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Enrolling by invitationNCT06901622Updated Mar 30, 2025

Camrelizumab and Chemotherapy With or Without Anlotinib as First-line Treatment for Advanced Gallbladder Cancer and Extrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma

A Phase 2 interventional study of Camrelizumab, anlotinib, nab-paclitaxel, S-1 and Camrelizumab, nab-paclitaxel, S-1 in Gallbladder Cancer and Extrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma, sponsored by The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University. Enrolling by invitation at 1 site in China. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 75 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2025-03-30.

Sponsored by The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Primary completion was expected by Mar 2026, 8 months ago, but the record still lists the study as enrolling by invitation.
Phase
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
50
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years to 75 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

To evaluate the efficacy and safety of camrelizumab and chemotherapy with or without anlotinib as first-line treatment for advanced gallbladder cancer and extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma

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Conditions studied

  • Gallbladder Cancer and Extrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma
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In context

Gallbladder Neoplasms

301 studies on the registry are indexed under Gallbladder Neoplasms; 65 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 50 is below the median of 56 across 222 interventional studies indexed under Gallbladder Neoplasms.

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Lead sponsor

The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University is the lead sponsor of 126 studies on the registry; 73 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. Patients voluntarily join this study, sign , and have good compliance;
    1. Age: 18 to 75 years old, both men and women;
    1. Unresectable locally advanced, unresectable recurrent or gallbladder cancer or extrahepatic bile duct cancer confirmed by pathological histology, and have not received systemic treatment; (according to version 1.1, at least one ), tissue samples must be provided for biomarker analysis, and newly obtained tissues are preferred. Patients who cannot provide newly obtained tissues can provide 5-8 5um thick paraffin sections preserved in archives;
    1. score: 0-1 points;
    1. Estimated survival period ≥12 weeks;
    1. Adequate organ function, and the following laboratory test values are required at the time of screening:
  • ①Routine blood test standards must meet the following: content (HB) ≥90g/L (no blood transfusion within 14 days); (ANC) ≥1.5×10\^9/L; count (PLT) ≥80×10\^9/L (no interleukin 11 or TPO used within 14 days); White blood cell count (WBC) ≥4.0×10\^9/L (no granulocyte stimulating factor used within 14 days).
  • ② Biochemical examinations must meet the following criteria: Serum total (TBIL) ≤1.5 times the (ULN); and AST ≤2.5 ULN; Cr ≤1.5 ULN or (CCr) ≥60 ml/min, (Cockcroft-Gault formula); Serum albumin ≥ 25 g/L (2.5 g/dL)
    1. Doppler ultrasound assessment: (LVEF) ≥ lower limit of normal (50%);
    1. Adequate coagulation function, defined as (INR) or prothrombin time (PT) ≤1.5 times ULN;
  • 9)Females of must take effective measures during the study and for at least 6 months after the last dose and chemotherapy. It is recommended to start taking contraceptive measures at least 3 months before the administration of the study drug; males who have not been sterilized must take effective contraceptive measures during the study and for at least 6 months after the last dose and chemotherapy. Contraceptive measures are recommended to be initiated at least 3 months before study drug administration.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

    1. Patients who have received anlotinib hydrochloride treatment or any , anti-PD-L1, anti-CTLA-4 antibody treatment in the past;
    1. Patients with a history of immunodeficiency, including positive or other acquired or congenital immunodeficiency diseases, or a history of organ transplantation;
    1. Patients with active or C, active pulmonary tuberculosis;
    1. Patients with liver burden accounting for more than 50% of the total liver volume;
    1. CT showed clear ulcerative lesions or positive stool occult blood;
    1. Self-reported history of abnormal bleeding (excluding epistaxis) one month before enrollment;
    1. Patients who have received bone marrow transplantation or organ transplantation in the past;
    1. Congenital pulmonary fibrosis, drug-induced pneumonia, organizing pneumonia, or active pneumonia confirmed by CT;
    1. Injection of within 4 weeks before the start of the study, or expected to be injected with live attenuated vaccine during the trial or within 5 months after the end of the trial;
    1. Systemic application of or within 2 weeks before the start of the trial (Note: inhaled glucocorticoids and mineralocorticoids are allowed);
    1. Multiple factors that affect oral medication (such as inability to swallow, chronic diarrhea and intestinal obstruction, etc.);
    1. ≥ grade 2 peripheral neuropathy;
    1. Infection requiring antibiotics within 14 days before the start of the trial;
    1. Patients with any severe and/or uncontrolled diseases, including: Patients with poor blood pressure control using antihypertensive drugs (systolic blood pressure ≥150 mmHg or diastolic blood pressure ≥100 mmHg); patients with grade II or above myocardial ischemia or myocardial infarction, arrhythmia (including ≥480ms); patients with grade III-IV heart failure according to standards, or (LVEF) \<50% indicated by cardiac ultrasound examination; Active or uncontrolled severe infection; Liver disease such as cirrhosis, decompensated liver disease, chronic active hepatitis; Poorly controlled diabetes (fasting blood glucose (FBG) >10mmol/L); Urinalysis indicates urine protein ≥++, and confirms that the 24-hour urine protein quantification is >1.0 g;
    1. Long-term unhealed wounds or fractures;
    1. Abnormal coagulation function (>1.5 or APTT>1.5 × ), bleeding tendency or receiving thrombolytic or anticoagulant treatment. Known hereditary or acquired bleeding and thrombotic tendencies, such as hemophilia, coagulation disorder, thrombocytopenia, hypersplenism, etc. Those who have coughed up blood or coughed up half a teaspoon (2.5 ml) or more of blood per day within 2 months before entering the study. Those who have bleeding symptoms or have a clear bleeding tendency within 3 months before entering the study, such as gastrointestinal bleeding, bleeding gastric ulcer, baseline stool occult blood ++ and above, or vasculitis, etc. Long-term anticoagulation treatment with warfarin or heparin is required, or long-term antiplatelet therapy is required (aspirin ≥300 mg/day or clopidogrel ≥75 mg/day).
    1. Major surgery (craniotomy, thoracotomy or laparotomy) within 4 weeks before the study, or major surgery is expected during the study treatment, or non-diagnostic surgery within 4 weeks before the start of the trial;
    1. History of gastrointestinal perforation and/or fistula within 6 months before the treatment; or experience of arterial/venous thrombotic events, such as cerebrovascular accident (except stable cerebral infarction assessed by the investigator), deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism;
    1. Clinically significant pleural effusion, including any pleural effusion found during physical examination, pleural effusion that has been treated before or is still in need of treatment. Patients with only a small amount of pleural effusion and ascites but no symptoms can be selected if the investigators assess that they do not need treatment;
    1. Patients with significant malnutrition;
    1. Patients with a history of psychotropic drug abuse and inability to quit or with mental disorders;
    1. Other histories of primary malignant tumors, except for the following: 1) Malignant tumors that have been completely relieved for at least 2 years before enrollment and do not require other treatment during the study; 2) Non-melanoma skin cancer or malignant lentigo that has been adequately treated and has no evidence of disease recurrence; 3) Carcinoma in situ that has been adequately treated and has no evidence of disease recurrence;
    1. Pregnant or breastfeeding female patients;
    1. Patients with serious concomitant diseases that, according to the investigators' judgment, endanger patient safety or affect the patient's completion of the study;
  • 25)Participating in other trials within 30 days before the start of the trial, or planning to participate in other trials during the trial.
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(27)

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.

Metastases

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

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.

Measurable disease

The amount of disease can be tracked with a defined measurement, so the study can see whether it shrinks or grows. It might be a tumour measured on a scan or, in some blood cancers such as myeloma, a marker measured in blood or urine.

The criteria or the study team say which measurement counts — having no tumour visible on a scan does not by itself rule you out.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Creatinine clearance (CrCl)

How quickly the kidneys clear creatinine, a waste product, from the blood. A study may estimate it from a blood test with age, weight and sex (often by the Cockcroft–Gault formula), or measure it using blood and urine collected over a set time. Given in mL/min; higher is better.

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.

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.

Childbearing potential

Able to become pregnant: from the first period until menopause, unless permanently unable to through surgery (removal of the womb, or of both ovaries or both fallopian tubes).

Criteria for people of childbearing potential usually ask for a negative pregnancy test and for contraception during the study and for a time after it.

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.

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.

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.

Allogeneic and autologous transplant

Stem cell (bone marrow) transplants. Allogeneic uses cells from a donor; autologous uses your own cells, collected earlier and given back.

Live vaccines

Vaccines made with a weakened form of the germ, such as measles–mumps–rubella (MMR), chickenpox and yellow fever. They can be risky when the immune system is weakened. Flu injections are not live; the nasal flu spray is.

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.

CTCAE grade

The US National Cancer Institute’s scale of how severe an adverse event is — any unwanted medical event during a study, such as a symptom, an illness or an abnormal test result, whether or not a treatment caused it. Whether it did is judged separately.

1
Mild.
2
Moderate.
3
Severe.
4
Life-threatening.
5
Death due to the event.

“Side effects of earlier treatment resolved to grade 1 or less” means they have settled to mild or gone.

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.

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.

Clinically significant

Judged by the study doctor to matter for your health or for the study. It is a doctor’s decision, so ask the study team if you are unsure whether something counts.

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Study design

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

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Cohort 1

    Camrelizumab, anlotinib, nab-paclitaxel, S-1

    Drug: Camrelizumab, anlotinib, nab-paclitaxel, S-1

  • Experimental
    Cohort 2

    Camrelizumab, nab-paclitaxel, S-1

    Drug: Camrelizumab, nab-paclitaxel, S-1

Interventions

  • DrugCamrelizumab, anlotinib, nab-paclitaxel, S-1

    Drug pages: Camrelizumab · Anlotinib · Albumin-Bound Paclitaxel · Tegafur · Gimeracil · Oxonic Acid

    Initial treatment (4 cycles) Carrelizumab: 200 mg, day 1, iv, q3w. Anlotinib: 10 mg, taken orally once a day, day 1\~14, q3w. For patients with intolerance, the dose can be reduced to 8 mg. Nab-paclitaxel: 200 mg/m\^2, day 1, iv, q3w. (Patients with poor tolerance can be given on the 1st and 8th days, and the total dosage remains unchanged). S-1: 60 mg/day for body surface area \<1.25 m\^2; 80 mg/day for body surface area = 1.25\~1.50 m\^2; 100 mg/day for body surface area \>1.50 m\^2; 2 times a day, administered on days 1 to 14, 3 weeks as a treatment cycle. After 4 cycles of initial treatment, the feasibility of surgery was evaluated. Operable patients: radical surgical resection, followed by 4 cycles of S-1 combined with carrelizumab (up to 1 year). During postoperative treatment, the investigator determined whether local radiotherapy (CCRT) was required. Inoperable patients: carrelizumab + anlotinib + S-1 were treated until intolerance or disease progression.

  • DrugCamrelizumab, nab-paclitaxel, S-1

    Drug pages: Camrelizumab · Albumin-Bound Paclitaxel · Tegafur · Gimeracil · Oxonic Acid

    Initial treatment (4 cycles) Carrelizumab: 200 mg, day 1, intravenous drip, 3 weeks as a treatment cycle. Nab-paclitaxel: 200 mg/m\^2, day 1, intravenous drip, 3 weeks as a treatment cycle. (Patients with poor tolerance can be given on the 1st and 8th days, and the total dosage remains unchanged). S-1: 60 mg/day for body surface area \<1.25 m\^2; 80 mg/day for body surface area = 1.25\~1.50 m\^2; 100 mg/day for body surface area \>1.50 m\^2; 2 times a day, administered on days 1 to 14, 3 weeks as a treatment cycle. After 4 cycles of initial treatment, the patient's surgical feasibility was evaluated. Operable patients: radical surgical resection, followed by S-1 (4 cycles) combined with carrelizumab treatment (up to 1 year). During postoperative treatment, the investigator determined whether local radiotherapy (CCRT) was required. Inoperable patients: carrelizumab + S-1 treatment until intolerance or disease progression.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Objective Response Rate, ORR

    The RECIST1.1 standards were used to evaluate the efficacy of drugs.

    Time frame: Time Frame: about 2 years

Secondary outcomes

  1. Disease Control Rate, DCR

    Time frame: Time Frame: about 2 years

  2. Progression Free Survival, PFS

    Time frame: Time Frame: about 2 years

  3. Event Free Survival, EFS

    Time frame: Time Frame: about 2 years

  4. 2-year Overall Surviva rate

    Time frame: Time Frame: about 2 years

  5. Surgical resection rate

    Time frame: Time Frame: about 2 years

  6. Incidence of Adverse events (AE)

    Time frame: Time Frame: about 2 years

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Study locations

1 site
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: Undecided

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 Nov 2024 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Mar 2026, 15 months after the start.

Of 43 phase 2 interventional studies under Gallbladder Neoplasms, half reached primary completion within 39 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 32 and three quarters within 54. This study's planned 15 months is below that.

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

Registered
Sep 2, 2024
First posted
Mar 30, 2025
StartActual
Nov 8, 2024
Primary completionEst.
Mar 1, 2026
CompletionEst.
Jul 1, 2027
Last update
Mar 30, 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 Mar 30, 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
NCT06901622
Responsible party
Hong Zong (Professor of Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University) — Principal investigator
First posted
Mar 30, 2025
Start date
Nov 8, 2024
Primary completion
Mar 1, 2026 (estimated)
Completion
Jul 1, 2027 (estimated)
Last update
Mar 30, 2025

Oversight

FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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