New Pre-Surgery treatment strategy aims to stop rare skin Cancer's return

NCT ID NCT05496036

Summary

This study is testing if giving an immunotherapy drug called pembrolizumab before surgery helps people with a rare and aggressive skin cancer called Merkel cell carcinoma. The goal is to see if this approach shrinks the tumor and, most importantly, reduces the risk of the cancer coming back after surgery. Researchers will enroll about 15 people with early-stage cancer that can be surgically removed to test the safety and effectiveness of this new treatment sequence.

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Contacts and locations

Study contacts

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Locations

  • Penn Medicine

    RECRUITING

    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104, United States

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