New drug combo takes on tough lung cancer
NCT ID NCT07550842
First seen Jun 24, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026 · Updated 1 time
Summary
This early-stage trial tests a new drug called BL0020 combined with the immunotherapy Toripalimab in 33 people whose extensive-stage small cell lung cancer has returned after initial treatment. The main goal is to check safety and find the right dose, while also seeing if the combination can shrink tumors. It is an open-label study, meaning everyone gets the active treatment.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- BL0020 (a drug) combined with Toripalimab (an immunotherapy)
- What this could lead to
- If it works, this could point toward a new treatment option for people with recurrent extensive-stage small cell lung cancer.
- What could go wrong
- This is a very early Phase 1 trial with only 33 participants, so it is primarily testing safety. The combination may not shrink tumors or improve survival, and side effects are unknown.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Phase 1
The first testing in people. Mainly checks safety and dose, usually in a small group.
- Participants
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About 33 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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Aug 2028
An estimate. End dates often move.
- 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. Volunteer to participate in the study, be able to understand the requirements of a clinical study, and willingness to sign a written informed consent form. 2. Aged ≥ 18 years, male or female. 3. Patients with histologically or cytologically confirmed ES-SCLC (per the American Veterans Administration Lung Study Group \[VALG\] staging system) who have relapsed or progressed following first-line platinum-based systemic treatment regimen. 4. Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status score 0 or 1 at screening. 5. Life expectancy ≥ 12 weeks. Exclusion Criteria: 1. Chemotherapy-free interval (CTFI: time from the last dose of first-line platinum-based chemotherapy to disease progression) \< 30 days, regardless of maintenance treatment with immune checkpoint inhibitors. 2. Histologically or cytologically confirmed combined SCLC and transformed SCLC. 3. Patients with central nervous system (CNS) metastases or carcinoma meningitis. Note: Patients with asymptomatic CNS metastases may participate in this study if they meet all the following criteria: 1)Patients with treated CNS metastases may participate in this study if the patient has completed radiotherapy or surgery for CNS metastases ≥ 4 weeks prior to study entry, and if the patient is neurologically stable ≥ 4 weeks after radiotherapy or surgery treatment (no new neurologic deficits from brain metastasis on screening clinical examination, no new findings on CNS imaging, and high doses of corticosteroids \[\> 10 mg prednisone daily or equivalent\] were not required within 4 weeks prior to screening). 2)Only supratentorial and cerebellar metastases allowed (i.e., no metastases to midbrain, pons, medulla or spinal cord). 4.Previous or current autoimmune disease, including but not limited to Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, myasthenia gravis, myositis, autoimmune hepatitis, systemic lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease, vascular thrombosis associated with antiphospholipid syndrome, Wegener's granulomatosis, Sjögren's syndrome, Guillain-Barré syndrome, multiple sclerosis, vasculitis, or glomerulonephritis, with the following allowed exceptions: 1. Patients with a history of autoimmune-related hypothyroidism on thyroid replacement hormone therapy. 2. Patients with controlled Type I diabetes mellitus on an insulin regimen. 3. Patients with vitiligo. 5.Patients with Gilbert's syndrome disease. 6.Patients who have a history of another primary malignancy (with the exception of patients with cured basal cell carcinoma of the skin, squamous cell carcinoma of the skin, or carcinoma in situ of uterine cervix). A patient who has had no evidence of disease from another primary cancer for 3 or more years is allowed to participate in the study. 7.Poorly controlled hypertension (defined as systolic blood pressure \> 150 mmHg or diastolic blood pressure \> 100 mmHg), or a history of hypertensive crisis or hypertensive encephalopathy. 8.Patients who have a known diagnosis of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection or HIV antibody test positive during screening. 9.Active hepatitis C or chronic hepatitis B at screening ("active hepatitis" defined as HCV RNA ≥ ULN at the local clinical site for hepatitis C, or HBV DNA ≥ ULN at the local clinical site for hepatitis B). Note: Antiviral therapy may be administered during the study to prevent viral reactivation if necessary. 10.Patients who have not sufficient baseline organ function. 11.Those who have received live or attenuated vaccines (e.g., measles, mumps, rubella, varicella, yellow fever, rabies, BCG, typhoid vaccine) within 4 weeks before enrollment or scheduled to receive during the study. 12.Known allergy to Toripalimab, BL0020, or any of their excipients. 13.Pregnant or lactating women. 14.Patients who are assessed disqualified to join clinical studies by investigator due to any causes.
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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.
How to take part
Only the study team decides who joins. These are the ways to reach them.
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The places running it
8 sites. The list below names each one and where it is.
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The official record
ClinicalTrials.gov lists the study team's own contact details, including names and phone numbers. We don't republish those.
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A doctor treating you
A doctor who knows your case can contact a study site on your behalf, and can tell you whether this study is worth pursuing at all.
Contacts and locations
Locations
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Harbin Medical University Cancer Hospital
Harbin, Heilongjiang, 150081, China
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Henan Cancer Hospital
Zhengzhou, Henan, 450008, China
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Shanghai Chest Hospital
Shanghai, 200030, China
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Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital
Shanghai, 200433, China
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Taizhou Hospital of Zhejiang Province
Taizhou, Zhejiang, 317000, China
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The First Hospital of China Medical University
Shenyang, Liaoning, 110001, China
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The First People's Hospital of Changzhou
Changzhou, Jiangsu, 213003, China
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Union Hospital Tongji Medical College Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Wuhan, Hubei, 430030, China
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