A Phase 2 interventional study of Pembrolizumab and SBRT in Urothelial Carcinoma, sponsored by University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center. Terminated at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2021-12-15.
Sponsored by University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment
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Among 28 studies testing pembrolizumab in Carcinoma, Transitional Cell — 9 open to participants now, 13 under way, 3 of them phase 3. pembrolizumab · Carcinoma, Transitional Cell.
Among the 28 studies testing pembrolizumab in Carcinoma, Transitional Cell, this one is the 23rd largest by enrollment, is one of 3 that started in 2018, is one of 19 in phase 2, and was the 7th registered.
633 studies on the registry are indexed under Carcinoma, Transitional Cell; 180 are open to participants now.
Browse Carcinoma, Transitional Cell studies →9 of the 28 studies testing pembrolizumab in Carcinoma, Transitional Cell are open now, in 4 countries. Recruiting first, the newest first:
Fox Chase Cancer Center · Sites in United States
Ages 18+
Astellas Pharma Global Development, Inc. · Sites in United States, Canada, Korea, Republic of and 1 more country
Ages 18+
Fox Chase Cancer Center · Sites in United States
Ages 18+
University of Oklahoma · Sites in United States
Ages 18+
National Cancer Institute (NCI) · Sites in United States
Ages 18+
By country, each count listing its studies:
pembrolizumab: first FDA approval 2014 (KEYTRUDA), first EMA approval 2015. What it is approved for, and how studies give it, is on its page →
Of the 147 Carcinoma, Transitional Cell studies recruiting now, 121 (82%) set no upper age limit and 11 (7%) stop at 75 or younger; 4 take children under 18; 8 take healthy volunteers.
This study: 18 Years and older · all sexes · no healthy volunteers.
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28 studies; the count open now beside each. This study's row is marked.
A study in two phases is counted once above. Listed by phase, each with its combined phases: Phase 1 6 · Phase 2 21 · Phase 3 3
First in 2015; this study’s year is marked. 3 started in 2018.
By drug class, each counting the studies that test any of its medicines:
This study's enrollment of 6 is below the median of 50 across 500 interventional studies indexed under Carcinoma, Transitional Cell.
Median enrollment 31 across the 28 interventional studies. Of the 13 that completed or were terminated, 11 (85%) have results posted.
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4 of 28 have an industry lead sponsor. The 10 most frequent:
University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center is the lead sponsor of 325 studies on the registry; 49 are open to participants now.
Of its 46 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 31 (67%) have results posted.
University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center has 5 studies filed under Carcinoma, Transitional Cell — fewer than ten, so there is no comparison to draw.
3 of the studies testing pembrolizumab in Carcinoma, Transitional Cell that are under way reach primary completion within a year, 0 of them phase 3. Phase 3 first, then by date:
| Study | Primary completion |
|---|---|
| NCT05406713Matthew GalskyPembrolizumab in Muscle-invasive Bladder Cancer | 2027-01-31 |
| NCT04724018Dana-Farber Cancer InstituteSacituzumab Govitecan Plus EV in Metastatic UC | 2027-02-01 |
| NCT05239624Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer CenterEnfortumab Vedotin and Pembrolizumab in People With Bladder Cancer | 2027-06 |
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Among the 28 studies testing pembrolizumab in Carcinoma, Transitional Cell, from their registry updates:
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This is a feasibility trial of anti-PDL1/PD1 (pembrolizumab) and stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) in patients with advanced, platinum-refractory urothelial carcinoma.
Go through the criteria one by one — yes, no or not sure — and take the list to your doctor or the study team. Kept in this browser only.
Exclusion Criteria:
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Cancer that has spread from where it began to other parts of the body. “Metastatic” cancer is cancer that has spread this way.
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.
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.
Neoadjuvant treatment is given before the main treatment (usually surgery), often to shrink a tumour. Adjuvant treatment is given after it, to lower the chance of the cancer coming back.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
GFR (glomerular filtration rate) is how much blood the kidneys filter each minute. It is usually estimated from a blood test — eGFR, by formulas such as CKD-EPI or MDRD — and some studies ask for it to be measured directly instead. Usually given in mL/min/1.73 m².
Check the method, the units and the minimum the study states. A value of 90 or above is in the normal-or-high range, but kidney damage can show in other tests too.
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.
“Side effects of earlier treatment resolved to grade 1 or less” means they have settled to mild or gone.
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.
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.
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.
Malignancy means cancer. Criteria about another or earlier malignancy ask whether you have had a different cancer, usually within a set number of years.
Some are commonly allowed, such as treated skin cancers other than melanoma and early cancers removed completely — check the exceptions this study lists.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Metastases
Cancer that has spread from where it began to other parts of the body. “Metastatic” cancer is cancer that has spread this way.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Adjuvant and neoadjuvant
Neoadjuvant treatment is given before the main treatment (usually surgery), often to shrink a tumour. Adjuvant treatment is given after it, to lower the chance of the cancer coming back.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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).
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
GFR and eGFR (kidney filtering)
GFR (glomerular filtration rate) is how much blood the kidneys filter each minute. It is usually estimated from a blood test — eGFR, by formulas such as CKD-EPI or MDRD — and some studies ask for it to be measured directly instead. Usually given in mL/min/1.73 m².
Check the method, the units and the minimum the study states. A value of 90 or above is in the normal-or-high range, but kidney damage can show in other tests too.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
“Side effects of earlier treatment resolved to grade 1 or less” means they have settled to mild or gone.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Cancer (malignancy)
Malignancy means cancer. Criteria about another or earlier malignancy ask whether you have had a different cancer, usually within a set number of years.
Some are commonly allowed, such as treated skin cancers other than melanoma and early cancers removed completely — check the exceptions this study lists.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Drug: Pembrolizumab · Radiation: SBRT
200 mg IV q 21 days
Stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) that will commence not later than the initiation of the second cycle of pembrolizumab. SBRT dose and fractionation will be at the discretion of the treating radiation oncologist, and will be selected to respect the normal tissue tolerance of adjacent organs at risk.
The Percentage of Subjects Who Receive 4 Doses of Pembrolizumab and at Least One Session of Treatment of SBRT
Feasibility will be determined by the percentage of subjects who receive 4 doses of pembrolizumab and at least one session of treatment of SBRT (Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy) within 15 weeks from the first dose of pembrolizumab.
Time frame: 15 weeks
The Number of Grades 3-5 Drug Related Adverse Events (AEs)
The number of grades 3-5 drug related adverse events (AEs) will be recorded. AEs will be graded using the CTCAE v4.03
Time frame: 30 days post last dose
The Percentage of Patients That Respond to Treatment
The percentage of patients that achieve either a complete response (CR) or partial response (PR). Response will be reported separately using RECIST and irRECIST criteria. CR (RECIST): Disappearance of all target lesions, determined by two separate observations conducted not less than 4 weeks apart. There can be no appearance of new lesions CR (irRECIST): Disappearance of all lesions in two consecutive observations not less than 4 wk apart PR (RECIST): At least a 30% decrease in the sum of the longest diameter (LD) of target lesions, taking as reference the baseline sum LD. There can be no appearance of new lesions PR (irRECIST): ≥50% decrease in tumor burden compared with baseline in two observations at least 4 wk apart
Time frame: 51 weeks (up to 17, 3 week doses)
Progression Free Survival (PFS) Time
Progression-free survival (PFS) is defined as the duration of time from start of treatment to time of progressive disease (PD), or death, whichever occurs first, up to 24 months. PD (RECIST): At least a 20% increase in the sum of the LD of target lesions, taking as reference the smallest sum LD recorded since the treatment started, or the appearance of one or more new lesions PD (irRECIST): At least 25% increase in tumor burden compared with nadir (at any single time point) in two consecutive observations at least 4 wk apart
Time frame: 24 months
| Milestone | Pembrolizumab + SBRT |
|---|---|
| Started | 6 |
| Completed | 6 |
| Not completed | 0 |
Feasibility will be determined by the percentage of subjects who receive 4 doses of pembrolizumab and at least one session of treatment of SBRT (Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy) within 15 weeks from the first dose of pembrolizumab.
| percentage of participants | Pembrolizumab + SBRT |
|---|---|
| The Percentage of Subjects Who Receive 4 Doses of Pembrolizumab and at Least One Session of Treatment of SBRT | 83 |
The number of grades 3-5 drug related adverse events (AEs) will be recorded. AEs will be graded using the CTCAE v4.03
| events | Pembrolizumab + SBRT |
|---|---|
| The Number of Grades 3-5 Drug Related Adverse Events (AEs) | 0 |
The percentage of patients that achieve either a complete response (CR) or partial response (PR). Response will be reported separately using RECIST and irRECIST criteria. CR (RECIST): Disappearance of all target lesions, determined by two separate observations conducted not less than 4 weeks apart. There can be no appearance of new lesions CR (irRECIST): Disappearance of all lesions in two consecutive observations not less than 4 wk apart PR (RECIST): At least a 30% decrease in the sum of the longest diameter (LD) of target lesions, taking as reference the baseline sum LD. There can be no appearance of new lesions PR (irRECIST): ≥50% decrease in tumor burden compared with baseline in two observations at least 4 wk apart
| percentage of participants | Pembrolizumab + SBRT |
|---|---|
| RECIST | 40 |
| irRECIST | 40 |
Progression-free survival (PFS) is defined as the duration of time from start of treatment to time of progressive disease (PD), or death, whichever occurs first, up to 24 months. PD (RECIST): At least a 20% increase in the sum of the LD of target lesions, taking as reference the smallest sum LD recorded since the treatment started, or the appearance of one or more new lesions PD (irRECIST): At least 25% increase in tumor burden compared with nadir (at any single time point) in two consecutive observations at least 4 wk apart
| months | Pembrolizumab + SBRT |
|---|---|
| Patient 1 | 23 |
| Patient 2 | 10 |
| Patient 3 | 2 |
| Patient 4 | NA |
| Patient 5 | 6 |
Collected over All adverse event data (serious and non-serious) collected from the time of the initial study treatment administration through 30 days after the last dose of study treatment; additionally, any serious adverse event occurring more than 30 days after the last study treatment if considered to be related to the study treatment. Data was collected during a 16 month period.. Non-serious events are listed at a 0% frequency threshold.
| Group | Deaths | Serious | Other |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pembrolizumab + SBRT | 3/6 (50%) | 1/6 (16.7%) | 6/6 (100%) |
| Event | Pembrolizumab + SBRT |
|---|---|
| Spinal fractureInjury, poisoning and procedural complications | 1/6 |
| Bone painMusculoskeletal and connective tissue disorders | 1/6 |
| Event | Pembrolizumab + SBRT |
|---|---|
| AnemiaBlood and lymphatic system disorders | 3/6 |
| Creatinine increasedInvestigations | 3/6 |
| DiarrheaGastrointestinal disorders | 3/6 |
| NauseaGastrointestinal disorders | 3/6 |
| PruritusSkin and subcutaneous tissue disorders | 3/6 |
| VomitingGastrointestinal disorders | 3/6 |
| Abdominal painGastrointestinal disorders | 2/6 |
| AnxietyPsychiatric disorders | 2/6 |
| Aspartate aminotransferase increasedInvestigations | 2/6 |
| ConfusionPsychiatric disorders | 2/6 |
| Age, Continuous(years) | Pembrolizumab + SBRT |
|---|---|
| Mean | 64 ± 8 |
| Sex: Female, Male(Participants) | Pembrolizumab + SBRT |
|---|---|
| Female | 1 |
| Male | 5 |
| Ethnicity (NIH/OMB)(Participants) | Pembrolizumab + SBRT |
|---|---|
| Hispanic or Latino | 0 |
| Not Hispanic or Latino | 6 |
| Unknown or Not Reported | 0 |
| Race (NIH/OMB)(Participants) | Pembrolizumab + SBRT |
|---|---|
| American Indian or Alaska Native | 0 |
| Asian | 0 |
| Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander | 0 |
| Black or African American | 0 |
| White | 6 |
| More than one race | 0 |
| Unknown or Not Reported | 0 |
| Region of Enrollment(participants) | Pembrolizumab + SBRT |
|---|---|
| United States | 6 |
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Ran from Jan 2018 to primary completion in Mar 2019, 13 months.
Results were first posted in Dec 2021, 2 years 9 months after primary completion. A results delay was requested in Dec 2020.
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