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. 2021 Oct 31;10(21):5124. doi: 10.3390/jcm10215124

Table 5.

Currently ongoing clinical trials.

Study Identifier Study Title Status Condition or Disease Therapy RT Scheme Cohort N Planned Primary Outcome Measures Planned Secondary Outcome Measures
NCT03480334 Abscopal Effect of Radiotherapy and Nivolumab in Relapsed Hodgkin Lymphoma After Anti-PD-1 Therapy (AERN) Recruiting Classical Hodgkin lymphoma Nivolumab + RT 20 Gy 29 Abscopal response rate -
NCT03396471 Study of Pembrolizumab and Concurrent Radiation in Patients With Previously Treated Carcinoma of Unknown Primary Recruiting Carcinoma, unspecified site Pembrolizumab + EBRT 20-30 Gy,
5 fr
34 Abscopal response rate Response rate
Assess adverse events
Progression free survival
Overall survival
Time-to-progression
Disease control rate
NCT04238169 Clinical Trial Assessing the Efficacy of Abscopal Effect Induced by SBRT and Immunotherapy in Advanced NSCLC Recruiting Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) (Bevacizumab +) Toripalimab + SBRT 30-50 Gy, 5 fr 60 Objective response rate Progression free survival
Duration of response
Objective response of non-target lesion Overall survival
Incidence of adverse events
Quality of life
NCT04873440 An Open-label, Phase I/II Study of Manganese Plus Radiotherapy in Patients With Metastatic Solid Tumors or Lymphoma Recruiting Solid tumor Manganese Chloride + RT (Chemo-immuno-therapy) standard-of-care RT or SBRT to one metastatic site 10 Proportion of subjects with an abscopal response Disease control rate
Progression free survival
Lymphoma Number of treatment-related adverse events Overall survival
Number of participants with laboratory test abnormalities
NCT04168320 SBRT-based PArtial Tumor Irradiation of HYpoxic Segment (SBRT-PATHY) Recruiting Unresectable malignant solid neoplasm bulky tumors SBRT SBRT-based PArtial Tumor irradiation targeting HYpoxic segment 30 Bystander and abscopal effects Overall survival
Progression free survival
Patient-reported outcome
Incidence of adverse events
Response evaluation criteria in solid tumors
Timing
NCT03449238 Pembrolizumab And Stereotactic Radiosurgery (Srs) Of Selected Brain Metastases In Breast Cancer Patients Recruiting Metastatic breast cancer Pembrolizumab + Stereotactic Radiosurgery n/a 41 Tumor response for non-irradiated brain lesions Number of participants with abscopal response
Brain metastases Correlation of abscopal responses with the radiation dose received
Overall survival
NCT04245514 Multimodality Treatment in Stage III Non-small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) Recruiting Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) Durvalumab + RT 40 Gy, 20 fr 90 Event-free survival Recurrence-free survival after resection
Overall survival
25 Gy, 5 fr Objective response
Pathological complete response
24 Gy, 3 fr Major pathological response
Complete resection
NCT04530708 Addition of Radiotherapy to Standard Medical Treatment for Stage IV NSCLC (MARS) Recruiting Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) Thoracic RT vs. standard of care 36 Gy 162 Difference in quality of life Overall survival
Progression free survival
Toxicity of esophagitis, pneumonitis, dyspnea, fatigue, cough
NCT04212026 Irreversible Electroporation (IRE) Followed by Nivolumab in Patients With Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer. Recruiting Metastatic pancreatic cancer Nivolumab n/a 15 Overall response rate (ORR) of the reference liver metastasis ORR of primary tumor site (pancreas)
ORR of IRE-treated liver metastasis
Progression free survival (PFS)
Overall survival
Adverse events
NCT03474497 IL-2, Radiotherapy, and Pembrolizumab in Patients Refractory to Checkpoint Blockade Recruiting NSCLC, Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, IL-2 + Pembrolizumab + RT 24 Gy,
3 fr, palliative regimen
45 Abscopal response rate Maximum tolerated dose
Metastatic melanoma
Metastatic RCC
NCT03548428 Stereotaxic Body Irradiation of Oligometastase in Sarcoma (Stereosarc) Recruiting Sarcoma Atezolizumab + SBRT 3 to 5 fr depending on tumor size 103 Progression-free survival (PFS) rate PFS by immune response criteria
Ratio PFS after RT/PFS during previous treatment
Objective response rate
Toxicity of treatment
Overall survival
Quality of life
Evaluation of the cost of treatment
Rate of PET-CT at inclusion
Impact of biomarkers on PFS or response rate
Developing mathematical models
NCT03927898 Phase II Study of Toripalimab Plus Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy in Colorectal Cancer Patients With Oligometastasis Recruiting Metastatic colorectal cancer Toripalimab + SBRT SBRT (BED >80Gy) to oligometastatic lesions 40 1 year progression free survival (PFS) Acute adverse events
Objective response rate
2 year local control rate
2 year overall survival
T cell receptor repertoire/T cell clones in blood
Expression of PD-1, Ki-67 on T cell
Expression of PD-L1 on exosomes in blood
Expression of PD-L1 on circulation tumor cell
NCT03774732 PD-1 Inhibitors and Chemotherapy With Concurrent Irradiation at Varied Tumour Sites in Advanced Non-small Cell Lung Cancer (NIRVANA-LUNG) Recruiting Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) Pembrolizumab + Chemotherapy + Radiotherapy at least 18 Gy in 3 fr 460 Overall survival Tumour response
Progression free survival
Local and distant controls in irradiated patients
Pembrolizumab + Chemotherapy Quality of life
Acute/late toxicities
NCT04299646 Study Assessing Stereotactic Radiotherapy in Therapeutic Strategy of Oligoprogressive Renal Cell Carcinoma Metastases (GETUG-StORM-01) Recruiting Metastatic RCC Stereotactic RT + systemic treatment n/a 114 Progression free survival Treatment-related adverse events
Local control rate
Overall control rate
NCT03316872 Study of Pembrolizumab and Radiotherapy in Liver Cancer Recruiting Hepatocellular carcinoma Pembrolizumab + SBRT n/a 30 Overall response rate Response rate in non-irradiated tumor lesions
Progression free survival rate
Overall survival rate
NCT03277482 Durvalumab, Tremelimumab + Radiotherapy in Gynecologic Cancer Recruiting Recurrent gyneco-logical cancer Durvalumab + Tremelimumab + RT n/a 32 Maximum tolerated dose Overall response rate
Metastatic cervical cancer Local response rate
Metastatic ovarian cancer Abscopal response rate
Metastatic vaginal cancer Response duration
Metastatic vulvar cancer Progression free survival
Metastatic endometrial cancer
NCT03085719 Targeting PD-1 Therapy Resistance With Focused High or High and Low Dose Radiation in SCCHN Recruiting Head and neck cancer High dose radiation + Pembrolizumab n/a 26 Overall response rate Overall survival
Progression free survival
Treatment-related adverse events
Immune-related response
Local response
Clinical benefit rate
Abscopal response
NCT03176173 Radical-Dose Image Guided Radiation Therapy in Treating Patients With Metastatic Non-small Cell Lung Cancer Undergoing Immunotherapy Recruiting Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) Immunotherapy + Image Guided RT n/a 85 Progression free survival Change in ctDNA levels
Immune marker levels from peripheral blood
Acute and late toxicity
Overall survival
Patterns of response and progression
Time to discontinuation of study
NCT04221893 Radiation Therapy for the Treatment of Metastatic Gastrointestinal Cancers Recruiting Esophageal adenocarcinoma RT n/a 28 Overall response rate Progression free survival
Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma Overall survival
Determine local control in radiated lesion(s)
Gastric cancer Tumor measurement change
Adenocarcinoma of gastroesophageal junction New metastatic lesions
Adverse events
NCT03385226 A Trial Assessing the Effect of Pembrolizumab Combined With Radiotherapy in Patients With Relapsed, Refractory, Specified Stages of Cutaneous T-cell Lymphoma (CTCL) Mycosis Fungoides (MF)/Sezary Syndrome (SS) (PORT) Recruiting Cutaneous T cell lymphoma Pembrolizumab + RT 12 Gy, 3 fr 46 Overall response (global assessment) Response and duration
Safety and toxicity
Progression free survival
Overall survival
Abscopal effect rate
Changes in immune status
Plasma HMGB-1 levels
Functional analysis of isolated cell populations
Assessment of diversity and clonality of T cells
Immune signatures for responders and non-responders
Tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte-specific neo-antigens
Expression of immunological checkpoints
Investigation of tumor immune microenvironment
NCT02858869 Pembrolizumab and Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Melanoma or Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Brain Metastases Recruiting Metastatic malignant Pembrolizumab + Stereotactic Radiosurgery SRS 6 Gy,
9 Gy or
18–21 Gy
30 Proportion of dose-limiting toxicities Absolute cell counts for pre and post-treatment serum immune biomarkers
Neoplasm in the brain
Metastatic melanoma Overall response
Mucosal melanoma Overall survival
Ocular melanoma Rate of anywhere intra-cranial failure
Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Rate of leptomeningeal disease
Skin melanoma Rate of local recurrence
Melanoma of unknown primary Rate of symptomatic radiation necrosis
NCT02830594 Pembrolizumab and Palliative Radiation Therapy in Treating Patients With Metastatic Esophagus, Stomach, or Gastroesophageal Junction Cancer Active,
not recruiting
Gastric and esophageal adeno-carcinoma EBRT + Pembrolizumab n/a 14 Tumor-infiltrating cytotoxic T cells and circulating cytotoxic T cells Incidence of adverse events
Gastric and esophageal squamous cell carcinoma Immunosuppressive Tregs in non-irradiated sites Overall response rate
Gastroesophageal junction adeno-carcinoma MDSCs in non-irradiated sites Progression free survival
Metastatic malignant neoplasm in the stomach Overall survival
NCT03469713 Nivolumab Plus Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy in II and III Line of Patients With Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma (NIVES) Active,
not recruiting
Metastatic renal cancer Nivolumab + SBRT 30 Gy in 3 consecutive fractions 69 Objective response rate (ORR) Progression free survival
Overall survival
ORR of irradiated and non-irradiated metastases and duration of response
Incidence, nature and severity of adverse event
Analysis of expression of PD-L1
Analysis of the genetic background of tumor
Analysis of the immuno-modulation
Identification of somatic mutations associated with acquired resistance to checkpoint inhibitors
NCT03453892 Investigation of the Timely-coordinated Therapy of Patients With Metastatic Cancer by Radiotherapy Together With Immune Checkpoint Inhibition (ST-ICI) Active,
not recruiting
Metastatic cancer RT + Ipilimumab n/a 150 Systemic and local response of detected metastases Detection of adverse events
Documentation of corticoid prescription
Nivolumab + Pembrolizumab + RT Change of circulating immune cells by deep immunophenotyping Overall survival
Progression free survival
NCT03322384 Phase I/II Trial of Epacadostat, Intralesional SD101, Radiotherapy in Patients With Lymphoma Active,
not recruiting
Advanced solid tumors Epacadostat + SD-101 + RT 24 Gy, 3 fr 20 Maximum tolerated dose Abscopal response rate
Lymphoma 20 Gy, 5 fr Oncidence of treatment-emergent adverse events
NCT03539198 Study of Proton SBRT and Immunotherapy for Recurrent/Progressive Locoregional or Metastatic Head and Neck Cancer Active,
not recruiting
Head and neck cancer Proton SBRT + Nivolumab 35–45 Gy,
5 fr
91 Objective response rate Local control rate, overall survival
Progression free survival
Time to progression
New development of distant metastasis
Quality of Life
Predictive and prognostic biomarker
NCT03042156 Immunotherapy And Palliative Radiotherapy Combined In Patients With Advanced Malignancy Active,
not recruiting
Advanced cancer Palliative RT n/a 30 Number of patients showing toxicity In-field response on imaging and evidence of out of field (abscopal) response
Biomarkers analyses as indicator of abscopal response
Patient-reported outcome
Inflammatory and radiation sensitivity signatures
NCT03483012 Atezolizumab + Stereotactic Radiation in Triple-negative Breast Cancer and Brain Metastasis Active,
not recruiting
Breast cancer Atezolizumab + stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) n/a 45 Progression free survival Extracranial objective response rate
Abscopal response rate
Clinical benefit rate
Overall survival
Patient-reported outcome
Development of radiation necrosis
Assessed neurological evaluation
Dose-limiting toxicity
NCT02888743 Durvalumab and Tremelimumab With or Without High or Low-Dose Radiation Therapy in Treating Patients With Metastatic Colorectal or Non-small Cell Lung Cancer Active,
not recruiting
Metastatic colorectal Tremelimumab + Durvalumab n/a 180 Overall response rate Progression free survival
Overall survival
Objective response
Carcinoma metastatic lung Incidence of adverse events
Tremelimumab + Durvalumab + RT Local control rate and abscopal response rates
Non-Small Cell Carcinoma Prognostic effect of PD-L1 expression
Prognostic effect of T-cell infiltration
Symptomatic adverse events
NCT02587455 Pembrolizumab and Palliative Radiotherapy in Lung (PEAR) Active,
not recruiting
Thoracic tumours Pembrolizumab + RT n/a 48 Toxicity rate Progression free survival rates
Overall survival rates
Duration of clinical benefit
Maximum tolerated dose Response rates
Assessing individual lesion response
Identify biomarkers and correlate with clinical benefit
NCT03601455 Radiation Therapy and Durvalumab With or Without Tremelimumab in Treating Participants With Unresectable, Locally Advanced, or Metastatic Bladder Cancer Active,
not recruiting
Bladder urothelial carcinoma RT + Durvalumab n/a 13 Incidence of adverse events Local control at primary irradiate site
Pathologic complete rate of irradiated tumor
Overall response rate
Abscopal response
Duration of response
Disease-specific survival
RT + Durvalumab + Tremelimumab Progression free survival Overall survival
Incidence of adverse events
Immune cell subsets and PD-L1 in tumor biopsies
Gene signature biomarker
Circulating immune cell subsets
Circulating and tumor-infiltrating T-cell receptor repertoire

Abbreviations: RT: radiotherapy; NSCLC: Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer; fr: fractions; SBRT: stereotactic body radiotherapy; n/a: not available; ORR: overall response rate; IRE: irreversible electroporation; PFS: progression free survival; RCC: renal cell carcinoma; PET-CT: positron emission tomography; CT: computed tomography; BED: radiation biologically effective dose; PD-1: programmed cell death protein 1; PD-L1: PD-1 receptor-ligand 1; ctDNA: circulating tumor DNA; HMGB1: high-mobility group box 1; SRS: stereotactic radiosurgery.