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Dostarlimab for Locally Advanced or Metastatic Cancer (Non-colorectal/Non-endometrial) With Tumor dMMR/MSI

A Phase 2 interventional study of Dostarlimab and Chemotherapy in Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma, Ampulla of Vater Carcinoma and Adrenocortical Carcinoma, sponsored by UNICANCER. Recruiting at 22 sites in France. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2025-12-02.

Sponsored by UNICANCER · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Started Jul 2024; still recruiting 2 years 2 months later.
Phase
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
120
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

The goal of this open-label randomized, multicenter, comparative phase II trial is to evaluate the efficacy of the immunotherapy, dostarlimab, as first-line treatment for deficient mismatch repair (dMMR)/microsatellite instability (MSI) non-resectable metastatic or locally advanced non-colorectal and non-endometrial cancers compared to the standard of care chemotherapy.

Adult patients (aged ≥18 years) with histologically confirmed dMMR/MSI duodenum and small bowel adenocarcinoma, gastric and oeso-gastric junction (OGJ) adenocarcinoma with combined positive score (CPS)\<5, pancreatic adenocarcinoma, ampulla of vater adenocarcinoma, adrenocortical carcinoma, carcinoma of unknown primary site, neuroendocrine carcinoma (Grade3) all primary, and soft tissue sarcoma (except Gastro-Intestinal Stromal Tumor) will be included in this study. They will be randomized and treated with either dostarlimab (experimental arm A), or chemotherapy (control arm B).

Patients with documented disease progression following the first line chemotherapy (Arm B) may be eligible for crossover to be treated with dostarlimab, with the same schedule as arm A.

Read the detailed description

Following signature of the informed consent form, patients will enter the pre-inclusion period (maximum 28 days prior to start of treatment) during which all examinations required to assess their eligibility will be performed, including dMMR/MSI status, demographic data collection, tumor evaluation, and clinical and laboratory evaluations. A centralized confirmation of MMR/MSI status by immunohistochemistry (IHC) or next-generation sequencing (NGS)/polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is mandatory to include the patient.

Patients will be randomized 1:1 to receive either dostarlimab intravenously 500 mg every 3 weeks for 4 cycles followed by 1000 mg every 6 weeks for all cycles thereafter (experimental arm A) or chemotherapy (control arm B) as per standard of care (SOC) until disease progression, unacceptable toxicity, death, investigator's decision, withdrawal of consent or for a maximum of 24 months.

Randomization will be stratified by:

  • Primary tumor (Duodenum and Small Bowel/Gastric/OGJ vs Pancreas/ Ampulla of Vater vs Other),
  • Age (\<70 years vs ≥70 years)
  • Stage: Locally advanced vs Metastatic.

Patients randomized to Arm B may be eligible to participate in the crossover phase after documentation of disease progression by investigator evaluation according to response evaluation criteria in solid tumors version 1.1 (RECIST v1.1). Crossover patients may then be treated with dostarlimab for up to 2 years, according to the schedule defined for experimental arm A. These patients may not initiate treatment with dostarlimab any earlier than 28 days after their last dose of chemotherapy (washout period) regardless of the time of progression. Patients who discontinue dostarlimab treatment after crossover will enter the follow-up phase until the last follow-up visit of the last randomized patient. Crossover is optional and is at the discretion of the investigator (with coordinating investigator's agreement).

In both arms, tumor evaluation will be done by local investigator at inclusion and post-randomization visits as follow:

  • Treatment period: every 6 weeks (+/- 7 days) for the first year then every 12 weeks (+/- 7 days) for the second year.
  • Follow-up period: every 16 weeks (+/- 7 days) up to one year after the last follow-up of the last randomized patient.
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Conditions studied

  • Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma
  • Ampulla of Vater Carcinoma
  • Adrenocortical Carcinoma
  • Neuroendocrine Carcinoma
  • Soft Tissue Sarcoma
  • Small Bowel Adenocarcinoma
  • Duodenum Adenocarcinoma
  • Gastric Adenocarcinoma

Keywords

  • Immunotherapy
  • locally advanced or metastatic cancer
  • dMMR/MSI (non-colorectal/non-endometrial) cancer
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In context

Adrenocortical Carcinoma

93 studies on the registry are indexed under Adrenocortical Carcinoma; 27 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 120 is above the median of 30 across 68 interventional studies indexed under Adrenocortical Carcinoma.

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Lead sponsor

UNICANCER is the lead sponsor of 215 studies on the registry; 52 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

Inclusion criteria

  1. Patient must have signed a written informed consent form prior any trial specific procedures. -
  2. 18 years or older patients.
  3. Documented locally advanced or metastatic disease with no previous systemic anti-cancer treatment in these settings and not suitable for complete surgical resection.
  4. Histologically proven, dMMR/MSI-H solid tumors that are not colorectal or endometrial cancers and including one of the following: duodenum and small bowel adenocarcinoma, gastric and oeso-gastric junction adenocarcinoma with CPS\<5, pancreatic adenocarcinoma, ampulla of Vater adenocarcinoma, adrenocortical carcinoma, carcinoma of unknown primary site, neuroendocrine carcinoma (Grade 3) all primary, and soft tissue sarcoma except Gastro-Intestinal Stromal Tumor (GIST).
  5. If patient received adjuvant therapy for non-metastatic disease, this therapy should be completed more than 6 months before the diagnosis of metastatic or recurrent disease.
  6. Availability of minimum 1 block of tumor tissue or 20 slides (archival (\<2 years) or fresh biopsy specimen of primary and or metastasis) for centralized confirmation of MMR/MSI status by IHC or NGS/PCR, and for Translational Research.
  7. Patients with dMMR/MSI tumor analyzed by IHC, PCR (for Gastric and OGJ adenocarcinoma, and duodenum and small bowel adenocarcinoma only), and/or NGS at the recruiting center should be confirmed by central review within 24h (every anonymized patient analysis reporting will be provided for central review). Patients should not be included in the study until the dMMR/MSI status is confirmed by the review committee.

    NB: In case of ambiguous result of IHC (lack of positive internal control, heterogeneous loss of MMR protein expression, ambiguous loss of only one protein including HMSH6 and PMS2), the MSI-H status will be assessed by PCR or NGS for gastric and OGJ adenocarcinoma, and duodenum and small bowel adenocarcinoma, and by NGS for other primary. Based on IHC and PCR or NGS results (NGS will be centrally performed in this case ), the sponsor will decide if inclusion is possible;

  8. Presence of at least one measurable lesion within 28 days before the start of treatment according to RECIST v1.1.
  9. Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group Performance status (ECOG PS) 0-1.
  10. Haematological status: absolute neutrophil count (ANC) ≥1.5 x 10⁹/L; platelets ≥100 x 10⁹/L; haemoglobin ≥9 g/dL.
  11. Adequate renal function: serum creatinine level \<120 µM, or clearance >50 ml/min (Modification of the Diet in Renal Disease [MDRD] or Cockcroft and Gault).
  12. Adequate liver function: serum bilirubin ≤1.5 x upper normal limit (ULN), alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and aspartate aminotransferase (AST) ≤3.0 x ULN, unless liver metastases are present, in which case they must be ≤ 5× ULN.
  13. For patients not taking warfarin: International normalised ratio (INR) \<1.5 or prothrombin time (PT) \<1.5 x ULN and either partial thromboplastin time (PTT) or activated PTT (aPTT) \<1.5 x ULN. Participants taking warfarin may be included on a stable dose with a therapeutic INR \<3.5.
  14. Women of childbearing potential must have a negative serum pregnancy test performed within 72 hours before the date of randomization.
  15. Men, and women of childbearing potential must agree to use adequate contraception for the duration of trial participation and for 4 months after the last dose of dostarlimab (used in first line or at crossover) or for at least 6 months after the last administration of the chemotherapy agent(s) used in the control arm if no crossover with dostarlimab (according to the current version of the summary of product characteristics (SmPC) of each chemotherapy agent). Men must also agree to not donate sperm and women must agree to not donate oocytes during the specified period.
  16. Registration in a National Health Care System.
  17. Patient is willing and able to comply with scheduled visits, treatment schedule, laboratory tests, tumor biopsies, and other requirements of the study.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Colorectal and endometrial cancer and all primary tumor not listed in inclusion criterion #4.
  2. Previous exposure to anti-PD-1 or PD-L1 or anti-CTL-4 antibodies or treatment with immunotherapy.
  3. Previous exposure to any investigational drug within 4 weeks (6 weeks for monoclonal antibodies) before the first dose in the study.
  4. Previous exposure to any systemic anti-cancer therapy or radiation therapy for the cancer for which the patient is being enrolled.
  5. Active autoimmune disease: Active autoimmune disease requiring systemic treatment in the past 2 years (excluding replacement therapy) or any history of interstitial lung disease (patients with ancient auto-immune disease with stable endocrine oral substitution are eligible).
  6. Uncontrolled central nervous system metastases or carcinomatous meningitis or other concurrent illness or ongoing or active infections.
  7. Patients with HER2-positive gastric carcinoma.
  8. Other serious and uncontrolled non-malignant disease or is considered a poor medical risk due to a serious, uncontrolled medical disorder, non-malignant systemic disease or active infection requiring systemic therapy. Specific examples include, but are not limited to, active, non-infectious pneumonitis; uncontrolled ventricular arrhythmia; recent (within 90 days) myocardial infarction; uncontrolled major seizure disorder; unstable spinal cord compression; superior vena cava syndrome; or any psychiatric or substance abuse disorders that would interfere with cooperation with the requirements of the study.
  9. Prior allogeneic bone marrow transplantation or prior solid organ transplantation.
  10. Has received treatment with systemic corticosteroids or other systemic immunosuppressive medications (including but not limited to prednisone, dexamethasone, cyclophosphamide, azathioprine, methotrexate, thalidomide, and anti-tumor necrosis factor agents) within 2 weeks prior to the first dose of adjuvant treatment or is required to receive systemic immunosuppressive medications during the study. Inhaled or topical steroids and adrenal replacement doses >10 mg daily prednisone equivalents are permitted in the absence of active autoimmune disease.

    Note 1: Patients who have received acute, low-dose, systemic immunosuppressant medications (e.g., a one-time dose of dexamethasone for nausea) may be enrolled into the study after approval of the Medical Contact.

    Note 2: patients are permitted the use of topical, ocular, intra-articular, intranasal, and inhalational corticosteroids (with minimal systemic absorption). Adrenal replacement steroid doses including doses >10 mg daily prednisone are permitted. A brief (less than 3 weeks) course of corticosteroids for prophylaxis (e.g., contrast dye allergy) or for treatment of non-autoimmune conditions (e.g., delayed-type hypersensitivity reaction caused by a contact allergen) is permitted.

  11. Other concomitant or previous malignancy other than the disease under study, except as noted below:

    i. adequately treated in-situ carcinoma of the uterine cervix, ii. basal or squamous cell carcinoma of the skin, iii. cancer from which the patients was in complete remission for >2 years.

  12. Known Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection.
  13. Received live vaccine within 14 days.
  14. Patient has documented presence of HBsAg [or HBcAb] at pre-inclusion visit or within 3 months prior to first dose of study intervention.

    Participant has a positive hepatitis C virus (HCV) antibody test result at pre-inclusion visit or within 3 months prior to first dose of study intervention. Note: Participants with a positive HCV antibody test result due to prior resolved disease can be enrolled, only if a confirmatory negative HCV RNA test is obtained.

    Participant has a positive HCV RNA test result at pre-inclusion visit or within 3 months prior to first dose of study intervention. Note: The HCV RNA test is optional and participants with negative HCV antibody test are not required to undergo HCV RNA testing as well

  15. Known prior severe hypersensitivity to investigational product or any component in its formulation.
  16. Pregnant or breast feeding women.
  17. Participation in another clinical trial within 30 days prior to the first study treatment administration or concomitantly with the trial.
  18. Presence of any psychological, familial, sociological, or geographical condition potentially hampering compliance with the study protocol and follow-up schedule.
  19. Person deprived of their liberty or under protective custody or guardianship.

Patient randomized to receive SOC (Arm B) may crossover to receive dostarlimab (Arm A) in case of documented progressive disease according to RECIST v1.1.

Inclusion and exclusion are the same for the crossover except for the inclusion criteria #3 and #4.

The criterion #3 for crossover is: Patient included in the protocol and randomized in the arm "standard of care" with documented progressive disease by RECIST v1.1 on standard of care (defined in the protocol).

The criterion #4 for crossover is: Previous exposure to chemotherapy for locally advanced or metastatic disease.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 2
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
120 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Dostarlimab

    Patient will receive dostarlimab intravenously 500 mg every 3 weeks for 4 cycles followed by 1000 mg every 6 weeks for all cycles thereafter until disease progression, unacceptable toxicity, death, investigator's decision, patient's decision or for a maximum of 24 months.

    Drug: Dostarlimab

  • Active comparator
    Standard of care

    Patients will receive the standard of care chemotherapy

    Drug: Chemotherapy

Interventions

  • DrugDostarlimab

    Anti-PD-1 monoclonal antibody

  • DrugChemotherapy

    * mFOLFOX6 or FOLFIRI or XELOX regimen * FOLFOX or XELOX or TFOX regimen * FOLFIRINOX or gemcitabine-nab-paclitaxel or gemcitabine monotherapy. * Cisplatin and gemcitabine cisplatin or CAPOX or mFOLFOX6. * Etoposide-cisplatin-doxorubicin or mitotane * Cisplatin and gemcitabine or carboplatin and paclitaxel * Etoposide-cisplatin or etoposide-carboplatin * Doxorubicin and ifosfamide or doxorubicin monotherapy or doxorubicin and trabectedin.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Progression-free survival

    The progression-free survival is the length of time during and after the treatment of a disease that a patient lives with the disease but it does not get worse.

    Time frame: From randomization until disease progression or death from any cause, up to 3 years.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Objective Response Rate

    Objective Response Rate is defined as the proportion of patients with best response of complete response (CR) or partial response (PR) according to RECIST v1.1.

    Time frame: From randomization to disease progression or death, up to 3 years

  2. Duration of response

    Duration of response (DOR) will be evaluated in patients with either a complete response (CR) or partial response (PR). DOR is defined as the time from the first assessment of a CR or PR until the date of the first occurrence of progressive disease (PD) or death from any cause (if death occurred within predefined period), whichever occurs first.

    Time frame: From randomization to disease progression or death, up to 3 years

  3. Overall Survival

    The overall survival is the length of time from randomization that patients enrolled in the study are still alive.

    Time frame: From randomization until death from any cause, up to 3 years

  4. Progression-Free Survival 2

    Progression-Free Survival 2 (PFS2) is defined as the time from randomization to second/subsequent disease progression after initiation of new anti-cancer therapy (including subsequent immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy), or death from any cause, whichever first.

    Time frame: From randomization to disease progression or death, up to 3 years

  5. Objective response rate 2

    Objective response rate after initiation of new anti-cancer therapy (ORR2) is defined as the proportion of patients with best response of CR or PR according to the investigator's judgment.

    Time frame: From randomization to disease progression or death, up to 3 years

  6. Progression-Free Survival -crossover

    Progression-free survival - crossover is defined as the time from crossover initiation to disease progression after initiation of new anti-cancer therapy, or death from any cause, whichever first.

    Time frame: From randomization to disease progression or death, up to 3 years

  7. Circulating tumor DNA level

    The evolution of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) level in patient's blood during treatment will be correlated with PFS in the overall population.

    Time frame: From randomization to disease progression or death, up to 3 years

  8. Incidence of treatment-emergent adverse events

    The National Cancer Institute-Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events version 5 (NCI-CTCAE v5) is widely accepted in the community of oncology research as the leading rating scale for adverse events. This scale, divided into 5 grades (1 = "mild", 2 = "moderate", 3 = "severe", 4 = "life-threatening", and 5 = "death") determined by the investigator, will make it possible to assess the severity of the disorders.

    Time frame: Throughout study completion, up to 3 years

  9. Quality of life questionnaire - Core 30 (QLQ-C30)

    Developed by the EORTC, this self-reported questionnaire assesses the health-related quality of life of cancer patients in clinical trials. The questionnaire includes five functional scales (physical, everyday activity, cognitive, emotional, and social), three symptom scales (fatigue, pain, nausea and vomiting), a health/quality of life overall scale, and a number of additional elements assessing common symptoms (including dyspnea, loss of appetite, insomnia, constipation, and diarrhea), as well as, the perceived financial impact of the disease. All of the scales and single-item measures range in score from 0 to 100. A high scale score represents a higher response level.

    Time frame: At baseline, every 2 or 3 weeks, and at the end of treatment (up to 2 years)

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Study locations

1 of 22 sites recruiting
  • Institut de Cancérologie de l'Ouest
    Angers, France
    • Victor SIMMET, MD · Contact
    Not yet recruiting
  • Institut du Cancer Avignon-Provence
    Avignon, France
    • Clémence TOULLEC, MD · Contact
    Not yet recruiting
  • CHU Jean Minjoz
    Besançon, France
    • Angélique VIENOT, MD · Contact
    Not yet recruiting
  • CHU Morvan
    Brest, France
    • Pierre-Guillaume POUREAU, MD · Contact
    Not yet recruiting
  • Centre François Baclesse
    Caen, France
    • Elodie COQUAN, MD · Contact
    Not yet recruiting
  • Centre Jean Perrin
    Clermont-Ferrand, France
    • Florence OSAER-POLYCARPE, MD · Contact
    Not yet recruiting
  • CHU - Henri Mondor
    Créteil, France
    • Christophe TOURNIGAND, MD · Contact
    Not yet recruiting
  • Centre Georges François Leclerc
    Dijon, France
    • François GHIRINGHELLI, MD · Contact
    Not yet recruiting
  • Centre Léon Bérard
    Lyon, France
    • Clélia COUTZAC, MD · Contact
    Recruiting
  • Hôpital la Timone
    Marseille, France
    • Laëtitia DAHAN, MD · Contact
    Not yet recruiting
  • Institut Paoli Calmettes
    Marseille, France
    • Christelle DE LA FOUCHARDIERE, MD · Contact
    Not yet recruiting
  • Institut de Cancérologie de Lorraine
    Nancy, France
    • Aurélien LAMBERT, MD · Contact
    Not yet recruiting
  • Institut Mutualiste Montsouris
    Paris, France
    • Raphaël COLLE, MD · Contact
    Not yet recruiting
  • CHU de Bordeaux - Hôpital Haut -Lèvêque
    Pessac, France
    • Denis SMITH, MD · Contact
    Not yet recruiting
  • CHU de Poitiers
    Poitiers, France
    • David TOUGERON, MD · Contact
    Not yet recruiting
  • Institut Jean Godinot
    Reims, France
    • Damien BOTSEN, MD · Contact
    Not yet recruiting
  • Centre Eugène Marquis
    Rennes, France
    • Héloïse BOURIEN, MD · Contact
    Not yet recruiting
  • CHU de Rouen
    Rouen, France
    • Frédéric DI FIORE, MD · Contact
    Not yet recruiting
  • Institut de Cancérologie de l'Ouest
    Saint-Herblain, France
    • Sandrine HIRET, MD · Contact
    Not yet recruiting
  • CHU de Toulouse Hôpital Rangueil
    Toulouse, France
    • Rosine GUIMBAUD, MD · Contact
    Not yet recruiting
  • Gustave Roussy Grand Paris
    Villejuif, France
    • Cristina SMOLENSCHI, MD · Contact
    Not yet recruiting
  • Hôpital Saint-Antoine
    Paris, Île-de-France Region, France
    • Thierry ANDRE, MD · Contact
    Not yet recruiting
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Dec 2, 2025, 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
NCT06333314
Lead sponsor
UNICANCER
Collaborators
National Cancer Institute, France, GlaxoSmithKline
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Mar 27, 2024
Start date
Jul 23, 2024
Primary completion
Oct 2028 (estimated)
Completion
Sep 2030 (estimated)
Last update
Dec 2, 2025

Study contacts

Assia LAMRANI-GHAOUTI
Contact
a-lamrani-ghaouti@unicancer.fr
+33 (0) 6 16 73 01 54
Thierry ANDRE, MD
principal investigator · Hôpital Sainte Antoine - Paris - France

Oversight

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