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MASCT-I Combined With Doxorubicin and Ifosfamide for First-line Treatment of Advanced Soft Tissue Sarcoma

A Phase 2 interventional study of MASCT-I and Doxorubicin in Leiomyosarcoma, Liposarcoma and Synovial Sarcoma, sponsored by HRYZ Biotech Co.. Recruiting at 1 site in China. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 70 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2025-07-24.

Sponsored by HRYZ Biotech Co. · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Primary completion was expected by Feb 2026, 9 months ago, but the record still lists the study as recruiting.
  • Started Feb 2024; still recruiting 2 years 8 months later.
Phase
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
148
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years to 70 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

This study will evaluate the safety and efficacy of MASCT-I combined with Doxorubicin and Ifosfamide for first-line treatment in patients with advanced soft tissue sarcoma.

Read the detailed description

This is a multicenter, randomized, open-label study to evaluate the safety and efficacy of MASCT-I combined with Doxorubicin and Ifosfamide for first-line treatment in patients with metastatic or recurrent unresectable advanced soft tissue sarcoma.

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Conditions studied

  • Leiomyosarcoma
  • Liposarcoma
  • Synovial Sarcoma
  • Angiosarcoma
  • Undifferentiated Pleomorphic Sarcoma
  • Epithelioid Sarcoma
  • Malignant Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumors
  • Fibrosarcoma
  • Pleomorphic Rhabdomyosarcoma
  • Endometrial Stromal Sarcoma
  • Desmoplastic Small Round Cell Tumor
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In context

Leiomyosarcoma

177 studies on the registry are indexed under Leiomyosarcoma; 35 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 148 is above the median of 54 across 151 interventional studies indexed under Leiomyosarcoma.

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Lead sponsor

HRYZ Biotech Co. is the lead sponsor of 8 studies on the registry; 4 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 to 70 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

Go through the criteria one by one — yes, no or not sure — and take the list to your doctor or the study team. Kept in this browser only.

Inclusion criteria

  1. Age≥18 years and≤70 years;
  2. According to WHO Classification of Tumours, 5th Edition, Volume 3: Soft Tissue and Bone Tumours, histopathologically or confirmed unresectable locally advanced or soft tissue sarcomas, including leiomyosarcoma, liposarcoma, synovial sarcoma, angiosarcoma, undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma, epithelioid sarcoma, malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors, fibrosarcoma, pleomorphic rhabdomyosarcoma, endometrial stromal sarcoma, desmoplastic small round cell tumor.
  3. No previous treatment with systematic chemotherapy or targeted therapy for advanced soft tissue sarcomas or whose disease progressed after 6months of the end of or adjuvant therapy.
  4. At least one measurable and assessable lesion defined by 1.1;
  5. performance status of 0-1;
  6. Estimated ≥6 months;
  7. Pulmonary function is basically normal;
  8. Subjects with organ function as defined below (any blood components and growth factors are not allowed within 14 days before apheresis): a) ≥90g/L; b) Leukocyte≥3.5x10\^9/L; c) The (ANC)>1.5x10\^9/L; d) ≥100x10\^9/L; e) , AST≤2.5 (Upper Limit of Normal), ALT, AST≤5 ULN for liver metastases; f) ALP≤2.5 ULN; g) Serum total ≤1.5 ULN; Patients with Gilbert's syndromes (persistent or repeated hyperbilirubinemia [mainly unconjugated bilirubin], in the absence of evidence of hemolysis or liver disease), are allowed to enroll with investigator's agreement; h) Serum urea nitrogen or urea and creatinine≤2.5 ULN; i) Serum albumin≥35g/L; j) PT, , INR≤1.5 ULN (without anticoagulation treatment);
  9. Obtain the written of the patient/legal representative;
  10. Subjects with potential fertility must agree to use effective measure during and within 6 months after the treatment period. HCG test for female with potential fertility must be negative before the study was included.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Previous treatment with targeted therapy, radiotherapy (radiotherapy to non-target lesions or disease progressed after radiotherapy could be included.) or other antineoplastic drugs such as anlotinib, gemcitabine, within 4 weeks before randomization, or have received Chinese medicine or proprietary Chinese medicine for anti-tumor treatment within 2 weeks before randomization.
  2. Highly differentiated liposarcoma, malignant perivascular epithelioid tumor, protuberant cutaneous fibrosarcoma, extraosseous osteosarcoma, solitary fibroma/hemangiopericytoma, acinous soft tissue sarcoma, extraosseous myxoid chondrosarcoma, gastrointestinal stromal tumor, invasive fibroma, renal angiomyolipoma, malignant mesothelioma, clear cell sarcoma, Ewing's sarcoma, etc., which are not suitable for Doxorubicin+ Ifosfamide (AI) treatment.
  3. Previous treatment with anthracyclines or anthraquinones and whose cumulative dose exceeds equivalent 200mg/m2 doxorubicin.
  4. Previous treatment with MASCT, or have received other cellular immunotherapy or , anti-PD-L1 antibody therapy in the past 1 year.
  5. Use of agents or systemic or inhaled local hormones (exceeding 10mg/day prednisone or its equivalent) and were still using them within 2 weeks before randomization.
  6. Use of immunomodulators and were still using them within 2 weeks before randomization.
  7. Allergic to sodium citrate or human albumin.
  8. Subjects with uncontrolled pleural effusion and abdominal effusion requiring repeated drainage and with moderate or higher volume of pericardial effusion.
  9. Have known active central nervous system (CNS) or meningeal . Subjects with previously treated may participate provided they are stable based on the following: 1) any neurologic symptoms have returned to baseline at least 2 weeks before randomization, 2) no requirement for at least 2 weeks before randomization or receiving low-dose of steroids (Not exceeding 10mg/day prednisone or its equivalent).
  10. Have any active disease or history of autoimmune disease.
  11. Subjects with active tuberculosis.
  12. Subjects were infected with virus, virus or , or syphilis.
  13. Severe cardiovascular disease, such as: (1) complete left bundle branch block or III atrioventricular block; (2) history of myocardial infarction, angioplasty, coronary artery bypass graft; (3) prolonged /QTc interval at baseline (male>450ms, female >480ms); (4) ≤50%; (5) heart failure of class 2 or higher; (6) poorly controlled hypertension (BP≥150/95 mmHg, despite optimal medical treatment); (7) cardiomyopathy or severe arrhythmia and may have impact on the study based on investigator's judgement.
  14. Subjects with history of thrombus or experienced a cerebrovascular accident within 6 months before randomization;
  15. Other malignant tumors (except cured skin basal cell carcinoma, prostate carcinoma in situ and cervical carcinoma in situ) in the past 5 years;
  16. Known history of organ transplantation or ready to receive an organ transplantation;
  17. Subjects who have undergone major surgery or traumatic injury within 4 weeks before randomization;
  18. Those who have a history of alcohol dependence, psychotropic substance abuse and cannot abstain or have mental disorders.
  19. Surgery for soft tissue sarcoma is planned during the study.
  20. Subjects have participated in another trial within 4 weeks before randomization.
  21. Any condition that the investigator considers to be prejudicial to the subject or to the subject's inability to meet or perform the study requirements exists.
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(27)

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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.

Adjuvant and neoadjuvant

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

RECIST

The standard rules for measuring tumours 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 tumour 10 mm or more at its longest on a CT scan, or a lymph node 15 mm or more across its short axis.

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.

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).

Absolute neutrophil count (ANC)

The number of neutrophils, white blood cells that help fight infection, in a given amount of blood. Too few raises the risk of infection.

It is a count, not a percentage of the white cells. Limits are written in units that mean the same: ≥ 1.5 × 10⁹/L is ≥ 1,500 per mm³ (µL). Each lab has its own reference range.

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.

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.

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.

INR, PT and aPTT (clotting tests)

Blood tests of how long blood takes to clot. The INR is the prothrombin time (PT) put on a common scale; about 1 is usual for someone not taking a blood thinner.

Criteria often make an exception for people on a blood thinner such as warfarin, whose INR is raised on purpose.

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.

Contraception

Ways of preventing pregnancy. “Highly effective” methods fail less than 1% of the time a year when used correctly — for example an IUD or an implant.

Criteria usually say which methods count and how long to keep using them after the last dose, sometimes for male participants too. Some studies accept a partner’s vasectomy if it was confirmed successful and that person is the participant’s only sexual partner.

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.

Immunosuppression

A weakened immune system. It can come from an illness, such as HIV or some blood cancers, or from medicines that turn the immune system down, for example after an organ transplant or for an autoimmune disease; steroids at higher doses count.

Read whether the line is about a condition or about medicines, and which medicines and doses it means.

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.

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.

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.

Hepatitis B tests

Hepatitis B is a virus that infects the liver. These are separate tests: HBsAg positive usually means a current infection (a recent vaccination can briefly cause it too); total anti-HBc (HBcAb) positive means an infection now or in the past; HBV DNA measures how much virus is in the blood.

Some studies accept a past infection if HBV DNA is undetectable, sometimes with antiviral medicine during the study. Check what this study allows.

Hepatitis C tests

Hepatitis C is a virus that infects the liver. An HCV antibody test can stay positive after an infection has cleared (and is occasionally positive without one); an HCV RNA test shows whether the virus is there now.

After treatment, hepatitis C counts as cured when HCV RNA is still undetectable 12 weeks or more after the treatment ended. Studies often accept people cured this way.

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.

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.

LVEF (left ventricular ejection fraction)

The share of blood the heart’s main pumping chamber (the left ventricle) pushes out with each beat, measured by an echocardiogram (heart ultrasound) or a MUGA scan. About 50–70% is normal.

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.

Investigational drug or device

A drug or device being studied in a clinical trial.

It may be new, or already approved and being studied for another use, dose or form. Criteria often leave out people who took part in another study of one within a recent period, commonly 30 days or five half-lives.

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Study design

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

Study arms

  • Experimental
    MASCT-I+ Doxorubicin+ Ifosfamide

    The final products of MASCT-I technology are dendritic cells (DC) and effector T cells. DC cells injection will be given via subcutaneous injection, and T cells injection will be given via Intravenous (IV) infusion. Doxorubicin and Ifosfamide will be given per protocol.

    Biological: MASCT-I · Drug: Doxorubicin · Drug: Ifosfamide

  • Active comparator
    Doxorubicin+ Ifosfamide

    Doxorubicin and Ifosfamide will be given per protocol.

    Drug: Doxorubicin · Drug: Ifosfamide

Interventions

  • BiologicalMASCT-I

    The final products of MASCT-I technology are dendritic cells (DC) and effector T cells.

  • Commercially approved for cancer treatment

    Also known as: Doxorubicin hydrochloride for Injection

  • Commercially approved for cancer treatment

    Also known as: Ifosfamide for Injection

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Progression-Free Survival (PFS)

    The time from the date of randomization to the first occurrence of radiological progression or death, whichever comes first.

    Time frame: 3 years

Secondary outcomes

  1. Overall Survival (OS)

    The time from the date of randomization to the date of death from any cause.

    Time frame: 3 years

  2. Objective Response Rate (ORR)

    The percentage of participants with complete response (CR) or partial response (PR) via investigator assessment per RECIST (Response Evaluation Criteria In Solid Tumors Criteria) v1.1 relative to the total number of participants in the analysis population.

    Time frame: 3 years

  3. Disease Control Rate (DCR)

    The percentage of participants with CR, PR, or stable disease (SD) relative to the total number of participants within the analysis population as determined by Investigators per RECIST v1.1.

    Time frame: 3 years

  4. Duration of response (DoR)

    The time from first documentation of response of PR or better to first documentation of disease progression or death from any cause, whichever comes first.

    Time frame: 3 years

  5. Adverse events and serious adverse events

    All adverse events and serious adverse events during the study

    Time frame: 3 years

  6. Adverse events and serious adverse events related to MASCT-I

    All adverse events and serious adverse events related to MASCT-I during the study

    Time frame: 3 years

  7. Rate and severity of clinically-significant abnormalities in laboratory testings

    Clinically-significant abnormalities in laboratory testings.

    Time frame: 3 years

Other outcomes

  1. Immune response to tumor-associated antigens

    Measured by enzyme linked immunospot assay

    Time frame: 3 years

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Study locations

1 of 1 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 Feb 2024 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Feb 2026, 24 months after the start.

Of 41 phase 2 interventional studies under Leiomyosarcoma, half reached primary completion within 62 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 35 and three quarters within 80. This study's planned 24 months is below that.

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

Registered
Feb 2, 2024
First posted
Feb 26, 2024
StartActual
Feb 21, 2024
Primary completionEst.
Feb 2026
CompletionEst.
Feb 2027
Last update
Jul 24, 2025
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 Jul 24, 2025, 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
NCT06277154
Lead sponsor
HRYZ Biotech Co.
Collaborators
Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Feb 26, 2024
Start date
Feb 21, 2024
Primary completion
Feb 2026 (estimated)
Completion
Feb 2027 (estimated)
Last update
Jul 24, 2025

Study contacts

Wenjin Huang
Contact
huangwenjin@shhryz.com
021-37690016
Xuemin Rao
Contact
raoxuemin@shhryz.com
Xing Zhang
principal investigator · Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center
Zhang Xing
principal investigator · Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center

Oversight

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