Can a Triple-Drug combo outsmart stubborn stomach cancer?
NCT ID NCT07025889
First seen Aug 18, 2026 · Last updated Aug 19, 2026 · Updated 1 time
Summary
This trial is testing whether combining an experimental drug called IBI343 with an immunotherapy (sintilimab) and standard chemotherapy can help people with a specific type of advanced stomach or gastroesophageal junction cancer. The study focuses on patients whose tumors have a protein called CLDN18.2 and lack HER2, and who have not yet received systemic treatment. The goal is to see if this combination can shrink tumors and improve how long patients live, while monitoring safety and side effects.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- IBI343 (an experimental antibody-drug conjugate) combined with sintilimab (an immunotherapy) and chemotherapy (oxaliplatin and S-1)
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this combination could offer a new first-line treatment option for people with a specific type of advanced gastric cancer, potentially improving tumor shrinkage and survival.
- What could go wrong
- This is an early-phase trial with a small number of participants, so results may not hold up in larger studies. The combination may also cause significant side effects, including immune-related reactions and chemotherapy toxicity.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Phase 1/2
Runs two stages together: safety and dose first, then whether the treatment works.
- Participants
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About 55 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Jun 2025
- Expected to finish
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Jun 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 to 75 years
- 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\. Able and willing to sign a written Informed Consent Form (ICF) and to comply with protocol-specified visits and related procedures. 2\. Age was 18-75 years at the time of signing the ICF, and gender was unlimited. 3\. Has histopathologically confirmed unresectable locally advanced or metastatic adenocarcinoma of the gastric/gastroesophageal junction (G/GEJ AC). 4\. No received systemic therapy. 5. Has histopathologically confirmed CLDN18.2-positive disease. 6. Has an Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status (PS) of 0 or 1. Exclusion Criteria: * 1\. Has HER2-positive (defined as immunohistochemistry \[IHC\] 3+, or IHC 2+ and positive by in situ hybridization) disease. 2\. Is currently participating in another interventional clinical study, except when the subject is during survival follow-up of an interventional clinical study. 3\. Has a history of treatment with topoisomerase inhibitor-based antibody-drug conjugate(s).
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
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How to take part
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The places running it
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine
RECRUITINGShanghai, Shanghai Municipality, 200025, China
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