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RecruitingNCT04183712Updated Oct 16, 2024

Target Therapy With GEMOX in Recectable Gallbladder Carcinoma Patients Monitored by ctDNA

A Phase 2 interventional study of gemcitabine and oxaliplatin. and Afatinib in Gallbladder Carcinoma, sponsored by Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine. Recruiting at 2 sites in China. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 80 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2024-10-16.

Sponsored by Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Primary completion was expected by Jun 2025, 1 year 5 months ago, but the record still lists the study as recruiting.
  • Started Jun 2020; still recruiting 6 years 5 months later.
Phase
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
102
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years to 80 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the feasibility, efficacy and safety of target therapy according to genomic and proteomic profiling combined with GEMOX in recectable gallbladder carcinoma patients monitored by ctDNA.

Read the detailed description

Genomic profiling studies the deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) of a tumor to detect genetic changes or abnormalities. immuno-histochemistry tests reveal the abnormal activation status of signal pathways involved in study. These information will be used to recommend target therapy which may be more likely to result in a beneficial response. Patients will receive target antitumor agents according to the result of genomic and proteomic profiling and be monitored by circulating tumor DNA(ctDNA).

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Conditions studied

  • Gallbladder Carcinoma

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In context

Gallbladder Neoplasms

301 studies on the registry are indexed under Gallbladder Neoplasms; 65 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 102 is above the median of 56 across 222 interventional studies indexed under Gallbladder Neoplasms.

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Lead sponsor

Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine is the lead sponsor of 374 studies on the registry; 110 are open to participants now.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 80 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  • Chinese#
  • Stable vital signs, :0-1;
  • Patients have a diagnosis of resectable gallbladder carcinoma by histopathology or cytopathology after radical surgery.
  • Adequate fresh tumor tissue for genome sequencing and immunohistochemistry test; harboring mutations or abnormal activation of erb-b2 receptor tyrosine kinase signal pathway components
  • of more than 18 weeks;
  • T stage≥ T2 or histopathological lymph node positive according to AJCC (8th edition) staging.
  • Adequate hepatic, hematologic and renal functions(≤5× (ULN), AST≤5×ULN, the classification for class A or B, white blood cells≥3×10\^9/L, neutrophils≥1.5×10\^9/L, ≥75×10\^9/L , ≥ 90g/L, rate≥60ml/min;
  • Volunteer for this study, have written and have good Patient compliance;
  • Female patients of and their mates agree to avoid pregnancy.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Have received following treatment before this study: a. Anti-tumor molecular target therapy; anti-tumor chemotherapy in 6 months; b. lesions have been treated by irradiation; c. participate in other therapeutic or interventional clinical trials.
  • History of other except carcinoma in-situ of uterine cervix, cured basal cell carcinoma of skin and other malignancies for more than 5 years;
  • Have serious concurrent illness including, but not limited to uncontrolled congestive heart failure( classification grade III or IV), unstable angina pectoris, unstable cardiac arrhythmias, uncontrolled moderate or serious hypertension(systolic blood pressure >21.3 Kpa or diastolic blood pressure >13.3 Kpa);
  • Have ongoing or active serious infection;
  • Have uncontrolled diabetes mellitus;
  • Psychiatric illness which potentially hamper the ability to willingly give written and compliance with the study protocol;
  • Active diseases require long-term use of or received allotransplantation
  • Other serious illness considered not suitable for this study by investigators.
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(14)

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

Childbearing potential

Able to become pregnant: from the first period until menopause, unless permanently unable to through surgery (removal of the womb, or of both ovaries or both fallopian tubes).

Criteria for people of childbearing potential usually ask for a negative pregnancy test and for contraception during the study and for a time after it.

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.

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.

Autoimmune disease

A condition in which the immune system attacks the body’s own tissues, such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, psoriasis, type 1 diabetes or inflammatory bowel disease.

Immunotherapy studies often leave out active autoimmune disease, and some name exceptions, such as thyroid disease on replacement hormone. Check the exceptions this study lists.

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.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 2
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
102 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Afatinib with GEMOX

    Patients will receive targeted therapy(Afatinib 40mg orally from day 1 to day 21 combined with GEMOX chemotherapy(gemcitabine 1000 mg/m2 on days 1 and 8 of each cycle by IV infusion and oxaliplatin 100 mg/m2 on day 1 of each cycle by IV infusion)

    Drug: gemcitabine and oxaliplatin. · Drug: Afatinib

  • Active comparator
    GEMOX

    Patients will receive conventional GEMOX chemotherapy (gemcitabine 1000 mg/m2 on days 1 and 8 of each cycle by IV infusion and oxaliplatin 100 mg/m2 on day 1 of each cycle by IV infusion)

    Drug: gemcitabine and oxaliplatin.

Interventions

  • Druggemcitabine and oxaliplatin.

    GEMOX Conventional chemotherapy:gemcitabine and oxaliplatin.

    Also known as: Gemzar(Eli Lilly and Company) and Aiheng(Jiangsu Hengrui Medicine Co., Ltd.)

  • Target therapy Drug: afatinib

    Also known as: Gilotrif(Boehringer-Ingelheim)

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. 3-year DFS

    3-year disease free survival rates:The progression is defined consistent with contrast enhanced MRI/CT.

    Time frame: up to 3 years

Secondary outcomes

  1. 3-year OS

    3-year Overall survival rates

    Time frame: up to 3 years

Other outcomes

  1. sensitivity and specificity of ctDNA

    sensitivity and specificity of ctDNA compared to clinical index(CA199,CEA)for monitoring tumour progression

    Time frame: up to 2 years

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Study locations

2 of 2 sites recruiting
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reachedSimilar studies: half by the dot; the band is the middle halfHalf of similar studies reached it by the dot; the band is the middle half, from a quarter to three quarters

Started Jun 2020 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Jun 2025, 60 months after the start.

Of 43 phase 2 interventional studies under Gallbladder Neoplasms, half reached primary completion within 39 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 32 and three quarters within 54. This study's planned 60 months is above that.

How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.

Registered
Nov 28, 2019
First posted
Dec 3, 2019
StartActual
Jun 1, 2020
Primary completionEst.
Jun 2025
CompletionEst.
Dec 2025
Last update
Oct 16, 2024
What these dates mean
Start.
When the first participant enrolled; while estimated, when the study expects to open to recruitment.
Primary completion.
When the last participant was examined or treated to collect data for the study's main question, its primary outcome. A study that stopped early gives the date its data collection stopped.
Completion.
When the last participant's last visit took place, for every outcome, secondary ones and side effects included: the end of the study. Often later than primary completion, sometimes the same day.
Actual and Est.
Actual means the registry says the date has happened. Est. (estimated) is a date the sponsor plans or expects. It can still move, and the sponsor is expected to change it to actual once it has passed.
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Oct 16, 2024, 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
NCT04183712
Collaborators
Shanghai Zhongshan Hospital, Ruijin Hospital, RenJi Hospital, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Shanghai East Hospital of Tongji University, Changshu Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Qinghai People's Hospital, The Second People's Hospital of Baoshan, Yunnan Province, Lanzhou University Second Hospital, The Affiliated Hospital of Inner Mongolia Medical University, The First People's Hospital of Nantong
Responsible party
Yingbin Liu, MD, PhD, FACS (Prof., Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine) — Principal investigator
First posted
Dec 3, 2019
Start date
Jun 1, 2020
Primary completion
Jun 2025 (estimated)
Completion
Dec 2025 (estimated)
Last update
Oct 16, 2024

Study contacts

Yingbin Liu, PHD
Contact
laoniulyb@163.com
+8613918803900
Yingbin Liu, PHD
principal investigator · Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine

Oversight

FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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