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Status unknownNCT03439761Updated Mar 16, 2018

An Open-label Phase I/II Clinical Trial of PT-112 Injection for Advanced Solid Tumors and Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma

A Phase 1/2 interventional study of PT-112 Injection in Advanced Solid Tumors, sponsored by SciClone Pharmaceuticals. Status unknown at 1 site in China. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 75 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2018-03-16.

Sponsored by SciClone Pharmaceuticals · Phase 1/2, Interventional, and Treatment

The sponsor has not verified this record recently (last verified Mar 2018), so the status shown — last known as Recruiting — may be out of date.
Phase
Phase 1/2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
125
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
18 Years to 75 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

Use PT-112 alone for Phase I dose escalation stage: advanced solid tumors, Phase I dose confirmation stage: advanced solid tumors. Phase II hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). To evaluate the safety and tolerability of PT-112 injection from 250mg/m2 dose level with 3+3 dose escalation design, find Maximum tolerated dose (MTD), Recommended Phase II Dose(RP2D) and evaluate the Pharmacokinetic (PK) profile of PT-112 through Phase I dose escalation stage. Phase I dose confirmation stage: evaluate the safety and tolerability of PT-112 with RP2D, evaluate the anti-tumor effect of PT-112 at RP2D. Phase II stage: evaluate the anti-tumor effect of PT-112 at RP2D in advanced HCC

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This is a multicenter, open-label, phase I/II clinical trial that includes the dose escalation stage, dose confirmation stage and phase II stage.

In dose escalation stage, a 3+3 trial design is adopted for dose escalation. Three dose groups are designed: 200, 250 and 300 mg/m2, once weekly; 28 days constitute a period. The drug is intravenously dripped for 60 minutes at the 1st, 8th and 15th day of each period. The safety, tolerability, PK and preliminary antitumor effect of PT-112 injection alone are evaluated. After Dose limited toxicity (DLT) evaluation is completed for all the patients in a dose group, the Safety Monitoring Committee (SMC) will evaluate the safety and PK of the dose group based on the resulting data, and decide whether the dose should be escalated, and whether the dosing regimen or PK sampling points should be adjusted.

After dose escalation is completed, the RP2D is selected by SMC for dose confirmation. Dose confirmation study will include approximately 10 patients each of the following six types of tumors:

Group 1: Hepatocellular carcinoma Group 2: Gastric cancer Group 3: Colorectal cancer Group 4: Non-small cell lung cancer Group 5: Head and neck cancer Group 6: Breast cancer If it is difficult to include the patients with a specific type of tumor, or if the tumor is not sensitive to the efficacy of investigational drug, the SMC may discuss and decide to prematurely terminate inclusion of patients in that group.

After sufficient data are obtained in dose confirmation stage, the SMC may discuss and decide to initiate phase II trial. Phase II trial plans to include about 40 subjects to evaluate the anti-tumor effect and safety of the monotherapy in patients with advanced HCC who have previously received only one systemic anticancer therapy.

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Conditions studied

  • Advanced Solid Tumors
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In context

Lead sponsor

SciClone Pharmaceuticals is the lead sponsor of 16 studies on the registry; 3 are open to participants now.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 75 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  • Age ≥ 18 years old and ≤ 75 years old, male or female
  • Local advanced or solid tumors confirmed by histopathology or cytology that do not respond to standard treatment or have no standard effective treatment (including but not limited to hepatocellular carcinoma, gastric cancer, colorectal cancer, non-small cell lung cancer, head and neck cancer, and breast cancer)
  • Compliance with the requirements for type of tumor in the group in dose confirmation stage;
  • (ECOG) physical score: 0 or 1
  • Lesions that can be assessed by imaging according to the (RECIST) 1.1 (not required in dose escalation stage);
  • Expected survival>12 weeks;
  • Subjects should have appropriate organ function and should meet the following requirements for laboratory test results before inclusion:

Generally normal bone marrow reserve: (ANC)

≥1.5*10\^9/L, count≥100*10\^9/L and ≥90 g/L; Generally normal liver function: serum albumin ≥3.0 g/dL; ≤1.5× (ULN), (ALT) and Aspartate aminotransferase (AST) ≤ 2.5×ULN, ALT or AST ≤5×ULN for patients with liver metastases or primary liver cancer; Normal renal function: creatinine ≤1.5×ULN or ≥60ml/min (according to Cockcroft-Gault formula); Generally normal coagulation function: (INR)≤1.5×ULN, activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT) ≤1.5×ULN; Cardiac function: (LVEF)≥ 50%;

  • Women of childbearing age (defined as women under 50 years old or above 50 years old who have an amenorrhea period shorter than 12 months before inclusion in the study) who show negative in serum β-human chorionic gonadotrophin (β-HCG) test;
  • Subjects with history of who are diagnosed with stable disease not requiring treatment with or anticonvulsant, regardless of previous radiotherapy;
  • Signing of form before participation in the study.

Other inclusion criteria for the phase II trial:

  • Advanced HCC diagnosed by histopathology or cytology that cannot be surgically removed or progresses after intervention/local treatment, previous treatment with one systemic anti-cancer chemotherapy, Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer (BCLC) staging: Stage C, A and mild grade B (≤7);

    • Lesions that can be assessed by imaging according to the RECIST 1.1;

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Untreated active hepatitis (: HBsAg positive with abnormal liver function and hepatitis B virus(HBV)-DNA ≥ 2000international unit (IU)/ml; : hepatitis C virus (HCV)-RNA positive and abnormal liver function);
  • antitumor immunoregulation therapy, therapy, > 20 mg/day (unless used to prevent contrast agent reactions during radiotherapy), growth factor therapy (such as erythropoietin) or transfusion therapy within 14 days before use of the drug;
  • Unrecovered toxic and side effects caused by previous treatment ( ≤ grade 1), except hair loss and other tolerable events judged by the investigators;
  • Any grade of peripheral neuropathy within 28 days prior to use of the investigational drug;
  • Known allergy or to platinum drugs;
  • Antitumor therapy like chemotherapy, biotherapy, radiotherapy, endocrine therapy, target therapy (except Nitrourea, mitomycin C) within 4 weeks before use of the investigational drug. Use Nitrourea or mitomycin C within 6 weeks before use of the investigational drug.
  • Major surgery within 28 days before use of the investigational drug;
  • Acute bacterial, viral or fungal infections requiring systemic treatment or unexplained fever during screening before the first administration of drug (body temperature> 38.5℃);
  • Moderate or massive effusion of body cavity need treatment;
  • History of mental illness;
  • (HIV) carriers or Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) patients;
  • Any of the following conditions within six months before sign form : uncontrolled congestive heart failure ( grade 2 or 4), angina pectoris, myocardial infarction, stroke (except lacunar infarction), coronary/peripheral artery bypass surgery, pulmonary embolism);
  • Uncontrolled arrhythmia or persistent prolongation, > 450 ms for men or > 470 ms for women;
  • Use of any investigational drug or device within 28 days before the use of investigational drug;
  • Pregnant or lactating women;
  • Women of childbearing age and fertile men who cannot take effective adequate double during the study or within three months after completion of the study;
  • Any other conditions based on which the investigators believe that the patient should not participate in the study;

Other exclusion criteria for the phase II trial:

  • Patients with advanced HCC who have received more than two kinds of systemic chemotherapy (but not including targeted therapies or immunity like programmed death(PD)-1 or PD-L1 antibody treatment).
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(27)

Underlined terms in the criteria open these too. Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.

Metastases

Cancer that has spread from where it began to other parts of the body. “Metastatic” cancer is cancer that has spread this way.

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.

0
Fully active, no restrictions.
1
Limited in strenuous activity, but walking and able to do light work, such as housework or office work.
2
Walking and able to look after yourself, but unable to work; up and about more than half of waking hours.
3
Able to look after yourself only in part; in bed or a chair more than half of waking hours.
4
Unable to look after yourself at all; in bed or a chair all day.

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.

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.

Absolute neutrophil count (ANC)

The number of neutrophils, white blood cells that help fight infection, in a given amount of blood. Too few raises the risk of infection.

It is a count, not a percentage of the white cells. Limits are written in units that mean the same: ≥ 1.5 × 10⁹/L is ≥ 1,500 per mm³ (µL). Each lab has its own reference range.

Platelets

Blood cells that help blood clot. Too few raises the risk of bleeding and bruising. A usual adult range is about 150–400 × 10⁹/L (150,000–400,000 per µL); each lab has its own reference range.

Hemoglobin (Hb)

The protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen. A low level is anaemia, which can cause tiredness and breathlessness. Measured in g/dL or g/L (9 g/dL is 90 g/L).

Bilirubin

A yellow substance made when red blood cells are broken down, which the liver clears. A high level can mean a problem with the liver or the bile ducts.

Criteria often allow more for people with Gilbert’s syndrome, a harmless inherited condition that raises bilirubin.

ULN (upper limit of normal)

The top of the normal range for a blood test, as set by the laboratory that runs it. Each lab prints its own range next to your result.

“≤ 2.5 × ULN” means the result can be up to two and a half times that top value.

ALT and AST (liver enzymes)

Two enzymes measured in a routine blood test of the liver. Higher levels can mean the liver is under strain or damaged. SGPT and SGOT are older names for ALT and AST.

Criteria usually give a limit as a multiple of the upper limit of normal (ULN), often higher when cancer has spread to the liver.

Creatinine clearance (CrCl)

How quickly the kidneys clear creatinine, a waste product, from the blood. A study may estimate it from a blood test with age, weight and sex (often by the Cockcroft–Gault formula), or measure it using blood and urine collected over a set time. Given in mL/min; higher is better.

INR, PT and aPTT (clotting tests)

Blood tests of how long blood takes to clot. The INR is the prothrombin time (PT) put on a common scale; about 1 is usual for someone not taking a blood thinner.

Criteria often make an exception for people on a blood thinner such as warfarin, whose INR is raised on purpose.

LVEF (left ventricular ejection fraction)

The share of blood the heart’s main pumping chamber (the left ventricle) pushes out with each beat, measured by an echocardiogram (heart ultrasound) or a MUGA scan. About 50–70% is normal.

Brain metastases

Cancer deposits in the brain from a cancer that started elsewhere in the body (CNS metastases include the spinal cord).

Studies differ: some leave out any brain metastases, some accept ones treated and stable for some weeks. Check what this study allows.

Corticosteroids (steroids)

Anti-inflammatory medicines such as prednisone, prednisolone and dexamethasone — not the anabolic steroids used for muscle.

Studies differ in what they allow: check which steroid medicines, routes (tablets, injections, creams, inhalers, eye drops) and doses this study accepts.

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.

Child-Pugh class

A score of how well the liver works in people with liver disease such as cirrhosis: class A is mild, B moderate and C severe.

Hepatitis B tests

Hepatitis B is a virus that infects the liver. These are separate tests: HBsAg positive usually means a current infection (a recent vaccination can briefly cause it too); total anti-HBc (HBcAb) positive means an infection now or in the past; HBV DNA measures how much virus is in the blood.

Some studies accept a past infection if HBV DNA is undetectable, sometimes with antiviral medicine during the study. Check what this study allows.

Hepatitis C tests

Hepatitis C is a virus that infects the liver. An HCV antibody test can stay positive after an infection has cleared (and is occasionally positive without one); an HCV RNA test shows whether the virus is there now.

After treatment, hepatitis C counts as cured when HCV RNA is still undetectable 12 weeks or more after the treatment ended. Studies often accept people cured this way.

Immunosuppression

A weakened immune system. It can come from an illness, such as HIV or some blood cancers, or from medicines that turn the immune system down, for example after an organ transplant or for an autoimmune disease; steroids at higher doses count.

Read whether the line is about a condition or about medicines, and which medicines and doses it means.

Investigational drug or device

A drug or device being studied in a clinical trial.

It may be new, or already approved and being studied for another use, dose or form. Criteria often leave out people who took part in another study of one within a recent period, commonly 30 days or five half-lives.

CTCAE grade

The US National Cancer Institute’s scale of how severe an adverse event is — any unwanted medical event during a study, such as a symptom, an illness or an abnormal test result, whether or not a treatment caused it. Whether it did is judged separately.

1
Mild.
2
Moderate.
3
Severe.
4
Life-threatening.
5
Death due to the event.

“Side effects of earlier treatment resolved to grade 1 or less” means they have settled to mild or gone.

Hypersensitivity

An allergy, or another reaction of the immune system, to a substance. “Hypersensitivity to the study drug” means a known allergic reaction to it — not every side effect a medicine can have.

HIV

The human immunodeficiency virus, which weakens the immune system.

Many studies now accept people whose HIV is controlled on treatment, judged by the viral load and the CD4 count. Check the limits this study sets.

NYHA class (heart failure)

The New York Heart Association’s four classes of how much heart failure limits physical activity.

I
No limits: ordinary activity causes no undue tiredness or breathlessness.
II
Slight limits: comfortable at rest, ordinary activity causes symptoms.
III
Marked limits: comfortable at rest, less than ordinary activity causes symptoms.
IV
Symptoms even at rest; any activity makes them worse.

Studies set their own limit — many outside heart failure leave out class III–IV, while heart failure studies may ask for a particular class. Check the class this study names.

QT and QTc

On an ECG, the QT interval is the time the heart’s lower chambers take to activate electrically and recover in each beat. QTc is that time adjusted for heart rate (QTcF by Fridericia’s formula, QTcB by Bazett’s). Some medicines lengthen it, and a long QTc can raise the risk of a dangerous heart rhythm.

The study may name a correction formula and a limit in milliseconds, often around 450–480.

Contraception

Ways of preventing pregnancy. “Highly effective” methods fail less than 1% of the time a year when used correctly — for example an IUD or an implant.

Criteria usually say which methods count and how long to keep using them after the last dose, sometimes for male participants too. Some studies accept a partner’s vasectomy if it was confirmed successful and that person is the participant’s only sexual partner.

PD-1, PD-L1 and checkpoint inhibitors

PD-1, PD-L1 and CTLA-4 are proteins that act as brakes on the immune system. Checkpoint inhibitors, such as pembrolizumab or nivolumab, block them so the immune system can attack a cancer.

PD-L1 can also be measured in a tumour sample. Some scores count stained tumour cells only (TPS); others also count certain immune cells (CPS). The study names the score and the minimum it uses.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 1 / Phase 2
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
125 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    PT-112 Injection

    PT-112 Injection alone

    Drug: PT-112 Injection

Interventions

  • PT-112 Injection 28 days constitute a period. The drug is intravenously dripped for 60 minutes at the 1st, 8th and 15th day of each period.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Adverse Event (AE)

    The primary outcome for Phase I dose escalation stage

    Time frame: Informed consent form (ICF) signed till 28days after end of treatment

  2. Dose Limited Toxicity (DLT)

    The primary outcome for Phase I dose escalation stage

    Time frame: First dose till 28days after 1st dosing. (1st cycle treatment)

  3. AE

    The primary outcome for Phase I dose confirmation stage

    Time frame: ICF signed till 28days after end of treatment

  4. Disease Control Rate (DCR)

    The primary outcome for Phase II (rate of complete response(CR)+partial response (PR)+stable disease(SD))

    Time frame: subject enrolled till disease progress estimate 6 months after first dosing.

Secondary outcomes

  1. DCR

    The secondary outcome for Phase I (rate of CR+PR+SD)

    Time frame: subject enrolled till disease progress estimate 6 months after first dosing.

  2. Objective Response Rate (ORR)

    The secondary outcome for Phase I/II (rate of CR+PR)

    Time frame: subject enrolled till disease progress estimate 6 months after first dosing.

  3. Progress Free Survival(PFS)

    The secondary outcome for Phase I/II

    Time frame: enrolled study till first disease progress estimate 6 months after first dosing.

  4. Peak Plasma Concentration (Cmax)

    The secondary outcome for Phase I dose escalation stage including: Cmax for PT-112.

    Time frame: collect PK blood sample in first and second cycles (28 and 56 days after 1st dosing)

  5. Area under the plasma concentration versus time curve (AUC)

    The secondary outcome for Phase I dose escalation stage including: AUC for PT-112.

    Time frame: collect PK blood sample in first and second cycles (28 and 56 days after 1st dosing)

  6. Peak time (Tmax)

    The secondary outcome for Phase I dose escalation stage including: Tmax for PT-112

    Time frame: collect PK blood sample in first and second cycles (28 and 56 days after 1st dosing)

  7. AE

    The secondary outcome for Phase II

    Time frame: AE from ICF signed till 28days after end of treatment

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Study locations

1 of 1 sites recruiting
  • Shanghai East Hospital
    Shanghai, Shanghai 200123, China
    Recruiting
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: Yes

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Mar 16, 2018, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT03439761
Lead sponsor
SciClone Pharmaceuticals
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Feb 20, 2018
Start date
Mar 7, 2018
Primary completion
May 2020 (estimated)
Completion
Jul 2020 (estimated)
Last update
Mar 16, 2018

Study contacts

Crystal Qin, MD, PhD
Contact
cqin@sciclone.com
86-021-23193802
Jin Li, MD
Contact
tianyoulijin@163.com
86-021-38804518
Jin Li, MD
principal investigator · Shanghai East Hospital

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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