New hope for advanced cancer: OBI-902 trial launches

Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.

Inclusion Criteria: 1. Male or female participants, 18 years of age or older at the time of consent 2. Provide written informed consent prior to performing any study-related procedure 3. Histologically or cytologically confirmed participants with metastatic or advanced solid tumor that is not curable with local therapies 4. Participants must have been treated with established standard-of-care therapy, andphysicians have determined that such established therapy is not sufficiently efficacious, or patients have declined to receive standard-of-care therapy. In the latter case, the source documentation must state the effective therapies the participant is declining. 5. Measurable disease (i.e., at least one measurable lesion per RECIST 1.1) 6. Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0 or 1 7. Adequate organ function defined as: a. Hepatic: i. Serum ALT ≤3 × upper limit of normal (ULN), ≤5 × ULN in the presence of liver metastases i. Serum AST ≤3 × ULN, ≤5 × ULN in presence of liver metastases ii. Serum bilirubin ≤1.5 × ULN (unless due to Gilbert's syndrome (typically elevated total bilirubin of 1-5 mg/dL with a normal direct bilirubin) or hemolysis) b. Creatinine clearance \>60 mL/minute using Modification of Diet in Renal Disease equation c. Hematologic: i. ANC ≥1,500/µL (\>1,200/µL in Duffy antigen-null participants) ii. Platelets ≥100,000/µL iii. Hemoglobin ≥8 g/dL 8. Participants must be willing and able to comply with all protocol-required assessments, visits, and procedures, including evaluable pretreatment tumor biopsy. Archival tumor biopsies are acceptable at baseline. 9. Females of childbearing potential must have negative serum pregnancy test prior to starting study therapy and agree to use a reliable form of contraceptive during the study treatment period and for at least 7 months following the last dose of study drug. 10. Participants not of childbearing potential (i.e., permanently sterilized, postmenopausal) can be included in the trial. Postmenopausal is defined as 12 months with no menses without an alternative medical cause. Male participants must agree to use an adequate method of contraception during the study treatment period and for at least 4 months following the last dose of study drug. 11. Participants with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection or with documented history of HIV infection are eligible if CD4+ T-cell counts are ≥350 cells/μL and have an HIV viral load less than 200 copies/mL prior to enrollment. Participants on ART should be on an established dose for at least 4 weeks under stable condition. 12. Participants with serological evidence of chronic HBV infection or with documented history of HBV infection are eligible if they have an HBV viral load below the limit of quantification with or without concurrent viral suppressive therapy. 13. Participants with a history of HCV infection can be under curative antiviral treatment and have a viral load below the limit of quantification. 14. Participants in Phase 1b (Cohort Expansion) - must have one of the following tumor types to be enrolled in the respective cohort: * Cohort 1: BTC (intra- and extrahepatic CCA, carcinoma of ampulla of Vater, and gallbladder disease) * Cohort 2: Gastric and GEJ cancer * Cohort 3: PROC Exclusion Criteria: 1. Less than 3 weeks from prior cytotoxic chemotherapy or radiation therapy; and less than 5 half-lives or 3 weeks, whichever is shorter, from prior biologic therapies, prior to the first dose of OBI-902. 2. Participants that have undergone a major surgical procedure (as defined by the investigator) or significant traumatic injury within 28 days prior to the first dose of OBI-902. 3. Sensory or motor neuropathy of Grade 2 or greater. 4. Participants with a history of solid organ transplants. Corneal transplant without immunosuppressive therapy is allowed. 5. Unresolved toxicities from prior anticancer therapy, defined as having not resolved to Grade 0 or 1 (using NCI CTCAE version 5.0), except for alopecia and laboratory values listed in the inclusion criteria. 6. Receipt of any prior therapy targeting TROP2. (Phase 2 only) 7. Corrected QT interval (QTcF) prolongation to \>470 msec based on the average of the screening 12-lead ECGs 8. Known hypersensitivity to OBI-902 or its excipients. 9. Participants with known untreated central nervous system (CNS) metastases. Participants with treated brain metastases are eligible if there is no evidence of progression for at least 4 weeks after CNS-directed treatment, as ascertained by clinical examination and brain imaging (magnetic resonance imaging \[MRI\] or computed tomography \[CT\]) during the screening period. 10. Participants with significant clinical cardiac abnormality (e.g., clinical heart failure or unstable angina). 11. Any medical comorbidity that is life-threatening or, in the opinion of the Investigator, renders the participant unsuitable for participation in a clinical trial due to possible noncompliance, would place the participant at an unacceptable risk and/or potential to affect interpretation of results of the study. 12. Participants who are pregnant or breastfeeding. 13. Is receiving any concurrent prohibited medications as listed in OBI-902-001 clinical protocol.