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Status unknownNCT05578222Updated Oct 13, 2022

Pembrolizumab as First-line Treatment for Advanced NSCLC Complicated With COPD

A Phase 2 interventional study of Pembrolizumab in NSCLC With COPD, sponsored by Tianjin Chest Hospital. Status unknown at 1 site in China. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 75 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2022-10-13.

Sponsored by Tianjin Chest Hospital · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment

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Phase
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
30
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
18 Years to 75 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

This clinical trial aims to evaluate the efficacy and safety of pembrolizumab in the first-line treatment of advanced NSCLC complicated with COPD and its influence on the course of COPD, so as to provide prospective clinical evidence for immunotherapy of NSCLC complicated with COPD in China and to guide clinical application.

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This clinical study mainly includes 3 stages of screening, treatment and follow-up.

Pabolivizumab at a fixed dose of 200 mg intravenous infusion on day 1 for Q3W, continued to maintain administration for no more than 35 cycles, or until the imaging proves the early termination of PD or other protocols. Imaging evaluation is performed every 6 weeks within 6 months from the first dose of pabolizumab and approximately every 12 weeks thereafter until disease progression or early withdrawal. Conduct regular safety assessments, document changes in COPD condition, track adverse events until remission or stabilization, or restore baseline levels, or receive other anti-tumor therapy; Record the combined medications.

Main research objectives:Evaluation of PFS in patients with advanced NSCLC and COPD treatment of pabolivizumab.

Secondary research objectives:To assess the ORR and acute exacerbation rate (times/person/year) and adverse reactions of PABLIZUMAB in patients with advanced NSCLC with COPD.

Purpose of exploratory research:The expression levels of PD-L1, CD4+ and CD8+ T lymphocytes in tumor tissues of patients with NSCLC and COPD before treatment were laboratory tested, and the correlation between different COPD grades and immune cell infiltration and efficacy was explored. This study was designed as a single-armed, single-center, prospective, phase II clinical study with 30 clinical, radiographic, pulmonary function and pathologically confirmed advanced (stage IV) NSCLC combined with COPD primary treatment subjects.

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Conditions studied

  • NSCLC With COPD
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In context

Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive

5,520 studies on the registry are indexed under Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive; 856 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 30 is below the median of 62 across 3,839 interventional studies indexed under Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive.

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Lead sponsor

Tianjin Chest Hospital is the lead sponsor of 9 studies on the registry; 4 are open to participants now.

Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 75 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  1. Signed written before enrollment;
  2. Men and women aged 18-75;
  3. The patient must be able to provide fresh or archived tumor tissue and its pathology report;
  4. No previous antitumor therapy, is not less than 12 weeks;
  5. Newly diagnosed NSCLC subjects confirmed by pathology and imaging; Stage: cT1-4N1-3M1 (stage Ⅳ), AJCC eighth edition clinical staging of lung cancer;
  6. Asymptomatic patients with NSCLC
  7. tumor fraction (TPS) ≥1%;
  8. Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) gene mutation negative and anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) negative;
  9. that meet v1.1 criteria;
  10. Patients with who met the relevant diagnostic criteria for COPD in the Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (Revised 2021) formulated by Chinese Society of Respiratory Medicine, and whose condition was stable for ≥2 weeks;
  11. PS: 0 \~ 2;
  12. The functions of vital organs meet the following requirements (excluding the use of any blood components and cell growth factors within 14 days) :

    Normal bone marrow reserve, neutrophil (ANC) ≥1,500/mm³, count (PLT) ≥100,000/mm³, (Hb) ≥5.6 mmol/L (9g/dL);Creatinine (Cr) ≤1.5 mg/d and/or Clearance of creatinine (CCr) ≥60 ml/min;Normal liver function or Total (TBIL) ≤1.5 , (AST) and Alanine Transaminase (ALT) ≤1.5 ULN;

  13. Non-surgical sterilization or use of a medically approved method (e.g. intrauterine device, birth control pill, or condom) during the study treatment period and for 3 months after the end of the study treatment period;Patients with non-surgical sterilization or women of childbearing age had to have a negative serum or urine HCG test within 7 days before study enrollment; must be non-lactation period;Male patients who are not surgically sterilized or of childbearing age are required to consent to use a medically approved contraceptive method with their spouse during the study treatment period and for 3 months after the study treatment period;
  14. Subjects volunteered to join this study, with good compliance, safety and survival follow-up.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Previous radiotherapy, chemotherapy, long-term or high-dose hormone therapy, surgery, or molecular targeted therapy;
  2. The subject has previous or concurrent other malignant tumors;
  3. History of asthma or other respiratory diseases (bronchiectasis, tuberculosis, interstitial pneumonia, occupational lung disease, sarcoidosis, etc.);Patients with objective evidence of radiation pneumonitis, drug-associated pneumonitis, or severe impairment of pulmonary function;
  4. History of lobectomy;
  5. A history of circulatory failure;
  6. Significant for spirometry (history of myocardial infarction, cerebral artery or aortic aneurysm, history of eye surgery, hemoptysis);
  7. Patients with rheumatic diseases;Patients with heart, cerebrovascular, liver, kidney, hematopoietic system and other serious primary diseases.
  8. Patients with a history of acute gastrointestinal bleeding within 3 months;
  9. Previous therapy;The subject is known to have a previous allergy to macromolecular protein preparations, or to any PD-1 mab component;
  10. The subject has any active disease or a history of autoimmune disease (e.g., but not limited to: autoimmune hepatitis, interstitial pneumonia, uveitis, enteritis, hepatitis, hypophysitis, vasculitis, nephritis, hyperthyroidism, hypothyroidism;Subjects with vitiligo or complete remission of asthma in childhood without any intervention as adults were included;Subjects with asthma requiring medical intervention with bronchodilators were excluded);
  11. The subject has active infection or unexplained fever >38.5 ℃ during the screening period or before the first administration;
  12. Subjects with innate or acquired immune deficiency, such as infection, or active hepatitis (transaminases did not meet the inclusion criteria, reference: HBV DNA≥10⁴/ml;≥10³/ml);Chronic hepatitis B virus carriers, HBV DNA≥2000 IU/ml (≥10⁴ copies/ml), must receive antiviral therapy during the trial to be enrolled;
  13. The subject is participating in another clinical study or it has been less than one month since the end of the previous clinical study;Subjects may receive other systemic antitumor therapy during the study;
  14. Receive less than 4 weeks before or possibly during the study period;
  15. The subject cannot or does not agree to pay for the examination and treatment expenses at his own expense;
  16. Pregnant or lactating women;
  17. Other conditions that should be excluded from the study in the opinion of the investigator.
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(21)

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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.

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.

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.

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.

COPD

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: long-term lung disease that makes it hard to breathe out, including emphysema and chronic bronchitis.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Contraindication

A reason a treatment, test or procedure should not be given to a particular person, such as an allergy, another illness or a medicine they take.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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Study design

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

Study arms

  • Experimental
    treatment group

    All patients who met the inclusion criteria and did not meet the exclusion criteria were enrolled in the treatment group

    Drug: Pembrolizumab

Interventions

  • Pembrolizumab, 200mg i.v. gtt,D1,Q3W,

    Also known as: Keytruda,NSCLC,COPD

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. PFS

    The time from the beginning of randomization to the progression of tumor development or death for any reason.

    Time frame: 30 months

Secondary outcomes

  1. ORR

    The proportion of patients whose tumor volume has decreased to a prespecified value and can maintain a minimum time limit.ORR=PR+CR

    Time frame: 12 months

  2. Rate of acute exacerbations of COPD (times/year)

    Acute exacerbations of COPD are coughs, sputum production, worsening of dyspnea, or increased amount of sputum, or yellow phlegm, requiring a change in medication regimen.Acute exacerbations of COPD are classified as Grades I.-III according to clinical signs.

    Time frame: 30 months

  3. adverse events

    Harmful reactions that are not related to the purpose of medication under normal dosage of qualified drugs. Refer to CTCAE 5.0

    Time frame: 30 months

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Study locations

1 of 1 sites recruiting
  • Tianjin Chest Hospital
    Tianjin, 300350, China
    Recruiting
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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Oct 13, 2022, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT05578222
Lead sponsor
Tianjin Chest Hospital
Responsible party
Jianwen Qin (chief physicians, Tianjin Chest Hospital) — Principal investigator
First posted
Oct 13, 2022
Start date
Oct 10, 2022 (estimated)
Primary completion
Dec 12, 2023 (estimated)
Completion
Dec 12, 2024 (estimated)
Last update
Oct 13, 2022

Study contacts

JianWen Qin
Contact
qinjianwen2005@aliyun.com
022-88185060
JianWen Qin
study director · No. 261, Taierzhuang South Road, Jinnan District, Tianjin, Tianjin Chest Hospital.

Oversight

FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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