New combo therapy trial aims to boost stomach cancer survival

NCT ID NCT03257163

Summary

This study is testing whether adding the immunotherapy drug pembrolizumab to standard chemotherapy and radiation improves outcomes for people with operable stomach cancer. It focuses on two specific types: cancers with mismatch repair deficiency or Epstein-Barr virus positivity. The treatment is given before and after surgery to try to prevent the cancer from coming back.

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Contacts and locations

Locations

  • Emory University

    Atlanta, Georgia, 30308, United States

  • Montefiore Medical Center

    The Bronx, New York, 10467, United States

  • RWJBarnabas Health - Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, Hamilton

    Hamilton, New Jersey, 08690, United States

  • Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey

    New Brunswick, New Jersey, 08903, United States

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