A Phase 1/2 interventional study of ASP388B and Pembrolizumab in Locally Advanced or Metastatic Solid Tumors, sponsored by Astellas Pharma Global Development, Inc.. Recruiting at 4 sites in 2 countries. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-10-26.
Sponsored by Astellas Pharma Global Development, Inc. (part of Astellas Pharma Inc) · Phase 1/2, Interventional, and Treatment
Among 1,098 studies in Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Head and Neck with a site in United States — 216 open to participants now, 346 under way, 28 of them phase 3. Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Head and Neck · United States.
Among the 1,098 studies in Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Head and Neck with a site in United States, this one is the 60th largest by planned enrollment of the 992 interventional ones that give a count, is one of 59 that started in 2026, is one of 157 in phase 1/2, reaches primary completion later than 306 of the 345 other live ones, and was the 1,078th registered.
2,019 studies on the registry are indexed under Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Head and Neck; 573 are open to participants now.
Browse Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Head and Neck studies →216 of the 1,098 studies in Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Head and Neck with a site in United States are open now. Recruiting first, the newest first:
National Cancer Institute (NCI) · Sites in United States
Ages 18+
University of Miami · Sites in United States
Ages 18+
National Cancer Institute (NCI) · Sites in United States
Ages 18–120
Mayo Clinic · Sites in United States
Ages 18+
Aktis Oncology, Inc. · Sites in United States
Ages 18+
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Of the 433 Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Head and Neck studies recruiting now, 309 (71%) set no upper age limit and 87 (20%) stop at 75 or younger; 5 take children under 18; 13 take healthy volunteers.
This study: 18 Years and older · all sexes · no healthy volunteers.
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1,098 studies; the count open now beside each. This study's row is marked.
A study in two phases is counted once above. Listed by phase, each with its combined phases: Phase 1 518 · Phase 2 528 · Phase 3 83 · Phase 4 4
First in 1988; this study’s year is marked. 59 started in 2026.
By drug class, each counting the studies that test any of its medicines:
This study's planned enrollment of 392 is above the median of 48 across 1,653 interventional studies indexed under Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Head and Neck.
Median enrollment 41 across the 992 interventional studies, 130 across the 63 observational. Of the 690 that completed or were terminated, 288 (42%) have results posted.
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420 of 1,098 have an industry lead sponsor. The 10 most frequent:
This study is registered under Astellas Pharma Global Development, Inc., one of the names counted as Astellas Pharma Inc. Under that name alone:
Astellas Pharma Global Development, Inc. is the lead sponsor of 207 studies on the registry; 23 are open to participants now.
Of its 82 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 38 (46%) have results posted.
Astellas Pharma Inc has 3 studies filed under Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Head and Neck — fewer than ten, so there is no comparison to draw.
107 of the studies in Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Head and Neck with a site in United States that are under way reach primary completion within a year, 2 of them phase 3. Phase 3 first, then by date:
| Study | Primary completion |
|---|---|
| NCT06998069Phase 3Brown UniversityHead and Neck Cancer Study Project in the Geriatric Population | 2026-12-01 |
| NCT06064877Phase 3AVEO Pharmaceuticals, Inc.A Study of Ficlatuzumab in Combination With Cetuximab in Participants With Recurrent or Metastatic (R/M) HPV Negative Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma | 2027-08 |
| NCT04965792Dana-Farber Cancer InstitutePost-treatment Surveillance in HPV+ Oropharyngeal SCC | 2026-11 |
| NCT05600842University of California, IrvineDe-escalated Radiation for Human Papillomavirus-Positive Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Oropharynx | 2026-11 |
| NCT02955290Roswell Park Cancer InstituteCIMAvax Vaccine, Nivolumab, and Pembrolizumab in Treating Patients With Advanced Non-small Cell Lung Cancer or Squamous Head and Neck Cancer | 2026-11-25 |
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Among the 1,098 studies in Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Head and Neck with a site in United States, from their registry updates:
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This is an early development study of ASP388B in people with solid tumors. In this study, ASP388B will be given to people for the first time. It will be given by itself or together with standard cancer therapies. The main aims of the study are to check the safety of ASP388B and find the most suitable dose.
This study will be in 2 parts. In Part 1, different small groups of people with solid tumors will receive lower to higher doses of ASP388B. Some groups will receive ASP388B by itself, and other groups will receive ASP388B with standard cancer therapies. Any medical problems will be recorded for each dose. This is to find suitable doses of ASP388B to use in Part 2 of the study, and to include the tumor types that responded well to ASP388B.
In Part 2, other different small groups of people with the specific tumor types (from Part 1) will receive the most suitable doses worked out from Part 1. Some groups will receive ASP388B by itself, and other groups will receive ASP388B with standard cancer therapies.
In both parts of the study, ASP388B will be given once in 3-week cycles. The standard cancer therapies will be given according to their approved label. ASP388B and the standard cancer therapies will be given slowly through a tube into a vein. This is called an infusion.
In both parts of the study, health checks will be done at each visit, and the doctors will continue to check for medical problems throughout the study.
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.
For the ASP388B monotherapy dose escalation (excluding the tumor-specific backfill participants), the following criteria apply:
For mCRPC
For sqNSCLC
For SCLC
For the ASP388B 2L+HNSCC monotherapy dose expansion (including the tumor-specific backfill participants from the monotherapy dose escalation), the following criteria apply:
Participant has histologically or cytologically confirmed HNSCC.
Participant has progressed, relapsed or discontinued treatment due to toxicity after local guidelines/SOC regimen for locally advanced or metastatic disease, and has received ≤ 3 prior lines of anticancer therapy in the locally advanced or metastatic setting.
For the ASP388B 2L+ESCC monotherapy dose expansion (including the tumor-specific backfill participants from the monotherapy dose escalation), the following criteria apply:
Participant has histologically or cytologically confirmed ESCC.
Participant has progressed, relapsed or discontinued treatment due to toxicity after local guidelines/SOC regimen for locally advanced or metastatic disease, and has received ≤ 3 prior lines of anticancer therapy in the locally advanced or metastatic setting.
For the ASP388B 1L HNSCC (Excluding NPC and Salivary Gland Tumors) combination therapy dose escalation and expansion (including the tumor-specific backfill participants from combination therapy dose escalation), the following criteria apply: (ASP388B + Pembrolizumab + Carboplatin + 5-FU):
Participant has histologically or cytologically confirmed HNSCC excluding nasopharyngeal cancer (NPC) and salivary gland tumors.
For the ASP388B 1L ESCC combination therapy dose escalation and expansion (including the tumor-specific backfill participants from combination therapy dose escalation), the following criteria apply: (ASP388B + Pembrolizumab + Oxaliplatin + 5-FU):
Participant has histologically or cytologically confirmed ESCC.
For the ASP388B 1L ESCC combination therapy dose escalation and expansion
Female participant is not pregnant and at least 1 of the following conditions apply:
Exclusion Criteria:
Participant has any of the following:
Participant has active or prior or inflammatory disorders requiring systemic therapy within the past 2 years including inflammatory skin conditions, inflammatory bowel disease (e.g., ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease), diverticulitis (with the exception of diverticulosis), celiac disease, systemic lupus erythematosus, Sarcoidosis syndrome, Wegener syndrome (granulomatosis with polyangiitis), Graves' disease, rheumatoid arthritis, hypophysitis or uveitis. The following are exceptions to this criterion:
Participant has a known additional malignancy that requires active treatment, with the exception of any of the following:
Participant has cardiac disease, defined as any of the following:
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.
Cancer that has spread from where it began to other parts of the body. “Metastatic” cancer is cancer that has spread this way.
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.
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.
Relapsed: the illness came back after treatment had worked. Refractory: it did not respond to treatment, or stopped responding while still on it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
HER2 is a protein, made from the ERBB2 gene, that drives the growth of some cancers. A study may look for a level of the protein, extra copies of the gene, or a particular change in it.
In breast cancer, protein tests are read as HER2-positive, HER2-low or HER2-negative; other cancers use their own rules. Check which test result the study requires.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
On an ECG, the QT interval is the time the heart’s lower chambers take to activate electrically and recover in each beat. QTc is that time adjusted for heart rate (QTcF by Fridericia’s formula, QTcB by Bazett’s). Some medicines lengthen it, and a long QTc can raise the risk of a dangerous heart rhythm.
The study may name a correction formula and a limit in milliseconds, often around 450–480.
The New York Heart Association’s four classes of how much heart failure limits physical activity.
Studies set their own limit — many outside heart failure leave out class III–IV, while heart failure studies may ask for a particular class. Check the class this study names.
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.
A “mini-stroke”: temporary stroke-like symptoms caused by reduced blood flow to part of the brain, spinal cord or eye, without signs of a new stroke on a scan.
Stroke symptoms need emergency care at once, even if they go away.
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: long-term lung disease that makes it hard to breathe out, including emphysema and chronic bronchitis.
CYP3A is a group of enzymes, mainly CYP3A4, in the liver and gut that break down many medicines. Some medicines, supplements and foods (grapefruit, St John’s wort) slow them down or speed them up, which changes how much of a study drug stays in the body.
Studies list them so they can be avoided or switched; bring a list of everything you take, including supplements.
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.
Metastases
Cancer that has spread from where it began to other parts of the body. “Metastatic” cancer is cancer that has spread this way.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
HER2
HER2 is a protein, made from the ERBB2 gene, that drives the growth of some cancers. A study may look for a level of the protein, extra copies of the gene, or a particular change in it.
In breast cancer, protein tests are read as HER2-positive, HER2-low or HER2-negative; other cancers use their own rules. Check which test result the study requires.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
QT and QTc
On an ECG, the QT interval is the time the heart’s lower chambers take to activate electrically and recover in each beat. QTc is that time adjusted for heart rate (QTcF by Fridericia’s formula, QTcB by Bazett’s). Some medicines lengthen it, and a long QTc can raise the risk of a dangerous heart rhythm.
The study may name a correction formula and a limit in milliseconds, often around 450–480.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
NYHA class (heart failure)
The New York Heart Association’s four classes of how much heart failure limits physical activity.
Studies set their own limit — many outside heart failure leave out class III–IV, while heart failure studies may ask for a particular class. Check the class this study names.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
TIA (transient ischaemic attack)
A “mini-stroke”: temporary stroke-like symptoms caused by reduced blood flow to part of the brain, spinal cord or eye, without signs of a new stroke on a scan.
Stroke symptoms need emergency care at once, even if they go away.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
COPD
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: long-term lung disease that makes it hard to breathe out, including emphysema and chronic bronchitis.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
CYP3A (CYP3A4) inhibitors and inducers
CYP3A is a group of enzymes, mainly CYP3A4, in the liver and gut that break down many medicines. Some medicines, supplements and foods (grapefruit, St John’s wort) slow them down or speed them up, which changes how much of a study drug stays in the body.
Studies list them so they can be avoided or switched; bring a list of everything you take, including supplements.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Participants with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) \[including nasopharyngeal cancer (NPC)\], esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC), metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer(mCRPC), squamous non-small cell lung cancer (sqNSCLC) or small cell lung cancer (SCLC) will receive the dose based on the assigned dose level of ASP388B in 21-day cycles.
Drug: ASP388B
Participants with HNSCC excluding NPC, will receive ASP388B in 21-day cycles with dose level(s) selected from dose escalation.
Drug: ASP388B
Participants with ESCC will receive ASP388B in 21-day cycles with dose level(s) selected from dose escalation.
Drug: ASP388B
Participants with HNSCC excluding NPC and salivary gland tumors will receive ASP388B in 21-day cycles at dose level(s) based on emerging data.
Drug: ASP388B · Drug: Pembrolizumab · Drug: Carboplatin · Drug: 5-fluorouracil
Participants with ESCC will receive ASP388B in 21-day cycles at dose level(s) based on emerging data.
Drug: ASP388B · Drug: Pembrolizumab · Drug: Oxaliplatin · Drug: 5-fluorouracil
Participants with HNSCC excluding NPC and salivary gland tumors will receive ASP388B in 21-day cycles at dose level(s) based on emerging data.
Drug: ASP388B · Drug: Pembrolizumab · Drug: Carboplatin · Drug: 5-fluorouracil
Participants with ESCC will receive ASP388B in 21-day cycles at dose level(s) based on emerging data.
Drug: ASP388B · Drug: Pembrolizumab · Drug: Oxaliplatin · Drug: 5-fluorouracil
Intravenous infusion
Intravenous infusion
Intravenous infusion
Intravenous infusion
Intravenous infusion
Number of Participants with Dose Limiting Toxicities (DLTs)
A DLT is defined as any event meeting the DLT criteria occurring within 21 days of first dose on Cycle 1 Day 1 (C1D1) that cannot clearly be attributed to a cause other than ASP388B administered in monotherapy or in combination with standard treatments.
Time frame: Up to 21 days after C1D1
Number of Participants with Treatment-Emergent Adverse Events (TEAEs)
An AE is any untoward medical occurrence in a patient or clinical study participant, temporally associated with the use of study intervention, whether or not considered related to the study intervention. NOTE: An AE can therefore be any unfavorable and unintended sign (including an abnormal laboratory finding), symptom or disease (new or exacerbated) temporally associated with the use of study intervention. This includes events related to the comparator, if applicable, and events related to the (study) procedures. A TEAE is an AE with onset at any time from first dosing until last scheduled procedure.
Time frame: Up to 45 months
Number of participants with laboratory value abnormalities and/or adverse events (AEs)
Number of participants with potentially clinically significant laboratory values.
Time frame: Up to 45 months
Number of participants with vital sign abnormalities and/or AEs
Number of participants with potentially clinically significant vital sign values.
Time frame: Up to 45 months
Number of participants with electrocardiogram (ECG) abnormalities and/or AEs
Number of participants with potentially clinically significant ECG values.
Time frame: Up to 45 months
Number of Participants with Physical Examination (PE) abnormalities and/or AEs
Number of participants with potentially clinically significant PE values.
Time frame: Up to 45 months
Number of Participants at each grade of Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status score
The ECOG scale will be used to assess performance status. Scores range from 0 (fully active) to 5 (dead). Negative change scores represent an improvement. Positive scores represent a decline in performance.
Time frame: Up to 45 months
Objective Response Rate (ORR) of ASP388B per Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) v1.1
ORR is defined as the proportion of participants whose best overall response with confirmation is rated as Complete Response (CR) or Partial Response (PR) per RECIST v1.1 as assessed by investigator. All tumor types except mCRPC.
Time frame: Up to 45 months
Objective Response Rate (ORR) of ASP388B per Prostate Cancer Working Group 3 (PCWG3)
ORR is defined as the proportion of participants whose best overall response with confirmation is rated as Complete Response (CR) or Partial Response (PR) per PCWG3 guidance as assessed by the investigator. mCRPC only.
Time frame: Up to 45 months
Duration of Response (DOR) of ASP388B per RECIST v1.1
DOR is for responders only. DOR is defined as the time from when the measurement criteria is first met for BOR rated as CR or PR (whichever is first recorded) until the first date of documented radiological disease progression by investigator per RECIST v1.1 or death in the absence of progression. All tumor types except mCRPC.
Time frame: Up to 45 months
Duration of Response (DOR) of ASP388B per Prostate Cancer Working Group (PCWG3)
DOR is for responders only. DOR is defined as the time from when the measurement criteria are first met for BOR rated as CR or PR (whichever is first recorded) until the first date of documented radiological disease progression by investigator per PCWG3 guidance or death in the absence of progression. mCRPC only.
Time frame: Up to 45 months
Disease Control Rate (DCR) of ASP388B per RECIST v1.1
DCR is defined as the proportion of participants whose best overall response (BOR) with confirmation is rated as CR, PR or stable disease (SD) per RECIST v1.1 as assessed by the investigator. All tumor types except mCRPC.
Time frame: Up to 45 months
Disease Control Rate of ASP388B per Prostrate Cancer Working Group 3 (PCWG3)
DCR is defined as the proportion of participants whose BOR with confirmation is rated as CR, PR or stable disease (SD) per PCWG3 guidance as assessed by the investigator. mCRPC only.
Time frame: Up to 45 months
Pharmacokinetics (PK) of ASP388B Total Antibody (TAb) in plasma: area under the concentration-time curve at 21 days (AUC21d)
AUC21d will be recorded from the PK plasma samples collected.
Time frame: Up to 12 months
PK of ASP388B TAb in plasma: maximum concentration (Cmax)
Cmax will be recorded from the PK plasma samples collected.
Time frame: Up to 12 months
PK of ASP388B TAb in plasma: trough concentration (Ctrough)
Ctrough will be recorded from the PK plasma samples collected.
Time frame: Up to 12 months
PK of ASP388B TAb in plasma: time of maximum concentration (tmax)
tmax will be recorded from the PK plasma samples collected.
Time frame: Up to 12 months
Change from baseline in CD8 T-cell lymphocytes
CD8 T-cell lymphocytes will be measured from the tumor tissue samples collected.
Time frame: Baseline up to 18 months
Number of Participants with Anti-drug Antibodies (ADA) against ASP388B
ADA will be recorded from the serum samples collected.
Time frame: Up to 16 months
Plan to share: Yes — Access to anonymized individual participant level data collected during the study, in addition to study-related supporting documentation, is planned for studies conducted with approved product indications and formulations, as well as products terminated during development. Studies conducted with product indications or formulations that remain active in development are assessed after study completion to determine if Individual Participant Data can be shared. Further details on Astellas' data sharing policy can be found at https://www.clinicaltrials.astellas.com/transparency/.
Supporting information: Study protocol, Statistical analysis plan, Clinical study report
Time frame: Access to participant level data is offered to researchers after publication of the primary manuscript (if applicable) and is available as long as Astellas has legal authority to provide the data.
Access criteria: Researchers must submit a proposal to conduct a scientifically relevant analysis of the study data. The research proposal is reviewed by an Independent Research Panel. If the proposal is approved, access to the study data is provided in a secure data sharing environment after receipt of a signed Data Sharing Agreement.
Data sharing details ↗ · www.clinicaltrials.astellas.com
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Started Sep 2026 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Feb 2030, 41 months after the start.
Of 93 industry-sponsored phase 1/2 interventional studies under Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Head and Neck, half reached primary completion within 60 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 44 and three quarters within 78. This study's planned 41 months is below that.
Counting every sponsor, half of 138 studies reached it within 61 months; a quarter within 47 and three quarters within 82.
How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.
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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