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Not yet recruitingNCT07543783Updated Apr 28, 2026

Efficacy and Safety of Low-dose Bevacizumab Plus Adebrelimab Combined With Transarterial Chemoembolization Followed by Hepatic Arterial Infusion Chemotherapy (TACE-HAIC) as First-line Treatment for Unresectable Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Single-arm Phase 2 Trial

A Phase 2 interventional study of Transarterial Chemoembolization (TACE) and Hepatic Arterial Infusion Chemotherapy (HAIC, FOLFOX) in Adebrelimab (SHR-1316), Bevacizumab and Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC), sponsored by Third Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University. Not yet recruiting. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-04-28.

Sponsored by Third Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment

Phase
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
38
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

his is a single-arm, phase II clinical study evaluating the efficacy and safety of low-dose bevacizumab (7.5 mg/kg, Q3W) plus adebrelimab (1200 mg, Q3W) combined with transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) followed by hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy (HAIC) with the FOLFOX regimen as first-line treatment for patients with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Eligible participants will receive TACE followed by HAIC (oxaliplatin, leucovorin, and fluorouracil) and subsequent intravenous administration of adebrelimab and low-dose bevacizumab every 3 weeks. The primary endpoint is objective response rate (ORR) assessed by investigators per RECIST v1.1. Secondary endpoints include progression-free survival (PFS), disease control rate (DCR), duration of response (DoR), overall survival (OS), and safety. A total of 38 participants will be enrolled using Simon's two-stage optimal design (alpha=0.05, power=0.8). The study is sponsored by the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University. Adebrelimab is provided free of charge for two years by Shanghai Shengdi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.

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Conditions studied

  • Adebrelimab (SHR-1316)
  • Bevacizumab
  • Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC)
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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 38 is below the median of 54 across 2,618 interventional studies indexed under Carcinoma, Hepatocellular.

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Lead sponsor

Third Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University is the lead sponsor of 133 studies on the registry; 35 are open to participants now.

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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

Willing to participate and provide written . Age ≥ 18 years (on the day of signing informed consent). or cytologically confirmed hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), or clinical diagnosis of HCC according to AASLD criteria in patients with cirrhosis.

Eligible for TACE, including BCLC stage B or C, with unresectable HCC (excluding PVTT-Vp4 and extrahepatic ).

No prior systemic therapy for HCC. (ECOG) performance status 0-1. score A or B7. No history of disease. ≥ 3 months. At least one per v1.1 (spiral CT scan long diameter ≥ 10 mm or short diameter of enlarged lymph node ≥ 15 mm; lesions previously treated with locoregional therapy can be considered target lesions only if progression per RECIST v1.1 is clearly documented).

Adequate hematologic, hepatic, and renal function within 7 days prior to enrollment:

Neutrophils ≥ 1.5 × 10⁹/L ≥ 50 × 10⁹/L ≥ 90 g/L /AST ≤ 5 × Serum creatinine ≤ 1.5 × ULN \< 2.3 or prothrombin time ≤ ULN + 6 seconds Albumin ≥ 30 g/L Total ≤ 3 × ULN Females of must have a negative serum or urine pregnancy test within 7 days prior to enrollment and must not be lactating; they and male participants must agree to use effective during the study and for 6 months after study completion

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

Known cholangiocarcinoma, sarcomatoid HCC, mixed cell carcinoma, or fibrolamellar carcinoma. Active other than HCC within 5 years, excluding cured localized tumors such as basal cell skin cancer, squamous cell skin cancer, superficial bladder cancer, prostate carcinoma in situ, cervical carcinoma in situ, or breast carcinoma in situ.

Severe allergy to iodine contrast precluding TACE-HAIC. Use of or systemic for immunosuppressive purposes within 1 month prior to enrollment.

Active uncontrolled infection. Severe gastroesophageal varices; untreated or incompletely treated varices (with bleeding or high bleeding risk).

or bone requiring urgent surgical or radiation intervention.

Pregnant, suspected pregnancy, or breastfeeding. Current or recent use (within 10 days prior to study treatment) of aspirin (> 325 mg/day) or dipyridamole, ticlopidine, clopidogrel, or cilostazol.

Thromboembolic events within 6 months prior to study treatment, including cerebrovascular accident (including , cerebral hemorrhage, cerebral infarction), pulmonary embolism, etc.

Congenital or acquired immunodeficiency. Myocardial infarction, severe/unstable angina, or congestive heart failure within 12 months prior to study start.

Renal insufficiency requiring dialysis. History of organ transplantation. Any other serious acute or chronic medical or psychiatric condition, or laboratory abnormality that would increase the risk of study participation or interfere with interpretation of results.

Terms in these criteria, in plain language(22)

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Informed consent

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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.

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).

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Metastases

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

TIA (transient ischaemic attack)

A “mini-stroke”: temporary stroke-like symptoms caused by reduced blood flow to part of the brain, spinal cord or eye, without signs of a new stroke on a scan.

Stroke symptoms need emergency care at once, even if they go away.

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Study design

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

Study arms

  • Experimental
    TACE-HAIC + Adebrelimab + Low-dose Bevacizumab

    Participants with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) receive first-line treatment with transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) followed by hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy (HAIC) using the FOLFOX regimen (oxaliplatin 85 mg/m², leucovorin 400 mg/m², fluorouracil 400 mg/m² bolus then 2400 mg/m² continuous infusion over 24 hours), administered via hepatic artery catheter. Subsequently, participants receive intravenous adebrelimab (1200 mg fixed dose, Q3W) and low-dose bevacizumab (7.5 mg/kg, Q3W). Each treatment cycle is 21 days. Treatment continues until disease progression (RECIST v1.1), unacceptable toxicity, patient withdrawal, conversion to resectable disease, or investigator decision. Adebrelimab is provided free of charge for two years by Shanghai Shengdi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.

    Procedure: Transarterial Chemoembolization (TACE) · Drug: Hepatic Arterial Infusion Chemotherapy (HAIC, FOLFOX) · Drug: Adebrelimab · Drug: Low-dose Bevacizumab

Interventions

  • ProcedureTransarterial Chemoembolization (TACE)

    Transarterial chemoembolization performed as first-line intervention for unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma.

  • DrugHepatic Arterial Infusion Chemotherapy (HAIC, FOLFOX)

    Hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy with FOLFOX regimen (oxaliplatin 85 mg/m², leucovorin 400 mg/m², fluorouracil 400 mg/m² bolus then 2400 mg/m² continuous infusion over 24 hours).

  • Intravenous adebrelimab 1200 mg fixed dose, administered every 3 weeks (Q3W).

  • Intravenous bevacizumab 7.5 mg/kg, administered every 3 weeks (Q3W).

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Objective Response Rate (ORR)

    Percentage of participants achieving complete response (CR) or partial response (PR) as best overall response (BOR) according to RECIST v1.1 criteria, assessed by the investigator.

    Time frame: Up to 36 months from the first dose of study treatment

  2. Progression-Free Survival (PFS)

    PFS is defined as the time from the first dose of study treatment to the first documented disease progression per RECIST v1.1 criteria or death from any cause, whichever occurs first, as assessed by the investigator.

    Time frame: From the first dose of study treatment until disease progression or death, up to 36 months

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Study locations

No study locations are listed for this record.

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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 Apr 28, 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
NCT07543783
Responsible party
Huang Mingsheng (Professor and Chief Physician, Department of Interventional Radiology, Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Third Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University) — Principal investigator
First posted
Apr 22, 2026
Start date
Apr 10, 2026 (estimated)
Primary completion
Aug 31, 2029 (estimated)
Completion
Aug 31, 2029 (estimated)
Last update
Apr 28, 2026

Study contacts

Mingsheng Huang
Contact
huangmsh@mail.sysu.edu.cn
+86-20-85253416

Oversight

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