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. 2021 Sep 1;11:705614. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2021.705614

Table 2.

Ongoing immunotherapy trials in Recurrent/Metastatic HNSCC*.

NCT Trial name Phase Experimental Arm Control Arm Primary Endpoint
Adjuvant immunotherapy after surgical resection of recurrent HNSCC
 04671667 ECOG 3191 II 1. Adjuvant Reirradiation plus Pembrolizumab
2. Adjuvant Pembrolizumab monotherapy
Reirradiation plus platinum Overall Survival
 03355560 II Neoadjuvant and adjuvant Nivolumab plus Lirilumab Disease-Free Survival
 03406247 II 1. Adjuvant Nivolumab
2. Adjuvant Nivolumab plus Ipilimumab
Disease-Free Survival
 03355560 II Adjuvant Nivolumab Toxicity
 02769520 II Adjuvant Pembrolizumab Disease-Free Survival
Reirradiation plus immunotherapy
 03546582 KEYSTROKE II SBRT reirradiation plus Pembrolizumab SBRT alone Progression-Free Survival
 02289209 II Hyperfractionated reirradiation plus Pembrolizumab Progression-Free Survival
 03521570 II Re-irradiation plus Nivolumab (definitive or adjuvant) Progression-Free Survival
 03803774 I BAY1895344 plus SBRT and Pembrolizumab Toxicity
Frontline Systemic Therapy Trials (PD-L1 positive)
Combination immunotherapy
 04634825 II Enoblituzumab plus Retifanlimab Response Rate
 04633278 II CMP-001 plus pembrolizumab Response Rate
 04260126 VERSATILE002 II PDS0101 plus pembrolizumab Response Rate
 04398524 II Cemiplimab plus ISA101b Cempilimab + Placebo Response Rate
 04034225 I/II SNS-301 Intra-tumor injection + Pembrolizumab Toxicity
 04453046 I Hemopurifier plus pembrolizumab Safety
 04408898 SPEARHEAD 2 II ADP-A2M4 plus pembrolizumab Response Rate
Molecularly targeted therapy plus immunotherapy
 04199104 LEAP-010 III Pembrolizumab plus Lenvatinib Pembrolizumab plus Placebo Overall Survival, Response Rate, Progression-Free Survival
 04114136 II 1. Metformin plus Pembrolizumab
2. Rosiglitazone plus Pembrolizumab
Pembrolizumab Response Rate
Frontline Systemic Therapy Trials (regardless of PD-L1 status)
Combination immunotherapy
 02741570 Checkmate 651 III Ipilimumab plus Nivolumab EXTREME Overall Survival
 04634825 II Enoblituzumab plus tebotelimab (PD-L1 negative) Response rate
Molecularly targeted therapy plus immunotherapy
 03468218 II Pembrolizumab plus Cabozantinib Response Rate
 03498378 I Avelumab plus Cetuximab plus Palbociclib Toxicity
Cytotoxic chemotherapy plus immunotherapy
 04489888 KEYNOTE B10 IV Pembrolizumab plus Platinum plus Paclitaxel ORR
 04282109 NIVOTAX II Paclitaxel plus Nivolumab Paclitaxel plus cetuximab Overall Survival
Immunotherapy failure trials
Immunotherapy Combination
 04590963 INTERLINK-1 III Monalizumab + Cetuximab Placebo + Cetuximab Overall survival
 04326257 II 1. Nivolumab plus Relatlimab
2. Nivolumab plus Ipilimumab
Response Rate
 04150900 II Pembrolizumab plus Bavituximab Response Rate
 04408898 II ADP-A2M4 T cells plus pembrolizumab Response Rate
 03769467 I/II Tabelecleucel plus pembrolizumab Toxicity/Response Rate
 04196283 I 1.ABBV-368 plus Tilsotolimod plus Nab-paclitaxel plus ABBV-181
2. ABBV-368 plus Tilsotolimod plus Nab-paclitaxel 3. ABBV-368 plus Tilsotolimod
Toxicity
Molecular targeted therapy plus Immunotherapy
 04428151 LEAP-009 II Pembrolizumab plus Lenvatinib 1. Chemotherapy (Taxane, cetuximab, or capecitabine)
2. Lenvatinib
Response Rate
 03019003 I/II Decitabine plus Durvalumab Toxicity/Response Rate
 04624113 I/II Tazemetostat plus Pembrolizumab Toxicity/Response Rate

*Trials included are those that are focused entirely in HNSCC.