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NCT Number: NCT06886347

Metastatic Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma

To evaluaate the efficacy and safety of the regimen incuding Penpulimab, Gemcitabine and Anlotinib in the treatment of metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Using Progression-Free-Survival as the primary endpoint.

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Key information

Age range

18 year–75 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Phase 1

Primary location

Zhejiang Cancer Hospital

Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 325000, China

Location status: Recruiting

Location contact

Xiaozhong Chen, Doctor

CONTACT

[email protected]

0571-88128202

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • The participants voluntarily signed an informed consent form.
  • Age of ≥ 18 years and ≤ 75 years at the time of enrollment.
  • Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0 or 1.
  • xpected survival of ≥ 3 months.
  • Histologically or cytologically confirmed diagnosis of stage IVb NPC (AJCC 8th).
  • Metastatic NPC patients who have not recieved the first-line platinumbased chemotherapy.
  • At least one measurable tumor lesion per RECIST 1.1 criteria.
  • Adequate organ function.
  • Female participants of childbearing potential must agree to use contraception (such as intrauterine device, contraceptive pill, or condom) during the study and for 6 months after the end of the study; must have a negative serum pregnancy test within 7 days before study entry and must not be lactating. Male participants must agree to use contraception during the study and for 6 months after the end of the study.
  • The subjects are willing and able to comply with the visit schedule, treatment plan, laboratory examination, and other requirements of the study.

Exclusion criteria

  • ubjects have had another malignancy within 3 years before the first dose, except nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Subjects with other malignancies that have been cured by local therapy such as basal or cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma, superficial bladder cancer, cervix or breast carcinoma in situ are not excluded.
  • Participation in treatment with an investigational drug or use of an investigational device within 4 weeks before first study dosing.
  • Palliative local treatment was performed for non target lesions within 2 weeks before the first administration; Received nonspecific immunomodulatory therapy (such as interleukin, interferon, thymosin, etc., excluding IL-11 for the treatment of thrombocytopenia) within 2 weeks before the first administration; Received Chinese herbal medicine or Chinese patent medicine with anti-tumor indications within 1 week before the first administration.
  • Progression during or within 6 months after receiving systemic treatment for locally advanced disease (including induction therapy, concurrent radiotherapy, adjuvant therapy) (excluding oral single agent chemotherapy maintenance).
  • Patients with local recurrence and distant metastasis after radical treatment for locally advanced disease.
  • Patients with recurrent nasopharyngeal lesions after radiotherapy and who have received secondary radiotherapy.
  • Have previously received immunotherapy, including immune checkpoint inhibitors, immune checkpoint agonists , immune cell therapy, and other treatments against tumor immune mechanism.
  • Previously received anti angiogenic therapy.
  • According to the judgment of the investigator, there are subjects with concomitant diseases that seriously endanger the safety of subjects or affect the completion of the study, or subjects who believe that there are other reasons that are not suitable for enrollment.

Treatment and study plan

Penplimab Injection

Drug

Penplimab Injection: Intravenous infusion of Penplimab 200 mg Q3W, with a 3-week treatment cycle.

Anlotinib Hydrochloride Capsules: 10 mg, taken orally on an empty stomach before breakfast once a day (the daily medication time should be the same as much as possible), delivered in warm water, continuously used for 2 weeks and stopped for 1 week, with a treatment cycle of 3 weeks.

Gemcitabine injection: Intravenous infusion of 1000mg/m2, administered on the 1st and 8th days of each cycle, 3 weeks per cycle for 4-6 cycles.

Antitinib Hydrochloride Capsules

Drug

10 mg, taken orally on an empty stomach before breakfast once a day (the daily medication time should be the same as much as possible), delivered in warm water, continuously used for 2 weeks and stopped for 1 week, with a treatment cycle of 3 weeks.

Gemcitabine

Drug

Intravenous infusion of 1000mg/m2, administered on the 1st and 8th days of each cycle, 3 weeks per cycle for 4-6 cycles.

Primary outcomes

  1. PFS

    Time frame: Baseline up to 2 years

    PFS defined as the time from the first dose until the first documented progressive disease (PD) or death from any cause.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Objective Response Rate(ORR)

    Time frame: Baseline up to 2 years

    Percentage of subjects achieving complete response (CR) and partial response (PR)

  2. Disease Control Rate (DCR)

    Time frame: Baseline up to 2 years

    Percentage of subjects achieving complete response (CR) and partial response (PR) and stable disease (SD)

  3. Overall survival (OS)

    Time frame: Baseline up to 2 years

    OS defined as the time from the first dose to death from any cause. Survival time was censored at the date of last contact for patients who were still alive or lost to follow-up

  4. Time to Response (TTR)

    Time frame: Baseline up to 2 years

    TTR defined as the time from randomization to the first recorded CR or PR

  5. Duration of Response (DOR)

    Time frame: Baseline up to 2 years

    DOR defined as the time from the first documentation of objective tumor response (CR or PR) to the first documentation of disease progression or to death due to any cause, whichever occurred first.

  6. PD-L1 expression

    Time frame: Tumor tissue samples must be provided to the research center prior to initial administration

    Evaluating the correlation between PD-L1 expression and efficacy in tumor tissue samples.

  7. Blood EBV level

    Time frame: Baseline up to 2 years

    Evaluate the correlation between the copy number of EBV DNA in the blood of subjects and their efficacy.

  8. Evaluate the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of subjects

    Time frame: Baseline up to 2 years

    Evaluate the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of subjects using European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire scale。The minimum values is 1,the maximum values is 4,and whether higher scores mean a worse outcome.

Study contacts

Contact information is provided by the study sponsor or research team.

Xiaozhong Chen, Doctor

CONTACT

[email protected]

0571-88128202

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Chen Xiaozhong

Other

Registry information

Official study title

Penpulimab Plus Gemcitabine and Anlotinib in the Treatment of Metastatic Nasopharyngeal Cancer, A Single Arm, Open-label, Phase Ib Clinical Trial

Important dates

Study start
2023
Primary completion
2026
Study completion
2026
First posted
Mar 20, 2025
Registry last updated
Mar 20, 2025

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