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Toripalimab Plus Sacituzumab Tirumotecan as Neoadjuvant Therapy for Resectable NSCLC

A Phase 2 interventional study of Toripalimab and Sacituzumab Tirumotecan (SKB264) in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer, sponsored by Shaodong Hong. Not yet recruiting. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 75 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-09-15.

Sponsored by Shaodong Hong · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment

Phase
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
30
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
18 Years to 75 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

This is a prospective, multicenter, single-arm Phase II investigator-initiated trial evaluating neoadjuvant toripalimab plus sacituzumab tirumotecan (SKB264) in treatment-naive adults with resectable or potentially resectable, driver-negative non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Eligible participants have stage II-IIIA or selected IIIB disease (T3N2 or T4N2) and will receive sacituzumab tirumotecan 5 mg/kg plus toripalimab 3 mg/kg intravenously on Day 1 every 2 weeks for up to 6 cycles. Participants deemed operable after multidisciplinary assessment will undergo definitive surgery. The primary endpoint is pathologic complete response. A Simon two-stage minimax design plans to enroll 30 participants.

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This prospective, multicenter, single-arm Phase II investigator-initiated trial evaluates neoadjuvant sacituzumab tirumotecan (SKB264), a TROP2-directed antibody-drug conjugate, plus the PD-1 antibody toripalimab in treatment-naive adults with resectable or potentially resectable, driver-negative NSCLC. Participants have stage II-IIIA or selected IIIB disease (T3N2 or T4N2). Sacituzumab tirumotecan 5 mg/kg and toripalimab 3 mg/kg are administered intravenously on Day 1 every 2 weeks for up to 6 cycles. Surgery is planned 4-6 weeks after the final neoadjuvant dose when the participant remains operable following multidisciplinary assessment. Tumor response is assessed using RECIST 1.1. Safety is assessed using NCI CTCAE version 5.0, including adverse events, serious adverse events, perioperative complications, and surgery delays or cancellations. The primary endpoint is pathologic complete response, defined as no residual viable tumor cells in the resected primary tumor and all resected lymph nodes. Major pathologic response is defined as residual viable tumor of 10% or less.

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Conditions studied

  • Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

Keywords

  • Toripalimab
  • Sacituzumab Tirumotecan
  • NSCLC
  • Resectable NSCLC
  • Neoadjuvant Therapy
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In context

Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung

7,620 studies on the registry are indexed under Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung; 1,838 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 30 is below the median of 62 across 6,019 interventional studies indexed under Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung.

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Lead sponsor

Shaodong Hong is the lead sponsor of 2 studies on the registry; 2 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

  • Signed obtained before any study procedure.
  • Age 18 to 75 years, male or female.
  • Histologically/ confirmed, treatment-naive, resectable or potentially resectable NSCLC: stage II-IIIA and selected IIIB (T3N2, T4N2) per IASLC/UICC TNM 9th edition.
  • Disease staged as cTNM by PET-CT or by neck/chest/abdominal/pelvic CT plus whole-body bone scan and brain MRI.
  • Multidisciplinary team including thoracic surgeon judges lesion resectable or potentially resectable.
  • At least one measurable target lesion per 1.1.
  • performance status 0-1.
  • Adequate organ function (baseline, no transfusion, rh-EPO, or G-CSF within 2 weeks before first dose): neutrophils ≥1.5 ×10\^9/L; ≥100 ×10\^9/L; ≥9 g/dL.
  • , ALT, ALP ≤2.5 × ; TBil ≤1.5 × ULN.
  • For liver : AST/ALT ≤5 × ULN; TBil ≤2 × ULN.
  • For liver or bone metastases: ALP ≤5 × ULN.
  • (Cockcroft-Gault) ≥60 mL/min.
  • , APTT, PT ≤1.5 × ULN.
  • TSH within normal range; if TSH abnormal but T3 and free T4 normal, eligible.
  • Women of must have a negative pregnancy test within 7 days before first dose and use effective during treatment and until 12 months after last dose; men with partners of childbearing potential must use effective contraception during treatment and until 12 months after last dose.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Neuroendocrine histology component in tumor pathology.
  • Known EGFR sensitizing mutation or ALK fusion (for non-squamous NSCLC, EGFR/ALK status must be determined).
  • Other within 5 years, except those with clinically negligible risk and curative treatment intent (e.g., adequately treated carcinoma in situ as per protocol examples).
  • Severe or uncontrolled comorbidities, including symptomatic cerebrovascular events or liver disease at grade ≥A.
  • History of stem cell transplantation or solid organ transplantation.
  • Severe dry eye syndrome, severe meibomian gland dysfunction, severe blepharitis, or corneal disorders that may delay corneal healing.
  • History of interstitial lung disease requiring , or active ILD.
  • positive or diagnosed AIDS.
  • Active tuberculosis.
  • Uncontrolled active infection (HBsAg positive with HBV-DNA above local ). HBV-DNA must be \<500 IU/mL within 28 days before randomization/inclusion.
  • Active infection (HCV antibody positive and HCV RNA positive).
  • Known to toripalimab or sacituzumab tirumotecan (or ).
  • within 30 days before first dose (except inactivated vaccines allowed where specified by protocol, including local policy).
  • Any systemic or local anticancer treatment before first study treatment.
  • Use of traditional Chinese medicines with anticancer indication within 7 days before first dose, or need to continue such drugs during study.
  • Other drug not discontinued for at least 5 half-lives or 2 months (whichever is longer) before first dose.
  • Any known or suspected disease or immunodeficiency, except primary hypothyroidism (stable, not requiring hormones, or stable on physiologic hormone replacement) and stable type 1 diabetes mellitus with controlled blood glucose.
  • Medical or psychiatric conditions likely to cause premature discontinuation or compromise safety, sampling, or follow-up, including severe social or compliance risks.
  • Pregnancy or breastfeeding; unwillingness to use effective as specified.
  • Any other condition considered unsuitable by investigator.
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Informed consent

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Histologically or cytologically confirmed

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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.

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)

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“≤ 2.5 × ULN” means the result can be up to two and a half times that top value.

Metastases

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

Creatinine clearance (CrCl)

How quickly the kidneys clear creatinine, a waste product, from the blood. A study may estimate it from a blood test with age, weight and sex (often by the Cockcroft–Gault formula), or measure it using blood and urine collected over a set time. Given in mL/min; higher is better.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Excipients

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

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.

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.

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.

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Study design

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

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Toripalimab plus sacituzumab tirumotecan

    Participants will receive sacituzumab tirumotecan 5 mg/kg intravenously on Day 1 every 2 weeks combined with toripalimab 3 mg/kg intravenously on Day 1 every 2 weeks for up to 6 cycles as neoadjuvant therapy. Surgery will be performed after multidisciplinary assessment when appropriate. Postoperative or adjuvant treatment will be determined according to guidelines and investigator assessment.

    Drug: Toripalimab · Drug: Sacituzumab Tirumotecan (SKB264)

Interventions

  • Toripalimab 3 mg/kg intravenously on Day 1 every 2 weeks for up to 6 cycles as neoadjuvant therapy, administered in combination with sacituzumab tirumotecan.

  • Sacituzumab tirumotecan (SKB264) 5 mg/kg intravenously on Day 1 every 2 weeks for up to 6 cycles as neoadjuvant therapy, administered in combination with toripalimab.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Pathological Complete Response (pCR) Rate

    Proportion of participants with no residual viable tumor cells in the resected primary tumor and all resected lymph nodes. Participants without surgery or evaluable surgical pathology will be counted as non-pCR.

    Time frame: At definitive surgery, up to 18 weeks after first study treatment

Secondary outcomes

  1. Major Pathological Response (MPR) Rate

    Proportion of participants with residual viable tumor of 10% or less in the resected primary tumor and all resected lymph nodes.

    Time frame: At definitive surgery, up to 18 weeks after first study treatment

  2. R0 Resection Rate

    Proportion of participants who undergo R0 resection, defined as microscopically margin-negative resection, after neoadjuvant therapy.

    Time frame: At definitive surgery, up to 18 weeks after first study treatment

  3. Pathological Downstaging Rate

    Proportion of participants with pathological stage lower than baseline clinical stage at definitive surgery.

    Time frame: At definitive surgery, up to 18 weeks after first study treatment

  4. Objective Response Rate (ORR)

    Proportion of participants with complete response or partial response according to investigator-assessed RECIST 1.1 after neoadjuvant therapy.

    Time frame: Up to 18 weeks after first study treatment

  5. Event-Free Survival (EFS)

    Time from enrollment to disease progression precluding surgery, disease progression or recurrence after surgery, disease progression in participants who do not undergo surgery, or death from any cause, whichever occurs first.

    Time frame: Up to 60 months from enrollment

  6. Overall Survival (OS)

    Time from enrollment to death from any cause.

    Time frame: Up to 60 months from enrollment

  7. Incidence of Adverse Events

    Incidence of adverse events graded according to NCI CTCAE version 5.0.

    Time frame: From first study treatment through 90 days after the last study treatment or surgery, whichever occurs later

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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 — De-identified individual participant data and data dictionaries from this investigator-initiated Phase II oncology study will not be shared at this time due to current sponsor/institutional policy, data governance requirements, and pending legal/ethics arrangements.

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 Sep 15, 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
NCT07819578
Lead sponsor
Shaodong Hong
Responsible party
Shaodong Hong (Principle Inverstigator, Sun Yat-sen University) — Sponsor-investigator
First posted
Sep 15, 2026
Start date
Oct 1, 2026 (estimated)
Primary completion
Dec 1, 2028 (estimated)
Completion
Dec 1, 2028 (estimated)
Last update
Sep 15, 2026

Study contacts

Shaodong Hong Hong, M.D., Ph.D.
Contact
hongshd@sysucc.org.cn
+8615920527656

Oversight

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