New drug duo aims to boost immune attack on tough cancers

Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.

Inclusion Criteria: * Patient must have one of the following cancers and previously received the following lines of systemic therapy for the advanced/metastatic disease: * Renal cell carcinoma: at least 2 lines of therapy * Non-small cell lung cancer: at least 2 lines of therapy * Melanoma: * BRAF V600E positive: must have received at least 2 lines of therapy * BRAF V600E negative: must have received at least 1 line of therapy * Gastric cancer: at least 1 line of therapy * Colorectal cancer: at least 3 lines of therapy * Suitable site to biopsy at pre-treatment and on-treatment * Measurable disease as determined by Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) 1.1 * Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance status of 0 or 1 Exclusion Criteria: * Systemic anti-cancer therapy within 2 weeks prior to start of study drug or within 4 weeks for immune-oncologic therapy. For cytotoxic agents with major delayed toxicity (e.g., mitomycin C), 6 weeks of washout are mandated. * Therapeutic radiation therapy within the past 2 weeks * Active autoimmune diseases or history of autoimmune disease that may relapse * Any malignancy ≤ 5 years before first dose of study drug except for the specific cancer under investigation in this study and any locally recurring cancer that has been treated curatively * Systemic steroid therapy (\>10 mg/day of prednisone or equivalent) or any immune suppressive medication ≤ 14 days before first dose * Patients with toxicities (as a result of prior anticancer therapy) which have not recovered to baseline or stabilized, except for adverse events not considered a likely safety risk (e.g., alopecia, neuropathy, and specific laboratory abnormalities) * Severe or unstable medical condition, including uncontrolled diabetes, coagulopathy, or unstable psychiatric condition * Major surgery within 28 days of the first dose of study drug * History of interstitial lung disease, non-infectious pneumonitis, or uncontrolled lung diseases including pulmonary fibrosis or acute lung diseases. For combination only: non-small cell lung cancer patients, or patients with significantly impaired pulmonary function or who require supplemental oxygen at baseline must undergo an assessment of pulmonary function at screening * History of allergic reactions, immune related reactions, or cytokine release syndrome (CRS) attributed to compounds of similar chemical or biologic composition to monoclonal antibodies or any excipient of HFB200603 or tislelizumab * For combination only: Prior randomization in a tislelizumab study regardless of the treatment arm, until the primary and key secondary endpoints of the study have read out