Clinical trial • Phase III • Oncology

Pemetrexed disodium for Non-small cell lung cancer (non-squamous, metastatic / stage IV)

Phase III trial of Pemetrexed disodium for Non-small cell lung cancer (non-squamous, metastatic / stage IV).

Overview

Trial Therapeutic Area
Oncology
Trial Disease
Non-small cell lung cancer (non-squamous, metastatic / stage IV)
Trial Stage
Phase III
Drug Modality
Monoclonal antibody|Small molecule

Key dates

Initial CTIS Submission Date
06-02-2026
First CTIS Authorization Date
12-05-2026

Trial design

Randomised, pembrolizumab administration in the morning (08:00 to 12:00) versus in the afternoon (13:00 to 17:00). both arms receive pembrolizumab in combination with carboplatin and pemetrexed chemotherapy (intravenous). specific trial doses/schedules not specified in the available ctis data.-controlled Phase III trial across 20 sites in France.

Randomised
Yes
Comparator
Pembrolizumab administration in the morning (08:00 to 12:00) versus in the afternoon (13:00 to 17:00). Both arms receive pembrolizumab in combination with carboplatin and pemetrexed chemotherapy (intravenous). Specific trial doses/schedules not specified in the available CTIS data.
Target Sample Size
254
Trial Duration For Participant
365

Eligibility

Recruits 254 Vulnerable populations not selected overall. Exclusion criteria explicitly exclude adults subject to legal protection measures (guardianship, curatorship, safeguard of justice) and patients deprived of their liberty. Participation requires written informed consent by the patient. Subject information and informed consent forms are available (adult ICF; pregnancy ICF; parental authority ICF present in documents). Minors are not eligible (inclusion requires ≥18 years)..

Pregnancy Exclusion
Patient who is pregnant or breastfeeding, or expecting to conceive or father children with in the projected duration of the study
Vulnerable Population
Vulnerable populations not selected overall. Exclusion criteria explicitly exclude adults subject to legal protection measures (guardianship, curatorship, safeguard of justice) and patients deprived of their liberty. Participation requires written informed consent by the patient. Subject information and informed consent forms are available (adult ICF; pregnancy ICF; parental authority ICF present in documents). Minors are not eligible (inclusion requires ≥18 years).

Inclusion criteria

  • {"criterion_text":"- Patient with a histologically-confirmed or cytologically confirmed diagnosis of stage IV (M1a or M1b- AJCC 7th edition) non-squamous NSCLC.\n- If female of childbearing potential, be willing to use an adequate method of contraception, for the course of the study through 120 days after the last dose of study medication or through 180 days after last dose of chemotherapeutic agents as specified in the protocol.\n- If male subject with a female partner(s) of child-bearing potential, must agree to use an adequate method of contraception.\n- Patient who has voluntarily agreed to participate by giving written informed consent for the trial.\n- Patient with an affiliation to French social security system\n- Patient with a confirmation that EGFR or ALK-directed therapy is not indicated (documentation of absence of tumor activating EGFR mutations AND absence of ALK gene rearrangements) OR presence of a K-Ras mutation.\n- Patient with a measurable disease based on RECIST 1.1 as determined by the local site investigator/radiology assessment\n- Patient who have not received prior systemic treatment for their advanced/metastatic NSCLC. Subjects who received adjuvant or neoadjuvant therapy are eligible if the adjuvant/neoadjuvant therapy was completed at least 12 months prior to the development of metastatic disease.\n- Patient who have provided tumor tissue from locations not radiated prior to biopsy; formalin fixed specimens after the subject has been diagnosed with metastatic disease will be preferred for determination of PD-L1 status prior to randomisation. Biopsies obtained prior to receipt of adjuvant/neoadjuvant chemotherapy will be permitted if recent biopsy is not feasible.\n- Patient ≥18 years of age on the day of signing informed consent.\n- Patient with a life expectancy of at least 3 months.\n- Patient with a performance status of 0 or 1 on the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) Performance Status.\n- Patient who have adequate organ function (CBC, liver and kidney)"}

Exclusion criteria

  • {"criterion_text":"- Patient with predominantly squamous cell histology NSCLC.\n- Patient who has known active central nervous system (CNS) metastases and/or carcinomatous meningitis.\n- Patient who previously had a severe hypersensitivity reaction to treatment with another mAb.\n- Patient who has a known sensitivity to any component of carboplatin or pemetrexed\n- Patient with Contraindication to investigational medicinal products or to auxiliary medicinal products\n- Patient who has active autoimmune disease that has required systemic treatment in past 2 years (i.e. with use of disease modifying agents, corticosteroids or immunosuppressive drugs).\n- Patient who is on chronic systemic steroids. Subjects with asthma that require intermittent use of bronchodilators, inhaled steroids, or local steroid injections would not be excluded from the study.\n- Patient who is unable to interrupt aspirin or other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), other than an aspirin dose ≤ 1.3 g per day, for a 5-day period (8-day period for long-acting agents, such as piroxicam).\n- Patient who is unable or unwilling to take folic acid or vitamin B12 supplementation.\n- Patient who had prior treatment with any other anti-PD-1, or PD-L1 or PD-L2 agent or an antibody targeting other immuno-regulatory receptors or mechanisms.\n- Patient who has an active infection requiring therapy.\n- Patient who is currently participating and receiving study therapy or has participated in a study of an investigational agent and received study therapy or used an investigational device within 4 weeks prior to administration of pembrolizumab.\n- Patient who has known history of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) (known HIV 1/2 antibodies positive).\n- Patient who has known active Hepatitis B or C.\n- Patient who has a history or current evidence of any condition, therapy, or laboratory abnormality that might confound the results of the study, interfere with the subject’s participation for the full duration of the study, or is not in the best interest of the subject to participate, in the opinion of the treating Investigator.\n- Patient who has known psychiatric or substance abuse disorder that would interfere with cooperation with the requirements of the trial.\n- Patient who has interstitial lung disease or a history of pneumonitis that required oral or intravenous glucocorticoids to assist with management.\n- Patient who is pregnant or breastfeeding, or expecting to conceive or father children with in the projected duration of the study\n- Patients under AME\n- Adults subject to a legal measure protection (guardianship, curatorship and safeguard of justice)\n- Patients deprived of their liberty by a judicial or administrative decision\n- Before the first dose of trial treatment: a) Patient Has received prior systemic cytotoxic chemotherapy for metastatic disease b) Patient Has received antineoplastic biological therapy (e.g., erlotinib, crizotinib, cetuximab) c) Patient Had major surgery ( 30 Gy within 6 months of the first dose of trial treatment.\n- Patient who received radiation therapy to the lung that is > 30 Gy within 6 months of the first dose of trial treatment\n- Patient who completed palliative radiotherapy within 7 days of the first dose of trial treatment.\n- Patient who is expected to require any other form of antineoplastic therapy while on study.\n- Patient who has received a live-virus vaccination within 30 days of planned treatment start.\n- Patient who has clinically active diverticulitis, intra-abdominal abscess, GI obstruction, abdominal carcinomatosis.\n- Patient who has a known history of prior malignancy except if the subject has undergone potentially curative therapy with no evidence of that disease recurrence for 5 years since initiation of that therapy."}

Endpoints

Primary endpoints

  • {"endpoint_text":"- The main endpoint will be 1-year milestone survival rate, defined as the survival probability at one year","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Defined as the survival probability at one year (1-year milestone survival rate)."}

Secondary endpoints

  • {"endpoint_text":"- PFS defined as delay from randomisation until all-cause death or tumor progression whichever comes first.","definition_or_measurement_approach":"PFS defined as delay from randomisation until all-cause death or tumor progression, whichever comes first."}
  • {"endpoint_text":"- OS defined as delay from randomisation until all-cause death.","definition_or_measurement_approach":"OS defined as delay from randomisation until death from any cause."}
  • {"endpoint_text":"- Best tumor response rate according to RECIST criteria (assessed with TAP/brain scan and/or PET scan and/or MRI over 1 year).","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Best tumor response rate assessed per RECIST 1.1 using CT (TAP)/brain scan and/or PET scan and/or MRI over 1 year."}
  • {"endpoint_text":"- Early response rate according to RECIST criteria (assessed with TAP/brain scan and/or PET scan and/or MRI) at the first evaluation (i.e. usually at 6 weeks).","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Early response per RECIST 1.1 at first evaluation (usually ~6 weeks) assessed by CT (TAP)/brain scan and/or PET and/or MRI."}
  • {"endpoint_text":"- Time to treatment discontinuation (TTD) as the delay from randomization until treatment stop irrespective of cause (progression, toxicities, loss of follow up, refusal, end of protocol or death).","definition_or_measurement_approach":"TTD measured as time from randomisation to treatment stop for any reason."}
  • {"endpoint_text":"- Adverse events categorized by severity and type (grade 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 according to CTCAE v5.0 criteria).","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Adverse events graded and categorized using CTCAE v5.0 (grades 1–5)."}
  • {"endpoint_text":"- Self-assessment of quality of life measured using EQ-5D-5L and EORTC-QLQ C30 at baseline and every 4 courses up to 1 year (C4, C8, C12, C16).","definition_or_measurement_approach":"QoL assessed using EQ-5D-5L and EORTC QLQ-C30 at baseline and every 4 cycles up to 1 year (specified cycles C4, C8, C12, C16)."}
  • {"endpoint_text":"- Quality of sleep measured using Pittsburgh questionnaire and assessed at baseline and every 4 courses of treatment up to 1 year(C4, C8, C12, C16).","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Sleep quality measured with the Pittsburgh Sleep Questionnaire at baseline and every 4 cycles up to 1 year."}
  • {"endpoint_text":"- Chronotype measured using Horne-Ostberg questionnaire and assessed at baseline, and at courses 4 and 8 (C4 and C8).","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Chronotype assessed with Horne-Ostberg questionnaire at baseline and at cycles 4 and 8."}
  • {"endpoint_text":"- Analysis of PFS/OS as a function of the real time of pembrolizumab infusion start, taken as a continuous variable","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Statistical analysis modelling PFS and OS as functions of the actual clock time of pembrolizumab infusion start (continuous variable)."}
  • {"endpoint_text":"- Incremental cost-utility ratio is calculated as Δ costs (between arms) / Δ QALYs (between arms)","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Health economic analysis calculating incremental cost-utility ratio as difference in costs divided by difference in QALYs between arms."}

Recruitment

Planned Sample Size
254
Recruitment Window Months
43
Consent Approach
Written informed consent is required from each participant. Inclusion criterion: 'Patient who has voluntarily agreed to participate by giving written informed consent for the trial.' Subject information and informed consent forms are available (adult ICF; pregnancy ICF; parental authority ICF listed in documents). Only adults (≥18 years) eligible; no assent for minors required because minors are excluded. Materials and translations include French-language documents.

Geography

Total Number Of Sites
20
Total Number Of Participants
254

France

Earliest CTIS Part Ii Submission Date
11-05-2026
Latest Decision Or Authorization Date
12-05-2026
Processing Time Days
1
Number Of Sites
20
Number Of Participants
254

Sites

Site Name
Assistance Publique Hopitaux De Paris
Department Name
Pneumologie – Unité oncologie thoracique
Contact Person Name
Marie Wislez
Contact Person Email
marie.wislez@aphp.fr
Site Name
Centre Hospitalier De Versailles
Department Name
Pneumologie
Contact Person Name
Cécile Dujon
Contact Person Email
cdujon@ght78sud.fr
Site Name
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire D'Angers
Department Name
Pneumologie
Contact Person Name
Gregoire Justeau
Contact Person Email
Gregoire.justeau@chu-angers.fr
Site Name
Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal Creteil
Department Name
Pneumologie
Contact Person Name
Gaelle Rousseau Bussac
Site Name
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire De Rennes
Department Name
Pneumologie
Contact Person Name
Herve Lena
Contact Person Email
herve.lena@chu.rennes.fr
Site Name
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire De Lille
Department Name
Pneumologie et oncologie thoracique
Contact Person Name
Arnaud Scherpereel
Site Name
Groupe Hospitalier Intercommunal Le Raincy Montfermeil
Department Name
Oncologie
Contact Person Name
Thierry Collon
Contact Person Email
thierry.collon@ght-gpne.fr
Site Name
Assistance Publique Hopitaux De Paris
Department Name
Oncologie thoracique
Contact Person Name
Elisabeth Fabre
Contact Person Email
elizabeth.fabre@aphp.fr
Site Name
Assistance Publique Hopitaux De Paris
Department Name
Oncologie médicale et thoracique
Contact Person Name
Boris Duchemann
Contact Person Email
boris.duchemann@aphp.fr
Site Name
Centre Hospitalier De La Cote Basque
Department Name
Pneumologie médicale
Contact Person Name
Sophie Schneider
Contact Person Email
sschneider@ch-cotebasque.fr
Site Name
Centre Hospitalier Henri Mondor
Department Name
Oncologie
Contact Person Name
Daniela Burlacu
Contact Person Email
d.burlacu@ch-aurillac.fr
Site Name
Fondation Hopital Saint Joseph
Department Name
Pneumo-oncologie et d’allergologie
Contact Person Name
Charles Naltet
Contact Person Email
cnaltet@ghpsj.fr
Site Name
Assistance Publique Hopitaux De Paris
Department Name
Oncologie digestive et médicale
Contact Person Name
Pascal Hammel
Contact Person Email
pascal.hammel@aphp.fr
Site Name
Hospices Civils De Lyon
Department Name
Pneumologie
Contact Person Name
Thomas Pierret
Contact Person Email
thomas.pierret@chu-lyon.fr
Site Name
Centre Hospitalier Regional De Marseille
Department Name
Oncologie multidisciplinaire et innovations thérapeutiques
Contact Person Name
Laurent Greillier
Contact Person Email
laurent.greillier@ap-hm.fr
Site Name
Centre Francois Baclesse
Department Name
Pneumologie
Contact Person Name
Hubert Curcio
Contact Person Email
h.curcio@baclesse.unicancer.fr
Site Name
Centre Hospitalier Aunay-Bayeux
Department Name
Oncologie
Contact Person Name
Pierre-Emmanuel Brachet
Contact Person Email
pe.brachet@ch-ab.fr
Site Name
Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal Toulon / La Seine-Sur-Mer
Department Name
Pneumologie et d’oncologie thoracique
Contact Person Name
Clarisse Audigier Valette
Site Name
Institut Gustave Roussy
Department Name
Oncologie médicale
Contact Person Name
Benjamin Besse
Site Name
Hospital Foch
Department Name
Oncologie médicale
Contact Person Name
Hélène Doubre
Contact Person Email
h.doubre@hopital-foch.com

Sponsor

Primary sponsor

Full Name
Assistance Publique Hopitaux De Paris
Organisation Type
Hospital/Clinic/Other health care facility
Country Of Registered Address
France

Investigational products

Investigational Product Name
PEMETREXED
Active Substance
Pemetrexed disodium
Modality
Small molecule
Routes Of Administration
INTRAVENOUS
Route
Intravenous
Authorisation Status
Product present in product dictionary, no EU marketing authorisation number in entry (prodAuthStatus=2)
Maximum Dose
500 mg/m2
Investigational Product Name
KEYTRUDA 25 mg/mL concentrate for solution for infusion.
Active Substance
Pembrolizumab
Modality
Monoclonal antibody
Routes Of Administration
INTRAVENOUS
Route
Intravenous
Authorisation Status
Authorised (marketing authorisation EU/1/15/1024/003 listed)
Maximum Dose
250 mg
Investigational Product Name
CARBOPLATIN
Active Substance
Carboplatin
Modality
Small molecule
Routes Of Administration
INTRAVENOUS
Route
Intravenous
Authorisation Status
Product present in product dictionary, no EU marketing authorisation number in entry (prodAuthStatus=2)
Maximum Dose
750 mg
Combination Treatment
Yes

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