About this trial
This Phase 1, multicenter, open-label trial will assess the safety and feasibility of IFx-Hu2.0 as adjunctive therapy to pembrolizumab in adult patients (≥18 years) with non-cutaneous Merkel Cell Carcinoma. Nine subjects will receive IFx-Hu2.0 as a visceral lesion injection in a single lesion followed by pembrolizumab.
Eligibility criteria
Qualifiers
At least 18 years of age.
Life expectancy equal to or greater than six months.
Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) Performance Status < 2.
Active disease measurable by CT or MRI, measurable lesions are lesions that can be accurately measured in at least one dimension (longest diameter in the plane of measurement is to be recorded).
Disqualifiers
Uncontrolled intercurrent illness including, but not limited to, ongoing or active infection, symptomatic congestive heart failure, unstable angina pectoris, cardiac arrhythmia, or psychiatric illness/social situations that would limit compliance with protocol requirements.
Subjects with active brain metastases, with the exception of treated brain metastases that have imaging proving stability at least 4 weeks after treatment, no new metastases, and not requiring steroids.
Subjects with recurrent resectable MCC
Subjects who have received prior systemic chemotherapy
Trial design
Treatments tested in this trial
- IFx-Hu2.0
- Pembrolizumab