New hope for tough colorectal cancer: LYL273 trial opens

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

Inclusion Criteria: * Adults \> 18 years old * Clinical and histopathological diagnosis of relapsed or refractory metastatic colorectal cancer * Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance status of 0 or 1 * Limited liver disease (less than 7 lesions with largest lesion less than 3 cm) * No surgical options with curative intent * Received prior therapy with fluoropyrimidine-, oxaliplatin-, and irinotecan-based chemotherapy in the advanced or metastatic setting, an anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (anti-VEGF) biological therapy if not contraindicated, and if RAS wild-type an anti-epidermal growth factor receptor (anti-EGFR) therapy in a manner consistent with National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) guidelines. Treatment must have been discontinued for disease progression or intolerance to therapy * Have at least one extracranial measurable target lesion according to the Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) Version 1.1 standard Exclusion Criteria: * Participants with tumor lesion(s) in a location that may cause perforation of an organ or structure (such as the digestive tract, urinary bladder, or blood vessel) with LYL273 therapy * Active central nervous system (CNS) involvement by malignancy on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT) * History of or active viral infection including human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B virus (HBV) or hepatitis C virus (HCV) * History or presence of CNS disorder, such as seizure disorder, cerebrovascular ischemia/hemorrhage, dementia, cerebellar disease, cerebral edema, posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome, or any autoimmune disease with CNS involvement in the 2-year period leading up to the study enrollment * No active infectious diseases or comorbid conditions that would interfere with safety or data quality * Pregnant or breast-feeding women Other protocol defined Inclusion/Exclusion criteria may apply