Safety and Efficacy of Lenvatinib (E7080/MK-7902) in Combination With Pembrolizumab (MK-3475) Versus Lenvatinib as First-line Therapy in Participants With Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma (MK-7902-002/E7080-G000-311/LEAP-002)
Carcinoma, Hepatocellular
About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Carcinoma, Hepatocellular focused on measuring receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitor, programmed cell death 1 (PD-1, PD1), programmed cell death ligand 1 (PD-L1, PDL1), programmed cell death ligand 2 (PD-L2, PDL2)
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Is male or female and ≥18 years of age at the time of signing the informed consent
- Has a diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma confirmed by radiology, histology, or cytology
- Has Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer (BCLC) Stage C disease, or BCLC Stage B disease not amenable to locoregional therapy or refractory to locoregional therapy, and not amenable to a curative treatment approach
- Has a Child-Pugh class A liver score
- Has a predicted life expectancy of >3 months
- Has at least one measurable hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) lesion based on RECIST 1.1 as confirmed by BICR
- Has an Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status (PS) of 0 to 1
- Participants with hepatitis B will be eligible as long as their virus is well controlled
Exclusion Criteria:
- Has had esophageal or gastric variceal bleeding within the last 6 months
- Has gastrointestinal malabsorption, gastrointestinal anastomosis, or any other condition that might affect the absorption of lenvatinib
- Has a preexisting Grade ≥3 gastrointestinal or non-gastrointestinal fistula
- Has clinically significant hemoptysis from any source or tumor bleeding within 2 weeks prior to the first dose of study intervention
- Has significant cardiovascular impairment within 12 months of the first dose of study intervention such as history of congestive heart failure greater than New York Heart Association (NYHA) Class II, unstable angina, myocardial infarction or cerebrovascular accident stroke, or cardiac arrhythmia associated with hemodynamic instability
- Has had major surgery to the liver within 4 weeks prior to the first dose of study intervention
- Has had a minor surgery (ie, simple excision) within 7 days prior to the first dose of study intervention
- Has serious non-healing wound, ulcer, or bone fracture
- Has received any systemic chemotherapy for HCC or chemotherapy for any malignancy in the past 3 years
- Has received prior therapy with an anti-programmed cell death 1 (ant-PD-1), anti-programmed cell death ligand 1 (anti-PD-L1), or anti- programmed cell death ligand 2 (anti-PD-L2) agent or with an agent directed to another stimulatory or co-inhibitory T-cell receptor (eg, cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-associated protein 4 [CTLA-4], OX-40, or CD137)
- Has a diagnosis of immunodeficiency or is receiving chronic systemic steroid therapy or any other form of immunosuppressive therapy within 7 days prior the first dose of study intervention
- Has a known additional malignancy that is progressing or has required active treatment within the past 3 years with the exceptions of basal cell carcinoma of the skin, squamous cell carcinoma of the skin, or carcinoma in situ (eg, breast carcinoma, cervical cancer in situ) that has undergone potentially curative therapy
- Has a known history of, or any evidence of, central nervous system (CNS) metastases and/or carcinomatous meningitis as assessed by local site investigator
- Has severe hypersensitivity (≥Grade 3) to study intervention and/or any of their excipients
- Has an active autoimmune disease that has required systemic treatment in past 2 years
- Has a history of (non-infectious) pneumonitis that required steroids or has current pneumonitis
- Has urine protein ≥1 grams/24 hours
- Prolongation of corrected QT (QTc) interval to >480 milliseconds (corrected by Fridericia Formula)
- Has left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) below the institutional normal range as determined by multigated acquisition scan (MUGA) or echocardiogram (ECHO)
- Has an active infection requiring systemic therapy with the exceptions of hepatitis B virus (HBV) or hepatitis C virus (HCV)
- Has a known history of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection
- Has known active tuberculosis (Bacillus tuberculosis)
- Has a history or current evidence of any condition, therapy, or laboratory abnormality that might confound the results of the study, interfere with the participant's participation for the full duration of the study, or is not in the best interest of the participant to participate, in the opinion of the treating investigator
- Has a known psychiatric or substance abuse disorder that would interfere with the participant's ability to cooperate with the requirements of the study
- Is pregnant or breastfeeding or expecting to conceive or father children within the projected duration of the study, starting with the screening visit through 120 days after the last dose of study intervention
- Has had an allogenic tissue/solid organ transplant
Sites / Locations
- The University of Arizona Cancer Center - North Campus ( Site 0621)
- City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center ( Site 0587)
- Scripps Health ( Site 0644)
- Pacific Hematology Oncology Associates ( Site 0588)
- UCLA ( Site 0589)
- Georgetown University ( Site 0594)
- University of Miami, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center ( Site 0596)
- Advent Health ( Site 0595)
- Tampa General Medical Group ( Site 0629)
- Emory University Winship Cancer Institute ( Site 0639)
- University of Kansas Cancer Center ( Site 0600)
- Massachusetts General Hospital ( Site 0603)
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center ( Site 0716)
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai ( Site 0611)
- University of Rochester ( Site 0613)
- Stony Brook University Medical Center - Cancer Center ( Site 0612)
- University of Oklahoma Health Science Center ( Site 0625)
- Oregon Health & Science University ( Site 0645)
- Eastern Regional Medical Center, Inc. ( Site 0626)
- Central Texas Veterans Healthcare System ( Site 0617)
- Cancer Care Northwest ( Site 0636)
- Royal Prince Alfred Hospital ( Site 0001)
- Princess Alexandra Hospital ( Site 0007)
- Monash Health-Monash Medical Centre ( Site 0004)
- St Vincents Hospital Melbourne ( Site 0003)
- Liverpool Hospital. ( Site 0002)
- BC Cancer-Vancouver Center ( Site 0056)
- London Health Sciences Centre ( Site 0053)
- Sunnybrook Research Institute ( Site 0055)
- Princess Margaret Cancer Centre ( Site 0050)
- McGill University Health Centre ( Site 0052)
- Clinica Universidad Catolica del Maule ( Site 0065)
- Fundacion Arturo Lopez Perez ( Site 0064)
- Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile ( Site 0070)
- Instituto Clinico Oncologico del Sur ( Site 0067)
- First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University ( Site 0095)
- Cancer Hospital Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences ( Site 0100)
- Beijing Cancer Hospital ( Site 0088)
- 900 Hospital of the Joint ( Site 0091)
- Guangdong General Hospital ( Site 0092)
- Southern Medical University Nanfang Hospital ( Site 0102)
- Harbin Medical University Cancer Hospital ( Site 0089)
- Wuhan Union hospital Cancer Center ( Site 0105)
- Hunan Cancer Hospital ( Site 0094)
- The Third Xiangya Hospital of Central South University ( Site 0093)
- The 81st Hospital of PLA ( Site 0085)
- Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center ( Site 0086)
- The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi an Jiaotong University ( Site 0090)
- West China Hospital of Sichuan University ( Site 0087)
- Affiliated Tumor Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University ( Site 0109)
- The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University ( Site 0097)
- Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital ( Site 0110)
- Zhejiang Cancer Hospital ( Site 0101)
- Zhongshan Hospital Fudan University ( Site 0096)
- Fundacion Centro de Investigacion Clinica CIC ( Site 0141)
- Hospital Pablo Tobon Uribe ( Site 0144)
- Hospital General de Medellin Luz Castro de Gutierrez ( Site 0137)
- Biomelab S A S ( Site 0145)
- Administradora Country SA - Clinica del Country ( Site 0146)
- Instituto Nacional de Cancerologia E.S.E ( Site 0142)
- Fundacion Valle del Lili ( Site 0140)
- Centro Medico Imbanaco de Cali S.A ( Site 0139)
- Institut Sainte Catherine ( Site 0167)
- Hopital Beaujon ( Site 0160)
- CHU Henri Mondor ( Site 0162)
- CHRU de Lille - Hopital Claude Huriez ( Site 0159)
- Hopital de la Croix Rousse ( Site 0157)
- Hopital Saint Joseph ( Site 0166)
- Centre Hospitalier Regional du Orleans ( Site 0169)
- Centre Eugene Marquis ( Site 0158)
- CHU de Nancy Hopital Brabois Adultes ( Site 0164)
- Klinikum der Universitaet Aachen - RWTH ( Site 0185)
- Universitaetsklinikum Carl Gustav Carus der TU Dresden ( Site 0178)
- Universitaetsklinikum Essen ( Site 0188)
- Universitaetsklinikum Frankfurt ( Site 0180)
- Universitaetsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf ( Site 0184)
- Universitaetsklinik Koeln ( Site 0189)
- Universitaetsklinikum Leipzig ( Site 0187)
- Otto-Von-Guericke-Universitaet Magdeburg ( Site 0182)
- Universitaetsklinikum Tuebingen ( Site 0179)
- Universitaetsklinikum Wuerzburg ( Site 0186)
- St Vincents University Hospital ( Site 0242)
- Mater Misericordiae University Hospital ( Site 0241)
- Ospedale Sacro Cuore - Don Calabria ( Site 0289)
- Centro di Riferimento Oncologico de Aviano Istituto Nazionale Tumori ( Site 0292)
- Policlinico S. Orsola-Malpighi ( Site 0286)
- Istituto Oncologico Veneto ( Site 0287)
- Az Osp Univ Policlin Paolo Giaccone ( Site 0284)
- Fondazione Salvatore Maugeri IRCCS. ( Site 0290)
- Azienda Ospedaliero-Univers. Pisana Ospedale S. Chiara ( Site 0291)
- Policlinico Universitario Campus Biomedico ( Site 0288)
- Aichi Cancer Center Hospital ( Site 0316)
- National Cancer Center Hospital East ( Site 0306)
- Kurume University Hospital ( Site 0322)
- Hokkaido P.W.F.A.C Sapporo-Kosei General Hospital ( Site 0304)
- Kanazawa University Hospital ( Site 0315)
- Kagawa University Hospital ( Site 0324)
- Kagawa Prefectural Central Hospital ( Site 0325)
- Toranomon Hospital Kajigaya ( Site 0312)
- Yokohama City University Medical Center ( Site 0313)
- Kanagawa Cancer Center ( Site 0314)
- Kindai University Hospital ( Site 0319)
- Kyorin University Hospital ( Site 0309)
- Musashino Red Cross Hospital ( Site 0310)
- Chiba University Hospital ( Site 0305)
- National Hospital Organization Kyushu Medical Center ( Site 0321)
- Hiroshima University Hospital ( Site 0320)
- Osaka Red Cross Hospital ( Site 0317)
- Saga-Ken Medical Centre Koseikan ( Site 0323)
- National Cancer Center Hospital ( Site 0307)
- Toranomon Hospital ( Site 0311)
- The University of Tokyo Hospital ( Site 0308)
- Wakayama Medical University Hospital ( Site 0318)
- Seoul National University Bundang Hospital ( Site 0464)
- Seoul National University Hospital ( Site 0462)
- Yonsei University Severance Hospital ( Site 0463)
- Asan Medical Center ( Site 0460)
- Samsung Medical Center ( Site 0461)
- Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion Salvador Zubiran ( Site 0363)
- Hospital Civil de Guadalajara Fray Antonio Alcalde ( Site 0365)
- Centro de Investigacion Medica Aguascalientes ( Site 0355)
- Medical Care and Research S.A. de C.V. ( Site 0359)
- CRYPTEX Investigacion Clinica S.A. de C.V. ( Site 0362)
- Oaxaca Site Management Organization S.C. ( Site 0366)
- Unidad Medica Oncologica ( Site 0369)
- Auckland City Hospital ( Site 0376)
- Christchurch Hospital ( Site 0377)
- Wojewodzki Szpital Specjalistyczny nr 4 w Bytomiu ( Site 0419)
- Szpital Wojewodzki w Koszalinie im. Mikolaja Kopernika ( Site 0421)
- ID Clinic ( Site 0431)
- Ars Medical Sp. z o.o. ( Site 0433)
- MTZ Clinical Research Sp. z o. o. ( Site 0427)
- Narodowy Instytut Onkologii im. Marii Sklodowskiej-Curie ( Site 0418)
- N.N. Blokhin NMRCO ( Site 0439)
- First Moscow State Medical University n.a. I.M.Sechenov ( Site 0453)
- Railway Hospital of OJSC ( Site 0447)
- City Clinical Oncology Center ( Site 0446)
- Krasnoyarsk Regional Clinical Oncological Dispensary ( Site 0450)
- Pyatigorsk Oncology Dispensary ( Site 0441)
- Hospital Universitari Vall d Hebron ( Site 0508)
- Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro ( Site 0513)
- Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Maranon ( Site 0504)
- Hospital Universitario Ramon y Cajal ( Site 0514)
- Hospital Universitario La Paz ( Site 0510)
- Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago ( Site 0506)
- Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocio ( Site 0509)
- Hospital Universitario y Politecnico La Fe de Valencia ( Site 0505)
- Kaohsiung Medical University Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital ( Site 0529)
- China Medical University Hospital ( Site 0527)
- Taichung Veterans General Hospital ( Site 0526)
- National Cheng Kung University Hospital ( Site 0528)
- National Taiwan University Hospital ( Site 0523)
- Taipei Veterans General Hospital ( Site 0524)
- Chang Gung Medical Foundation. Linkou ( Site 0525)
- Siriraj Hospital. Mahidol Univerisity ( Site 0213)
- Songklanagarind Hospital ( Site 0214)
- Chiang Mai University Maharaj Nakorn Chiang Mai Hospital ( Site 0211)
- Adana Sehir Hastanesi ( Site 0549)
- Hacettepe Uni. Tip Fakultesi ( Site 0553)
- Abdurrahman Yurtaslan Onkoloji Hastanesi ( Site 0551)
- Akdeniz Universitesi Tip Fakultesi ( Site 0548)
- Trakya Universitesi Tip Fakultesi ( Site 0544)
- Erzurum Ataturk University Faculty of Medicine ( Site 0546)
- Bezmi Alem Universitesi Tıp Fakultesi ( Site 0547)
- Necmettin Erbakan Universitesi Meram Tip Fakultesi ( Site 0550)
- Inonu Universitesi Medical Fakultesi ( Site 0545)
- Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust ( Site 0567)
- Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust ( Site 0565)
- The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust ( Site 0573)
- The Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre ( Site 0566)
- The Christie NHS Foundation Trust ( Site 0575)
- Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust ( Site 0569)
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Experimental
Active Comparator
lenvatinib plus pembrolizumab
lenvatinib plus placebo
Participants receive lenvatinib 12 mg (for participants with screening body weight ≥60 kg) or 8 mg (for participants with screening body weight <60 kg) orally once a day (QD) plus pembrolizumab 200 mg by intravenous (IV) infusion on Day 1 of each 21-day cycle (Q3W). Pembrolizumab will be administered for up to 35 cycles (approximately 24 months). Lenvatinib will be administered until progressive disease or unacceptable toxicity.
Participants receive lenvatinib 12 mg (for participants with screening body weight ≥60 kg) or 8 mg (for participants with screening body weight <60 kg) orally QD plus saline placebo by IV infusion on Day 1 Q3W. Saline placebo will be administered for up to 35 cycles (approximately 24 months). Lenvatinib will be administered until progressive disease or unacceptable toxicity.