Participants will receive radiation in concert with starting chemotherapy with pembrolizumab for up to 6 cycles (18 weeks), followed by continued treatment with pembrolizumab (standard of care). Patients will be followed for 1 year following the completion of the core study period of 6 cycles.
Pembrolizumab 200mg solution administered intravenously every 3 weeks for 6 cycles followed by maintenance therapy until progression of disease or unacceptable toxicity (standard of care). Administered alongside chemotherapy.
Other Name: MK-3475
Radiation: Radiation
One-time, up-front radiation delivered at up to five metastatic subsites at a 4 Gy x 5 radiation dose fractionation schedule. Radiation will be delivered within five days before or after initiation of first cycle of pembrolizumab treatment. Radiation modality and technique will be determined at the discretion of the treating radiation oncologist.
Drug: Chemotherapy
Administered alongside pembrolizumab every 3 weeks for 6 cycles per institutional standard of care. For non-squamous, the standard chemotherapy option of choice is carboplatin and pemetrexed. For squamous cell carcinoma, the chemotherapy used would be carboplatin and paclitaxel or nab-paclitaxel
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