A Phase 2 interventional study of Tarlatamab in Small-cell Lung Cancer, sponsored by AIO-Studien-gGmbH. Recruiting at 8 sites in Germany. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-10-26.
Sponsored by AIO-Studien-gGmbH · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment
The SPACE-T study is a clinical trial for people with advanced small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) whose cancer has returned or spread despite previous treatment and whose general health is reduced (ECOG performance status 2). The study will include 57 participants at about 15 sites in Germany.
The study is testing tarlatamab, a treatment that helps the immune system recognize and attack cancer cells. Participants will receive tarlatamab through a vein, starting with a lower dose of 1 mg, followed by doses of 10 mg. Treatment will then generally be given every two weeks.
The main purpose of the study is to find out how effective tarlatamab is in this group of patients by assessing how many participants are alive 12 months after starting the study. The study will also examine how well the treatment controls the cancer, including cancer that has spread to the brain, how well participants tolerate the treatment, its side effects, and its impact on quality of life.
Patients with poorer general health are often not included in clinical trials, even though they represent an important part of the people treated for SCLC in everyday clinical practice. The SPACE-T study aims to provide more information about whether tarlatamab is effective and feasible for these patients.
The SPACE-T study is a phase II clinical trial investigating the treatment tarlatamab in people with advanced small-cell lung cancer (SCLC). The study focuses specifically on patients whose cancer has returned or spread after previous treatment and whose general health and ability to carry out everyday activities are reduced (ECOG performance status 2). This patient group is often underrepresented in clinical trials, although it represents an important part of patients treated for SCLC in routine clinical practice.
A total of 57 patients are planned to participate at approximately 15 study sites in Germany. To take part, patients must be at least 18 years old and have confirmed small-cell lung cancer that has returned or spread to other parts of the body. They must have received at least one previous treatment for recurrent or metastatic disease. In general, previous treatment should have included platinum-based chemotherapy, etoposide and a PD-L1 inhibitor. Patients must also have cancer that can be measured on imaging examinations.
Patients with brain metastases may also participate in the study. However, patients cannot take part if brain metastases are causing new or worsening neurological symptoms. There are also other eligibility requirements relating, for example, to blood counts, liver and kidney function, breathing problems and previous cancer treatments. Patients who have previously received a treatment targeting DLL3 cannot participate.
All participants in the study will receive tarlatamab; there is no placebo or comparison group. Tarlatamab is a type of immunotherapy designed to bring the body's T cells into contact with cancer cells that carry a protein called DLL3. This is intended to help the immune system recognize and attack the cancer cells.
Tarlatamab is given through a vein. To reduce the risks associated with starting treatment, patients first receive a lower dose of 1 mg on the first day of treatment. They then receive the full 10 mg dose one week later and again one week after that. Afterwards, tarlatamab is generally given every two weeks.
The main aim of the SPACE-T study is to determine how effective tarlatamab is in this patient population. The main measure used for this assessment is the proportion of patients who are alive 12 months after starting the study. Other assessments will look at how long patients live overall, how long the cancer remains under control, how many patients have a reduction in the size of their cancer, and how long it takes before another cancer treatment is needed. For patients with brain metastases, the study will also examine how well the treatment controls cancer in the brain.
Another important aim is to understand whether tarlatamab can be given safely and practically to patients whose general health is reduced. The study will therefore closely assess side effects and how well patients tolerate treatment. It will also evaluate patients' quality of life and symptoms using questionnaires completed by the patients themselves. In addition, the study will investigate whether palliative radiotherapy, for example for symptomatic cancer lesions, can be incorporated into treatment with tarlatamab.
Blood samples and, where available as part of routine care, tumor tissue samples will also be collected for research. These samples will be used to study changes in the immune system during treatment and to investigate whether early immune responses may be related to how well a patient's cancer responds to tarlatamab.
Tarlatamab can cause specific immune-related side effects. These include cytokine release syndrome (CRS), an inflammatory reaction caused by activation of the immune system, and neurological side effects such as immune effector cell-associated neurotoxicity syndrome (ICANS). One reason for conducting the SPACE-T study is to obtain more information about the feasibility, safety and effectiveness of tarlatamab in patients with poorer general health, for whom there is currently limited clinical evidence.
Overall, the SPACE-T study aims to determine whether tarlatamab is an effective and feasible treatment option for patients with advanced small-cell lung cancer and reduced performance status, a population that more closely reflects many patients seen in everyday clinical practice.
1,301 studies on the registry are indexed under Small Cell Lung Carcinoma; 367 are open to participants now.
This study's planned enrollment of 57 is close to the median of 56 across 1,077 interventional studies indexed under Small Cell Lung Carcinoma.
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Exclusion Criteria:
Bone marrow insufficiency:
Advanced liver disease:
Subjects with pre-existing chronic liver disease:
iii. Total > 1.5xULN or iv. or AST > 3xULN
v. Total bilirubin > 3xULN or vi. ALT or AST > 10xULN c. (INR) > 2.0 and partial thromboplastin time (PTT) or activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT) ≥ 1.5 x , except for subjects undergoing new class anticoagulant therapy (eg, Apixaban, Rivaroxaban, Edoxaban) with stable dose for 2 weeks prior to enrollment
Advanced kidney disease:
GFR \<20 ml/min/1.73m²
Female subjects of childbearing potential
Male subjects
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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 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.
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.
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.
Cancer that has spread from where it began to other parts of the body. “Metastatic” cancer is cancer that has spread this way.
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.
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.
A reason a treatment, test or procedure should not be given to a particular person, such as an allergy, another illness or a medicine they take.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Metastases
Cancer that has spread from where it began to other parts of the body. “Metastatic” cancer is cancer that has spread this way.
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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.
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.
Contraindication
A reason a treatment, test or procedure should not be given to a particular person, such as an allergy, another illness or a medicine they take.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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).
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
Participants receive tarlatamab intravenously at a step dose of 1 mg on Cycle 1 Day 1, followed by the target dose of 10 mg on Cycle 1 Day 8 and Cycle 1 Day 15, and every two weeks thereafter.
Drug: Tarlatamab
Tarlatamab is administered intravenously at a step dose of 1 mg on Cycle 1 Day 1, followed by a target dose of 10 mg on Cycle 1 Day 8 and Cycle 1 Day 15, and every two weeks thereafter.
Overall Survival Rate at 12 Months
Percentage of participants who are alive 12 months after initiation of study treatment.
Time frame: 12 months
Overall Survival (OS)
Time from initiation of study treatment to death from any cause.
Time frame: From initiation of study treatment until death from any cause, assessed up to 48 months
Progression-Free Survival (PFS)
(PFS) Time from initiation of study treatment to disease progression or death from any cause, whichever occurs first.
Time frame: From initiation of study treatment until the date of first documented disease progression or death from any cause, whichever occurs first, assessed up to 48 months
Objective Response Rate (ORR)
Percentage of participants with an objective tumor response according to RECIST v1.1.
Time frame: From initiation of study treatment until documented disease progression, assessed up to 48 months
Intracranial Objective Response Rate (iORR)
Percentage of participants with brain metastases who achieve an objective intracranial tumor response.
Time frame: From initiation of study treatment until documented intracranial disease progression, assessed up to 48 months
Rate of Participants Tolerating Tarlatamab Until First Disease Assessment
percentage of participants who are able to continue tarlatamab treatment until the first scheduled disease assessment
Time frame: From first dose until first scheduled disease assessment after 2 months
Safety and Tolerability of Tarlatamab
Incidence and severity of adverse events during treatment with tarlatamab.
Time frame: rom first dose of tarlatamab through the protocol-defined safety follow-up period, assessed up to 48 months
Time to Next-Line Systemic Therapy
Time from initiation of study treatment to initiation of the next systemic anticancer therapy.
Time frame: From initiation of study treatment until initiation of the next-line systemic anticancer therapy, assessed up to 48 months
Quality of Life - EORTC QLQ-C30
Changes in patient-reported quality of life as assessed using the EORTC QLQ-C30 questionnaire. Scores are transformed to a scale ranging from 0 to 100. Higher scores on the global health status/quality of life scale and functional scales indicate better quality of life and functioning, respectively, whereas higher scores on symptom scales indicate greater symptom burden and worse outcomes.
Time frame: From baseline through treatment and follow-up, assessed up to 48 months
Patient-Reported Symptoms - PRO-CTCAE
Patient-reported symptomatic adverse events assessed using the PRO-CTCAE questionnaire. Individual items are scored on a scale from 0 to 4 for symptom frequency, severity, amount, and interference with daily activities, or from 0 to 1 for symptom presence (absence/presence). Higher scores indicate more frequent or severe symptoms, greater symptom burden, or greater interference with daily activities, reflecting worse outcomes.
Time frame: From baseline through treatment and follow-up, assessed up to 48 months
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Started Jan 2025 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Jul 2027, 30 months after the start.
Of 150 non-industry phase 2 interventional studies under Small Cell Lung Carcinoma, half reached primary completion within 53 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 36 and three quarters within 87. This study's planned 30 months is below that.
Counting every sponsor, half of 203 studies reached it within 47 months; a quarter within 29 and three quarters within 84.
Primary completion moved once since we started tracking on Sep 25, 2026: Dec 2027 → Jul 2027, on Oct 26, 2026.
Earlier changes are on the record history on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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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