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  • Objective:

    Primary Objective:

    • To compare overall survival (OS) in participants previously treated with platinum-based chemotherapy and immunotherapy for Stage IV or recurrent non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) randomized to pembrolizumab and ramucirumab versus standard of care.

    Secondary Objective:

    • To summarize reports of serious and unexpected high-grade (≥ Grade 3) treatment-related adverse events determined by the treating physician within each treatment arm.
    Cancer Categories:
    • Lung
    Principal Investigator:
    • Mamdani, Hirva
    Karmanos Trial ID:
    • S2302
    Age Group:
    • Adult
    Phase:
    • Phase II
  • Objective:

    Primary Objective:

    • To assess whether participants with early stage TNBC randomized to receive
      anthracycline-free, taxane-platinum neoadjuvant chemotherapy with
      pembrolizumab have non-inferior breast cancer event-free survival (BC-EFS)
      compared to participants randomized to taxane-platinum-anthracycline
      neoadjuvant chemotherapy with pembrolizumab.

    Secondary Objectives:

    • To compare pathological complete response (pCR) and residual cancer burden
      (RCB) rates by randomized arm.
    • To compare pCR and RCB rates between randomized arms by tumor infiltrating
      lymphocytes (TIL) status.
    • To compare BC-EFS between randomized arms in the TIL-enriched and non-TIL
      enriched subgroups.
    • To compare distant relapse-free survival and overall survival by randomized arm.
    • To compare invasive breast cancer-free survival after surgery between
      randomized arms in pCR and residual disease groups.
    • To compare the safety and tolerability by randomized arm among those that initiate
      therapy.
    Cancer Categories:
    • Breast
    Principal Investigator:
    • Arjyal, Lubina
    Karmanos Trial ID:
    • S2212
    Age Group:
    • Adult
    Phase:
    • Phase III
  • Objective:

    Primary Objective:

    • To determine if ado-trastuzumab emtansine (T-DM1) shows better progression-free survival (PFS) when compared to docetaxel plus trastuzumab (TH) in recurrent and/or metastatic (R/M) HER2-positive salivary gland cancer (SGC) patients who have not previously received HER2 therapy for unresectable or recurrent and/or metastatic disease, as determined by local assessment.

    Secondary Objectives:

    • To compare the overall response rate (ORR) by RECIST v1.1 criteria between arms;
    • To compare overall survival (OS) between arms;
    • To compare toxicity using CTCAE v5.0 criteria between arms;
    • To assess patient-reported toxicity, as measured by the PRO-CTCAE, between arms, and explore patient-reported symptomatic adverse events (AEs) for tolerability of each treatment arm as measured by the PRO-CTCAE.
    Cancer Categories:
    • Head and Neck
    Principal Investigator:
    • Sukari, Ammar
    Karmanos Trial ID:
    • NRG-HN010
    Age Group:
    • Adult
    Phase:
    • Phase II
  • Objective:

    Primary Objective:

    • To compare the non-inferiority of bilateral salpingectomy (BLS) with delayed oophorectomy to bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy (BSO) to reduce the risk of ovarian cancer among women with deleterious BRCA1 germ-line mutations.

    Secondary Objectives:

    • To prospectively assess estrogen deprivation symptoms in BLS patients as measured by the FACTES sub-scale compared to women in the BSO arm.
    • To determine if health-related QOL (FACT) is negatively impacted by menopausal symptoms (menopausal symptom checklist-MSCL), sexual dysfunction (FSFI), and cancer distress (IES) in women who have undergone BLS, in comparison to normative data (MSCL/FACT-ES) and data from BSO patients.
    • To assess medical decision making, as measured by the Shared Decision Making Questionnaire (SDM-Q-9) and Decision Regret Scale (DRS), and determine factors associated with the risk of reducing surgical treatment choice.
    • To assess adverse events, graded using CTCAE v5.0.
    Cancer Categories:
    • Gynecologic
    Principal Investigator:
    • Winer, Ira
    Karmanos Trial ID:
    • NRG-CC008
    Age Group:
    • Adult
    Phase:
    • N/A
  • Objective:

    Primary Objectives:

    • To assess the safety and tolerability of study drug
    • To identify the recommended dose(s) (RD[s]) and schedule(s) that is (are) safe and biologically effective for study drug administered by intravenous (IV) dosing
    • To identify the RD(s) and schedule(s) that is (are) safe and biologically effective for study drug administered by subcutaneous (SC) dosing

    Secondary Objectives:

    • To characterize the pharmacokinetics (PK) of study drug administered by IV dosing
    • To characterize the PK of study drug administered by SC dosing
    • To assess the preliminary antitumor activity of study drug
    Cancer Categories:
    • Gastrointestinal (GI),Gynecologic,Lung
    Principal Investigator:
    • Winer, Ira
    Karmanos Trial ID:
    • 2024-013
    Age Group:
    • Adult
    Phase:
    • Phase I
  • Objective:

    Dose Expansion Cohort 1 – Amivantamab SC Monotherapy

    Primary Objectives:

    • To assess anti-tumor activity of amivantamab monotherapy in
      participants with R/M HNSCC who have received prior
      treatment with platinum-based chemotherapy and a
      PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitor.

    Secondary Objectives:

    • To further assess anti-tumor activity of amivantamab
      monotherapy in participants with R/M HNSCC who have
      received prior treatment with platinum-based chemotherapy
      and a PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitor.
    • To characterize safety and tolerability of amivantamab
      monotherapy in participants with R/M HNSCC who have
      received prior treatment with platinum-based chemotherapy
      and a PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitor.
    • To characterize PK of amivantamab monotherapy in
      participants with R/M HNSCC who have received prior
      treatment with platinum-based chemotherapy and a
      PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitor.

    Dose Expansion Cohort 2 – Amivantamab SC in Addition to Pembrolizumab

    Primary Objectives:

    • To assess anti-tumor activity of amivantamab in addition to
      pembrolizumab in participants with R/M HNSCC who are
      treatment-naïve in the R/M setting.

    Secondary Objectives:

    • To further assess anti-tumor activity of amivantamab in
      addition to pembrolizumab in participants with R/M HNSCC
      who are treatment-naïve in the R/M setting.

    Dose Confirmation Cohort 3A– Amivantamab SC in Addition to Paclitaxel

    Primary Objectives:

    • Determine RP2CD(s) of amivantamab in addition to paclitaxel
      in participants with R/M HNSCC who have received
      PD-1/PD-L1 based therapy.
    • To characterize safety and tolerability of amivantamab in
      addition to paclitaxel in participants with R/M HNSCC who
      have received PD-1/PD-L1 based therapy.

    Dose Expansion Cohort 3B– Amivantamab SC in Addition to Paclitaxel

    Primary Objectives:

    • To assess anti-tumor activity of amivantamab in addition to
      paclitaxel in participants with R/M HNSCC who have
      received PD-1/PD-L1 based therapy.

    Secondary Objectives:

    • To further assess anti-tumor activity of amivantamab in
      addition to paclitaxel in participants with R/M HNSCC who
      have received PD-1/PD-L1 based therapy.
    • To further characterize the safety and tolerability of
      amivantamab in addition to paclitaxel in participants with R/M
      HNSCC who have received PD-1/PD-L1 based therapy.
    Principal Investigator:
    • Sukari, Ammar
    Karmanos Trial ID:
    • 2024-010
    Age Group:
    • Adult
    Phase:
    • Phase I/II
  • Objective:

    Primary Objectives:

    • To evaluate the anti-tumor activity of genetically modified autologous T-cells (ADP-A2M4CD8) as monotherapy and in combination with nivolumab in HLA-A*02 positive subjects with MAGE-A4 positive recurrent ovarian cancer

    Secondary Objectives:

    • To evaluate the safety and tolerability of genetically modified autologous T-cells (ADP-A2M4CD8) as monotherapy and in combination with nivolumab in HLA-A*02 positive subjects with MAGE-A4 positive recurrent ovarian cancer
    • To further evaluate the anti-tumor activity of genetically modified autologous T-cells (ADP-A2M4CD8) as monotherapy and in combination with nivolumab in HLA-A*02 positive subjects with MAGE-A4 positive recurrent ovarian cancer
    • To characterize the surrogates of treatment effect
    Cancer Categories:
    • Gynecologic
    Principal Investigator:
    • Morris, Robert
    Karmanos Trial ID:
    • GOG-3084
    Age Group:
    • Adult
    Phase:
    • Phase II
  • Objective:

    Primary Objective:

    • To compare the progression-free survival (PFS) of the combination of avutometinib plus defactinib vs Investigator’s Choice of Treatment (ICT) in patients with recurrent LGSOC

    Secondary Objectives:

    • To compare the combination of avutometinib plus defactinib vs ICT in patients with recurrent LGSOC with regard to additional efficacy parameters
    • To characterize the safety and tolerability of combination avutometinib plus defactinib vs ICT in patients with recurrent LGSOC
    • To determine the exposure of avutometinib and defactinib in patients with recurrent LGSOC treated with combination of avutometinib plus defactinib
    • To assess the health-related quality of life and disease related symptoms in patients with recurrent LGSOC treated with combination avutometinib plus defactinib vs ICT
    Cancer Categories:
    • Gastrointestinal (GI),Gynecologic
    Principal Investigator:
    • Morris, Robert
    Karmanos Trial ID:
    • GOG-3097
    Age Group:
    • Adult
    Phase:
    • Phase III
  • Objective:

    Primary Objectives:

    • To evaluate the efficacy of selinexor compared to placebo as maintenance therapy

    Key Secondary Objectives:

    • To compare overall OS in selinexor and placebo arms

    Secondary Objectives:

    • To evaluate the safety and tolerability of selinexor
    • To compare selinexor and placebo for time to first subsequent therapy
    • To compare selinexor and placebo for time to second subsequent therapy
    • To compare selinexor and placebo for time until second progression
    • To assess the efficacy of selinexor compared to placebo, as assessed by a blinded independent central review (BICR)
    • To evaluate health-related quality of life (HRQoL) outcomes
    Cancer Categories:
    • Gynecologic
    Principal Investigator:
    • Gogoi, Radhika
    Karmanos Trial ID:
    • GOG-3083
    Age Group:
    • Adult
    Phase:
    • Phase III
  • Objective:

    Primary Objective(s):

    • To compare progression-free survival in participants with metastatic papillary renal cell carcinoma (mPRCC) randomized to cabozantinib with atezolizumab versus cabozantinib alone.
       

    Secondary Objective(s):

    • To compare overall survival in participants with mPRCC randomized to cabozantinib with atezolizumab versus cabozantinib alone.
    • To compare RECIST objective response rate (confirmed and unconfirmed, complete and partial response) in participants with mPRCC randomized to cabozantinib with atezolizumab versus cabozantinib alone.
    • To evaluate the quantitative & qualitive adverse events observed in each treatment arm.
    Cancer Categories:
    • Genitourinary (GU)
    Principal Investigator:
    • Heath, Elisabeth
    Karmanos Trial ID:
    • S2200
    Age Group:
    • Adult
    Phase:
    • Phase II