New hope for advanced colon cancer: AK112 combo enters phase 3 trial

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

Inclusion Criteria: 1. Signed informed consent. 2. Age ≥ 18 years and ≤ 75 years. 3. ECOG status of 0 or 1. 4. Estimated survival ≥ 3 months. 5. Subjects with histologically or cytologically confirmed metastatic colorectal adenocarcinoma. 6. Subjects who are not candidates for radical surgical resection or local therapy and have not received systemic anti-tumor therapy in the recurrent or metastatic setting. Subjects who have received prior neoadjuvant or adjuvant therapy and whose first discovery of recurrence or metastases is ≥ 12 months after the last dose of neoadjuvant or adjuvant therapy are allowed to enroll. 7. At least one measurable disease based on RECIST v1.1. 8. Adequate organ function per protocol-defined criteria. 9. Women of childbearing potential and men with female partners of childbearing potential must agree to use effective contraception during treatment and for at least 180 days following the last dose of study treatment. Exclusion Criteria: 1. Previous (within 3 years) or concurrent other malignant tumors, excluding those that have been cured. 2. Participating in other interventional study within 4 weeks prior to the first study drug administration. 3. Palliative local treatment for non-target lesions within 2 weeks prior to the first administration; received non-specific immunomodulatory therapy within 2 weeks prior to the first administration. 4. Current presence of uncontrolled combined disease. 5. Active clinical infections. 6. History of severe bleeding tendency or coagulation dysfunction. 7. Subjects with known active tuberculosis (TB); suspected active TB should be excluded by clinical examination, known active syphilis infection. 8. Received a live vaccine within 30 days prior to the study, or plan to receive a live vaccine during the study. 9. Current presence of significant radiographic or clinical manifestations of GI obstruction. 10. Toxicities of prior anticancer therapy have not resolved to ≤ Grade 1 (NCI-CTCAE version 5.0). 11. Pregnant or lactating women. 12. Any condition considered by the investigator to be inappropriate for enrollment. 13. Local or systemic disease caused by non-malignancy, or disease or symptom secondary to tumor, that can lead to higher medical risk and/or uncertainty in survival.