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IMAGE: Dr. O Dwyer is co-leading the largest precision medicine cancer clinical trial to date, NCI-MATCH, with 39 single-arm phase II treatment arms. Researchers are locating patients for the 12 remaining arms. view more
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The NCI-Molecular Analysis for Therapy Choice (NCI-MATCH) cancer clinical trial is expanding with the opening of a new treatment arm. The addition, Arm Z1M, is a single-arm phase II study of a two-drug combination, relatlimab and nivolumab, both immunotherapies. To be eligible, patients must have mismatch repair deficiency on genomic testing and tumors that express the
LAG-3 protein, a cancer immunotherapy target. The cancer must also have progressed on anti-PD-1/PD-L1 immunotherapy. The addition brings the number of available treatment arms in NCI-MATCH to 12. The ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group (ECOG-ACRIN) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, are co-leading
Phase 3 DREAM3R trial opens for malignant pleural mesothelioma
The DREAM3R phase three clinical trial is now enrolling patients with newly diagnosed unresectable malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) throughout the US, Australia, and New Zealand. The DREAM3R study builds on signals of effectiveness found in independent single-arm phase two trials, PrE0505 and DREAM. These trials evaluated durvalumab immunotherapy during and after standard chemotherapy.
DREAM3R will determine if concurrent chemo-immunotherapy can improve outcomes in malignant pleural mesothelioma, especially for the majority of patients with the epithelioid subtype. Both the DREAM and PrE0505 phase 2 trials showed remarkable results in MPM with the combination of chemotherapy and durvalumab, and warrant confirmation in a randomized phase 3 trial.