New drug cocktail aims to stop cervical cancer return
NCT ID NCT07368985
First seen Jun 24, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026 · Updated 1 time
Summary
This phase II trial tests whether adding pembrolizumab and lenvatinib to standard chemoradiation and brachytherapy can improve outcomes for adults with high-risk locally advanced cervical cancer. About 87 participants will receive the drug combination and be followed for two years to see if the cancer progresses. The study also tracks side effects to assess safety.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- pembrolizumab and lenvatinib
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this combination could improve the chance of keeping cervical cancer from coming back for at least two years after standard treatment.
- What could go wrong
- This is a small, early-phase trial with no control group, so results may not be definitive. The drugs can cause side effects like high blood pressure, fatigue, and immune-related reactions.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Phase 2
Tests whether the treatment actually works, and watches for side effects, in a larger group.
- Participants
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About 87 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Expected to start
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Mar 2026
An estimate. Start dates often move.
- Expected to finish
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Oct 2029
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Female participants only
- 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: * Age \>18 years * Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0 or 1. * High risk defined by either of the criteria: 1. Squamous cell carcinoma FIGO 2018 stage IIIA, IIIB, IIIC1-IIIC2 OR 2. Adenocarcinoma or adeno-squamous carcinoma Stage IB3-IIIC2. * Have adequate haematological parameters and organ function as defined in the protocol Table 3. * Have adequately controlled blood pressure (BP) with or without antihypertensive medications, defined as BP ≤150/90 mm Hg. * Have measurable disease based on RECIST 1.1 on imaging at diagnosis. * The participant provides written informed consent for the trial. * Patients should have been planned for radical chemoradiation and MR guided adaptive brachytherapy with intended treatment completion within 50 days. * Patients should be deemed suitable for start of Pembrolizumab during chemoradiation and brachytherapy, and for start of Lenvatinib/Pembrolizumab 8 weeks after last brachytherapy as per local investigators assessment. * Criteria for known Hepatitis B and C positive subjects: Hepatitis B and C screening tests are not required unless: * Known history of HBV or HCV infection * As mandated by local health authority Hepatitis B positive subjects: * Participants who are HBsAg positive are eligible if they have received HBV antiviral therapy for at least 4 weeks and have undetectable HBV viral load prior to inclusion. * Participants should remain on anti-viral therapy throughout study intervention and follow local guidelines for HBV anti-viral therapy post completion of study intervention. * Participants with history of HCV infection are eligible if HCV viral load is undetectable at screening. * Participants must have completed curative anti-viral therapy at least 4 weeks prior to randomization. Exclusion Criteria: * Patients with locally advanced cervical cancer and signs of organ wall involvement on MRI or non-gastrointestinal fistula. * Major surgery within 3 weeks prior to first dose of study interventions. Brachytherapy is not considered a major surgery. * Urine protein ≥1 g/24 hours. Note: Participants with proteinuria ≥2+ (≥100 mg/dL) on urine dipstick testing (or urinalysis) will undergo 24-hour urine collection for quantitative assessment of proteinuria. * If a MUGA or cardiac ultrasound was performed (on clinical indication): having a LVEF below the institutional (or local laboratory) normal range. * Radiographic evidence of encasement or invasion of a major blood vessel, or of intratumoral cavitation NOTE: the degree of proximity to major blood vessels should be considered because of the potential risk of severe hemorrhage associated with tumor shrinkage/necrosis following Lenvatinib therapy. * Prolongation of QTcF interval to \>480 ms. NOTE: If the QTcF is prolonged to \>480 ms in the presence of a pacemaker, contact the Sponsor to determine eligibility. * Clinically significant cardiovascular disease within 12 months from first dose of study intervention, including New York Heart Association Class III or IV congestive heart failure, unstable angina, myocardial infarction, cerebral vascular accident, or cardiac arrhythmia associated with hemodynamic instability. Note: Medically controlled arrhythmia would be permitted. * Gastrointestinal malabsorption or any other condition that might affect the absorption of Lenvatinib. * Active hemoptysis (bright red blood of at least 0.5 teaspoon) within 3 weeks prior to the first dose of study drug. * WOCBP who has a positive urine pregnancy test within 72 hours prior to adjuvant phase. If the urine test is positive or cannot be confirmed as negative, a serum pregnancy test will be required. Note eligible patients for this trial are not WOCBP due to treatment with CRT. * Diagnosis of immunodeficiency or is receiving chronic systemic steroid therapy (in dosing exceeding 10 mg daily of prednisone equivalent) or any other form of immunosuppressive therapy within 7 days prior to the first dose of study drug. * Known additional malignancy that is progressing or has required active treatment within the past 3 years. Note: Participants with basal cell carcinoma of the skin, squamous cell carcinoma of the skin or carcinoma in situ, excluding carcinoma in situ of the bladder, that have undergone potentially curative therapy are not excluded. * Severe hypersensitivity (≥Grade 3) to Pembrolizumab or Lenvatinib and/or any of its excipients. * Active autoimmune disease that has required systemic treatment in the past 2 years (i.e. with use of disease modifying agents, corticosteroids or immunosuppressive drugs). Replacement therapy (e.g., thyroxine, insulin, or physiologic corticosteroid replacement therapy for adrenal or pituitary insufficiency, etc.) is not considered a form of systemic treatment and is allowed. * History of (non-infectious) pneumonitis/interstitial lung disease that required steroids or has current pneumonitis/interstitial lung disease. * Active infection requiring systemic therapy. * Known history of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection. Note: No HIV testing is required unless mandated by local health authority. * Known concurrent active Hepatitis B (defined as HBsAg positive and detectable HBV DNA) and/or Hepatitis C virus (defined as anti-HCV Ab positive and detectable HCV RNA \[qualitative\]) infection. See inclusion criteria 10 Note: no testing for Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C screening tests are not required unless: * Known history of HBV and HCV infection * As mandated by local health authority. * Has a history or current evidence of any condition, therapy, or laboratory abnormality or other circumstance that might confound the results of the study, interfere with the participant's participation for the full duration of the study, or such that it is not in the best interest of the participant to participate, in the opinion of the treating investigator. * Has known psychiatric or substance abuse disorders that would interfere with cooperation with the requirements of the trial. * Has had an allogenic tissue/solid organ transplant.
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Erasmus MC
Rotterdam, South Holland, 3015 GD, Netherlands
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