TriangleNCT04974398 · CITED IN SOURCE DOCUMENTS
A Study of Penpulimab (AK105) in the First-line Treatment of Recurrent or Metastatic Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma
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- Phase
- PHASE3
- Status at capture
- ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING
- Registry last update
- 2025-04-13
This study is a randomized, double-blind, multi-center phase III clinical study to compare the efficacy and safety of penpulimab combined with chemotherapy and placebo combined with chemotherapy in the first-line treatment of recurrent or metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma.
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What did the study report?
Outcomes, safety and baseline populations are separate source sections. Quality-of-life measures appear under their original outcome titles.
No posted result sections were captured. Registered plans do not establish that a treatment works.
Who could take part
- eligibility Criteria
- Inclusion Criteria: * Voluntarily signed written Informed Consent Form(ICF). * Main study: Age of ≥ 18 years and ≤ 75 years at the time of enrollment. * Substudy: Age of ≥ 12 years and \< 18 years. Weight≥ 35KG. * Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0 or 1. * Expected survival of ≥ 3 months. * Histologically or cytologically confirmed nasopharyngeal carcinoma. * Subjects with primary metastatic (nasopharyngeal carcinoma, stage IVB defined by the Union for International Cancer Control and the American Joint Committee on Cancer Staging System edition 8) nasopharyngeal carcinoma who are not suitable for local treatment or radical treatment; subjects who have a local-regional recurrence and/or distant metastasis more than 6 months after the completion of prior radical treatment (radiotherapy with induction, concurrent, adjuvant chemotherapy)； No systemic treatment has been received for recurrent or metastatic diseases, not amendable to local treatment or have received local treatment for the local-regional recurrent disease * At least one measurable lesion according to RECIST v1.1; * Has adequate organ function. * All female and male subjects of reproductive potential must agree to use an effective method of contraception, as determined by the Investigator, during and for 150 days after the last dose of study treatment. Exclusion Criteria: * Subjects with pathologically diagnosed nasopharyngeal adenocarcinoma or sarcoma. * Subjects have had another malignancy within 3 years before the first dose, except nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Subjects with other malignancies that have been cured by local therapy such as basal or cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma, superficial bladder cancer, cervix or breast carcinoma in situ are not excluded. * Participation in treatment with an investigational drug or use of an investigational device within 4 weeks before first study dosing. * Have previously received immunotherapy, including immune checkpoint inhibitors, immune checkpoint agonists , immune cell therapy, and other treatments against tumor immune mechanism. * Active autoimmune disease requiring systemic treatment within 2 years prior to initial administration, or as an autoimmune disease that can recur or for which treatment is planned determined by the investigator. * Active or past history of definite inflammatory bowel disease (e.g., Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis). * History of immunodeficiency; those who test positive for HIV antibody; current chronic use of systemic corticosteroids or immunosuppressive agents. * Known active tuberculosis (TB) (suspected of having active TB need to undergo clinical examination for exclusion of such possibility); known active syphilis infection. * Known history of allotransplantation and allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. * Has known active Hepatitis B or Hepatitis C. * Active or untreated CNS metastases. * Subjects with peripheral neuropathy. * Unresolved toxicity from prior anti-tumor therapy, defined as toxicity that has not recovered . * Received a live vaccine within 30 days before the first dose or planned to receive a live vaccine during the study. * Known allergy to any study drug component; known history of serious hypersensitivity to other monoclonal antibodies. * Pregnant or nursing (lactating) women.
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- maximum Age
- 75 Years
- minimum Age
- 12 Years
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Treatment arms and interventions
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- description
- Group A (study group): Penpulimab plus cisplatin/carboplatin and gemcitabine
- intervention Names
- Drug: Penpulimab
- label
- Group A
- type
- EXPERIMENTAL
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- Group B (control group): Placebo plus cisplatin/carboplatin and gemcitabine
- intervention Names
- Drug: placebo
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- Group B
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- PLACEBO_COMPARATOR
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- Group A
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- Arm A: Penpulimab (200 mg, administered on Day 1 of each cycle, Q3W) +cisplatin (80 mg/m2) or carboplatin (AUC 5) (administered on Day 1 of each cycle, Q3W, up to 6 cycles) + gemcitabine (1000 mg/ m2, administered on Days 1 and 8 of each cycle, Q3W, up to 6 cycles), 3 weeks (21 days) per cycle; followed by penpulimab (200 mg, administered on Day 1 of each cycle, Q3W) as maintenance treatment.
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- Penpulimab
- other Names
- cisplatin/carboplatin
- gemcitabine
- type
- DRUG
- arm Group Labels
- Group B
- description
- Arm B: Placebo (200 mg, administered on Day 1 of each cycle, Q3W) + cisplatin (80 mg/m2) or carboplatin (AUC 5) (administered on Day 1 of each cycle, Q3W, up to 6 cycles) + gemcitabine (1000 mg/m2, administered on Days 1 and 8 of each cycle, Q3W, up to 6 cycles), every 3 weeks (21 days) per cycle; followed by placebo(200 mg, administered on Day 1 of each cycle, Q3W) as maintenance treatment. Subjects in Arm B will have the opportunity to crossover to openlabel treatment with penpulimab monotherapy after radiographic disease progression.
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- other Names
- cisplatin/carboplatin
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Study design
- allocation
- RANDOMIZED
- intervention Model
- PARALLEL
- masking Info
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- QUADRUPLE
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- primary Purpose
- TREATMENT
Enrollment
- count
- 296
- type
- ACTUAL
Registered outcome plans (not posted results)
- primary Outcomes
- description
- PFS assessed by BIRC based on RECIST v1.1 .
- measure
- Progression-free survival (PFS)
- time Frame
- Up to 2 years
- secondary Outcomes
- description
- OS is defined as the time from the date of randomization to death from any cause.
- measure
- Overall survival(OS)
- time Frame
- Up to 4 years
- description
- ORR is the proportion of subjects with CR or PR based on RECIST v1.1.
- measure
- Objective response rate (ORR)
- time Frame
- Up to 2 years
- description
- DoR is defined as the duration from the first documentation of objective response to the first documented disease progression or death due to any cause, whichever occurs first.
- measure
- Duration of response (DoR)
- time Frame
- Up to 2 years
- description
- DCR is defined as the proportion of subjects with CR, PR, or SD, based on RECIST v1.1;
- measure
- Disease control rate (DCR)
- time Frame
- Up to 2 years
- description
- An AE is any untoward medical occurrence in a participant, temporally associated with the use of study treatment, whether or not considered related to the study treatment
- measure
- Adverse event (AE)
- time Frame
- From the time of informed consent signed through 90 days after the last dose of penpulimab
- description
- Serum concentrations of penpulimab in individual subjects at different time points after penpulimab administration.
- measure
- Maximum observed concentration (Cmax)
- time Frame
- From first dose of penpulimab through 30 days after last dose of penpulimab
- description
- Number and percentage of subjects with detectable anti-drug antibody (ADA).
- measure
- Anti-drug antibodies (ADA)
- time Frame
- From first dose of penpulimab through 30 days after last dose of penpulimab
- description
- Detect PD-L1 expression in tumor samples and evaluate the correlation between PD-L1 and efficacy.
- measure
- PD-L1 expression
- time Frame
- Baseline (Tumor tissue samples must be provided to the research center or central laboratory prior to initial administration).
- description
- Detect the blood EBV level at baseline and changes after administration and evaluate the correlation between EBV and efficacy
- measure
- Blood EBV level
- time Frame
- Up to 2 years
Full study description
- brief Summary
- This study is a randomized, double-blind, multi-center phase III clinical study to compare the efficacy and safety of penpulimab combined with chemotherapy and placebo combined with chemotherapy in the first-line treatment of recurrent or metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma.
Source references
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- Huang S, Liu F, Qu S, Chen L, Zhou P, Qu S, Ai X, Chen Y, Liu M, Wang R, Chan KK, Zhang P, Hu C, Wen J, Zhang J, Lin Q, Li X, Gu K, Xiang L, Wang D, Li J, Lin D, Hu D, Ding J, Wang S, Huang X, Wang L, Jin F, Pfister DG, Mak MP, Marchi PRM, Jiang Y, Yang H, Hu X, Liu T, Wu D, Shreenivas A, Oliveira TB, Silva CEB, Alves GV, Li X, Yao Z, Lu D, Hu M, Wang ZM, Li B, Xia M, Chen X, Hu C, Xu T. Anti-PD-1 antibody penpulimab plus chemotherapy for recurrent or metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma: a randomized, double-blind phase 3 study. Signal Transduct Target Ther. 2026 Apr 8;11(1):126. doi: 10.1038/s41392-026-02645-0.
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