A Phase 2 interventional study of Apatinib mesylate tablets in Gastric Cancer, Apatinib and Biomarker, sponsored by The First Affiliated Hospital of Bengbu Medical University. Recruiting at 1 site in China. Open to participants aged 65 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-09-08.
Sponsored by The First Affiliated Hospital of Bengbu Medical University · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment
The study is to investigate the efficacy and safety of apatinib for the first-fine treatment in elderly patients with locally advanced or metastatic adenocarcinoma of stomach or gastroesophageal junction, unable or unwilling to chemotherapy, through progression-free survival (PFS). Apatinib will be given to patients with an efficacy assessment of stable disease (SD), partial response (PR), or complete response (CR) every 2 cycles. Patients were assigned to 500 mg/d apatinib continually until disease progression or intolerable toxicity or patients withdrawal of consent. The dose of apatinib may be decreased to 250 mg/d following the occurrence of a clinically significant adverse event (AE). Treatment will be discontinued if the subject is unable to tolerate a daily dose of 250 mg, and the sample size is about 30 individuals. Tumor tissue samples will be collected from each enrolled subjects before the start of treatment, and detected using next generation sequencing (NGS)-based comprehensive genomic profiling. The potential biomarkers in predicting apatinib efficacy or safety will be explored.
3,399 studies on the registry are indexed under Stomach Neoplasms; 992 are open to participants now.
This study's planned enrollment of 30 is below the median of 66 across 2,499 interventional studies indexed under Stomach Neoplasms.
Browse Stomach Neoplasms studies →The First Affiliated Hospital of Bengbu Medical University is the lead sponsor of 18 studies on the registry; 13 are open to participants now.
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The diagnosis was confirmed by looking at a sample under a microscope: tissue from a biopsy or surgery (histology), or cells from a fluid or needle sample (cytology).
Your pathology report is the document that shows this.
Cancer that has spread from where it began to other parts of the body. “Metastatic” cancer is cancer that has spread this way.
A scale of how much an illness limits everyday activity. For people being assessed to join a study, scores run from 0 (fully active) to 4; lower is more active.
Studies most often ask for 0–1 or 0–2. Your doctor gives the score; the WHO scale uses the same steps. The full scale also has 5, which records death.
The amount of disease can be tracked with a defined measurement, so the study can see whether it shrinks or grows. It might be a tumour measured on a scan or, in some blood cancers such as myeloma, a marker measured in blood or urine.
The criteria or the study team say which measurement counts — having no tumour visible on a scan does not by itself rule you out.
The standard rules for measuring tumours on CT or MRI scans, to tell whether a cancer is shrinking, stable or growing during treatment.
“Measurable disease per RECIST 1.1” usually means at least one tumour 10 mm or more at its longest on a CT scan, or a lymph node 15 mm or more across its short axis.
The study doctor’s estimate of how long someone is likely to live. Criteria use it so that people can stay in the study long enough for it to answer its question.
Malignancy means cancer. Criteria about another or earlier malignancy ask whether you have had a different cancer, usually within a set number of years.
Some are commonly allowed, such as treated skin cancers other than melanoma and early cancers removed completely — check the exceptions this study lists.
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Histologically or cytologically confirmed
The diagnosis was confirmed by looking at a sample under a microscope: tissue from a biopsy or surgery (histology), or cells from a fluid or needle sample (cytology).
Your pathology report is the document that shows this.
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Metastases
Cancer that has spread from where it began to other parts of the body. “Metastatic” cancer is cancer that has spread this way.
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ECOG performance status
A scale of how much an illness limits everyday activity. For people being assessed to join a study, scores run from 0 (fully active) to 4; lower is more active.
Studies most often ask for 0–1 or 0–2. Your doctor gives the score; the WHO scale uses the same steps. The full scale also has 5, which records death.
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Measurable disease
The amount of disease can be tracked with a defined measurement, so the study can see whether it shrinks or grows. It might be a tumour measured on a scan or, in some blood cancers such as myeloma, a marker measured in blood or urine.
The criteria or the study team say which measurement counts — having no tumour visible on a scan does not by itself rule you out.
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RECIST
The standard rules for measuring tumours on CT or MRI scans, to tell whether a cancer is shrinking, stable or growing during treatment.
“Measurable disease per RECIST 1.1” usually means at least one tumour 10 mm or more at its longest on a CT scan, or a lymph node 15 mm or more across its short axis.
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Life expectancy
The study doctor’s estimate of how long someone is likely to live. Criteria use it so that people can stay in the study long enough for it to answer its question.
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Cancer (malignancy)
Malignancy means cancer. Criteria about another or earlier malignancy ask whether you have had a different cancer, usually within a set number of years.
Some are commonly allowed, such as treated skin cancers other than melanoma and early cancers removed completely — check the exceptions this study lists.
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Informed consent
Before you join, the study team explains what taking part involves — its purpose, what happens, the risks and possible benefits — and answers your questions, so you can decide freely. Consent is usually recorded on a form (the informed consent form, ICF) signed by you or, where the law allows, by someone legally authorised to decide for you.
You can keep asking questions during the study, you are told of new information that matters, and you can choose to leave at any time.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
take apatinib orally (500mg/d, once a day, continuously)
Drug: Apatinib mesylate tablets
Apatinib is taken 500 mg every day orally, half hour after breakfast with warm water. The drug is taken 4 weeks one cycle until disease progression or intolerable toxicity or death. The dose of the study drug may be decreased to 250 mg/d following the occurrence of a clinically significant adverse event (AE). Treatment will be discontinued if the subject is unable to tolerate a daily dose of 250 mg.
Progression-free survival (PFS)
PFS was defined to be the time from registration to the date of disease progression or death resulting from any cause.
Time frame: 1 year
Overall survival (OS)
OS was defined to be the time from registration to the date of death resulting from any cause or the last contact.
Time frame: 2 years
Disease control rate (DCR)
DCR was defined as the proportion of patients who achieved complete response (CR ), partial response (PR) and stable disease (SD) for at least 8 weeks.
Time frame: 1 year
Objective response rate (ORR)
ORR was defined as the proportion of eligible patients who achieved a confirmed CR or PR by RECIST 1.1 criteria evaluated by the investigators.
Time frame: 1 year
Quality of life score (QoL)
QoL is a questionnaire developed to assess the quality of life of cancer patients.
Time frame: 1 year
Adverse Events(AEs)
AEs are evaluated according to National Cancer Institute Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events v4.0.
Time frame: 1 year
Tumor biomarkers
Tumor tissue samples will be applied to next generation sequencing (NGS) detection to reveal any gene variation through comprehensive genomic profiling.
Time frame: Before the start of apatinib treatment
Plan to share: No
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Started Sep 2017 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Aug 2027, 119 months after the start.
Of 293 non-industry phase 2 interventional studies under Stomach Neoplasms, half reached primary completion within 57 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 32 and three quarters within 76. This study's planned 119 months is above that.
Counting every sponsor, half of 358 studies reached it within 50 months; a quarter within 31 and three quarters within 75.
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