New hope for advanced colorectal cancer: targeted drug M9140 enters early trial

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

Inclusion Criteria: * Participants with documented histopathological diagnosis of locally advanced or metastatic CRC, who were intolerant/refractory to or progressed after standard systemic therapies for the advanced/metastatic stage that included and are restricted to a fluoropyrimidine, irinotecan, a platinum agent (e.g. oxaliplatin), an anti-EGFR agent (if clinically indicated, i.e. RAS/BRAF wt), and an anti-VEGF agent. Participants may have received previous treatment with trifluridine/tipiracil and/or regorafenib or fruquintinib, if locally indicated and available. Participants with a known MSI-H status must have received treatment with an immune checkpoint inhibitor (if locally indicated and available) unless contraindicated * Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group Performance Status (ECOG PS) below or equal to 1 * Participants with adequate hematologic, hepatic and renal function as defined in protocol * Other protocol defined inclusion criteria could apply Exclusion Criteria: * Participant has a history of malignancy within 3 years before the date of enrollment (exceptions are squamous and basal cell carcinomas of the skin and carcinoma in situ of the cervix, benign prostate neoplasm/hypertropia, or malignancy that in the opinion of the Investigator, with concurrence with the Sponsor's Medical Monitor, is considered cured with minimal risk of recurrence within 3 years) * Participants with known brain metastases, except those meeting the following criteria: Brain metastases that have been treated locally and are clinically stable for at least 4 weeks prior to the start of treatment; No ongoing neurological symptoms that are related to the brain localization of the disease (sequelae that are a consequence of the treatment of the brain metastases are acceptable) * Participants with diarrhea (liquid stool) or ileus Grade \> 1 * Cerebrovascular accident/stroke (\< 6 months prior to enrollment) * Other protocol defined exclusion criteria could apply