Supercharged immune cells take on advanced liver cancer
NCT ID NCT06902389
First seen Jun 24, 2026 · Last updated Jun 26, 2026 · Updated 1 time
Summary
This study tests a new immune cell therapy called Super Hi-TCR-T cells in 30 people with advanced liver cancer that has not responded to standard treatments. The cells are designed to attack multiple targets on cancer cells. Participants receive the cells after a short chemotherapy course. The goal is to see if the treatment is safe and can slow or stop cancer growth.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- Super Hi-TCR-T cells (a type of immune cell therapy)
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this could offer a new treatment option for people with advanced liver cancer that has stopped responding to other therapies.
- What could go wrong
- This is an early-phase trial with only 30 participants, so results may not apply to everyone. The therapy involves chemotherapy pretreatment and carries risks like immune reactions or side effects from the cells.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Phase 1/2
Runs two stages together: safety and dose first, then whether the treatment works.
- Participants
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About 30 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Jul 2025
- Expected to finish
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Apr 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.
- 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: 1. Patients with advanced HCC who are inoperable and unsuitable for local therapy, and whose disease has progressed or cannot tolerate therapy after first - or second-line therapy, and who meet one of the following requirements: 1) have a histological or cytological diagnosis of HCC; 2) According to the National Health Commission's Guidelines for Primary Liver Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment (2024 edition), the clinical diagnosis was HCC; 2. At least one measurable lesion was present according to RECIST1.1 and mRECIST criteria; 3. The expressions of Nectin4, NKG2DL, TROP2, B7H3 and GPC3 in tumor tissues were detected by immunohistochemistry in primary and metastatic specimens or in white paraffin sections of previous pathological pathology (the expression of tumor cells with a target \>10% is considered positive, and at least 2 targets are required to be positive), as well as the expression of FAP in tumor tissues; 4. The patient's T cell quality (pre-experimental) assessment met the criteria: at least 5 times T cell proliferation within 3 days, and at least 10% lentivirus transduction efficiency; 5. ECOG performance status score of 0-2; 6. Child-Pugh score ≤6; 7. Expected survival time of at least 3 months; 8. No contraindications to peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC) collection; 9. Seven days prior to the first treatment with the study drug, organ function levels must meet the following requirements: Hematology: Hemoglobin (Hb) ≥90 g/L; Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) ≥1.5×10⁹/L; Platelet count ≥75×10⁹/L. Blood Biochemistry: Serum albumin ≥28 g/L; Total bilirubin ≤2× upper limit of normal (ULN); Aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and alanine aminotransferase (ALT) ≤3× ULN; Alkaline phosphatase (ALP) ≤3× ULN; Creatinine ≤1.5× ULN. Coagulation Function: International normalized ratio (INR) or prothrombin time (PT) ≤1.5× ULN; Activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT) ≤1.5× ULN. Cardiac Function: Echocardiography confirms normal diastolic function; Left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) ≥50%; No severe arrhythmia. Pulmonary and Renal Function: No severe lung or kidney disease; No active pulmonary infection; Blood oxygen saturation ≥92% in room air. 10. Serum pregnancy test results of women of childbearing age must be negative within 7 days before the first use of the study drug; Fertile men or women with the possibility of becoming pregnant must use a highly effective contraceptive method (such as oral contraceptives, intrauterine devices, abstinence or barrier contraception combined with spermicides) throughout the trial and continue contraception for 12 months after the end of treatment; 11. The subjects voluntarily joined the study, signed the informed consent, had good compliance, and cooperated with follow-up. Exclusion criteria: 1. Uncontrollable active infection (excluding HBV and/or HCV infections); 2. active central nervous system disease, or known concomitant brain metastases with significant neurological/psychiatric symptoms assessed by MMSE; 3. Known allergy to 2 or more non-similar foods/drugs, or known allergy to chemotherapy preconditioning drugs (such as cyclophosphamide, fludarabine); 4. Any toxicity caused by previous antitumor therapy before chemotherapy preconditioning has not returned to grade 1 or below (CTCAE version 5.0); 5. Patients who have participated in or are participating in clinical trials of other drugs/therapies within 4 weeks prior to the first administration of the investigational drug; 6. Major surgery had been performed/received within 4 weeks prior to the first administration of the study drug or had not yet recovered from the side effects of the surgery, live vaccination, and radiotherapy within 2 weeks; 7. Patients who are taking systemic hormone therapy for immunosuppressive purposes (dose \>10mg/ day prednisone or other equivalent hormone) and continue to use within 2 weeks prior to treatment; 8. Pregnant or lactating women; 9. A history of other malignancies within the past 5 years, except cured basal cell carcinoma of the skin, squamous cell carcinoma of the skin, early prostate cancer, and cervical carcinoma in situ; 10. Active inflammatory bowel disease or digestive tract ulcer; 11. HIV antibody or treponema pallidum antibody test results positive; 12. A large amount of pleural fluid or ascites accompanied by clinical symptoms that require symptomatic treatment; 13. A history of active lung disease (pneumonia, obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma) or active pulmonary tuberculosis; 14. suffering from blood system diseases: leukemia, lymph nodes, myelodysplastic syndrome or myeloma; 15. Except vitiligo accidental immune deficiency disease or autoimmune disease; 16. Clinically significant bleeding symptoms or definite bleeding tendency occurred within 3 months before recruitment, such as cough/hemoptysis of 2.5ml or more per day, gastrointestinal bleeding, esophageal varicose veins with bleeding risk, hemorrhagic gastric ulcer or vasculitis. At baseline, if the stool was positive for occult blood, it could be re-examined; if it was still positive, gastroscopy was required; if the gastroscopy indicated severe esophageal and gastric fundus varices, it could not be included in the group (except those who were excluded by gastroscopy within 3 months before enrollment). 17. Have any clinical problems beyond your control, including but not limited to: 1\) Persistent or active (severe) infection; 2) poorly controlled hypertension (persistent blood pressure \>150/90mmHg); 3) Poorly controlled diabetes; 4) Heart disease (Class III/IV congestive heart failure or heart block as defined by the Heart Society of New York); 5) The following conditions occurred within 6 months before the first medication: deep vein thrombosis or pulmonary embolism; Myocardial infarction; Severe or unstable arrhythmia or angina; Percutaneous coronary intervention, acute coronary syndrome, coronary artery bypass grafting; Cerebrovascular accident, transient ischemic attack, cerebral embolism. 18.have obvious genetic diseases; 19. have received a stem cell transplant or an organ transplant; 20.Those who have a history of psychotropic drug abuse and cannot quit or have a history of mental disorders; 21.other severe, acute, or chronic medical conditions or abnormalities in laboratory tests that the investigator determines may increase the risks associated with participation in the study or may interfere with the interpretation of the study results; 22.Patients who were judged by the investigator to have poor compliance or other conditions that made them unfit to participate in the trial.
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Conditions
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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The Third Affiliated Hospital of Navy Military Medical University
RECRUITINGShanghai, Yangpu District, 200438, China
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