- ICH GCP
- US Clinical Trials Registry
- Clinical Trial NCT07595172
NALIRIFOX+Adebrelimab+PULSAR for Advanced Pancreatic Cancer
May 16, 2026 updated by: Wang Xin, West China Hospital
A Phase I/II Clinical Trial of NALIRIFOX Combined With Adebrelimab and PULSAR as First-Line Treatment for Locally Advanced Unresectable or Metastatic Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma
This study aims to evaluate the safety and preliminary efficacy of NALIRIFOX combined with adebrelimab and PULSAR as first-line treatment for locally advanced unresectable or metastatic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC).
Additionally, it will explore potential predictive and efficacy-related biomarkers.
Study Overview
Status
Recruiting
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Detailed Description
After confirmation of eligibility, enrolled patients will undergo radiation CT simulation and planning per standard of care.
IV contrast will be administered with CT simulation at the treating physician's discretion though is not required.
Study Type
Interventional
Enrollment (Estimated)
55
Phase
- Phase 2
- Phase 1
Contacts and Locations
This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.
Study Contact
- Name: Kexun Zhou, Dr.
- Phone Number: +028 85423609
- Email: kexunzhou@wchscu.cn
Study Locations
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Sichuan
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Chengdu, Sichuan, China, 610041
- Recruiting
- West China Hospital, Sichuan University
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Contact:
- Kexun Zhou, Dr.
- Phone Number: +028 85423609
- Email: kexunzhou@wchscu.cn
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Participation Criteria
Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
- Adult
- Older Adult
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
No
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- Age: 18-75 years, regardless of gender.
- Histologically confirmed pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC).
- Previously untreated, locally advanced unresectable or metastatic PDAC, with at least one measurable lesion (RECIST v1.1) not previously irradiated.
- ECOG Performance Status (PS): 0-1.
- Expected survival ≥ 3 months.
- Willing and able to comply with study procedures, treatment, and follow-up.
- No contraindications to radiotherapy.
- Adequate organ function: WBC ≥ 2.5×10⁹/L, ANC ≥ 1.5×10⁹/L; Platelets ≥ 75×10⁹/L; Hemoglobin (HGB) ≥ 90 g/L (no transfusion or EPO dependence within 7 days); Total bilirubin (Tbil) ≤ 1.5×ULN; ALT/AST ≤ 5×ULN;Albumin ≥ 30 g/L; INR ≤ 1.5×ULN; Serum creatinine (Cr) ≤ 1.5×ULN Urine protein ≤ 1+
- HBsAg-positive patients must have HBV-DNA ≤ 1×10³ IU/mL (copies/mL). If HBV-DNA ≥ 1×10³ IU/mL, patients may still be eligible if chronic HBV is stable and not expected to increase risk, per investigator assessment.
- Voluntary participation with signed informed consent form.
Exclusion Criteria:
- History of severe hypersensitivity to chimeric, human(ized) antibodies, or fusion proteins.
- Pregnant or breastfeeding women, or men/women of childbearing potential unwilling/unable to use effective contraception during the study.
- Other malignancies within 5 years, except: Malignancies treated with curative intent and no known active disease for ≥5 years with low recurrence risk; Adequately treated non-melanoma skin cancer or lentigo maligna without disease evidence; Adequately treated carcinoma in situ (e.g., cervical, breast) with no current disease.
- Symptomatic moderate/severe pleural effusion or ascites.
- Active bleeding or coagulopathy (PT >16s, APTT >43s, INR >1.5×ULN), bleeding tendency, or current use of thrombolytics/anticoagulants/antiplatelets.
- GI bleeding within 6 months or high bleeding risk (e.g., active ulcer with occult blood++). If occult blood+ persists, endoscopy required.
- High-risk esophageal/gastric varices needing intervention.
- History of drug abuse, psychiatric disorder, or inability to abstain.
- Solid organ/bone marrow transplant, or active autoimmune disease requiring systemic treatment within 2 years.
- Immunodeficiency or HIV infection.
- Objective evidence of pulmonary fibrosis, interstitial lung disease, pneumoconiosis, radiation-/drug-induced pneumonitis, or severely impaired pulmonary function.
- Major surgery within 4 weeks or minor surgery within 1 week (e.g., tooth extraction).
- Vaccination within 30 days before the first dose.
- Abdominal fistula, GI perforation, or abscess within 4 weeks.
- Any clinically significant abnormality affecting safety per investigator, including: Active infection requiring systemic therapy; Uncontrolled diabetes/hypertension (BP >140/90 mmHg despite ≤2 antihypertensives); Myocardial infarction within 6 months; Thyroid dysfunction (>NCI CTCAE v4.0 Grade 1).
- Other conditions deemed ineligible by the investigator.
Study Plan
This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Treatment
- Allocation: N/A
- Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
- Masking: None (Open Label)
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Experimental: NALIRIFOX+Adebrelimab+PULSAR
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NALIRIFOX chemotherapy and Adebrelimab Injection
Other Names:
PULSAR
Other Names:
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Time Frame |
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Objective response rate (RECIST v1.1)
Time Frame: From the first patient enrollment until 6 months after the last patient enrollment
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From the first patient enrollment until 6 months after the last patient enrollment
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Number of participants with treatment-related adverse events as assessed by CTCAE v4.0
Time Frame: From the first patient enrollment until 6 months after the last patient enrollment
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the incidence of adverse events (AE) or severe adverse events (SAE) assessed by CTCAE v4.0
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From the first patient enrollment until 6 months after the last patient enrollment
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Progression free survival
Time Frame: From the first patient enrollment until 6 months after the last patient enrollment
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From the first patient enrollment until 6 months after the last patient enrollment
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Overall survival
Time Frame: From the first patient enrollment until 6 months after the last patient enrollment
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From the first patient enrollment until 6 months after the last patient enrollment
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Collaborators and Investigators
This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.
Sponsor
Collaborators
Publications and helpful links
The person responsible for entering information about the study voluntarily provides these publications. These may be about anything related to the study.
General Publications
- Brahmer JR, Tykodi SS, Chow LQ, Hwu WJ, Topalian SL, Hwu P, Drake CG, Camacho LH, Kauh J, Odunsi K, Pitot HC, Hamid O, Bhatia S, Martins R, Eaton K, Chen S, Salay TM, Alaparthy S, Grosso JF, Korman AJ, Parker SM, Agrawal S, Goldberg SM, Pardoll DM, Gupta A, Wigginton JM. Safety and activity of anti-PD-L1 antibody in patients with advanced cancer. N Engl J Med. 2012 Jun 28;366(26):2455-65. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1200694. Epub 2012 Jun 2.
- Von Hoff DD, Ervin T, Arena FP, Chiorean EG, Infante J, Moore M, Seay T, Tjulandin SA, Ma WW, Saleh MN, Harris M, Reni M, Dowden S, Laheru D, Bahary N, Ramanathan RK, Tabernero J, Hidalgo M, Goldstein D, Van Cutsem E, Wei X, Iglesias J, Renschler MF. Increased survival in pancreatic cancer with nab-paclitaxel plus gemcitabine. N Engl J Med. 2013 Oct 31;369(18):1691-703. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1304369. Epub 2013 Oct 16.
- Conroy T, Desseigne F, Ychou M, Bouche O, Guimbaud R, Becouarn Y, Adenis A, Raoul JL, Gourgou-Bourgade S, de la Fouchardiere C, Bennouna J, Bachet JB, Khemissa-Akouz F, Pere-Verge D, Delbaldo C, Assenat E, Chauffert B, Michel P, Montoto-Grillot C, Ducreux M; Groupe Tumeurs Digestives of Unicancer; PRODIGE Intergroup. FOLFIRINOX versus gemcitabine for metastatic pancreatic cancer. N Engl J Med. 2011 May 12;364(19):1817-25. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1011923.
- Royal RE, Levy C, Turner K, Mathur A, Hughes M, Kammula US, Sherry RM, Topalian SL, Yang JC, Lowy I, Rosenberg SA. Phase 2 trial of single agent Ipilimumab (anti-CTLA-4) for locally advanced or metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma. J Immunother. 2010 Oct;33(8):828-33. doi: 10.1097/CJI.0b013e3181eec14c.
- Galluzzi L, Aryankalayil MJ, Coleman CN, Formenti SC. Emerging evidence for adapting radiotherapy to immunotherapy. Nat Rev Clin Oncol. 2023 Aug;20(8):543-557. doi: 10.1038/s41571-023-00782-x. Epub 2023 Jun 6.
- Bray F, Laversanne M, Sung H, Ferlay J, Siegel RL, Soerjomataram I, Jemal A. Global cancer statistics 2022: GLOBOCAN estimates of incidence and mortality worldwide for 36 cancers in 185 countries. CA Cancer J Clin. 2024 May-Jun;74(3):229-263. doi: 10.3322/caac.21834. Epub 2024 Apr 4.
- Moore C, Hsu CC, Chen WM, Chen BPC, Han C, Story M, Aguilera T, Pop LM, Hannan R, Fu YX, Saha D, Timmerman R. Personalized Ultrafractionated Stereotactic Adaptive Radiotherapy (PULSAR) in Preclinical Models Enhances Single-Agent Immune Checkpoint Blockade. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2021 Aug 1;110(5):1306-1316. doi: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2021.03.047. Epub 2021 Mar 29.
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- Rouf S, Moore C, Saha D, Nguyen D, Bleile M, Timmerman R, Peng H, Jiang S. PULSAR Effect: Revealing potential synergies in combined radiation therapy and immunotherapy via differential equations. J Theor Biol. 2025 Jan 7;596:111974. doi: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2024.111974. Epub 2024 Oct 22.
- Peng H, Moore C, Saha D, Jiang S, Timmerman R. Understanding the PULSAR effect in combined radiotherapy and immunotherapy using transformer-based attention mechanisms. Front Oncol. 2024 Dec 2;14:1497351. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2024.1497351. eCollection 2024.
- Wainberg ZA, Melisi D, Macarulla T, Pazo Cid R, Chandana SR, De La Fouchardiere C, Dean A, Kiss I, Lee WJ, Goetze TO, Van Cutsem E, Paulson AS, Bekaii-Saab T, Pant S, Hubner RA, Xiao Z, Chen H, Benzaghou F, O'Reilly EM. NALIRIFOX versus nab-paclitaxel and gemcitabine in treatment-naive patients with metastatic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (NAPOLI 3): a randomised, open-label, phase 3 trial. Lancet. 2023 Oct 7;402(10409):1272-1281. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(23)01366-1. Epub 2023 Sep 11.
- Cho YB, Yoon N, Suh JH, Scott JG. Radio-immune response modelling for spatially fractionated radiotherapy. Phys Med Biol. 2023 Aug 7;68(16):165010. doi: 10.1088/1361-6560/ace819.
- Moon EJ, Petersson K, Olcina MM. The importance of hypoxia in radiotherapy for the immune response, metastatic potential and FLASH-RT. Int J Radiat Biol. 2022;98(3):439-451. doi: 10.1080/09553002.2021.1988178. Epub 2021 Nov 2.
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- Li X, Hou W, Xiao C, Yang H, Zhao C, Cao D. Panoramic tumor microenvironment in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. Cell Oncol (Dordr). 2024 Oct;47(5):1561-1578. doi: 10.1007/s13402-024-00970-6. Epub 2024 Jul 15.
- Lynch C, Pitroda SP, Weichselbaum RR. Radiotherapy, immunity, and immune checkpoint inhibitors. Lancet Oncol. 2024 Aug;25(8):e352-e362. doi: 10.1016/S1470-2045(24)00075-5.
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Study record dates
These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.
Study Major Dates
Study Start (Estimated)
April 1, 2026
Primary Completion (Estimated)
August 1, 2028
Study Completion (Estimated)
March 1, 2029
Study Registration Dates
First Submitted
April 9, 2026
First Submitted That Met QC Criteria
May 16, 2026
First Posted (Actual)
May 19, 2026
Study Record Updates
Last Update Posted (Actual)
May 19, 2026
Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria
May 16, 2026
Last Verified
May 1, 2026
More Information
Terms related to this study
Keywords
Additional Relevant MeSH Terms
- Endocrine System Diseases
- Neoplasms by Site
- Neoplasms
- Digestive System Neoplasms
- Digestive System Diseases
- Endocrine Gland Neoplasms
- Pancreatic Diseases
- Pancreatic Neoplasms
- Therapeutics
- Carbohydrates
- Polysaccharides
- Glucans
- Biological Therapy
- Immunomodulation
- Dextrans
- Drug Therapy
- Immunotherapy
- DEAE-Dextran
Other Study ID Numbers
- PRIM-P1
Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)
Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?
UNDECIDED
IPD Plan Description
IPD will not be shared in order to protect participant confidentiality, in compliance with local data protection regulations and ethical committee requirements.
Additionally, IPD sharing is restricted under contractual agreements with study sponsors/partners, who retain data ownership for independent analyses.
Given the complexity and size of the dataset (e.g., genomic/imaging data), anonymized IPD sharing is technically unfeasible without risking data integrity.
Furthermore, to safeguard intellectual property rights and permit ongoing secondary analyses by the research team, IPD will be retained internally.
Drug and device information, study documents
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product
No
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product
No
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