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A Phase II/III Study of F520 Combined With Paclitaxel Plus Carboplatin in the Treatment of Cancer of Unknown Primary (CUP)

A Phase 2/3 interventional study of F520 combined with chemotherapy and placebo combined with chemotherapy in Cancer of Unknown Primary Site, sponsored by Shandong New Time Pharmaceutical Co., LTD. Recruiting at 1 site in China. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 75 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-08-12.

Sponsored by Shandong New Time Pharmaceutical Co., LTD (part of Lunan Pharmaceutical Group) · Phase 2/3, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Started Jul 2026; still recruiting 4 months later.
Phase
Phase 2/3
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
402
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years to 75 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of F520 combined with paclitaxel plus carboplatin as first-line treatment for cancer of unknown primary.This study consists of two parts, with a total planned enrollment of 402 patients.Primary Endpoint is Objective Response Rate (ORR) assessed by Independent Review Committee (IRC) based on RECIST 1.1 Secondary Endpoints included ORR、PFS、DOR;Incidence and severity of Adverse Events (AE), Serious Adverse Events (SAE), and abnormal laboratory parameters.

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Conditions studied

  • Cancer of Unknown Primary Site

Keywords

  • F520
  • CUP
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In context

Neoplasms, Unknown Primary

101 studies on the registry are indexed under Neoplasms, Unknown Primary; 19 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 402 is above the median of 52 across 63 interventional studies indexed under Neoplasms, Unknown Primary.

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Lead sponsor

Shandong New Time Pharmaceutical Co., LTD is the lead sponsor of 35 studies on the registry; 16 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

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Inclusion criteria

  • Age 18-75 years (inclusive), any gender Histopathologically confirmed adenocarcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, poorly differentiated carcinoma, or undifferentiated carcinoma of lesions Diagnosis of CUP after standard evaluation (see Appendix 4) No prior systemic therapy for CUP At least one per 1.1 criteria (ECOG) performance status score of 0-1 Investigator-assessed ≥3 months

Adequate organ function as follows (no blood products or hematopoietic growth factors within 14 days before first dose):

Hematology: ≥1.5×10⁹/L; count ≥90×10⁹/L; (Hb) ≥90 g/L Liver Function: , ALT ≤2.5×; Total (TBIL) ≤1.5×ULN; If liver metastases present: AST and ALT ≤5×ULN, TBIL ≤3×ULN Renal Function: Serum creatinine (Cr) ≤1.25×ULN Coagulation: ≤1.5×ULN and APTT ≤1.5×ULN Understanding of study procedures and content, and voluntary signed

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • CUP patients who, in the investigator's judgment, are candidates for local curative treatment Histopathologically confirmed neuroendocrine carcinoma or germ cell tumor of lesions Prior genetic testing (including but not limited to NGS) showing NTRK fusion-positive, ALK fusion-positive, EGFR sensitizing mutations, BRAF mutations suitable for molecular targeted therapy, or MSI-H/dMMR Genetic testing (including but not limited to 90-gene assay) suggesting possible colorectal, renal, or breast cancer origin (excluding triple-negative breast cancer) Prior treatment with taxanes, platinum-based chemotherapy, and/or prior treatment with (e.g., anti-PD-1, anti-PD-L1) or any tumor immunotherapy Received chemotherapy, radiotherapy, biologic therapy, endocrine therapy, targeted therapy, or immunotherapy within 4 weeks or 5 half-lives (whichever is shorter) before enrollment Primary and/or metastatic central nervous system (CNS) or carcinomatous meningitis Required systemic (equivalent to >10 mg prednisone/day) or other drugs within 2 weeks before enrollment or during study. Exception: topical or inhaled corticosteroids, or short-term (≤7 days) corticosteroids for prevention or treatment of non-, infrequent allergic diseases Prior anti-tumor treatment-related adverse events not recovered to V5.0 (or later) Grade ≤1 or levels specified in inclusion/exclusion criteria (except toxicities judged by investigator to have no safety risk, such as alopecia, Grade 2 peripheral neuropathy, or stable hypothyroidism on hormone replacement) History of other malignancy within past 5 years, except locally curable cancers (melanoma in situ, cutaneous basal cell carcinoma, cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma, superficial bladder carcinoma in situ, superficial breast carcinoma in situ) Uncontrolled pleural effusion, pericardial effusion, or ascites requiring repeated drainage Known interstitial lung disease or non-infectious pneumonia, currently symptomatic or previously requiring systemic corticosteroids, which in the investigator's judgment may affect toxicity assessment or management related to study treatment History of organ transplantation or bone marrow transplantation, or autologous stem cell transplantation within 3 months before first dose Major surgery within 4 weeks before first dose or not recovered from surgery before enrollment (excluding diagnostic surgery) Known positive test history or known AIDS; Positive syphilis screening (specific antibody positive with non-specific antibody negative and clinically confirmed non-active infection excluded); and/or HBcAb positive with HBV-DNA ≥200 IU/mL (or 1000 cps/mL); antibody positive with detectable HCV-RNA indicating viral replication Uncontrolled or severe cardiovascular disease, Class II or higher congestive heart failure, unstable angina, myocardial infarction within 6 months before first dose; Uncontrolled hypertension (systolic ≥160 mmHg and/or diastolic ≥100 mmHg despite treatment) Serious concomitant diseases at screening that compromise patient safety or ability to complete the study [e.g., active autoimmune disease, active infection (e.g., active tuberculosis), severe psychiatric disease, severe neurological disease, severe endocrine disease (e.g., Type 1 diabetes, drug-uncontrolled Type 2 diabetes), or any other condition] Received any other drug/device within 4 weeks before first dose History of drug abuse or alcohol abuse within 6 months before first dose Received live or attenuated within 4 weeks before first dose or planned during study History of severe allergy, or known to macromolecular protein preparations/monoclonal antibodies, or any study drug components Pregnant or lactating women; Women of or men with partners of childbearing potential who do not agree to use medically accepted effective (e.g., intrauterine device or condoms) during study and for 6 months after last study drug administration Judged by investigator as unsuitable for enrollment
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(29)

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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.

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.

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.

Absolute neutrophil count (ANC)

The number of neutrophils, white blood cells that help fight infection, in a given amount of blood. Too few raises the risk of infection.

It is a count, not a percentage of the white cells. Limits are written in units that mean the same: ≥ 1.5 × 10⁹/L is ≥ 1,500 per mm³ (µL). Each lab has its own reference range.

Platelets

Blood cells that help blood clot. Too few raises the risk of bleeding and bruising. A usual adult range is about 150–400 × 10⁹/L (150,000–400,000 per µL); each lab has its own reference range.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Corticosteroids (steroids)

Anti-inflammatory medicines such as prednisone, prednisolone and dexamethasone — not the anabolic steroids used for muscle.

Studies differ in what they allow: check which steroid medicines, routes (tablets, injections, creams, inhalers, eye drops) and doses this study accepts.

Immunosuppression

A weakened immune system. It can come from an illness, such as HIV or some blood cancers, or from medicines that turn the immune system down, for example after an organ transplant or for an autoimmune disease; steroids at higher doses count.

Read whether the line is about a condition or about medicines, and which medicines and doses it means.

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.

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.

Allogeneic and autologous transplant

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 2 / Phase 3
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
Quadruple (Participant, Care provider, Investigator, Outcomes assessor)
Enrollment
402 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Arm 1

    F520 200 mg per dose, Q3W; maximum 2 years. Refer to drug preparation manual for details. Paclitaxel 175 mg/m²,Q3W. Carboplatin: AUC 5, Q3W.

    Drug: F520 combined with chemotherapy

  • Placebo comparator
    Arm 2

    placebo 200 mg per dose, Q3W; maximum 2 years. Refer to drug preparation manual for details. Paclitaxel 175 mg/m²,Q3W. Carboplatin: AUC 5, Q3W.

    Drug: placebo combined with chemotherapy

Interventions

  • DrugF520 combined with chemotherapy

    Drug page: Rulonilimab

    F520: 200 mg per dose, intravenous infusion, infusion time \>30 minutes, Q3W; maximum 2 years. Refer to drug preparation manual for details. Paclitaxel: 175 mg/m², intravenous infusion, infusion time \>3 hours, Q3W, recommended for 6 cycles (may be extended if investigator assesses continued benefit). Refer to package insert for details. Carboplatin: AUC 5, intravenous infusion, infusion time \>30 minutes, Q3W, recommended for 6 cycles (may be extended if investigator assesses continued benefit). Refer to package insert for details.

  • Drugplacebo combined with chemotherapy

    Placebo: 200 mg per dose, intravenous infusion, infusion time \>30 minutes, Q3W; maximum 2 years. Refer to drug preparation manual for details. Paclitaxel: 175 mg/m², intravenous infusion, infusion time \>3 hours, Q3W, recommended for 6 cycles (may be extended if investigator assesses continued benefit). Refer to package insert for details. Carboplatin: AUC 5, intravenous infusion, infusion time \>30 minutes, Q3W, recommended for 6 cycles (may be extended if investigator assesses continued benefit). Refer to package insert for details.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. PFS assessed by IRC

    Progression-Free Survival (PFS) assessed by Independent Review Committee (IRC) based on RECIST 1.1

    Time frame: 2years

Secondary outcomes

  1. OS

    Overall survivall(OS) assessed by IRC and researchers based on RECIST 1.1

    Time frame: 2years

  2. DOR

    Duration of Response(DOR) assessed by IRC and researchers based on RECIST 1.1

    Time frame: 2years

  3. TTR

    Time to Tumor Recurrence(TTR )assessed by IRC and researchers based on RECIST 1.1

    Time frame: 2years

  4. Evaluate the safety of the drug according to CTCAE v6.0

    Monitor the laboratory test indicators and observe the occurrence of adverse events and serious adverse events.

    Time frame: 2years

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Study locations

1 of 1 sites recruiting
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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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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reached

Started Jul 2026 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Dec 2027, 17 months after the start.

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

Registered
May 27, 2026
First posted
Aug 12, 2026
StartActual
Jul 8, 2026
Primary completionEst.
Dec 30, 2027
CompletionEst.
Apr 2028
Last update
Aug 12, 2026
What these dates mean
Start.
When the first participant enrolled; while estimated, when the study expects to open to recruitment.
Primary completion.
When the last participant was examined or treated to collect data for the study's main question, its primary outcome. A study that stopped early gives the date its data collection stopped.
Completion.
When the last participant's last visit took place, for every outcome, secondary ones and side effects included: the end of the study. Often later than primary completion, sometimes the same day.
Actual and Est.
Actual means the registry says the date has happened. Est. (estimated) is a date the sponsor plans or expects. It can still move, and the sponsor is expected to change it to actual once it has passed.
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Aug 12, 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
NCT07761429
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Aug 12, 2026
Start date
Jul 8, 2026
Primary completion
Dec 30, 2027 (estimated)
Completion
Apr 2028 (estimated)
Last update
Aug 12, 2026

Study contacts

guo zhi luo, doctoral degree
Contact
luozhiguo88@aliyun.com
852 13916860586

Oversight

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