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NCT02303990
RADVAX: A Stratified Phase I Trial of Pembrolizumab With Hypofractionated Radiotherapy in Patients With Advanced and Metastatic Cancers
Phase 1 trial testing Pembrolizumab in Metastatic Cancers in 59 participants. Completed in 31 December 2019.
1 December 2018
Quick facts
| Lead sponsor | Abramson Cancer Center at Penn Medicine |
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| Phase | Phase 1 |
| Status | Completed |
| Study type | INTERVENTIONAL |
| Allocation | na |
| Design | single group |
| Masking | none |
| Primary purpose | treatment |
| Enrollment | 59 |
| Start date | 8 January 2015 |
| Primary completion | 1 December 2018 |
| Estimated completion | 31 December 2019 |
| Sites | 1 location across United States |
Drugs / interventions tested
- Pembrolizumab (pembrolizumab) — full drug profile →
- Radiotherapy — full drug profile →
Conditions studied
- Metastatic Cancers — all drugs for Metastatic Cancers →
Sponsor
Abramson Cancer Center at Penn Medicine — full company profile →
Who can join
18 and older, any sex, with Metastatic Cancers. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.
What's being measured
Primary outcomes are the specific endpoints the trial is designed to prove or disprove.
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Number of Adverse Events
Time frame: 2 years
Sponsor's own description
Phase I clinical trial of hypofractionated radiotherapy to an isolated index lesion in combination with the PD-1 inhibitor, Pembrolizumab in patients with metastatic cancers who have failed anti-PD-1 therapy (melanoma and NSCLC) and patients with metastatic cancers who have have progressed after at least one regimen of systemic therapy (breast, pancreas, and other).
Publications & conference data
8 peer-reviewed publications reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):
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Challenges and Opportunities for Pancreatic Cancer Immunotherapy.
Bear AS, Vonderheide RH, O'Hara MH. · · 2020 · cited 500× · PMID 32946773 · DOI 10.1016/j.ccell.2020.08.004 -
Improvement of the anticancer efficacy of PD-1/PD-L1 blockade via combination therapy and PD-L1 regulation.
Wu M, Huang Q, Xie Y, Wu X, et al · · 2022 · cited 336× · PMID 35279217 · DOI 10.1186/s13045-022-01242-2 -
Current clinical trials testing the combination of immunotherapy with radiotherapy.
Kang J, Demaria S, Formenti S. · · 2016 · cited 293× · PMID 27660705 · DOI 10.1186/s40425-016-0156-7 -
Targeting immune checkpoints in breast cancer: an update of early results.
Solinas C, Gombos A, Latifyan S, Piccart-Gebhart M, et al · · 2017 · cited 122× · PMID 29177095 · DOI 10.1136/esmoopen-2017-000255 -
The Abscopal Effect of Radiation Therapy: What Is It and How Can We Use It in Breast Cancer?
Hu ZI, McArthur HL, Ho AY. · · 2017 · cited 115× · PMID 28344743 · DOI 10.1007/s12609-017-0234-y -
The clinical promise of immunotherapy in triple-negative breast cancer.
Vikas P, Borcherding N, Zhang W. · · 2018 · cited 111× · PMID 30573992 · DOI 10.2147/cmar.s185176 -
Radiation-induced neoantigens broaden the immunotherapeutic window of cancers with low mutational loads.
Lussier DM, Alspach E, Ward JP, Miceli AP, et al · · 2021 · cited 109× · PMID 34099555 · DOI 10.1073/pnas.2102611118 -
Combination of immunotherapy with chemotherapy and radiotherapy in lung cancer: is this the beginning of the end for cancer?
Lazzari C, Karachaliou N, Bulotta A, Viganó M, et al · · 2018 · cited 91× · PMID 29662546 · DOI 10.1177/1758835918762094
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Verify against primary sources
- ClinicalTrials.gov — authoritative US registry record
- WHO ICTRP — international registry index
- EU Clinical Trials Register
- Sponsor press releases (Google)
- Trial protocol + status: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT02303990 (US National Library of Medicine, public domain)
- Publications: Europe PMC API search by NCT ID, retrieved 10 June 2026
- Drug + disease cross-links: matched in real time against Drug Landscape's normalised drug + company + condition tables
- Sponsor: as reported to ClinicalTrials.gov by Abramson Cancer Center at Penn Medicine
- Last refreshed: 23 April 2021
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