Antihistamine plus immunotherapy: a new hope for lung cancer patients?
NCT ID NCT07358689
First seen Jun 25, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026 · Updated 1 time
Summary
This Phase 2 trial tests whether adding the antihistamine diphenhydramine to the immunotherapy drug toripalimab and standard chemotherapy helps shrink tumors more effectively in people with operable non-small cell lung cancer. About 120 participants will receive either the combination or just toripalimab plus chemo before and after surgery. The main goal is to see how many patients have no cancer cells left in their removed tumor tissue.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- Toripalimab (a PD-1 inhibitor) and diphenhydramine (an antihistamine) plus platinum-based chemotherapy
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this could point toward a more effective pre-surgery treatment for lung cancer that helps shrink tumors more completely.
- What could go wrong
- This is an early Phase 2 trial with only 120 participants, so results may not apply to all patients. Adding diphenhydramine could also increase side effects without clear benefit.
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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 120 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Expected to start
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Jun 2026
An estimate. Start dates often move.
- Expected to finish
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Jan 2029
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 to 75 years
- 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: * Voluntarily participate in this study, sign the informed consent form, have good compliance, and are willing to cooperate with follow-up visits; * Aged 18-75 years, regardless of gender; * ECOG performance status score of 0-1; * Expected survival time ≥ 3 months; * \- Pathologically/radiologically confirmed stage II-III NSCLC (AJCC 9th Edition). For adenocarcinoma/adenosquamous carcinoma, EGFR wild-type and ALK fusion-negative required before enrollment; * No prior systemic anti-tumor therapy; * At least one measurable lesion per RECIST 1.1. Previously irradiated lesions are measurable if progression is confirmed; * Adequate organ function, as evidenced by meeting the following laboratory parameters: 1. Absolute Neutrophil Count (ANC) ≥ 1.5 × 10⁹/L without administration of granulocyte colony-stimulating factor within the past 14 days; 2. Platelet count ≥ 80 × 10⁹/L without blood transfusion within the past 14 days; 3. Hemoglobin \> 8 g/dL without blood transfusion or erythropoietin administration within the past 14 days; 4. Total bilirubin ≤ 1.5 × Upper Limit of Normal (ULN); 5. Aspartate Aminotransferase (AST) and Alanine Aminotransferase (ALT) ≤ 2.5 × ULN (for subjects with liver metastasis, AST or ALT ≤ 5 × ULN is acceptable); 6. Serum creatinine ≤ 1.5 × ULN and creatinine clearance rate (calculated by the Cockcroft-Gault formula) ≥ 60 mL/min; 7. Adequate coagulation function, defined as International Normalized Ratio (INR) or Prothrombin Time (PT) ≤ 1.5 × ULN; 8. Normal thyroid function, defined as Thyroid Stimulating Hormone (TSH) within the normal range. If baseline TSH is outside the normal range, subjects with total triiodothyronine (T3) (or free triiodothyronine \[FT3\]) and free thyroxine (FT4) within the normal range are also eligible for enrollment; 9. Myocardial enzyme profile within the normal range; * Females of childbearing potential: negative pregnancy test (urine/serum) within 3 days pre-first dose (Cycle 1 Day 1); serum test required if urine test unconfirmed. Non-childbearing females: postmenopausal ≥ 1 year, surgically sterile or hysterectomized; * Subjects at risk of conception: use contraception with annual failure rate \< 1% during treatment and 120-180 days post-last dose; Exclusion Criteria: * Lung metastases from other primary malignancies; * Other systemic malignancies (excluding radically treated skin basal/squamous cell carcinoma or resected carcinoma in situ); * Current or prior myasthenia gravis; * Current or prior angle-closure glaucoma; * Current or prior benign prostatic hyperplasia; * Diphenhydramine allergy; * Pyloroduodenal obstruction, peptic ulcer-induced pyloric stenosis or bladder neck stenosis; * Prior radiation therapy meeting any: 1) ≥ 30% bone marrow irradiated within 14 days pre-treatment; 2) Lung lesion radiation \> 30 Gy within 6 weeks pre-treatment (must recover from radiation toxicity to Grade ≤ 1, no glucocorticoids, no radiation pneumonitis history); * Current participation in other interventional clinical studies, or received investigational agents/devices within 4 weeks pre-first dose; * Systemic anti-lung cancer Chinese patent medicines or immunomodulators (thymosin, interferon, interleukin; excluding local pleural effusion control) within 2 weeks pre-first dose; * Active autoimmune diseases requiring systemic therapy (disease-modifying drugs, glucocorticoids, immunosuppressants) within 2 years pre-first dose (replacement therapy not considered systemic); * Ongoing systemic glucocorticoids (excluding topical) or immunosuppressants within 7 days pre-first dose (physiological doses: prednisone ≤ 10 mg/day or equivalent permitted); * Uncontrolled pleural/peritoneal effusion (eligible if no drainage needed or effusion stable 3 days post-drainage cessation); * Prior allogeneic organ transplantation (except corneal) or hematopoietic stem cell transplantation; * Inadequate recovery from prior intervention toxicities/complications (not resolved to Grade ≤ 1 or baseline, excluding fatigue/alopecia); * Known HIV infection (HIV 1/2 antibody positive); * Other conditions deemed unsuitable by investigator;
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
As listed by the trial registrant
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The places running it
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute & Hospital
Tianjin, China
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