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Recruiting Phase 2 NCT06925516

NCT06925516 A Trial of Apatinib and Adebrelimab in Combination With Chemotherapy in Patients With Unresectable ICC

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NCT ID NCT06925516
Status Recruiting
Phase Phase 2
Sponsor Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University
Condition Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma (Icc)
Study Type INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment 38 participants
Start Date 2025-04-25
Primary Completion 2027-06-01

Eligibility & Interventions

Sex All sexes
Min Age 18 Years
Max Age 75 Years
Study Type INTERVENTIONAL
Interventions
Apatinib and Adebrelimab in Combination With chemotherapy

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What to Expect as a Participant

You will actively receive the study intervention — which may be a drug, biologic, device, or procedure.

In Phase 2, researchers evaluate early signs of effectiveness. You may be randomized to receive the active treatment or a comparator. Monitoring continues closely.

This trial targets 38 participants in total. It began in 2025-04-25 with a primary completion date of 2027-06-01.

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Brief Summary

The study aims to evaluate the efficacy and safety of Apatinib and Adebrelimab in Combination With chemotherapy in patients with advanced intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC)

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria: * 1\. Provided informed consent and sign the informed consent form; * 2\. Male or female, Aged 18-75 years (counted on the date of signing informed consent); * 3\. Histologically or cytologically confirmed ICC; * 4\. The patient is not a candidate for surgery, or the disease has progressed after prior surgery and/or local treatment. * 5\. No previous systematic treatment for advanced ICC. Exceptions include patients who relapsed more than 6 months after adjuvant chemotherapy following radical resection. Local regional therapy (including but not limited to surgery, radiotherapy, hepatic artery embolization, TACE, hepatic arterial infusion, radiofrequency ablation, cryoablation or percutaneous ethanol injection) must have been completed at least 4 weeks prior to baseline radiological scanning, and any toxicity (except alopecia) induced by local regional therapy must have resolved to ≤ Grade 1 in accordance with National Cancer Institute - Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Event version 5.0 (NCI-CTCAE v5.0); * 6\. Have at least one measurable lesion (in accordance with RECIST v1.1, major diameter ≥ 10 mm of the measurable lesion in spiral CT scan or short diameter of swollen lymph node ≥ 15 mm; the lesion with previous local therapy can be used as target lesion after the progression is confirmed in accordance with RECIST v1.1) * 7\. Child-Pugh class: Grade A; * 8\. ECOG-PS score: 0-1; * 9\. With a life expectancy of ≥ 12 weeks; * 10\. Adequate major organ function without severe hematologic, cardiac, pulmonary, hepatic, renal, or bone marrow dysfunction, and no immunodeficiency disease; * 11\. If subjects have active hepatitis B (HBV) infection: HBV- deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) must be \< 500 IU/mL (or must be \< 2500 copy/mL if copy/mL is the only unit available in the study site) and are willing to receive antiviral therapy throughout the study (treatment in accordance with local standard of care, e.g., entecavir); * 12\. Women of childbearing potential must agree to abstain from heterosexual intercourse or use reliable contraception from the time of signing informed consent until at least 120 days after the last study drug administration. A negative serum pregnancy test (HCG) must be confirmed within 7 days before starting study treatment. Lactating women are excluded; * 13\. Men with female partners of childbearing potential must agree to abstain from heterosexual intercourse or use reliable contraception from the time of signing informed consent until at least 120 days after the last study drug administration. Men must also agree not to donate sperm during this period. For men whose partners are pregnant, condom use is required without additional contraception; Exclusion Criteria: * 1\. Known hepatocellular carcinoma, Combined Hepatocellular and Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma, sarcomatoid hepatocellular carcinoma, fibrolamellar carcinoma of liver; * 2\. Other active malignant tumor except ICC within 5 years or simultaneously. Cured localized tumor, for example, basal cell carcinoma of skin, squamous cell carcinoma of skin, superficial bladder cancer, carcinoma in situ of prostate, carcinoma in situs of cervix, breast cancer in situ may be enrolled; * 3\. Planning to or previously received organ or allogenic bone marrow transplantation; * 4\. Treatment of other investigational product(s) within 28 days prior to the start of study treatment; * 5\. Previous treatment with Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors: Prior use of any antibody/drug targeting T-cell co-regulatory proteins (immune checkpoints), including anti-PD-1, anti-PD-L1, or anti-CTLA-4 antibodies (including topical use). * 6\. Moderate-to-severe ascites with clinical symptoms, i.e., requiring therapeutic puncture or drainage, or Child-Pugh score \>2, except the subjects with small amount of ascites in radiological examination but free from clinical symptoms; uncontrolled or moderate to severe pleural effusion, pericardial effusion. * 7\. History of gastrointestinal bleeding within 6 months prior to the start of study treatment or clear tendency of gastrointestinal bleeding; * 8\. Abdominal fistula, gastrointestinal perforation or intraperitoneal abscess within 6 months prior to the start of study treatment; * 9\. Known genetic or acquired hemorrhage (e.g., coagulation dysfunction) or thrombotic tendency, for example, subject with hemophilia; current or recent (within 10 days prior to the start of study treatment) use of full-dose of oral or intravenous anticoagulant or thrombolytic drug for the purpose of treatment (preventive use of low-dose aspirin or low molecular weight heparin is allowed); * 10\. Current or recent (within 10 days prior to the start of study treatment) use of aspirin (\> 325 mg/day, maximum dose for antiplatelet) or dipyridamole, ticlopidine, clopidogrel and cilostazol; * 11\. Thrombosis or thromboembolic event within 6 months prior to the start of study treatment, for example, cerebrovascular accident (including transient ischemic attack, cerebral hemorrhage, cerebral infarction), pulmonary embolism; * 12\. Cardiac clinical symptom or disease that is not well controlled; * 13\. Hypertension that cannot be well controlled through antihypertensive drugs, allowing to reach the above parameters by the use of antihypertensive therapy; previous hypertensive crisis or hypertensive encephalopathy; * 14\. Major vascular disease within 6 months prior to the start of study treatment (for example, aortic aneurysm requiring surgical repair or peripheral arterial thrombosis in recent days); Serious, unhealed or splitting wound and active ulcer or untreated bone fracture; Major surgical therapy within 4 weeks prior to the start of study treatment (except diagnosis), or planned major surgery during the study; * 15\. Evidence on intraperitoneal pneumatosis that can not be explained by puncture or recent surgery; * 16\. Previous or current presence of metastasis to central nervous system; Metastatic disease involving main airway or blood vessels (e.g. Vena cava tumor invasion or complete occlusion of the major portal vein due to HCC, the major portal vein is defined as the part of portal vein between the union of the splenic and superior mesenteric veins and the first bifurcation into the left and right vein) or high-volume mediastinal tumor mass located in the center (distance from carina \<30 mm); * 17\. History of hepatic encephalopathy; Current interstitial pneumonia or interstitial lung disease, or history of interstitial pneumonia or interstitial lung disease which required hormonal therapy, or other pulmonary fibrosis that may interfere with the judgement and treatment of immune-related pulmonary toxicity; organizing pneumonia (e.g., obliterative bronchiolitis), pneumoconiosis, drug related pneumonitis, idiopathic pneumonia, subjects with evidence on active pneumonia or serious pulmonary function impairment on thoracic computed tomography (CT) in screening period (previous radiation pneumonitis in the radiation area will be allowed); active tuberculosis; * 18\. Active autoimmune disease or history of autoimmune disease and may relapse (including but not limited to autoimmune hepatitis, interstitial pneumonia, uveitis, enteritis, hypophysitis, vasculitis, nephritis, hyperthyroidism, hypothyroidism \[with the exception that it can be controlled by hormone replacement therapy\]). Subjects with skin disease that do not require systemic treatment are eligible, for example, leukoderma, psoriasis, alopecia; subjects with controlled type 1 diabetes by insulin are eligible; subjects with asthma that has been completely resolved in childhood and don't need any treatment are eligible, but subjects with asthma that require a bronchodilator as medical intervention are not eligible; * 19\. Use of immunosuppressive medication within 14 days prior to the start of study treatment, or systemic corticosteroid therapy to achieve the objective of immunosuppression (Prednisone at the dose of \>10mg/day or equivalent); * 20\. Known history of hypersensitivity to the active substance or to any other components of each investigational medicinal product; * 21\. Severe infection within 4 weeks prior to the start of study treatment, including but not limited to hospitalization for infection, bacteremia or complications of severe pneumonia; oral or intravenous therapeutic antibiotics within 2 weeks prior to the start of study treatment (subjects who are treated with antibiotics for prevention, e.g., preventive urinary tract infection or exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease are eligible for participation in the study); * 22\. Congenital or acquired immunodeficiency (e.g., HIV infection); * 23\. Hepatitis B and hepatitis C co-infection; * 24\. Attenuated live vaccine therapy administered within 28 days prior to the start of study treatment, or are expected to receive such vaccines during Adebrelimab treatment or within 60 days after the last dose of Adebrelimab; * 25\. Other factors that may affect the study results or lead to early study termination as judged by investigators, such as alcoholism, drug abuse, other serious diseases (including mental disorders) requiring concomitant therapy, with serious laboratory examination abnormality, with family or social factors, that may affect subject's safety.

Contact & Investigator

Central Contact

Changzhen Shang, M.D, PhD

✉ shchzh2@mail.sysu.edu.cn

📞 +86-20-3407 0701

Principal Investigator

Changzhen Shang, M.D, PhD

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University

Frequently Asked Questions

Who can join the NCT06925516 clinical trial?

This trial is open to participants of all sexes, aged 18 Years or older, up to 75 Years, studying Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma (Icc). Full inclusion and exclusion criteria are listed in the Eligibility Criteria section. Always confirm your eligibility with the research team before applying.

What phase is the NCT06925516 trial and what does that mean for participants?

Phase 2 trials evaluate whether the treatment shows signs of effectiveness while continuing to monitor safety. More participants are enrolled than in Phase 1 to help refine the treatment protocol.

Is NCT06925516 currently recruiting?

Yes, NCT06925516 is actively recruiting participants. Contact the research team at shchzh2@mail.sysu.edu.cn for enrollment information.

Where is the NCT06925516 trial being conducted?

This trial is being conducted at Guangzhou, China.

Who is sponsoring the NCT06925516 clinical trial?

NCT06925516 is sponsored by Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University. The principal investigator is Changzhen Shang, M.D, PhD at Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University. The trial plans to enroll 38 participants.

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