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. 2020 Aug;32(4):448–466. doi: 10.21147/j.issn.1000-9604.2020.04.03

2. Ongoing clinical trials of immunotherapy and RT in the treatment of BM.

Trial number Phase Tumor type Country Status N (planned) Arm(s) Primary outcomes
RT, radiotherapy; BM, brain metastases; NSCLC, non-small cell lung cancer; RCC, renal cell carcinoma; SRS, stereotactic radiosurgery; WBRT, whole brain radiation therapy. Clinical trials were search on the database https://clinicaltrials.gov/. Clinical trials which are active or recruiting BM patients treated with immunotherapy and RT irrespective of the tumor types were included in Table 2 .
NCT01449279 I Melanoma USA Active, not recruiting 20 Ipilimumab + palliative radiation Safety
NCT02858869 I Melanoma/NSCLC USA Recruiting 30 Pembrolizumab + SRS (30 Gy/5f) Safety
Pembrolizumab + SRS (27 Gy/3f)
Pembrolizumab + SRS (18−21 Gy/1f)
NCT02716948 I Melanoma USA Recruiting 90 Nivolumab + SRS Safety
NCT02696993 I/II NSCLC USA Recruiting 88 Nivolumab + SRS Recommended phase 2 dose; 4-month intracranial Progression-free survival Overall survival rate
Nivolumab + WBRT
Nivolumab + ipilimumab + SRS
Nivolumab + ipilimumab + WBRT
NCT02107755 II Melanoma USA Active, not recruiting NR Ipilimumab + SRS Progression-free survival
NCT02097732 II Melanoma USA Active, not recruiting 40 (a) SRS→ipilimumab Local control rate
(b) Ipilimumab→SRS
NCT02886585 II Any solid tumor USA Recruiting 102 (a) Previously untreated BM Objective response rate; Overall survival rate; Extracranial overall Response rate
(b) Progressive BM
(c) Neoplastic meningitis
(d) 1−4 BM from melanoma
NCT02978404 II NSCLC/RCC Canada Recruiting 60 Nivolumab + SRS Intracranial progression-free survival
NCT03340129 II Melanoma Australia Recruiting 218 Nivolumab + ipilimumab Neurological specific cause of death
Nivolumab + ipilimumab + SRS