor

    Créteil, Île-de-France Region, 94000, France

  • Hospital Moinhos de vento

    Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, 90440140, Brazil

  • Hospital Nacional Daniel A. Carrion

    Lima, Provincia Constitucional del Callao, 07016, Peru

  • Hospital Regional Universitario de Malaga

    Málaga, 29011, Spain

  • Hospital Sao Rafael

    Salvador, Estado de Bahia, 41253900, Brazil

  • Hospital Sirio Libanes

    São Paulo, 01308-050, Brazil

  • Hospital Teresa Herrera-Chuac

    A Coruña, Spain/La Coruna, 15006, Spain

  • Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias

    Oviedo, Principality of Asturias, 33011, Spain

  • Hospital Universitario Fundacion Jimenez Diaz

    Madrid, 28040, Spain

  • Hospital Universitario La Pa<

    Madrid, 28046, Spain

  • Hospital Universitario Lucus Augusti

    Lugo, 27003, Spain

  • Hospital Universitario Ramon y Cajal

    Madrid, 28034, Spain

  • Hospital Universitario Reina Sofia

    Córdoba, Andalusia, 14004, Spain

  • Hospital Universitario Virgen Macarena

    Seville, 41009, Spain

  • Hospital Universitario Virgen de las Nieves

    Granada, 18014, Spain

  • Hospital das Clinicas da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

    Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, 30130-090, Brazil

  • Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre

    Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, 90035007, Brazil

  • Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau

    Barcelona, 8025, Spain

  • Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

    Cottingham, East Yorkshire, HU16 5JQ, United Kingdom

  • INCA - Brazilian National Cancer Institute

    Rio de Janeiro, 20220-280, Brazil

  • IRCCS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza

    San Giovanni Rotondo, Foggia, 71013, Italy

  • IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino

    Genoa, Liguria, 16132, Italy

  • IRCCS Regina Elena National Cancer Institute

    Rome, 00144, Italy

  • Icon Cancer Centre Hobart

    Hobart, Tasmania, 7000, Australia

  • Incliva - Instituto de Investigacion Sanitaria

    Valencia, 46010, Spain

  • Institute of Oncology Bucharest

    Bucharest, București, 022328, Romania

  • Instituto COI

    Rio de Janeiro, 23793-080, Brazil

  • Instituto Joinvilense de Hematologia e Oncologia

    Joinville, Santa Catarina, 89201260, Brazil

  • Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Neoplasicas

    Surquillo, Lima region, 34, Peru

  • Instituto Oncologico Dr Rosell Hospital Universitari Quiron Dexeus Location

    Barcelona, Catalonia, 08028, Spain

  • Instituto Regional de Enfermedades Neoplasicas del Centro - IREN CENTRO

    Concepción, Departamento de Junín, 12125, Peru

  • Instituto Valenciano de Oncologia

    Valencia, 46009, Spain

  • Instituto de Oncologia de Rosario

    Rosario, Santa Fe Province, S2000KZE, Argentina

  • Instituto do Cancer em Hospital Sao Vicente de Paulo

    Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul, 99010-090, Brazil

  • Investigacion Biomedica para el Desarrollo de Farmacos SA de CV

    Zapopan, Jalisco, 45070, Mexico

  • Israeli Georgian Medical Research Clinic Helsicore

    Tbilisi, 0112, Georgia

  • Istanbul Medeniyet University - Prof Dr Suleyman Yalcin Sehir Hospital

    Istanbul, 81450, Turkey (Türkiye)

  • Istanbul University Cerrahpasa at Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty

    Istanbul, 34450, Turkey (Türkiye)

  • Istituto Clinico Humanitas

    Rozzano, Milan, 20089, Italy

  • Istituto Dermopatico dell'Immacolata

    Rome, 00167, Italy

  • Istituto Europeo di Oncologia

    Milan, 20141, Italy

  • Istituto Nazionale Tumori IRCCS Fondazione G Pascale

    Naples, 80131, Italy

  • Istituto dei Tumori

    Bari, 70124, Italy

  • JSC K. Eristavi National Center of Experimental and Clinical Surgery

    Tbilisi, 0159, Georgia

  • Klinikum Nurnberg, Hautklinik, Universitatsklinik fur Dermatologie der Paracelsus Medizinischen Privatuniversitat

    Nuremberg, Bavaria, 90408, Germany

  • Kocaeli University

    İzmit, Kocaeli, 41380, Turkey (Türkiye)

  • LMU Klinikum

    Munich, Bavaria, 80337, Germany

  • LTD New Hospitals

    Tbilisi, 0114, Georgia

  • Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

    Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS6 2HA, United Kingdom

  • Liga Paranaense de Combate ao Cancer - Hospital Erasto Gaertner

    Curitiba, Paraná, 81520-060, Brazil

  • Maria Sklodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology

    Warsaw, 02-781, Poland

  • Mazowiecki Szpital Wojewodzki, Siedleckie Centrum Onkologii

    Siedlce, Mazxowieckie, 08-110, Poland

  • Medical University Innsbruck

    Innsbruck, Tyrol, 6020, Austria

  • Medical University Vienna

    Vienna, 1090, Austria

  • Medical University of Graz

    Graz, Styria, 8036, Austria

  • Medical oncology

    Istanbul, Bakirkoy, 34147, Turkey (Türkiye)

  • Medisprof

    Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, 400124, Romania

  • Memorial Ankara Hospital

    Ankara, 0906520, Turkey (Türkiye)

  • Nantes University Hospital

    Nantes, 44000, France

  • Netherlands Cancer Institute

    Amsterdam, 1066 CX, Netherlands

  • Neurociencias Estudios Clinicos SC

    Culiacán, Sinaloa, 80020, Mexico

  • Oncocenter Oncologie Clinica S.R.L

    Timișoara, Timiș County, 300166, Romania

  • Oncocentro APYS

    Viña del Mar, Región de Valparaíso, 2520598, Chile

  • Oncomed

    Timișoara, Timiș County, 300239, Romania

  • Oncosite Centro De Pesquisa Em Oncologia

    Ijuí, 98700-000, Brazil

  • Oncovida

    Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan, Providencia, Chile

  • Onkologikoa

    Donostia / San Sebastian, Gipuzkoa, 20014, Spain

  • Orlando Health

    Orlando, Florida, 32806, United States

  • Ozel Liv Hospital

    Ankara, 06100, Turkey (Türkiye)

  • Poznan University of Meidcla Science

    Poznan, Wielkopolska, 60-788, Poland

  • Preparaciones Oncologica SC

    León, Guanajuato, 37178, Mexico

  • Princess Margaret Cancer Centre

    Toronto, Ontario, M5G 2M9, Canada

  • Radiotherapy Center Cluj

    Floreşti, Cluj, 407280, Romania

  • Regional Institute of Oncology

    Iași, 700383, Romania

  • Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital NHS Trust

    Exeter, Devon, EX2 5DW, United Kingdom

  • Royal Surrey County Hospital

    Guildford, GU2 7XX, United Kingdom

  • Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre

    Barrie, Ontario, L4M 6M2, Canada

  • Ruhr University Bochum

    Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia, 44791, Germany

  • SC RTC Radiology Therapeutic Center SRL

    Otopeni, Ilfov, 075100, Romania

  • Santa Chiara Hospital

    Trento, 38122, Italy

  • Sao Camilo Oncologia

    São Paulo, 04014-002, Brazil

  • Seidman Cancer Center

    Cleveland, Ohio, 44106, United States

  • Sfantul Nectarie Oncology Center

    Craiova, Dolj, 200347, Romania

  • Skin Cancer Center Harz

    Quedlinburg, Saxony-Anhalt, 06484, Germany

  • St Vincents University Hospital

    Dublin, DO4YN63, Ireland

  • Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

    Toronto, Ontario, M4N 3M5, Canada

  • Szabolcs Szatmar Bereg Megyei Korhazak Es Egyetemi Oktatokorhaz

    Nyíregyháza, Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg, 4400, Hungary

  • TIM - Tbilisi Institute of Medicine

    Tbilisi, 0160, Georgia

  • Tallaght University Hospital

    Dublin, D24NROA, Ireland

  • Tbilisi State Medical University and Ingorokva High Medical Technology University Clinic

    Tbilisi, 0144, Georgia

  • The Angeles Clinic and Research Institute

    Los Angeles, California, 90025, United States

  • The Medical Oncology Centre of Rosebank

    Johannesburg, Gauteng, 2196, South Africa

  • Townsville University Hospital

    Townsville, Queensland, 4814, Australia

  • Trakya University

    Edirne, 22030, Turkey (Türkiye)

  • U.O.C. Oncologia Medica ed Ematologia (U.O.C Medical Oncology and Hematology)

    Naples, Campania, 80121, Italy

  • UC San Diego

    La Jolla, California, 92093, United States

  • Universita Degli Studi Di Milano-Bicocca - Azienda Ospedaliera San Gerardo Di Monza

    Monza, 20052, Italy

  • Universitatsklinikum Leipzig, AoR

    Leipzig, Saxony, 04103, Germany

  • Universitatsklinikum Schleswig Holstein Campus Luebeck

    Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, 23538, Germany

  • Universitatsmedizin der Johannes-Gutenberg Universitat Mainz

    Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, 55131, Germany

  • University Clinic Frankfurt

    Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, 60590, Germany

  • University Hospital Dresden

    Dresden, Saxony, 01307, Germany

  • University Hospital Giessen

    Giessen, Hesse, 35385, Germany

  • University Hospital Hradec Kralove

    Hradec Králové, North Central Czech Republic, 50005, Czechia

  • University Hospital Ostrava

    Ostrava, 70852, Czechia

  • University Hospital Saint Poelten

    Sankt Pölten, Lower Austria, 3100, Austria

  • University Hospital of Regensburg

    Regensburg, Bavaria, 93053, Germany

  • University Hospital of Universitatsklinikum Schleswig Holstein (UKSH) Campus Kiel

    Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, 24105, Germany

  • University Medical Center Gottingen

    Göttingen, 37075, Germany

  • University Medical Center Mannheim

    Mannheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, 68167, Germany

  • University Medical Centre Groningen

    Groningen, 9713 GZ, Netherlands

  • University of Debrecen

    Debrecen, Hajdú-Bihar, H-4032, Hungary

  • University of Pecs Medical School

    Pécs, Baranya, 7632, Hungary

  • University of Tennessee Medical Center

    Knoxville, Tennessee, 37920, United States

  • University of Tuebingen

    Tübingen, Baden-Wurttemberg, 72076, Germany

  • Uniwersyteckie Centrum Kliniczne (UCK)

    Gdansk, Pomeranian Voivodeship, 80-214, Poland

  • Vento Institute of Oncology IOV-IRCCS

    Padua, 35128, Italy

  • Wojewodzki Szpital Specjalistyczny im. Janusza Korczaka w Slupsku Sp. z o.o.

    Słupsk, Pomeranian, 76-200, Poland

  • iCan Oncology

    Monterrey, Nuevo León, 64710, Mexico

  • ltd Multiprofile Clinic Consilium Medulla

    Tbilisi, 186, Georgia

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