New drug cocktail aims to stop liver cancer recurrence
NCT ID NCT05367687
First seen Jun 26, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026 · Updated 1 time
Summary
This phase 2 trial tested whether adding rivoceranib to camrelizumab after surgery or ablation helps prevent liver cancer from coming back in high-risk patients. 251 participants were randomly assigned to receive either the combination or camrelizumab alone. The main goal was to see how long patients stayed cancer-free.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- camrelizumab and rivoceranib (apatinib)
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this combination could offer a new way to delay or prevent liver cancer from coming back after surgery or ablation.
- What could go wrong
- This is a phase 2 trial with a moderate number of participants, so results are not definitive. The combination may cause more side effects than camrelizumab alone, and it is not yet known if it improves long-term survival.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Phase 2
Tests whether the treatment actually works, and watches for side effects, in a larger group.
- Participants
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251 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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Sep 2022
- Finished
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Nov 2024
- Lead sponsor
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A company
The lead sponsor is a pharmaceutical, biotech, or medical-device company.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: 1. Subjects with a histopathological diagnosis of HCC. 2. Subjects who have undergone a curative resection or ablation (radiofrequency ablation \[RFA\] or microwave ablation \[MVA\] only). 3. No previous systematic treatment and locoregional therapy for HCC prior to randomization. 4. Absence of major macrovascular invasion. 5. No extrahepatic spread. 6. Full recovery from Curative resection or ablation within 4 weeks prior to randomization. 7. High risk for HCC recurrence after resection or ablation. 8. For patients who received post-operative transarterial chemoembolization: full recovery from the procedure within 4 weeks prior to randomization. 9. Child-Pugh Class: Grade A. 10. ECOG-PS score: 0 or 1. 11. Subjects with HCV- RNA (+) must receive antiviral therapy. 12. Adequate organ function. Exclusion Criteria: 1. Known hepatocholangiocarcinoma, sarcomatoid HCC, mixed cell carcinoma and fibrolamellar HCC; other active malignant tumor except HCC within 5 years or simultaneously. 2. Evidence of residual lesion, recurrence, and metastasis at randomization. 3. Moderate-to-severe ascites with clinical symptoms. 4. History of hepatic encephalopathy. 5. History of gastrointestinal hemorrhage within 6 months prior to the start of study treatment or clear tendency of gastrointestinal haemorrhage. 6. Active or history of autoimmune disease. 7. Interstitial lung disease that is symptomatic or may interfere with the detection and management of suspected drug-related pulmonary toxicity. 8. Cardiac clinical symptom or cardiovascular disease that is not well controlled. 9. Severe infection within 4 weeks prior to the start of study treatment. 10. Subjects with inadequately controlled hypertension or history of hypertensive crisis or hypertensive encephalopathy. 11. Thrombosis or thromboembolic event within 6 months prior to the start of study treatment. 12. Known genetic or acquired hemorrhage or thrombotic tendency. 13. Previous or current presence of metastasis to central nervous system.
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
As listed by the trial registrant
The condition terms exactly as the trial's registrant entered them.
Contacts and locations
Locations
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Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University
Shanghai, Shanghai Municipality, 200032, China
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