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Clinical trialNCT05496036RecruitingPhase 2Interventional

Neoadjuvant PD-1 Blockade in Resectable Merkel Cell Carcinoma

SponsorAbramson Cancer Center at Penn MedicineEnrollment15Merkel Cell Carcinoma
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Summary

The lay summary the sponsor registered on ClinicalTrials.gov.

The main purpose of this study is to determine the response of Merkel cell carcinoma to pembrolizumab before surgery and to determine whether it further reduces the risk for disease recurrence. Another purpose of this study is to look at the side effects that occur when the experimental drug pembrolizumab is given to people with Merkel cell carcinoma before and after their standard of care surgery to remove the Merkel cell carcinoma.
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Investigators

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Sites

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

United States
  • Penn Medicine

    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

    Recruiting

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Drugs studied

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

Pembrolizumab
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Registration & key dates

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

Start
13 Feb 2023
Primary completion
31 Dec 2026
Completion
30 Sept 2027
Last update posted
18 Feb 2026
Registered enrollment
15
Registry id
NCT05496036
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Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, via the CTTI AACT database, data as of 4 Nov 2026. Registry facts are shown as registered by the study sponsor; FindMyKOL does not interpret them.