%0 Journal Article %A Fayette, Jérôme %A Licitra, Lisa %A Harrington, Kevin %A Haddad, Robert %A Siu, Lillian L %A Liu, Yi-Chun %A Tahara, Makoto %A Machiels, Jean-Pascal %A Rischin, Danny %A Seiwert, Tanguy Y %A Ferris, Robert L %A Keilholz, Ulrich %A Psyrri, Amanda %A Keam, Bhumsuk %A Bossi, Paolo %A Metcalf, Robert %A Hsieh, Ching-Yun %A Clement, Paul M J %A Isaev, Pavel %A Mudunov, Ali %A Dinis, José %A Hoeben, Ann %A Kasper, Stefan %A Klinghammer, Konrad %A Hwang, Michael %A Blando, Jorge %A Serrano, Olivier %A Ruscica, Dario %A Cohen, Roger B %T INTERLINK-1: A Phase III, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Study of Monalizumab Plus Cetuximab in Recurrent/Metastatic Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma. %J Clinical cancer research %V 31 %N 13 %@ 1078-0432 %C Philadelphia, Pa. [u.a.] %I AACR %M DKFZ-2025-00929 %P 2617-2627 %D 2025 %Z 2025 Jul 1;31(13):2617-2627 %X Treatment options for recurrent/metastatic (R/M) head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) after failure of immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) treatment and platinum-based chemotherapy are limited. Preliminary data suggested monalizumab plus cetuximab had clinical activity in R/M HNSCC.INTERLINK-1 (NCT04590963) was a double-blind, phase III study. Participants with R/M HNSCC who had received ICI therapy and progressed despite platinum-based chemotherapy were randomized 2:1 to monalizumab (750 mg, fortnightly) or placebo, plus cetuximab (400 mg/m2 loading dose, then 250 mg/m2, weekly). The primary endpoint was overall survival (OS) in participants with non-oropharyngeal cancer (OPC) or human papillomavirus (HPV)-negative OPC (HPV-unrelated analysis set). Secondary endpoints included progression-free survival (PFS) and objective response rate (ORR).At data cut-off, 216 participants were randomized in the HPV-unrelated analysis set; 145 to monalizumab plus cetuximab and 71 to placebo plus cetuximab. Median OS was 8.8 months for monalizumab plus cetuximab versus 8.6 months for placebo plus cetuximab (hazard ratio [HR], 1.00; 95 %F PUB:(DE-HGF)16 %9 Journal Article %$ pmid:40300079 %R 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-25-0073 %U https://inrepo02.dkfz.de/record/300815