Clinical trial • Phase II • Oncology

NIVOLUMAB for Non-small cell lung cancer (metastatic) | Non-small cell lung cancer (recurrent)

Phase II trial of NIVOLUMAB for Non-small cell lung cancer (metastatic) | Non-small cell lung cancer (recurrent).

Overview

Trial Therapeutic Area
Oncology
Trial Disease
Non-small cell lung cancer (metastatic) | Non-small cell lung cancer (recurrent)
Trial Stage
Phase II
Drug Modality
Monoclonal antibody | Small molecule

Key dates

Initial CTIS Submission Date
23-04-2025
First CTIS Authorization Date
20-08-2025

Trial design

Randomised, open-label, two dosing regimens of nivolumab subcutaneous in combination with intravenous ipilimumab and chemotherapy (chemotherapy agents listed include cisplatin, carboplatin, paclitaxel, pemetrexed). no placebo or separate standard-of-care comparator arm explicitly specified.-controlled Phase II trial in Romania, Italy, Poland and others.

Randomised
Yes
Open Label
Yes
Comparator
Two dosing regimens of nivolumab subcutaneous in combination with intravenous ipilimumab and chemotherapy (chemotherapy agents listed include Cisplatin, Carboplatin, Paclitaxel, Pemetrexed). No placebo or separate standard-of-care comparator arm explicitly specified.
Single Multiple Or Escalation Dose Combined
Yes
Target Sample Size
36
Trial Duration For Participant
820

Eligibility

Recruits 36 No vulnerable populations selected. Participants must be ≥18 years of age or the legal age of consent in the jurisdiction; consent provided by the participant (no assent process described)..

Vulnerable Population
No vulnerable populations selected. Participants must be ≥18 years of age or the legal age of consent in the jurisdiction; consent provided by the participant (no assent process described).

Inclusion criteria

  • {"criterion_text":"- Females and males ≥18 years of age or the legal age of consent in the jurisdiction in which the study is taking place at time of ICF signature."}
  • {"criterion_text":"- Histologically confirmed stage IV or recurrent NSCLC (as defined by the 9th edition of the IASLC Lung Cancer Staging Guidelines) of squamous or non-squamous histology."}
  • {"criterion_text":"- No prior systemic anti-cancer treatment (including EGFR, ALK, ROS-1, BRAF, RET, and NTRK inhibitors) given as primary therapy for advanced or metastatic disease."}
  • {"criterion_text":"- Prior definitive chemoradiation for locally advanced disease is permitted as long as the last administration of chemotherapy or radiotherapy (whichever was given last) occurred at least 6 months prior to randomization. Participants with locally advanced disease with recurrence after chemoradiation therapy (stage III disease, specifically refers to patients with no curative options) are eligible to enroll."}
  • {"criterion_text":"- Prior adjuvant or neoadjuvant chemotherapy for early-stage lung cancer is permitted if completed at least 6 months prior to randomization."}
  • {"criterion_text":"- ECOG Performance Status ≤ 1 at screening and confirmed prior to randomization."}
  • {"criterion_text":"- Measurable disease by CT or MRI per RECIST 1.1 criteria with radiographic tumor assessment performed within 28 days of randomization."}

Exclusion criteria

  • {"criterion_text":"- Prior treatment with an anti-PD-1, anti-PD-L1, anti-PD-L2, anti-CTLA-4 antibody or any other antibody or drug specifically targeting T-cell costimulation or checkpoint pathways."}
  • {"criterion_text":"- Any known driver mutations with available targeted therapy (including but not limited to EGFR mutations, ALK translocations, ROS-1 translocations and known BRAFV600E, that are sensitive to available targeted inhibitor therapy; participants with a known activating RET mutations and NTRK fusion gene alterations). - Positive, unknown, or indeterminate EGFR mutation status in participants of non-squamous histology are excluded."}
  • {"criterion_text":"- Participants with untreated CNS metastases are excluded. - Participants are eligible if CNS metastases are asymptomatic and do not require immediate treatment or have been treated and participants have neurologically returned to baseline (except for residual signs or symptoms related to the CNS treatment)."}
  • {"criterion_text":"- Participants with leptomeningeal metastases (carcinomatous meningitis)."}
  • {"criterion_text":"- Participants with active, known or suspected autoimmune disease. Participants with type I diabetes mellitus, hypothyroidism only requiring hormone replacement, skin disorders (such as vitiligo, psoriasis, or alopecia) not requiring systemic treatment, or conditions not expected to recur in the absence of an external trigger are permitted to enroll."}
  • {"criterion_text":"- Participants with previous malignancies (except non-melanoma skin cancers, and in situ cancers such as the following: bladder, gastric, colon, cervical/dysplasia, melanoma, or breast) are excluded unless a complete remission was achieved at least 2 years prior to randomization and no additional therapy is required or anticipated to be required during the study period."}
  • {"criterion_text":"- Participants with a condition requiring systemic treatment with either corticosteroids (>10 mg daily prednisone equivalent) within 14 days or other immunosuppressive medications within 30 days of randomization. Inhaled or topical steroids, and adrenal replacement steroid > 10 mg daily prednisone equivalent, are permitted in the absence of active autoimmune disease."}
  • {"criterion_text":"- Participants who have history of interstitial lung disease or pneumonitis that required oral or IV glucocorticoids to assist with management."}

Endpoints

Primary endpoints

  • {"endpoint_text":"- Measuring various PK parameters of nivolumab SC in the blood during the first treatment cycle.","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Pharmacokinetic (PK) parameters measured in blood samples taken during the first treatment cycle (timing and specific PK parameters not further specified in the provided record)."}
  • {"endpoint_text":"- Measuring the amount of nivolumab SC left in the body just before the next dose is given on the first day of the seventh treatment cycle.","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Trough concentration measurement: quantification of nivolumab SC in blood immediately prior to dosing on Day 1 of Cycle 7."}

Secondary endpoints

  • {"endpoint_text":"- Recording the incidence of side effects (adverse events or AEs), serious adverse events (SAEs), drug-related AEs, immune-mediated AEs (IMAEs), specific AEs, AEs leading to discontinuation, and deaths until 100 days post end of treatment.","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Safety monitoring and AE reporting through end of treatment plus 100-day post-treatment follow-up; recording incidence and classifications of AEs, SAEs, drug-related AEs, IMAEs, AEs leading to discontinuation, and deaths."}
  • {"endpoint_text":"- Measuring the incidence of antibodies against nivolumab SC and ipilimumab IV, including neutralizing antibodies if applicable, until 100 days post end of treatment.","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Immunogenicity testing for anti-drug antibodies (including neutralizing antibodies if applicable) up to 100 days after end of treatment."}
  • {"endpoint_text":"- Evaluating the PK parameters of ipilimumab IV in the blood when given with nivolumab SC and chemotherapy during the first treatment cycle.","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Pharmacokinetic (PK) assessment of ipilimumab IV in blood samples collected during the first treatment cycle when administered in combination with nivolumab SC and chemotherapy."}

Recruitment

Planned Sample Size
36
Recruitment Window Months
40
Consent Approach
Informed consent obtained from each participant who is ≥18 years or the legal age of consent in their jurisdiction. Participant Information Sheets and Informed Consent Forms are provided (documents available in multiple country-specific versions: Romania, Italy, Poland, France, Greece and language-specific ICFs listed), and consent is provided by the participant. No assent for minors is applicable since only adults are eligible.

Geography

Total Number Of Sites
23
Total Number Of Participants
40

Romania

Earliest CTIS Part Ii Submission Date
14-05-2025
Latest Decision Or Authorization Date
09-03-2026
Processing Time Days
299
Number Of Sites
7
Number Of Participants
12

Sites

Site Name
Institutul Oncologic Prof. Dr. Alexandru Trestioreanu Bucuresti
Department Name
Oncology
Contact Person Name
Aurelia Alexandru
Contact Person Email
auralexandru@yahoo.com
Site Name
Centrul De Diagnostic Si Tratament Provita S.A.
Department Name
Oncology
Contact Person Name
Mircea Dediu
Contact Person Email
dr.mdediu@gmail.com
Site Name
Institutul Regional De Oncologie Iasi
Department Name
Oncology
Contact Person Name
Dana Clement
Contact Person Email
manager@iroiasi.ro
Site Name
Institute Of Oncology Prof. Dr. Ion Chiricuta Cluj-Napoca
Department Name
Oncology
Contact Person Name
Tudor Eliade Ciuleanu
Contact Person Email
office@iocn.ro
Site Name
Centrul De Oncologie SF Nectarie S.R.L.
Department Name
Oncology
Contact Person Name
Michael Schenker
Contact Person Email
office@centruldeoncologie.ro
Site Name
Radiotherapy Center Cluj S.R.L.
Department Name
Oncology
Contact Person Name
Andrei Ungureanu

Italy

Earliest CTIS Part Ii Submission Date
25-07-2025
Latest Decision Or Authorization Date
09-03-2026
Processing Time Days
227
Number Of Sites
6
Number Of Participants
9

Sites

Site Name
Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Careggi
Department Name
ONCOLOGIA Medica
Contact Person Name
Lorenzo Antonuzzo
Site Name
Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Maggiore Della Carita
Department Name
Oncologia
Contact Person Name
Gloria Borra
Site Name
Istituto Romagnolo Per Lo Studio Dei Tumori Dino Amadori IRST S.r.l.
Department Name
Oncologia Medica
Contact Person Name
Angelo Delmonte
Contact Person Email
angelo.delmonte@irst.emr.it
Site Name
Azienda Socio Sanitaria Territoriale Papa Giovanni Xxiii
Department Name
Oncologia
Contact Person Name
Anna Bettini
Contact Person Email
abettini@asst-pg23.it
Site Name
Azienda Sanitaria Universitaria Friuli Centrale
Department Name
Oncologia
Contact Person Name
Marianna Macerelli

Poland

Earliest CTIS Part Ii Submission Date
22-07-2025
Latest Decision Or Authorization Date
03-02-2026
Processing Time Days
196
Number Of Sites
3
Number Of Participants
6

Sites

Site Name
Instytut Centrum Zdrowia Matki Polki
Department Name
Klinika Onkologii
Contact Person Name
Ewa Kalinka
Contact Person Email
ewakalinka@wp.pl
Site Name
Mazowiecki Szpital Onkologiczny Sp. z o.o.
Department Name
Poradnia Onkologiczna
Contact Person Name
Jacek Grudny
Contact Person Email
jacek.grudny@gmail.com
Site Name
Szpital Specjalistyczny W Prabutach Sp. z o.o.
Department Name
Oddzial Pulmonologii
Contact Person Name
Anna Lowczak
Contact Person Email
onkoania@gazeta.pl

France

Earliest CTIS Part Ii Submission Date
29-07-2025
Latest Decision Or Authorization Date
10-03-2026
Processing Time Days
224
Number Of Sites
3
Number Of Participants
5

Sites

Site Name
Centr Georges Francois Leclerc
Department Name
Oncologie médicale
Contact Person Name
Courèche KADERBHAI
Contact Person Email
cgkaderbhai@cgfl.fr
Site Name
Hospital Foch
Department Name
Oncologie médicale
Contact Person Name
Jaafar BENNOUNA
Contact Person Email
j.bennouna@hopital-foch.com
Site Name
GIE Groupe hospitalier Paris Saint-Joseph/Vinci
Department Name
Service de pneumologie
Contact Person Name
Charles NALTET
Contact Person Email
cnaltet@ghpsj.fr

Greece

Earliest CTIS Part Ii Submission Date
25-07-2025
Latest Decision Or Authorization Date
11-03-2026
Processing Time Days
229
Number Of Sites
4
Number Of Participants
8

Sites

Site Name
University General Hospital Attikon
Department Name
2nd Propaedeutic Internal Medicine Department, Oncology Unit
Contact Person Name
Amanda Psyrri
Contact Person Email
psyrri236@yahoo.com
Site Name
Theageneio Cancer Hospital
Department Name
2nd Department of Oncology Clinic
Contact Person Name
Anastasios Boutis
Contact Person Email
alboutis@otenet.gr
Site Name
General University Hospital Of Larissa
Department Name
Oncology Clinic, Chemotherapy Department, Clinical Trials Unit
Contact Person Name
Athanasios Kotsakis
Contact Person Email
kotsakisthan@gmail.com
Site Name
Thoracic General Hospital Of Athens I Sotiria
Department Name
3rd Department of Internal Medicine, Oncology Unit & Laboratory
Contact Person Name
Konstantinos Syrigos
Contact Person Email
ksyrigos.trials@gmail.com

Sponsor

Primary sponsor

Full Name
Bristol-Myers Squibb Services Unlimited Company
Organisation Type
Pharmaceutical company
Country Of Registered Address
Ireland

Contract research organisations

Name
Iqvia Inc.
Responsibilities
Site payments
Name
Perceptive Informatics Inc.
Responsibilities
Medical image analysis/ review - X-ray, MRI, ultrasound.
Name
Medidata Solutions Inc.
Responsibilities
Data Management Platform
Name
PPD Global Central Labs
Responsibilities
Sample management for central testing
Name
Greenphire LLC
Responsibilities
Provides electronic payments, travel arrangements,electronic study-related comunications to patients
Name
Labcorp Central Laboratory Services LP
Responsibilities
Testing of ADA samples
Name
Clinical Trial Media Inc.
Responsibilities
Patient recruitment materials
Name
Transperfect Translations International Inc.
Responsibilities
Translation Services

Third parties

  • {"country":"United States","full_name":"Iqvia Inc.","duties_or_roles":"Site payments","organisation_type":"Pharmaceutical company"}
  • {"country":"United States","full_name":"Perceptive Informatics Inc.","duties_or_roles":"Medical image analysis/ review - X-ray, MRI, ultrasound.","organisation_type":"Pharmaceutical company"}
  • {"country":"United States","full_name":"Medidata Solutions Inc.","duties_or_roles":"Data Management Platform","organisation_type":"Non-Pharmaceutical company"}
  • {"country":"United States","full_name":"Transperfect Translations International Inc.","duties_or_roles":"Translation Services","organisation_type":"Pharmaceutical company"}
  • {"country":"United States","full_name":"Greenphire LLC","duties_or_roles":"Provides electronic payments, travel arrangements,electronic study-related comunications to patients","organisation_type":"Non-Pharmaceutical company"}
  • {"country":"United States","full_name":"Labcorp Central Laboratory Services LP","duties_or_roles":"Testing of ADA samples","organisation_type":"Pharmaceutical company"}
  • {"country":"Belgium","full_name":"PPD Global Central Labs","duties_or_roles":"Sample management for central testing","organisation_type":"Pharmaceutical company"}
  • {"country":"United States","full_name":"Clinical Trial Media Inc.","duties_or_roles":"Patient recruitment materials","organisation_type":"Pharmaceutical company"}

Investigational products

Investigational Product Name
Nivolumab Subcutaneous
Active Substance
NIVOLUMAB
Modality
Monoclonal antibody
Routes Of Administration
SUBCUTANEOUS
Route
SUBCUTANEOUS
Authorisation Status
Authorised
Maximum Dose
9999
Investigational Product Name
Ipilimumab
Active Substance
IPILIMUMAB
Modality
Monoclonal antibody
Routes Of Administration
INTRAVENOUS
Route
INTRAVENOUS
Authorisation Status
Authorised
Maximum Dose
18
Combination Treatment
Yes

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