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Clinical trials

Testing the Effectiveness of the Anti-cancer Drug Pidnarulex (CX-5461), in Combination With Another Anti-cancer Drug Cemiplimab (REGN2810), in Treating Refractory Microsatellite Stable Colorectal Cancer

Recruiting nowPhase 2Randomised

The trial at a glance
Registry number NCT07147231
Recruitment Recruiting now
Phase Phase 2
Design randomised, open label
Taking part 86 people (planned)
Who can join aged 18 Years and over
Run by National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Started
Main results expected
Record last updated

What is being tested

  • Procedure Biopsy Procedure
  • Procedure Biospecimen Collection
  • Biological Cemiplimab
  • Procedure Computed Tomography
  • Procedure Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Drug Pidnarulex
  • Procedure Positron Emission Tomography

What it is measuring

Recommended phase 2 dose (RP2D) of pidnarulex (CX-5461) with anti-programmed cell death protein 1 (anti-PD-1) (Phase 1)

This is the trial's main question — the one it is designed and sized to answer. Anything else it reports is a secondary finding, and secondary findings are far more likely to be chance.

Phase 2. Tests whether the treatment works well enough to be worth a larger trial. Usually too small to prove it changes survival.

How the researchers describe it

This phase I/II trial studies the side effects and best dose of pidnarulex when given together with cemiplimab and to see how well it works in treating patients with microsatellite stable (MSS) colorectal cancer (CRC) that does not respond to treatment (refractory). Pidnarulex may stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking some of the enzymes needed for cell growth. Immunotherapy with monoclonal antibodies, such as cemiplimab, may help the body's immune system attack the cancer, and may interfere with the ability of tumor cells to grow and spread. Giving pidnarulex with cemiplimab may be safe, tolerable and/or effective in treating patients with refractory MSS CRC.

Written by the trial’s sponsor, quoted from its ClinicalTrials.gov record.

What this trial is looking for

Genotype

  • Any genotype
Disease

  • Metastatic
  • Locally advanced

Read automatically from the criteria below, to make the list searchable. It is a summary of what the text mentions, not a decision about whether you qualify — and where the two disagree, the criteria are right and this is wrong.

Who the trial is looking for

Inclusion Criteria

  • Patients must have pathologically confirmed colorectal adenocarcinoma that is unresectable and/or metastatic and for which standard curative or palliative measures do not exist or are no longer effective
  • Patients must have measurable disease as defined by Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) version (v) 1.1
  • Patients must have pathologically confirmed proficient mismatch repair proteins (pMMR) and/or not microsatellite-high status (non-MSI-H). This may be confirmed by local tissue testing of the primary tumor and/or any metastatic lesion utilizing approved immunohistochemistry (for mismatch repair status) and/or polymerase chain reaction or next generation sequencing (for microsatellite status) assays. Historical (i.e., previously obtained) biopsy mismatch repair (MMR) and microsatellite instability (MSI) status may be utilized. If historical tissue is available, MMR and/or MSI testing may be performed on that tissue if not done previously. Clinical documentation of the patient's MMR and/or MSI status in the medical record may also be utilized to determine MMR and/or MSI status for the purposes of eligibility.

This is an extract. Whether you qualify is decided by the trial team against the full criteria, not by reading this page. Read the full eligibility criteria

Where it is running

Running at 6 sites. Listed in: United States.

Individual hospitals, and whether each is currently open, are listed on the registry record. Sites open and close throughout a trial.

Worth asking your oncology team

Being listed here is not a recommendation, and no one page can tell you whether a trial is right for you. These are the questions it raises.

  • Is this trial open at a hospital I could realistically travel to?
  • Given my stage, my previous treatment and my tumour's molecular profile, would I be eligible?
  • What would I be giving up by joining — is the comparison arm the treatment I would otherwise be having?
  • What is already known about the safety of what is being tested?

The source

Registry record NCT07147231, registered by National Cancer Institute (NCI) on ClinicalTrials.gov, a public database run by the US National Library of Medicine. The details on this page come from that record and are only ever as current as the sponsor has kept it.

This is a listing of a registered clinical trial, reproduced for information. It is not a recommendation, this site has no connection to the trial or its sponsor, and being listed here says nothing about whether the treatment works. Talk to your own oncology team before pursuing any trial.

This article summarises published research for general information. It is not medical advice, and it is not a substitute for a conversation with your own oncology team, who know your case. Do not start, stop, or change any treatment or supplement on the basis of what you read here.


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