Immunotherapy plus chemo and radiation shows promise for rare thymic cancer

Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.

Inclusion Criteria: 1. Age ≥ 18 and ≤ 75 years old at the time of signing the informed consent form, both male and female are eligible. 2. Histologically confirmed thymic carcinoma. 3. Potentially resectable locally advanced (T3/4NxM0). No previous treatment for thymic carcinoma, including but not limited to surgery, local radiotherapy, chemotherapy, immunotherapy, targeted drug therapy, and other investigational drug therapy. 4. At least one measurable lesion according to RECIST 1.1 criteria. 5. ECOG PS score: 0-1. 6. Expected survival ≥ 3 months. 7. Important organ functions must meet the following standards: 1\) Blood routine test: (No blood transfusion or use of G-CSF and other cytokine drugs for correction within 2 weeks before screening); 1. Hemoglobin (HB) ≥ 90 g/L; 2. Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) ≥ 1.5×109/L; 3. Platelet count (PLT) ≥ 90×109/L; 4. White blood cell count (WBC) ≥ 3.0×109/L and \< 15×109/L; 2) Other tests: (No human albumin injection within 14 days before screening); a) Alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and aspartate aminotransferase (AST) ≤ 3×ULN; b) Total bilirubin (TBIL) ≤ 1.5×ULN; c) Albumin (ALB) ≥ 30 g/L; d) Creatinine (Cr) ≤ 1.5×ULN, or creatinine clearance rate (CrCL) ≥ 50 mL/min (Cockcroft-Gault formula); e) Thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) ≤ 1×ULN (If TSH is abnormal, FT3/T3 and FT4/T4 levels should also be examined. If FT3/T3 and FT4/T4 are normal, the patient can be enrolled); f) Activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT) ≤ 1.5×ULN, international normalized ratio (INR) or prothrombin time (PT) ≤ 1.5×ULN (No anticoagulant therapy); g) Left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) ≥ 50%. 8. Non-surgically sterilized or female patients of childbearing age must have a negative serum pregnancy test within 3 days before the first dose of the study drug and must not be lactating. Female patients of childbearing age or male patients whose partners are of childbearing age must agree to use highly effective contraceptive methods during the study and for 6 months after the last administration of the study drug. 9\. Patients must voluntarily join this clinical study, sign the informed consent form, have good compliance, and be able to cooperate with follow-up. Exclusion Criteria: 1. Patients with pathologies of thymoma or thymic neuroendocrine tumor. 2. Patients with other malignant tumors within the past 3 years or concurrently, except for those with cured skin basal cell carcinoma, superficial bladder cancer, skin squamous cell carcinoma, cervical carcinoma in situ, and ductal carcinoma in situ of the breast. 3. Patients with interstitial pneumonia/interstitial lung disease (excluding those with only imaging changes), those requiring systemic glucocorticoid treatment for pneumonia (such as radiation-induced pneumonia, etc.), those with active pneumonia or severe lung function impairment confirmed by pulmonary function tests. 4. Patients with any active or known autoimmune diseases (including but not limited to: myasthenia gravis, myositis, autoimmune hepatitis, systemic lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis, enteritis, multiple sclerosis, vasculitis, glomerulonephritis, uveitis, hypophysitis, hyperthyroidism, etc.). Patients with type 1 diabetes on stable insulin therapy, hypothyroidism requiring only hormone replacement therapy, and skin diseases (such as eczema, vitiligo or psoriasis) that do not require systemic treatment and have not had acute exacerbation within 1 year before screening are allowed to be enrolled. Patients with asthma requiring medical intervention with bronchodilators cannot be included. 5. Patients with active pulmonary tuberculosis. Those who have received adequate treatment and have stopped anti-tuberculosis treatment for at least 3 months before treatment can be enrolled. 6. Patients with uncontrolled clinical symptoms or diseases of the heart, such as: (1) New York Heart Association (NYHA) class 2 or higher heart failure (2) Unstable angina pectoris (3) Myocardial infarction within 1 year (4) Clinically significant supraventricular or ventricular arrhythmias requiring treatment or intervention. 7. Patients who have experienced severe infections within 1 month before the start of treatment, including but not limited to infections requiring hospitalization, bacteremia, severe pneumonia, etc.; patients with any active infections, or those with unexplained fever \> 38.5°C during the screening period or before the first dose. 8. Patients with a known positive history of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) test or acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). Patients with active viral hepatitis (for hepatitis B: positive HBsAg and HBV DNA test value exceeds 500 IU; for hepatitis C: positive HCV antibody and HCV virus titer test value exceeds the upper limit of normal). 9. Patients with known allergic reactions to adebiralimab or other PD-(L)1 monoclonal antibodies, or with a history of severe allergies to paclitaxel and platinum-based drugs or their prophylactic medications. 10. Patients who have undergone major surgical procedures, systemic chemotherapy, immunotherapy, or other clinical trial drugs within 4 weeks before treatment; those who have received palliative radiotherapy within 2 weeks before treatment; those who have taken oral molecular targeted drugs and have stopped for less than 5 half-lives before treatment; or those who have used antibiotics within 1 week before treatment; and those who have not recovered from the toxicity and/or complications of previous interventions to NCI-CTCAE ≤ grade 1 (except for alopecia and fatigue, and the indicators mentioned in the inclusion criteria). 11. According to the researcher's judgment, participants with other factors that may affect the research results or lead to the premature termination of this study, such as alcoholism, drug abuse, substance misuse, other serious diseases (including mental disorders) requiring combined treatment, severe laboratory test abnormalities, or those with family or social factors that may affect medication safety, will be excluded.