New chemo cocktail targets rare small bowel tumors
NCT ID NCT06835387
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jul 29, 2026 · Updated 2 times
Summary
This phase 2 trial tests a four-drug chemotherapy combination called NALIRIFOX in 36 adults with advanced small bowel adenocarcinoma that cannot be removed by surgery. The drugs are given intravenously on days 1 and 15 of each 28-day cycle for up to 6 cycles, followed by a milder maintenance treatment. The main goal is to see how many patients' tumors shrink or disappear.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- NALIRIFOX (nanoliposomal irinotecan, oxaliplatin, fluorouracil, and folinic acid)
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this could provide a new treatment option to shrink or control advanced small bowel tumors that cannot be removed by surgery.
- What could go wrong
- This is a small, early-phase trial with only 36 participants, so results may not apply to everyone. Chemotherapy side effects like nausea, nerve damage, and low blood counts are expected risks.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Phase 2
Tests whether the treatment actually works, and watches for side effects, in a larger group.
- Participants
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About 36 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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Aug 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 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: 1. Subject has been informed about the nature of the study, and has agreed to participate in the study, and signed the ICF prior to participation in any study-related activities. Also, as determined by the enrolling physician or protocol designee, ability of the subject to understand and comply with study procedures for the entire length of the study. 2. Age ≥ 18 years at the time of consent. 3. ECOG Performance Status of ≤ 1 within 28 days prior to registration. 4. Histological or cytologically confirmed small bowel adenocarcinoma per AJCC staging manual, 8th edition that has not been previously treated in the metastatic setting. Subjects with only localized disease or disease which will likely become resectable after chemotherapy (per investigator discretion) are NOT eligible. NOTE: Subjects may have received one cycle of FOLFOX without biologic therapy prior to screening for this trial. 5. Mismatch repair proficient (MMRp) and/or microsatellite stable (MSS) disease per institutional standard of care testing. NOTE: Testing should be performed prior to receipt of one cycle of FOLFOX. 6. Subject has one or more metastatic lesion(s) measurable by CT scan (or MRI, if the subject is allergic to CT contrast media) according to RECIST Version 1.1 criteria. Lesions in a prior radiation field must have progressed subsequent to radiotherapy to be considered measurable. 7. Demonstrate adequate organ function as defined below. All screening labs to be obtained within 28 days prior to registration. * Platelets (Plt) ≥ 100,000 cells/mm3 * Absolute Neutrophil Count (ANC) ≥ 1,500 cells/mm3; without the use of hemopoietic growth factors * Hemoglobin (Hgb) ≥ 9 g/dL * Calculated creatinine clearance ≥ 30 mL/min; Cockcroft-Gault formula for actual body weight should be used for calculation. For subjects with a body mass index (BMI) \> 30 kg/m2, adjusted body weight should be used instead * Total bilirubin ≤ 1.5 × ULN * Aspartate aminotransferase (AST) ≤ 2 × ULN; \< 5× with liver metastases * Alanine aminotransferase (ALT) ≤ 2 × ULN; \< 5× with liver metastases * Albumin ≥ 2.5 gm/dL * PT/INR and aPTT ≤ 1.5 x ULN; subjects on warfarin or other vitamin K antagonists should be discussed with the sponsor-investigator. * Urinalysis: Urinalysis results without clinically significant abnormalities, per the investigator's assessment 8. Subjects treated in the adjuvant setting who completed treatment \> 6 months prior to registration and do not have residual toxicities \> Grade 1 are eligible. 9. Electrocardiogram (ECG) without any clinically significant findings (QT interval corrected by Fridericia's formula (QTcF) ≤450 msec and no known arrhythmias) and per the investigator's assessment. 10. Females of childbearing potential must have a negative urine or serum pregnancy test within ≤ 7 days prior to registration. If a urine test is done and it is positive or cannot be confirmed as negative, a serum pregnancy test will be required. 11. Females of childbearing potential who are sexually active with a male able to father a child must be willing to abstain from penile-vaginal intercourse or use an effective method(s) of contraception. Males able to father a child who are sexually active with a female of childbearing potential must be willing to abstain from penile-vaginal intercourse or use an effective method(s) of contraception. 12. Subjects with known human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) are eligible if they meet all the following criteria: * CD4 count is ≥350 cells/uL, viral load is undetectable, and not taking prohibited cytochrome (CYP)-interacting medications; * Probable long-term survival with HIV if cancer were not present; * Stable on a highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) regimen for ≥ 4 weeks and willing to adhere to their HAART regimen with minimal overlapping toxicity and drug-drug interactions with the experimental agents in this study; * HIV is not multi-drug resistant; * Taking medication and/or receiving antiretroviral therapy that does not interact or have overlapping toxicities with the study medication. NOTE: Testing for HIV is not required at screening unless mandated by local policy. If a subject is known to be HIV positive, testing is required as described above to meet eligibility requirements. 13. Subjects with known chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, must have an undetectable HBV viral load on suppressive therapy, if indicated. Subjects with a history of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection must have been treated and cured. For subjects with HCV infection who are currently on treatment, the HCV viral load must be undetectable to be eligible for this trial. NOTE: Testing for HBV and HCV is not required at screening unless mandated by local policy. If a subject is known to have an HBV and/or HCV infection, testing is required as described above to meet eligibility requirements. Exclusion Criteria: 1. Adenocarcinoma originating in the ampulla or appendix. NOTE: Duodenal tumors that involve the ampulla but originate in the duodenum are eligible. In addition, ampullary cancers that demonstrate an intestinal phenotype based on H\&E and/or IHC (excluding biliary phenotype) are eligible. 2. Neuroendocrine or any other histology different than adenocarcinoma. 3. Prior treatment with irinotecan. 4. Prior treatment of small bowel adenocarcinoma (SBA) in the metastatic setting with surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy or investigational therapy: * Palliative radiotherapy is permitted but lesions in a prior radiation field must have progressed subsequent to radiotherapy to be considered measurable. * Placement of biliary stent/tube is permitted. * Palliative surgery (for example to treat obstruction) 5. Known history of central nervous system (CNS) metastases. NOTE: Subjects on a stable or decreasing dose of steroids that are deemed clinically stable as per the investigator's assessment may be eligible, providing they meet all inclusion and exclusion criteria. 6. Clinically significant gastrointestinal disorder including hepatic disorders, bleeding, inflammation, occlusion, diarrhea \> Grade 1, malabsorption syndrome, ulcerative colitis, inflammatory bowel disease, or bowel obstruction. 7. Pregnant or breastfeeding. NOTE: breast milk cannot be stored for future use while the mother is being treated on study. 8. Subjects with an active malignancy in the last 2 years. The following subjects may be eligible: Subjects with prior history of in-situ cancer or basal or squamous cell skin cancer. Subjects with a history of other malignancies but have been continuously disease free for at least 2 years without treatment prior to registration. 9. Known hypersensitivity to any of the components of nanoliposomal irinotecan, other liposomal products, or any components of 5-FU, LV or oxaliplatin. 10. Concurrent illnesses that would be a relative contraindication to trial participation such as active cardiac or liver disease, including: * Severe arterial thromboembolic events (myocardial infarction, unstable angina pectoris, stroke) less than 6 months before registration * High cardiovascular risk, including, but not limited to, recent coronary stenting or myocardial infarction in the past year prior to registration * New York Heart Association (NYHA) Class III or IV congestive heart failure, ventricular arrhythmias or uncontrolled blood pressure 11. Active infection or an unexplained fever \>38.5°C during screening visits or on the first scheduled day of dosing (at the discretion of the investigator, subjects with tumor fever may be enrolled), which in the investigator's opinion might compromise the subject's participation in the study or affect the study outcome. 12. Major surgery, other than diagnostic surgery, within 4 weeks prior to registration. 13. Use of strong inhibitors or inducers of CYP3A, CYP2C8 and UGT1A1. Subjects are ineligible if: * they are unable to discontinue the use of strong inhibitors of CYP3A, CYP2C8 and UGT1A1 at least 1 week prior to registration; * they are unable to discontinue the use of strong CYP3A and CYP2C8 inducers at least 2 weeks prior to registration; 14. There is presence of any contraindications outlined in the Contraindications or Warnings and Precautions sections of the IB for nanoliposomal irinotecan, or in the prescribing information for 5-FU, LV or oxaliplatin. 15. Subjects who, in the opinion of the investigator, have symptoms or signs suggestive of clinically unacceptable deterioration of the primary disease at the time of screening. 16. History of systemic connective tissue disorders (e.g. lupus, scleroderma, arteritis nodosa). 17. Subjects who have received a live vaccine within 4 weeks prior to registration. 18. History of the following: interstitial lung disease, slowly progressive dyspnea and unproductive cough, sarcoidosis, silicosis, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, pulmonary hypersensitivity pneumonitis or multiple allergies, and peripheral artery disease (e.g. claudication, Leo Buerger's disease). 19. Known complete (poor metabolizer) DPD/DYPD deficiency. Pre-treatment testing for DPYD variants (genotyping) is strongly recomended (or required by local regulations) prior to initiating fluoropyrimidines. Pre-treatment UGT1A1 genotyping may also be considered.
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
As listed by the trial registrant
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How to take part
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The places running it
7 sites. The list below names each one and where it is.
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The official record
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Atlantic Health System
RECRUITINGMorristown, New Jersey, 07960, United States
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Moffitt Cancer Center
RECRUITINGTampa, Florida, 33612, United States
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Parkview Research Center
RECRUITINGFort Wayne, Indiana, 46845, United States
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University of Illinois Cancer Center
RECRUITINGChicago, Illinois, 60612, United States
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University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
RECRUITINGDallas, Texas, 75390, United States
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Virginia Commonwealth University
RECRUITINGRichmond, Virginia, 23298, United States
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Washington University School of Medicine
RECRUITINGSt Louis, Missouri, 63110, United States
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