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Regorafenib and Sintilimab in Combination with Electroacupuncture in MSS CRC

An interventional study of Regorafenib and Sintilimab in combination with electroacupuncture in Colorectal Cancer Metastatic, sponsored by The First People's Hospital of Changzhou. Recruiting at 1 site in China. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 75 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2025-02-17.

Sponsored by The First People's Hospital of Changzhou · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Primary completion was expected by Mar 2026, 7 months ago, but the record still lists the study as recruiting.
  • Started May 2024; still recruiting 2 years 5 months later.
Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
30
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
18 Years to 75 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

The aim of this clinical trial is to find out whether Regorafenib and Sintilimab in combination with electroacupuncture works in treating participants with microsatellite stable (MSS) advanced colorectal cancer who have failed one or more second-line standard chemotherapy regimens. It will also learn about the efficacy and safety of the combination therapy. The main questions the trial aims to answer are:

Does combination therapy reduce the overall survival time ? What medical problems do people have when they take combination therapy?

Participants will

Regorafenib, take for 2 weeks and stop for 1 week; Sintilimab, intravenous, every 3 weeks; Electroacupuncture was performed 1 day before, on the day of, and on the 2nd day after each cycle of Sintilimab administration, and patients completed 3 treatments in week 1, followed by 1 treatment per week for 2 weeks, with 5 treatments per dosing

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Conditions studied

  • Colorectal Cancer Metastatic

Keywords

  • Regorafenib
  • Sintilimab
  • electroacupuncture
  • colorectal cancer
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In context

Colorectal Neoplasms

5,734 studies on the registry are indexed under Colorectal Neoplasms; 1,481 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 30 is below the median of 77 across 4,222 interventional studies indexed under Colorectal Neoplasms.

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Lead sponsor

The First People's Hospital of Changzhou is the lead sponsor of 28 studies on the registry; 12 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 75 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  1. Fullly knowledge of the study and voluntarily sign the informed consent;
  2. Histologically and/or cytologically confirmed metastatic colorectal adenocarcinoma (Stage IV) with microsatellite stable (MSS)* confirmed by PCR or NGS;
  3. Receive at least two lines of standard chemotherapy in the past and have failed.
  4. No systemic chemotherapy or antitumor therapy such as radiotherapy, immunotherapy, biological or hormonal therapy in the past 4 weeks; and have never received VEGFR inhibitors
  5. Willing to receive electroacupuncture;
  6. Aged 18-75 years old (including 18 years old and 75 years old);
  7. Weighing more than 40 kg (including 40 kg);
  8. Able to take oral medication.
  9. Patients with adequate organ function at the time of enrollment are defined as follows: Neutrophil count ≥1500mm3 Platelet count ≥10.0 × 104/mm3 Hemoglobin (Hb) ≥ 9 g/dL Aspartate aminotransferase (AST), alanine aminotransferase (ALT) ≤100 U/L (≤100 U/L in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma, ≤250 U/L in patients with liver metastasis) Total bilirubin ≤1.5 mg /dL Creatinine ≤1.5 mg /dL Lipase ≤ 80 IU/L Urine Protein: one of the following (if any of the criteria are met, no other test may be performed) (i) Urine Protein (paper test) of 2+ or less (ii) UPC \< 3.5 (iii) Urine Protein ≦ 3500 mg for 24 hour urine protein measurements. mg Prothrombin time (PT)-International Normalized Ratio (INR): ≤ 1.5 (≤ 3.0 for anticoagulant administration)
  10. Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group Physical Performance Score (ECOG PS) ≤ 1 (0-1);
  11. Cardiac function evaluation: left ventricular ejection fraction ≥ 50% (echocardiography);
  12. Clearly meet the criteria for evaluating the efficacy of solid tumors (e.g., echocardiograms) Measurable lesions that meet the requirements of RECIST 1.1;
  13. Expected survival of more than 12 weeks.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

Patients will be excluded from the study if any of the following criteria are met.

  1. Patients who have received systemic chemotherapy, radiotherapy, surgery, hormonal therapy or immunotherapy \<2 weeks prior to enrolment. Immune checkpoint blockade pretreatment is permitted.
  2. Patients with a history of regorafenib administration.
  3. Patients with uncontrolled hypertension (systolic blood pressure ≥160 mmHg and diastolic blood pressure ≥90 mmHg) despite multiple antihypertensive medications; and
  4. Patients with acute coronary syndromes (including myocardial infarction and unstable angina) and a history of coronary angioplasty or stenting within 6 months prior to enrolment;
  5. Patients with a large pleural effusion or ascites requiring drainage; and
  6. Patients with grade ≥ 3 active infection according to NCI CTC AE version 4.03; patients with symptomatic brain metastases; and patients with a history of coronary artery angioplasty or stenting within the previous 6 months.
  7. Patients with symptomatic brain metastases;
  8. Patients with partial or complete gastrointestinal obstruction;
  9. Patients with interstitial lung disease with active signs or symptoms;
  10. Patients who test positive for anti-HIV-1 antibody, anti-HIV-2 antibody, hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg), or anti-hepatitis C virus (HCV)* *Patients who test positive for anti-hepatitis B surface (HBs) or anti-hepatitis B core (HBc) antibodies and patients with hepatitis B virus (HBV)-DNA measurements that are greater than the sensitivity of the test will also be excluded. Patients with concurrent autoimmune disease
  11. Patients with concurrent autoimmune disease or a history of chronic or recurrent autoimmune disease.
  12. Patients requiring systemic corticosteroids (excluding those given temporarily for testing, prophylactic administration for allergic reactions, or for the relief of swelling associated with radiotherapy) or immunosuppressive agents, or who have received such therapy \<14 days prior to study participation;
  13. Patients with a history or finding of class ≥III congestive heart failure according to the New York Heart Association functional class;
  14. Patients with epilepsy requiring pharmacological treatment;
  15. Patients with grade 3 or greater bleeding within 4 weeks prior to enrolment.
  16. Patients who have undergone major surgery (open heart or caesarean section, etc.), caesarean biopsy, or trauma within 28 days prior to enrolment. the same day of the week prior to the 4-week period may be enrolled (however, in the case of manual anastomosis without bowel resection, this should be within 14 days prior to enrolment);
  17. Patients with non-healing wounds, non-healing ulcers or non-healing fractures.
  18. Patients with a history of hypersensitivity reaction to any investigational drug, analogue or excipient.
  19. Women who are pregnant or breastfeeding or have the potential to become pregnant.
  20. Patients with contraindications to electroacupuncture therapy or patients for whom electroacupuncture is contraindicated in accordance with TCM syndromes.
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Study design

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

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Regorafenib and Sintilimab in combination with electroacupuncture

    Drug: Regorafenib and Sintilimab in combination with electroacupuncture

Interventions

  • DrugRegorafenib and Sintilimab in combination with electroacupuncture

    Regorafenib, take for 2 weeks and stop for 1 week; Sintilimab, intravenous, every 3 weeks; Electroacupuncture was performed 1 day before, on the day of, and on the 2nd day after each cycle of Sintilimab administration, and patients completed 3 treatments in week 1, followed by 1 treatment per week for 2 weeks, with 5 treatments per dosing cycle.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Overall survival (OS)

    The time from randomization to death

    Time frame: Up to 2 years

Secondary outcomes

  1. Objective response rate (ORR)

    The proportion of patients that respond either partially or fully to therapy

    Time frame: Up to 2 years

  2. Progression-free survival (PFS)

    The time from randomization until first evidence of disease progression or death

    Time frame: Up to 2 years

  3. Disease control rate (DCR)

    Percentage of patients with advanced cancer whose therapeutic intervention has led to a complete response, partial response, or stable disease

    Time frame: Up to 2 years

  4. Time to progression (TTP)

    The time from randomization until first evidence of disease progression

    Time frame: Up to 2 years

  5. Health-related quality of life (HRQoL)

    Assessment of patient quality of life with respect to health status

    Time frame: Up to 2 years

  6. Adverse events (AE)

    Use the Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) v4.0. Grade refers to the severity of the AE. The CTCAE v4.0 assigns Grades 1 through 5 with unique clinical descriptions of severity for each AE based on this general guideline: Grade 1 Mild AE, Grade 2 Moderate AE, Grade 3 Severe AE, Grade 4 Life-threatening or disabling AE, Grade 5 Death related to AE. Overall incidence of TEAE; * Incidence of grade 3 or higher AE; * Incidence of SAEs; * Incidence of AEs leading to permanent discontinuation; * Incidence of AEs leading to medication suspension or dose adjustment.

    Time frame: Up to 2 years

  7. Cancer-related fatigue(CRF)

    A distressing, persistent, subjective sense of physical, emotional, and/or cognitive tiredness or exhaustion related to cancer and/or cancer treatment that is not proportional to recent activity and interferes with usual functioning, use the Revised Piper Fatigue Scale (RPFS)

    Time frame: Up to 2 years

  8. Biomarker

    Biomarker analysis can be categorized as "non-genetic" (e.g., associated proteins) or "genetically relevant" (e.g., associated RNA or DNA).

    Time frame: Up to 2 years

  9. Cmax

    Based on non-compartmental PK evaluation.Cmax refers to the highest measured drug concentration which is obtained by collecting a series of blood samples and measuring the concentrations of drug in each sample. Blood samples should be collected within 2 hours before electroacupuncture administration and 1 to 4 hours after electroacupuncture by weeks 2 and 3, and 2 hours before electroacupuncture in cycles 4-6

    Time frame: Up to 2 years

  10. Immune-related adverse event (irAE)

    Time frame: Up to 2 years

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Study locations

1 of 1 sites recruiting
  • The First People's Hospital of Changzhou
    Changzhou, China
    Recruiting
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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 May 2024 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Mar 2026, 22 months after the start.

Of 801 non-industry interventional studies with no phase under Colorectal Neoplasms, half reached primary completion within 32 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 14 and three quarters within 60. This study's planned 22 months is below that.

Counting every sponsor, half of 845 studies reached it within 32 months; a quarter within 14 and three quarters within 60.

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

Registered
May 21, 2024
First posted
Jun 13, 2024
StartActual
May 1, 2024
Primary completionEst.
Mar 2026
CompletionEst.
Mar 2026
Last update
Feb 17, 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 Feb 17, 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
NCT06456515
Lead sponsor
The First People's Hospital of Changzhou
Responsible party
Wenwei Hu (Vice Director of Oncology Department, The First People's Hospital of Changzhou) — Principal investigator
First posted
Jun 13, 2024
Start date
May 1, 2024
Primary completion
Mar 2026 (estimated)
Completion
Mar 2026 (estimated)
Last update
Feb 17, 2025

Study contacts

Wenwei Hu
Contact
ei1979@163.com
13912330886

Oversight

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