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No longer recruiting (closed or complete)Last updated: 3 February 2025

MERU: This phase III trial is evaluating an experimental drug (Rovalpituzumab tesirine) as a maintenance therapy in patients with extensive stage small cell lung cancerA Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Phase 3 Study of Rovalpituzumab Tesirine as Maintenance Therapy Following First-Line Platinum-Based Chemotherapy in Subjects With Extensive Stage Small Cell Lung Cancer

Trial purpose

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Tumor type

Lung Cancers Lung cancer

Age

People18 - 99

Trial acronym

MERU

Clinical summary

Summary

This is a Phase 3, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multinational, and multicenter study to evaluate the efficacy of rovalpituzumab tesirine as maintenance therapy following first-line platinum-based chemotherapy. In the experimental arm, patients will receive Rovalpituzumab tesirine (0.3mg/kg) / dexamethasone (8mg) every 6 weeks; omitting every third cycle. In the second arm, patients will receive placebo every 6 weeks; omitting every third cycle.

Conditions

This trial is treating people with small cell lung cancer

Eligibility

Inclusion

  • Histologically or cytologically confirmed extensive-stage disease small cell lung cancer (ED SCLC) at initial diagnosis with ongoing clinical benefit (stable disease [SD], partial response [PR], or complete response [CR]) following completion of 4 cycles of first-line platinum-based therapy
  • Participant is eligible to be randomized at least 3 but no more than 9 weeks from Day 1 of the fourth cycle of first-line platinum-based chemotherapy.
  • Participants with a history of central nervous system (CNS) metastases prior to the initiation of first-line platinum-based chemotherapy must have received definitive local treatment and have documentation of stable or improved CNS disease status
  • Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance score of 0 or 1
  • Participants must have adequate bone marrow, renal and hepatic function
  • Availability of archived or representative tumor material for assessment of DLL3 expression

Exclusion

  • Any prior systemic chemotherapy, small molecule inhibitors, immune checkpoint inhibitors, other monoclonal antibodies, antibody-drug conjugates, radioimmunoconjugates, T-cell or other cell-based or biologic therapies, or any other anti-cancer therapy than that described in inclusion criteria for SCLC.
  • Any disease-directed radiotherapy (except prophylactic cranial irradiation, palliative radiotherapy to a radiographically documented non-progressing lesion for symptom control, or pre-planned radiotherapy for CNS metastases present prior to start of first-line therapy and non-progressing) after last dose of first-line chemotherapy.
  • Prior exposure to a pyrrolobenzodiazepine (PBD-based) or indolinobenzodiazepine-based drug, prior participation in a rovalpituzumab tesirine clinical trial, or known hypersensitivity or other contraindications to rovalpituzumab tesirine or excipient contained in the drug formulation.

Inclusion

  • Your cancer has spread to other parts of the body (metastatic) or has grown into nearby parts of the body (locally advanced).

Exclusion

  • You have had certain treatments, surgical procedures or drugs.
  • You are currently being treated on a clinical trial.
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Trial sponsor

AbbVie

Scientific Title

A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Phase 3 Study of Rovalpituzumab Tesirine as Maintenance Therapy Following First-Line Platinum-Based Chemotherapy in Subjects With Extensive Stage Small Cell Lung Cancer

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