Regorafenib Plus Raltitrexed as Third-line Treatment in Advanced Colorectal Cancer Patients.

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Trial end date: 2025-12-30
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

This is a multicenter, open, single-arm, phase I/II study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of regorafenib plus raltitrexed as third-line treatment in patients with advanced colorectal cancer.

• Phase: Phase 1/Phase 2
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: China Medical University, China
• Collaborators: Anshan Tumor Hospital; Benxi Cental Hospital; The First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University; The People's Hospital of Liaoning Province; The Second Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University
• Treatments: Raltitrexed

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

1. Sign a consent form

2. Age> 18 years

3. Pathological diagnosis as metastatic colorectal adenocarcinoma

4. Metastatic colorectal cancer with disease progression after 1st and 2nd line treatment；Received standard chemotherapy based on fluorouracil, oxaliplatin, irinotecan, patients are allowed to receive EGFR and/or VEGF inhibitors, patients are allowed to receive immunotherapy.

5. Measurable disease according to RECIST

6. ECOG score 0-1 points

7. Life expectancy ≥3 months

8. ALT and AST< 2.5 times the upper limit of normal (ULN), patients with liver metastases < 5 times ULN

9. Serum albumin ≥ 3.0g/ dL

10. Serum ALP <2.5 times ULN

11. Total bilirubin12. Estimated creatinine clearance (CLcr) ≥30mL/min as calculated using the Cockcroft-Gault equation

13. Lipase≤1.5x the ULN

14. Neutrophil absolute count (ANC) ≥1500/mm³, hemoglobin (Hb)>9g/dl, platelets> 10000/mm³

15. Pregnant or breastfeeding patients. (1) Women and men of childbearing potential must agree to use appropriate contraception prior to entering the program until at least 8 weeks after the last dose of study drug. The investigator or designee is required to advise the subject on how to achieve appropriate contraception. Adequate contraception is defined in the study as any medically recommended method (or combination of methods) according to standard treatment 2) Women of childbearing age must confirm a negative serum or urine pregnancy test within 7 days prior to initiating treatment and must agree to record a negative result prior to entering the study

Exclusion criteria.

1. Prior exposure to any VEGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor (e.g., regorafenib, apatinib, anlotinib, furoquinitinib, etc.) therapy

2. Received raltitrexed in the previous treatment

3. Patients with abnormal coagulation function or those treated with thrombolytic or anticoagulant drugs with a tendency to bleed from the gastrointestinal tract, including active peptic ulcer with fecal occult blood ++, vomiting blood or black stool within 3 months

4. Prior or concurrent cancers with a different primary site or histology than CRC within the enrollment year, except cured in situ cervical cancer, non-melanoma skin cancer, and superficial bladder tumors: staged Ta, Tis, and T1

5. Arterial or venous thrombotic or embolic events such ascerebrovascular accident (including transient ischemic attacks), deep vein thrombosis or pulmonary embolism within 6 month before the start of study medication (except for adequately treated catheter-related venous thrombos is occurring more than one month before the start of study medication)

6. Major surgery, biopsy or significant traumatic damage within 28 days prior to the start of investigational treatment

7. Non-healing wound, non-healing ulcer, or non-healing bone fracture.

8. Patients with brain metastases and/or cancerous meningitis

9. Congestive heart failure > New York Heart Association (NYHA) class 2.

10. Unstable angina (angina symptoms at rest), new onset angina (occurred within the last 3 months). Myocardial infarction within 6 months prior to the start of treatment.

11. Arrhythmias requiring antiarrhythmic therapy (beta-blockers or digoxin allowed)

12. Uncontrolled hypertension. (Systolic blood pressure > 150 mmHg or diastolic blood pressure > 90 mmHg despite optimal medical treatment)

13. Patients with pheochromocytoma

14. Pleural effusion or ascites causing restricted breathing (≥ CTCAE grade 2 dyspnea)

15. Known to have dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase deficiency

16. Ongoing infection > Grade 2 NCI CTCAE

17. Interstitial lung disease with ongoing signs and symptoms at the time of informed consent

18. Known hypersensitivity to any of the stidy drugs, study drug classes,or excipients in the formulation

19. The use of CYP3A4 inhibitors or inducers

20. Participation in another clinical trial within 4 weeks prior to enrollment and receipt of the investigational drug and any concomitant therapy containing the investigational drug

21. Received radiotherapy within 4 weeks prior to enrollment and the lesions observed in this study were in the target area of radiotherapy

22. Subjects with active tuberculosis (TB) who are on anti-tuberculosis treatment, or who have received anti-tuberculosis treatment within one year prior to screening

23. Comorbidities requiring long-term treatment with immunosuppressive drugs or systemic or topical corticosteroids at immunosuppressive doses (doses >10 mg/day of prednisone or other isotonic hormones)

24. Received any anti-infective vaccine (e.g., influenza vaccine, varicella vaccine, Neocon vaccine, etc.) within 4 weeks prior to enrollment

25. Pregnancy or breastfeeding

26. Persistent proteinuria >3.5g/24 hours by measuring the urine protein-creatinine ratio in random urine samples (grade 3, NCI-CTCAE version 5.0)

27. Positive for Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)

28. Positive hepatitis B virus surface antigen (HBsAg) with positive HBV DNA copy number (quantitative test ≥ 1000 cps/ml)

29. Positive blood screen for chronic hepatitis C (positive for HCV antibodies)

30. Renal failure requiring hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis

31. The degree of dehydration ≥ CTCAE version 5.0 level 1

32. Persons without legal capacity

33. Any other clinically significant disease or condition that, in the opinion of the investigator, could affect compliance with the protocol, or affect the subject's ability to sign an informed consent form (ICF), or is inappropriate for participation in this clinical trial.