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Not yet recruitingNCT05883176B-TACEUpdated May 31, 2023

TACE Combined With Bevacizumab in HCC (BCLC-B) Beyond Up-To-Seven Criteria

A Phase 2 interventional study of Bevacizumab Biosimilar QL 1101 in Hepatocellular Carcinoma by BCLC Stage, sponsored by Sun Yat-sen University. Not yet recruiting at 1 site in China. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 70 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2023-05-31.

Sponsored by Sun Yat-sen University · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Primary completion was expected by May 2025, 1 year 4 months ago, but the record still lists the study as not yet recruiting.
Phase
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
35
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
18 Years to 70 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (TACE) combined with anti-VEGF (Bevacizumab Biosimilar) in patients with BCLC-B stage hepatocellular carcinoma beyond up-to-seven criteria.

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This is a prospective, single-arm, phase II study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of TACE combined with anti-VEGF (Bevacizumab Biosimilar) in patients with BCLC-B stage hepatocellular carcinoma beyond up-to-seven criteria. Subjects who meet the admission criteria will be treated with Bevacizumab Biosimilar after TACE until disease progression, intolerable toxicity, death, patient withdrawal or the investigators determine that the drug must be discontinued.

The primary outcome is the objective response rate (ORR). The secondary outcomes include the duration of response (DOR), disease control rate (DCR), progression-free survival (PFS), overall survival rate (OSR) in 6- and 12-months, the median progression-free survival time (mPFS) and median overall survival time (mOS). This study also aims to assess the safety and adverse events of TACE combined with anti-VEGF (Bevacizumab Biosimilar) for HCC (BCLC-B stage) beyond up-to-seven criteria.

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Conditions studied

  • Hepatocellular Carcinoma by BCLC Stage

Keywords

  • TACE
  • Bevacizumab Biosimilar
  • Hepatocellular carcinoma
  • Beyond up to seven criteria
  • Combination therapy
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In context

Carcinoma

6,741 studies on the registry are indexed under Carcinoma; 1,161 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 35 is below the median of 45 across 5,170 interventional studies indexed under Carcinoma.

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Lead sponsor

Sun Yat-sen University is the lead sponsor of 1,644 studies on the registry; 602 are open to participants now.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 70 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

  1. The patient voluntarily joined the study and signed an informed consent form;
  2. ≥18 and ≤ 70 years old, both male and female;
  3. Clinically diagnosed or pathologically confirmed hepatocellular carcinoma, at least one measurable focus without local treatment (according to mRECIST requirements, the measurable focus spiral CT scan length ≥ 10 mm or enlargement Short diameter of lymph node ≥15 mm);
  4. Child-Pugh score ≤ 7 points;
  5. BCLC-B stage and multiple tumors beyond up-to-seven criteria;
  6. Newly diagnosed patients who have not received targeted therapy or immunotherapy in the past;
  7. ECOG score: 0~1;
  8. Expected survival period ≥ 12 weeks;
  9. The functions of vital organs meet the following requirements (no blood components, cell growth factors and other corrective treatment drugs are allowed within 14 days before the first administration):
  10. The absolute count of neutrophils≥1.5×109/L; Platelet ≥80×109/L; Hemoglobin ≥90 g/L; Serum albumin ≥28 g/L; Thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH)≤1×ULN (if abnormal, the levels of FT3 and FT4 should be examined at the same time, if the levels of FT3 and FT4 are normal, they can be included in the group); Bilirubin≤1.5×ULN (within 7 days before the first administration); ALT and AST ≤3×ULN (within 7 days before the first dose); AKP≤ 2.5×ULN; Serum creatinine≤1.5×ULN;
  11. Non-surgical sterilization or female patients of childbearing age need to use a medically approved contraceptive method (such as an intrauterine device, contraceptive, or condom) during the study treatment period and within 3 months after the end of the study treatment period; Female patients of childbearing age who undergo surgical sterilization must be negative in serum or urine HCG within 72 hours before enrollment in the study; and must be non-lactating; for male patients whose partners are women of childbearing age, at the last time use effective methods for contraception within 3 months.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. The patient has any active autoimmune disease or a history of autoimmune disease;
  2. The patient is using immunosuppressive agents or systemic hormone therapy to achieve the purpose of immunosuppression (dose>10mg/day prednisone or other curative hormones), and continues to use it within 2 weeks before enrollment;
  3. The number of system treatment lines ≥ 2 lines;
  4. Severe allergic reaction to other monoclonal antibodies;
  5. Those with a known history of central nervous system metastasis or hepatic encephalopathy;
  6. Patients who have received liver transplantation in the past;
  7. Ascites with clinical symptoms, those who need puncture, drainage, or those who have received ascites drainage within the past 3 months, except those who have only a small amount of ascites on imaging but not accompanied by clinical symptoms;
  8. Suffer from high blood pressure and cannot be well controlled by antihypertensive drugs (systolic blood pressure ≥140 mmHg or diastolic blood pressure ≥90 mmHg);
  9. Uncontrolled cardiac clinical symptoms or diseases, such as: NYHA level 2 or higher heart failure, unstable angina pectoris, myocardial infarction occurred within 1 year, clinically significant supraventricular or ventricular arrhythmia requires treatment or intervention , QTc>450ms (male); QTc>470ms (female);
  10. Abnormal coagulation function (INR>2.0, PT>16s), have bleeding tendency or are receiving thrombolysis or anticoagulation therapy, and allow the preventive use of low-dose aspirin and low molecular heparin;
  11. Significant clinically significant bleeding symptoms or clear bleeding tendency occurred within 3 months before randomization, such as pertussis/hemoptysis 2.5ml or more, gastrointestinal bleeding, esophageal and gastric varices with bleeding risk, hemorrhagic stomach Ulcer or vasculitis, etc., if the stool occult blood is positive at the baseline, it can be re-examined. If it is still positive after the re-examination, a gastroscopy is required. If the gastroscope shows severe esophageal and gastric varices, it cannot be included in the group (3 before the group) Except those who have undergone gastroscopy within a month or less to exclude such cases);
  12. Arterial/venous thrombosis events that occurred within 6 months before randomization, such as cerebrovascular accidents (including temporary ischemic attacks, cerebral hemorrhage, cerebral infarction), deep vein thrombosis, and pulmonary embolism;
  13. Known genetic or acquired bleeding and thrombotic tendency (such as hemophilia patients, coagulation dysfunction, thrombocytopenia, etc.); Urine routine test showed urine protein ≥ ++ and confirmed 24-hour urine protein content> 1.0 g;
  14. Patients who have previously received radiotherapy, chemotherapy, hormone therapy, and surgery, after the completion of the treatment (last medication) and less than 4 weeks before the study medication; molecular targeted therapy (including other oral targeted drugs used in clinical trials) is less than the first study medication \<5 drug half-lives, or patients whose adverse events (except alopecia) caused by previous treatment have not recovered to ≤ CTCAE level 1;
  15. The patient has active infection, fever of unknown origin within 7 days before medication ≥38.5℃, or baseline white blood cell count >15×109/L; Patients with congenital or acquired immune deficiencies (such as HIV-infected persons);
  16. Patients with HBV DNA>2000 IU/ml (or 104 copies/ml), HCV RNA>103 copies/ml, HBsAg+ and anti-HCV antibody positive;
  17. The patient suffered from other malignant tumors in the past 3 years or at the same time (except for cured skin basal cell carcinoma and cervical carcinoma in situ);
  18. Patients with bone metastases who received palliative radiotherapy within 4 weeks before participating in the study >5% of the bone marrow area;
  19. The patient has previously received other anti-PD-1 antibody therapy or other immunotherapy against PD-1/PD-L1, or has previously received apatinib therapy;
  20. Live vaccine may be vaccinated less than 4 weeks before study medication or may be administered during the study period;
  21. According to the judgment of the investigator, the patient has other factors that may affect the results of the study or cause the study to be terminated halfway, such as alcoholism, drug abuse, other serious diseases (including mental illness) that require combined treatment, and serious laboratory tests
  22. Abnormalities, accompanied by family or social factors, will affect the safety of patients.
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Study design

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

Study arms

  • Experimental
    B-TACE

    TACE Combined With Bevacizumab Biosimilar

    Drug: Bevacizumab Biosimilar QL 1101

Interventions

  • DrugBevacizumab Biosimilar QL 1101

    TACE + Bevacizumab (15mg/kg, intra-arterial infusion, Q3W) for 4 cycles, followed by maintenance therapy with Bevacizumab (15mg/kg, intravenously, Q3W) to a maximum total cycle of 18 unless any evidence of disease progression or unacceptable side effects.

    Also known as: TACE

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Objective response rate (ORR) by RECIST 1.1 and mRECIST

    ORR is defined as the percentage of participants who have best overall response (BOR) of complete response (CR) or partial response (PR) at the time of data cutoff as assessed by RECIST 1.1 and mRECIST

    Time frame: From date of first dose of study drug until disease progression, development of unacceptable toxicity, withdrawal of consent, or sponsor termination (up to 2 years)

Secondary outcomes

  1. Disease control rate (DCR)

    DCR is defined as the percentage of participants who have best overall response (BOR) of complete response (CR) or partial response (PR) or stable disease (SD) at the time of data cutoff as assessed by RECIST 1.1 and mRECIST.

    Time frame: From date of first dose of study drug until disease progression, stable disease, development of unacceptable toxicity, withdrawal of consent, or sponsor termination (up to 2 years)

  2. Duration of response (DOR) by RECIST 1.1 and mRECIST

    DOR is defined as the time from the first documentation of CR or PR to the date of first documentation of disease progression or death (whichever occurs first) as assessed by RECIST 1.1 and mRECIST.

    Time frame: From the first documentation of CR or PR to the first date of documentation of disease progression or death whichever occurs first (up to 2 years)

  3. Progression-free survival (PFS) by RECIST 1.1 and mRECIST

    assessed by RECIST 1.1 and mRECIST.

    Time frame: From date of first dose of study drug to the date of first documentation of disease progression or death, whichever occurs first (up to 2 years)

  4. Overall survival rate (OSR)

    OSR in 6- and 12-months.

    Time frame: From date of first dose of study drug to the date of first documentation of death from any cause, whichever occurs first (up to 2 years)

  5. Progression-free survival time (mPFS)

    The progression-free survival time (mPFS) defined as the time from the first study dose date to the date of first documentation of disease progression as assessed by RECIS.

    Time frame: From date of first dose of study drug to the date of first documentation of death from any cause, whichever occurs first (up to 2 years)

  6. Median overall survival time (mOS)

    ase (date of first study dose) until date of death from any cause. Participants who are lost to follow-up and the participants who are alive at the date of data cutoff will be censored at the date the participant was last known alive or the cut-off date, whichever comes earlier.

    Time frame: From the start date of the Treatment Phase until date of death from any cause (up to 2 years)

Other outcomes

  1. Treatment-related adverse events

    Number of participants with treatment-related adverse events as assessed by CTCAE v5.0.

    Time frame: From the start date of the Treatment Phase until date of death from any cause (up to 2 years)

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Study locations

1 site
  • Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center
    Guangzhou, Guangdong 510060, China
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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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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on May 31, 2023, 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
NCT05883176
Lead sponsor
Sun Yat-sen University
Responsible party
Fei Gao (Chief physician, Sun Yat-sen University) — Principal investigator
First posted
May 31, 2023
Start date
Jun 1, 2023 (estimated)
Primary completion
May 31, 2025 (estimated)
Completion
Jul 1, 2025 (estimated)
Last update
May 31, 2023

Study contacts

Fei Gao, Ph.D., M.D.
Contact
gaof@sysucc.org.cn
86-13760869828
Han Qi, M.D.
Contact
Qih@sysucc.org.cn
86-15920316143
Fei Gao, Ph.D., M.D.
principal investigator · Sun Yat-sen University

Oversight

FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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