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
- Contact Person Email
- gaelle.rousseaubussac@chicreteil.fr
- 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
- Contact Person Email
- arnaud.scherpereel@chu-lille.fr
- 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
- Contact Person Email
- Clarisse.audigier-valette@ch-toulon.fr
- Site Name
- Institut Gustave Roussy
- Department Name
- Oncologie médicale
- Contact Person Name
- Benjamin Besse
- Contact Person Email
- benjamin.besse@gustaveroussy.fr
- 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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