New PET tracer lights up pancreatic tumors in 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: 1. Willing and able to provide informed consent. 2. Male or female ≥ 18 years of age. 3. Histologically confirmed diagnosis of pancreatic adenocarcinoma. 4. Willing to provide biopsy specimens for purposes of confirmation of MUC5AC expression. 5. Confirmed MUC5AC expression at pre-screening. 6. Measurable disease. 7. Female patients of child-bearing potential must have a negative serum pregnancy test within 30 days prior to infusion of NMK89. 8. Willing to comply with the study protocol requirements. 9. Willing to provide a tumor resection specimen or biopsy specimen, if the patient undergoes tumor resection or biopsy between Day 16 and Day 60. Exclusion Criteria: 1. Known hypersensitivity to the investigational medicinal product (IMP) or any of the excipients. 2. History of another primary cancer within the 2 years prior to enrollment, except for the curatively treated in situ cancers. 3. Exposure to any investigational treatments within 30 days prior to the planned date of infusion of NMK89. 4. Ongoing toxicity ≥ Grade 2. 5. Pleural effusion or peritoneal fluid ≥ Grade 3. 6. Active hepatitis B, hepatitis C, HIV, or other progressing infectious disease. 7. Uncontrolled diabetes. 8. Autoimmune disease or idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura. 9. Exposure to any radiopharmaceuticals. 10. Planned antineoplastic therapies on the planned date of NMK89 infusion. 11. Use of bevacizumab or any other anti-angiogenic agent. 12. Uncontrolled intercurrent illness. 13. ECOG PS: ≥ 2. 14. Participants do not have adequate organ and marrow function. 15. Female patients that are pregnant or breast-feeding. 16. Positive urine screen for illegal drugs, or abuse of prescribed drugs at Screening. 17. Participants with contraindications to contrast agent injection used for diagnostic CT. 18. Deemed inappropriate to participate by the investigator.