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RecruitingNCT07122089IOSPHEREUpdated May 5, 2026

Evaluation of SIRT Followed by Immunotherapy for Treatment of Hepatocellular Carcinoma With Portal Vein Thrombosis

A Phase 2 interventional study of Selective Internal Radiotherapy and Tremelimumab in Hepatocellular Carcinoma Non-resectable, sponsored by Center Eugene Marquis. Recruiting at 6 sites in France. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-05-05.

Sponsored by Center Eugene Marquis · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Started Feb 2026; still recruiting 8 months later.
Phase
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
80
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common primary liver cancer, being the third leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide, with approximately 745 000 deaths reported annually.

For advanced patients, including patients with tumoral portal vein thrombosis (PVT), most treatment guidelines recommend systemic therapy, either combination immunotherapy (IO) or combination of immunotherapy and anti-angiogenic treatment for first line option.

Results for PVT patients are provided in one trial with a median overall survival of 14.2 months with IO underlying the necessity to improve treatment of PVT patients. Two recent other phase 3 trials also reported positive results for different IO regimen.

Selective internal radiation therapy (SIRT) using yttrium-90 (90Y)-loaded glass microspheres (TheraSphereTM) can be used for patients with early stage to locally advanced HCC including PVT patients without extrahepatic spread (EHS). TheraSphereTM is recognized and is reimbursed in France for PVT patients without EHS, since 2019.Several retrospective studies have shown promising results for PVT patients.

Nowadays use of SIRT in locally advanced HCC is regaining interest based on the results of the randomized DOSISPHERE-01 study including non-operable patients, about 70% with PVT. This randomized Phase II trial using 90Y-loaded microspheres sought was noted the effectiveness of 90Y-loaded microspheres using a personalized dosimetry approach versus a standard dosimetry approach.

The use of a systemic treatment as IO after a locoregional treatment with the strong local debulking effect of SIRT is logical and of interest. Indeed, the most frequent pattern of progression after SIRT is recurrence in an untreated area, including untreated liver or EHS. Patients are then usually referred to IO.

Such kind of therapeutic approach, using SIRT followed by IO has already been evaluated in a phase 2 study using nivolumab after 90Y loaded resin microspheres with promising efficacy without safety deterioration.

The aim of this study is to evaluate SIRT followed by IO used according to their current indications in advanced HCC patient with PVT patients and without EHS.

Read the detailed description

The study plans to included 80 patients and to treated 72 patients (take into account screen failures and SIRT contraindications).

First, patient will receive SIRT using Yttrium-90 glass microspheres. Immunotherapy with an injection of Tremelimumab followed by Durvalumab must be started 1 to 3 weeks after SIRT.

Durvalumab monotherapy is continued every 4 weeks until disease progression, or toxicity leading to definitive treatment discontinuation, or loss of clinical benefit, or investigator decision, or lost for follow-up or death patient.

Patients are followed prior to the occurrence of progressive disease, within a maximum 18-month period after the initiation IO.

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Conditions studied

  • Hepatocellular Carcinoma Non-resectable

Keywords

  • Hepatocellular carcinoma
  • Immunotherapy
  • Selective internal radiation therapy
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In context

Carcinoma, Hepatocellular

3,648 studies on the registry are indexed under Carcinoma, Hepatocellular; 1,061 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 80 is above the median of 54 across 2,618 interventional studies indexed under Carcinoma, Hepatocellular.

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Lead sponsor

Center Eugene Marquis is the lead sponsor of 32 studies on the registry; 8 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

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Inclusion criteria

  1. Age ≥ 18,
  2. Performance Status 0-1,
  3. proven HCC or noninvasive HCC diagnosis according to LiRADS criteria,
  4. HCC with Portal vein involvement (PVT), segmental, sectorial or lobar, evaluated by diagnostic imaging (CT scan or MRI),
  5. At least one ≥ 10mm using criteria evaluated by diagnostic imaging,
  6. Tumor involvement \<50% of the liver,
  7. Hepatic reserve after SIRT ≥ 30% (i.e. hepatic parenchyma not treated with SIRT) evaluated by diagnostic imaging
  8. No cirrhosis or Compensated cirrhosis ( A, ALBI score 1 or 2),
  9. SIRT indication confirmed by a multidisciplinary team meeting (i.e. patient not a candidate for liver resection, thermal ablation, or transplantation at the time of study),
  10. Registration with a social security scheme,
  11. Written and of the patient.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Patient with main PVT (partial or complete),
  2. Extrahepatic (patients with EHS), except hilum node \< 2 cm,
  3. Previous episode of ascites and/or presence of ascites, even if only seen on imaging without clinical detection (except minimum blade only peri-hepatic),
  4. Previous episode of hepatic encephalopathy and/or hepatic encephalopathy presence at study entry and/or episodes of encephalopathy (Grade ≥2) within 6 months prior to study inclusion,
  5. Pulmonary insufficiency (defined by an arterial oxygen pressure (PaO2) of \<60 mmHg, or oxygen saturation (SaO2) of \<90% (Roussos \& Koutsoukou, 2003) or clinically evident (COPD),
  6. Medical history of radiation pneumonitis or recent pneumonitis, regardless of causality,
  7. Previous HCC therapies:

    1. Any prior systemic treatment for HCC;
    2. More than 2 prior TACE (or embolization), in the area to be treated;
    3. Liver resection or ablation \<6 months from end of previous treatment to TheraSphere administration;
    4. Liver ablation \<3 months from end of previous treatment to TheraSphere administration.
  8. Prior exposure to immune mediated therapy for HCC or other disease, such as other , anti-PDL-1, anti-PDL-2, anti-CTLA-4, antibodies, etc.
  9. Previous liver radiation (external beam radiation therapy (EBRT) or peptide receptor radionuclide therapy (PRRT) or SIRT
  10. Inadequate hematological, hepatic and renal functions:

    1. \<8,5 g/dl;
    2. Granulocytes \<1500/mm3;
    3. \< 50 000 /mm3;
    4. level ≥35 umol/l;
    5. Albumin \<28g/L;
    6. Transaminases > 5 UNL;
    7. Creatinine > 1,5 UNL;
    8. >2 (or TP \<60%) without anti-coagulation.
  11. Any to angiography or selective visceral catheterization,
  12. History of any organ allograft, including bone marrow allo and autograft,
  13. History of active primary/acquired immunodeficiency, that makes patients unsuitable for additional immunotherapy in this study (per investigator),
  14. Active or prior documented or inflammatory disorders (including but not limited to inflammatory bowel disease [e.g. ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease], systemic lupus erythematosus, Sarcoidosis syndrome, or Wegener syndrome [granulomatosis with polyangiitis, Graves' disease, rheumatoid arthritis, hypophysitis, uveitis]). The following are exceptions to this criterion:

    1. Patients with vitiligo or alopecia;
    2. Patients with hypothyroidism (e.g. following Hashimoto's syndrome) stable on hormone replacement therapy;
    3. Any chronic skin condition that does not require systemic therapy;
    4. Patients with celiac disease controlled by diet alone.
  15. Current or prior use of medication within 14 days before the first dose of durvalumab. The following are exceptions to this criterion: Intranasal, inhaled, topical , or local steroid injections (e.g. intra-articular injection),
  16. In the case of background systemic corticosteroid use, doses of prednisone or its equivalent >10 mg/day,
  17. Need for premedication of reactions with Steroids (e.g. CT scan premedication),
  18. History of gastrointestinal bleeding within 42 days prior to study inclusion, active GI bleeding and any bleeding diathesis or coagulopathy that is not correctable by usual therapy or hemostatic agents (e.g. closure device). Patients with known varices that have not bled or which have been clinically addressed can enter the study. No endoscopic exploration is required before study inclusion,
  19. Presence of biliary stent or sphincterotomy within one year prior to study inclusion,
  20. History of , other than HCC, within two years, except the condition is one of the following:

    1. Adequately treated carcinoma in situ of the cervix, early squamous cell carcinoma or basal cell carcinoma of the skin, localized prostate cancer, breast ductal carcinoma in situ, or low-grade endometrial carcinoma with no myometrial invasion;
    2. Localized prostate cancer under active surveillance;
    3. Other cancer when there is a negligible risk of recurrence or progression or death (5-year OS rate > 90%).
  21. Major surgical procedure (as defined by the Investigator) within 42 days prior to study inclusion,
  22. A history of severe allergy or intolerance to contrast agents, narcotics, sedatives, or atropine that cannot be managed medically,
  23. Known allergy or hypersensitivity to any of the study drugs or any of the study drug that cannot be managed medically,
  24. Active infection, including:

    1. Tuberculosis (clinical evaluation that includes clinical history, physical examination and radiographic findings, and tuberculosis testing in line with local practice),
    2. * and Hep D co-infection,
    3. ** (HIV 1/2 antibodies) plus or HBV* co-infection.

      • Patients with active HBV infection or HCV infection must be managed according to local standard of care. Patients must show evidence of viral disease stabilization prior to inclusion.

        • Patients with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection are eligible, provided the HIV infection is well controlled with no current or previous AIDS-related complications and CD4+ T-cell (CD4+) counts ≥ 350 cells/µL
  25. Receipt of within 30 days prior to the first dose of durvalumab and/or tremelimumab. Note: patients, if enrolled, should not receive live vaccine whilst receiving durvalumab and/or tremelimumab and up to 30 days after the last dose of durvalumab and/or tremelimumab,
  26. Participation in another clinical trial in the 4 weeks prior to enrollment, unless it is an observational study or a 4-week no-treatment follow-up phase of an interventional study,
  27. Female patients who are pregnant (a negative serum pregnancy test is mandatory for inclusion) or breastfeeding and who do not want to stop breastfeeding. Male or female patients of who are not willing to employ any effective method from screening and for at least 3 months post the last dose of study treatment (durvalumab ± tremelimumab and/or TheraSphere), whichever is later,
  28. Unstable chronic disease or evidence of any disease or condition that would place the patient at undue risk and preclude safe use of TheraSphere, durvalumab and tremelimumab treatment as deemed by the site principal investigator,
  29. Patients who are not able to follow the TheraSphere, durvalumab or tremelimumab treatment requirements,
  30. Persons deprived of their liberty by a judicial or administrative decision, persons subject to psychiatric care under articles L. 3212-1 and L. 3213-1 who are not covered by the provisions of Article L. 1121-8 and persons admitted to a health or social establishment for purposes other than research, including:

    1. Persons receiving psychiatric treatment;
    2. Persons admitted to a health or social establishment for purposes other than research;
    3. Person of full age under curatorship;
    4. Adult subject to a mandate for future protection, a family authorization, or a guardianship measure.

Angiograhy and dosimetry exclusion criteria:

  1. Cone Beam CT (CBCT) or Technetium-99m Macro Aggregated Albumin (99mTc-MAA) hepatic arterial perfusion scintigraphy shows any deposition to the gastrointestinal tract that may not be corrected by angiographic techniques,
  2. 99mTc-MAA hepatic arterial perfusion scintigraphy shows poor tumor targeting and/or a poor portal vein thrombosis (PVT) targeting (99mTc-MAA uptake ≤ normal liver uptake),
  3. The dosimetry endpoints cannot be reached (refer to the supplement A "TheraSphere Treatment Planning, Dosimetry Guidance document"),
  4. Shunting of blood to the lungs that could result in delivery of >30 Gy to the lungs in a single treatment, or >50 Gy cumulative dose to the lungs in case of multiple TheraSphere treatments, as seen on 99mTc-MAA hepatic arterial perfusion scintigraphy.
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(26)

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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.

Histologically or cytologically confirmed

The diagnosis was confirmed by looking at a sample under a microscope: tissue from a biopsy or surgery (histology), or cells from a fluid or needle sample (cytology).

Your pathology report is the document that shows this.

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.

iRECIST and mRECIST

Versions of RECIST adapted to particular cases. iRECIST is for immunotherapy, where a tumour can look bigger for a while before it shrinks, so growth has to be confirmed on a later scan. mRECIST usually means the version for liver cancer (hepatocellular carcinoma), which measures only the part of a tumour that still has a blood supply.

Child-Pugh class

A score of how well the liver works in people with liver disease such as cirrhosis: class A is mild, B moderate and C severe.

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.

COPD

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

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.

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).

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.

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.

Contraindication

A reason a treatment, test or procedure should not be given to a particular person, such as an allergy, another illness or a medicine they take.

Autoimmune disease

A condition in which the immune system attacks the body’s own tissues, such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, psoriasis, type 1 diabetes or inflammatory bowel disease.

Immunotherapy studies often leave out active autoimmune disease, and some name exceptions, such as thyroid disease on replacement hormone. Check the exceptions this study lists.

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.

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.

Hypersensitivity

An allergy, or another reaction of the immune system, to a substance. “Hypersensitivity to the study drug” means a known allergic reaction to it — not every side effect a medicine can have.

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.

Excipients

The other ingredients in a medicine besides the active drug, such as fillers, colours or preservatives.

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.

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 C tests

Hepatitis C is a virus that infects the liver. An HCV antibody test can stay positive after an infection has cleared (and is occasionally positive without one); an HCV RNA test shows whether the virus is there now.

After treatment, hepatitis C counts as cured when HCV RNA is still undetectable 12 weeks or more after the treatment ended. Studies often accept people cured this way.

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.

Reproductive potential

Able to have children. For women this usually means from the first period until menopause, unless permanently unable to through surgery; for men, unless permanently sterile. Read who the line is about — participants, women, men, or their partners.

Criteria about it usually ask 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.

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Study design

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

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Hepatocellular carcinoma with portal vein thrombosis and without hepatic spread

    Patient will receive selective internal radiation therapy and immunotherapy as per standard of care. SIRT Administration is direct intra-arterial injection in the hepatic artery to target only liver disease and IO will be performed as describe below: * Tremelimumab (Imjudo®): 300 mg IV, one-hour infusion; * Durvalumab (Imfinzi®): 1500 mg IV, one-hour infusion every 4 weeks.

    Device: Selective Internal Radiotherapy · Drug: Tremelimumab · Drug: Durvalumab

Interventions

  • DeviceSelective Internal Radiotherapy

    SIRT will use Yttrium-90 glass-microspheres (TheraSphereTM). SIRT needs two steps: the treatment simulation (diagnostic angiography and scintigraphy of hepatic perfusion with 99mTc-MAA) and the administration (during a therapeutic angiography).

    Also known as: SIRT

  • Tremelimumab should be done 1 to 3 weeks after SIRT and is administrated according to the Summary of Product Characteristic (SPC).

    Also known as: IMJUDO®

  • After the end of the tremelimumab infusion, patient receive durvalumab then one injection every 4 weeks until further progression upon investigator decision. Also administrated according to the Summary of Product Characteristic (SPC).

    Also known as: Imfinzi®

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Objective Response Rate (ORR)

    The Objective Response Rate (ORR) is defined as the proportion of patients who have either a Partial Response (PR) or a Complete Response (CR) to treatment. CR and PR are the best overall response across all time points of tumor evaluation. Overall tumor response at each time point is assessed according to the modified RECIST criteria for HCC.

    Time frame: Through study completion, an average of 4 years

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Study locations

1 of 6 sites recruiting
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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on May 5, 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
NCT07122089
Lead sponsor
Center Eugene Marquis
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Aug 14, 2025
Start date
Feb 25, 2026
Primary completion
Jan 2, 2030 (estimated)
Completion
Jan 2, 2030 (estimated)
Last update
May 5, 2026

Study contacts

Tassadit AMROUN-SEBILLE
Contact
t.amroun-sebille@rennes.unicancer.fr
0299253137 ext. +33
Valérie Jolaine
Contact
v.jolaine@rennes.unicancer.fr
0299253036 ext. +33
Etienne Garin, MD PHD
principal investigator · Centre de Lutte Contre Le cancer Eugène Marquis

Oversight

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