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Not yet recruitingNCT05891080Updated Jun 6, 2023

Neoadjuvant Therapy With Toripalimab and JS004 Combined With Platinum-based Doublet Chemotherapy for Resectable or Potentially Resectable Stage III Non-small Cell Lung Cancer: A Randomised Controlled, Open-label, Phase 2 Trial

A Phase 2 interventional study of Toripalimab and JS004 in Stage III Non-small Cell Lung Cancer, sponsored by Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Shanghai, China. Not yet recruiting. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2023-06-06.

Sponsored by Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Shanghai, China · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Primary completion was expected by Jul 2025, 1 year 3 months ago, but the record still lists the study as not yet recruiting.
Phase
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
124
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

For stage III non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), neoadjuvant chemotherapy plus PD-1 antibody is recommended. However, most patients could not achieve complete pathological response (CPR). New immunotherapeutic strategy is needed to achieve higher CPR rate. JS004 is a new antibody targeting B and T lymphocyte attenuator (BTLA) which restrains the function of immune cells and leads to immune escape of tumor cells. The combination of PD-1 antibody and BTLA antibody has shown good therapeutic effect in solid tumors. This trial aims to investigate the efficacy and safety of the therapeutic regimen of toripalimab and JS004 plus chemotherapy in stage III NSCLC.

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Conditions studied

  • Stage III Non-small Cell Lung Cancer
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In context

Lung Neoplasms

7,243 studies on the registry are indexed under Lung Neoplasms; 1,557 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 124 is above the median of 60 across 5,295 interventional studies indexed under Lung Neoplasms.

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Lead sponsor

Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Shanghai, China is the lead sponsor of 149 studies on the registry; 91 are open to participants now.

Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.

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Who can participate

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

Inclusion criteria

  1. The patient shall sign the Informed Consent Form.
  2. Aged 18 ≥ years.
  3. Histological or cytological diagnosis of NSCLC by needle biopsy, and stage IIIB-IIIC confirmed by imageological examinations (CT, PET-CT or EBUS).
  4. Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance-status score of 0 or 1.
  5. Life expectancy is at least 12 weeks.
  6. At least 1 measurable lesion according to RECIST 1.1.
  7. Patients with good function of other main organs (liver, kidney, blood system, etc.)
  8. Patients with lung function can tolerate surgery;
  9. Without systematic metastasis (including M1a, M1b and M1c);
  10. Fertile female patients must voluntarily use effective contraceptives not less than 120 days after chemotherapy or the last dose of toripalimab (whichever is later) during the study period, and urine or serum pregnancy test results within 7 days prior to enrollment are negative.
  11. Unsterilized male patients must voluntarily use effective contraception during the study period not less than 120 days after chemotherapy or the last dose of toripalimab (whichever is later).

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Participants who have received any systemic anti-cancer treatment for thymic epithelial tumor, including surgical treatment, local radiotherapy, cytotoxic drug treatment, targeted drug treatment and experimental treatment;
  2. Participants with any unstable systemic disease (including active infection, uncontrolled hypertension), unstable angina pectoris, angina pectoris starting in the last three months, congestive heart failure (>= NYHA) Grade II), myocardial infarction (6 months before admission), severe arrhythmia requiring drug treatment, liver, kidney or metabolic diseases;
  3. With activate or suspectable autoimmune disease, or autoimmune paracancer syndrome requiring systemic treatment;
  4. Participants who are allergic to the test drug or any auxiliary materials;
  5. Participants with Interstitial lung disease currently;
  6. Participants with active hepatitis B, hepatitis C or HIV;
  7. Pregnant or lactating women;
  8. Participants suffering from nervous system diseases or mental diseases that cannot cooperate;
  9. Participated in another therapeutic clinical study;
  10. Other factors that researchers think it is not suitable for enrollment.
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Study design

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

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Safety run-in arm

    In this arm, 6 patients with resectable or potentially resectable stage III non-small cell lung cancer will receive 4 circles of neoadjuvant toripalimab and JS004 combined with platinum-based doublet chemotherapy and those resectable after neoadjuvant therapy will be treated with surgery.

    Drug: Toripalimab · Drug: JS004 · Drug: Pemetrexed · Drug: Nab-paclitaxel · Drug: Carboplatin · Procedure: Surgery

  • Experimental
    JS004 arm

    Patients with resectable or potentially resectable stage III non-small cell lung cancer will be randomized into this arm (59 patients) and receive 4 circles of neoadjuvant toripalimab and JS004 combined with platinum-based doublet chemotherapy and those resectable after neoadjuvant therapy will be treated with surgery.

    Drug: Toripalimab · Drug: JS004 · Drug: Pemetrexed · Drug: Nab-paclitaxel · Drug: Carboplatin · Procedure: Surgery

  • Active comparator
    Control arm

    Patients with resectable or potentially resectable stage III non-small cell lung cancer will be randomized into this arm (59 patients) and receive 4 circles of neoadjuvant toripalimab combined with platinum-based doublet chemotherapy and those resectable after neoadjuvant therapy will be treated with surgery.

    Drug: Toripalimab · Drug: Pemetrexed · Drug: Nab-paclitaxel · Drug: Carboplatin · Procedure: Surgery

Interventions

  • DrugToripalimab

    Specified dose on specified days.

  • DrugJS004

    Specified dose on specified days.

  • DrugPemetrexed

    Specified dose on specified days.

  • DrugNab-paclitaxel

    Specified dose on specified days.

  • DrugCarboplatin

    Specified dose on specified days.

  • ProcedureSurgery

    Patients with resectable tumor after neoadjuvant therapy will be treated with surgery.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Pathologic complete response (PCR) rate

    PCR rate is defined as the proportion of participants who have achieved pathologic complete response (on routine hematoxylin and eosin staining, no tumor cell can be found in tumor bed or lymph node) in all participants.

    Time frame: Up to 30 months

Secondary outcomes

  1. Objective response rate (ORR)

    ORR is defined according to the RECIST v1.1 criteria.

    Time frame: up to 30 months

  2. Major pathologic response (MPR) rate

    MPR rate is defined as the proportion of participants who have achieved major pathologic response (on routine hematoxylin and eosin staining, tumors with no more than 10% viable tumor cells) in all participants.

    Time frame: Up to 30 months

  3. Treatment-related adverse event (TRAE)

    TRAE is defined and classified according to NCI-CTCAE v5.0 in all participants.

    Time frame: Up to 30 months

  4. Rate of conversion from potentially resectable to resectable

    Rate of conversion from potentially resectable to resectable is defined as the proportion of participants with potentially resectable tumor conversed into resectable tumor in all participants with potentially resectable tumor.

    Time frame: Up to 30 months

  5. R0 resection rate

    R0 resection rate is defined as the proportion of participants who have achieved R0 resection (complete resection with no residual tumor cell in the resection margin) in all participants.

    Time frame: Up to 30 months

  6. Event-free survival (EFS)

    Event-free survival (EFS) is defined as the length of time (months) from randomization to any of the following events: any progression of disease precluding surgery, progression or recurrence disease based on response evaluation criteria in solid tumors (RECIST) 1.1 after surgery, or death due to any cause. Participants who don't undergo surgery for reason other than progression will be considered to have an event at progression or death. Progression is defined as at least a 20% increase in the sum of diameters of target lesions, taking as reference the smallest sum on study. In addition to the relative increase of 20%, the sum must also demonstrate an absolute increase of at least 5 mm. (Note: the appearance of one or more new lesions is also considered progression).

    Time frame: up to 60 months

  7. Overall survival (OS)

    It is defined as the time (months) from enrollment to death of participant due to any cause. In the case of a patient who still survives at the time of analysis, the date of last contact will be taken as the censoring date.

    Time frame: up to 60 months

  8. EORTC-QLQ-C30 scale

    The assessment is made according to the Quality of Life Scale for Lung Cancer Patients (EORTC-QLQ-C30, Version 3). EORTC's QLQ-C30 (V3.0) is a core scale for lung cancer patients, with a total of 30 items. Among them, Item 29 and 30 are divided into seven grades, which are assigned with 1 to 7 scores according to the answer options. The other items are divided into 4 grades: Not at All, A Little, Quite a Bit, and Very Much, assigned with 1 to 4 scores respectively. The higher score, the worse quality.

    Time frame: up to 5 months

  9. EORTC-QLQ-L13 scale

    The assessment is made according to the Quality of Life Scale for Lung Cancer Patients (EORTC-QLQ-LC13). EORTC's QLQ-LC13 is a core scale for lung cancer patients, with a total of 13 items. The items are divided into 4 grades: Not at All, A Little, Quite a Bit, and Very Much, assigned with 1 to 4 scores respectively. The higher score, the worse quality.

    Time frame: up to 5 months

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Study locations

No study locations are listed for this record.

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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: Undecided — The researchers will consider whether IPD is available to other researchers only after the paper is published.

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 Jun 6, 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
NCT05891080
Lead sponsor
Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Shanghai, China
Responsible party
Peng Zhang (Professor, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Shanghai, China) — Principal investigator
First posted
Jun 6, 2023
Start date
Jul 1, 2023 (estimated)
Primary completion
Jul 1, 2025 (estimated)
Completion
Jul 1, 2030 (estimated)
Last update
Jun 6, 2023

Study contacts

Peng Zhang, PhD
Contact
zhangpeng1121@tongji.edu.cn
02165115006
Peng Zhang, PhD
principal investigator · Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Shanghai, China

Oversight

FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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