New pill targets tough cancers: early trial shows promise

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 and sign the informed consent form. 2. Aged 18 years or older at the time of signing the informed consent form. 3. Subjects must have one measurable lesion (per RECIST 1.1). 4. Subjects with toxic reaction caused by prior anticancer therapy need to have recovered to baseline level (except residual alopecia) or ≤ Grade 1 (neurotoxicity ≤ Grade 2 acceptable). 5. Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status score (PS) 0 \~ 1. 6. Expected survival ≥ 12 weeks. 7. Female subjects or male subjects of childbearing potential must take effective contraceptive measures from the time of signing the informed consent form to 30 days after the last dose of GFH925, or to 60 days after the last dose of cetuximab. Female subjects of childbearing potential should have a negative blood pregnancy test within 7 days (inclusive) prior to initiation of study treatment. 8. The investigators deem the subject able to communicate well, attend regular follow-up visits, and complete the study according to the protocol. Exclusion Criteria: 1. Significant cardiovascular system disease. 2. Subjects with unstable brain metastases diagnosed by investigators. 3. Significant gastrointestinal diseases, such as intractable hiccup, nausea, vomiting, severe gastrointestinal ulcers, cirrhosis, active gastrointestinal bleeding, or other diseases that affect swallowing tablets or significantly affect oral drug absorption; subjects with severe portal hypertension caused by the presence of Budd-Chiari syndrome or portal emboli in subjects with liver cancer also need to be excluded. 4. Presence of serious acute or chronic infections. 5. Pregnant or lactating women. 6. Known allergy to the study drug or any component of its formulation. 7. Other conditions that the investigators consider inappropriate for participation in this study.