New pill targets Hard-to-Treat cancers after other drugs fail
NCT ID NCT05241834
First seen Jun 26, 2026 · Last updated Aug 21, 2026 · Updated 1 time
Summary
This early-stage trial is testing an oral drug called LOXO-260 in about 70 people with advanced cancers that have a specific change in the RET gene. The cancers have stopped responding to other targeted treatments. The study aims to find the safest dose and see if the drug can shrink tumors. Participation may last up to 2 years or longer if the disease does not worsen.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- LOXO-260 (oral drug)
- What this could lead to
- If it works, this could provide a new treatment option for people with certain cancers that have stopped responding to other targeted therapies.
- What could go wrong
- This is an early, small Phase 1 trial focused on safety and dosing, so it is not yet clear if LOXO-260 will be effective. Side effects are unknown and the drug may not work for everyone.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Phase 1
The first testing in people. Mainly checks safety and dose, usually in a small group.
- Participants
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70 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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Mar 2022
- Finished
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Jun 2026
- Lead sponsor
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A company
The lead sponsor is a pharmaceutical, biotech, or medical-device company.
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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12 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: * Must be ≥ 18 years of age at the time of signing the informed consent (Phase 1a and Phase 1b). Patients 12 years and older may be enrolled in Phase 1b for countries and sites where approved. * Must have evidence of a previously documented RET fusion (solid tumors) or RET mutation (MTC or MEN2-associated cancers) that is a histological or a cytological proven diagnosis of locally advanced, unresectable and/or metastatic cancer and meet cohort-specific criteria. * Have received a prior selective RET inhibitor. * Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) score of 0 to 1 (age \> 16 years), Karnofsky Performance Status (KPS) ≥ 80 (age \> 16 years), or Lansky Performance Status (LPS) ≥ 40% (age \< 16 years). * Have discontinued all previous treatments for cancer with resolution of any significant AEs, and of all clinically significant toxic effects of prior locoregional therapy, surgery, radiotherapy, or systemic anticancer therapy. * Have adequate organ function. * Phase 1b expansion: Patients must have measurable disease per RECIST v 1.1. * Phase 1b expansion: Molecular Pathology Results (including RET and other genes) from a sample, blood or tissue, taken on or after RET selective treatment. Exclusion Criteria: * Disease suitable for local therapy administered with curative intent. * Have an active fungal, bacterial, and/or active untreated viral infection. * The patient has a serious pre-existing medical condition(s). * Have symptomatic CNS malignancy or metastasis. * Patients treated with drugs known to be strong inhibitors or inducers of cytochrome P450 3A (CYP3A). * Progression of disease within 4 months of starting a prior selective RET inhibitor. * Phase 1b expansion: Patients harboring known activating bypass alterations outside RET that may confer resistance to LOXO-260.
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
As listed by the trial registrant
The condition terms exactly as the trial's registrant entered them.
Contacts and locations
Locations
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Centre Leon Berard
Lyon, 69008, France
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Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Cleveland, Ohio, 44195, United States
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Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Boston, Massachusetts, 02215, United States
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Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia, 30329-5102, United States
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Institut Gustave Roussy (Igr)
Villejuif, 94805, France
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Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts, 02114, United States
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Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York, 10065, United States
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Ohio State University Hospital
Columbus, Ohio, 43210-1257, United States
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Sarah Cannon Cancer Center
Nashville, Tennessee, 37203, United States
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Thomas Jefferson University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19107, United States
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UCLA Medical Center
Los Angeles, California, 90095, United States
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UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay
San Francisco, California, 94158, United States
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University of Chicago Medicine-Comprehensive Cancer Center
Chicago, Illinois, 60637, United States
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University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109, United States
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University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 27514, United States
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University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, Texas, 77030, United States
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