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Terminated PHASE3 INTERVENTIONAL 2-arm NCT03827044

Avelumab Plus 5-FU Based Chemotherapy as Adjuvant Treatment for Stage 3 MSI-High or POLE Mutant Colon Cancer (POLEM)

POLEM:Avelumab Plus 5-FU Based Chemotherapy as Adjuvant Treatment for Stage 3 MSI-High or POLE Exonuclease Domain Mutant Colon Cancer: A Phase 3 Randomised Study

Sponsor: Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany

Interventions Avelumab
Updated 9 times since 2019 Last updated: Oct 5, 2022 Started: Aug 31, 2018 Primary completion: Jan 5, 2021 Completion: Jan 5, 2022
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Terminated

POLEM encountered significant recruitment challenges. With little prospect of recruiting to target the decision to close was made.

A PHASE3 clinical study on Microsatellite Instability and POLE Exonuclease Mutant Colon Cancer, this trial is terminated or withdrawn. The trial is conducted by Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany and has accumulated 9 data snapshots since 2018. Oncology trials at this stage typically focus on safety, tolerability, and early efficacy signals.

Status Flow

~Mar 2019 – ~Mar 2020 · 12 months · monthly snapshotRecruiting~Mar 2020 – ~Jul 2020 · 4 months · monthly snapshotRecruiting~Jul 2020 – ~Jan 2021 · 6 months · monthly snapshotActive Not Recruiting~Jan 2021 – ~Apr 2021 · 3 months · monthly snapshotActive Not Recruiting~Apr 2021 – ~Sep 2021 · 5 months · monthly snapshotActive Not Recruiting~Sep 2021 – ~Nov 2022 · 14 months · monthly snapshotActive Not Recruiting~Nov 2022 – ~Jul 2024 · 20 months · monthly snapshotTerminated~Jul 2024 – ~Sep 2024 · 2 months · monthly snapshotTerminated~Sep 2024 – present · 22 months · monthly snapshotTerminated

Change History

9 versions recorded
  1. Sep 2024 — Present [monthly]

    Terminated PHASE3

  2. Jul 2024 — Sep 2024 [monthly]

    Terminated PHASE3

  3. Nov 2022 — Jul 2024 [monthly]

    Terminated PHASE3

    Status: Active Not RecruitingTerminated

  4. Sep 2021 — Nov 2022 [monthly]

    Active Not Recruiting PHASE3

  5. Apr 2021 — Sep 2021 [monthly]

    Active Not Recruiting PHASE3

Show 4 earlier versions
  1. Jan 2021 — Apr 2021 [monthly]

    Active Not Recruiting PHASE3

  2. Jul 2020 — Jan 2021 [monthly]

    Active Not Recruiting PHASE3

    Status: RecruitingActive Not Recruiting

  3. Mar 2020 — Jul 2020 [monthly]

    Recruiting PHASE3

  4. Mar 2019 — Mar 2020 [monthly]

    Recruiting PHASE3

    First recorded

Aug 2018

Trial started

Per CT.gov start date — pre-dates our first snapshot

Eligibility Summary

No eligibility information available.

Contact Information

Sponsor contact:
  • Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany
  • Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
  • University of Oxford
  • University of Surrey
Data source: Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust

For direct contact, visit the study record on ClinicalTrials.gov .

Study Locations