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Albumin-bound Paclitaxel (II) in Combination With Gemcitabine as First Line Therapy for Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer

A Phase 2 interventional study of Albumin-bound Paclitaxel (Ⅱ) + Gemcitabine in Metastatic Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma, Albumin-bound Paclitaxel (II) and Gemcitabine, sponsored by The First Affiliated Hospital with Nanjing Medical University. Not yet recruiting. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 75 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-09-21.

Sponsored by The First Affiliated Hospital with Nanjing Medical University · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment

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Phase
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
59
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
18 Years to 75 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

This is a prospective, multicenter, open-label, single-arm study in participants with metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma who have not received any prior systemic anti-tumor therapy for advanced disease. To evaluate the efficacy and safety of albumin-bound paclitaxel (II) combined with gemcitabine for first-line treatment of metastatic pancreatic cancer.

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Conditions studied

  • Metastatic Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma
  • Albumin-bound Paclitaxel (II)
  • Gemcitabine
  • First-Line
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In context

Lead sponsor

The First Affiliated Hospital with Nanjing Medical University is the lead sponsor of 568 studies on the registry; 317 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 to 75 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  • 1.Age 18-75 years; 2.Histopathologically or confirmed pancreatic adenocarcinoma ; 3.No prior systemic anti-tumor therapy (/adjuvant chemotherapy is permitted, provided that the interval between completion of treatment and initiation of study treatment is >6 months); 4.At least one according to the (RECIST) version 1.1; 5. performance status 0-2; 6.Expected survival time ≥ 3 months; 7.Bone marrow function: (ANC) ≥ 1.5×10⁹/L, count (PLT) ≥ 100×10⁹/L, (Hb) ≥ 90 g/L; 8.Hepatic function: (ALT) and aspartate aminotransferase (AST) ≤ 2.5× (if liver metastases are present, ≤ 5×ULN is permitted); total ≤ 1.5×ULN; 9.Renal function: Serum creatinine (Cr) ≤ 1.5×ULN or ≥ 60 mL/min (calculated by the Cockcroft-Gault formula); 10.Coagulation function: (PT) and activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT) ≤ 1.5×ULN; 11.Ability to understand the study, and voluntary participation with signed .

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • 1.Participants with a history of other within the past 5 years (with the exception of cured basal cell carcinoma or squamous cell carcinoma of the skin, carcinoma in situ of the cervix, or other cancers that have been adequately treated and considered cured); 2.Known allergy or intolerance to the study drug or its ; 3.Participation in any drug or device therapy within 30 days prior to the first dose of study drug.

    4.Active, uncontrolled bacterial, viral, or fungal infection requiring systemic therapy, defined as persistent signs/symptoms related to infection that have not improved despite appropriate antibiotics, antiviral therapy, and/or other treatments.

    5.Known active infection (i.e., HIV1/2 antibody positive); untreated active infection (defined as HBsAg/HBcAg positive with HBV-DNA copy number above the at the local laboratory) and infection (HCV antibody positive with HCV-RNA level above the upper limit of normal); 6.There was uncontrolled systemic disease within 6 months before the first administration, including cardiovascular diseases such as unstable angina, myocardial infarction, chronic congestive heart failure of Class II or above ( criteria), severe unstable ventricular arrhythmia, and history of severe pericardial disease; uncontrolled hypertension (defined as systolic blood pressure ≥140 mmHg and/or diastolic blood pressure ≥90 mmHg despite standard antihypertensive therapy), or history of hypertensive crisis or hypertensive encephalopathy; uncontrolled diabetes mellitus (fasting blood glucose ≥10 mmol/L); gastrointestinal diseases of significant clinical importance, including gastrointestinal obstruction, gastrointestinal perforation, intra-abdominal abscess/infection, etc.; 7.Severe venous thromboembolic events, including deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism, within 3 months prior to enrollment.

    8.Uncontrolled pleural effusion, ascites, or pericardial effusion. 9.Peripheral sensory neuropathy or peripheral motor neuropathy of grade ≥2 (according to V6.0).

    10.Symptomatic , , spinal cord tumor involvement, or spinal cord compression.

    11.Pregnant or lactating women, and patients of who refuse to take appropriate measures during the trial.

    12.Patients judged by the investigator to be unsuitable for participation in this study.

Terms in these criteria, in plain language(27)

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.

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).

Your pathology report is the document that shows this.

Metastases

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

Adjuvant and neoadjuvant

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

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 tumor 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 tumor visible on a scan does not by itself rule you out.

RECIST

The standard rules for measuring tumors 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 tumor 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.

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 anemia, 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.

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.

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 authorized 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.

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.

Excipients

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Leptomeningeal disease

Cancer that has spread to the leptomeninges, the thin layers covering the brain and spinal cord, and the fluid between them. It is not the same as brain metastases.

Criteria often treat it separately, and many studies leave it out even where treated brain metastases are allowed.

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

Study arms

  • Experimental
    investigational arm

    Drug: Albumin-bound Paclitaxel (Ⅱ) + Gemcitabine

Interventions

  • DrugAlbumin-bound Paclitaxel (Ⅱ) + Gemcitabine

    Drug pages: Albumin-Bound Paclitaxel · Gemcitabine

    Albumin-bound Paclitaxel (Ⅱ) (125 mg/m², intravenous infusion, on days 1, 8, and 15) plus gemcitabine (1000 mg/m², intravenous infusion, on days 1, 8, and 15), every 4 weeks (Q4W). After 6 cycles, albumin-bound Paclitaxel (Ⅱ) (on days 1 and 15) plus gemcitabine (on days 1 and 15), every 4 weeks, until disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Objective Response Rate(ORR)

    Time frame: Every 8 weeks from time of first dose of study drug until completion of treatment for approximately 6 months.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Disease Control Rate (DCR)

    Time frame: Every 8 weeks from time of first dose of study drug until completion of treatment for approximately 6 months.

  2. Progression-Free Survival (PFS)

    Time frame: The median time from first dose administration to tumor progression (per RECIST v1.1) or death in trial participants is expected to be 6 months.

  3. Overall Survival (OS)

    Time frame: Overall survival (OS), defined as the time from first dose administration to death from any cause, is estimated to be 13 months in trial participants.

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Study locations

No study locations are listed for this record.

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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reached

Start is estimated for Sep 2026; primary completion for Jan 2029, 28 months later.

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

Registered
Aug 27, 2026
First posted
Sep 21, 2026
StartEst.
Sep 5, 2026
Primary completionEst.
Jan 31, 2029
CompletionEst.
Jun 30, 2029
Last update
Sep 21, 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 Sep 21, 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
NCT07831330
Responsible party
Kuirong Jiang (Professor, The First Affiliated Hospital with Nanjing Medical University) — Principal investigator
First posted
Sep 21, 2026
Start date
Sep 5, 2026 (estimated)
Primary completion
Jan 31, 2029 (estimated)
Completion
Jun 30, 2029 (estimated)
Last update
Sep 21, 2026

Oversight

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