Trial reportJournal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology2020
Pembrolizumab for Treatment-Refractory Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer: Multicohort, Open-Label Phase II KEYNOTE-199 Study.
Trial report in Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02787005 (Phase II Trial of Pembrolizumab), which is not on this map. Cited by 463 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Phase II Trial of Pembrolizumab (MK-3475) in Subjects With Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer (mCRPC) (KEYNOTE-199)
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463 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- The efficacy of immune checkpoint inhibitors in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer: A meta-analysis and reconstructed individual patient data analysis.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2026Pooled it
- PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitors plus chemotherapy versus chemotherapy alone for ARPI-pretreated and chemotherapy-naive metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer: a pooled analysis of KEYNOTE-921 and CheckMate 7DX trials.International urology and nephrology · 2026Pooled it
- Novel Therapeutic Strategies for Metastatic Prostate Cancer Care.European urology · 2025Pooled it
- Optimal early endpoint for second-line or subsequent immune checkpoint inhibitors in previously treated advanced solid cancers: a systematic review.BMC cancer · 2025Pooled it
- Evaluating Tumour Mutational Burden as a Key Biomarker in Personalized Cancer Immunotherapy: A Pan-Cancer Systematic Review.Cancers · 2025Pooled it
- Durable responses to triplet immunotherapy targeting TGF-β, PD-L1, and tumor antigen, with an IL-15 receptor superagonist in mismatch repair proficient castration-resistant prostate cancer.Journal for immunotherapy of cancer · 2026Trial
- Randomized phase II trial of nivolumab and ipilimumab with or without stereotactic body radiation therapy in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer: the CheckPRO, CA209-8TY trial.Journal for immunotherapy of cancer · 2026Trial
- Nivolumab plus ipilimumab for chemotherapy-refractory metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer: results from the randomized portion of the phase 2 CheckMate 650 trial.Nature communications · 2026Trial
- Phase II study of olaparib and durvalumab in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.Journal for immunotherapy of cancer · 2026Trial
- Androgen deprivation, androgen receptor-targeted vaccination, and nivolumab in patients with high-risk localized prostate cancer.Journal for immunotherapy of cancer · 2026Trial
- Programmed death-1 inhibition increases vaccine-induced T-cell infiltration in patients with prostate cancer.Journal for immunotherapy of cancer · 2025Trial
- Prognostic and predictive analyses of circulating plasma biomarkers in men with metastatic castration resistant prostate cancer treated with docetaxel/prednisone with or without bevacizumab.Prostate cancer and prostatic diseases · 2025Trial
- Pembrolizumab plus enzalutamide for metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer progressing on enzalutamide: cohorts 4 and 5 of the phase 2 KEYNOTE-199 study.Prostate cancer and prostatic diseases · 2025Trial
- Pembrolizumab Plus Docetaxel Versus Docetaxel for Previously Treated Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer: The Randomized, Double-Blind, Phase III KEYNOTE-921 Trial.Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology · 2025Trial
- Whole genome sequencing of 378 prostate cancer metastases reveals tissue selectivity for mismatch deficiency with potential therapeutic implications.Genome medicine · 2025Trial
- Phase II trial of multi-tyrosine kinase inhibitor ESK981 in combination with PD-1 inhibitor nivolumab in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.Investigational new drugs · 2024Trial
- Evaluating Immune Checkpoint Blockade in Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancers with Deleterious CDK12 Alterations in the Phase 2 IMPACT Trial.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2024Trial
- Randomized Phase II Study Evaluating the Addition of Pembrolizumab to Radium-223 in Metastatic Castration-resistant Prostate Cancer.Cancer immunology research · 2024Trial
- CXCR2 antagonist navarixin in combination with pembrolizumab in select advanced solid tumors: a phase 2 randomized trial.Investigational new drugs · 2024Trial
- Bipolar androgen therapy plus nivolumab for patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer: the COMBAT phase II trial.Nature communications · 2024Trial
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Abstract
purposePembrolizumab has previously shown antitumor activity against programmed death ligand 1 (PD-L1)-positive metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). Here, we assessed the antitumor activity and safety of pembrolizumab in three parallel cohorts of a larger mCRPC population.
methodsThe phase II KEYNOTE-199 study included three cohorts of patients with mCRPC treated with docetaxel and one or more targeted endocrine therapies. Cohorts 1 and 2 enrolled patients with RECIST-measurable PD-L1-positive and PD-L1-negative disease, respectively. Cohort 3 enrolled patients with bone-predominant disease, regardless of PD-L1 expression. All patients received pembrolizumab 200 mg every 3 weeks for up to 35 cycles. The primary end point was objective response rate per RECIST v1.1 assessed by central review in cohorts 1 and 2. Secondary end points included disease control rate, duration of response, overall survival (OS), and safety.
resultsTwo hundred fifty-eight patients were enrolled: 133 in cohort 1, 66 in cohort 2, and 59 in cohort 3. Objective response rate was 5% (95% CI, 2% to 11%) in cohort 1 and 3% (95% CI, < 1% to 11%) in cohort 2. Median duration of response was not reached (range, 1.9 to ≥ 21.8 months) and 10.6 months (range, 4.4 to 16.8 months), respectively. Disease control rate was 10% in cohort 1, 9% in cohort 2, and 22% in cohort 3. Median OS was 9.5 months in cohort 1, 7.9 months in cohort 2, and 14.1 months in cohort 3. Treatment-related adverse events occurred in 60% of patients, were of grade 3 to 5 severity in 15%, and led to discontinuation of treatment in 5%.
conclusionPembrolizumab monotherapy shows antitumor activity with an acceptable safety profile in a subset of patients with RECIST-measurable and bone-predominant mCRPC previously treated with docetaxel and targeted endocrine therapy. Observed responses seem to be durable, and OS estimates are encouraging.
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