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TerminatedNCT06790966VERSATILE-003Updated Sep 2, 2026

Phase 3 Study of PDS0101 and Pembrolizumab in HPV16+ Recurrent/Metastatic Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma

A Phase 3 interventional study of Combination Treatment of PDS0101 and Pembrolizumab and Pembrolizumab Monotherapy in Recurrent Head and Neck Cancer, Metastatic Head and Neck Cancer and HPV Positive Oropharyngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma, sponsored by PDS Biotechnology Corp.. Terminated at 28 sites in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-09-02.

Primary conditionSquamous Cell Carcinoma of Head and NeckRegistry: Head and Neck NeoplasmsReclassifiedWhy we changed it
Registry
Head and Neck Neoplasms — the first condition term the registry derived for this study.
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Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Head and Neck
Why
  1. The study's listed conditions name Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Head and Neck, a narrower term within Head and Neck Neoplasms.
Confidence
High: the new condition is named in the study's own listed conditions. Of 351 hand-checked studies reclassified this way, 68% were exactly right and 84% in the right disease family; the registry's first term was right for 5% (measured 2026-10-21). How we classify →
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Sponsored by PDS Biotechnology Corp. · Phase 3, Interventional, and Treatment

Why this study was terminated
The study is being discontinued solely based on financial constraints and is not related to the safety of study participants, the investigational product, PDS0101, nor the conduct of the study.
Phase
Phase 3
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
12
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

This is a global, multi-center, Phase 3 study that is randomized 1:1, controlled, and open label to evaluate PDS0101 (Versamune + HPVMix) in combination with pembrolizumab vs. pembrolizumab monotherapy as first-line treatment in patients with unresectable recurrent or metastatic HPV16-positive HNSCC expressing programmed cell death ligand-1 (PD-L1) with combined positive score (CPS) ≥1.

Read the detailed description

PDS0101 is a T cell activating immunotherapy designed to induce HPV-specific CD8 and CD4 T cells. A Phase 2 study has shown promising signs of safety and efficacy when PDS0101 is combined with pembrolizumab in patients with HPV16-positive R/M HNSCC with CPS ≥1, which is the population for this study.

The dual primary objectives of this study are to compare the effect of the combination of PDS0101 plus pembrolizumab vs. pembrolizumab monotherapy on progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS). Secondary objectives for this study include comparison of effects on objective response rate (ORR), disease control rate (DCR), and duration of response (DOR).

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Conditions studied

  • Recurrent Head and Neck Cancer
  • Metastatic Head and Neck Cancer
  • HPV Positive Oropharyngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma
  • Neoplasms, Head and Neck
  • Unresectable Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma

Keywords

  • Head and neck cancer
  • Head and neck neoplasms
  • Neoplasms, squamous cell
  • Squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck
  • Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma
  • Recurrent Head and Neck cancer
  • Metastatic Head and Neck Cancer
  • Immuno-oncology therapy
  • Human papillomavirus-16
  • Cancer Vaccines
  • HNSCC
  • Oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma
  • HPV
  • Programmed cell death ligand 1
  • PD-L1
  • Immune checkpoint inhibitor
  • Immune checkpoint inhibitors
  • Immunotherapy
  • Squamous cell cancer
  • Pembrolizumab
  • Antineoplastic Agents, Immunological
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In context

Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Head and Neck Reclassified

2,018 studies on the registry are indexed under Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Head and Neck; 573 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 12 is below the median of 48 across 1,653 interventional studies indexed under Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Head and Neck.

Browse Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Head and Neck studies →

Lead sponsor

PDS Biotechnology Corp. is the lead sponsor of 3 studies on the registry; none are open to participants now.

Compared within Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Head and Neck, this study's primary condition as ClinicalTrials.gg classifies it; the registry's first condition term is Head and Neck Neoplasms. The counts are of registry records indexed under each term, refreshed daily. How we classify →

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years and older
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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.

Inclusion criteria

  1. Subject (or legally acceptable representative, if applicable) provides written for the study.
  2. Subject is ≥18 years of age on the day of signing the informed consent.
  3. Have a history of - or cytologically-confirmed diagnosis of recurrent and/or squamous cell cancer of the head and neck (HNSCC) with:

    1. Eligible primary tumor location of oropharynx, oral cavity, hypopharynx, or larynx.
    2. HPV16 tumor positivity (central testing).
    3. Tumor expression defined as a CPS ≥ 1 using the FDA- approved pembrolizumab (KEYTRUDA®) assay (local testing).
    4. No prior systemic anticancer therapy administered in the incurable recurrent or metastatic setting. Systemic therapy which was completed more than 6 months prior to randomization, if given as part of multimodal treatment for locally advanced disease, is allowed.
  4. Have based on 1.1 as determined by the site and confirmed by BICR. As a guidance to the site investigators, tumor lesions situated in a previously irradiated area are considered measurable if progression has been demonstrated in such lesions.
  5. Subject has adequate organ function defined by the following parameters (all specimens must be collected within 15 days prior to randomization):

    • Hematological: (ANC) ≥1500/μL, ≥100,000/μL; ≥9.0 g/dL or ≥5.6 mmol/L;
    • Renal: Estimated ≥30 mL/min using the Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration (CKD-EPI) equation.
    • Hepatic: Total ≤1.5 × or direct bilirubin ≤ULN for subjects with total bilirubin levels >1.5 × ULN, (AST) and Alanine aminotransferase (ALT) ≤2.5 ULN (if approved by Medical Monitor, ≤5 × ULN for subjects with liver metastases; AST and ALT >5 to 20 x ULN may be included if asymptomatic).
    • Coagulation: , prothrombin time (PT) ≤1.5 × ULN; if subject is receiving anticoagulant therapy, INR or PT- should be within therapeutic range of anticoagulant.
  6. For female subjects defined as women of (WOCBP), a negative pregnancy test must be obtained during screening. If a urine test cannot be confirmed as negative, a serum pregnancy test will be required. Women who are surgically sterile or at least 2 years do not require pregnancy testing.
  7. Male subjects of childbearing potential must agree to use a condom as an effective method of starting with the first dose of study therapy through 120 days after the last dose of study therapy.
  8. Have an (ECOG) performance status of 0 or 1.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Primary tumor location of nasopharynx (any histology).
  2. If the pregnancy test is positive. If a urine test cannot be confirmed as negative, a serum pregnancy test will be required.
  3. Has received prior therapy with HPV-specific immunotherapy including therapeutic cancer vaccines and cellular immunotherapy. Note: subjects who have received prophylactic HPV vaccines are eligible for enrollment.
  4. Has received prior therapy with an , anti-PD-L1, or anti-PD- L2 agent or with an agent directed to another stimulatory or co- inhibitory T cell receptor including but not limited to CTLA-4, OX40, CD137.
  5. Has had major surgery, including surgical resection of tumor, within 30 days prior to randomization, and has not fully recovered as assessed by the investigator.
  6. Has received radiotherapy prior to randomization outside of the following minimum , and has not fully recovered as assessed by the investigator:

    • Fractionated radiotherapy, 2 weeks
    • Stereotactic radiosurgery, 1 week
    • Palliative radiation therapy, 1 week
  7. Has received a within 30 days prior to randomization.

    Examples of live vaccines include, but are not limited to, the following:

    measles, mumps, rubella, varicella/zoster (chicken pox), yellow fever, rabies, Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG), and typhoid vaccine. Seasonal influenza vaccines for injection are generally killed-virus vaccines and are allowed; however, intranasal influenza vaccines (e.g., FluMist ® ) or live attenuated vaccines are not allowed within 30 days prior to randomization.

  8. Has received immunomodulatory or agents (e.g., interferons (IFNs), tumor necrosis factor, interleukins, immunoglobulins or other biological response modifiers (granulocyte colony-stimulating factor [GCSF] or granulocyte macrophage stimulating factor [GMCSF]) within 30 days prior to randomization.
  9. Is currently participating in or has participated in a study of an agent or has used an investigational device within 30 days prior to randomization. Note: Subjects who entered the follow-up phase of an investigational study may participate as long as it is permitted in that study consent and has been 30 days after the last dose of the previous investigational agent.
  10. Has undergone prior hematopoietic stem cell transplantation within the last 5 years. Note: Subjects who have had a transplant greater than 5 years ago are eligible as long as there are no symptoms of graft- versus-host disease [].
  11. Has a diagnosis of immunodeficiency or is receiving chronic systemic therapy (I a dose exceeding 10 mg daily of prednisone equivalent). Note: Current or recent use of intranasal, intra-articular, and topical steroids are allowed for symptom management are clinically indicated.
  12. Has a known additional that is progressing or has required active treatment within the past 3 years. Note: Subjects with basal cell carcinoma of the skin, squamous cell carcinoma of the skin or carcinoma in situ (e.g., breast carcinoma, cervical cancer in situ, superficial [non- infiltrated] bladder tumors) or other malignant tumors that have undergone potentially curative therapy are eligible for enrollment.
  13. Has known carcinomatous meningitis and/or active central nervous system (CNS) as defined by new or progressive brain metastases that have not been subjected to CNS-directed therapy since documented progression. Note: Subjects with previously treated brain metastases are eligible if all the following criteria are met:

    1. radiologically stable, i.e., without evidence of progression for at least 30 days by repeat imaging (note that repeat imaging should be performed during study screening),
    2. neurologically stable, and
    3. without requirement of steroid treatment for at least 14 days prior to randomization.
  14. Has an active disease that has required systemic treatment in the past 2 years (i.e., with use of disease modifying agents or immunosuppressive drugs). Replacement therapy (e.g., thyroxine, insulin, or physiologic corticosteroid replacement therapy for adrenal or pituitary insufficiency) is not considered systemic treatment and is allowed.
  15. Has a history of interstitial lung disease or has current pneumonitis. Note: Subjects with a history of radiation pneumonitis who are fully recovered are eligible.
  16. Has an active infection requiring systemic therapy (e.g., IV or oral anti-infective).
  17. Has known (HIV) and \< 350 cells/μL and/or a history of an AIDS-defining opportunistic infection within the past 12 months. Note: Subjects who are on stable antiretroviral therapy for at least 30 days and have an HIV viral load less than 400 copies/mL and who do not meet the above exclusion criterion may be enrolled.
  18. Has a history of (HBV) infection or known to be positive for HBV antigen (HbsAg)/HBV virus DNA.
  19. Has active defined by a known positive C Ab result and known quantitative HCV RNA results greater than the lower limits of detection of the assay. Note: Subjects with a history of HCV infection who have completed curative antiviral treatment and have HCV viral load below the limit of quantification may be enrolled.
  20. Has a history or current evidence of any condition, therapy, or laboratory abnormality that might confound the results of the study, interfere with the subject's participation for the full duration of the study, or is not in the best interest of the subject to participate, in the opinion of the treating investigator.
  21. Has a known psychiatric or substance abuse disorder that would interfere with the subject's ability to cooperate with the requirements of the study.
  22. Is breastfeeding within the projected duration of the study, starting with the screening visit through 120 days after the last dose of any study treatment.
  23. Has had an allogenic tissue/solid organ transplant.
  24. Female subjects defined as unwilling or unable to use highly effective method(s) for the duration of the study:

    1. Combined (estrogen and progestogen containing) hormonal contraception associated with inhibition of ovulation.
    2. Progestogen-only hormonal contraception
    3. Intrauterine device
    4. Intrauterine hormone-releasing system
    5. Bilateral tubal occlusion
    6. Vasectomized partner is a highly effective birth control method provided that the partner is the sole sexual partner of the women of childbearing potential (WOCBP) trial participant and that the vasectomized partner has received medical assessment of surgical success.
  25. History of allergic or reactions (≥Grade 3) to pembrolizumab, PDS0101, or their .
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(34)

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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.

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.

Metastases

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

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

INR, PT and aPTT (clotting tests)

Blood tests of how long blood takes to clot. The INR is the prothrombin time (PT) put on a common scale; about 1 is usual for someone not taking a blood thinner.

Criteria often make an exception for people on a blood thinner such as warfarin, whose INR is raised on purpose.

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.

Postmenopausal

Periods have stopped for good: usually no period for 12 months in a row without another medical reason, sometimes confirmed by a blood test (FSH).

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.

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.

Washout period

A planned gap after a treatment, so that its effects can lessen before the study treatment or a study assessment. Ask the study team and the doctor who prescribed it before changing any medicine.

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.

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.

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.

Allogeneic and autologous transplant

Stem cell (bone marrow) transplants. Allogeneic uses cells from a donor; autologous uses your own cells, collected earlier and given back.

GVHD (graft-versus-host disease)

After a transplant from a donor, the donor’s immune cells attack the recipient’s body, often the skin, gut or liver.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Excipients

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

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Study design

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

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Interventional Arm

    PDS0101 + Pembrolizumab

    Combination Product: Combination Treatment of PDS0101 and Pembrolizumab

  • Active comparator
    Control Arm

    Pembrolizumab

    Drug: Pembrolizumab Monotherapy

Interventions

  • Combination productCombination Treatment of PDS0101 and Pembrolizumab

    Drug page: Pembrolizumab

    * Pembrolizumab (IV) every 3 weeks for up to 35 Cycles * PDS0101 (SC) during Cycles 1, 2, 3, 4, and 12

    Also known as: Versamune HPV, KEYTRUDA

  • DrugPembrolizumab Monotherapy

    Pembrolizumab (IV) every 3 weeks for up to 35 cycles.

    Also known as: KEYTRUDA

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Overall Survival (OS)

    OS is defined as the time from randomization until death from any cause.

    Time frame: Up to 54 months

  2. Progression-Free Survival (PFS)

    PFS is defined as the time from randomization until disease progression or death from any cause, whichever occurs first. PFS will be based on RECIST 1.1 as assessed by BICR.

    Time frame: Up to 18 months

Secondary outcomes

  1. Objective Response Rate (ORR)

    ORR is defined as the percentage of subjects with an objective response: a complete response (CR) or partial response (PR) using RECIST 1.1 criteria as assessed by BICR.

    Time frame: Up to 27 months

  2. Disease Control Rate (DCR)

    DCR is defined as the percentage of subjects with an objective response of CR, PR, or stable disease (SD, at least 6 weeks after first dose) using RECIST 1.1 criteria as assessed by BICR.

    Time frame: Up to 27 months

  3. Duration of Response (DOR)

    DOR is defined as the time from initial response to disease progression or death as determined by using RECIST 1.1 criteria as assessed by BICR.

    Time frame: Up to 27 months

Other outcomes

  1. Safety

    Adverse events (AEs), serious adverse events (SAEs), and discontinuation due to AEs.

    Time frame: Up to 48 months

  2. Progression-Free Survival 2 (PFS2)

    Defined as the time from randomization to second disease progression after initiation of an anti-cancer therapy following discontinuation of study treatments, or death from any cause, whichever comes first.

    Time frame: Up to 48 months

  3. European Quality of Life 5 Dimensions 3 Level Version (EQ-5D-3L)

    Change from baseline and time to deterioration.

    Time frame: Up to 48 months

  4. European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) Quality of Life Questionnaire Core 30 (QLQC30)

    Change from baseline and time to deterioration.

    Time frame: Up to 48 months

  5. EORTC Quality of Life - Head and Neck Cancer Module (QLQH&N35)

    Change from baseline and time to deterioration.

    Time frame: Up to 48 months

  6. ORR

    By RECIST 1.1 investigator assessment.

    Time frame: Up to 27 months

  7. Immune-related (ir)ORR

    By irRECIST.

    Time frame: Up to 27 months

  8. DCR

    By RECIST 1.1 investigator assessment.

    Time frame: Up to 27 months

  9. DOR

    By RECIST 1.1 investigator assessment.

    Time frame: Up to 27 months

  10. PFS

    By RECIST 1.1 investigator assessment.

    Time frame: Up to 27 months

  11. Immune-related (ir)DCR

    By irRECIST.

    Time frame: Up to 27 months

  12. Immune-related (ir)DOR

    By irRECIST.

    Time frame: Up to 27 months

  13. Immune-related (ir)PFS

    By irRECIST.

    Time frame: Up to 27 months

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Study locations

28 sites
  • Mayo Clinic Arizona
    Phoenix, Arizona 85054, United States
  • Marin Cancer Care
    Greenbrae, California 94904, United States
  • University of California, Orange
    Orange, California 92686, United States
  • Yale University
    New Haven, Connecticut 06510, United States
  • Mayo Clinic Florida
    Jacksonville, Florida 32224, United States
  • Florida Cancer Affiliates - Ocala Oncology
    Ocala, Florida 34474, United States
  • SCRI - Florida Cancer Specialists
    Orlando, Florida 32827, United States
  • Emory University - Winship Cancer Institute (WCI)
    Atlanta, Georgia 30322, United States
  • University of Kansas
    Westwood, Kansas 66205, United States
  • University of Kentucky
    Lexington, Kentucky 40536, United States
  • Norton Cancer Institute
    Louisville, Kentucky 40202, United States
  • University of Louisville
    Louisville, Kentucky 40202, United States
  • University of Maryland
    Baltimore, Maryland 21201, United States
  • University of Michigan
    Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
  • Karmanos Cancer Institute
    Detroit, Michigan 48201, United States
  • Mayo Clinic Rochester
    Rochester, Minnesota 55905, United States
  • University of North Carolina
    Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-7025, United States
  • The Ohio State University- James Cancer Hospital
    Columbus, Ohio 43210, United States
  • Penn State Health
    Hershey, Pennsylvania 17033, United States
  • Fox Chase Cancer Center
    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103, United States
  • Medical University of South Carolina
    Charleston, South Carolina 29407, United States
  • University of Tennessee Medical Center
    Knoxville, Tennessee 37920, United States
  • Texas Oncology
    Austin, Texas 78705, United States
  • UT Health San Antonio
    San Antonio, Texas 78229, United States
  • Texas Oncology-Northeast Texas
    Tyler, Texas 75702, United States
  • University of Virginia Health System
    Charlottesville, Virginia 22903, United States
  • Virginia Oncology Associates
    Norfolk, Virginia 23502, United States
  • West Virginia University Cancer Center
    Morgantown, West Virginia 26506, United States
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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Sep 2, 2026, 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
NCT06790966
Lead sponsor
PDS Biotechnology Corp.
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Jan 24, 2025
Start date
May 30, 2025
Primary completion
Aug 25, 2026
Completion
Aug 25, 2026
Last update
Sep 2, 2026

Study contacts

Kirk V Shepard, MD
study director · PDS Biotechnology Corporation

Oversight

FDA-regulated drug
Yes
FDA-regulated device
No
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