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RecruitingNCT06326346Updated Apr 7, 2026

GIST Oral Paclitaxel(Liporaxel)

A Phase 2 interventional study of Liporaxel in Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors, sponsored by Asan Medical Center. Recruiting at 1 site in South Korea. Open to participants aged 20 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-04-07.

Sponsored by Asan Medical Center · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Started Nov 2024; still recruiting 1 year 10 months later.
Phase
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
28
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
20 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate safety and efficacy of Liporaxel for patients with GIST who failed on prior standard treatments, including imatinib, sunitinib, and regorafenib, and with low P-glycoprotein expression.

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The survival outcomes of patients with advanced and/or metastatic gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST) have markedly improved with application of imatinib, the KIT tyrosine kinase inhibitor (GlivecTM, Novartis) for the treatment. Recently, sunitinib (SuteneTM, Pfizer) and regorafenib (StivargaTM, Bayer) have shown efficacy in patients with disease progression on imatinib as second- and third-line treatment, respectively. However, most patients develop acquired resistance to KIT tyrosine kinase inhibitors and show disease progression.

While cytotoxic chemotherapeutic agents were expected to have minimal antitumor effect on GIST, recent preclinical studies have shown that 37 out of 89 different chemotherapeutic agents have shown antitumor effects on at least one or more GIST cell lines. Especially, topoisomerase II inhibitors, paclitaxel, bortezomib have shown promising results. Based on the results, the investigators conducted a single center, single arm phase II study to evaluate efficacy and safety of paclitaxel for patients with GIST who failed to prior imatinib and sunitinib. Overall efficacy was modest, although patients with low P-glycoprotein expression showed better efficacy compared to those with high P-glycoprotein expression. Subsequently, the investigators performed another phase 2 trial to evaluate efficacy of paclitaxel for previously treated GIST patients with low P-glycoprotein expression and have met the primary endpoint.

Liporaxel is an oral formulation of paclitaxel, and showed high bioavailability, safety, and antitumor effect from non-clinical studies. From a phase 1 clinical trial for metastatic solid tumor patients, Liporaxel showed adequate PK/PD profiles. Compared to intravenous paclitaxel, administration is relatively easier and has better safety in terms of hypersensitivity reaction which is caused by the admixture of intravenous formulation of paclitaxel. From a multicenter phase 3 trial conducted in South Korea for patients with advanced gastric adenocarcinoma who failed on first-line palliative chemotherapy (DREAM trial), Liporaxel showed non-inferiority compared to intravenous paclitaxel in terms of both safety and efficacy, and it is currently approved for the second-line treatment in advanced gastric cancer. Also, Liporaxel proved safety and potential efficacy in patients with HER2 negative metastatic breast cancer as first-line chemotherapy, and currently multicenter phase 3 trial in ongoing (OPTIMAL3 trial).

The purpose of this study is to evaluate safety and efficacy of Liporaxel for patients with GIST who failed on prior standard treatments, including imatinib, sunitinib, and regorafenib, and with low P-glycoprotein expression.

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Conditions studied

  • Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors
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In context

Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors

333 studies on the registry are indexed under Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors; 61 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 28 is below the median of 50 across 243 interventional studies indexed under Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors.

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Lead sponsor

Asan Medical Center is the lead sponsor of 562 studies on the registry; 71 are open to participants now.

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

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Who can participate

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

Inclusion criteria

  1. Age 20 years or older, at the time of acquisition of informed consent
  2. Histologically confirmed metastatic and/or advanced GIST with CD117(+), DOG-1(+), or mutation in KIT or PDGFRα gene
  3. Failed (progressed and/or intolerable) after prior treatments for GIST, including at least imatinib and sunitinib, regorafenib.
  4. Adequate tissue obtained after treatment failure to imatinib, sunitinib, and regorafenib for P-glycoprotein immunohistochemistry (IHC) analysis, and showed P-glycoprotein expression of less than 6. (For patients with PDGFRα D842V mutation or other subtypes with poor response to tyrosine kinase inhibitors, tumor tissue obtained at any period can be used.)
  5. Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status 0\~2
  6. Resolution of all toxic effects of prior treatments to grade 0 or 1 by NCI-CTCAE version 5.0
  7. At least one measurable lesion as defined by RECIST version 1.1.
  8. Adequate bone marrow, hepatic, renal, and other organ functions

    • Neutrophil >1,500/mm3
    • Platelet > 100,000/mm3
    • Hemoglobin >8.0 g/dL
    • Total bilirubin \< 1.5 x upper limit of normal (ULN)
    • AST/ALT \< 2.5 x ULN
    • Creatinine \<1.5 x ULN
  9. Life expectancy > 12 weeks
  10. Washout period of previous TKIs or chemotherapy for more than 4 times the half life ((Imatinib and regorafenib need 1 week and sunitinib need 2 weeks.)
  11. Provision of a signed written informed consent

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Women of child-bearing potential who are pregnant or breast feeding
  2. Women or men who are not willing to use effective contraception entering the study period or until at least 3 months after the last study drug administration.
  3. If any of the following applies within ≤ 6 months prior to starting study enrollment : Myocardial Infarction, severe instable angina, coronary/peripheral bypass, NYHA class III or IV congestive heart failure, stroke or transient ischemic attack, treatment required severe arrhythmia.
  4. Uncontrolled infection
  5. Diabetes mellitus with clinically significant peripheral artery disease
  6. Acute and chronic liver disease and all chronic liver impairment.(But Patients with stable chronic hepatitis B are eligible)
  7. Uncontrolled gastrointestinal toxicities with toxicity greater than NCI CTCAE grade 2
  8. Acute, or chronic medical or psychiatric condition or laboratory abnormality such as active uncontrolled infection that difficult to study participation in the judgment of the investigator
  9. The patient experienced any bleeding episode considered life-threatening, or any grade 3 or 4 bleeding event. (required transfusion or endoscopic or surgical intervention)
  10. Patient who underwent major surgery or is under recovery from surgery within 28 days from the study treatment
  11. Known diagnosis of HIV infection (HIV testing is not mandatory).
  12. History of another primary malignancy that is currently clinically significant or currently requires active intervention.
  13. Patients with clinically suspected brain metastasis symptom, brain metastases as assessed by radiologic imaging.
  14. Alcohol or substance abuse disorder.
  15. Known severe hypersensitivity to paclitaxel
  16. Received paclitaxel-based treatment for GIST
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Study design

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

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Oral Paclitaxel (Liporaxel)

    Liporaxel 200mg/m2 twice daily orally on day 1, 8, and 15 every 4 weeks (1 cycle = 4 weeks)

    Drug: Liporaxel

Interventions

  • DrugLiporaxel

    Liporaxel 200mg/m2 twice daily orally on day 1, 8, and 15 every 4 weeks (1 cycle = 4 weeks)

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. 16 week disease control rate

    according to Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors Version 1.1 (RECIST v1.1)

    Time frame: 16 weeks

Secondary outcomes

  1. Progression-free survival

    time from the date of first administration of palliative first-line chemotherapy to the date of the first objectively documented tumor progression or death, whichever occurs first)

    Time frame: until the date of first documented progression or date of death from any cause, whichever came first, assessed up to 36 months

  2. Overall survival

    time from the date of first administration of palliative first-line chemotherapy to the date of death due to any cause

    Time frame: through study completion, an average of 3 years

  3. Objective response rate

    according to Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors Version 1.1 (RECIST v1.1)

    Time frame: every 4 weeks for the initial two evaluation, then every 8 weeks

  4. Adverse event assessed by NCI-CTCAE Version 5.0

    assessed by NCI-CTCAE Version 5.0

    Time frame: until 28 days from the last administration of the investigational product

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Study locations

1 of 1 sites recruiting
  • Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine
    Seoul, Songpagu 138-736, South Korea
    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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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Apr 7, 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
NCT06326346
Lead sponsor
Asan Medical Center
Responsible party
Min-Hee Ryu (Professor, Asan Medical Center) — Principal investigator
First posted
Mar 22, 2024
Start date
Nov 20, 2024
Primary completion
Mar 31, 2027 (estimated)
Completion
Mar 31, 2027 (estimated)
Last update
Apr 7, 2026

Study contacts

Min-Hee Ryu, MD, PhD
Contact
miniryu@amc.seoul.kr
82-2-3010-5936
Hyung-Don Kim, MD, PhD
Contact
kimhdmd@amc.seoul.kr
82-2-3010-0236

Oversight

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