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New drug duo aims to control colorectal cancer

NCT ID NCT06268015

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First seen Jun 25, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026 · Updated 1 time

Summary

This small pilot study is testing two immunotherapy drugs, botensilimab and balstilimab, in 16 people with advanced colorectal cancer that has not spread to the liver. Participants receive the drugs in 6-week cycles, and if the cancer progresses, standard chemotherapy is added. The goal is to see if the combination can shrink or stabilize tumors. This early research may help design larger studies.

What this could mean

Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.

Active substance
Botensilimab and balstilimab (immunotherapy drugs)
What this could lead to
If this works, it could point toward a new treatment option for people with advanced colorectal cancer that has not spread to the liver.
What could go wrong
This is a very small, early-phase trial with only 16 participants. The results may not apply to everyone, and the drugs can cause immune-related side effects.

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Study facts

What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.

Phase

Phase 2

Tests whether the treatment actually works, and watches for side effects, in a larger group.

Participants

16 people

The number who actually took part.

Started

Nov 2024

Expected to finish

Jul 2028

An estimate. End dates often move.

Lead sponsor

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

18 years and older

Sex

Anyone

Healthy volunteers

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. Participants of any gender who are at least 18 years of age on the day of signing informed consent. 2. Histologically confirmed metastatic and/or unresectable colorectal cancer without liver metastasis or known or suspected bone or brain metastases. a. Subjects with lung, lymph node, and locoregional sites of disease (primary tumor or serosal implant) are permitted. Patients with peritoneal carcinomatosis may be included unless they have clinically relevant ascites (See exclusion 17). 3. Microsatellite stable disease, as documented in the participant's medical record at the time of consent by the absence of MSI-H or dMMR result in an FDA-approved assay or an IVD offered as an LDT that includes microsatellite stability biomarker. 4. Subject must be willing to provide fresh biopsy of tumor lesion. \*Note: Those who do not have a tumor lesion that is safe and amenable to biopsy may still be enrolled. 5. ECOG performance status of 0 or 1. 6. No prior systemic therapy for colon cancer. a. Subjects who received systemic therapy in the neoadjuvant or adjuvant setting completed at least 6 months prior to enrollment are eligible. 7. Measurable disease per RECIST v1.1. 8. People of child-bearing potential must not be pregnant or breast feeding and meet at least one of the following conditions: 1. Not a person of childbearing potential (POCBP) 2. A POCBP must agree to use a reliable method of contraception (refer to Section 6.7.1) during the treatment period and for at least 180 days after the last dose of study treatment. 9. All participants must practice effective contraceptive methods (refer to section 6.7.1) during the treatment period, unless documentation of infertility exists. 10. Expected to survive \>3 months per investigator assessment. 11. The participant (or legally acceptable representative if applicable) provides written informed consent for the trial 12. Adequate organ function as defined below. Specimens must have been collected within 7 days prior to the start of study treatment: * Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) ≥1,500/µL * Platelets ≥100,000/µL * Hemoglobin ≥9.0 g/dL or ≥5.6 mmol/L (Criteria must be met without erythropoietin dependency and without packed red blood cell (pRBC) transfusion within the last 2 weeks) * Measured or calculated creatinine clearance (GFR can be used in place of CrCl) ≥45 mL/min (Creatinine clearance (CrCl) should be calculated per institutional standard) * Total bilirubin ≤1.5 x ULN OR direct bilirubin ≤ULN for participants with total bilirubin levels \> 1.5 x ULN * AST (SGOT) and ALT (SGPT) ≤2.5 x ULN * International normalized ratio (INR) OR prothrombin time (PT) ≤1.5 x ULN unless participant is receiving anticoagulant therapy as long as PT is within therapeutic range of intended use of anticoagulants Exclusion Criteria: 1. Prior therapy with an immune checkpoint inhibitor. 2. A POCBP who is pregnant or breastfeeding or has a positive pregnancy test within 72 hours prior to receiving study treatment 3. Not willing to use an effective method of birth control as defined in section 6.7.1 4. Known liver, bone, or CNS metastases and/or carcinomatous meningitis. 5. Diagnosis of other carcinomas within the last 2 years, except cured non-melanoma skin cancer, treated thyroid cancer, curatively treated in-situ cervical cancer, or localized prostate cancer treated curatively with no evidence of biochemical or imaging recurrence. 6. Documented history of clinically significant autoimmune disease or syndrome that requires systemic steroids or immunosuppressive agents. Subjects with vitiligo, type 1 diabetes mellitus, psoriasis not requiring systemic treatment, well-controlled hypothyroidism, or conditions not expected to recur in the absence of and external trigger are permitted to enroll. 7. Any history of chronic or autoimmune pancreatitis. 8. Known history of or any evidence of active, non-infectious pneumonitis. 9. Current use of medications specified by the protocol as prohibited for administration in combination with study drug. 1. Patients with a condition requiring systemic treatment with either corticosteroids (\>10 mg daily prednisone equivalents) or other immunosuppressive medications within 14 days prior to the start of study drug are not eligible. 2. Inhaled or topical steroids and adrenal replacement doses \> 10 mg daily prednisone equivalents are permitted in the absence of active autoimmune disease. 3. Corticosteroids administered as pre-medication for IV contrast allergy are also allowed. 10. Received a live vaccine within 30 days prior to the start of study drug. 1. Seasonal influenza vaccines for injection are generally killed virus vaccines and are allowed. However, intranasal influenza vaccines (e.g. Flu-Mist) are live-attenuated vaccines, and are not allowed within 28 days of study treatment 2. COVID-19 vaccines will be allowed. However, COVID vaccines are not allowed within 7 days of starting study drug treatment 11. Recent or current active infectious disease requiring systemic antivirals, antibiotics or antifungals, or treatment within 2 weeks prior to the start of study drug. 12. Concurrent severe and/or uncontrolled medical conditions, which may compromise participation in the study, including impaired heart function or clinically significant heart disease. 13. Major surgical procedure, open biopsy, or significant traumatic injury within 28 days prior to the start of study drug (56 days for hepatectomy, open thoracotomy, major neurosurgery) or anticipation of need for major surgical procedure during the course of the study. 14. Serious, non-healing wound, ulcer, or bone fracture. 15. Patients with a history of organ or allogenic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. 16. Partial or complete bowel obstruction within the last 3 months, signs/ symptoms of bowel obstruction, or known radiologic evidence of impeding obstruction. 17. Refractory ascites defined as requiring 2 or more therapeutic paracenteses within the last 4 weeks or ≥4 times within the last 90 days or ≥1 time within the last 2 weeks prior to study entry or requiring diuretics within 2 weeks of study entry. 18. Tumor location or size that may result in life-threatening complications. For example, lesions that may put patient at risk for intestinal perforation or obstruction. 19. Known or suspected allergy or hypersensitivity to any investigational or standard of care therapy agents, or any of the inactive ingredients in any of the components of the study drug regimen. 20. Peripheral neuropathy from prior neoadjuvant or adjuvant oxaliplatin must have resolved to G2 or lower.

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Conditions

The condition(s) this trial relates to.

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Contacts and locations

Locations

  • Duke University

    Durham, North Carolina, 27710, United States

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