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Not yet recruitingNCT07772882Updated Oct 15, 2026

Study of Supplemental Arginine With Chemotherapy and Immunotherapy in Platinum Resistant Ovarian, Fallopian Tube, and Peritoneal Cancer

A Phase 1 interventional study of (Arginaid®) Oral Arginine and (R-Gene® 10) IV Arginine in Platinum Resistant Ovarian Cancer, Fallopian Tube Cancers and Peritoneal Carcinoma, sponsored by Rebecca Arend. Not yet recruiting at 1 site in United States. Open to female participants aged 18 Years to 89 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-10-15.

Sponsored by Rebecca Arend · Phase 1, Interventional, and Treatment

Updated Oct 15, 2026Interventions changedGo to Updates ↓
Phase
Phase 1
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
24
Allocation
Non-randomized
Ages
18 Years to 89 Years
Sex
Female
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Where this study stands

Counted across the records on this site · 2026-11-13

Among 589 studies in Fallopian Tube Neoplasms with a site in United States — 63 open to participants now, 130 under way, 24 of them phase 3. Fallopian Tube Neoplasms · United States.

Planned enrollment
345th of 513
24 · median 40
Started
2026
with 6 others
Phase 1
181 of 589
14 open now
Primary completion
2028-10
later than 104 of 129 live
Registered
585th of 589
by date

Among the 589 studies in Fallopian Tube Neoplasms with a site in United States, this one is the 345th largest by planned enrollment of the 513 interventional ones that give a count, is one of 7 that started in 2026, is one of 181 in phase 1, reaches primary completion later than 104 of the 129 other live ones, and was the 585th registered.

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Of the 105 Fallopian Tube Neoplasms studies recruiting now, 87 (83%) set no upper age limit and 10 (10%) stop at 75 or younger; 6 take children under 18; 1 takes healthy volunteers.

This study: 18 Years to 89 Years · female · no healthy volunteers.

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Study summary

This is an open-label, Phase 1 clinical study to evaluate the safety, tolerability, PK profiles, and clinical activity of IV and PO arginine supplementation + SOC chemoimmunotherapy regimens in participants with PROC.

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This is a Phase I, investigator-initiated and open-label study. Patients will be evaluated and treated at University of Alabama Birmingham Hospital. Patients will receive both oral and IV arginine with the physician choice of paclitaxel, pembrolizumab, +/- bevacizumab or pembrolizumab, bevacizumab, and oral cyclophosphamide, where doses and schedule are consistent with standard of care. Patients who are excluded from the trial due to progression will be scheduled for three- and six-months follow-up evaluations after the last dose. The goal for enrollment will be 6-24 patients with a 3-patient safety dose escalation lead-in using a 3+3 enrollment model for each regimen.

Patients meeting eligibility criteria will be approached and both verbal and written consent will be obtained prior to treatment. Patients on trial will receive the IV R-Gene 10 (30g) IV arginine, every 3 weeks (q3w) plus PO Arginaid 4.5g PO daily with one of two systemic standard of care treatment regimens: Standard of care treatment #1 is 50mg of daily oral cyclophosphamide, intravenous pembrolizumab 200 mg q3w, and bevacizumab, 15 mg/kg, q3w; standard of care treatment #2 is weekly paclitaxel 80mg/m2 and 200mg of IV pembrolizumab q3wks +/- bevacizumab, 15 mg/kg, q3w in patients with CPS >1.

(CPS) Combined Positive Score (PD-L1)

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Conditions studied

  • Platinum Resistant Ovarian Cancer
  • Fallopian Tube Cancers
  • Peritoneal Carcinoma
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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 89 Years
Sexes eligible
Female
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  1. Must be at least 18 years of age
  2. performance status of 0 or 1 (see Appendix A).
  3. Patient must be a candidate for either cohort A or cohort B treatment backbone.

    • For patients enrolling on treatment cohort A, positivity must be ≥1. Patient's with PD-L1 positivity ≥1% can enroll in cohort B at physician's discretion.
    • If PD-L1 positivity is unavailable or is \<1%, patients can only enroll on treatment cohort B.
  4. Patients must have high-grade serous or endometrioid histology
  5. Recovery to baseline or ≤ Grade 1 v.5.0 from toxicities related to the prior therapy, unless after discussion with the medical monitor the AE(s) are deemed clinically non-significant and/or stable on supportive therapy
  6. Participant must be able to understand the study procedures and agree to participate in the study by providing written
  7. Patients must have adequate hematologic, liver and kidney functions prior to lead-in chemotherapy defined as:

    1. (ANC) ≥ 1.5 x 109 /L (1,500/μL)
    2. count ≥ 100 x 109 /L (100,000/μL) without platelet transfusion in the prior 10 days
    3. ≥ 9.0 g/dL
    4. Serum creatinine ≤ 1.5 x (ULN)
    5. (AST) and alanine aminotransferase (ALT) ≤ 3.0 x ULN
    6. Serum ≤ 1.5 x ULN (patients with documented diagnosis of Gilbert syndrome are eligible if total bilirubin \< 3.0 x ULN)
    7. Serum albumin ≥ 2 g/dL.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. History of allergic reactions contributed to compounds of similar chemical or biological composition to R-Gene 10 or Arginaid.
  2. Patient unwilling/unable to receive daily arginine treatment (IV or oral)
  3. Patients with a history of serologically confirmed HSV-1 or HSV-2 outbreaks
  4. Receiving systemic or have severe comorbities where treatment with corticosteroids may be required.
  5. Actively treated auto-immune disease.
  6. Taking medications that interfere with the urea cycle such as valproate or xanthine oxidase inhibitors.
  7. Current intercurrent illnesses including active infection, symptomatic congestive heart failure, unstable angina, or cardiac arrhythmias.
  8. Patients with history of Peptic Ulcer Disease
  9. to receive standard of care treatment backbone with either paclitaxel, bevacizumab, pembrolizumab, or cyclophosphamide.
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(12)

Underlined terms in the criteria open these too. Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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 1
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Non-randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
24 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    CPS>1, physician's choice for Cohort A or Cohort B

    Cohort A: Cohort A1\_Weekly paclitaxel + q3w pembrolizumab +/- bevacizumab + 4.5g daily oral arginine (Arginaid®) Cohort A2\_Weekly paclitaxel + q3w pembrolizumab +/- bevacizumab + q3w 30g IV arginine (R-Gene® 10) Cohort A3\_Weekly paclitaxel + q3w pembrolizumab +/- bevacizumab + q3w 30g IV arginine + 4.5g daily PO arginine (Arginaid®) A3 Expansion\_Continue previous regimen OR Cohort B: Cohort B1\_q3w IV bevacizumab, q3w IV pembrolizumab, daily oral phosphamide, 4.5g daily oral arginine (Arginaid®) Cohort B2\_q3w IV bevacizumab + q3w IV pembrolizumab + daily oral phosphamide + 30mg IV arginine (R-Gene® 10) Cohort B3\_q3w IV bevacizumab + q3w IV pembrolizumab + daily oral phosphamide + 30mg IV arginine (R-Gene® 10) + 4.5g PO arginine (Arginaid®) B3 Expansion\_ Continue previous regimen

    Drug: (Arginaid®) Oral Arginine · Drug: (R-Gene® 10) IV Arginine · Drug: Pembrolizumab · Drug: Bevacizumab · Drug: Paclitaxel · Drug: oral phosphamide

  • Experimental
    CPS<1, must be assigned to Cohort B

    Cohort B: Cohort B1\_q3w IV bevacizumab, q3w IV pembrolizumab, daily oral phosphamide, 4.5g daily oral arginine (Arginaid®) Cohort B2\_q3w IV bevacizumab + q3w IV pembrolizumab + daily oral phosphamide + 30mg IV arginine (R-Gene® 10) Cohort B3\_q3w IV bevacizumab + q3w IV pembrolizumab + daily oral phosphamide + 30mg IV arginine (R-Gene® 10) + 4.5g PO arginine (Arginaid®) B3 Expansion\_ Continue previous regimen

    Drug: (Arginaid®) Oral Arginine · Drug: (R-Gene® 10) IV Arginine · Drug: Pembrolizumab · Drug: Bevacizumab · Drug: oral phosphamide

Interventions

  • Patients will receive one of two SOC options of chemotherapy and immunotherapy with the addition of IV and PO supplemental arginine. Regimen 1 will be pembrolizumab, bevacizumab, and oral cyclophosphamide and regimen 2 will be paclitaxel and pembrolizumab +/- bevacizumab with doses and schedule consistent with standard of care.

    Also known as: Oral Arginine

  • Patients will receive one of two SOC options of chemotherapy and immunotherapy with the addition of IV and PO supplemental arginine. Regimen 1 will be pembrolizumab, bevacizumab, and oral cyclophosphamide and regimen 2 will be paclitaxel and pembrolizumab +/- bevacizumab with doses and schedule consistent with standard of care.

    Also known as: IV Arginine

  • Patients will receive one of two SOC options of chemotherapy and immunotherapy with the addition of IV and PO supplemental arginine. Regimen 1 will be pembrolizumab, bevacizumab, and oral cyclophosphamide and regimen 2 will be paclitaxel and pembrolizumab +/- bevacizumab with doses and schedule consistent with standard of care.

    Also known as: Keytruda

  • Patients will receive one of two SOC options of chemotherapy and immunotherapy with the addition of IV and PO supplemental arginine. Regimen 1 will be pembrolizumab, bevacizumab, and oral cyclophosphamide and regimen 2 will be paclitaxel and pembrolizumab +/- bevacizumab with doses and schedule consistent with standard of care.

    Also known as: AVASTIN®

  • Patients will receive one of two SOC options of chemotherapy and immunotherapy with the addition of IV and PO supplemental arginine. Regimen 1 will be pembrolizumab, bevacizumab, and oral cyclophosphamide and regimen 2 will be paclitaxel and pembrolizumab +/- bevacizumab with doses and schedule consistent with standard of care.

    Also known as: Taxol

  • Drugoral phosphamide

    Patients will receive one of two SOC options of chemotherapy and immunotherapy with the addition of IV and PO supplemental arginine. Regimen 1 will be pembrolizumab, bevacizumab, and oral cyclophosphamide and regimen 2 will be paclitaxel and pembrolizumab +/- bevacizumab with doses and schedule consistent with standard of care.

    Also known as: cyclophosphamide

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Proportion of patients with serious adverse events

    This measures the proportion of patients experiencing serious adverse events

    Time frame: Baseline through year 2

Secondary outcomes

  1. Overall Response Rate

    Tumor burden will be evaluated in all participants by the investigator at screening and during/after the intervention period per RECIST 1.1 guidelines. Based on changes in tumor burden, participants will be classified as complete response (CR), partial response (PR), stable disease (SD), progressive disease (PD), or not evaluable (NE). Participants who are classified as CR or PR will be defined as responders. The overall response rate (ORR) is the proportion of responders out of the evaluable participants. ORR = (PR + CR)/(PR + CR+ SD+ PD)

    Time frame: Baseline through year 2

  2. Duration of Response

    Duration of response (DOR) is a time-to-event endpoint measured only in participants who respond to treatment. DOR is the time between response to treatment and disease progression or death. Patients who are lost to follow-up before disease progression or death are censored at time of last contact.

    Time frame: Baseline through year 2

  3. Disease control rate

    Tumor burden will be evaluated in all participants by the investigator at screening and during/after the intervention period per RECIST 1.1 guidelines. Based on changes in tumor burden, participants will be classified as complete response (CR), partial response (PR), stable disease (SD), progressive disease (PD), or not evaluable (NE). Participants who are classified as CR, PR or SD will be defined as having disease control. The disease control rate (DCR) is the proportion of participants with disease control out of the evaluable participants. DCR = (PR + CR + SD)/(PR + CR+ SD+ PD)

    Time frame: Baseline through year 2

  4. Progression Free Survival

    Progression free survival (PFS) is a time-to-event endpoint. PFS is the time between start of treatment and the earlier of disease progression or death. Patients who are lost to follow-up before disease progression or death are censored at time of last contact.

    Time frame: Baseline through year 2

  5. Overall Survival

    Overall survival (OS) is a time-to-event endpoint. OS is the time between start of treatment and death. Patients who are lost to follow-up before death are censored at time of last contact.

    Time frame: Baseline through year 2

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Study locations

1 site
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Timeline

1 registry update since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reachedSimilar studies: half by the dot; the band is the middle halfHalf of similar studies reached it by the dot; the band is the middle half, from a quarter to three quarters

Start is estimated for Sep 2026; primary completion for Oct 2028, 25 months later.

Of 65 non-industry phase 1 interventional studies under Fallopian Tube Neoplasms, half reached primary completion within 69 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 38 and three quarters within 87. This study's planned 25 months is below that.

Counting every sponsor, half of 96 studies reached it within 54 months; a quarter within 36 and three quarters within 83.

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

Registered
Aug 14, 2026
First posted
Aug 19, 2026
StartEst.
Sep 2026
Primary completionEst.
Oct 2028
CompletionEst.
Jan 2029
Last update
Oct 15, 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.
Interventions
Changed Cohort A1→Pembrolizumab; Cohort A2→Bevacizumab; Cohort A3→Paclitaxel; Cohort B1→oral phosphamide. Added Drug: (Arginaid®) Oral Arginine·Drug: (R-Gene® 10) IV Arginine; removed Drug: A3 Expansion·Drug: Cohort B2·Drug: Cohort B3·Drug: B3 Expansion
Oct 15, 2026
Show all 1 update
  1. Oct 15, 2026
    Interventions Changed Cohort A1→Pembrolizumab; Cohort A2→Bevacizumab; Cohort A3→Paclitaxel; Cohort B1→oral phosphamide. Added Drug: (Arginaid®) Oral Arginine·Drug: (R-Gene® 10) IV Arginine; removed Drug: A3 Expansion·Drug: Cohort B2·Drug: Cohort B3·Drug: B3 Expansion
    + 3 other changes: index terms, verification date and description

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
NCT07772882
Lead sponsor
Rebecca Arend
Responsible party
Rebecca Arend (Associate Professor, University of Alabama at Birmingham) — Sponsor-investigator
First posted
Aug 19, 2026
Start date
Sep 2026 (estimated)
Primary completion
Oct 2028 (estimated)
Completion
Jan 2029 (estimated)
Last update
Oct 15, 2026

Study contacts

Rebecca C Arend, MD
Contact
rarend@uabmc.edu
(205) 934-4986
Rebecca A Arend
Contact
al2eli@uab.edu
2059752257
Rebecca C Arend, MD
principal investigator · The University of Alabama at Birmingham

Oversight

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