New drug combo may make inoperable lung cancer removable
NCT ID NCT03872661
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study tests whether giving a combination of drugs (IBI308, bevacizumab, pemetrexed, and carboplatin) before surgery can shrink stage III non-small cell lung cancer enough to allow surgical removal. The goal is to see how many people can then have surgery. The study includes 36 adults with unresectable stage III lung cancer who do not have certain gene mutations.
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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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Mar 2019
- Expected to finish
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Dec 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 to 75 years
- 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: * Target population is unresectable stage III non-small cell lung cancer. * Written informed consent provided. * Subjects should not have a previously detected sensitizing EGFR mutation or ALK fusion oncogene. * Male and female patients aged ≥18 years, \< 75 years. * Able to comply with the required protocol and follow-up procedures, and able to receive oral medications. * Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0-1. * Life expectancy ≥12 weeks. * Adequate hematological function: Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) ≥2.0 x 109/L, and Platelet count ≥100 x 109/L, and Hemoglobin ≥9 g/dL (may be transfused to maintain or exceed this level). * Adequate liver function: Total bilirubin ≤ 1.5 x upper limit of normal (ULN), Aspartate aminotransferase (AST), alanine aminotransferase (ALT) ≤ 2.5 x ULN in subjects without liver metastases; ≤ 5 x ULN in subjects with liver metastases. * Adequate renal function: Serum creatinine ≤ 1.25 x ULN, or ≥ 60 ml/min. * Female subjects should not be pregnant or breast-feeding. Exclusion Criteria: * Known severe hypersensitivity to IBI308 or any of the excipients of this product. * Prior therapy with anti-PD-1, anti-PD-L1, anti-PD-L2, or anti-CTLA-4 antibody (including any other antibody or drug specifically targeting T-cell co-stimulation or checkpoint pathways). * Prior chemotherapy or radiotherapy. * Subjects with active, known or suspected autoimmune disease. Subjects in conditions not expected to recur in the absence of an external trigger, or not requiring systemic treatment are permitted to enroll. * Subjects with a condition requiring systemic treatment with either corticosteroids (\>10 mg daily prednisone equivalent) or other immunosuppressive medications within 14 days of first administration of study treatment. Inhaled or topical steroids, and adrenal replacement steroid doses \> 10 mg daily prednisone equivalent, are permitted in the absence of active autoimmune disease. * Inability to comply with protocol or study procedures. * A serious concomitant systemic disorder that, in the opinion of the investigator, would compromise the patient's ability to complete the study. * A serious cardiac condition, such as myocardial infarction within 6 months, angina, or heart disease. * History of another malignancy in the last 5 years with the exception of the following: other malignancies cured by surgery alone and having a continuous disease-free interval of 5 years are permitted. Cured basal cell carcinoma of the skin and cured in situ carcinoma of the uterine cervix are permitted. * Any unstable systemic disease (including active infection, uncontrolled hypertension, unstable angina, congestive heart failure, myocardial infarction within the previous year, serious cardiac arrhythmia requiring medication, hepatic, renal, or metabolic disease). * Patient who has active serious infection (e.g. pyrexia of or 38.0℃ over) * Known history of testing positive for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or known acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). * Known history of active Hepatitis B or C. * Women who are pregnant or nursing. * Evidence of any other disease, neurological or metabolic dysfunction, physical examination or laboratory finding giving reasonable suspicion of a disease or condition that contraindicated the use of an investigational drug or puts the subject at high risk for treatment-related complications.
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center
RECRUITINGGuangzhou, Guangdong, 510060, China
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