Immunotherapy Master Trial for Advanced Cancers
Official title: Adaptive Master Trial for Advanced Cancers With Rapid Evaluation of Molecular & Immune Status for Stratified Immunotherapies in Oncology
Run by Unicancer · NCT07431073 · Data updated 2026-11-12
This trial tests a master protocol called METAREM to see if personalized immunotherapy strategies can help people with advanced or metastatic solid tumors.
Quick facts
| Phase | Phase 2 |
|---|---|
| Study type | Interventional |
| Ages | 12 Years and up |
| Sex | All |
| Enrollment | 275 (estimated) |
| Sponsor | Unicancer Academic / other |
| Drugs / interventions | Chemotherapy, immunotherapy |
| Locations | 1 site (Villejuif) |
| Status | Recruiting |
| Started | August 21, 2026 |
| Main results expected | December 2028 |
| Study ends | January 2034 |
| Registry record updated | September 29, 2026 |
| Trial ID | NCT07431073 on ClinicalTrials.gov |
Is this trial a fit for you?
✓Likely a good fit
Adults and adolescents aged 12 years and older (≥40 kg) with unresectable locally advanced or metastatic solid tumors or hematologic malignancies, and measurable disease.
✕Probably not a fit
Patients whose tumor biology does not respond to the selected immunotherapy sub-protocols may not experience benefit.
A plain-English reading of the study's rules. Only the study team can confirm whether you qualify.
What this trial studies
METAREM is a master protocol that includes several sub-protocols, each testing distinct immunotherapy approaches in patients with advanced cancers. The study emphasizes tumor biology and individual patient factors to select therapies, aiming to improve durability of response. Enrollment requires measurable disease and informed consent for PORTRAIT baseline and on-treatment evaluations, with pediatric considerations for minors. The trial is conducted under UNICANCER leadership with participation at Institut Gustave Roussy in France. Results will help determine whether tailoring immunotherapy to biology can overcome current high failure rates in oncology drug development.
Why it matters
Potential benefit: If successful, patients could experience longer-lasting responses or remissions through more personalized immunotherapy approaches.
How similar studies have gone: Immunotherapy master protocols and personalized approaches have shown promise in selected cohorts, but broad success across diverse tumor types remains under investigation.
Who can join: the full rules
Show full inclusion / exclusion criteria
Inclusion Criteria: 1. Age ≥12 years with at least 40kg body weight or otherwise as per specified in sub-protocol. 2. Prior to the inclusion in the METAREM master protocol, patients must have signed a written informed consent to baseline PORTRAIT evaluation and on-treatment PORTRAIT evaluation. Note: 1. When the patient is physically unable to give his/her written consent, an impartial witness a trusted person of his/her choice, independent from the investigators or the sponsor, can confirm in signing the patient's consent. 2. For patients aged between \> 12 and \< 18, specific consent from legal tutors should be obtained on top of the minor consent and prior procedures. 3. Patients with advanced cancer, as defined as unresectable locally advanced malignancies or metastatic cancers (including leukemias and lymphomas). 4. Having measurable disease (i.e one measurable lesion according to RECIST v1.1 for solid tumors or one consensus method of blast quantification / minimal residual disease assessment for leukemias). 5. Eastern cooperative oncology group (ECOG) performance status between 0 and 2. 6. Patients amenable to undergo a blood draw procedure and a tumor biopsy procedure. For patients with more than 10% malignant cells in their bone marrow or blood, a bone marrow aspirate or blood draw could replace the tumor biopsy. 7. Adequate organ function as defined by the following criteria: * Total bilirubin ≤1.5 ULN, or ≤3.0 ULN in participants with Hepato-Cellular Carcinoma (HCC) or known Gilbert's syndrome if the increase is predominantly due to unconjugated bilirubin. * ALT ≤ 3 x ULN; if liver metastases ALT ≤ 5 x ULN * Absolute Neutrophils count (ANC) ≥ 1000 cells/mm³ in the absence of G-CSF or GM-CSF within ≤2 weeks before the first dose of study treatment. * Platelets ≥100 000 cells/mm³ * Hemoglobin ≥ 9.0 g/dL * Albumin ≥ 30 g/L * Calculated creatinine clearance ≥50 mL/min/1.73 m2 8. Women of childbearing potential (WOCBP) must have a negative serum or urine pregnancy test within 7 days prior to initiation of treatment. 9. Both sexually active WOCBP and males (and their WOCBP partners) patients must agree to use two methods of effective contraception, one of them being a physical barrier method, or to abstain from sexual activity during the study and for the period indicated in specific sub-protocol after the last study drug administration. 10. Patient affiliated to the French social security regimen. 11. Patients with mental and legal ability to fully consent for undergoing the exploratory procedures (blood draws and biopsies) prior (at baseline PORTRAIT) and upon treatment and (on-treatment PORTRAIT). 12. Patient is willing and able to comply with the protocol for the duration of the trial including undergoing treatment and scheduled visits, and examinations including follow-up. Exclusion Criteria: 1. Any life-threatening allergy to one of the experimental products tested in the sub-protocol where the patient is eligible. In case of allergy to contrast media, patient monitoring should be performed with alternate methods (both CT-scan or MRI). 2. History of life threatening autoimmune/immune mediated inflammatory disease, including but not limited to severe colitis, pneumonitis, Guillain-Barré syndrome, anti-phospholipid syndromes and myocarditis. Patients with a history of auto-immune endocrinopathy (hypo/hyper thyroiditis, type 1 diabetes mellitus, …) and who are stable on hormone replacement therapy are eligible for the study. Patients with a history of vitiligo, alopecia areata, cutaneous psoriasis and grade 1-2 Sjogren syndrome are eligible. 3. Treatment with systemic long-term immunosuppressive medications unless otherwise specified in the specific therapeutic sub-protocols. Those immunosuppressive drugs must have been stopped at least 4 weeks prior to enrollment. Hormone replacement therapy with physiological doses of hydrocortisone is acceptable. 4. Chemotherapy, hormonotherapy, radiotherapy or immunotherapy or therapy with monoclonal antibodies or small tyrosine kinase inhibitors within the past 4 weeks or 5 half-life times (whatever the shortest) prior to treatment with the trial drugs. 5. Administration of a live, attenuated vaccine within 4 weeks before registration. 6. Radiotherapy to the chosen RECIST target lesion(s) (unless a progression after radiotherapy has been documented). 7. Persistence of a clinically relevant treatment-related toxicity from previous chemotherapy, targeted therapy and/or radiotherapy which could hamper the safety or efficacy assessment of the therapy tested (for previous disease). 8. Patients with symptomatic brain metastases or leptomeningeal disease are excluded unless otherwise specified by a specific therapeutic sub-protocol. Clinically asymptomatic brain metastases and clinically asymptomatic leptomeningeal disease are allowed (treatment with steroids prior to initiation of the trial is not allowed). 9. Patients with evolving tumors next to cavitary or major blood vessels at high risk of massive bleeding and/or perforation. 10. History of clinically significant hemoptysis within the past 3 months. 11. Treatment with other investigational drugs or treatment in another clinical trial within the past 4 weeks before start of therapy or concomitantly with the trial. 12. Major injuries and/or surgery within the past 4 weeks prior to start of study treatment with incomplete wound healing and/or planned major surgery during the on-treatment study period. 13. History of clinically significant hemorrhagic or thromboembolic event in the past 3 months. 14. History of significant cardiovascular diseases (i.e., supraventricular tachycardia, uncontrolled hypertension, unstable angina, history of infarction within the past 12 months prior to start of study treatment, congestive heart failure \> NYHA II, serious cardiac arrhythmia, pericardial effusion). 15. Ongoing uncontrolled endocrinopathy. Ancient endocrinopathy currently stable with substitutive therapy should not be excluded from the trial. 16. Other malignancies within the past 5 years other than superficial malignancies (e.g localized squamous or basal cell skin cancer) or carcinoma in situ (e.g cervix, breast, prostate, bladder) which have undergone curative therapies. A history of more than 3 years without subsequent relapse of local prostate cancer treated by surgery and without PSA elevation since surgery, or local breast carcinoma treated by surgery without relapse or resected non-muscle invasive bladder cancers are eligible. 17. Active serious infections in particular if requiring systemic antibiotic or antimicrobial therapy. A wash out of more than 3 weeks is required after last systemic antibiotics to allow reconstitution of the microbiome. Patients infected by HIV but having efficient anti-retroviral therapy and CD4+ T-cell counts \>500/mm³ are eligible. Patients with a history of HBV or HCV that are cured and have eligible liver function criteria are also eligible. 18. Gastrointestinal disorders or abnormalities that would interfere with absorption of the study drug in case an oral drug is tested in the sub-protocol for which the patient is screened. 19. Pregnancy or breast feeding. 20. Intake of Ganoderma Lucidum mushroom (also called "Reishi") and/or herbal remedies and/or traditional medicines within the past weeks prior to start of study treatment or concomitantly with the trial because of their potential to increase treatment related adverse events. 21. Any psychological, familial, sociological, geographical factors, lifestyle, behavior, clinical or biological parameters or elements in the past medical history of the patients that, according to the investigator, could preclude the ability of the trial to directly reach its objectives, or indirectly via treatment observance or study follow up. Patients with active alcoholism and/or drug abuse are excluded. 22. Person deprived of their liberty or under protective custody or guardianship.
Where it's running
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Institut Gustave Roussy
Villejuif, France Recruiting
Study contacts
- Principal investigator: Aurélien MARABELLE, MD, PHD — Gustave Roussy, Cancer Campus, Grand Paris
- Study coordinator: Priyanka DEVI-MARULKAR, PhD, MBA
- Email: p-devi-marulkar@unicancer.fr
- Phone: +33 (0) 06 62 53 60 43
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How to take part
- Review the eligibility criteria above with your treating physician.
- Check the official listing on ClinicalTrials.gov for the latest contact details and recruitment status.
- Contact the study coordinator or principal investigator to ask for pre-screening. Pre-screening is free and never obligates you to enroll.