Study of the Safety, Tolerability, Pharmacokinetics and Efficacy of Pembrolizumab (MK-3475) in Chinese Participants With Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer (MK-3475-032/KEYNOTE-032)
Condition: Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer
MeSH terms: Lung Neoplasms; Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung
Intervention: Pembrolizumab
Intervention description: IV infusion
Intervention MeSH terms: Pembrolizumab
Phase: Phase 1
Study type: Interventional
Primary purpose: Treatment
Allocation: Randomized
Intervention model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Enrollment: 44.0
Sex: All
Minimum age: 18 Years
Healthy volunteers: No
Keywords: programmed cell death 1 (PD-1, PD1); programmed cell death ligand 1 (PD-L1, PDL1); programmed cell death ligand 2 (PD-L2, PDL2)

Summary:

      The purpose of this study is to assess the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics (PK) and
      efficacy of three doses of pembrolizumab (MK-3475) in adult Chinese participants with locally
      advanced or metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

      Cycle 1 is 28 days long; subsequent cycles are 21 days long.
    

Eligibility criteria:

        Inclusion Criteria:

          -  Is of the Chinese race (i.e., Chinese descent born in China) and has a Chinese home
             address.

          -  Has a life expectancy of at least 3 months.

          -  Has histologically-/cytologically-confirmed, advanced unresectable NSCLC and has
             measurable disease based on Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors version 1.1
             (RECIST 1.1) as determined by the site.

          -  Has failed established standard medical anti-cancer therapies or has been intolerant
             to such therapy, or in the opinion of the investigator have been considered ineligible
             for any form of standard therapy on medical grounds.

          -  Has a score of 0 or 1 on the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) Performance
             Status within 3 days prior to the first dose of study drug.

          -  Has adequate organ function.

          -  Female participants of childbearing potential must be willing to use an adequate
             method of contraception for the course of the study through 120 days after the last
             dose of study drug.

          -  Male participants of childbearing potential must agree to use an adequate method of
             contraception, starting with the first dose of study drug through 120 days after the
             last dose of study drug.

        Exclusion Criteria:

          -  Has had chemotherapy, radioactive, or biological cancer therapy within 4 weeks prior
             to the first dose of study therapy pembrolizumab, or who has not recovered to National
             Cancer Institute Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) Grade 1 or
             better from the AEs due to cancer therapeutics administered more than 4 weeks earlier.

          -  Is currently participating and receiving study therapy or has participated in a study
             of an investigational agent and received study therapy or used an investigational
             device within 4 weeks of the first dose of study drug.

          -  Is expected to require any other form of antineoplastic therapy while on study
             (including maintenance therapy with another agent for NSCLC).

          -  Has a medical condition that requires chronic systemic steroid therapy or on any other
             form of immunosuppressive medication.

          -  Has a known history of a hematologic malignancy, primary brain tumor or sarcoma, or of
             another primary solid tumor, unless the participant has undergone potentially curative
             therapy with no evidence of that disease for 5 years.

          -  Has known central nervous system metastases and/or carcinomatous meningitis.
             Participants with previously treated brain metastases may participate provided they
             are stable.

          -  Has a history of (non-infectious) pneumonitis that required steroids or has current
             pneumonitis.

          -  Has active autoimmune disease that has required systemic treatment in past 2 years
             (i.e., with use of disease modifying agents, corticosteroids or immunosuppressive
             drugs).

          -  Had prior treatment targeting PD-1: PD-L1 axis or cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-associated
             protein, or was previously randomized in any pembrolizumab study. Examples of such
             agents include (but are not limited to): Nivolumab (BMS-936558, MDX-1106 or ONO-4538);
             Pidilizumab (CT-011); AMP-224; BMS-936559 (MDX-1105); MPDL3280A (RG7446); and
             MEDI4736.

          -  Has an active infection requiring systematic therapy.

          -  Is positive for Human Immunodeficiency Virus.

          -  Has known active Hepatitis B or C.

          -  Has known psychiatric or substance abuse disorders that would interfere with
             cooperation with the requirements of the study.

          -  Has received or will receive a live vaccine within 30 days prior to the first
             administration of study drug.

          -  Is at the time of signing informed consent, a regular user (including "recreational
             use") of any illicit drugs or had a recent history (within the last year) of substance
             abuse (including alcohol).

          -  Is pregnant or breastfeeding, or expecting to conceive or father a child within the
             projected duration of the study, starting with the screening visit (Visit 1) through
             120 days after the last dose of pembrolizumab.