Radiation boosts immunotherapy in Hard-to-Treat cancers?
NCT ID NCT07269080
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This pilot study tests whether giving precise, high-dose radiation to all visible tumors (up to 10) can improve the effectiveness of immunotherapy in people with advanced solid tumors that have spread. About 28 adults with 3-10 metastases will receive radiation over 3 weeks while continuing their immunotherapy. The main goal is to see if this combination leads to a significant drop in tumor DNA in the blood at 8 weeks, which could signal better cancer control.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- ablative radiation therapy
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this could show that adding targeted radiation to immunotherapy helps control metastatic cancer better than immunotherapy alone.
- What could go wrong
- This is a very early phase 1 pilot with only 28 participants. It may not lead to a proven treatment, and radiation can cause side effects like fatigue or tissue damage.
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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 28 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Dec 2025
- Expected to finish
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Nov 2028
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.
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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: * Age ≥ 18 years of age at the time of consent * ECOG (0, 1, or 2) within 30 days prior to registration. * Subjects with advanced solid tumors with at least 3 but no more than 10 sites of metastatic disease, excluding the primary tumor. * Disease site must be outside of the GI tract (including esophagus, stomach, small or large bowel, and mesenteric lymph nodes), brainstem, and skin. * Demonstrates adequate organ function. All screening labs are to be obtained within 30 days prior to registration. * Able to provide written informed consent and HIPAA authorization for release of personal health information via an approved UIC Institutional Review Board (IRB) informed consent form and HIPAA authorization. If a subject is unable to consent, a Legally Authorized Representative (LAR) may provide consent on their behalf. * Women of childbearing potential must not be pregnant or breastfeeding. A negative serum or urine pregnancy test is required per institutional practice guidelines. * As determined at the discretion of the enrolling physician or protocol designee, the ability of the subject to understand and comply with study procedures for the entire length of the study. * Have a life expectancy of at least 3 months. * Subjects receiving treatment for \>3 months with an FDA-approved immunotherapy agent such as a PD-1 inhibitor, a PD-L1 inhibitor, a CTLA-4 inhibitor, or an LAG-3 inhibitor; either as monotherapy or in combination with another FDA-approved immunotherapy agent. Subjects may have received prior combination cytotoxic chemotherapy and immunotherapy, but must be receiving only immunotherapy for at least 30 days prior to registration. * Cohort A: Subjects with investigator-assessed stable disease or partial response after \> 3 months of immunotherapy treatment prior to registration * Cohort B: Subjects with oligo-progression defined as having at least 3 sites of disease during their disease course, with at least 1 but up to 5 sites of progressive disease within 3 months of registration. Subjects must have investigator-assessed stable disease, partial response, or complete response as prior best response to immunotherapy and have been on immunotherapy for at least 3 months prior to registration. Exclusion Criteria: * Inability to treat all sites of disease * \>10 metastatic lesions at any point in the disease course * History of interstitial lung disease or G3 or worse pneumonitis * Malignant pleural effusion * Active infection requiring IV antibiotics * Active autoimmune disease requiring immunosuppression in the last two years from enrollment. * Significant medical comorbidities precluding radiotherapy as determined by the treating physician. * Use of systemic corticosteroids equivalent to prednisone ≥10 mg daily within 14 days prior to registration, or requirement for systemic corticosteroids at screening for disease control, unless used as physiologic replacement (e.g., adrenal insufficiency). Subjects who require systemic steroids ≥10 mg/day for clinical management will be ineligible. * Substantial overlap with a previously treated radiation volume. * For patients with liver metastases, moderate/severe liver dysfunction (Child-Pugh B or C) * Patients with symptomatic brain metastases, a single metastasis greater than 5 cm in size, or any brain metastasis greater than 3 cm in size. Patients with total brain metastases volume exceeding 30 cc. * Clinical or radiologic evidence of spinal cord compression. * Metastatic disease involving the GI tract (esophagus, stomach, small or large bowel, mesenteric lymph nodes), disease in the brainstem, or skin * Pregnant or nursing * Any prior or concurrent malignancy whose natural history or treatment has the potential to interfere with the safety or efficacy assessment of this investigational regimen, as determined by the treating medical oncologist. * Other major comorbidity, as determined by the study PI
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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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University of Illinois at Chicago
RECRUITINGChicago, Illinois, 60612, United States
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