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Safety and Efficacy of Lenvatinib (E7080/MK-7902) in Combination With Pembrolizumab (MK-3475) Versus Lenvatinib as First-line Therapy in Participants With Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma (MK-7902-002/E7080-G000-311/LEAP-002)

ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT03713593

Public ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT03713593. Field values are reproduced from the official study page; the official ClinicalTrials.gov record remains the source of truth for eligibility, enrollment, and contact information.

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Official title

A Phase 3 Multicenter, Randomized, Double-blinded, Active-controlled, Clinical Study to Evaluate the Safety and Efficacy of Lenvatinib (E7080/MK-7902) in Combination With Pembrolizumab (MK-3475) Versus Lenvatinib in First-line Therapy of Participants With Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma (LEAP-002)

Brief summary

Reproduced verbatim from the official ClinicalTrials.gov record. Not medical advice.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety and efficacy of lenvatinib (E7080/MK-7902) in combination with pembrolizumab (MK-3745) versus lenvatinib in combination with placebo as first-line therapy for the treatment of advanced hepatocellular carcinoma in adult participants. The primary hypotheses of this study are that lenvatinib plus pembrolizumab is superior to lenvatinib plus placebo with respect to progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS).

Study identification

NCT ID
NCT03713593
Recruitment status
Completed
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase 3
Lead sponsor
Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
Industry
Enrollment
794 participants

Conditions and interventions

Interventions

Drug · Biological

Eligibility (public fields only)

Age range
18 Years and older
Sex
All
Healthy volunteers
Healthy volunteers not accepted

This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.

Study timeline

Start date
Dec 30, 2018
Primary completion
Jun 20, 2022
Completion
Sep 23, 2024
Last update posted
Feb 4, 2026

2018 – 2024

United States locations

U.S. sites
21
U.S. states
13
U.S. cities
20
Facility City State ZIP Site status
The University of Arizona Cancer Center - North Campus ( Site 0621) Tucson Arizona 85721
City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center ( Site 0587) Duarte California 91010
Scripps Health ( Site 0644) La Jolla California 92037
Pacific Hematology Oncology Associates ( Site 0588) San Francisco California 94115
UCLA ( Site 0589) Santa Monica California 90404
Georgetown University ( Site 0594) Washington D.C. District of Columbia 20007
University of Miami, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center ( Site 0596) Miami Florida 33136
Advent Health ( Site 0595) Orlando Florida 32804
Tampa General Medical Group ( Site 0629) Tampa Florida 33606
Emory University Winship Cancer Institute ( Site 0639) Atlanta Georgia 30322
University of Kansas Cancer Center ( Site 0600) Westwood Kansas 66205
Massachusetts General Hospital ( Site 0603) Boston Massachusetts 02114
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center ( Site 0716) Boston Massachusetts 02215
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai ( Site 0611) New York New York 10029
University of Rochester ( Site 0613) Rochester New York 14642
Stony Brook University Medical Center - Cancer Center ( Site 0612) Stony Brook New York 11794
University of Oklahoma Health Science Center ( Site 0625) Oklahoma City Oklahoma 73104
Oregon Health & Science University ( Site 0645) Portland Oregon 97239
Eastern Regional Medical Center, Inc. ( Site 0626) Philadelphia Pennsylvania 19124
Central Texas Veterans Healthcare System ( Site 0617) Temple Texas 76504
Cancer Care Northwest ( Site 0636) Spokane Washington 99218

Site contact phone numbers, emails, and investigator names are intentionally not displayed here. Open the official ClinicalTrials.gov record for site contact information.

Non-U.S. locations

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About this trial record page

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