Table 1:
Ongoing clinical trials of immunotherapies for non-small-cell lung cancer
| Intervention | Study design | Estimated enrolment (n) | Stage | Main eligibility requirements | Endpoints | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| START | Liposomal BLP25 or placebo | Phase 3 randomised, double-blind placebo-controlled | 1476 | Unresectable stage III | Stable disease or objective response after primary chemoradiotherapy. Two or more cycles of platinum-based chemotherapy, ≥50 Gy radiation chemotherapy, ≥50 Gy radiation | Primary: OS. Secondary: time to symptom progression, time to disease progression, 1, 2, and 3 year survival, safety |
| INSPIRE | Liposomal BLP25 or placebo | Phase 3 randomised, double-blind placebo-controlled | 420 | Unresectable stage III | Stable disease or objective response after primary chemoradiotherapy. Two or more cycles of platinum-based chemotherapy, ≥50 Gy radiation | Primary: OS. Secondary: time to symptom progression, time to disease progression, PFS, time to treatment failure, safety |
| STOP | Belagenpumatucel-L or placebo | Phase 3 randomised, double-blind placebo-controlled | 506 | Unresectable stage III or IV | Stable disease or objective response after primary platinum-based chemoradiotherapy | Primary: OS. Secondary: PFS, quality of life, time to progression, objective response, response duration, rate of CNS metastases development, safety |
| MAGRIT | MAGE-A3 vaccine or placebo | Phase 3 randomised, double-blind placebo-controlled | 2270 | Completely resected, stage IB, II, or IIIA | Tumour expresses MAGE-A3 gene. | Primary: disease-free survival. Secondary: lung-cancer-specific survival, OS, anti-MAGE-A3 and anti-protein D seropositivityrate, adverse events |
| Randomised trial of ipilimumab in squamous cell lung cancer | Ipilimumab, carboplatin, paclitaxel or placebo, carboplatin, and paclitaxel | Phase 3 randomised,double-blind placebo-controlled | 920 | Stage IV or recurrent | Squamous cell histology | Primary: OS. Secondary: PFS, objective response |
| FORTIS-M | Talactoferrin or placebo | Phase 3 randomised, double-blind placebo-controlled | 720 | Stage IIIB or IV | Progressive disease after two or more previous systemic therapies | Primary: OS. Secondary: PFS, objective response, disease stabilisation rate, safety |
| FORTIS-C | Talactoferrin, carboplatin, paclitaxel or placebo, carboplatin, paclitaxel | Phase 3 randomised, double-blind placebo-controlled | 1100 | Stage IIIB or IV | No previous systemic anti-cancer therapy for non-small-cell lung cancer | Primary: OS, PFS. Secondary: objective rate, disease stabilisation rate, safety |
MAGE=melanoma-associated antigen. PFS=progression-free survival. OS=overall survival.