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A Study to Select a Dose Regimen (Part A) and to Investigate Overall Survival (Part B) With Nanvuranlat Compared With Physician's Best Choice in Participants Aged 18 Years or Older With Biliary Tract Cancer

A Phase 3 interventional study of Nanvuranlat and Physician's Best Choice in Advanced Biliary Tract Cancer and Biliary Tract Cancer (BTC), sponsored by J-Pharma Co., Ltd.. Recruiting at 18 sites in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-09-29.

Sponsored by J-Pharma Co., Ltd. · Phase 3, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Started May 2026; still recruiting 6 months later.
Updated Sep 29, 2026Site recruiting status changedGo to Updates ↓
Phase
Phase 3
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
480
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

This study is designed to 1) select a dose regimen for continued development and 2) evaluate nanvuranlat versus Physicians Best Choice (PBC) (FOLFOX, FOLFIRI, or Best Supportive Care (BSC)) in participants aged 18 years and over with BTC. Participants enrolling in Part A the trial will be randomly assigned to receive 1 of 3 nanvuranlat dose regimens or PBC. In Part B, participants will be randomly assigned to receive nanvuranlat or PBC. Participants will receive treatment every 2 weeks for as long as they do not experience safety issues, or their cancer gets worse, and the study doctor feels they should stop treatment. Health measurements including physical examinations, vital signs, ECGs, and safety laboratory tests will be performed to monitor safety, and tumor imaging will be performed to monitor cancer response to treatment. Other exploratory makers will be measured to better understand how nanvuranlat works.

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This is a Phase 3, multicenter, randomized, open-label, 2-part study designed to select a dose regimen for continued development (Part A) and evaluate the efficacy and safety of nanvuranlat versus PBC (Part B) for the treatment of patients with advanced (locally advanced or metastatic) BTC who have previously received 1 prior standard therapy for advanced BTC plus appropriate therapies targeting druggable molecular mutations/aberrations. Randomization will be stratified by disease subtypes: IHC, EHC, and GBC.

Part A (Dose Regimen Selection) - Three nanvuranlat dose regimens will be evaluated in Part A. Cohorts 1 and 2 will receive 50 or 75 mg of nanvuranlat via a 90-minute infusion, once daily for 5 days, followed by 9 days treatment free (Nanvuranlat-5/9). Cohort 3 will receive 375 mg of nanvuranlat via a 46-hour infusion once every 14 days (Nanvuranlat-46). Participants will be randomized 1:1:1:1 to 4 cohorts. Each treatment cycle will be 14 days and study intervention will be administered beginning on Day 1 during each treatment cycle, except for those participants receiving BSC who will receive care at the discretion of the Investigator.

Part B (Efficacy Evaluation) - Participants will be randomized 1:1 to either nanvuranlat (dose regimen selected in Part A) or PBC (FOLFOX, FOLFIRI, or BSC). Each treatment cycle will be 14 days and study intervention will be administered beginning on Day 1 during each treatment cycle, except for those participants receiving BSC who will receive care at the discretion of the Investigator.

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Conditions studied

  • Advanced Biliary Tract Cancer
  • Biliary Tract Cancer (BTC)

Keywords

  • Intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (IHC)
  • Extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (EHC)
  • Gallbladder carcinoma (GBC)
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In context

Biliary Tract Neoplasms

519 studies on the registry are indexed under Biliary Tract Neoplasms; 199 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 480 is above the median of 58 across 427 interventional studies indexed under Biliary Tract Neoplasms.

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Lead sponsor

J-Pharma Co., Ltd. is the lead sponsor of 2 studies on the registry; 2 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

Go through the criteria one by one — yes, no or not sure — and take the list to your doctor or the study team. Kept in this browser only.

Inclusion criteria

- Individuals are eligible to be included in the study only if all of the following criteria apply:

  1. At least 18 years of age inclusive at the time of signing the .
  2. Provides informed written consent according to local laws or regulations.
  3. Able and willing to comply with scheduled visits, treatment plans, procedures, and laboratory tests, including peripheral blood and urine sampling during the study.
  4. Willing to participate in LAT1 testing and NAT2 and transporter genotyping. Note: For LAT1 testing, if the participant does not have and a fresh biopsy is not in the best interest of the participant, they will still be eligible for the trial.
  5. Cancer must be , locally advanced and unresectable, or not amenable to treatment with local therapies that could offer a reasonable likelihood of clinical benefit.
  6. Histologic or cytologic diagnosis of BTC.
  7. Has BTC that is classified as either an IHC, EHC, or GBC based on surgical, clinical, or laparoscopic findings and/or radiological imaging (eg, CT, MRI).
  8. Has received 1 prior appropriate platinum (cisplatin, carboplatin, or oxaliplatin)-based therapy for advanced disease (locally advanced or metastatic) with or without a mAb targeting or PD-L1.

    1. Disease progression during or within 6 months of or adjuvant treatment with a platinum-containing regimen will count as having received 1 prior regimen.
    2. If a patient has a mutation/fusion of IDH1, FGFR2 or NTRK, or an amplified, mutated, or overexpressed form of , or a recognized aberration in a validated "driver" of BTC, and was treated with an appropriate targeted agent, or the patient's tumor was determined to be MSI-H and an appropriate PD-1/PD-L1 mAb was administered, the targeted therapy or immunotherapy will NOT count as a separate .
  9. PS of 0 or 1.
  10. Expected of at least 90 days after the first day of treatment as per the site Investigator.
  11. At least 1 by v1.1 based on imaging (eg, CT, MRI) performed within 28 days prior to initiation of study intervention. Those who have received prior local therapy, including but not limited to embolization, chemoembolization, radiation therapy, and/or other appropriate ablative procedures to a measurable lesion that is within the treatment and shown ≥ 20% growth in size since posttreatment assessment.
  12. Resolution to ≤ Grade 1 by the v 5.0 (or higher) of all toxic effects of prior chemotherapy or other treatments, except for alopecia and peripheral neuropathy (these must have resolved to ≤ Grade 2). If medical therapy is required for the treatment of a laboratory abnormality, the dose and laboratory value(s) should be stable.
  13. Adequate hematologic function:

    1. ≥ 1.5 × 109/L. Myeloid growth factors must not have been administered within 7 days before the participant's first dose of study intervention.
    2. ≥ 8.5 g/dL and no RBC transfusions during the 14 days before the participant's first dose of study intervention.
    3. count ≥ 100 × 109/L and no platelet transfusions during the 14 days before the participant's first dose of study intervention.
  14. Adequate baseline organ function, as demonstrated by the following:

    1. ≥ 50 mL/min as estimated by CKD-EPI 2021.
    2. ≤ 2 × (local institution).
    3. and ALT ≤ 5 × ULN (local institution).
  15. Adequate coagulation function as defined by ≤ 1.5 OR a PT ≤ 1.5 × ULN AND an aPTT ≤ 1.5 × ULN if not receiving anticoagulation therapy. Note: Participants may receive subtherapeutic doses of warfarin while on study to maintain patency of venous devices but not with therapeutic doses of warfarin. Participants may be treated with low-molecular weight heparin.
  16. Women of must be willing to use a highly effective method of throughout the study and study follow up or for at least 9 months after the last dose of study intervention. Note: A woman is of nonchildbearing potential if she meets 1 of the following criteria: a) with at least 12 months of spontaneous amenorrhea; b) has had a bilateral oophorectomy; or c) has had a hysterectomy. Highly effective methods of contraception include:

    • Abstinence from sexual activity.
    • Hormonal contraception (eg, injection, implant, pill, patch, or vaginal ring as available in each country) associated with inhibition of ovulation (both estrogen and progestogen and progestogen only) in use for at least 30 days before administration of study intervention.
    • Intrauterine device in use for at least 30 days before administration of study intervention.
    • Intrauterine hormone-releasing system in use for at least 30 days before administration of study intervention.
    • Bilateral tubal occlusion/ligation at least 6 months before administration of study intervention.
    • Partner who has been vasectomized at least 6 months before administration of study intervention.
  17. Males and their female partners must use a highly effective method of birth control if female partner(s) is of childbearing potential, and males must not donate sperm during the study and for 9 months after the last dose of study intervention.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Individuals will be excluded from study participation if they meet any of the following criteria:

    1. Received systemic therapy or an agent before washing out, as follows:

      1. \< 2 weeks prior to Cycle 1 Day 1 for systemic non-immune-based therapy
      2. \< 3 weeks prior to Cycle 1 Day 1 for immune-based therapy
      3. ≤ 5 half-lives or 3 weeks (whichever is longer) prior to Cycle 1 Day 1 for an investigational agent
    2. Received radiotherapy to sites within 2 weeks of Cycle 1 Day 1. Patients must have recovered from all radiation-related toxicities and not require . A 1 week is permitted for palliative radiation with a limited port ≤ 2 weeks of radiotherapy to non-CNS disease.
    3. Underwent hepatic radiation, chemoembolization, or radiofrequency ablation \< 4 weeks prior to Cycle 1 Day 1.
    4. Underwent major surgery \< 3 weeks before Screening and has not recovered adequately from the procedure and/or any complications from the surgery prior to starting study intervention.
    5. Known active and/or carcinomatous meningitis. Those with previously treated brain metastases may participate provided they are radiologically stable (ie, without evidence of PD for at least 4 weeks by repeat imaging), clinically stable, and without requirement of corticosteroid treatment for at least 14 days prior to first dose of study intervention. For those with a history of CNS involvement, repeat imaging should be performed during study screening. However, CNS imaging is not required prior to study entry unless there is clinical suspicion of CNS involvement.
    6. cardiovascular disease (eg, uncontrolled or any Class 3 or 4 heart failure, uncontrolled angina, history of myocardial infarction, unstable angina, or stroke within 6 months prior to study entry, uncontrolled hypertension or clinically significant arrhythmias not controlled by medication).
    7. Resting > 470 msec at screening.
    8. An additional active that is progressing or has required active treatment within the past 3 years. Cases involving a past cancer history with substantial potential for recurrence must be discussed with the Medical Monitor before study entry. Patients with the following concomitant neoplastic diagnoses are eligible: non-melanoma skin cancer, carcinoma in situ (including transitional cell carcinoma, cervical intraepithelial neoplasia, breast cancer, and melanoma in situ), organ-confined prostate cancer with no evidence of PD.
    9. Require strong inhibitors of P-gp, BCRP, OATP1B1, OATP1B3, OATP1A2, and OAT3 transporters unless they can be transferred to other medications within ≥ 5 half-lives of treatment.
    10. Require sensitive substrates of OATP1B1 and OATP1B3 unless they can be transferred to other medications within ≥ 5 half-lives of treatment.
    11. Known positive status for , has not been treated with established appropriate antiretroviral therapy for at least 4 weeks, and has a hydrophobic interaction chromatography viral load \< 400 copies/mL and a CD4+ T-cell (CD4+) counts ≥ 350 cells/µL prior to enrollment. No HIV testing is required unless mandated by local health authority.
    12. Active or chronic and active (not cured) . Participants who are HBV carriers without active disease (HBV DNA titer \< 1000 copies/mL or 200 IU/mL) or cured HCV (negative HCV RNA test) with confirmed viral clearance that are not receiving ongoing treatment and without residual chronic liver disease may be enrolled.
    13. An uncontrolled intercurrent illness including, but not limited to medical illness; uncontrolled infection requiring therapy; psychiatric illness; alcohol or drug dependence; social situations or a history or current evidence of any condition, therapy, or laboratory abnormality that might confound the results of the study, interfere with the participant's participation for the full duration of the study, or is not in the best interest of the participant to participate, in the opinion of the treating Investigator or Medical Monitor.
    14. Requires therapeutic doses of warfarin (ie, requires monitoring). A washout period of 7 days before administration of a participant's first dose of study intervention is required for those in whom therapeutic doses of warfarin are discontinued. Note: Warfarin at a low daily dose to maintain patency for indwelling venous catheters is allowed. Low-molecular weight heparin and direct-acting oral anticoagulants, according to the inclusion requirements pertaining to coagulation test results, are allowed.
    15. Clinically significant edema or intracavitary fluid collections (eg, ascites, pleural effusion, pericardial effusions) resulting in moderate symptoms and/or requiring frequent drainage.
    16. Previously developed shock, anaphylaxis, or renal disorder due to SBECD.
    17. who is pregnant, lactating, or discontinued lactation \< 12 weeks prior to Screening, or who plans to become pregnant or initiate lactation during the study.
    18. Known reaction or to any component of study intervention (ie, oxaliplatin, leucovorin [including levoleucovorin], and 5-FU [FOLFOX] and irinotecan, leucovorin, and 5-FU [FOLFIRI]).
    19. Known DPD deficiency. Screening for DPD deficiency is not mandated but should be considered in subjects who have had severe toxicity due to fluoropyrimidine-based therapy in the past.
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(35)

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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.

Biopsy and archival tissue

A biopsy takes a small piece of tissue to examine. “Archival tissue” is a sample already taken, for example at diagnosis, and kept by the hospital.

Whether a stored sample will do depends on when it was taken, how much there is and what the study needs. Ask whether the study accepts your stored sample or needs a new biopsy.

Metastases

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

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.

Adjuvant and neoadjuvant

Neoadjuvant treatment is given before the main treatment (usually surgery), often to shrink a tumour. Adjuvant treatment is given after it, to lower the chance of the cancer coming back.

HER2

HER2 is a protein, made from the ERBB2 gene, that drives the growth of some cancers. A study may look for a level of the protein, extra copies of the gene, or a particular change in it.

In breast cancer, protein tests are read as HER2-positive, HER2-low or HER2-negative; other cancers use their own rules. Check which test result the study requires.

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.

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.

Life expectancy

The study doctor’s estimate of how long someone is likely to live. Criteria use it so that people can stay in the study long enough for it to answer its question.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

GFR and eGFR (kidney filtering)

GFR (glomerular filtration rate) is how much blood the kidneys filter each minute. It is usually estimated from a blood test — eGFR, by formulas such as CKD-EPI or MDRD — and some studies ask for it to be measured directly instead. Usually given in mL/min/1.73 m².

Check the method, the units and the minimum the study states. A value of 90 or above is in the normal-or-high range, but kidney damage can show in other tests too.

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.

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.

Postmenopausal

Periods have stopped for good: usually no period for 12 months in a row without another medical reason, sometimes confirmed by a blood test (FSH).

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.

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.

Washout period

A planned gap after a treatment, so that its effects can lessen before the study treatment or a study assessment. Ask the study team and the doctor who prescribed it before changing any medicine.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 3
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
480 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Nanvuranlat 50mg

    Nanvuranlat 50mg administered via a 90-minute intravenous infusion once daily for 5 consecutive days, followed by 9 days off treatment

    Drug: Nanvuranlat

  • Experimental
    Navuranlat 75mg

    Nanvuranlat 75mg administered via a 90-minute intravenous infusion once daily for 5 consecutive days, followed by 9 days off treatment

    Drug: Nanvuranlat

  • Experimental
    Navuranlat 375mg

    Nanvuranlat 375mg administered via a 46-hour continuous intravenous infusion once every 14 days

    Drug: Nanvuranlat

  • Other
    Physicians Best Choice (PBC)

    1. FOLFOX regimen (Leucovorin, 5-Flurouracil and Oxaliplatin) administered on Day 1 of each 14 day cycle, or 2. FOLFIRI regimen (Leucovorin, 5-Flurouracil and Irinotecan) administered once during 14 day cycle, or 3. Best Supportive Care (BSC) including symptomatic therapeutics, palliative radiation for pre-existing metastases and transfusion of blood products administered at discretion of Investigator.

    Other: Physician's Best Choice

Interventions

  • DrugNanvuranlat

    Nanvuranlat, IV administration

  • OtherPhysician's Best Choice

    1. FOLFOX regimen (Leucovorin, 5-Flurouracil and Oxaliplatin) administered on Day 1 of each 14 day cycle, or 2. FOLFIRI regimen (Leucovorin, 5-Flurouracil and Irinotecan) administered once during 14 day cycle, or 3. Best Supportive Care (BSC) including symptomatic therapeutics, palliative radiation for pre-existing metastases and transfusion of blood products administered at discretion of Investigator.

    Also known as: FOLFOX Regimen (Leucovorin, 5-Flurouracil and Oxaliplatin, FOLFIRI Regimen (Leucovorin, 5-Flurouracil and Irinotecan), Best Supportive Care (BSC)

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Part A: Preliminary Overall Survival (OS)

    OS is defined as the time from the date of Cycle 1 Day 1 to the date of death from any cause.

    Time frame: From date of first dose of study intervention until death [Approx. 24 months].

  2. Part B: Overall Survival

    OS is defined as the time from the date of Cycle 1 Day 1 to the date of death from any cause.

    Time frame: From date of first dose of study intervention until death [Approx. 36 months]

Secondary outcomes

  1. Part B: Progression Free Survival

    PFS is defined as the time from the date of Cycle 1 Day 1 to the date of objectively determined progression of disease per the Investigators using RECIST version 1.1 or death from any cause, whichever occurs first.

    Time frame: From first dose of study intervention until disease progression or death (which ever occurs first) [Approx. 36 months].

  2. Part B: Objective Response Rate

    ORR, defined as the proportion of patients achieving a best response of CR or PR per the Investigators using RECIST version 1.1.

    Time frame: From first dose of study intervention until disease progression or death (which ever occurs first) [Approx. 36 months].

  3. Part B: Incidence of treatment-emergent adverse events (TEAEs)

    Incidence of TEAEs, including serious adverse events (SAEs)

    Time frame: From first dose of study intervention and up to 30 days after last dose of study intervention [Approx. 36 months].

  4. Part B: Relative Dose Intensity

    Relative dose intensity is defined as the ratio of completed infusions to the total planned infusions of the study drug during the first 8 weeks of treatment.

    Time frame: From first dose of study intervention and up to first 8 weeks of treatment [Approx. 36 months].

  5. Part B: Dose Reductions, Interruptions and Discontinuations

    Incidence of dose reductions, Interruptions and Discontinuations

    Time frame: From first dose of study intervention through last dose of study drug intervention [Approx. 36 months].

  6. Part B: Electrocardiograms

    Proportion of patients with treatment-emergent clinically significant ECG abnormalities

    Time frame: From first dose of study intervention through last dose of study drug intervention [Approx. 36 months].

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Study locations

17 of 18 sites recruiting
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References and documents

Publications

  • Furuse J, Ikeda M, Ueno M, Furukawa M, Morizane C, Takehara T, Nishina T, Todaka A, Okano N, Hara K, Nakai Y, Ohkawa K, Sasaki T, Sugimori K, Yokoyama N, Yamamoto K. A Phase II Placebo-Controlled Study of the Effect and Safety of Nanvuranlat in Patients with Advanced Biliary Tract Cancers Previously Treated by Systemic Chemotherapy. Clin Cancer Res. 2024 Sep 13;30(18):3990-3995. doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-24-0461. PubMed 39058429 ↗

Related links

Individual participant data

Plan to share: Undecided — A decision on the sharing of IPD will be made upon completion of Part A (Dose Selection) of the study.

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Updates

1 registry update since Sep 25, 2026
Sites
2 sites changed recruiting status (2 now recruiting)
Show 2 sites
  • Ochsner Medical Center (Site 120) · New Orleans, United StatesNot yet recruiting→Recruiting
  • Rosewell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center (Site 114) · Buffalo, United StatesNot yet recruiting→Recruiting
Sep 29, 2026
Show all 1 update
  1. Sep 29, 2026
    2 sites changed recruiting status (2 now recruiting)
    Show 2 sites
    • Ochsner Medical Center (Site 120) · New Orleans, United StatesNot yet recruiting→Recruiting
    • Rosewell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center (Site 114) · Buffalo, United StatesNot yet recruiting→Recruiting
    + 1 other change: verification date

From the registry record's own update history. This site started tracking changes on Sep 25, 2026; for anything earlier, see the record history on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗

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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT07265674
Lead sponsor
J-Pharma Co., Ltd.
Collaborators
Uniphar Development, LLC
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Dec 5, 2025
Start date
May 11, 2026
Primary completion
Oct 2027 (estimated)
Completion
Oct 2027 (estimated)
Last update
Sep 29, 2026

Study contacts

Masuhiro Yoshitake
Contact
BeaconBTC@uniphar.us
+81-3-6432-4270
Kazuo Sekiguchi
Contact
BeaconBTC@uniphar.us
+81-3-6432-4270
Eric K Rowinsky, MD
study director · Uniphar Development, LLC
Ghassan Abou-Alfa, MD
principal investigator · Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Oversight

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