GEMOX Combined With Donafenib and Tislelizumab in Advanced Biliary Tract Carcinoma

Effects and Safety of GEMOX Combined With Donafenib and Tislelizumab in Advanced Biliary Tract Carcinoma：a Prospective, Single-arm, Multi-center Phase II Study

In this phase 2 study, the investigators aim to evaluate the effects and safety of combined therapy using oxaliplatin and gemcitabine chemotherapy, Donafenib and Tislelizumab for patients with advanced biliary tract carcinoma.

Study Overview

• Status: Recruiting
• Conditions: Biliary Tract Carcinoma
• Intervention / Treatment: Combination product: Combination of Gemcitabine, Oxaliplatin, Donafenib and Tislelizumab

Detailed Description

Most advanced biliary tract carcinoma (BTC) patients are often accompanied by local or distant metastases and lose the opportunity for surgical resection. For patients with advanced BTC who have been in stages III and IV (AJCC/UICC, V2, 2018), the survival time is less than 4 months, and there is currently no standard treatment. The Gemox chemotherapy (oxaliplatin + gemcitabine) has been used in the treatment of advanced BTC, but the efficacy is still unsatisfactory. Donafenib is a small molecule multi-kinase inhibitor, the main targets including VEGFR1-3, PDGFRα, RET(ret proto-oncogene ), c-KIT(KIT proto-oncogene, receptor tyrosine kinase), Raf,FLT3,have anti-angiogenic effects, have been proven effective in hepatocellular carcinoma. In recent years, monoclonal antibodies against programmed cell death protein 1 (PD1) have shown remarkable therapeutic effects in the treatment of various solid tumors. Prior to this, the combined treatment of GEMOX combined with Donafenib and Tislelizumab was proved satisfying safety. Meanwhile,the phase-I trial showed good efficacy in conversion rate and 6-month overall survival rate. Due to the limitted small sample size of the phase I trial, the investigators aim to expand the sample size to further verify the effects and safety of combined therapy in the study.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Estimated): 93
• Phase: Phase 2

Contacts and Locations

• Study Contact: Name: Lu Wang, M.D.; Phone Number: 86-18121299357; Email: w.lr@hotmail.com
• Study Contact Backup: Name: Yiming Zhao, M.D.; Phone Number: 13917307629; Email: gomas1711@163.com

Study Locations

• China
  • Shanghai Municipality
    • Shanghai, Shanghai Municipality, China, 200062
      • Recruiting
      • Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center
      • Contact: Lu Wang, M.D.; Phone Number: +86-18121299357; Email: w.lr@hotmail.com
      • Principal Investigator: Yiming Zhao, M.D.

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years to 75 years (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Age ≥18 years and ≤75 years;
• ECOG physical condition score: 0~1;
• Histologically or cytologically confirmed advanced biliary tract carcinoma (including gallbladder, intrahepatic and extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma);
• Preoperative imaging assessment of the disease stage was III/IV;
• At least one measurable lesion (according to mRECIST criteria)
• Child-Pugh classification : A or B
• The main organs function well, and the examination indicators meet the following requirements:
• Routine blood tests: Hemoglobin ≥90 g/L (no blood transfusion within 14 days);Neutrophil count ≥1.5×10^9/L; Platelet count ≥80×10^9/L;
• Biochemical examination: Total bilirubin ≤2×ULN (upper normal value); ALT or AST ≤ 2.5×ULN; Endogenous creatinine clearance ≥ 50 mL /min (Cockcroft-Gault formula);
• thyroid function:Thyroid function is normal, thyroid stimulating hormone TSH is defined to be within the normal range. If baseline TSH is outside the normal range, T3 and T4 can be included if they are within the normal range;
• Myocardial enzyme profile:The myocardial enzyme profile was in the normal range (if simple laboratory abnormalities that were not clinically significant as determined by the investigators could also be included);
• Estimated survival time ≥ 3 months;
• Sign the informed consent voluntarily;
• Good compliance, and family members willing to cooperate with follow-up.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients with other uncured malignant tumors;
• Pregnant or lactating women who are required to withdraw from the clinical trial if they become pregnant during the study period;
• Previous antitumor therapy for the disease in this study;
• Participated in clinical trials of other drugs within one month;
• Patients with a known history of other systemic serious diseases before screening;
• Obstructive jaundice (after active treatment such as biliary drainage or stent, the patients can be included in the group after the liver function returns to normal);
• Untreated active hepatitis B (defined as HBsAg positive and HBV-DNA copy number greater than the upper limit of normal in the clinical laboratory of the study center);
• Active HCV infected persons (HCV antibody positive with HCV RNA levels above the lower limit of detection);
• Allergic to any investigational drug or excipient;
• Long-term unhealed wounds or incomplete healing fractures;
• Previous organ transplantation history;
• Having a history of abuse of psychotropic substances and being unable to quit or having mental disorders;
• A history of immune deficiency or other acquired or congenital immunodeficiency diseases, or a history of organ transplantation;
• Concomitant conditions that, in the investigator's judgment, seriously endanger the patient's safety or affect the patient's completion of the study.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Treatment
• Allocation: N/A
• Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: experimental group; Combination of Gemox, Donafenib and Tislelizumab	Combination product: Combination of Gemcitabine, Oxaliplatin, Donafenib and Tislelizumab; Combination of Gemcitabine, Oxaliplatin, Donafenib and Tislelizumab every 3 weeks

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Overall response rate	objective response rate(ORR)，defined as percentage of participants achieving assessed complete response (CR) and partial response (PR) by the investigator according to the RECIST 1.1	6 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Conversion rate	Conversion rate, defined as the percentage of the conversion of patients with BTC assessed as unresectable into resectable through interventions, including the conversion of unresectable into resectable in the scientific sense such as insufficient future liver remnant(FLR), as well as the conversion of R1 and R2 to R0.	6 months
1-year Recurrence free survival	1-year Recurrence free survival	1 year
Progression-free survival	progression-free survival(PFS), defined as the time from enrollment to the first documented disease progression or death due to any cause, whichever occurs first. Responses are according to the Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors version 1.1 (RECIST 1.1) as assessed by investigator	6 months
Overall survival	overall survival(OS), defined as the time from enrollment to death due to any cause.	6 months
Incidence and degree of Adverse Events and Serious Adverse Events	Incidence, severity, and relationship to study drugs of all adverse events (AEs), treatment-related adverse events (TRAEs), and serious adverse events (SAEs).	6 months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Fudan University
• Investigators: Study Director: Yiming Zhao, M.D., Fudan University

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): October 18, 2022
• Primary Completion (Estimated): December 31, 2026
• Study Completion (Estimated): March 31, 2027

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: December 12, 2022
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: December 25, 2022
• First Posted (Actual): December 30, 2022

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Estimated): January 14, 2026
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: January 12, 2026
• Last Verified: December 1, 2025

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Safety; Donafenib; Tislelizumab; Effects
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Neoplasms by Histologic Type; Neoplasms; Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial; Carcinoma; Organic Chemicals; Coordination Complexes; Oxaliplatin; tislelizumab; donafenib
• Other Study ID Numbers: 2209260-22-2407A

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No