Hope for stomach cancer: new combo trial aims to extend life
NCT ID NCT07270991
First seen Jun 25, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026 · Updated 1 time
Summary
This Phase 3 trial tests whether adding fruquintinib to the standard drug trifluridine/tipiracil helps people with advanced stomach or gastro-esophageal cancer live longer. About 324 participants who have already tried at least two prior treatments will receive either the combo or trifluridine/tipiracil alone. The goal is to see if the combination improves overall survival.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- trifluridine/tipiracil and fruquintinib
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this combination could offer a new treatment option that extends life for patients with advanced stomach cancer who have run out of standard therapies.
- What could go wrong
- This is a Phase 3 trial, but the benefit may be modest (months, not years). Side effects from the drug combo could be significant, and the trial may not show a survival advantage.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Phase 3
Large-scale testing in a bigger group. Usually the last step before a treatment can be approved.
- Participants
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About 324 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Dec 2025
- Expected to finish
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Nov 2030
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.
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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. Age ≥ 18 years (patients enrolled gender independently). 2. Histologically proven metastatic adenocarcinoma of the stomach or the esophagogastric junction (GEJ) or esophagus. 3. Prior treatment by two or three lines of treatment for metastatic setting (patients who received adjuvant therapy and developed metastatic disease within 6 months of completing treatment should be considered as having failed first-line therapy for metastatic disease). 4. Prior treatment (progression or intolerance) with platinum salts (oxaliplatin or cisplatin), fluoropyrimidine and irinotecan and/or taxane (+/- anti-HER2 agents +/- immune checkpoint inhibitors +/- ramucirumab +/- anti-claudin 18.2). 5. Measurable or non-measurable lesions. (Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST 1.1) 6. World Health Organisation (WHO) performance status 0-1. 7. Adequate organ function: ANC ≥ 1.5 x 109/L, hemoglobin ≥ 9 g/dL, platelets ≥ 100 G/L, AST/ALT ≤ 3 x ULN (≤ 5 x ULN in case of liver metastase(s)), total bilirubin ≤ 1.5 x ULN, creatinine clearance \> 30 mL/min (CKD EPI). 8. Adequate coagulation tests (INR and activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT) ≤1.5 × ULN) unless the patient is receiving anticoagulant therapy. 9. Evidence of post-menopausal status or negative urinary or serum pregnancy test for female pre-menopausal patients. 10. Man and woman of childbearing potential agrees to use two methods (one for the patient and one for the partner) of medically acceptable forms of contraception (use contraceptive methods that result in a failure rate of \<1% per year) during the study and for 6 months after the last treatment intake. 11. Patient is able to understand, sign, and date the written informed consent form at the screening visit prior to any protocol-specific procedures performed. 12. Available tumor block (surgical specimens of primary tumor and if not available tumor biopsies). 13. Patient willing to participate to biological studies. Exclusion Criteria: 1. Concurrent enrolment in another clinical study - unless it is an observational study or during the follow-up for survival status update only of an interventional study. 2. Administration of the last dose of anticancer therapy and palliative radiotherapy ≤ 2 weeks prior to the first dose of study drug. 3. Current or prior bowel obstruction within 28 days before the first dose of study drugs. 4. Any unresolved clinical significant toxicity NCI CTCAE v5.0 ≥ grade 2 from previous anticancer therapy (except neuropathy). 5. More than 3 prior lines of treatment. 6. Major surgical procedure (e.g. exploratory laparoscopy is not considered as a major surgical procedure) within 2 weeks prior to the first dose of treatment. 7. History of leptomeningeal carcinomatosis or symptomatic or untreated brain metastase(s). Patients whose brain metastase(s) have been treated may participate if any neurologic symptoms that developed as a result of the brain metastases are resolved or stable. 8. Severe cardiac disorders (including but not limited to acute myocardial infarction, stroke, unstable angina, NYHA class III/IV heart failure, or LVEF\<50%) within 6 months. 9. Severe liver dysfunction (cirrhosis Child Pugh B or C). 10. Gastric or duodenal active ulcer. 11. Thromboembolic events (including deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism) in the past 6 months 12. Uncontrolled intercurrent illness, including but not limited to, ongoing or active infection, uncontrolled hypertension (defined as systolic blood pressure ≥140 mm Hg and/or diastolic blood pressure ≥90 mm Hg despite optimal medical management), interstitial lung disease, serious chronic gastrointestinal conditions associated with diarrhea, 13. psychiatric illness/social situations that would limit compliance with study requirement, substantially increase risk of incurring AEs or compromise the ability of the patient to give written informed consent. 14. Patients with urine protein test 2+ or more and 24 hours urine protein≥1.0g/24h. 15. Known positive test for HIV, active hepatitis B or hepatitis C, active tuberculosis. 16. Known allergy or hypersensitivity to any of the study drugs or any of the study drug excipients (excipients with known effects and potential risk of allergies : tartrazine (E102) ,sunset yellow FCF (E110), Lactose monohydrate). 17. Prior treatment with trifluridine/tipiracil and/or fruquintinib and/or regorafenib and/or any anti-VEGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor. 18. Active infection requiring intravenous antibiotics at the time of Day 1 of Cycle 1. 19. Other malignancy within 3 years prior to study enrolment, except for localized cancer in situ, basal or squamous cell skin cancer or other localized tumor with complete resection. 20. Treatment with powerful CYP 450 inducers (no contraindication for inhibitors). 21. Pregnant or breastfeeding female patient. 22. Congenital galactosemia, total lactase deficiency (lactose intolerance) or glucose-galactose malabsorption syndrome. 23. Patients with clinically significant bleeding within the past 2 months.
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Conditions
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The places running it
64 sites in 2 countries. The list below names each one and where it is.
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Locations
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BORDEAUX-Institut Bergonié
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGBordeaux, France
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Bayonne- Clinique Belharra
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGBayonne, France
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C.H.U. de Brest
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGBrest, 29200, France
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CAC - Paul Strauss
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGStrasbourg, France
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CAC Antoine Lacassagne
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGNice, France
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CAC Jean Godinot
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGReims, France
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CAC Paoli Calmettes
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGMarseille, France
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CHRU Nancy Brabois
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGVandœuvre-lès-Nancy, France
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CHRU de Tours - Hopital Trousseau
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGTours, 37044, France
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CHU - Charles Nicolle
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGRouen, France
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CHU Côte de Nacre
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGCaen, France
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CHU Dupuytren
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGLimoges, France
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CHU de Saint Etienne - Hôpital Nord
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGSaint-Priest-en-Jarez, 42270, France
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Cac - François Baclesse
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGCaen, France
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Center Hospitalier de Sens
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGSens, 89108, France
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Centre Eugène Marquis
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGRennes, France
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Centre Hospitalier
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGAurillac, France
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Centre Hospitalier
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGBayeux, France
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Centre Hospitalier
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGCholet, France
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Centre Hospitalier
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGPau, 64046, France
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Centre Hospitalier Côte Basque
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGBayonne, France
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Centre Hospitalier Emile Roux
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGLe Puy-en-Velay, France
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Centre Hospitalier Lyon Sud
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGPierre-Bénite, 69495, France
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Centre Hospitalier Prive Saint Gregoire
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGSaint-Grégoire, France
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Centre Hospitalier Saint Jean
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGPerpignan, France
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Centre Leonard de Vinci
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGDechy, France
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Ch - Jean Rougier
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGCahors, France
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Ch Memorial France Etats Unis
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGSaint-Lô, France
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Ch Nord Ouest
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGVillefranche-sur-Saône, France
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Chu - Aphp - Hôpital Saint Louis
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGParis, 75475, France
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Chu - Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Robert Debre
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGReims, 51092, France
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Chu - Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Poitiers - La Miletrie
RECRUITINGPoitiers, 86021, France
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Chu - Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGParis, France
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Chu - Hôpital La Timone
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGMarseille, 13385, France
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Clinique Mathilde
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGRouen, France
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Clinique Mutualiste de L'Estuaire
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGSaint-Nazaire, France
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Clinique Sainte Anne
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGStrasbourg, France
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Clinique Tivoli
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGBordeaux, France
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Clinique de Flandre
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGCoudekerque-Branche, France
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Clinique de La Croix du Sud
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGQuint-Fonsegrives, France
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Confluent Sas
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGNantes, France
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Gh Nord Essone
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGOrsay, France
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Groupe Hospitalier Rance Emeraude
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGSt-Malo, France
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Groupement Hospitalier Bretagne Sud
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGLorient, France
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Haematologisch Onkologische Praxis Eppendorf
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGHamburg, Germany
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Hia Begin
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGSaint-Mandé, France
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Hia Sainte Anne
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGToulon, France
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Hôpital Cochin (APHP)
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGParis, France
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Hôpital FOCH
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGSuresnes, France
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Hôpital Franco-Britannique
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGLevallois-Perret, France
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Hôpital Prive Jean Mermoz
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGLyon, 69008, France
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ICONE
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGBezannes, France
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Institut Sainte Catherine
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGAvignon, 84000, France
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Institut de cancérologie de Bourgogne GRReCC
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGDijon, France
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KEM/Evang. Kliniken Essen Mitte gGmbH
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGEssen, Germany
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Klinikum Chemnitz gGmbH
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGChemnitz, Germany
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Klinikum Rechts Der Isar Der Technischen Universitat Munchen
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGMünchen, Germany
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Krankenhaus Nordwest GmbH
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGFrankfurt, Germany
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Polyclinique
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGRillieux-la-Pape, France
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Privé - Groupe Hospitalier Diaconesses Croix Saint Simon
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGParis, 75020, France
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Rostock University Medical Center
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGRostock, Germany
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Saint Côme
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGCompiègne, France
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Uniklinikum Leipzig
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGLeipzig, Germany
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Universitätsklinikum Jena
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGJena, Germany
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