Clinical Research Directory

IC Plus Low-dose Radiation Plus Cadonilimab in LANPC

This is a multi-center, open-label, randomized controlled phase III clinical trial in primary diagnosed loco-regionally advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) patients. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of induction chemotherapy (IC) combined with low-dose radiation and immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) followed by concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CCRT) versus IC+CCRT, and compare the treatment-related adverse events and quality of life in two groups.

A Study of Lorigerlimab With Docetaxel or Docetaxel Alone in Participants With Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer

The purpose of this study is to determine whether the amount of time before disease progression can be prolonged in participants with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (MCRPC) who receive lorigerlimab in addition to the standard of care (SOC) of docetaxel and prednisone. About 150 participants with mCRPC will be enrolled. Participants will be randomized in a 2:1 ratio to receive lorigerlimab with docetaxel and prednisone (experimental arm) or docetaxel and prednisone alone (standard-of-care arm). Lorigerlimab+docetaxel or docetaxel will be administered intravenously (IV) in clinic on Day 1 of each 3-week cycle. Prednisone will be administered orally twice daily. Lorigerlimab will be administered for up to 35 cycles. Docetaxel and prednisone will be administered up to 10 cycles until treatment discontinuation criteria are met. Participants will undergo regular testing for signs of disease progression using computed tomography (CT) scans, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and prostate-specific antigen (PSA) blood tests. Participants will be asked to complete questionnaires about their health and well-being. Routine examinations and blood tests will be performed and evaluated by the study doctor. Participants who have disease progression standard-of-care arm have the option of continuing on the study to receive lorigerlimab monotherapy.

Adjuvant Anti-PD-1 Therapy in Resected Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Early hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) recurrence (driven by residual tumors) and late recurrence (driven by de novo tumors) exhibit distinct biological behaviors, suggesting differential therapeutic vulnerabilities. The beneficiaries of adjuvant PD-1 inhibitors (aPD-1) and their efficacy across these temporally divergent recurrence patterns remains unestablished.

Analysis of PD-L1, TMB, MSI and ctDNA Dynamics to Predict and Monitor Response to Immunotherapy in Metastatic Cancer.

This is an observational clinical trial, aiming to investigate whether the ctDNA dynamics could predict early response to ICIs in patients with advanced-stage cancer. Moreover, conventional tumor markers PD-L1, TMB and MSI are to be investigated for their combined prognostic values in ICI treatment.

Intestinal Low-Dose Radiotherapy Plus Immunochemotherapy for Conversion of Borderline Resectable/Unresectable Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma

Esophageal cancer (EC) ranks among the leading malignant gastrointestinal tumors globally in terms of both incidence and mortality. Cases of EC in China account for over 50% of the global total, with squamous cell carcinoma being the primary pathological type. Locally advanced EC (LAEC), particularly cases where radical surgical resection is not feasible, exhibits high recurrence rates and low 5-year survival rates. However, studies have shown that patients with LAEC who undergo comprehensive treatment followed by surgery experience significantly prolonged survival and improved quality of life compared to those who do not receive surgical intervention. Current conversion treatment regimens under investigation include: chemotherapy alone, chemoradiotherapy, immunotherapy combined with chemotherapy, and immunotherapy combined with chemoradiotherapy-each of these approaches has distinct advantages and limitations. Immunochemotherapy has emerged as a current research focus: it not only demonstrates significantly superior efficacy compared to chemotherapy alone but also exhibits lower cumulative toxicity than radiotherapy-combined conversion regimens, resulting in a more favorable overall benefit-risk ratio. As such, it represents the most promising conversion treatment strategy. Retrospective and prospective clinical studies have shown that low-dose radiotherapy targeting the small intestine can enhance the anti-tumor response of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) in patients with advanced solid tumor, prolong their overall survival, and increase the incidence of the abscopal effect. Further mechanistic investigations have revealed that intestinal low-dose radiotherapy (ILDR) may augment the immune cancerous lethality by modulating the gut microbiota and their metabolic profiles. Based on the findings from these preliminary studies, the current research plans to conduct a prospective phase II single-arm clinical trial to investigate the efficacy and safety of ILDR combined with immunochemotherapy as conversion therapy in patients with borderline resectable or unresectable esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (BR/UR ESCC). This research plans to enroll at least 39 evaluable cases or a total of 43 cases in two seperated stages, focusing on patients with thoracic BR/UR ESCC. Patients will receive a single fraction of ILDR with a mean dose of 1 Gy, concurrently with 3 cycles of albumin-bound paclitaxel (260 mg/m² on day 1), cisplatin (75 mg/m² on day 1), and tislelizumab (200 mg on day 1). The efficacy and safety of the treatment will be evaluated throughout the study.

PRaG-1 Plus PRaG Therapy in Advanced Solid Tumors: A Prospective Clinical Trial (PRaG 10.0)

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if a combination treatment using PRaG-1 Cordycepin Tablets with radiation therapy, immune-boosting injections, and immunotherapy drugs can help patients with advanced solid tumors. It will also assess safety. The main questions it aims to answer are: Does this treatment improve immune function and slow tumor growth? What side effects or risks occur during treatment? Participants will: Take PRaG-1 Cordycepin Tablets (a natural compound derived from Cordyceps fungus) orally: higher dose for 7 days before radiation, then lower daily dose for 2 weeks Receive targeted radiation therapy to the tumor area (5-12 Gy total in 2-3 sessions) Get daily immune-boosting injections (GM-CSF) for 7 days starting with radiation Receive immunotherapy drugs (PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitors) within one week after radiation Have blood drawn and small tumor tissue samples taken before and after the first two treatment cycles for immune analysis All participants will receive this combination treatment; there is no placebo or alternative treatment group in this study.

Study on the Relationship Between Opioid Drugs and the Therapeutic Efficacy of Immunotherapy

Relationship between pain and the efficacy of immunotherapy: Does the degree of pain control affect the therapeutic efficacy of ICIs? Does the use of opioid drugs independently affect the efficacy of immunotherapy?

Adjuvant Radiotherapy of Sintilimab Versus TACE for HCC

This study is an open-label, randomized controlled, multicenter, phase III clinical trial

A Study of Multimodal Radiotherapy for Renal Cell Carcinoma Progressed After Prior Immunotherapy

The objective of this single-center clinical study was to evaluate the disease control rate(DCR) and safety of multimodal radiotherapy in the treatment of patients with renal cell carcinoma (RCC) progressed after prior immunotherapy.

Spatially Fractionated Radiotherapy Combined With Immunotherapy for Advanced Solid Tumors

Lattice radiation therapy (LRT) is a spatially fractionated radiotherapy technique that creates alternating high - and low - dose areas within a tumor to enhance local control and reduce toxicity to surrounding tissues. This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of combining LRT with immunotherapy in patients with advanced or metastatic solid tumors, through a Phase II clinical trial. Patients will receive specific - dose irradiation using a medical linear accelerator. Within the GTV of the largest tumor, spheres (0.5 - 3 cm in diameter) will be created as high - dose targets (LRT targets), spaced 2.0 - 5.0 cm apart. The LRT targets must be drawn within the GTV, avoiding blood vessels, with a margin of at least 1 cm from the GTV margin, and a volume ratio of 1% - 10% of the GTV. For a single lesion, the D95 of the GTV will be ≥1 Gy/fraction, and the D95 of the LRT target will be 8 - 12 Gy/fraction, with minimal possible single - fraction doses to organs at risk. All other irradiated metastases will receive low - dose radiotherapy (100 - 300 cGy × 5 fractions), except for brain and bone metastases, which will be treated with palliative radiotherapy as per clinical routine. Immunotherapy will be administered during or within one week after radiotherapy.

Efficacy and Safety of Super-hyperfractionation Pulse Radiotherapy Combined With ICIs for Advanced NSCLC

Investigators intend to combine low-dose hypersensitivity with high-dose immunopotentiation effect, and use super-hyperfractionation pulse radiotherapy, which is expected to achieve the effect of in situ vaccine that can enhance tumor killing, protect normal tissues, reduce immune cell damage and enhance tumor immunogenicity at the same time, and play a stronger immunopotentiation effect in combined immunotherapy. Thereby inducing a stronger abscopal effect of radiotherapy.

Liver Cancer and Immunotherapy in the Liquid Biopsy Era

The goal of this prospective clinical trial is to identify a predictive biomarker in patients with advanced HCC (stage B and C) using a combinatorial approach of the liquid biopsy. The main questions it aims to answer are: * Is multi-omic liquid biopsy approach able to identify a strong predictive biomarker of immunotherapy efficiency? * Is there a correlation between tissue biopsy (PD-L1 tissue level of expression) and liquid biopsy (detection of CTC expressing PD-L1) in HCC patients? Participants blood will be collected at several time points.

Safety Assessment of Concurrent Radiotherapy and Novel Systemic Therapy for Breast Cancer

Radiation therapy is a crucial part in the comprehensive treatment of breast cancer. In recent years, emerging systemic treatment regimens such as HER 2 inhibitors, CDK 4/6 inhibitors, PARP inhibitors, capecitabine and PD1 inhibitors have greatly improved the prognosis of breast cancer and has become the standard treatment for specific populations. A considerable number of patients require both radiotherapy and maintenance systemic therapy. However, it is not clear whether systemic therapy should be synchronized or suspended in radiotherapy，despite that previous basic research shows that some molecular drug therapy and radiotherapy has a clear synergy mechanism. There is an agent need for a definite evidence to evaluate the safety of synchronous treatment, to support clinical diagnosis and treatment and the next step of comprehensive treatment. The implementation of the new radiotherapy technology represented by IMRT takes into account the prescription dose homogenization and the minimization of normal tissue dosage, which provides a certain basis for the combination therapy. Based on the above conditions, this study intends to enroll patients between 18 and 70 years old with chest wall / breast ± lymphatic drainage area and requiring capecitabine, CDK 4/ 6 inhibitor, HER2 targeted therapy or immunotherapy. Radiation and novel systemic therapies would be delivered concurrently. The study aimed at evaluating the safety of combined treatments.

Toripalimab Plus FLOT in Locally Advanced Gastric Cancer

Neoadjuvant chemoimmunotherapy for locally advanced gastric and gastroesophageal junction (G/GEJ) cancer is currently under investigation. Most clinical studies have simply combined chemotherapy with anti-PD-1 therapy without considering the impact of chemotherapy drugs on activated immune cells. We designed this study to explore two different treatment regimens for neoadjuvant chemotherapy in patients with locally advanced G/GEJ cancer. One group received FLOT plus toripalimab on Day 1 of each cycle, every 2 weeks for 4 cycles, followed by surgery; the other group received FLOT plus toripalimab on Day 3 of each cycle, every 3 weeks for 3 cycles, followed by surgery. A total of 69 subjects were enrolled. Preliminary statistical analysis conducted one year after the last subject was enrolled revealed no statistically significant differences in pCR and MPR between the two regimens. The median DFS for both groups has not been reached, and there is no statistically significant difference in DFS between the two groups at present. Further subgroup analysis indicated that among subjects with PD-L1 CPS ≥1, the triweekly group achieved a rate of 42.1%, compared to 29.4% in the biweekly group, with no statistically significant difference between the two groups. However, the incidence of bone marrow suppression was lower in the triweekly group than in the biweekly group. Based on the preliminary findings, we plan to conduct an expanded study and transition to a multicenter clinical trial. This study aims to further validate the efficacy of the triweekly chemoimmunotherapy in patients with PD-L1 CPS ≥1 locally advanced G/GEJ cancer.

Neoadjuvant/Adjuvant Pembrolizumab Plus Chemotherapy

A phase II, single-arm, open-label study evaluating feasibility, safety and efficacy of combined chemotherapy and pembrolizumab as neoadjuvant/adjuvant therapy in stage IIa-IIIB NSCLC adult patients followed by adjuvant PD-(L)1 inhibitor treatment for up to 1 year

LAG3 Expression in Triple Negative Breast Cancer

This study is the experimental study for relationship between LAG-3 expression / immue checkpoint protein expression and neoadjuvant chemotherapy plus immune checkpoint inhibitor in triple negative breast cancer.

COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness Against Recurrent Infection Among Lung Cancer Patients and Biomarker Research

A prospective, open-label and parallel non-randomized control trial and biomarker research study is intended to compare incidence of repeated COVID-19 infection, severe pneumonitis and mortality between lung cancer patients undergoing systemic antitumor therapies who get vaccinated with 1 booster dose(majorly against XBB) and those who refuse. Meanwhile, a biomarker research is designed to monitor serum level dynamics of specific antibodies against COVID-19,analyze its correlation with incidence of breakthrough infection and further explore optimal periods for vaccination.

A Prospective Study of Pembrolizumab Combining Chemotherapy in Advanced NSCLC Patients With EGFR Exon 21 Point Mutation.

A phase II, single-arm, open-label study evaluating efficacy, safety and feasibility of combined chemotherapy and pembrolizumab as first line therapy and Osimertinib as second line therapy in advanced non squamous NSCLC adult patients with epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) exon 21 point mutation and programmed cell death receptor ligand 1 (PD-L1) positive.

Fast-Track Cardiovascular Assessment for Suspicion of Cardiovascular Events on Immunecheckpoint Inhibitors

Prospective study cohort on patients addressed for suspected cardiovascular event on immune checkpoint inchibitors. Longitudinal prospective single center cohort. Inclusion criteria: all patient willing to particiupate seen in the cardio-oncology unit at our institution for the suspicion of heart failure, atherosclerosis related event, Tako Tsubo, arrhymias, pericarditis, myocarditis on antiPD1, antiPDL1, or antiCTLA4 immune checkpoint inhibitors. Description of patients characteristics, investigations, diagnosis after multidisciplinary meeting, outcomes.

A Pilot Study to Understand the Impact of Therapy With Tumour Treating Fields (TTFields) in NSCLC

Low intensity, intermediate frequency (100-300 kHz) alternating electric fields, also known as Tumor Treating Fields (TTFields) were found to have a profound inhibitory effect on the growth rate of a variety of human cancer cells. Previous study showed anti-tumor activity in respect of melanoma, glioblastoma (GBM), breast carcinoma and NSCLC cell lines. This study aims to assess the impact of TTFields on NSCLC though the understanding of tumor evolution and peripheral lymphocytes activity and proliferation. Concomitant to drug therapy, patients will receive treatment with Tumor Treating Fields (TTFields), generated by the medical device NovoTTF-200T with a recommended duration of minimum 18 h a day. TTFields administered using insulated transducer arrays applied to the skin surrounding the region of a malignant tumor. 50 patients will be recruited according to the study design in two cohorts and will receive TTFields therapy: Cohort A: Adult NSCLC EGFR positive mutation. Cohort B: Adult NSCLC patients to be treated with PD-1 inhibitors. The cohort A will focus on the clonal evolution in EGFR mutated lung cancer patients by using circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) analysis of paired baseline and end-of-treatment (EOT) plasma samples. The cohort B will study the impact of TTField on the profile, activity, and proliferation of peripheral lymphocytes. Lymphocytes will be purified from whole blood samples for the profile, proliferation, and activity analyzed by FACS. Treatment with TTFields will be administered until progressive disease, unacceptable toxicity1, withdrawal of consent or death. After the end of treatment, the patients will be followed until data cutoff date or 2 years after the last patient had entered the study.