A Phase 3 interventional study of pembrolizumab/vibostolimab and durvalumab in Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung, sponsored by Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC. Completed at 160 sites in 25 countries. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-08-28.
Sponsored by Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC (part of Merck & Co., Inc) · Phase 3, Interventional, and Treatment
Among 127 studies testing pembrolizumab in Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung — 29 open to participants now, 48 under way, 13 of them phase 3. pembrolizumab · Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung.
Among the 127 studies testing pembrolizumab in Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung, this one is the 13th largest by enrollment, is one of 9 that started in 2022, is one of 28 in phase 3, and was the 92nd registered.
7,620 studies on the registry are indexed under Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung; 1,838 are open to participants now.
This study's enrollment of 610 is above the median of 62 across 6,019 interventional studies indexed under Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung.
Browse Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung studies →29 of the 127 studies testing pembrolizumab in Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung are open now, in 10 countries. Each count lists the 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 1,324 Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung studies recruiting now, 986 (74%) set no upper age limit and 226 (17%) stop at 75 or younger; 34 take children under 18; 39 take healthy volunteers.
This study: 18 Years and older · all sexes · no healthy volunteers.
The full table on the hub →On this site’s reading of the record, pembrolizumab is the treatment under test here. Read study by study →
127 studies; the count open now beside each. This study's row is marked.
First in 2013; this study’s year is marked. 9 started in 2022.
Median enrollment 65 across the 127 interventional studies. Of the 67 that completed or were terminated, 56 (84%) have results posted.
39 of 127 have an industry lead sponsor. The 10 most frequent:
Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC is the lead sponsor of 2,166 studies on the registry; 132 are open to participants now.
Of its 501 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 370 (74%) have results posted.
83 studies in Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung by Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC: 13 open now, 25 under way, 18 of them phase 3. Of 58 finished, 46 (79%) have results posted.
Among the 83 studies in Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung by Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, this one is the 19th largest by enrollment of the 82 interventional ones that give a count, is one of 2 that started in 2022, is one of 38 in phase 3, and was the 60th registered.
Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC’s Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung studies by the year they started, since 2000.
14 of the studies testing pembrolizumab in Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung that are under way reach primary completion within a year, 3 of them phase 3. Phase 3 first, then by date:
| Study | Primary completion |
|---|---|
| NCT07162883Phase 3Qilu Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.Pharmacokinetic Study of QL2107 Versus Keytruda® for Adjuvant Therapy of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) | 2026-12-31 |
| NCT04380636Phase 3Merck Sharp & Dohme LLCStudy of Pembrolizumab With Concurrent Chemoradiation Therapy Followed by Pembrolizumab With or Without Olaparib in Stage III Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) (MK-7339-012/KEYLYNK-012) | 2027-05-05 |
| NCT05085028Phase 3Imperial College LondonA Randomised Open-label Phase III Trial of REduced Frequency Pembrolizumab immuNothErapy for First-line Treatment of Patients With Advanced Non-small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) | 2027-05-31 |
| NCT03769129Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical UniversityEvaluating the Safety and Efficacy of Pembrolizumab Combined With MWA for Advanced NSCLC | 2026-11-01 |
| NCT05493566Emory UniversityLow-Dose Interleukin-2 and Pembrolizumab for the Treatment of Stage IV Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer | 2027-01-07 |
Among the 127 studies testing pembrolizumab in Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung, from their registry updates:
Among Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC’s 83 in Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung:
Researchers are looking for new ways to treat people with locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The goal of this study is to learn if people who receive the combination of vibostolimab and pembrolizumab (MK-7684A) live longer without the cancer getting worse and live longer overall than people who receive durvalumab.
As of protocol amendment 4, participants receiving combination vibostolimab and pembrolizumab (MK-7684A) discontinued treatment due to lack of efficacy observed in other MK-7684A studies, and are given the option to transition to durvalumab therapy.
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The main inclusion and exclusion criteria include but are not limited to the following:
Inclusion Criteria
Exclusion Criteria
Pemetrexed-specific Criteria:
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.
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.
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.
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 study doctor’s estimate of how long someone is likely to live. Criteria use it so that people can stay in the study long enough for it to answer its question.
Vaccines made with a weakened form of the germ, such as measles–mumps–rubella (MMR), chickenpox and yellow fever. They can be risky when the immune system is weakened. Flu injections are not live; the nasal flu spray is.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Life expectancy
The study doctor’s estimate of how long someone is likely to live. Criteria use it so that people can stay in the study long enough for it to answer its question.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Live vaccines
Vaccines made with a weakened form of the germ, such as measles–mumps–rubella (MMR), chickenpox and yellow fever. They can be risky when the immune system is weakened. Flu injections are not live; the nasal flu spray is.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
For the first 3 cycles, participants receive pembrolizumab/vibostolimab (coformulation of 200 mg pembrolizumab and 200 mg vibostolimab) intravenously (IV) on Day 1 plus 3 cycles of investigator's choice of platinum doublet chemotherapy and concurrent standard thoracic radiotherapy during Cycles 2, 3. Participants receive pembrolizumab/vibostolimab for Cycles 4-20 or until discontinuation (up to \~14 months). Cycles 1-20 are 21-day cycles. As of protocol amendment 4, participants receiving pembrolizumab/vibostolimab must stop ongoing treatment with pembrolizumab/vibostolimab and will be offered the option to transition to post-cCRT durvalumab consolidation therapy, to complete up to 1 year of consolidation immunotherapy.
Biological: pembrolizumab/vibostolimab · Biological: durvalumab · Drug: cisplatin · Drug: pemetrexed · Drug: etoposide · Drug: carboplatin · Drug: paclitaxel · Radiation: thoracic radiotherapy
For the first 3 cycles, participants will receive investigator's choice of platinum doublet chemotherapy and concurrent standard thoracic radiotherapy during Cycles 2 and 3. Following concurrent chemoradiotherapy (cCRT), participants receive durvalumab 10 mg/kg every 2 weeks for up to an additional 26 cycles or until discontinuation (up to approximately 14 months). cCRT Cycles 1-3=21-day cycles; durvalumab Cycles 1-26=14-day cycles.
Biological: durvalumab · Drug: cisplatin · Drug: pemetrexed · Drug: etoposide · Drug: carboplatin · Drug: paclitaxel · Radiation: thoracic radiotherapy
Drug pages: Pembrolizumab · Vibostolimab
Administered as an intravenous (IV) infusion
Also known as: MK-7684A
Administered as an IV infusion
Also known as: IMFINZI®
Cisplatin 75 mg/m\^2 administered as an IV infusion in combination with pemetrexed on Day 1 of Cycles 1-3 for non-squamous histology only; In combination with etoposide, cisplatin 50 mg/m\^2 is administered on Days 1, 8 of Cycles 1-2 and Days 8, 15 of Cycle 3
Also known as: PLATINOL-AQ®
Pemetrexed 500 mg/m\^2 administered as an IV infusion on Day 1 of Cycles 1-3 for non-squamous histology only
Also known as: ALIMTA®
Etoposide 50 mg/m\^2 is administered as an IV infusion on Days 1-5 of Cycles 1-2 and Days 8-12 of Cycle 3;
Also known as: TOPOSAR®
Carboplatin area under the curve (AUC) 6 mg/ml/min on Day 1 of Cycle 1 and AUC 2 mg/ml/min on Days 1, 8, 15 of Cycles 2-3, administered as an IV infusion
Also known as: PARAPLATIN®
Paclitaxel 200 mg/m\^2 on Day 1 of Cycle 1 and 45 mg/m\^2 on Days 1, 8, 15 of Cycles 2-3, administered as an IV infusion
Also known as: TAXOL®
60 Gray \[Gy\] in 2 Gy fractions for 30 days total administered as an external beam radiation
Number of Participants Who Experience at Least One Adverse Event (AE)
An AE is any untoward medical occurrence in a clinical study participant, temporally associated with the use of study intervention, whether or not considered related to the study intervention. An AE can therefore be any unfavorable and unintended sign (including an abnormal laboratory finding), symptom, or disease (new or exacerbated) temporally associated with the use of a study intervention.
Time frame: Up to approximately 48 months
Number of Participants Who Discontinue Study Treatment Due to an Adverse Event (AE)
An AE is any untoward medical occurrence in a clinical study participant, temporally associated with the use of study intervention, whether or not considered related to the study intervention. An AE can therefore be any unfavorable and unintended sign (including an abnormal laboratory finding), symptom, or disease (new or exacerbated) temporally associated with the use of a study intervention.
Time frame: Up to approximately 48 months
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Ran from May 2022 to primary completion in Jun 2026, 49 months.
Of 314 industry-sponsored phase 3 interventional studies under Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung, half reached primary completion within 39 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 27 and three quarters within 57. This study's 49 months is above that.
Counting every sponsor, half of 423 studies reached it within 45 months; a quarter within 30 and three quarters within 69.
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Studies of the drugs tested here: Pembrolizumab · Vibostolimab
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