Clinical trial • Phase II • Oncology

FRUQUINTINIB for Metastatic colorectal cancer without liver metastases

Phase II trial of FRUQUINTINIB for Metastatic colorectal cancer without liver metastases.

Overview

Trial Therapeutic Area
Oncology
Trial Disease
Metastatic colorectal cancer without liver metastases
Trial Stage
Phase II
Drug Modality
Small molecule|Monoclonal antibody

Key dates

Initial CTIS Submission Date
17-02-2025
First CTIS Authorization Date
11-06-2025

Trial design

Randomised, lonsurf (trifluridine/tipiracil) 15 mg/6.14 mg film-coated tablets — dosing metric recorded as max daily dose 70 mg/m2 (no full schedule specified); avastin (bevacizumab) 25 mg/ml concentrate for solution for infusion — dosing metric recorded as max daily dose 5 mg/kg (no full schedule specified).-controlled Phase II trial across 28 sites in Austria, Germany.

Randomised
Yes
Comparator
Lonsurf (trifluridine/tipiracil) 15 mg/6.14 mg film-coated tablets — dosing metric recorded as max daily dose 70 mg/m2 (no full schedule specified); Avastin (bevacizumab) 25 mg/ml concentrate for solution for infusion — dosing metric recorded as max daily dose 5 mg/kg (no full schedule specified).
Target Sample Size
140

Eligibility

Recruits 140 Vulnerable population selected (isVulnerablePopulationSelected = true). Participants must "provide signed informed consent form." Subject information and informed consent forms are provided (documents L1/L2: SIS and ICF, German and AT versions). No specific text on assent or legal guardian consent for minors is provided in the available data; study inclusion requires participants to be ≥ 18 years..

Pregnancy Exclusion
Female patient is pregnant or breast feeding or planning to become pregnant within and up to 6 months after end of treatment.
Vulnerable Population
Vulnerable population selected (isVulnerablePopulationSelected = true). Participants must "provide signed informed consent form." Subject information and informed consent forms are provided (documents L1/L2: SIS and ICF, German and AT versions). No specific text on assent or legal guardian consent for minors is provided in the available data; study inclusion requires participants to be ≥ 18 years.

Inclusion criteria

  • {"criterion_text":"- Patient provide signed informed consent form.\n- Adequate coagulation function as defined by International Normalized Ratio (INR) ≤ 1.5, and a partial thromboplastin time (PTT) ≤ 5 seconds above the ULN (unless receiving anticoagulation therapy).\n- Female patients of childbearing potential or male patients in Arm B with female partners of childbearing potential must agree to remain abstinent (refrain from heterosexual intercourse) or use contraceptive methods that result in a failure rate of <1% per year during the treatment period and for at least 6 months after the last trial treatment if randomized to Arm A (female patients only) or at least 6 months if randomized to Arm B (male and female patients). Male patients in Arm B with a pregnant partner must agree to remain abstinent or to use a condom for the duration of the pregnancy. Female patients of child-bearing potential must have a negative pregnancy test within the last 7 days prior to the start of trial therapy.\n- Patient is willing and able to comply with the protocol (including contraceptive measures) for the duration of the study including undergoing treatment and scheduled visits and examinations including follow up.\n- Patient is ≥ 18 years at the time of given informed consent.\n- Patient has been diagnosed with histologically or cytologically proven microsatellite stable (MSS)/proficient mismatch repair (pMMR) metastatic adenocarcinoma of the colon or rectum, which is not amenable to potentially curative resection.\n- Known RAS (KRAS or NRAS) and BRAF V600E mutational status. Note: These mutations are mutually exclusive. Therefore, if one of the factors is mutated, it is not required to determine the mutation status of the others, as they are then assumed to be wildtype.\n- Patient is without liver metastases (NLM), defined as subjects without active liver metastases at screening as determined on baseline imaging of the liver as performed by CT scan with contrast or MRI. Definitively treated liver metastases (which includes surgical resection, microwave or radiofrequency ablation, or stereotactic body radiation therapy, but not yttrium-90 or chemoembolization alone) that were treated at least 3 months prior to enrollment with no evidence of radiologic progression on subsequent imaging are considered to be non-active liver metastases.\n- Patient received at least one line of previous treatment with a fluoropyrimidine, oxaliplatin, irinotecan, VEGF(R) and if indicated EGFR and/or BRAF inhibitors in the advanced setting, or the patient has been intolerable or ineligible to those treatments.\n- Patient has an ECOG performance status ≤ 1.\n- Patient has a life expectancy > 16 weeks.\n- Patient has adequate hematological, hepatic, and renal function. a.\tAbsolute number of neutrophils (ANC) ≥ 1.5 x 109/L. b.\tPlatelets ≥ 100 x 109/L. c.\tHemoglobin ≥ 9 g/dL (5.58 mmol/L). d.\tTotal bilirubin ≤ 1.5 times the upper limit of normal (ULN) (or < 2 x ULN in case of prior liver involvement or Gilbert’s disease). e.\tAST (SGOT) and ALT (SGPT) ≤ 2.5 x ULN, AP ≤ 5 x ULN. erum creatinine ≤ 1.5 x ULN or creatinine clearance (measured by 24 h urine) ≥ 30 mL/min (i.e., if serum creatinine level is > 1.5 x ULN, then a 24-hour urine test must be performed to check the creatinine clearance to be determined). g.\tUrinary protein ≤2+ on dipstick or routine urinalysis (UA; if urine dipstick or routine analysis is ≥3+, a 24-hour urine collection for protein must demonstrate <2000 mg of protein in 24 hours to allow participation in this protocol)."}

Exclusion criteria

  • {"criterion_text":"- Patient has known allergic / hypersensitive reactions to at least one of the treatment components.\n- Patient has history of gastrointestinal perforation or fistulae in past 6 months or risk factors for perforation.\n- Patient has grade 3-4 gastrointestinal bleeding within 3 months prior to first dose of trial therapy.\n- Patient received strong inducers or inhibitors of CYP3A4 within 2 weeks (or 5 half-lives, whichever is longer) before the first dose of trial drug (see Appendix 4 for examples).\n- Patient had a major surgery within 2 weeks prior to first dose of trial therapy.\n- Patient experienced severe, life-threatening, or recurrent (Grade 2 or higher) immune-mediated adverse events (AEs) or infusion-related reactions including those that led to permanent discontinuation while on treatment with immune-oncology agents.\n- Patient received prior immunosuppressive therapy: immunosuppressive doses of systemic medications of > 10 mg/day of prednisone or equivalent must be discontinued ≥ 2 weeks before the first dose of study treatment. Short courses of high dose corticosteroids and/or continuous low dose of prednisone (< 10 mg/day) are permitted. In addition, inhaled, intranasal, intraocular, and/or joint injections of corticosteroids are allowed.\n- Patient has active autoimmune disease that has required systemic treatment (except replacement therapy) within the past 2 years or any other diseases requiring immunosuppressive therapy while on study.\n- Patient has history of solid organ transplantation.\n- Patient has history of thromboembolic events (including deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism) within the past 6 months or history of stroke and/or transient ischemic attack within the last 12 months.\n- Patients has evidence of any other serious concomitant or medical condition that, in the opinion of the investigator, presents a high risk of complications to the patient or reduces the likelihood of clinical effect.\n- Patient had previous malignancy other than that under study within 3 years or concomitant malignancy, except: those with a 5-year overall survival rate of more than 90%, e.g. non-melanomatous skin cancer or adequately treated in situ cervical cancer.\n- Female patient is pregnant or breast feeding or planning to become pregnant within and up to 6 months after end of treatment.\n- Patient received previous treatment with Fruquintinib, trifluridine/tipiracil, regorafenib or an anti-PD-1/anti-PD-L1 antibodies.\n- Patient receives current treatment with any anti-cancer therapy, such as systemic immunotherapy, chemotherapy, or hormone therapy within ≤ 2 weeks prior to study treatment start.\n- Patient receives simultaneous treatment with a different anti-cancer therapy other than that provided for in the trial (excluding palliative radiotherapy for symptom control).\n- Patient has known untreated or symptomatic CNS or leptomeningeal metastases.\n- Patient has impaired cardiac function or clinically significant cardiac disease including unstable angina within 6 months before the first dose of study treatment, acute myocardial infarction < 6 months prior to the first dose of study treatment, New York Heart Association (NYHA) class II–IV congestive heart failure, uncontrolled hypertension (defined as an average systolic blood pressure > 160 mmHg or diastolic > 100 mmHg despite optimal treatment, uncontrolled cardiac arrhythmias requiring antiarrhythmic therapy other than beta blockers or digoxin, active coronary artery disease or corrected QT interval (QTc) ≥ 470.\n- Patient has history of uncontrolled infection with human deficiency virus (HIV) or chronic infection with hepatitis B or C virus (HBV, HCV).\n- Patient has evidence of bleeding diathesis."}

Endpoints

Primary endpoints

  • {"endpoint_text":"- Progression-free survival (PFS), defined as time from randomization until date of progression acc. to RECIST v1.1 or death due to any cause.","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Time from randomization until date of progression according to RECIST v1.1 or death due to any cause."}

Secondary endpoints

  • {"endpoint_text":"- Overall survival (OS), defined as time from randomization until date of death due to any cause.","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Time from randomization until date of death due to any cause."}
  • {"endpoint_text":"- Objective response rate (ORR), defined as proportion of patients achieving complete or partial response (CR/PR) acc. to RECIST v1.1.","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Proportion of patients achieving CR or PR per RECIST v1.1."}
  • {"endpoint_text":"- Disease control rate (DCR), defined as proportion of patients achieving CR, PR, or stable disease (SD) acc. to RECIST v1.1.","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Proportion of patients achieving CR, PR or SD per RECIST v1.1."}
  • {"endpoint_text":"- Duration of response (DoR), defined as time from response initiation (when either CR or PR is first determined) to disease progression acc. to RECIST v1.1 or death due to any cause.","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Time from first documented CR or PR to documented progression per RECIST v1.1 or death."}
  • {"endpoint_text":"- Assessment of safety of the treatment as determined by the incidence, nature, causality, frequency, timing, and severity of adverse events using NCI CTCAE v5.0.","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Adverse events graded and reported according to NCI CTCAE v5.0; incidence and characteristics will be summarised."}
  • {"endpoint_text":"- Assessment of HRQoL during treatment and follow-up using EORTC QLQ C30 and EQ-5D-5L questionnaires.","definition_or_measurement_approach":"Health-related quality of life measured using EORTC QLQ-C30 and EQ-5D-5L instruments."}

Recruitment

Planned Sample Size
140
Recruitment Window Months
56
Consent Approach
Participants must provide a signed informed consent form. Study includes subject information and informed consent form documents (SIS and ICF) available in German/DE and Austrian (AT) versions as per uploaded documents. Inclusion requires participants to be ≥18 years; no assent or guardian consent procedures for minors are provided in the available material.

Geography

Total Number Of Sites
28
Total Number Of Participants
140

Austria

Earliest CTIS Part Ii Submission Date
15-05-2025
Latest Decision Or Authorization Date
27-10-2025
Processing Time Days
165
Number Of Sites
4
Number Of Participants
20

Sites

Site Name
Medical University Of Vienna
Department Name
Department of Medicine I, Oncology
Contact Person Name
Gerald Prager
Contact Person Email
gerald.prager@meduniwien.ac.at
Site Name
SCRI CCCIT Ges.m.b.H.
Department Name
Innere Medizin III
Contact Person Name
Lukas Weiss
Contact Person Email
lu.weiss@salk.at
Site Name
Noe LGA Gesundheit Thermenregion GmbH
Department Name
Internal medicine, hematology and oncology
Contact Person Name
Birgit Gruenberger
Site Name
Ordensklinikum Linz GmbH
Department Name
Interne I
Contact Person Name
Bernhard Doleschal

Germany

Earliest CTIS Part Ii Submission Date
17-04-2025
Latest Decision Or Authorization Date
22-09-2025
Processing Time Days
158
Number Of Sites
24
Number Of Participants
120

Sites

Site Name
Universitaetsklinikum Augsburg
Department Name
II. Medizinische Klinik
Contact Person Name
Frank Jordan
Contact Person Email
frank.jordan@uk-augsburg.de
Site Name
HELIOS Klinikum Emil von Behring GmbH
Department Name
Klinik für Hämatologie und Onkologie
Contact Person Name
Börge Arndt
Site Name
Klinikum der Technischen Universitaet Muenchen (TUM Klinikum)
Department Name
Klinik und Poliklinik für Innere Medizin III
Contact Person Name
Sylvie Lorenzen
Contact Person Email
sylvie.lorenzen@mri.tum.de
Site Name
Medizinische Hochschule Hannover
Department Name
Klinik für Gastroenterologie, Hepatologie, Infektiologie und Endokrinologie
Contact Person Name
Thomas Wirth
Contact Person Email
wirth.thomas@mh-hannover.de
Site Name
Klinikum Chemnitz gGmbH
Department Name
Klinik für Innere Medizin III
Contact Person Name
Jack Chater
Contact Person Email
J.Chater@skc.de
Site Name
MVZ fuer Haematologie und Onkologie Ravensburg GmbH
Department Name
Hämatologie und Onkologie
Contact Person Name
Tobias Dechow
Contact Person Email
dechow@onkonet.eu
Site Name
Charite Universitaetsmedizin Berlin KöR
Department Name
Klinik fuer Haematologie, Onkologie und Tumorimmunologie
Contact Person Name
Arndt Stahler
Contact Person Email
arndt.stahler@charite.de
Site Name
Gesellschaft Zur Forderung Des Wissenschaftlich Medizinischen Erkenntnisgewinns In Der Hamatologie Und Oncologie
Department Name
Haematologie/Onkologie
Contact Person Name
Ruediger Liersch
Contact Person Email
liersch@onkologie-muenster.de
Site Name
Muenchen Klinik gGmbH
Department Name
Haematologie/Onkologie
Contact Person Name
Stefan Boeck
Site Name
Norddeutsches Studienzentrum fuer Innovative Onkologie- Haematologisch-Onkologische Praxis Eppendorf
Department Name
Haematologie/Onkologie
Contact Person Name
Alexander Stein
Contact Person Email
stein@hope-hamburg.de
Site Name
Goethe University Frankfurt
Department Name
Medizinische Klinik 1 - Studienambulanz
Contact Person Name
Christine Koch
Contact Person Email
christine.koch@ukffm.de
Site Name
Universitaetsklinikum Ulm AöR
Department Name
Innere Medizin I
Contact Person Name
Thomas Ettrich
Site Name
Asklepios Kliniken Hamburg GmbH
Department Name
Tumorzentrum
Contact Person Name
Dirk Arnold
Contact Person Email
d.arnold@asklepios.com
Site Name
Krankenhaus Nordwest GmbH
Department Name
Institut fuer Klinisch-Onkologische Forschung
Contact Person Name
Thorsten Goetze
Contact Person Email
goetze.thorsten@khnw.de
Site Name
HELIOS Klinikum Bad Saarow GmbH
Department Name
Klinik fuer Onkologie und Palliativmedizin
Contact Person Name
Daniel Pink
Contact Person Email
daniel.pink@helios-kliniken.de
Site Name
Klinikum Mutterhaus der Borromaeerinnen gGmbH
Department Name
Innere Medizin 1
Contact Person Name
Ameen Aslan
Contact Person Email
ameen.aslan@mutterhaus.de
Site Name
Klinikum der Universitaet Muenchen AöR
Department Name
Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik III
Contact Person Name
Sabrina Opatz
Site Name
St. Elisabeth Gruppe GmbH Katholische Kliniken Rhein-Ruhr
Department Name
Medizinische Klinik III
Contact Person Name
Amin Turki
Contact Person Email
amin.turki@elisabethgruppe.de
Site Name
KEM I Evang. Kliniken Essen-Mitte gGmbH
Department Name
Klinik fuer Internistische Onkologie
Contact Person Name
Christian Mueller
Contact Person Email
ch.mueller@kem-med.com
Site Name
Universitaetsklinikum Essen AöR
Department Name
Innere Klinik
Contact Person Name
Stefan Kasper-Virchow
Site Name
Katholisches Klinikum Bochum gGmbH
Department Name
Haematologie und Onkologie mit Palliativmedizin
Contact Person Name
Anke Reinacher-Schick
Site Name
Klinikum St Marien Amberg
Department Name
Studienzentrum
Contact Person Name
Ludwig Fischer von Weikersthal
Site Name
Universitaetsklinikum Duesseldorf AöR
Department Name
Gastroenterologie, Hepatologie und Infektiologie
Contact Person Name
Christoph Roderburg
Site Name
University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
Department Name
II. Medizinische Klinik
Contact Person Name
Joseph Tintelnot
Contact Person Email
j.tintelnot@uke.de
Site Name
Leopoldina-Krankenhaus der Stadt Schweinfurt GmbH
Department Name
Medizinische Klinik II
Contact Person Name
Stephan Kanzler
Contact Person Email
skanzler@leopoldina.de
Site Name
Vincentius-Diakonissen-Kliniken gAG
Department Name
Medizinische Klinik 2
Contact Person Name
Alexander Kolov

Sponsor

Primary sponsor

Full Name
Frankfurter Institut Fuer Klinische Krebsforschung IKF GmbH
Organisation Type
Pharmaceutical company
Country Of Registered Address
Germany

Third parties

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  • {"country":"","full_name":"Beigene Switzerland GmbH","duties_or_roles":"Monetary support","organisation_type":""}
  • {"country":"","full_name":"Takeda Development Center Americas, Inc.","duties_or_roles":"Monetary support","organisation_type":""}

Investigational products

Investigational Product Name
FRUZAQLA 5 mg hard capsules
Active Substance
FRUQUINTINIB
Modality
Small molecule
Routes Of Administration
ORAL
Route
ORAL
Authorisation Status
Marketing authorisation EU (EU/1/24/1827/002)
Maximum Dose
5 mg (max daily dose)
Investigational Product Name
FRUZAQLA 1 mg hard capsules
Active Substance
FRUQUINTINIB
Modality
Small molecule
Routes Of Administration
ORAL
Route
ORAL
Authorisation Status
Marketing authorisation EU (EU/1/24/1827/001)
Maximum Dose
5 mg (max daily dose)
Investigational Product Name
Tevimbra 100 mg concentrate for solution for infusion
Active Substance
TISLELIZUMAB
Modality
Monoclonal antibody
Routes Of Administration
INTRAVENOUS INFUSION
Route
INTRAVENOUS INFUSION
Authorisation Status
Marketing authorisation EU (EU/1/23/1758/001)
Maximum Dose
400 mg (max daily dose)
Investigational Product Name
Lonsurf 15 mg/6.14 mg film-coated tablets
Active Substance
TRIFLURIDINE; TIPIRACIL HYDROCHLORIDE
Modality
Small molecule
Routes Of Administration
ORAL
Route
ORAL
Authorisation Status
Marketing authorisation EU (EU/1/16/1096/001)
Maximum Dose
70 mg/m2 (max daily dose)
Investigational Product Name
Avastin 25 mg/ml concentrate for solution for infusion.
Active Substance
BEVACIZUMAB
Modality
Monoclonal antibody
Routes Of Administration
INTRAVENOUS INFUSION
Route
INTRAVENOUS INFUSION
Authorisation Status
Marketing authorisation (EU/1/04/300/001)
Maximum Dose
5 mg/kg (max daily dose)
Combination Treatment
Yes

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