New hope for HER2-positive lung cancer: targeted drug combo enters human testing
NCT ID NCT04686305
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This early-stage study is testing whether a targeted cancer drug (trastuzumab deruxtecan) combined with immunotherapy and sometimes chemotherapy is safe for people with advanced HER2-positive non-small cell lung cancer. About 304 participants will receive different drug combinations. The main goal is to check for side effects, but researchers will also see if tumors shrink. This is not a cure; the aim is to control the disease.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
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Phase 1
The first testing in people. Mainly checks safety and dose, usually in a small group.
- Participants
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About 304 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Mar 2021
- Expected to finish
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Jun 2027
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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A company
The lead sponsor is a pharmaceutical, biotech, or medical-device company.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion criteria: * Histologically documented unresectable locally advanced/metastatic non-squamous NSCLC * Part 1: Progression after 1 or 2 lines of systemic therapy for recurrent or metastatic setting. * Part 3, Part 4 and Part 5: Patients must have tumors that do not harbor known genomic alterations or actionable driver kinases, for which approved therapies are available are allowed. * Part 3, Part 4 and Part 5: Patient must be treatment-naïve for advanced or metastatic NSCLC. Patients who have received prior adjuvant, or neoadjuvant chemotherapy, or definitive chemoradiation for advanced disease are eligible, provided that progression has occurred \> 6 months from end of last therapy * HER2overexpression status as determined by central review of tumor tissue * WHO / ECOG performance status of 0 or 1 * Measurable target disease assessed by the investigator using RECIST 1.1 * Has protocol defined adequate organ and bone marrow function * Part 3, Part 4 and Part 5: Minimum body weight of 35 kg. Exclusion criteria: * HER2 mutation if previously known * Has a history of (non-infectious) ILD/pneumonitis that required steroids, has current ILD/pneumonitis, or where suspected ILD/pneumonitis cannot be ruled out by imaging at screening * Lung-specific intercurrent clinically significant illnesses including, but not limited to, any underlying pulmonary disorder and prior pneumonectomy * Active primary immunodeficiency known HIV infection, or active chronic and resolved hepatitis B (positive hepatitis B virus surface antigen \[HBsAg+ve\] or hepatitis B virus core antibody (anti-HBc +ve) regardless of HBV DNA level)) or hepatitis C infection. Patients positive for HCV antibody are eligible only if polymerase chain reaction is negative for HCV RNA. Patients should be tested for HIV prior to treatment assignment if required by local regulations or IRB/EC * Active infection including tuberculosis and uncontrolled infection requiring IV antibiotics, antivirals, or antifungals * Spinal cord compression or clinically active central nervous system metastases, defined as untreated and symptomatic, or requiring therapy with corticosteroids or anticonvulsants to control associated symptoms * Medical history of myocardial infarction within 6 months before treatment assignment, symptomatic CHF (New York Heart Association Class II to IV), clinically important cardiac arrhythmias, or a recent (\< 6 months) cardiovascular event including stroke * For Part 3, Part 4 and Part 5: Cardiomyopathy of any etiology, symptomatic CHF (as defined by New York Heart Association Class \> II), unstable angina pectoris, history of MI within the past 12 months, or cardiac arrhythmia are to be excluded. Patients with troponin levels above ULN at screening (as defined by the manufacturer), and without any myocardial related symptoms, should have a cardiologic consultation before treatment assignment to rule out acute cardiopulmonary events. * Ascites or pericardial effusion that requires drainage, peritoneal shunt, Pleuroperitoneal shunt or CART (Concentrated Ascites Reinfusion Therapy) * For Part 3, Part 4 and Part 5: Active non-infectious skin disease (including any grade rash, urticarial, dermatitis, ulceration, or psoriasis) requiring systemic treatment, active or prior documented autoimmune or inflammatory disorders requiring chronic treatment with steroids or other immunosuppressive treatment. * Unresolved toxicities not yet resolved to Grade ≤ 1 or baseline from previous anticancer therapy OR prior discontinuation of any planned study therapy due to toxicity. * must not have any medical contraindication to platinum-based chemotherapy. * Part 3, Part 4 and Part 5 patients must not have had prior exposure to anti-PD-1, anti-PD-L1, anti-CTLA-4, anti-TIGIT or any other experimental immunotherapy in any setting. * For Part 3, Part 4 and Part 5: History of substance abuse or any other medical or psychological conditions that may, in the opinion of the Investigator, interfere with the subject's participation in the clinical study or evaluation of the clinical study results * For Part 3, Part 4 and Part 5: History of thromboembolic events within 3 months before the first dose of IP (limited to pulmonary embolism, deep vein thrombosis, or cerebral venous sinus thrombosis).
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
As listed by the trial registrant
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How to take part
Only the study team decides who joins. These are the ways to reach them.
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The places running it
54 sites in 15 countries. The list below names each one and where it is.
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The official record
ClinicalTrials.gov lists the study team's own contact details, including names and phone numbers. We don't republish those.
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A doctor treating you
A doctor who knows your case can contact a study site on your behalf, and can tell you whether this study is worth pursuing at all.
Contacts and locations
Locations
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WITHDRAWNDuarte, California, 91010, United States
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WITHDRAWNNewport Beach, California, 92663, United States
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RECRUITINGOrange, California, 92868, United States
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WITHDRAWNSanta Rosa, California, 95403, United States
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WITHDRAWNWestwood, Kansas, 66205, United States
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RECRUITINGBaltimore, Maryland, 21287, United States
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WITHDRAWNDetroit, Michigan, 48201, United States
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WITHDRAWNBuffalo, New York, 14263, United States
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WITHDRAWNNew York, New York, 10029, United States
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WITHDRAWNThe Bronx, New York, 10461, United States
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RECRUITINGHouston, Texas, 77030, United States
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RECRUITINGFairfax, Virginia, 22031, United States
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WITHDRAWNTacoma, Washington, 98405, United States
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TERMINATEDAdelaide, 5000, Australia
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WITHDRAWNHeidelberg, 3084, Australia
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RECRUITINGNedlands, 6009, Australia
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COMPLETEDEdegem, 2650, Belgium
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RECRUITINGBarretos, 14784-400, Brazil
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RECRUITINGPorto Alegre, 90035-903, Brazil
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RECRUITINGSão Paulo, 05652-900, Brazil
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WITHDRAWNWinnipeg, Manitoba, R3E 0V9, Canada
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WITHDRAWNLondon, Ontario, N6A 5W9, Canada
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RECRUITINGMontreal, Quebec, H3T 1E2, Canada
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NOT_YET_RECRUITINGChangchun, 130000, China
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NOT_YET_RECRUITINGChengdu, 610041, China
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NOT_YET_RECRUITINGFuzhou, 350011, China
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NOT_YET_RECRUITINGShandong, China
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RECRUITINGShanghai, 200433, China
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NOT_YET_RECRUITINGZhengzhou, 450000, China
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WITHDRAWNBordeaux, 33075, France
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RECRUITINGDijon, 21079, France
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RECRUITINGPierre-Bénite, 69495, France
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RECRUITINGSaint-Herblain, 44800, France
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RECRUITINGVillejuif, 94805, France
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RECRUITINGKfar Saba, 4428164, Israel
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RECRUITINGTel Litwinsky, 52620, Israel
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COMPLETEDMilan, 20133, Italy
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RECRUITINGMilan, 20162, Italy
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RECRUITINGMonza, 20052, Italy
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RECRUITINGNaples, 80131, Italy
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WITHDRAWNPadova, 35128, Italy
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RECRUITINGGeorge Town, 10450, Malaysia
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RECRUITINGKuala Lumpur, 59100, Malaysia
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RECRUITINGKuala Selangor, 62250, Malaysia
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RECRUITINGKuching, 93586, Malaysia
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COMPLETEDAmsterdam, 1066 CX, Netherlands
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RECRUITINGBacolod, 6100, Philippines
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WITHDRAWNCebu City, 6000, Philippines
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WITHDRAWNCity of Taguig, 1634, Philippines
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TERMINATEDDavao City, PH-8000, Philippines
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TERMINATEDManila, 1000, Philippines
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WITHDRAWNManila, 1015, Philippines
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RECRUITINGQuezon City, 1100, Philippines
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RECRUITINGQuezon City, 1112, Philippines
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TERMINATEDSan Juan City, 1500, Philippines
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RECRUITINGGdansk, 80-214, Poland
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SUSPENDEDKrakow, 30-727, Poland
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RECRUITINGOlsztyn, 10-357, Poland
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TERMINATEDTomaszów Mazowiecki, 97-200, Poland
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RECRUITINGWarsaw, 02-781, Poland
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COMPLETEDSingapore, 119228, Singapore
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COMPLETEDSingapore, 168583, Singapore
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COMPLETEDSingapore, 308433, Singapore
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RECRUITINGCheongju-si, 28644, South Korea
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RECRUITINGGoyang-si, 10408, South Korea
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RECRUITINGJinju, 52727, South Korea
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RECRUITINGSeoul, 03722, South Korea
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WITHDRAWNSeoul, 05505, South Korea
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RECRUITINGSeoul, 06351, South Korea
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WITHDRAWNBadalona, 08013, Spain
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WITHDRAWNMadrid, 28041, Spain
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WITHDRAWNSeville, 41013, Spain
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WITHDRAWNValencia, 46010, Spain
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RECRUITINGKaohsiung City, 833, Taiwan
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RECRUITINGTaichung, 402, Taiwan
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RECRUITINGTaichung, 40705, Taiwan
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RECRUITINGTainan, 70403, Taiwan
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RECRUITINGTaipei, 100, Taiwan
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RECRUITINGTaipei, 11217, Taiwan
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RECRUITINGTaipei, 235, Taiwan
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RECRUITINGTaoyuan, 333, Taiwan
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RECRUITINGBangkok, 10300, Thailand
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COMPLETEDBangkok, 10330, Thailand
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COMPLETEDHat Yai, 90110, Thailand
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COMPLETEDKhon Kaen, 40002, Thailand
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NOT_YET_RECRUITINGMuang, 22000, Thailand
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RECRUITINGMuang, 50200, Thailand
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RECRUITINGAnkara, 06800, Turkey (Türkiye)
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RECRUITINGAnkara, 6200, Turkey (Türkiye)
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ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITINGBornova-Izmir, 35100, Turkey (Türkiye)
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RECRUITINGIstanbul, 31755, Turkey (Türkiye)
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