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A Study of JMT203 in Patients With Cancer Cachexia

A Phase 1/2 interventional study of JMT203 Injection and JMT203 Injection in Non Small Cell Lung Cancer, Pancreatic Cancer and Cancer Cachexia, sponsored by Shanghai JMT-Bio Inc.. Recruiting at 1 site in China. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-05-22.

Sponsored by Shanghai JMT-Bio Inc. (part of CSPC Pharmaceutical Group Limited) · Phase 1/2, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Registered 9 months after the study started (first participant enrolled May 2024, registered Feb 2025).
  • Started May 2024; still recruiting 2 years 5 months later.
Phase
Phase 1/2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
307
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

A Phase Ia/II, Multicenter Study to Evaluate the Safety, Tolerability, Pharmacokinetics, and Efficacy of JMT203 in Patients with Cancer Cachexia

Read the detailed description

This is a study of JMT203 in patients with cancer cachexia, comprising two parts: Phase Ia, which involves a dose-escalation and dose-expansion study of JMT203 in patients with cancer cachexia, and Phase II, which is a multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical study. The phase II stage includes three cohorts: Cohort A (participants with colorectal cancer cachexia), Cohort B (participants with pancreatic cancer cachexia), and Cohort C (participants with cachexia from other solid tumors) . The primary objectives of Phase Ia are to assess the safety/tolerability of JMT203 in patients with cancer cachexia and to determine the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) (if any) and/or the recommended dose for expansion (RDE) of JMT203. In Phase II, the primary objectives include evaluating the preliminary efficacy of JMT203 at doses of 50 mg and 150 mg versus placebo over a 12-week treatment period and determining the recommended Phase 3 dose (RP3D) of JMT203.

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Conditions studied

  • Non Small Cell Lung Cancer
  • Pancreatic Cancer
  • Cancer Cachexia
  • Colorectal Cancer Cachexia
  • Pancreatic Cancer Cachexia
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In context

Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung

7,620 studies on the registry are indexed under Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung; 1,838 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 307 is above the median of 62 across 6,019 interventional studies indexed under Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung.

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Lead sponsor

Shanghai JMT-Bio Inc. is the lead sponsor of 42 studies on the registry; 29 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

Eligibility criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Inclusion Criteria:

  1. Age ≥ 18 years old;
  2. Voluntarily participate in the study and sign the form;

Inclusion Criteria:

  1. Age ≥ 18 years old;
  2. Voluntarily participate in the study and sign the informed consent form;
  3. Malignant solid tumors confirmed histologically or cytologically, with ongoing or completed anti-tumor treatment, and no significant tumor progression within 28 days prior to the first drug administration,and the investigator estimates that the participant will not require a switch to another anticancer therapy due to disease progression during the first treatment cycle (21 days). For the Phase II portion:

    • Cohort A (participants with colorectal cancer cachexia): Must meet the following treatment status: currently receiving or about to initiate investigator-selected standard anticancer therapy, with no more than 5 cycles of second-line therapy, and not suitable for .;
    • Cohort B (participants with pancreatic cancer cachexia): Must meet the following treatment status: currently receiving or about to initiate investigator-selected first-line standard anticancer therapy, with no more than 3 cycles of first-line therapy, and not suitable for targeted therapy.;
    • Cohort C (participants with cachexia from other solid tumors): Currently receiving or have completed investigator-selected standard anticancer therapy, with no more than three prior lines of therapy.
  4. Diagnosed with cancer cachexia according to the criteria of the 2011 International Consensus on Cancer Cachexia: Definition and Classification, combined with characteristics of the Chinese population, i.e., presenting with one of the following within 6 months (previous weight data must be supported by written documentation approved by the sponsor): involuntary weight loss >5%, or weight loss >2% when (BMI) \<18.5 kg/m²;
  5. Adequate organ function, meeting relevant laboratory test standards (without transfusion or hematopoietic growth factor support within 14 days prior to testing):
  6. Performance Status (ECOG PS) score: ≤1;
  7. 7. Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group Performance Status (ECOG PS)score: ≤2;
  8. Estimated survival ≥4 months;
  9. Fertile eligible patients must use adequate measures from the time of signing the informed consent form until 6 months after the last drug administration; female patients of childbearing age must have a negative serum pregnancy test within 7 days before the first drug administration.

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Presence of reversible causes leading to decreased food intake;
  2. Patients with dysphagia or poor food digestion and absorption, including gastrointestinal obstruction, active inflammatory bowel disease, or short bowel syndrome;
  3. Patients with cachexia caused by clearly identified other causes, such as severe , uncontrolled thyroid disease, vital organ failure, or Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS);
  4. Patients receiving tube feeding or parenteral nutrition therapy during the screening period;
  5. Patients who have taken any prescription medications for appetite enhancement or improve weight loss within 28 days or 5 half-lives (whichever is shorter) before the first study drug administration, including but not limited to anamorelin, medroxyprogesterone acetate, dronabinol, medical marijuana, etc.;
  6. Initiation of systemic (prednisone >10 mg/day or equivalent doses of other similar drugs) or other therapies within 28 days before the first study drug administration, excluding pretreatment for antitumor therapy;
  7. Patients with a BMI exceeding 30 kg/m²;
  8. Patients who have undergone major surgery within 4 weeks before the first study drug administration and have not recovered, or are expected to undergo major surgery during the study;
  9. Patients who have received other clinical study medications within 4 weeks or 5 half-lives (whichever is shorter) before the first study drug administration;
  10. Patients with severe infections requiring intravenous antibiotics, antivirals, or antifungals during the screening period;
  11. Patients with difficult-to-control moderate to large amounts of serous cavity effusion, such as pericardial effusion or pleural/abdominal/pelvic effusion, within 14 days before the first study drug administration;
  12. Patients with a second primary active within 2 years before the first study drug administration, excluding locally curable tumors that have undergone radical treatment (e.g., resected basal cell or squamous cell skin cancer, superficial bladder cancer, breast carcinoma in situ);
  13. Patients with active central nervous system (, carcinomatous meningitis, and spinal cord metastases), except for those with controlled lesions confirmed by imaging studies within 28 days before the first use of the product;
  14. History of severe cardiovascular disease, including but not limited to:

    1. Severe cardiac rhythm or conduction abnormalities, such as ventricular arrhythmias requiring clinical intervention, second- or third-degree atrioventricular block, etc.;
    2. Occurrence of acute coronary syndrome, congestive heart failure, stroke, or other cardiovascular events of grade 3 or higher within 6 months before the first study drug administration;
    3. functional class ≥III or (LVEF) \<50%;
  15. Patients with severe immune deficiency or a history of organ transplantation;
  16. Patients with recent (within the past year) or current depression or suicidal ideation/tendencies;
  17. Known allergy to JMT203 or its components;
  18. History of severe allergic reactions or uncontrollable allergic asthma;
  19. Patients deemed unsuitable for participation in this clinical study by the investigator for other reasons.
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(15)

Underlined terms in the criteria open these too. Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.

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.

Line of therapy

A line of therapy is one course of treatment, which may combine several drugs. First-line is the first course given; second-line follows when that stops working or is not tolerated.

“Two prior lines” means two courses that count separately under the study’s rules — not simply two drugs. Ask the study team if you are unsure how yours are counted.

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.

BMI (body mass index)

Weight in kilograms divided by height in metres squared. Example: 70 kg and 1.75 m gives 70 ÷ (1.75 × 1.75) ≈ 22.9.

What counts as overweight or obesity differs between countries (some use lower cut-offs), so go by the range the study states.

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.

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.

COPD

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: long-term lung disease that makes it hard to breathe out, including emphysema and chronic bronchitis.

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.

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.

Cancer (malignancy)

Malignancy means cancer. Criteria about another or earlier malignancy ask whether you have had a different cancer, usually within a set number of years.

Some are commonly allowed, such as treated skin cancers other than melanoma and early cancers removed completely — check the exceptions this study lists.

Metastases

Cancer that has spread from where it began to other parts of the body. “Metastatic” cancer is cancer that has spread this way.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 1 / Phase 2
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
Single (Participant)
Enrollment
307 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Experimental: Dose Escalation, Dose Expansion Phase

    Dose escalation (Phase Ia) - Five dose levels of JMT203 will be tested in patients with cancer cachexia according to an accelerated titration design combined with a "3+3" dose escalation scheme. If the highest predefined dose group demonstrates good safety and tolerability during dose escalation, further discussion will be held on whether to proceed to a higher dose group or to explore doses between two existing groups. Dose expansion (Phase Ia) - Based on pharmacokinetics (PK), preliminary efficacy, and safety data, 1 to 3 dose levels that are potentially effective will be selected. Cohort expansion- One to three potentially effective dose groups will be selected for expansion based on PK, preliminary efficacy, and safety data, with a maximum of 24 participants per group in principle (including participants from the same dose group in the dose-escalation phase).

    Drug: JMT203 Injection

  • Experimental
    Experimental: JMT203 50 mg

    Double blind phase (Phase II):JMT203 50 mg administered subcutaneously every 3 weeks over a 12-week treatment period.

    Drug: JMT203 Injection

  • Experimental
    Experimental: JMT203 150 mg

    Double blind phase (Phase II):JMT203 150 mg administered subcutaneously every 3 weeks over a 12-week treatment period; Open-Label Treatment Phase (Phase II): JMT203 administered subcutaneously at 150 mg or at the RP3D (once established in this study) for up to 51 weeks.

    Drug: JMT203 Injection

  • Placebo comparator
    Experimental: Placebo

    Double blind phase (Phase II):Placebo administered subcutaneously every 3 weeks over a 12-week treatment period;

    Drug: JMT203 Injection

Interventions

  • DrugJMT203 Injection

    Drug:JMT203 Injection * Anti-GFRAL monoclonal antibody * Will be injected subcutaneously once per cycle (3 weeks, on Day 1) for 12 weeks, or will be injected subcutaneously once per cycle (3 weeks, on Day 1).

  • DrugJMT203 Injection

    Drug:JMT203 Injection * Anti-GFRAL monoclonal antibody * Will be injected subcutaneously once per cycle (3 weeks, on Day 1) for 12 weeks, or will be injected subcutaneously once per cycle (3 weeks, on Day 1).

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Phase Ia: Incidence and severity of adverse events (AEs) and serious adverse events (SAEs).

    Time frame: Up to 90 days after the last dose of JMT203

  2. Phase Ia: Incidence of dose-limiting toxicity (DLT) events

    Time frame: Up to 21 days after the first dose of JMT203

  3. Phase Ia: MTD (if applicable).

    Time frame: Up to 90 days post last dose

  4. Phase Ia: RDE.

    Time frame: Up to 90 days post last dose

  5. Phase Ib: Average change in body weight from baseline at each assessment timepoint within 12 weeks.

    Time frame: Within 12 weeks from baseline

  6. Phase II: RP3D

    Time frame: Approximately 1 year from baseline

Secondary outcomes

  1. Phase Ia: Area under the curve from time "0" to the time of the last measurable concentration (AUC0-t) of JMT203

    Time frame: Up to 90 days after the last dose of JMT203

  2. Phase Ia: Maximum measured plasma concentration (Cmax) of JMT203

    Time frame: Up to 90 days after the last dose of JMT203

  3. Phase Ia: Time when Cmax occurred (Tmax) of JMT203

    Time frame: Up to 90 days after the last dose of JMT203

  4. Phase Ia: Incidence of anti-drug antibodies (ADA).

    Time frame: Up to 90 days after the last dose of JMT203

  5. Phase Ia: Average change in body weight from baseline at each assessment timepoint within 12 weeks.

    Time frame: Within 12 weeks from baseline

  6. Phase II: Average change in the skeletal muscle index (SMI) of the third lumbar vertebra, measured by computed tomography (CT), from baseline to 12 weeks.

    Time frame: Within 12 weeks from baseline

  7. Phase II: Average change in the severity of anorexia (based on the Functional Assessment of Anorexia/Cachexia Therapy - Anorexia/Cachexia Subscale [FAACT-A/CS]) from baseline to each assessment timepoint.

    Time frame: Within 12 weeks from baseline

  8. Phase II: Incidence and severity of adverse events (AEs) and serious adverse events (SAEs).

    Time frame: Up to 90 days after the last dose of JMT203

  9. Phase II: Blood concentration of JMT203;

    Time frame: Up to 90 days after the last dose of JMT203

  10. PhaseII: Incidence of ADA.

    Time frame: Up to 90 days after the last dose of JMT203

  11. PhaseII: Objective Response Rate (ORR)

    Time frame: Approximately 12 weeks from baseline

  12. PhaseII: Progression-Free Survival (PFS)

    Time frame: Approximately 1 year from baseline

  13. Phase II: overall survival (OS).

    Time frame: Approximately up to 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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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on May 22, 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
NCT06868849
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Mar 11, 2025
Start date
May 15, 2024
Primary completion
Aug 14, 2027 (estimated)
Completion
May 15, 2029 (estimated)
Last update
May 22, 2026

Study contacts

Clinical Trials Information Group Officer
Contact
ctr-contact@cspc.cn
86-0311-69085587

Oversight

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