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Pembrolizumab and Palliative Radiotherapy in Lung
Sponsor: Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
Summary
Lung cancer is the second most common cancer in the UK with around 43,500 new patients diagnosed each year. About 69% of patients are diagnosed with advanced stage disease and at present these patients would be expected to survive for less than 12 months. These statistics therefore show the need for the development of new effective drugs in the treatment of advanced Lung cancer. Recent trial results have shown the efficacy of immunotherapy in treating several types of tumours including lung cancer. These tumours are known to express a high level of a glycoprotein called PDL1 which is a component of the PD1 pathway. In cancer the PD1 pathway can be hijacked by tumours leading to the immune system being suppressed. The aim of the new drug Pembrolizumab is to restart the PD1 pathway and use the immune system to help fight the cancer cells. Radiotherapy has also been shown to cause cancer to increase production of the proteins that can block the immune system. Therefore it has been proposed that combine of new immunotherapy agent such as pembrolizumab and radiotherapy in the treatment of lung cancer will allow more cancer cells to be killed through the immune system. The purpose of this study is to see if pembrolizumab can safety be combined with standard palliative radiotherapy in patients with lung cancer. In addition once the patients have completed their course of radiotherapy they will remain on pembrolizumab alone and the study will look at how well this treatment regimen can control the growth of the cancer.
Official title: Phase I Dose Escalation of pAlliative Radiotherapy With Anti-PD1 Antibody Pembrolizumab in Thoracic Tumours
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - Any
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
24
Start Date
2016-06-24
Completion Date
2021-08-20
Last Updated
2026-04-23
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
Pembrolizumab
Pembrolizumab - Trial Treatment
Radiotherapy
Radiotherapy - Standard Treatment
Locations (2)
NIHR Biomedical Research Centre at RM and ICR (https://www.cancerbrc.org/)
London, United Kingdom
NIHR Biomedical Research Centre at RM and ICR (https://www.cancerbrc.org/)
Sutton, United Kingdom