A Phase 2 interventional study of Plixorafenib in Cancer Harboring BRAF Alterations, HGG and LGG, sponsored by Fore Biotherapeutics. Recruiting at 70 sites in 12 countries. Open to participants aged 8 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-07-27.
Sponsored by Fore Biotherapeutics · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment
The objective of this Master Protocol is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of plixorafenib in participants with BRAF altered (BRAF V600E or BRAF fusions) locally advanced or metastatic solid tumors, or recurrent or progressive primary central nervous system (CNS) tumors, including rare BRAF V600E-mutated solid tumors, including anaplastic thyroid, ovarian, cholangiocarcinoma or other rare cancers.
1,452 studies on the registry are indexed under Glioma; 349 are open to participants now.
This study's planned enrollment of 254 is above the median of 32 across 1,075 interventional studies indexed under Glioma.
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Subprotocol A:
Subprotocol B:
Histological diagnosis of a primary CNS tumor, including but not limited to the following:
i. Had prior treatment with radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy or concurrent chemoradiation therapy OR
ii. Is intolerant to available therapies OR iii. The investigator has determined that treatment with standard therapy is not appropriate.
Subprotocol C:
Subprotocol D:
Exclusion Criteria:
Subprotocol A:
Subprotocol B:
Subprotocol C:
Subprotocol D:
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.
A biopsy takes a small piece of tissue to examine. “Archival tissue” is a sample already taken, for example at diagnosis, and kept by the hospital.
Whether a stored sample will do depends on when it was taken, how much there is and what the study needs. Ask whether the study accepts your stored sample or needs a new biopsy.
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 line of therapy is one course of treatment, which may combine several drugs. First-line is the first course given; second-line follows when that stops working or is not tolerated.
“Two prior lines” means two courses that count separately under the study’s rules — not simply two drugs. Ask the study team if you are unsure how yours are counted.
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.
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.
A recording of the heart’s electrical activity, taken with stickers on the chest, arms and legs. It takes a few minutes and does not hurt.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Biopsy and archival tissue
A biopsy takes a small piece of tissue to examine. “Archival tissue” is a sample already taken, for example at diagnosis, and kept by the hospital.
Whether a stored sample will do depends on when it was taken, how much there is and what the study needs. Ask whether the study accepts your stored sample or needs a new biopsy.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Line of therapy
A line of therapy is one course of treatment, which may combine several drugs. First-line is the first course given; second-line follows when that stops working or is not tolerated.
“Two prior lines” means two courses that count separately under the study’s rules — not simply two drugs. Ask the study team if you are unsure how yours are counted.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
ECG (electrocardiogram)
A recording of the heart’s electrical activity, taken with stickers on the chest, arms and legs. It takes a few minutes and does not hurt.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Participants with unresectable, locally advanced or metastatic solid tumors or primary CNS tumors harboring BRAF fusions will receive plixorafenib which will be increased as tolerated, continuously in 3-week cycles until disease progression, unacceptable toxicity, or other reason for withdrawal.
Drug: Plixorafenib
Participants with recurrent primary CNS tumors harboring BRAF V600E mutations will receive plixorafenib, continuously in 3-week cycles until disease progression, unacceptable toxicity, or other reason for withdrawal.
Drug: Plixorafenib
Participants with advanced, rare, non-CNS solid tumors harboring BRAF V600E mutations will receive plixorafenib, continuously in 3-week cycles until disease progression, unacceptable toxicity, or other reason for withdrawal.
Drug: Plixorafenib
Participants with BRAF V600E-mutated advanced solid tumors will receive plixorafenib until disease progression, unacceptable toxicity, or other reason for withdrawal.
Drug: Plixorafenib
Oral tablets
Also known as: FORE8394, PLX8394, PLX-8394
Objective Response Rate (ORR) (Subprotocols A, B and C)
ORR will be determined by standard tumor response criteria by blinded independent central review (BICR).
Time frame: Up to approximately 4 years
Pharmacokinetics (Subprotocol D)
Systemic exposure of plixorafenib measured by Cmax and AUC
Time frame: Up to approximately 4 years
Duration of Response (DOR) by BICR (Subprotocols A, B and C)
DOR will be determined by standard tumor response criteria per BICR (subprotocols A-C)
Time frame: Up to approximately 4 years
ORR per Investigator Assessment
ORR will be determined by standard tumor response criteria by Investigator Assessment.
Time frame: Up to approximately 4 years
DOR per Investigator Assessment
DOR will be determined by standard tumor response criteria.
Time frame: Up to approximately 4 years
Percentage of Participants with DOR at 6 months, 12 months, and 18 months
Time frame: 6 months, 12 months and 18 months
Time to Response by BICR (Subprotocols A, B and C)
Time frame: Up to approximately 4 years
Progression Free Survival (PFS) by BICR (Subprotocols A, B and C)
Time frame: Up to approximately 4 years
PFS per Investigator's Assessment
Time frame: Up to approximately 4 years
Overall Survival
Time frame: Up to approximately 4 years
Percentage of Participants with PFS at 6 months, 12 months and 24 months
BICR (Subprotocols A, B and C) and by Investigator Assessment (Subprotocols A, B, C and D)
Time frame: 6 months, 12 months and 24 months
Disease Control Rate (DCR)
Time frame: Up to approximately 4 years
Number of Participants who Experience Treatment-emergent Adverse Events (TEAEs)
Time frame: Up to approximately 4 years
Plasma Concentrations of Plixorafenib
Time frame: Up to approximately 4 years
Plasma Concentrations of Plixorafenib Metabolites
Time frame: Up to approximately 4 years
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Plan to share: Yes — Fore is committed to sharing with qualified external researchers access to deidentified patient-level data and related study documents (eg. study protocol) from eligible studies following publication of the study results.
Supporting information: Study protocol
Time frame: Starting 6 months after publication of summary data and ending 36 months following article publication.
Access criteria: Qualified external researchers may submit a request to access deidentified patient-level data and related study documents (eg. study protocol). These requests will be reviewed and approved by an independent committee on the basis of scientific merit and may be subject to certain criteria, conditions, and exceptions. All data provided is anonymized to respect the privacy of patients who have participated in the trial in line with applicable laws and regulations.
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Started Feb 2023 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Dec 2027, 58 months after the start.
Of 131 phase 2 interventional studies under Glioma, half reached primary completion within 54 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 40 and three quarters within 88. This study's planned 58 months is close to that.
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Studies of the drug tested here: PLX8394
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