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A Pilot Study to Investigate the Safety and Clinical Activity of Avelumab (MSB0010718C) in Thymoma and Thymic Carcinoma After Progression on Platinum-Based Chemotherapy

A Phase 2 interventional study of Avelumab in Thymoma and Thymic Carcinoma, sponsored by National Cancer Institute (NCI). Active, not recruiting at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-10-29.

Sponsored by National Cancer Institute (NCI) · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment

Phase
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
56
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

Background:

Thymoma and thymic carcinoma are cancers originating in the thymus gland. Platinum-based chemotherapy is standard treatment for them. But not uncommonly, the disease returns and people need more treatment to keep the cancer from growing. The drug Avelumab could help the immune system fight cancer.

Objective:

To test if avelumab is safe and well-tolerated, and is effective in treating relapsed or refractory thymoma and thymic carcinoma.

Eligibility:

People ages 18 and older with thymoma or thymic carcinoma that has returned or progressed after platinum-containing chemotherapy

Design:

Participants will be screened with:

  • Blood, urine, and heart tests
  • Scan: They lie in a machine that takes pictures of the body.
  • Physical exam
  • Medical history
  • Biopsy: a needle removes a piece of tumor. Samples can be from a previous procedure, although it is desirable to undergo a new biopsy.

Participants will have treatment in 2-week cycles. They will continue until the side effects are not tolerable or their disease gets worse. Visits at the following time points are required per protocol. Patients who respond to treatment or have durable stability after at least 12 months of therapy may undergo a dose de-escalation regimen to continue on therapy.

  • Every 2 weeks: Participants will get avelumab by infusion in a vein (IV). They will get diphenhydramine (benadryl) and acetaminophen (tylenol) by mouth or IV before receiving avelumab to decrease the chances of developing a reaction to avelumab. They will have blood, urine, and heart tests periodically.
  • Cycles 4 and 7, then every 6 weeks: Scans will be performed to look for shrinkage or growth of tumor.
  • Cycle 4: Participants will be offered a chance to undergo a biopsy.
  • 2-4 weeks after stopping treatment: Blood, urine, and heart tests will be performed. Participants might undergo a scan.
  • 10 weeks after stopping treatment: Blood, urine, and heart tests.
  • About 6 months after stopping treatment, then every 3 months: Participants will have scans andcan allow genetic testing on their blood and tissue samples.
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Background

Platinum-based chemotherapy is the standard of care for advanced unresectable thymic epithelial tumors (TETs). However more than half of these patients experience disease recurrence and require second-line therapy. There are no approved drugs for treatment of recurrent thymoma and thymic carcinoma and new therapeutic options are needed for patients who have disease progression on or after platinum-containing therapy. The clinical activity of checkpoint blockade targeting programmed death 1 (PD-1) and its ligand (PD-L1) has been demonstrated against various tumor types. We have demonstrated the ability of avelumab to induce major responses in patients with advanced thymoma in a phase I dose escalation study. Further investigation of avelumab in patients with TETs is needed to define the clinical activity and safety of immune checkpoint blockade in patients with TETs.

Primary Objectives

To determine the safety and tolerability of avelumab in participants with relapsed or refractory thymoma and thymic carcinoma.

To determine the objective response rate (ORR) to avelumab in participants with relapsed or refractory thymoma and thymic carcinoma.

Eligibility

Participants with histologically confirmed, unresectable thymoma or thymic carcinoma who have previously been treated with at least one platinum-containing chemotherapy regimen with progressive disease prior to study entry

Prior treatment with immune checkpoint inhibitors is permitted if the reason for discontinuation was not disease progression or life-threatening adverse events (laboratory abnormalities alone with prior therapy will not exclude participants from this trial)

Measurable disease by RECIST 1.1 criteria

Adequate renal, hepatic and hematopoietic function

No major surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy or biologic therapy within 28 days of avelumab

No prior thymic tumor-associated autoimmune disease with the exception of pure red cell aplasia and vitiligo.

Design

This will be a single-arm, pilot study to determine the clinical activity and safety of treatment with avelumab in participants with relapsed or refractory thymoma and thymic carcinoma.

Avelumab will be administered at a dose of 10 mg/kg intravenously once every two weeks until disease progression or development of intolerable adverse events. The two week period will constitute one cycle.

Per the study team s discretion, participants who respond to treatment or have durable stability after at least 12 months of therapy may undergo a dose de-escalation regimen to continue on therapy.

Toxicity will be assessed every cycle by CTCAE version 5.0.

Tumor response will be assessed after completion of every third cycle (6 weeks) using RECIST criteria, version 1.1.

When possible, a tumor biopsy will be conducted pre-treatment and on C4D43 to evaluate treatment-related, intra-tumoral changes.

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Conditions studied

  • Thymoma
  • Thymic Carcinoma

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Keywords

  • Programmed Death 1 (PD-1)
  • Immune Checkpoint Blockade
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In context

Thymoma

133 studies on the registry are indexed under Thymoma; 37 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 56 is above the median of 44 across 108 interventional studies indexed under Thymoma.

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Lead sponsor

National Cancer Institute (NCI) is the lead sponsor of 3,556 studies on the registry; 336 are open to participants now.

Of its 411 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 373 (91%) have results posted.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years and older
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  • Participants must have confirmed thymoma or thymic carcinoma by the pathology department/CCR/NCI.
  • Participants must have had at least one prior line of platinum-based chemotherapy or participant must have refused cytotoxic chemotherapy. Progressive disease must be documented prior to study entry and participants must have advanced, unresectable disease that is not amenable to surgical resection.
  • Prior treatment of or PD-L1-directed immune checkpoint blockade is permitted if treatment was not discontinued due to disease progression or lifethreatening adverse events per the investigators discretion (laboratory abnormalities alone with prior therapy will not exclude participants from this trial).
  • Disease must be measurable with at least 1 unidimensional by 1.1.
  • Individuals aged greater than or equal to 18 years

    -- Because no dosing or adverse event data are currently available on the use of Avelumab in participants \<18 years of age, children are excluded from this study, but will be eligible for future pediatric trials.

  • performance status less than or equal to 1.
  • Participants must have normal organ and marrow function as defined below:

    • : greater than or equal to 1,500/mm\^3 OR greater than or equal to 1.5 x 10\^9/L
    • greater than or equal to 100,000/mm\^3 OR greater than or equal to 100 x 10\^9/L
    • greater than or equal to 9g/dL (may have been transfused)
    • total less than or equal to 1.5 x the (ULN)
    • (SGOT)/ALT(SGPT) less than or equal to 2.5 x ULN OR less than or equal to 5 x ULN for participants with documented disease to the liver
    • greater than or equal to 30 mL/min according to the Cockcroft Gault formula (or local institutional standard method)
  • Highly effective for all individuals if the risk of conception exists. (Note: The effects of the study drug on the developing human fetus are unknown. Thus, individuals of and those able to father a child must agree to use highly effective contraception, defined as 2 barrier methods, or 1 barrier method with a spermicide, an intrauterine device or use of oral female

contraceptive. Effective contraception must be used 30 days prior to first study drug administration, for the duration of trial participation, and at least 30 days after last avelumab treatment administration if the risk of conception exists. Should a woman become pregnant or suspect she is pregnant while she or her partner is participating in this trial, the treating physician should be informed immediately.)

  • Pregnancy test: negative serum or urine pregnancy test at screening for women of childbearing potential.
  • Ability of individual to understand and the willingness to sign a written document.

Exclusion criteria

EXCLUSION CRITERIA:

  • Concurrent treatment with a non-permitted drug
  • Concurrent anticancer treatment within 28 days before the start of trial treatment (e.g., cytoreductive therapy, radiotherapy [with the exception of palliative bone directed radiotherapy], immune therapy, or cytokine therapy except for erythropoietin); major surgery within 28 days before the start of trial treatment (excluding prior diagnostic ); concurrent systemic therapy with agents within 28 days before the start of trial treatment; use of hormonal agents for the treatment of thymic cancer within 7 days before the start of trial treatment; or use of any drug within 28 days before the start of trial treatment.

    --Note: Individuals receiving bisphosphonate or denosumab are eligible provided treatment was initiated at least 14 days before the first dose of avelumab.

  • History of previous malignant disease within the last 2 years with the following exceptions: basal or squamous cell carcinoma of the skin, cervical carcinoma in situ, ductal carcinoma in situ of the breast, papillary or follicular thyroid carcinoma, and non-muscle invasive bladder cancer.
  • Active disease that might deteriorate when receiving an immune-stimulatory agent. Participants with diabetes type 1, vitiligo, psoriasis, pure red cell aplasia, Good s syndrome or hypo- or hyperthyroid diseases not requiring immunosuppressive treatment are eligible. Anti-acetylcholine receptor antibodies will be checked during screening. Participants will be ineligible if results are positive, even if there is no clinical history of autoimmune disease.
  • Participants with symptomatic will be excluded from trial secondary to poor prognosis. However, participants who have had treatment for their brain metastasis and whose brain disease has remained stable for 3 months without therapy may be enrolled.
  • Active infection requiring systemic therapy or significant acute or chronic infections including, among others:

    • virus (HBV) or virus (HCV) infection at screening (positive HBV surface antigen or HCV RNA if anti-HCV antibody screening test positive).
    • Known history of testing positive for or known acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.
  • Prior organ transplantation including allogenic stem-cell transplantation.
  • Known prior severe to investigational product or any component in its formulations, including known severe hypersensitivity reactions to monoclonal antibodies ( v5 Grade greater than or equal to 3).
  • Persisting toxicity related to prior therapy (NCI CTCAE v5Grade > 1) however, alopecia, sensory neuropathy Grade less than or equal to 2, or other Grade less than or equal to 2 not constituting a safety risk based on investigator s judgment are acceptable.
  • Pregnancy or lactation period. Note: a negative pregnancy test is required for individuals of . Individuals who are (age-related amenorrhea greater than or equal to 12 consecutive months or follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) > 40 milli international units per milliliter [mIU/ml]), or who had undergone hysterectomy or bilateral oophorectomy are exempt from pregnancy testing. If necessary to confirm postmenopausal status a FSH level will be included at screening.
  • Pregnant individuals are excluded from this study because Avelumab is in the class of agents known as antineoplastics/monoclonal antibodies with the potential for teratogenic or abortifacient effects. Because there is an unknown but potential risk for adverse events in

nursing infants secondary to treatment of the mother with Avelumab, breastfeeding should be discontinued if the mother is treated with Avelumab.

  • Known alcohol or drug abuse.
  • (i.e. active) cardiovascular disease: cerebral vascular accident/stroke (\< 6 months prior to enrollment), myocardial infarction (\< 6 months prior to enrollment), unstable angina, congestive heart failure (>= Classification Class II), or serious cardiac arrhythmia requiring medication.
  • All other severe acute or chronic medical conditions including immune colitis, inflammatory bowel disease, immune pneumonitis, pulmonary fibrosis or psychiatric conditions including recent (within the past year) or active suicidal ideation or behavior; or laboratory abnormalities that may increase the risk associated with study participation or study treatment administration or may interfere with the interpretation of study results and, in the judgment of the investigator, would make the participants inappropriate for entry into this study.
  • Any psychiatric condition that would prohibit the understanding or rendering of .
  • Legal incapacity or limited legal capacity.
  • Non-oncology vaccine therapies for prevention of infectious disease (e.g. seasonal flu vaccine, human papilloma virus vaccine) within 4 weeks of study drug administration with the exception of vaccinations against COVID-19. Vaccination while on study is also prohibited except for administration of inactivated vaccines (e.g. inactivated influenza vaccines) and vaccinations against COVID-19.
  • HIV-positive TET participants are ineligible because of the risk of developing opportunistic infections after treatment with an . Prior cases of disseminated herpes virus and fungal infections have been documented in this patient population.
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(30)

Underlined terms in the criteria open these too. Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.

Histologically or cytologically confirmed

The diagnosis was confirmed by looking at a sample under a microscope: tissue from a biopsy or surgery (histology), or cells from a fluid or needle sample (cytology).

Your pathology report is the document that shows this.

PD-1, PD-L1 and checkpoint inhibitors

PD-1, PD-L1 and CTLA-4 are proteins that act as brakes on the immune system. Checkpoint inhibitors, such as pembrolizumab or nivolumab, block them so the immune system can attack a cancer.

PD-L1 can also be measured in a tumour sample. Some scores count stained tumour cells only (TPS); others also count certain immune cells (CPS). The study names the score and the minimum it uses.

Measurable disease

The amount of disease can be tracked with a defined measurement, so the study can see whether it shrinks or grows. It might be a tumour measured on a scan or, in some blood cancers such as myeloma, a marker measured in blood or urine.

The criteria or the study team say which measurement counts — having no tumour visible on a scan does not by itself rule you out.

RECIST

The standard rules for measuring tumours on CT or MRI scans, to tell whether a cancer is shrinking, stable or growing during treatment.

“Measurable disease per RECIST 1.1” usually means at least one tumour 10 mm or more at its longest on a CT scan, or a lymph node 15 mm or more across its short axis.

ECOG performance status

A scale of how much an illness limits everyday activity. For people being assessed to join a study, scores run from 0 (fully active) to 4; lower is more active.

0
Fully active, no restrictions.
1
Limited in strenuous activity, but walking and able to do light work, such as housework or office work.
2
Walking and able to look after yourself, but unable to work; up and about more than half of waking hours.
3
Able to look after yourself only in part; in bed or a chair more than half of waking hours.
4
Unable to look after yourself at all; in bed or a chair all day.

Studies most often ask for 0–1 or 0–2. Your doctor gives the score; the WHO scale uses the same steps. The full scale also has 5, which records death.

Absolute neutrophil count (ANC)

The number of neutrophils, white blood cells that help fight infection, in a given amount of blood. Too few raises the risk of infection.

It is a count, not a percentage of the white cells. Limits are written in units that mean the same: ≥ 1.5 × 10⁹/L is ≥ 1,500 per mm³ (µL). Each lab has its own reference range.

Platelets

Blood cells that help blood clot. Too few raises the risk of bleeding and bruising. A usual adult range is about 150–400 × 10⁹/L (150,000–400,000 per µL); each lab has its own reference range.

Hemoglobin (Hb)

The protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen. A low level is anaemia, which can cause tiredness and breathlessness. Measured in g/dL or g/L (9 g/dL is 90 g/L).

Bilirubin

A yellow substance made when red blood cells are broken down, which the liver clears. A high level can mean a problem with the liver or the bile ducts.

Criteria often allow more for people with Gilbert’s syndrome, a harmless inherited condition that raises bilirubin.

ULN (upper limit of normal)

The top of the normal range for a blood test, as set by the laboratory that runs it. Each lab prints its own range next to your result.

“≤ 2.5 × ULN” means the result can be up to two and a half times that top value.

ALT and AST (liver enzymes)

Two enzymes measured in a routine blood test of the liver. Higher levels can mean the liver is under strain or damaged. SGPT and SGOT are older names for ALT and AST.

Criteria usually give a limit as a multiple of the upper limit of normal (ULN), often higher when cancer has spread to the liver.

Metastases

Cancer that has spread from where it began to other parts of the body. “Metastatic” cancer is cancer that has spread this way.

Creatinine clearance (CrCl)

How quickly the kidneys clear creatinine, a waste product, from the blood. A study may estimate it from a blood test with age, weight and sex (often by the Cockcroft–Gault formula), or measure it using blood and urine collected over a set time. Given in mL/min; higher is better.

Contraception

Ways of preventing pregnancy. “Highly effective” methods fail less than 1% of the time a year when used correctly — for example an IUD or an implant.

Criteria usually say which methods count and how long to keep using them after the last dose, sometimes for male participants too. Some studies accept a partner’s vasectomy if it was confirmed successful and that person is the participant’s only sexual partner.

Childbearing potential

Able to become pregnant: from the first period until menopause, unless permanently unable to through surgery (removal of the womb, or of both ovaries or both fallopian tubes).

Criteria for people of childbearing potential usually ask for a negative pregnancy test and for contraception during the study and for a time after it.

Informed consent

Before you join, the study team explains what taking part involves — its purpose, what happens, the risks and possible benefits — and answers your questions, so you can decide freely. Consent is usually recorded on a form (the informed consent form, ICF) signed by you or, where the law allows, by someone legally authorised to decide for you.

You can keep asking questions during the study, you are told of new information that matters, and you can choose to leave at any time.

Biopsy and archival tissue

A biopsy takes a small piece of tissue to examine. “Archival tissue” is a sample already taken, for example at diagnosis, and kept by the hospital.

Whether a stored sample will do depends on when it was taken, how much there is and what the study needs. Ask whether the study accepts your stored sample or needs a new biopsy.

Immunosuppression

A weakened immune system. It can come from an illness, such as HIV or some blood cancers, or from medicines that turn the immune system down, for example after an organ transplant or for an autoimmune disease; steroids at higher doses count.

Read whether the line is about a condition or about medicines, and which medicines and doses it means.

Investigational drug or device

A drug or device being studied in a clinical trial.

It may be new, or already approved and being studied for another use, dose or form. Criteria often leave out people who took part in another study of one within a recent period, commonly 30 days or five half-lives.

Autoimmune disease

A condition in which the immune system attacks the body’s own tissues, such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, psoriasis, type 1 diabetes or inflammatory bowel disease.

Immunotherapy studies often leave out active autoimmune disease, and some name exceptions, such as thyroid disease on replacement hormone. Check the exceptions this study lists.

Brain metastases

Cancer deposits in the brain from a cancer that started elsewhere in the body (CNS metastases include the spinal cord).

Studies differ: some leave out any brain metastases, some accept ones treated and stable for some weeks. Check what this study allows.

Corticosteroids (steroids)

Anti-inflammatory medicines such as prednisone, prednisolone and dexamethasone — not the anabolic steroids used for muscle.

Studies differ in what they allow: check which steroid medicines, routes (tablets, injections, creams, inhalers, eye drops) and doses this study accepts.

Hepatitis B tests

Hepatitis B is a virus that infects the liver. These are separate tests: HBsAg positive usually means a current infection (a recent vaccination can briefly cause it too); total anti-HBc (HBcAb) positive means an infection now or in the past; HBV DNA measures how much virus is in the blood.

Some studies accept a past infection if HBV DNA is undetectable, sometimes with antiviral medicine during the study. Check what this study allows.

Hepatitis C tests

Hepatitis C is a virus that infects the liver. An HCV antibody test can stay positive after an infection has cleared (and is occasionally positive without one); an HCV RNA test shows whether the virus is there now.

After treatment, hepatitis C counts as cured when HCV RNA is still undetectable 12 weeks or more after the treatment ended. Studies often accept people cured this way.

HIV

The human immunodeficiency virus, which weakens the immune system.

Many studies now accept people whose HIV is controlled on treatment, judged by the viral load and the CD4 count. Check the limits this study sets.

Hypersensitivity

An allergy, or another reaction of the immune system, to a substance. “Hypersensitivity to the study drug” means a known allergic reaction to it — not every side effect a medicine can have.

CTCAE grade

The US National Cancer Institute’s scale of how severe an adverse event is — any unwanted medical event during a study, such as a symptom, an illness or an abnormal test result, whether or not a treatment caused it. Whether it did is judged separately.

1
Mild.
2
Moderate.
3
Severe.
4
Life-threatening.
5
Death due to the event.

“Side effects of earlier treatment resolved to grade 1 or less” means they have settled to mild or gone.

Postmenopausal

Periods have stopped for good: usually no period for 12 months in a row without another medical reason, sometimes confirmed by a blood test (FSH).

Clinically significant

Judged by the study doctor to matter for your health or for the study. It is a doctor’s decision, so ask the study team if you are unsure whether something counts.

NYHA class (heart failure)

The New York Heart Association’s four classes of how much heart failure limits physical activity.

I
No limits: ordinary activity causes no undue tiredness or breathlessness.
II
Slight limits: comfortable at rest, ordinary activity causes symptoms.
III
Marked limits: comfortable at rest, less than ordinary activity causes symptoms.
IV
Symptoms even at rest; any activity makes them worse.

Studies set their own limit — many outside heart failure leave out class III–IV, while heart failure studies may ask for a particular class. Check the class this study names.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 2
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
56 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Arm 1 Avelumab

    Avelumab will be administered at a dose of 10 mg/kg intravenously once every two weeks until disease progression or development of intolerable adverse events.

    Drug: Avelumab

Interventions

  • Avelumab will be administered at a dose of 10 mg/kg intravenously once every two weeks until disease progression or development of intolerable adverse events.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Safety and tolerability of Avelumab based on NCI-CTCAE v4.0

    Toxicity profile based on NCI-CTCAE v4.0

    Time frame: End of every cycle

  2. Objective Response Rate (ORR) based on RECIST 1.1 criteria

    Objective response rate; i.e., the number of participants with complete response + the number with partial response confirmed via RECIST 1.1

    Time frame: Every other cycle

Secondary outcomes

  1. Immune-related progression-free survival (irPFS)

    Immune-related progression-free survival

    Time frame: Date of progression

  2. Overall Survival (OS)

    Overall survival

    Time frame: Date of death

  3. Duration of Response

    Time to progression

    Time frame: Date of progression

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Study locations

1 site
  • National Institutes of Health Clinical Center
    Bethesda, Maryland 20892, United States
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References and documents

Publications

  • Katsuya Y, Fujita Y, Horinouchi H, Ohe Y, Watanabe S, Tsuta K. Immunohistochemical status of PD-L1 in thymoma and thymic carcinoma. Lung Cancer. 2015 May;88(2):154-9. doi: 10.1016/j.lungcan.2015.03.003. Epub 2015 Mar 10. PubMed 25799277 ↗
  • Padda SK, Riess JW, Schwartz EJ, Tian L, Kohrt HE, Neal JW, West RB, Wakelee HA. Diffuse high intensity PD-L1 staining in thymic epithelial tumors. J Thorac Oncol. 2015 Mar;10(3):500-8. doi: 10.1097/JTO.0000000000000429. PubMed 25402569 ↗
  • Remon J, Girard N, Novello S, de Castro J, Bigay-Game L, Bernabe R, Greillier L, Mosquera J, Cousin S, Juan O, Sampayo M, Besse B. PECATI: A Multicentric, Open-Label, Single-Arm Phase II Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of Pembrolizumab and Lenvatinib in Pretreated B3-Thymoma and Thymic Carcinoma Patients. Clin Lung Cancer. 2022 May;23(3):e243-e246. doi: 10.1016/j.cllc.2021.07.008. Epub 2021 Jul 20. PubMed 34393061 ↗

Individual participant data

Plan to share: Yes — All IPD recorded in the medical record will be shared with intramural investigators upon request. In addition, all large scale genomic sequencing data will be shared with subscribers to dbGaP.

Supporting information: Study protocol, Statistical analysis plan, Informed consent form

Time frame: Clinical data available during the study and indefinitely. Genomic data are available once genomic data are uploaded per protocol GDS plan for as long as database is active.

Access criteria: Clinical data will be made available via subscription to BTRIS and with the permission of the study PI. Genomic data are made available via dbGaP through requests to the data custodians.

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Timeline

1 registry update since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reachedSimilar studies: half by the dot; the band is the middle halfHalf of similar studies reached it by the dot; the band is the middle half, from a quarter to three quarters

Started Apr 2017 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Mar 2027, 119 months after the start.

Of 32 phase 2 interventional studies under Thymoma, half reached primary completion within 59 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 36 and three quarters within 96. This study's planned 119 months is above that.

How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.

Registered
Mar 9, 2017
First posted
Mar 10, 2017
StartActual
Apr 19, 2017
Primary completionEst.
Mar 30, 2027
CompletionEst.
Mar 30, 2028
Last update
Oct 29, 2026
What these dates mean
Start.
When the first participant enrolled; while estimated, when the study expects to open to recruitment.
Primary completion.
When the last participant was examined or treated to collect data for the study's main question, its primary outcome. A study that stopped early gives the date its data collection stopped.
Completion.
When the last participant's last visit took place, for every outcome, secondary ones and side effects included: the end of the study. Often later than primary completion, sometimes the same day.
Actual and Est.
Actual means the registry says the date has happened. Est. (estimated) is a date the sponsor plans or expects. It can still move, and the sponsor is expected to change it to actual once it has passed.
Minor edits
Nothing that changes what the study is or who can join. Edited: verification date
1 update, last Oct 20, 2026
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  1. Oct 20, 2026
    Minor edits only
    + 1 other change: verification date

From the registry record's own update history. This site started tracking changes on Sep 25, 2026; for anything earlier, see the record history on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗

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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT03076554
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Mar 10, 2017
Start date
Apr 19, 2017
Primary completion
Mar 30, 2027 (estimated)
Completion
Mar 30, 2028 (estimated)
Last update
Oct 29, 2026

Study contacts

Arun Rajan, M.D.
principal investigator · National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Oversight

FDA-regulated drug
Yes
FDA-regulated device
No
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