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CompletedNCT05568095STAR-221Updated Sep 3, 2026

A Clinical Trial of a New Combination Treatment, Domvanalimab and Zimberelimab, Plus Chemotherapy, for People With an Upper Gastrointestinal Tract Cancer That Cannot be Removed With Surgery That Has Spread to Other Parts of the Body

A Phase 3 interventional study of Domvanalimab and Zimberelimab in Advanced Upper Gastrointestinal Tract Adenocarcinoma, sponsored by Arcus Biosciences, Inc.. Completed at 168 sites in 29 countries. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-09-03.

Sponsored by Arcus Biosciences, Inc. · Phase 3, Interventional, and Treatment

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Phase
Phase 3
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
1,040
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Where this study stands

Counted across the records on this site · 2026-11-15

Among 246 studies in Adenocarcinoma Of Esophagus with a site in United States — 53 open to participants now, 73 under way, 7 of them phase 3. Adenocarcinoma Of Esophagus · United States.

Enrollment
5th of 203
1,040 · median 49
Started
2022
with 6 others
Phase 3
13 of 246
2 open now
Registered
196th of 246
by date

Among the 246 studies in Adenocarcinoma Of Esophagus with a site in United States, this one is the 5th largest by enrollment of the 203 interventional ones that give a count, is one of 7 that started in 2022, is one of 13 in phase 3, and was the 196th registered.

Adenocarcinoma Of Esophagus

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Who these studies take

Of the 70 Adenocarcinoma Of Esophagus studies recruiting now, 60 (86%) set no upper age limit and 2 (3%) stop at 75 or younger; 4 take children under 18; 3 take healthy volunteers.

This study: 18 Years and older · all sexes · no healthy volunteers.

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Study summary

This randomized Phase 3 open-label study will compare the efficacy of the T-cell immunoglobulin and immunoreceptor tyrosine-based inhibitory motif (ITIM) domain (TIGIT) monoclonal antibody domvanalimab, the anti programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1) monoclonal antibody zimberelimab, and multiagent chemotherapy versus the anti PD-1 monoclonal antibody nivolumab and multiagent chemotherapy in the first-line treatment of participants with locally advanced unresectable or metastatic gastric, gastroesophageal junction (GEJ), and esophageal adenocarcinoma.

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Conditions studied

  • Advanced Upper Gastrointestinal Tract Adenocarcinoma

Keywords

  • Domvanalimab
  • Zimberelimab
  • Nivolumab
  • Advanced upper gastrointestinal tract adenocarcinoma
  • Gastroesophageal junction cancer
  • Esophageal adenocarcinoma
  • Gastric cancer
  • Gastric adenocarcinoma
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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years and older
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

Eligibility criteria

Key Inclusion Criteria:

  • Capable of giving signed which is in compliance with the requirements and restrictions listed in the informed consent form (ICF) and in protocol.
  • confirmed diagnosis of locally advanced unresectable or gastric, GEJ, or esophageal adenocarcinoma.
  • (ECOG) performance status of 0-1.
  • At least one measurable target lesion per (RECIST) v1.1.

Key Exclusion Criteria:

  • Underlying medical or psychiatric conditions that, in the investigator's or sponsor's opinion, will make the administration of study-specified therapy hazardous, including but not limited to:
  • Interstitial lung disease, including history of interstitial lung disease or non-infectious pneumonitis. Active viral, bacterial, or fungal infections requiring parenteral treatment within 14 days of randomization.
  • cardiovascular disease, such as Class II or greater cardiac disease or cerebrovascular accident within 3 months prior to randomization, unstable angina, or new onset angina within 3 months prior to randomization, myocardial infarction within 6 months prior to randomization, or unstable arrhythmia within 3 months prior to randomization.
  • History of prior solid-organ transplantation, including allogenic bone marrow transplantation.
  • Dementia, psychiatric, or substance abuse disorders that would interfere with satisfying the requirements of the trial.
  • Known human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 () positive tumor.
  • Known untreated, symptomatic, or actively progressing central nervous system (CNS) (brain) metastases. Participants with are excluded from enrollment.
  • Received prior systemic treatment for locally advanced unresectable or metastatic gastric, GEJ, or esophageal adenocarcinoma.
  • Disease progression within 6 months of completion of or adjuvant therapy.

Note: Other protocol defined Inclusion/Exclusion criteria may apply.

Terms in these criteria, in plain language(10)

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.

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 authorized 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.

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.

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 tumors 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 tumor 10 mm or more at its longest on a CT scan, or a lymph node 15 mm or more across its short axis.

Clinically significant

Judged by the study doctor to matter for your health or for the study. It is a doctor’s decision, so ask the study team if you are unsure whether something counts.

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.

HER2

HER2 is a protein, made from the ERBB2 gene, that drives the growth of some cancers. A study may look for a level of the protein, extra copies of the gene, or a particular change in it.

In breast cancer, protein tests are read as HER2-positive, HER2-low or HER2-negative; other cancers use their own rules. Check which test result the study requires.

Leptomeningeal disease

Cancer that has spread to the leptomeninges, the thin layers covering the brain and spinal cord, and the fluid between them. It is not the same as brain metastases.

Criteria often treat it separately, and many studies leave it out even where treated brain metastases are allowed.

Adjuvant and neoadjuvant

Neoadjuvant treatment is given before the main treatment (usually surgery), often to shrink a tumor. Adjuvant treatment is given after it, to lower the chance of the cancer coming back.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 3
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
1,040 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Domvanalimab + Zimberelimab + FOLFOX/CAPOX (PI Choice)

    Participants in this arm will receive Domvanalimab and zimberelimab doses once every 4 weeks (Q4W) in addition to chemotherapy with FOLFOX (oxaliplatin, leucovorin, fluorouracil) once every 2 weeks (Q2W) or Domvanalimab and zimberelimab once every 3 weeks (Q3W) in addition to chemotherapy with CAPOX (capecitabine and oxaliplatin) Q3W.

    Drug: Domvanalimab · Drug: Zimberelimab · Drug: Capecitabine · Drug: Fluorouracil · Drug: Leucovorin · Drug: Oxaliplatin

  • Active comparator
    Nivolumab + FOLFOX/CAPOX (PI Choice)

    Participants in this arm will receive Nivolumab Q2W and FOLFOX Q2W or Nivolumab Q3W + CAPOX Q3W.

    Drug: Capecitabine · Drug: Fluorouracil · Drug: Leucovorin · Drug: Oxaliplatin · Drug: Nivolumab

Interventions

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Overall survival

    Time frame: From date of randomization until date of death from any cause (Approximately 15 months)]

Secondary outcomes

  1. Progression-free survival (PFS)

    Time frame: From date of randomization to date of the first documentation of disease progression or date of death from any cause, whichever comes first (Approximately 15 months)

  2. Objective response rate (ORR)

    Time frame: Proportion of randomized participants who achieved a confirmed best overall response of complete response (CR) or partial response (PR) (Approximately 15 months)

  3. Duration of response (DOR)

    Time frame: From the date of first confirmed response (CR or PR), until the date of first documented disease progression or date of death from any cause, whichever comes first (Approximately 15 months)

  4. Incidence and severity of adverse events (AEs) and serious adverse events (SAEs)

    Time frame: From on or after the date of first dose of any study treatment to the date of last study treatment specific safety follow-up or date of initiation of subsequent systemic anti-cancer therapy, whichever occurs first (Approximately 15 months)

  5. Time to first symptom deterioration in the FACT-Ga gastric cancer subscale.

    Time frame: From the date of randomization to change from baseline in subscale greater than or equal to the deterioration threshold, or death from any cause, whichever comes first (Approximately 15 months)

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Study locations

168 sites
  • Research Site
    Los Angeles, California 90033, United States
  • Research Site
    Orange, California 92868, United States
  • Research Site
    Santa Monica, California 90404, United States
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    New Haven, Connecticut 06520, United States
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    Washington D.C., District of Columbia 22057, United States
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    Fort Myers, Florida 33901, United States
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    St. Petersburg, Florida 33705, United States
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    Tallahassee, Florida 32308, United States
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    Louisville, Kentucky 40202, United States
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    Louisville, Kentucky 40217, United States
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    New Orleans, Louisiana 70121, United States
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    Boston, Massachusetts 02114, United States
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    Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
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    Saint Louis Park, Minnesota 55426, United States
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    Mineola, New York 11501, United States
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    New York, New York 10016, United States
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    New York, New York 10065, United States
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    Durham, North Carolina 27710, United States
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    Cleveland, Ohio 44106, United States
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    Cleveland, Ohio 44111, United States
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    Columbus, Ohio 43219, United States
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    Mayfield Heights, Ohio 44124, United States
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    Portland, Oregon 97225, United States
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    Nashville, Tennessee 37203, United States
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    Nashville, Tennessee 37232, United States
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    Dallas, Texas 75390, United States
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    Fort Worth, Texas 76104, United States
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    Houston, Texas 77054, United States
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    Fairfax, Virginia 22031, United States
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    Seattle, Washington 98109, United States
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    Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53226, United States
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    Buenos Aires, Argentina
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    La Rioja, Argentina
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    Mar del Plata, Argentina
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    Clayton, Australia
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    Murdoch, Australia
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    Barretos, Brazil
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    Ijuí, Brazil
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    Natal, Brazil
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    Porto Alegre, Brazil
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    Halifax, Canada
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    Montreal, Canada
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    Ottawa, Canada
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    Toronto, Canada
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    La Florida, Chile
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    Port Montt, Chile
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    Providencia, Chile
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    Recoleta, Chile
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    Santiago, Chile
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    Talca, Chile
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    Changchun, China
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    Changzhou, China
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    Fuzhou, China
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    Guangzhou, China
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    Haikou, China
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    Hangzhou, China
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    Hefei, China
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    Shanghai, China
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    Tianjin, China
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    Zhengzhou, China
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    Bordeaux, France
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    Brest, France
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    Caen, France
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    Lille, France
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    Lyon, France
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    Montpellier, France
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    Plérin, France
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    Poitiers, France
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    Toulouse, France
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    Villejuif, France
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    Kutaisi, 4600, Georgia
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    Tbilisi, 112, Georgia
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    Tbilisi, 144, Georgia
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    Tbilisi, 159, Georgia
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    Tbilisi, 186, Georgia
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    Guatemala City, Guatemala
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    Quetzaltenango, Guatemala
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    Happy Valley, Hong Kong
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    Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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    Tuenmen, Hong Kong
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    Budapest, Hungary
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    Kecskemét, Hungary
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    Pécs, Hungary
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    Jerusalem, Israel
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    Petah Tikva, Israel
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    Tel Aviv, Israel
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    Florence, Italy
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    Milan, Italy
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    Milan, Italy
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    Ravenna, Italy
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    Rozzano, Italy
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    Udine, Italy
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    Akashi, Japan
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    Bunkyō City, Japan
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    Chiba, Japan
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    Fukuoka, Japan
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    Kashiwa-shi, Japan
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    Kawasaki, Japan
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    Kōtō City, Japan
  • Research Site
    Matsuyama, Japan

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References and documents

Publications

  • Yu J, Mehta R. Biomarker-Driven Approach to the Treatment of Metastatic Gastric or Gastroesophageal Adenocarcinoma. J Natl Compr Canc Netw. 2025 May;23(5):e257036. doi: 10.6004/jnccn.2025.7036. PubMed 40341124 ↗

Individual participant data

Plan to share: Yes — Arcus will provide access to individual de-identified participant data and related study documents [e.g. protocol, Statistical Analysis Plan (SAP), Clinical Study Report (CSR)] upon request from qualified researchers, and subject to certain criteria, conditions, and exceptions. For more information, please visit our website.

Supporting information: Study protocol, Statistical analysis plan, Clinical study report

Data sharing details ↗ · trials.arcusbio.com

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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reached

Ran from Nov 2022 to primary completion in Aug 2026, 45 months.

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

Registered
Oct 3, 2022
First posted
Oct 5, 2022
StartActual
Nov 21, 2022
Primary completionActual
Aug 28, 2026
CompletionActual
Aug 28, 2026
Last update
Sep 3, 2026
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 Sep 3, 2026, 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
NCT05568095
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Oct 5, 2022
Start date
Nov 21, 2022
Primary completion
Aug 28, 2026
Completion
Aug 28, 2026
Last update
Sep 3, 2026

Study contacts

Medical Director
study director · Arcus Biosciences

Oversight

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