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RecruitingNCT06284317ADOPT-lungUpdated Nov 6, 2026

A Study to Evaluate the Benefit of Adding Durvalumab After Chemotherapy, Durvalumab and Surgery in Patients With Early-stage, Operable, Non-small Cell Lung Cancer.

A Phase 3 interventional study of Adjuvant durvalumab in Non Small Cell Lung Cancer, sponsored by ETOP IBCSG Partners Foundation. Recruiting at 44 sites in 10 countries. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-11-06.

Sponsored by ETOP IBCSG Partners Foundation · Phase 3, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Started Jan 2025; still recruiting 1 year 9 months later.
Updated Nov 6, 20262 sites addedGo to Updates ↓
Phase
Phase 3
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
290
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

ADOPT-lung is an international, multicentre, open-label randomised phase III trial. Protocol treatment consists of 3-4 cycles of neoadjuvant durvalumab in combination with platinum-based doublet chemotherapy, followed by surgery. Patients with R0 and R1 only resection will be randomised to receive either adjuvant durvalumab for 12 cycles (experimental arm) or observation (control arm). The primary objective of the study is to determine whether additional adjuvant immunotherapy with durvalumab after neoadjuvant chemo-immunotherapy has an effect on disease-free survival (DFS) in patients who do not achieve complete pathological response (pCR) as per local assessment according to the IASLC recommendations.

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Conditions studied

  • Non Small Cell Lung Cancer

Keywords

  • IIB-IIIB (N2) resectable NSCLC
  • Durvalumab
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In context

Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung

7,620 studies on the registry are indexed under Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung; 1,838 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 290 is above the median of 62 across 6,019 interventional studies indexed under Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung.

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Lead sponsor

ETOP IBCSG Partners Foundation is the lead sponsor of 52 studies on the registry; 5 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 and older
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  • confirmed NSCLC.
  • Stage IIB-IIIB (T1-4 N0-2) according to 8th edition of the TNM staging system of lung cancer.

Stage III assessment should include samples of lymph nodes at levels 4, bilaterally, and level 7 to rule out stage IIIB N3 disease.

T4 tumours will only be eligible if they are defined as T4 based only on their size (>7cm); any other reason will be considered ineligible.

  • Known status, as tested locally using a validated assay. To ensure comparability of results, it is strongly encouraged that PD-L1 testing is done with the Ventana PD-L1 (SP263) assay.
  • Absence of EGFR mutation or ALK translocation, as tested locally.
  • Primary tumour resectable and functionally operable as assessed per local multidisciplinary tumour board (cardiac evaluation, pulmonary function and diffusion capacity, comorbidity).
  • Adequate haematological function:

≥90 g/L, (ANC) ≥1.0× 109/L, count ≥75× 109/L.

- Adequate renal function: Measured (CL) >40 mL/min or calculated CL >40 mL/min calculated by the Cockcroft-Gault.

- Adequate liver function: and AST ≤2.5× institutional , Total serum ≤1.5× institutional ULN (patients with Gilbert's syndrome may be allowed to be enrolled after consultation with the Medical Affairs Team at the ETOP IBCSG Partners Foundation.

  • (ECOG) performance status 0-1.
  • Age ≥18 at the time of enrolment.
  • Body weight >30 kg.
  • of at least 12 weeks.
  • Women of , including women who had their last menstruation in the last 2 years, must have a negative urinary or serum pregnancy test at screening before enrolment. Pregnancy test must be repeated within 3 days before the first dose of protocol treatment.
  • Written IC for study participation must be signed and dated by the patient and the investigator prior to any study-related intervention.

Eligibility Criteria for randomisation:

  • Surgical resection must have been completed. Note: Participants who have had only had segmentectomy or wedge resections are not eligible for randomisation.
  • Patients must have complete resection: R0 or R1 resection.
  • Patients must be fit to receive treatment with durvalumab.
  • Patients must have no evidence of disease as assessed by CT scan.
  • Documentation of pathological response as per local review must be available.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria for enrolment:

  • T4 with invasion of heart, great vessels, carina, trachea, oesophagus, or spine.
  • Any previous or concurrent treatments for NSCLC.
  • Any previous immunotherapy.
  • Major surgical procedure (as per investigators assessment) within 28 days before enrolment.
  • History of allogenic organ transplantation.
  • Active or prior documented disease or inflammatory disorders (including inflammatory bowel disease [e.g., colitis or Crohn's disease], systemic lupus erythematosus, Sarcoidosis syndrome, or Wegener syndrome [granulomatosis with polyangiitis, Graves' disease, rheumatoid arthritis, hypophysitis, uveitis, etc.]). The following are exceptions to this criterion:

Patients with vitiligo or alopecia. Patients with type I diabetes. Patients with hypothyroidism (e.g., following Hashimoto syndrome) stable on hormone replacement.

Any chronic skin condition that does not require systemic therapy. Patients without active disease in the last 5 years may be included but only after consultation with the Medical Affairs Team at the ETOP IBCSG Partners Foundation.

Patients with celiac disease controlled by diet alone.

  • Uncontrolled intercurrent illness, including but not limited to, ongoing or active infection, symptomatic congestive heart failure, uncontrolled hypertension, unstable angina pectoris, cardiac arrhythmia, interstitial lung disease (ILD), or serious chronic gastrointestinal conditions associated with diarrhoea.
  • Psychiatric illness/social situations that would limit compliance with study requirement, substantially increase risk of incurring AEs or compromise the ability of the patient to give written .
  • History of another primary except for:

Malignancy treated with curative-intent and with no known active disease 5 years before the first dose of durvalumab and of low potential risk for recurrence.

Adequately treated non-melanoma skin cancer or lentigo maligna without evidence of disease.

Adequately treated carcinoma in situ without evidence of disease.

  • History of .
  • History of active primary immunodeficiency.
  • Active hepatitis infection, positive virus (HCV) antibody, virus (HBV) surface antigen (HbsAg) or HBV core antibody (anti-HBc).

Participants with a past or resolved HBV infection (defined as the presence of anti-HBc and absence of HbsAg) are eligible.

Participants positive for HCV antibody are only eligible if polymerase chain reaction is negative for HCV RNA.

  • Known infection that is not well-controlled. All of the following criteria are required to define an HIV infection that is well controlled: undetectable viral RNA load for 3 months, of 500 cell per mm3, no history of AIDS-defining opportunistic infection within the past 12 months, and stable for at least 3 months on the same anti-HIV medication.
  • Current or prior use of medication within 14 days before the first dose of durvalumab. The following are exceptions to this criterion:

Intranasal, inhaled, topical , or local steroid injections (e.g., intra articular injection).

Systemic corticosteroids at physiologic doses not exceeding 10 mg/day of prednisone or its equivalent.

Steroids as premedication for reactions (e.g., CT scan premedication).

- Receipt of within 30 days prior to the first dose of durvalumab.

Note: Patients in the ADOPT-lung trial, should not receive live vaccine whilst receiving durvalumab and for up to 30 days after the last dose.

Concurrent enrolment in another interventional clinical trial.

  • Known allergy or suspected hypersensitivity to durvalumab or its .
  • Judgment by the investigator that the patient should not participate in the study if the patient is unlikely to comply with study procedures, restrictions, and requirements.
  • Female patients who are pregnant or in the period of lactation.
  • Female patients of and sexually active men who are not willing to use a highly effective method during the trial until at least 90 days after the last dose of protocol treatment.
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(28)

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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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Metastases

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

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.

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.

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.

Leptomeningeal disease

Cancer that has spread to the leptomeninges, the thin layers covering the brain and spinal cord, and the fluid between them. It is not the same as brain metastases.

Criteria often treat it separately, and many studies leave it out even where treated brain metastases are allowed.

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.

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.

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.

CD4 count

The number of CD4 cells, a type of white blood cell, in a given amount of blood. It is used to follow how well the immune system is doing in HIV.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Excipients

The other ingredients in a medicine besides the active drug, such as fillers, colours or preservatives.

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.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 3
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
290 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Durvalumab

    Protocol treatment in the adjuvant phase consists of adjuvant durvalumab

    Drug: Adjuvant durvalumab

  • No intervention
    Observation

    Observation only

Interventions

  • Durvalumab is given at a fixed dose of 1500 mg i.v. every 4 weeks (±1 week) until relapse or unacceptable toxicity, for a maximum of 12 cycles after surgery.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Disease-free survival (DFS)

    Assessed in the adjuvant treatment phase. DFS is defined as the time from the date of randomisation until disease recurrence (including loco-regional recurrence, a distant (metastatic) recurrence or a second primary) or death from any cause. Censoring (for patients without recurrence/death) will occur at the date of last tumour assessment. Patients without a post-randomisation tumour assessment will be censored at the date of randomisation (plus 1 day). DFS will be assessed in patients without pCR (primary endpoint), as well as in patients with pCR (secondary endpoint) and in patients with/without ctDNA clearance (secondary endpoints).

    Time frame: From the date of randomisation until last patient last visit (approximately 60 months after randomisation of the first patient)

Secondary outcomes

  1. DFS in patients with pCR

    Assessed in the adjuvant treatment phase (after randomisation). DFS is defined as the time from the date of randomisation until disease recurrence (including loco-regional recurrence, a distant (metastatic) recurrence or a second primary) or death from any cause. Censoring (for patients without recurrence/death) will occur at the date of last tumour assessment. Patients without a post-randomisation tumour assessment will be censored at the date of randomisation (plus 1 day). DFS will be assessed in patients without pCR (primary endpoint), as well as in patients with pCR (secondary endpoint) and in patients with/without ctDNA clearance (secondary endpoints).

    Time frame: From the date of randomisation until last patient last visit (approximately 60 months after randomisation of the first patient)

  2. Overall survival (OS) in patients with/without pCR

    Assessed in the adjuvant treatment phase (after randomisation). OS is defined as the time from the date of randomisation until death from any cause. Censoring (for patients who are not reported as having died) will occur at the date when they were last known to be alive. Patients without post-randomisation information will be censored at the date of randomisation (plus 1 day). OS will be assessed in patients with/without pCR.

    Time frame: From the date of randomisation until last patient last visit (approximately 60 months after randomisation of the first patient)

  3. DFS in patients with/without ctDNA clearance

    Assessed in the adjuvant treatment phase (after randomisation).

    Time frame: From the date of randomisation until last patient last visit (approximately 60 months after randomisation of the first patient)

  4. Time to recurrence (TTR) in patients with/without pCR

    Assessed in the adjuvant treatment phase (after randomisation). TTR is defined as the time from the date of randomisation until disease recurrence. Censoring (for patients without recurrence) will occur at the date of the last tumour assessment. Patients without a post-randomisation tumour assessment will be censored at the date of randomisation (plus 1 day). TTR will be assessed in patients with/without pCR.

    Time frame: From the date of randomisation until last patient last visit (approximately 60 months after randomisation of the first patient)

  5. Time to treatment discontinuation (TTD) in patients with/without pCR

    Assessed in the adjuvant treatment phase (after randomisation).

    Time frame: From the date of randomisation until last patient last visit (approximately 60 months after randomisation of the first patient)

  6. Toxicity according to CTCAE v5.0

    Assessed in the adjuvant treatment phase (after randomisation). All safety parameters will be summarised in tables to evaluate the toxicity/safety profile of the protocol treatment based on: * Adverse events according to CTCAE v5.0 (any-cause as well as treatment-related) including adverse events leading to dose interruptions, withdrawal of protocol treatment, and death. * Severe, serious, and selected adverse events. * Deaths. * Laboratory parameters and abnormalities, and vital signs.

    Time frame: From the date of randomisation until last patient last visit (approximately 60 months after randomisation of the first patient)

Other outcomes

  1. Correlation between ctDNA clearance and DFS

    Exploratory endpoint

    Time frame: From the date of screening until last patient last visit (approximately 60 months after randomisation of the first patient)

  2. Correlation between ctDNA clearance and OS

    Exploratory endpoint

    Time frame: From the date of screening until last patient last visit (approximately 60 months after randomisation of the first patient)

  3. Correlation between ctDNA clearance and initial PD-L1 assessment

    Exploratory endpoint

    Time frame: From the date of screening until last patient last visit (approximately 60 months after randomisation of the first patient)

  4. Outcome (event-free survival)

    Outcome (EFS) in patients with patients with either * ctDNA clearance after neoadjuvant treatment but not achieving pCR * no ctDNA clearance after neoadjuvant treatment but achieving pCR

    Time frame: From the date of screening until last patient last visit (approximately 60 months after randomisation of the first patient)

  5. Correlation of Outcome Disease-free survival (DFS)

    Correlation of Outcome (DFS) in patients with longitudinal ctDNA assessment

    Time frame: From the date of screening until last patient last visit (approximately 60 months after randomisation of the first patient)

  6. Correlation of Outcome Overall survival (OS)

    Correlation of Outcome (OS) in patients with longitudinal ctDNA assessment

    Time frame: From the date of screening until last patient last visit (approximately 60 months after randomisation of the first patient)

  7. pCRDescription of patients entering each phase (e.g., % surgery, % randomised)

    pCRDescription of patients entering each phase (e.g., % surgery, % randomised)

    Time frame: From the date of screening until last patient last visit (approximately 60 months after randomisation of the first patient)

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Study locations

29 of 44 sites recruiting
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Updates

1 registry update since Sep 25, 2026
Sites
2 sites added
Show 2 added (2 United Kingdom)
  • Velindre University NHS Trust · Cardiff, United Kingdom
  • Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde · Glasgow, United Kingdom
Nov 6, 2026
Show all 1 update
  1. Nov 6, 2026
    2 sites added
    Show 2 added (2 United Kingdom)
    • Velindre University NHS Trust · Cardiff, United Kingdom
    • Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde · Glasgow, United Kingdom
    + 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
NCT06284317
Lead sponsor
ETOP IBCSG Partners Foundation
Collaborators
AstraZeneca
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Feb 28, 2024
Start date
Jan 15, 2025
Primary completion
Oct 2029 (estimated)
Completion
Mar 2030 (estimated)
Last update
Nov 6, 2026

Study contacts

Heidi Roschitzki, PhD
Contact
heidi.roschitzki@etop.ibcsg.org
+41 31 511 94 00
Susanne Roux
Contact
ADOPT-lung@etop.ibcsg.org
+41 31 511 94 00
Solange Peters, MD-PhD
study chair · Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland
Sabine Schmid, MD
study chair · Inselspital, Universitätsspital Bern, 3010 Bern, Switzerland
Paul Van Schil, MD-PhD
study chair · Antwerp University Hospital, Antwerp, Belgium,
Stephen Finn, MD-PhD
study chair · St. James's Hospital, Dublin 8, Ireland

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
Yes
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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