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Combination of Tarlatamab and Temozolomide in Patients With Central Nervous System Tumors

A Phase 1/2 interventional study of Tarlatamab and Temozolomide (TMZ) in Glioma, CNS Tumor, Adult and CNS Tumor, Childhood, sponsored by Centre Leon Berard. Recruiting at 12 sites in France. Open to participants aged 12 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-09-14.

Sponsored by Centre Leon Berard · Phase 1/2, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Started Nov 2025; still recruiting 1 year later.
Phase
Phase 1/2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
70
Allocation
Non-randomized
Ages
12 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

This clinical trial is a 2-phase trial designed to evaluate the safety of tarlatamab in combination with a fixed dose of metronomic temozolomide in adolescents and adults with CNS tumors (stratified into two age-based cohorts), and to assess the clinical activity of this therapeutic strategy in three parallel, histology-defined cohorts (IDH-mutant glioma, other gliomas, and other CNS tumors). A pre-screening to detect DLL3 expression by IHC on archival tumor sample must be performed before the therapeutic part. Only patients with DLL3 positive tumor on IHC can be enrolled in the therapeutic part. This pre-screening must be optimally performed during the ongoing treatment line i.e. before documented progression to not delay treatment starts at time of progression. Tumor samples (surgery or biopsy specimen) will be sent to a central lab for IHC testing.

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Conditions studied

  • Glioma
  • CNS Tumor, Adult
  • CNS Tumor, Childhood

Keywords

  • temozolomide
  • tarlatamab
  • phase 1/2
  • RP2D
  • glioma
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In context

Glioma

1,452 studies on the registry are indexed under Glioma; 349 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 70 is above the median of 32 across 1,075 interventional studies indexed under Glioma.

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Lead sponsor

Centre Leon Berard is the lead sponsor of 210 studies on the registry; 62 are open to participants now.

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

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
12 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

I1. Patients aged ≥ 12 years old at time of inform consent signature.

I2. proven diagnosis of central nervous system (CNS) malignant tumor: IDH-mutant high-grade glioma, other high-grade glioma, or other high-grade CNS tumors.

I3. Tumors expressing DLL3 based on IHC staining performed on i.e. at least 1+ on IHC [patient with no tumor expression of DLL3 are not eligible].

Note- This pre-screening by IHC should be optimally initiated during an ongoing i.e. before documented progression. The ICF1 must be signed before to initiate this pre-screening.

I4. Confirmed progressive or disease after at least one line of standard therapy containing radiotherapy and for which no further effective standard therapy exists.

I5. Evaluable or as per iRANO criteria.

I6. Performance status (See Appendix 01):

  1. PS for pediatric patients ≥16 years of age ≥ 70%;
  2. Lansky PS for patients between 12 and 15y: ≥ 70%;
  3. PS for adult patients: 0 or 1.

I7. ≥ 3 months.

I8. Adequate end organ function according to laboratory values defined below :

Hematologic criteria :

  • Peripheral (ANC) ≥1.5 G/L (without growth factor support within 7 days)
  • count ≥ 100 G/L (unsupported for > 7 days)
  • ≥ 9.0 g/dL (unsupported for > 7 days)

Renal and hepatic function :

  • Creatinine
  • Adult patient: as per > 30 mL/min/1.73 m²
  • Pediatric patients: Creatinine \<1.5 for age or an estimated glomerular filtration rate (GFR) > 60 mL/min/1.73m2 GFR based on the Schwartz equation (Mian and Schwartz 2017) or as per institutional guidelines
  • Total ≤1.5 x ULN (≤ 3.0 × ULN for patients with Gilbert's syndrome)
  • (ALAT) ≤ 3 x ULN; aspartate aminotransferase (ASAT) ≤ 3 x ULN Coagulation function : (PT)/international normalized ratio (INR) and partial thromboplastin time (PTT) or activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT) ≤ 1.5 x ULN. Patients on chronic anticoagulation therapy who do not meet the criteria above may be eligible to enrol after discussion with the Sponsor.

I9. Adequate cardiac function defined by (LVEF) ≥50% at baseline.

I10. Adequate pulmonary function as per investigator judgment and no pleural effusion. Pleural effusion managed with indwelling pleural catheter (e.g, PleurX) are allowed.

I11. Availability of a representative formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) sample of tumor tissue (resection or biopsy, archival) with an associated pathology report must be available. This tumor sample must meet the following quality/quantity control criteria: ≥30 % of tumor cells.

I12. Patients must have discontinued all previous anti-cancer treatments (approved or ) for CNS treatment with respect of at time of C1D1 as shown below:

  • Cytotoxic and myelosuppressive chemotherapy : ≥21 days (or ≥42 days if prior nitrosourea)
  • Metronomic chemotherapy regimen : ≥21 days or ≥5 half-lives of the treatment with the longest half-life (whichever is shorter)
  • Targeted agent : ≥21 days or ≥5 half-lives (whichever is shorter)
  • Cellular therapy : ≥42 days for any type of cellular therapy (e.g. modified T cells, NK cells, dendritic cells) agent
  • Antibody therapy : ≥21 days after the last infusion except for bevacizumab for which a wash out period of 3 months is requested
  • Radiotherapy :
  • ≥14 days since small port radiation therapy (i.e. local palliative)
  • ≥84 days since large-field radiation therapy (i.e. TBI, craniospinal, whole abdominal, total lung, ≥50% or greater pelvic radiation, ≥50% marrow space)
  • ≥42 days for other substantial bone marrow radiation
  • Surgery : Major surgery ≥ 21 days. Gastrostomy, ventriculo-peritoneal shunt, endoscopic ventriculostomy, tumor biopsy and insertion of central venous access devices are not considered major surgery, but for these procedures, a 48-hour interval must be maintained before C1D1

I13. Women of must have a negative serum pregnancy test within 7 days prior C1D1 and must agree to use highly effective measures starting with the Screening Visit through 6 months after the last dose of study drugs and to not breastfeed during this period. Highly effective contraception is defined in Appendix 02.

I14. Sexually active male must agree to use adequate and appropriate contraception while on study drugs and for 6 months after stopping the study drugs.

I15. Ability to understand and sign and willingness to comply with the study procedures before study entry and written informed consent from parents/legal representative, patient, and age-appropriate assent before any study-specific screening procedures are conducted according to local, regional or national guidelines.

I16. Covered by a medical insurance.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

E1. Diagnosis of non-CNS tumor.

E2. Diagnosis of diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma.

E3. Current treatment with bevacizumab.

E4. Prior treatment with a DLL3-directed therapy. Note: Prior treatment with TMZ is not an exclusion criteria.

E5. Neurologically unstable or require increasing doses of during the 7 days before C1D1 or local CNS-directed therapy to control their CNS disease. Note: Patients on low doses of corticosteroids (\< 0.25mg/kg/d of prednisolone or equivalent) during the 7 days prior to receiving study drugs are eligible.

E6. Evidence of Grade > 1 recent CNS hemorrhage on the baseline MRI scan.

E7. Bulky tumor on imaging defined as:

i. Tumor with any evidence of uncial herniation or severe midline shift ii. Tumor with diameter of > 6 cm in one dimension on contrast-enhanced MRI iii. Tumor that in the opinion of the investigator shows significant mass effect.

E8. Impairment of gastrointestinal (GI) function or GI disease that may significantly alter drug absorption of oral drugs e.g., ulcerative diseases, uncontrolled nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, or malabsorption syndrome)

E9. History of abdominal fistula, gastrointestinal perforation, or intra-abdominal abscess within 6 months prior to C1D1.

E10. , uncontrolled heart disease (including history of any cardiac arrhythmias, e.g., ventricular, supraventricular, nodal arrhythmias, or conduction abnormality within 6 months of C1D1).

E11. Other unless this malignancy is not expected to interfere with the evaluation of study endpoints (basal or squamous cell carcinoma of the skin, in-situ carcinoma of the cervix, localized prostate cancer), or with no evidence of disease for ≥ 2 years.

E12.History of hypophysitis or pituitary dysfunction.

E13.History of severe allergic or other reactions to

  • chimeric or humanized antibodies or fusion proteins,
  • biopharmaceuticals produced in Chinese hamster ovary cells,
  • or any component of the tarlatamab formulation.

E14.Known hypersensitivity to any study drug or component of the formulation or to dacarbazine or TMZ.

E15.Acute and ongoing toxicities from previous therapy that have not resolved to Grade ≤1, except for alopecia, neuropathy, ototoxicity and lab values presented in inclusion criteria.

E16.Arterial thrombosis or a history of pulmonary embolism who need anticoagulants.

E17.Evidence of interstitial lung disease or active, non-infectious pneumonitis.

E18.Recurrent pneumonitis (grade 2 or higher) or grade≥3 immune-mediated adverse events or infusion-related reactions including those that lead to permanent discontinuation while on treatment with immuno-oncology agents.

E19. injection within 4 weeks before C1D1. Examples of live vaccines include, but are not limited to, the following: measles, mumps, rubella, chicken pox, yellow fever and BCG. Seasonal influenza vaccines for injection are generally killed virus vaccines and are allowed; however intranasal influenza vaccines (e.g. Flu-Mist®) are live attenuated vaccines, and are not allowed.

E20. Active disease or history of autoimmune disease that required systemic treatment within 2 years of the start of study treatment (i.e., with use of disease-modifying agents or drugs).

E21. Documentation of:

▪ Active (chronic or acute; defined as having a positive hepatitis B surface antigen [HBsAg] test at screening) unless their HBV is stably controlled on nucleoside analogs (eg entecavir or tenofovir) which will be continued for the duration of the study.

Note: Patients with past hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection or resolved HBV infection (defined as the presence of hepatitis B core antibody [anti-HBc] and absence of HBsAg) are eligible. HBV DNA test must be performed in these patients prior to C1D1.

  • Active . Patients positive for hepatitis C virus (HCV) antibody are eligible only if PCR is negative for HCV RNA, or
  • infection

E22. Prior organ or bone marrow transplant

E23. History or current evidence of any condition, co-morbidity, therapy, any active infections, or laboratory abnormality that might confound the results of the study, interfere with the patient's participation for the full duration of the study, or is not in the best interest of the patient to participate, in the opinion of the treating Investigator.

E24. Pregnant or breastfeeding women.

Terms in these criteria, in plain language(33)

Underlined terms in the criteria open these too. Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.

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.

Biopsy and archival tissue

A biopsy takes a small piece of tissue to examine. “Archival tissue” is a sample already taken, for example at diagnosis, and kept by the hospital.

Whether a stored sample will do depends on when it was taken, how much there is and what the study needs. Ask whether the study accepts your stored sample or needs a new biopsy.

Line of therapy

A line of therapy is one course of treatment, which may combine several drugs. First-line is the first course given; second-line follows when that stops working or is not tolerated.

“Two prior lines” means two courses that count separately under the study’s rules — not simply two drugs. Ask the study team if you are unsure how yours are counted.

Relapsed and refractory

Relapsed: the illness came back after treatment had worked. Refractory: it did not respond to treatment, or stopped responding while still on it.

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.

Karnofsky performance status (KPS)

A 0–100 scale of how well someone can carry out everyday activities. 100 is no complaints and no signs of illness; 70 is able to look after yourself but not to work or keep up normal activity; 50 is needing considerable help and frequent medical care.

Studies often ask for 60 or 70 and above. Your doctor gives the score.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

LVEF (left ventricular ejection fraction)

The share of blood the heart’s main pumping chamber (the left ventricle) pushes out with each beat, measured by an echocardiogram (heart ultrasound) or a MUGA scan. About 50–70% is normal.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 1 / Phase 2
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Non-randomized
Intervention model
Sequential assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
70 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Patients with IDH-mutant glioma

    Patients must have histologically confirmed diagnosis of central nervous system (CNS) malignant tumor: IDH-mutant high-grade glioma, other high-grade glioma or other high-grade CNS tumors.

    Drug: Tarlatamab · Drug: Temozolomide (TMZ)

  • Experimental
    Patients with other glioma

    Patients must have histologically confirmed diagnosis of central nervous system (CNS) malignant tumor: IDH-mutant high-grade glioma, other high-grade glioma or other high-grade CNS tumors.

    Drug: Tarlatamab · Drug: Temozolomide (TMZ)

  • Experimental
    Patients with other CNS tumors

    Patients must have histologically confirmed diagnosis of central nervous system (CNS) malignant tumor: IDH-mutant high-grade glioma, other high-grade glioma or other high-grade CNS tumors.

    Drug: Tarlatamab · Drug: Temozolomide (TMZ)

Interventions

  • At the starting dose (DL1): All patients will receive a step dose (1 mg) on C1D1 administered as a 60-minute intravenous (IV) infusion then 10mg at C1D8 and C1D15 of tarlatamab single agent (no temozolomide administered during cycle 1) then tarlatamab at 10mg every D1 \& D15 of each 4-week cycle thereafter in combination with temozolomide from C2D1. At DL-1: a cycle period will be 6 weeks with tarlatamab administration every 3 weeks after Cycle 1.

  • At DL1 : Metronomic temozolomide will not be administered during the first cycle. It will be administered from the first day of the second cycle, at a dose of 50 mg/m²/day, continuously. At DL-1 : Metronomic temozolomide will not be administered during the first cycle. It will be administered from the first day of the second cycle, at a dose of 50 mg/m²/day, continuously.

    Also known as: Temodal

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Phase I : Dose limiting toxicities (DLT) assessed as related at least to tarlatamab, occurring during the first 2 cycles of treatment

    Dose limiting toxicities (DLT) defined as the following adverse event (AE) graded according to NCI CTCAE V5.0 or specific grading system for ICANS and CRS, assessed as related at least to tarlatamab, occurring during the first 2 cycles of treatment (i.e. DLT period is 8 weeks for DL1 or 12 weeks if DL-1 is investigated) : - Any Grade 4 non-laboratory toxicity (including CRS). * Any Grade 3 non-laboratory toxicity (including CRS) lasting \>7 days despite optimal supportive care and with the following exceptions: Grade 3 fatigue, Grade ≥ 3 Diarrhea/Vomiting/Nausea adequately managed with supportive care measures within 14 days. * Grade ≥ 3 ICANS. * Any Grade 3 or Grade 4 laboratory value if medical intervention is required or the abnormality persists for \>1 week. * Febrile neutropenia Grade ≥ 3 * Grade 4 anemia * Any Grade 5 toxicity (i.e., toxic death) * Any other significant toxicity deemed by the investigator and/or member of the steering meeting to be dose limiting.

    Time frame: From Cycle 1 Day 1 to week 8

  2. Phase II : To assess the clinical activity of the proposed therapeutic strategy in 3 parallel and independent cohorts of CNS tumors (IDH-mutant glioma, other glioma and other CNS tumors).

    Objective response rate at 12 weeks (ORR-12W) according to immunotherapy Response Assessment for Neuro-Oncology (iRANO) criteria

    Time frame: 12 weeks from the date of first study drug administration (Cycle 1 Day 1)

Secondary outcomes

  1. Evaluation of the Duration of Response (DoR)

    Time frame: From the time of first documented response (Complete Response or Partial Response as per iRANO) until the first documented disease progression or death due to underlying cancer, or censored at the date of the last available tumor assessment

  2. Evaluation of the time to objective response (ToR)

    Time to objective Response is defined as time to first documented objective response (Complete Response or Partial Response as per iRANO) following Cycle 1 Day 1

    Time frame: From Cycle 1 Day 1 to first documented objective response

  3. Evaluation of Disease Control Rate (DCR)

    Disease Control Rate (DCR) will be calculated as the percentage of patients who achieve complete response, partial response, or at least six months of stable disease.

    Time frame: From enrollment to the end of treatment at 12 months

  4. Evaluation of Progression-Free Survival (PFS)

    Progression-Free Survival will be measured from C1D1 to the date of the first disease progression or death and will be estimated using the Kaplan-Meier method.

    Time frame: From Cycle 1 Day 1 to the date of the first disease progression or death

  5. Evaluation of Overall Survival (OS)

    Overall survival will be estimated using the Kaplan-Meier method.

    Time frame: From Cycle 1 Day 1 to the date of death from any cause

  6. To collect nature, incidence and severity of Adverse Events graded using Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) V5.0 or specific grading system for ICANS and CRS [safety and tolerability]

    To characterize the safety and tolerability profile of the proposed therapeutic strategy

    Time frame: From enrollment to the end of treatment at 12 months

Other outcomes

  1. To identify biomarkers predictive of tumor response including DLL3 expression during treatment using descriptive statistics and appropriate multivariate models

    Exploratory analyses in tumor will be performed in an effort to understand the association of DLL3 expression with treatment response. Exploratory data will be summarized using descriptive statistics (e.g. N, medians, inter-quartile range, and mean, standard deviation, minimum and maximum for continuous variables and frequency counts and percentages for categorical variables). The relationship between biomarker and efficacy variables will be assessed using appropriate multivariate models.

    Time frame: From enrollment to the end of treatment at 12 months

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Study locations

8 of 12 sites recruiting
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References and documents

Publications

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  • Farago A.et al. dynamics of DLL3 and ASCL1 expression in SCLC over disease course. J Thorac Oncol. 2018; 13: S970-S971
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No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Sep 14, 2026, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Key details

Study ID
NCT07243470
Lead sponsor
Centre Leon Berard
Collaborators
Amgen, National Cancer Institute, France
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Nov 24, 2025
Start date
Nov 4, 2025
Primary completion
Oct 2029 (estimated)
Completion
Oct 2030 (estimated)
Last update
Sep 14, 2026

Study contacts

Pierre LEBLOND, MD, PhD
Contact
pierre.leblond@ihope.fr
+33469166550
Aurélien MAUREILLE, MD
Contact
aurelien.maureille@lyon.unicancer.fr
+33469166645

Oversight

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