DNA-Guided drug switch could improve GIST treatment
NCT ID NCT05366816
First seen Jun 26, 2026 · Last updated Jun 26, 2026
Summary
This phase 2 trial tests whether DNA changes in the KIT gene can predict how well patients with advanced gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) respond to two standard drugs, sunitinib and regorafenib. About 48 adults whose GIST has worsened on imatinib will receive the drugs in sequence. The goal is to see if personalized drug selection based on DNA improves response rates.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- sunitinib and regorafenib
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this could show that DNA testing helps doctors choose the right drug for each GIST patient, improving treatment outcomes.
- What could go wrong
- This is a small, early-phase trial with only 48 participants. The approach may not work for everyone, and side effects from the drugs are possible.
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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 48 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Oct 2023
- Expected to finish
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Dec 2028
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 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. Patients who are ≥ 18 years of age. 2. Patients who have histologically confirmed metastatic or unresectable GIST. Unresectable GIST must be confirmed to be unresectable by an experienced surgeon. 3. Patients who received imatinib prior treatment regimens, including adjuvant therapy, with objective disease progression, inadequate clinical benefit, or intolerance. Additionally, disease progression or intolerance to other systemic therapies including investigational agents and radiotherapy is allowed. Patients who experienced intolerance to prior therapies must have objective disease progression prior to enrollment. 4. Patients who have an Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group Performance Status (ECOG PS) of 0 to 2. 5. Patient, or legal guardian if permitted by local regulatory authorities, who provides informed consent to participate in the study. 6. Presence of proto-oncogene c-KIT (KIT) exon 13 or 17 secondary mutation will be determined through a circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) blood test or biopsy performed as per standard of care. Exclusion Criteria: 1. Patients who have received prior treatment with sunitinib or regorafenib. 2. Patients who have received more than 2 different prior tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) treatment regimens. If a patient receives the same TKI more than once sequentially (eg, imatinib followed by a period without systemic therapy and retreatment with imatinib), that will be counted as a single TKI treatment regimen. 3. Patients who are known to be KIT wild type. 4. Patients who received any systemic anticancer therapy within 2 weeks before. Prior radiotherapy to major organs within 2 weeks of admission, or focal radiotherapy, such as to bones, limbs, or other areas not involving major organs, within 3 days. 5. Patients who have clinically significant, uncontrolled, cardiovascular disease, including congestive heart failure Grades II, III or IV according to the New York Heart Association classification, myocardial infarction or unstable angina within the previous 6 months, or uncontrolled hypertension. 6. Patients who have experienced arterial thrombotic or embolic events such as cerebrovascular accident (including transient ischemic attacks), or pulmonary embolism within the 6 months before randomization or venous thrombotic events such as deep vein thrombosis within the 3 months before screening. 7. Patients who have experienced any hemorrhage or bleeding event NCI CTCAE version 5.0 Grade 3 or higher within 4 weeks before screening. 8. Patients who have a known risk of intracranial bleeding, such as a brain aneurysm or history of intracranial bleeding within 1 year prior to screening. 9. Patients who have a non-healing wound, ulcer, or bone fracture. 10. Patients who have poor organ function as defined by one or more of the following laboratory parameters: * Persistent proteinuria of NCI-CTCAE version 4.03 Grade 3 or higher * Alanine aminotransferase and aspartate aminotransferase (AST) \> 3 × upper limit of normal (ULN) if no hepatic metastases are present; \> 5 × ULN if hepatic metastases are present. * Total bilirubin \>1.5 × ULN; and in presence of Gilbert's syndrome, total bilirubin \> 3 × ULN or direct bilirubin \> 1.5 × ULN. * Estimated (Cockcroft-Gault formula) or measured creatinine clearance \< 40 mL/min. * Platelet count \< 90 × 109/L and absolute neutrophil count (ANC) \< 1.0 × 10\^9/L. * Hemoglobin \< 9 g/dL. Transfusion and erythropoietin may be used to reach at least 9 g/dL, but must have been administered at least 2 weeks before screening. 11. Patients who have received neutrophil growth factor support within 14 days of screening. 12. Patients who require therapy with a concomitant medication that is a strong inhibitor or strong inducer of CYP3A4. 13. Patients who have had a major surgical procedure (minor surgical procedures such as central venous catheter placement, tumor needle biopsy, and feeding tube placement are not considered major surgical procedures) within 14 days of screening. Patient has significant traumatic injury within 28 days before screening. 14. Patients who have a history of another primary malignancy that has been diagnosed or required therapy within 2 years before screening. (The following are exempt from the 2-year limit: completely resected basal cell and squamous cell skin cancer, curatively treated localized prostate cancer, and completely resected carcinoma in situ of any site.) 15. Patients who have a history of a seizure disorder requiring anti-seizure medication. 16. Patients who have metastases to the brain. 17. Patients who are unwilling or unable to comply with scheduled visits, drug administration plan, laboratory tests, or other study procedures and study restrictions. 18. Patients who have a QT interval corrected using Fridericia's formula (QTcF) of \> 450 msec. 19. Women who are unwilling, if not postmenopausal or surgically sterile, to abstain from sexual intercourse or employ highly effective contraception from the time of randomization and for at least 30 days after the last dose of study drug. Men who are unwilling, if not surgically sterile, to abstain from sexual intercourse or employ highly effective contraception from the time of randomization and for at least 90 days after the last dose of study drug. Refer to Appendix G for acceptable methods of contraception. 20. Women who are pregnant, as documented by a serum beta human chorionic gonadotropin (β-hCG) pregnancy test consistent with pregnancy, obtained within 7 days before the treatment assignment. Females with β-hCG values that are within the range for pregnancy but are not pregnant (false positives) may be enrolled with written consent of the investigator, after pregnancy has been ruled out. Females of non-childbearing potential (postmenopausal for more than 1 year; bilateral tubal ligation; bilateral oophorectomy; hysterectomy) do not require a serum β-hCG test. 21. Women who are breastfeeding. 22. Patients who have prior or ongoing clinically significant illness, medical condition, surgical history, physical finding, or laboratory abnormality that, in the Investigator's opinion, could affect the safety of the patient; alter the absorption, distribution, metabolism, or excretion of the study drug; or impair the assessment of study results. 23. Patients with impaired decision-making capacity.
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Locations
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University of Miami
RECRUITINGMiami, Florida, 33136, United States
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