Can a Heat-and-Freeze treatment plus a vaccine outsmart pancreatic cancer?
NCT ID NCT07745790
First seen Aug 04, 2026 · Last updated Aug 05, 2026 · Updated 1 time
Summary
This phase 2 trial is testing a novel combination for people with metastatic pancreatic cancer that has progressed after standard first-line chemotherapy. The approach combines a device that alternately freezes and heats the tumor (multimodal thermal therapy) with a personalized mRNA vaccine targeting the KRAS G12V mutation, the chemotherapy drug S-1, and the immunotherapy sintilimab. The study aims to see if this combination is safe, tolerable, and potentially effective in slowing the disease, while also exploring how it affects the immune system.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- A combination of multimodal thermal therapy (a device that freezes then heats the tumor), a KRAS G12V mRNA vaccine, the chemotherapy drug S-1, and the immunotherapy drug sintilimab.
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this approach could offer a new treatment option for people with advanced pancreatic cancer who have run out of standard options, potentially slowing tumor growth and extending life.
- What could go wrong
- This is an early, small trial (20 people) focused on safety and feasibility. The combination may cause significant side effects, and it's unknown whether it will effectively control the cancer in a larger group.
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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 20 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Expected to start
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Jul 2026
An estimate. Start dates often move.
- Expected to finish
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Jul 2029
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: * Aged ≥ 18 years old with no restriction on gender. * Patients with advanced pancreatic cancer or postoperative recurrent pancreatic cancer confirmed by histopathological or cytological examination. * Tumor tissues are confirmed to carry KRAS G12V mutation via sequencing and bioinformatics analysis (valid test reports obtained within the previous 12 months and recognized by the investigator are acceptable). In the dose expansion phase, patients must harbor at least one HLA allele capable of effectively presenting the corresponding antigen, including HLA-A11:01, HLA-A03:01, HLA-A30:01, HLA-A68:01, HLA-C01:02, HLA-C03:03, and HLA-C03:04. * Disease resistance or intolerance to prior AG-based chemotherapy regimens. * Presence of liver metastasis or lung metastasis. * Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group Performance Status (ECOG PS) score of 0 or 1. * Child-Pugh score ≤ 7 points. * Expected overall survival of at least 3 months. Exclusion Criteria: * Presence of diffuse hepatic or pulmonary metastases. * Prior local treatment including radiofrequency ablation, microwave ablation, radiotherapy or other local therapies for metastatic lesions. * Current participation in other interventional clinical studies and receiving investigational treatment. * Diagnosis of any other malignant disease within 5 years prior to the first study drug administration (excluding radically treated basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma of the skin, and/or radically resected in situ carcinoma). * Prior history of solid organ or hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. * Any disease requiring systemic treatment with corticosteroids (prednisone or equivalent daily dose \> 10 mg) or other immunosuppressive agents within 14 days prior to enrollment. * Previous or current diagnosis of brain metastases with incompletely controlled symptoms (i.e., persistent or aggravated symptoms, or requirement for adjusted symptomatic treatment to maintain symptom relief). * Presence of uncontrolled active infection. * Renal dysfunction defined as serum creatinine \> 176.8 μmol/L or creatinine clearance \< 30 mL/min. * Uncorrectable coagulation abnormalities, including platelet count \< 50×10⁹/L, prothrombin time \> 18 seconds, or prothrombin activity \< 40%, which cannot be corrected. * History of esophagogastric variceal rupture without effective treatment via endoscopy, interventional therapy or surgery. * Patients with psychiatric disorders in the acute episode stage. * Women of childbearing potential who are pregnant, breastfeeding, or planning to become pregnant during the study treatment period or within 3 months after the end of study treatment. * Prior systemic pharmacotherapy, radiotherapy or local hepatic treatment with an interval of \< 1 month from the last systemic or local hepatic treatment to the first study drug administration.
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Conditions
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The places running it
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine
Shanghai, Shanghai Municipality, 200000, China
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