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Clinical trialNCT03727880CompletedPhase 2Interventional

Study of Pembrolizumab With or Without Defactinib Following Chemotherapy as a Neoadjuvant and Adjuvant Treatment for Resectable Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma

SponsorLei ZhengEnrollment28Pancreatic Ductal AdenocarcinomaResectable Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma (PDAC)
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Summary

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This study will test the effectiveness (anti-tumor activity), safety, and ability to increase the body's immune system to fight pancreatic cancer by combining standard chemotherapy before and after surgery, with study drug PD-1 antibody, pembrolizumab, with and without study drug, focal adhesion kinase inhibitor (FAK), defactinib, in people with "high risk" resectable (surgically removable) pancreatic cancer. The purpose of this study is to evaluate if reprograming the tumor microenvironment by targeting FAK following chemotherapy can potentiate anti-programmed death-1 (PD-1) antibody.
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Investigators

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Sites

3 registered facilities, with the per-site recruitment status where the registry publishes one. ClinicalTrials.gov does not publish per-site enrollment counts.

United States
  • Samuel Oschin Cancer Center at Cedars-Sinai

    Los Angeles, California, United States

  • Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center

    Baltimore, Maryland, United States

  • the University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio

    San Antonio, Texas, United States

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Drugs studied

The drug and biological interventions registered on this study, normalized to their RxNorm ingredient where possible.

Defactinib →Pembrolizumab →
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Registration & key dates

Registry attributes as recorded on the ClinicalTrials.gov study record.

Start
4 Jun 2019
Primary completion
15 Jan 2025
Completion
15 Jan 2025
Last update posted
4 Feb 2026
Registered enrollment
28
Registry id
NCT03727880
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Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, via the CTTI AACT database, data as of 24 Aug 2026. Registry facts are shown as registered by the study sponsor; findmyKOL does not interpret them.