Autopsy report · NCT02584829

Localized Radiation Therapy or Recombinant Interferon Beta and Avelumab With or Without Cellular Adoptive Immunotherapy in Treating Patients With Metastatic Merkel Cell Carcinoma

“Terminated due to loss in funding”

The sponsor’s own words in the registry.

Life of this trial

• Ran for about 3 years 1 month before it stopped.
• 8 participants enrolled.
• Results were posted on the registry 3 years 3 months after it ended.

Vital statistics

Status

Terminated

Phase

Phase 1, Phase 2

Sponsor

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Sponsor type

University, hospital or other

Conditions

Merkel Cell Polyomavirus Infection; Stage IV Merkel Cell Carcinoma AJCC v7

Interventions

Avelumab; Laboratory Biomarker Analysis; MCPyV TAg-specific Polyclonal Autologous CD8-positive T Cells; Radiation Therapy; Recombinant Interferon Beta

Participants

8

Sites

1

Countries

United States

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Look deeper

• The official registry record (the source of truth)
• Record history: every change the sponsor made
• Open it in the database

Everything here comes from the current ClinicalTrials.gov record. The timeline uses the record’s dates; dates marked planned are the sponsor’s plans. The cause of death is an automatic, unverified label. This is research information, not medical advice.