New radiation 'Smart Bomb' targets Hard-to-Treat cancers in early trial
NCT ID NCT07660055
First seen Jun 24, 2026 · Last updated Aug 28, 2026 · Updated 6 times
Summary
This early-stage trial is testing a new type of radiation therapy that seeks out and attacks cancer cells while sparing healthy tissue. It's for people with advanced breast, lung, stomach, or bladder cancer who have run out of standard options. The study will check if the treatment is safe, what dose works best, and whether it can shrink tumors.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- radioligand therapy (177Lu-DWJ155) and imaging agent (68Ga-DWJ155)
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this could lead to a new targeted treatment option for several hard-to-treat solid tumors.
- What could go wrong
- This is an early Phase 1 trial, so safety and dosing are still being figured out. It may not shrink tumors or work for all cancer types tested.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Phase 1
The first testing in people. Mainly checks safety and dose, usually in a small group.
- Participants
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About 156 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Jun 2026
- Expected to finish
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May 2032
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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A company
The lead sponsor is a pharmaceutical, biotech, or medical-device company.
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: * Male or female patients age ≥ 18 years. * Patients with one of the following histologically or cytologically confirmed and documented malignancies who have progressed on or been intolerant to standard of care therapy, and are not considered appropriate for any standard therapy with proven benefit, in the investigator's judgment: * Dose Escalation: * Advanced HER2+ breast cancer with disease progression after at least two prior lines of systemic therapy in the advanced setting * Advanced HR+/HER2-low breast cancer with disease progression after prior therapy in the advanced setting * Advanced NSCLC without actionable genetic alterations (AGAs) with disease progression after prior therapy in the advanced setting * Advanced NSCLC with AGAs who have received prior treatment * Measurable disease as determined by RECIST version 1.1. * Dose Expansion: * Advanced HER2+ breast cancer with disease progression after at least two prior lines of systemic therapy in the advanced setting * Advanced HR+/HER2-low breast cancer with disease progression after prior therapy in the advanced setting * Advanced HR+/HER2 0 breast cancer with disease progression after prior therapy in the advanced setting * Advanced HR-/HER2-low breast cancer with disease progression after prior therapy in the advanced setting * Advanced HR-/HER2 0 breast cancer with disease progression after prior therapy in the advanced setting * Advanced NSCLC with AGAs, who have received prior treatment * Advanced NSCLC without known AGAs who have received prior treatment. * Advanced gastric/GEJ cancer with HER2 IHC 3+ or 2+ (ISH + or -), following disease progression after prior therapy in the advanced setting * Advanced bladder cancer following disease progression after prior therapy in the advanced setting * Measurable disease as determined by RECIST version 1.1. Exclusion Criteria: * Out-of-range laboratory values defined as: * Creatinine clearance \< 60 mL/min (calculated using CKD-EPI 2021 formula, or measured) * Total bilirubin \> 1.5 x ULN (except for patients with Gilbert's syndrome who are excluded if total bilirubin \>3.0 x ULN) or direct bilirubin \> 1.5 x ULN * Alanine aminotransferase (ALT) \> 3 x ULN, except for patients with tumor involvement of the liver who are excluded if ALT \> 5 x ULN * Aspartate aminotransferase (AST) \> 3 x ULN, except for patients with tumor involvement of the liver who are excluded if AST \> 5 x ULN * Lipase \> 1.5 x ULN * Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) \< 1.5 x 109/L * Hemoglobin \< 9 g/dL * Platelet count \< 100 x 109/L * Initiation of hematopoietic colony stimulating factors, thrombopoietin mimetics, or erythroid stimulating agents initiated ≤ 2 weeks prior to imaging agent administration. * Use of transfusion support ≤4 weeks prior to imaging agent administration. * Impaired cardiac function or clinically significant cardiac disease. * Unmanageable urinary tract obstruction or urinary incontinence. * Any serious uncontrolled infection (acute or chronic). * Pregnant or breastfeeding women. * Treatment with any of the following anti-cancer therapies prior to imaging agent administration within the stated timeframes: * Prior treatment with any therapeutic radiopharmaceutical * \< 10 half-lives for any imaging radiopharmaceutical * ≤ 4 weeks for external beam radiation therapy (EBRT) or brachytherapy * ≤ 6 months for lung-directed external beam radiotherapy * Patients with non-tumor uptake of \[68Ga\]Ga-DWJ155 in tissues or organs that, in the opinion of the investigator, increases the risk associated with \[177Lu\]Lu-DWJ155 treatment. Other protocol-defined inclusion/exclusion criteria may apply.
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
As listed by the trial registrant
The condition terms exactly as the trial's registrant entered them.
How to take part
Only the study team decides who joins. These are the ways to reach them.
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The places running it
5 sites in 4 countries. The list below names each one and where it is.
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The official record
ClinicalTrials.gov lists the study team's own contact details, including names and phone numbers. We don't republish those.
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A doctor treating you
A doctor who knows your case can contact a study site on your behalf, and can tell you whether this study is worth pursuing at all.
Contacts and locations
Locations
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Nebraska Cancer Specialists
RECRUITINGOmaha, Nebraska, 68130, United States
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Novartis Investigative Site
RECRUITINGDarlinghurst, New South Wales, 2010, Australia
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Novartis Investigative Site
RECRUITINGMontreal, Quebec, H2X 0A9, Canada
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Novartis Investigative Site
RECRUITINGMontreal, Quebec, H4A 3J1, Canada
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Novartis Investigative Site
RECRUITINGKashiwa, Chiba, 2778577, Japan
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