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A Prospective, Single-arm, Phase II Clinical Study of Tislelizumab Combined With Anlotinib and Platinum-based Doublet Perioperative Therapy for Resectable Stage II-IIIB Driver Gene-negative NSCLC

A Phase 2 interventional study of tislelizumab in combination with anlotinib and platinum-based doublet chemotherapy in NSCLC (Non-small Cell Lung Cancer), Neoadjuvant Immunotherapy and Adjuvant Immunotherapy, sponsored by The First Affiliated Hospital with Nanjing Medical University. Not yet recruiting at 1 site in China. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 75 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2025-06-29.

Sponsored by The First Affiliated Hospital with Nanjing Medical University · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment

Phase
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
40
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
18 Years to 75 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if tislelizumab in combination with anlotinib and platinum-based doublet chemotherapy works to treat for resectable stage II-IIIB driver gene-negative NSCLC. It will also learn about the safety of tislelizumab in combination with anlotinib and platinum-based doublet chemotherapy.

The main questions it aims to answer are:

  1. Does tislelizumab combined with anlotinib and platinum-based doublet perioperative therapy can increase pCR rate as well as MPR rate、EFS、DFS、ORR、OS for resectable stage II-IIIB driver gene-negative NSCLC?
  2. Is tislelizumab combined with anlotinib and platinum-based doublet perioperative therapy safe?

Participants with histologically or cytologically confirmed NSCLC, potentially resectable, driver gene negative (II- IIIB stage), and without prior systemic treatment, who have signed the informed consent, will be screened for inclusion. After receiving 4 cycles of tislelizumab combined with anlotinib and platinum-based doublet chemotherapy, the subjects will be evaluated by a multidisciplinary team (MDT) to determine whether to proceed with radical surgical resection. The surgery will be performed within 3 to 7 weeks after the last neoadjuvant treatment. Postoperatively, patients will be divided into two subgroups based on the pathological results: For patients with postoperative pathological pCR, tislelizumab monotherapy will be used for maintenance treatment; For patients with postoperative pathological non-pCR, tislelizumab combined with anlotinib will be used for maintenance treatment. Both groups will continue treatment until disease progression as defined by RECIST 1.1, intolerable toxicity, withdrawal of informed consent, initiation of other anti-tumor therapy, death, or other situations specified in the protocol that require treatment cessation, whichever occurs first. The maximum treatment duration is 12 months. Survival and safety assessments will be continuously conducted thereafter.

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Conditions studied

  • NSCLC (Non-small Cell Lung Cancer)
  • Neoadjuvant Immunotherapy
  • Adjuvant Immunotherapy
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In context

Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung

6,491 studies on the registry are indexed under Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung; 1,633 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 40 is below the median of 62 across 5,216 interventional studies indexed under Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung.

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Lead sponsor

The First Affiliated Hospital with Nanjing Medical University is the lead sponsor of 543 studies on the registry; 301 are open to participants now.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 75 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

  • Fully understand and voluntarily sign the informed consent for this study;
  • Age ≥18 years old and ≤75 years old, male or female;
  • Patients with histologically or cytologically confirmed resectable stage II-IIIB non-small cell lung cancer;
  • ECOG 0-1;
  • No EGFR sensitive mutation, ALK or ROS1 fusion mutation was confirmed by tissue genetic testing before enrollment.
  • Had not received any previous systemic treatment for non-small cell lung cancer;
  • Patients with normal organ function within 7 days before enrollment met the following criteria:

    1. Blood routine test (no blood transfusion history within 14 days) :
    2. Hemoglobin (HB)≥90g/L; Absolute neutrophil count (ANC)≥1.5×109/L; j Platelet count (PLT)≥80×109/L.
    3. Biochemical test results met the following criteria:

      Total bilirubin (TBIL)≤1.5 ULN; Alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and aspartate aminotransferase (AST)≤2.5 ULN, or 5 ULN if liver metastasis occurs; Serum creatinine (Cr)≤1.5 ULN or creatinine clearance (CCr)≥60mL/min. Left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF)≥50%; Urine routine examination showed urine protein \< 2+ or 24-hour urine protein \< 1g; Serum amylase and lipase ≤ ULN.

  • Male or female patients of childbearing potential voluntarily use an effective method of contraception, such as dual barrier methods, condoms, oral or injectable contraceptives, intrauterine devices, etc. during the study and for 6 months after the last study medication. All female patients will be considered fertile unless they have undergone natural menopause, artificial menopause, or sterilization (e.g., hysterectomy, bilateral adnophorectomy, or radioactive ovarian irradiation).

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • The pathological types of the patients were mixed with components of small cell lung cancer, neuroendocrine carcinoma, sarcoma, salivary gland tumor and mesenchymal tumor.
  • Central, caenorrhea squamous cell carcinoma or hemoptysis non-small cell lung cancer (hemoptysis >50 mL/ day);
  • The tumor is surrounded by large blood vessels, and there is a potential risk of hemoptysis after anlotinib treatment;
  • Presence of symptomatic or clinically significant thyroid dysfunction at screening (hypothyroidism controlled only with thyroid hormone replacement could be included);
  • Patients who have been diagnosed with immunodeficiency or are receiving systemic glucocorticoid therapy or any other form of immunosuppressive therapy (prednisone at a dose of >10mg/ day or other equivalent efficacy hormone) and continue to use it within 2 weeks before the first dose;
  • Active autoimmune disease requiring systemic therapy (e.g., disease-modifying medications, corticosteroids, or immunosuppressive agents), including but not limited to inflammatory bowel disease such as ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease, occurred within 2 years before enrollment; Diverticulitis; Celiac disease; Systemic lupus erythematosus; Sarcoidosis syndrome or Wegener syndrome (granulomatosis with polyangiitis); Graves' disease; Rheumatoid arthritis; Multiple sclerosis; Vasculitis; Glomerulonephritis; Antiphospholipid syndrome; Hypophysitis; Uveitis and so on. Alternative therapies (e.g., thyroxine, insulin, or physiological doses of corticosteroids for adrenal or pituitary insufficiency) were not considered systemic treatments. Patients who were positive for autoimmune antibodies were eligible for enrollment after investigator evaluation to confirm the absence of autoimmune disease requiring systemic treatment. ;
  • Vaccination or attenuated vaccine within 4 weeks before enrollment;
  • Received approved or investigational systemic anti-tumor therapy within 4 weeks before enrollment, including chemotherapy, radical radiotherapy, biological immunotherapy, targeted therapy, and traditional Chinese medicine therapy (traditional Chinese medicine therapy with clear indications for anti-tumor, after a 3-week washout period can also be enrolled);
  • Participated in clinical trials of other drugs not yet approved or marketed in China and received treatment with corresponding drugs within 4 weeks before enrollment;
  • Patients who underwent major surgery or unhealed wounds, ulcers, or fractures within 4 weeks before enrollment;
  • International normalized ratio (INR) >1.5 or activated partial prothrombin time (APTT) >1.5×ULN; twelve Electrolyte abnormalities that were judged by the investigator to be clinically significant;
  • Patients have drug-uncontrolled hypertension defined as systolic blood pressure ≥140 mmHg and/or diastolic blood pressure ≥90 mmHg;
  • The patient has any current disease or condition that affects drug absorption or the patient is unable to take anlotinib orally;
  • Patients with active gastric and duodenal ulcer, ulcerative colitis and other gastrointestinal diseases or unresected tumors with active bleeding, or other conditions that may cause gastrointestinal bleeding or perforation as judged by the investigators;
  • Patients with evidence or history of significant bleeding tendency within 3 months before enrollment (bleeding >30 mL within 3 months, hematemesis, melena, hematochezia), hemoptysis (>5 mL of fresh blood within 4 weeks) or thromboembolic events (including stroke events and/or transient ischemic attack) within 12 months;
  • Grade 1 or above myocardial ischemia, myocardial infarction or severe arrhythmia (including QTc≥450 ms(male), QTc≥ 470ms(female) and NYHA class 1 or above congestive heart failure;
  • Other malignant tumors in the past 5 years, excluding basal cell or squamous cell carcinoma of the skin after radical resection, or carcinoma in situ of the cervix;
  • Severe active or uncontrolled infection (≥CTCAE v5.0 grade 2 infection);
  • Known human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection; A known history of clinically significant liver disease, including viral hepatitis (known hepatitis B virus (HBV) carriers must rule out active HBV infection, defined as HBV DNA positivity (>1×104 copies /mL or >2000 IU/ml); Known hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection and HCV RNA positive (>1×103 copies /mL), or other hepatitis, liver cirrhosis] (excluding patients with previous antiviral treatment, the relevant test results returned to normal);
  • Tuberculosis that is active or currently in need of medical intervention, including but not limited to tuberculosis;
  • A history of acute or chronic pancreatitis, pancreatic surgery, or risk factors that may increase the risk of pancreatitis;
  • Has not fully recovered from any intervention-induced toxicity and/or complications before enrollment (i.e., > grade 1 or not recovered to baseline required levels);
  • Women who are pregnant (positive pregnancy test before medication) or breastfeeding;
  • Received blood transfusion, blood products, and hematopoietic factors such as albumin and granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) within 14 days before enrollment;
  • Brachytherapy (radioactive seed implantation) within 60 days before enrollment;
  • Known response to tislelizumab and/or chemotherapy of choice (non-squamous NSCLC: pemetrexed plus cisplatin or carboplatin; Squamous NSCLC: allergic reaction to the active ingredient and/or any excipients of paclitaxel or albumin paclitaxel plus cisplatin or carboplatin);
  • Any other medical condition, clinically significant metabolic, physical or laboratory abnormality, medical history, disease, treatment or laboratory abnormality that may interfere with the results of the trial or prevent the subject from participating fully in the study, in the investigator's judgment, There is a reason to suspect that the patient has a disease or condition (e.g., having seizures and requiring treatment) that would be inappropriate for the study drug, that would affect the interpretation of the study results, or that the investigator believes that participation in the study would not be in the subject's best interest;
  • The presence of any clinically significant systemic disease that is judged by the investigator to require treatment, including but not limited to thyroid disease (patients with stable thyroid function after hormone replacement therapy can be enrolled), organ transplant recipient, history of mental illness, and history of drug abuse/addiction, alcohol or drug abuse;
  • Local or systemic disease that is not caused by malignancy, or a secondary reaction to cancer, and may result in a high medical risk and/or uncertainty in the evaluation of survival.
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Study design

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

Study arms

  • Experimental
    tislelizumab in combination with anlotinib and platinum-based doublet chemotherapy

    Drug: tislelizumab in combination with anlotinib and platinum-based doublet chemotherapy

Interventions

  • Drugtislelizumab in combination with anlotinib and platinum-based doublet chemotherapy

    After receiving 4 cycles of tislelizumab combined with anlotinib and platinum-based doublet chemotherapy, the subjects will be evaluated by a multidisciplinary team (MDT) to determine whether to proceed with radical surgical resection. The surgery will be performed within 3 to 7 weeks after the last neoadjuvant treatment. Postoperatively, patients will be divided into two subgroups based on the pathological results: For patients with postoperative pathological pCR, tislelizumab monotherapy will be used for maintenance treatment; For patients with postoperative pathological non-pCR, tislelizumab combined with anlotinib will be used for maintenance treatment. Both groups will continue treatment until disease progression, intolerable toxicity, withdrawal of informed consent, initiation of other anti-tumor therapy, death, or other situations specified in the protocol that require treatment cessation, whichever occurs first. The maximum treatment duration is 12 months

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Pathological Complete Response (pCR) rate

    Pathological complete response (pCR) is measured as the percentage of participants with a pathological complete response as assessed by the central pathologist at the time of definitive surgery. pCR is defined as having no residual invasive squamous cell carcinoma within the resected primary tumor specimen and all sampled regional lymph nodes.

    Time frame: Up to ~64 months

Secondary outcomes

  1. Major Pathological Response (mPR) rate

    The percentage of participants with a major pathological response (mPR) as assessed by the Central Pathologist at the time of definitive surgery. mPR is defined as ≤10% invasive squamous cell carcinoma within the resected primary tumor specimen and all the sampled regional lymph nodes.

    Time frame: Up to ~64 months

  2. Event-free Survival (EFS)

    EFS is the time from the date of randomization to the date of first record of any of the following events: radiographic disease progression; local or distant progression or recurrence as assessed with imaging or biopsy as indicated; or death due to any cause. Radiographic disease progression during neoadjuvant phase that precludes surgery will be considered an event; a secondary malignancy will not be considered an event.

    Time frame: Up to ~80 months

  3. Disease-free survival (DFS)

    defined as the period from the first day after radical surgery (when the disease is confirmed to be cured) to local recurrence or distant metastasis or the time of death for any reason was determined by the investigator during the period of adjuvant therapy and safety follow-up, whichever occurred first.Only patients who underwent R0 resection will be analyzed.

    Time frame: Up to ~80 months

  4. Objective response rate (ORR)

    defined as the proportion of all patients with measurable disease at baseline as assessed by the investigator according to RECIST version 1.1 who achieved a complete response (CR) or partial response (PR). The proportion of patients achieving complete remission (CR) or partial remission (PR) among the patients

    Time frame: Up to ~64 months

  5. Overall survival (OS)

    It is defined as the time from the date of patient enrollment to the date of death due to any cause.

    Time frame: Up to ~92 months

  6. Percentage of Participants Experiencing An Adverse Event (AEs)

    Percentage of participants experiencing any sign, symptom, disease, or worsening of preexisting condition temporally associated with study therapy and irrespective of causality to study therapy

    Time frame: From time of first dose of study treatment until the end of follow-up (up to ~92 months)

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Study locations

1 site
  • The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University
    Nanjing, Jiangsu 210029, China
    • The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University · Contact · 86+025-83714511
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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 Jun 29, 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
NCT06977828
Lead sponsor
The First Affiliated Hospital with Nanjing Medical University
Responsible party
Lingxiang Liu (MD, The First Affiliated Hospital with Nanjing Medical University) — Principal investigator
First posted
May 18, 2025
Start date
Jul 20, 2025 (estimated)
Primary completion
Jun 30, 2027 (estimated)
Completion
Dec 31, 2028 (estimated)
Last update
Jun 29, 2025

Study contacts

Lingxiang Lingxiang Liu, MD, Doctor of Medicine(M.D.)
Contact
llxlau@163.com
86+13851892074

Oversight

FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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