Can a targeted pill shrink hard-to-treat bile duct cancers?
NCT ID NCT07793253
First seen Aug 28, 2026 · Last updated Aug 28, 2026
Summary
This phase 2 trial tests whether daraxonrasib, an oral drug that targets cancers with a KRAS mutation, can shrink tumors in people with advanced biliary tract cancer that has progressed after first-line treatment. Participants take the drug once daily in 28-day cycles. The main goal is to see how many people respond, with overall survival as a secondary measure.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- daraxonrasib (RMC-6236), an oral drug taken once daily
- What this could lead to
- If it works, daraxonrasib could offer a new treatment option for people with advanced biliary tract cancer whose tumors carry a KRAS mutation and who have already tried one line of therapy.
- What could go wrong
- This is a phase 2 trial with a modest number of participants, so the drug may not shrink tumors in enough people to move forward. Side effects from the drug could also limit its use.
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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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About 55 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Expected to start
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Nov 2026
An estimate. Start dates often move.
- Expected to finish
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Nov 2030
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
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: * Unresectable locally advanced or metastatic histologically or cytologically confirmed biliary tract cancer * Must have documented disease progression or intolerance of one prior systemic chemotherapy regimen (with or without immunotherapy) for unresectable and/or advanced stage disease. * Age ≥ 18 years * Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status 0 - 1. * Have measurable disease based on RECIST 1.1. * Documented KRAS mutation * Adequate organ and marrow function defined by study-specified laboratory tests and procedures. * Willingness to provide serial tissue and blood samples for mandatory translational research. * Evidence of post-menopausal status or a negative pregnancy test in women of childbearing potential (WOCBP). * All participants must agree to use acceptable form of birth control while on study. * Ability to take oral medications and willingness to keep daily adherence record in a medication diary. * Must understand the study regimen, its requirements, risks and discomforts and is able and willing to sign the informed consent form in accordance with regulatory and institutional guidelines. Exclusion Criteria: * Any systemic anti-cancer therapy for advanced BTC within 3 weeks of enrollment or 5 half-lives of the drug, whichever is shorter. * Prior treatment with any KRAS, RTK, or MEK inhibitor or other RAS-pathway targeting signal transduction inhibitor agents * Major surgery, extended field radiotherapy, or local regional therapy within 4 weeks from first dose of study drug, limited field radiotherapy within 2 weeks of first dose, or failure to recover from side effects of these prior therapies * Known additional malignancy that is progressing and requires active treatment. * Receiving concomitant medications that interfere with Daraxonrasib. * Significant cardiovascular disease. * Significant cardiac conduction abnormalities. * Impaired gastrointestinal function. * Active autoimmune disease * Clinically active ascites. * Active uncontrolled infection requiring systemic therapy within 72 hours prior to C1D1. * Known history of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). * Active or chronic hepatitis B or hepatitis C. * Known history of central nervous system (CNS) metastases and/or history of uncontrolled seizures. * Any uncontrolled acute or chronic medical illness. * History or current evidence of any condition, therapy, or laboratory abnormality that might confound the results of the study, interfere with the subject's participation for the full duration of the study, or is not in the best interest of the subject to participate, in the opinion of the treating investigator. * Pregnant or breastfeeding * Patient is unwilling or unable to follow the study schedule for any reason. * Has known psychiatric or substance use disorder that would interfere with cooperation with the requirements of the trial.
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Contact
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Locations
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Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center
Baltimore, Maryland, 21231, United States
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