Clinical trial NCT05262335: Anlotinib Plus Chemotherapy as First-line Therapy for Gastrointestinal Tumor Patients With Unresectable Liver Metastasis (ALTER-G-001)
Official title: Anlotinib Plus Chemotherapy as First-line Therapy for Gastrointestinal Tumor Patients With Unresectable Liver Metastasis: A Multi-cohort, Multi-center Clinical Trial (ALTER-G-001)
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Phase: PHASE2
Conditions: Gastrointestinal Tumors
Lead sponsor: Ruijin Hospital
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Chia Tai Tianqing Pharmaceutical Group Co., Ltd.
First posted: 2022-03-02
Enrollment: 116
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 75
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: This is an open, multi-cohort, multi-center, exploratory and phase II clinical trial. To evaluate the efficacy and safety Anlotinib combined with chemotherapy as first-line and maintenance therapy for Gastrointestinal Tumors with Unresectable Liver Metastases.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Histologically or cytologically confirmed Ⅳ phase of colorectal cancer with liver metastases (TanyNanyM1), and the liver metastases are unresectable; Or Histologically or cytologically confirmed Ⅳb phase of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma with liver metastases (TanyNanyM1) (excluding mixed type adenosquamous carcinoma), and the liver metastases are unresectable; Or Histologically or cytologically confirmed other gastrointestinal tumors with liver metastases (excluding gastrointestinal stromal tumors, neuroendocrine tumors and other malignant tumors of non-glandular epithelial origin), and the liver metastases are unresectable;
* No previous systemic treatment, including chemotherapy, targeted and immunotherapy;
* The target lesion must contain liver metastases. According to RECIST version 1.1, liver metastases have at least one measurable focus;
* Age from 18-75 years old;
* ECOG performance status of 0-1;
* Life expectancy of at least 3 months;
* The main organs are functioning normally (normal main organs function as defined below: Hemoglobin (Hb) ≥ 90 g/L, Neutrophils (ANC) ≥ 1.5×109/L, Platelet count (PLT) ≥ 90×109/L, Total bilirubin (TBIL) ≤ 1.5 × normal upper limit (ULN), Aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and Alanine aminotransferase (ALT) ≤ 5 ×ULN, Creatinine Clearance rate (CCr) ≥60ml/min)
* Women of childbearing potential should agree to use and utilize an adequate method of contraception (such as intrauterine device，contraceptive and condom) throughout treatment and for at least 3 months after study is stopped；the result of serum or urine pregnancy test should be negative before enrollment；Man participants should agree to use and utilize an adequate method of contraception throughout treatment and for at least 2 months after study is stopped.
* Subjects volunteered to join the study, signed informed consent, good compliance, with follow-up.

Exclusion Criteria:

Patients with active bleeding within 2 months of primary and/or metastatic lesions;

* Patients with previous arterial/venous thrombosis events within 6 months, such as cerebrovascular accidents (including temporary ischemic attack), deep venous thrombosis or pulmonary embolism;
* Patients who are receiving thrombolytic or anticoagulant therapies such as warfarin, heparin, or their analogists; allowed to take low-dose heparin (6000 to 12,000 U/d for adults) or low-dose aspirin (≤100 mg/d) for prophylactic purposes with an INR≤1.5×ULN;
* Gastrointestinal diseases with a bleeding tendency (such as active gastrointestinal ulcer) or be likely to cause gastrointestinal bleeding, perforation, or obstruction, or patients with fistula;
* Have undergone major surgery (craniotomy, thoracotomy or open surgery) within 4 weeks prior to the first dose study;
* HER2-positive gastric adenocarcinoma;
* A history of immunodeficiency, including a positive HIV test or other acquired, congenital immunodeficiency disease, or a history of organ transplantation;
* A variety of factors affecting oral medications (such as inability to swallow, chronic diarrhea, and intestinal obstruction);
* Symptomatic central nervous system metastasis and/or cancerous meningitis are known to exist;
* Patients with any severe and / or uncontrolled disease, including: Patients with hypertension that cannot be well controlled by single antihypertensive therapy (SBP ≥150 mmHg, Diastolic BP ≥100mmHg); Or taking two or more antihypertensive drugs to control blood pressure; Acute myocardial infarction, malignant arrhythmias (including QT interval \> 450ms in men and \> 470ms in women) and ≥2 grade congestive heart failure (NYHA grade); Active or uncontrolled severe infection (NCI-CTC AE grade ≥2 infection); Liver diseases such as cirrhosis, decompensated liver disease, active hepatitis, or chronic hepatitis (HBV-DNA \> 1000 IU/mL) require antiviral therapy; Diabetic patients with poor blood glucose control (fasting blood glucose (FBG) \> 10 mmol/L); Routine urine indicated urine protein ≥ ++, and confirmed 24-hour urine protein quantitative \> 1.0 g;
* Clinically significant ascites, including any ascites that can be found on a physical examination, ascites that has been treated or currently in need of treatment, and only those with a small amount of ascites but no symptoms can be selected;
* A moderate amount of fluid in both sides of the chest, or a large amount of fluid in one side of the chest, or has caused respiratory dysfunction Patient to be drained;
* Uncontrolled metabolic disorders or other non-malignant organs or secondary reactions to systemic diseases or cancers that may lead to higher medical risk and/or uncertainty in survival evaluation;
* Known to have active tuberculosis;
* Suffering from interstitial lung disease requiring steroid therapy;
* Significantly malnourished patients;
* Those who have a history of psychotropic substance abuse and are unable to quit or have a mental disorder;
* Known to be allergic to the test drug;
* Participated in clinical trials of other anti-tumor therapies within 4 weeks;
* Pregnant or lactating women.;
* History of other primary malignancies, but the following: 1) complete remission of malignant tumors for at least 2 years prior to enrollment and no additional treatment during the study; 2) non-melanoma skin cancer or malignant freckle-like sputum with adequate treatment and no evidence of disease recurrence; 3) adequately treated and In situ carcinoma without evidence of disease recurrence;
* According to the investigator's judgment, there are serious concomitant diseases that endanger the safety of the patient or affect the patient's completion of the study.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Objective response rate (ORR)
timeFrame: up to 24 months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Progression-free survival (PFS)
timeFrame: up to 24 months
measure: Disease Control Rate (DCR)
timeFrame: up to 24 months
measure: Duration of Response (DoR)
timeFrame: up to 24 months
measure: Safety: Number of participants with treatment-related adverse events as assessed by CTCAE v5.0
timeFrame: Until 30 day safety follow-up visit
measure: Overall Survival (OS)
timeFrame: Up to 24 months
measure: Radical Resection Rate of Liver Metastases
timeFrame: Up to 6 cycles
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Nanjing
country: China
facility: Jiangsu Cancer Hospital
state: Jiangsu
city: Nanjing
country: China
facility: Jiangsu Province Hospital
state: Jiangsu
city: Wuxi
country: China
facility: Affiliated Hospital of Jiannan University
state: Jiangsu
city: Wuxi
country: China
facility: Wuxi Branch of Rujin Hospital
state: Jiangsu
city: Shanghai
country: China
facility: Jiading Cental Hospital Shanghai University of Medicine & Health Sciences
city: Shanghai
country: China
facility: Ruijin Hospital
city: Shanghai
country: China
facility: Tongji Hospital of Tongji University
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