Clinical trial • Phase II • Oncology
ONFEKAFUSP ALFA for Basal cell carcinoma | Locally advanced basal cell carcinoma
Phase II trial of ONFEKAFUSP ALFA for Basal cell carcinoma | Locally advanced basal cell carcinoma. None/Not specified-controlled. 92 participants.
Overview
- Trial Therapeutic Area
- Oncology
- Trial Disease
- Basal cell carcinoma | Locally advanced basal cell carcinoma
- Trial Stage
- Phase II
- Drug Modality
- Peptide/protein/enzyme
Key dates
- Initial CTIS Submission Date
- 06-10-2025
- First CTIS Authorization Date
- 10-02-2026
Trial design
None/Not specified-controlled Phase II trial in Germany, Greece, Italy and others.
- Comparator
- None/Not specified
- Target Sample Size
- 92
Eligibility
Recruits 92 No vulnerable populations selected (isVulnerablePopulationSelected: false). Trial enrols adults aged 18-100 years. Informed consent required; subject information and ICF documents are provided per country (country-specific ICFs listed in documentation)..
- Pregnancy Exclusion
- Pregnancy or breast-feeding.
- Vulnerable Population
- No vulnerable populations selected (isVulnerablePopulationSelected: false). Trial enrols adults aged 18-100 years. Informed consent required; subject information and ICF documents are provided per country (country-specific ICFs listed in documentation).
Inclusion criteria
- {"criterion_text":"- Patients must have histologically documented, locally advanced BCC."}
- {"criterion_text":"- Male patients with WOCBP partners must agree to use simultaneously two acceptable methods of contraception"}
- {"criterion_text":"- Patients must have at least one injectable and measurable cutaneous or subcutaneous lesion."}
- {"criterion_text":"- Patients must have locally advanced BCC that has progressed on or cannot tolerate standard HHIs and anti-PD1 therapy as assessed by a local multidisciplinary tumor board."}
- {"criterion_text":"- Patients with nodal, regional or in transit injectable BCC lesions."}
- {"criterion_text":"- Patients must be willing to provide tissue from a core or excisional biopsy of a tumor lesion at screening and for confirmation of Objective Response or Stable Disease."}
- {"criterion_text":"- Male or female patients, age 18 - 100 years."}
- {"criterion_text":"- ECOG Performance Status/WHO Performance Status ≤ 2. Hemoglobin > 10.0 g/dL. Platelets > 100 x 109/L. ALT and AST, GGT and Lipase ≤ 1.5 x the upper limit of normal (ULN)."}
- {"criterion_text":"- All acute toxic effects (excluding alopecia) of any prior therapy must have resolved to National Cancer Institute (NCI) Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE v. 5.0) Grade ≤ 1 unless otherwise specified"}
- {"criterion_text":"- Women of childbearing potential (WOCBP) must have negative pregnancy test results at screening."}
Exclusion criteria
- {"criterion_text":"- Presence of concomitant malignancies, with the exception of any cancer curatively treated more than 3 years prior to study entry and of tumors with a negligible risk for metastasis or death, such as adequately treated cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma of the skin (surgically removed at least 4 weeks prior to study entry), ductal carcinoma in situ of the breast, or carcinoma in situ of the cervix, early-stage asymptomatic CLL and not under active treatment (Rai 0, Binet A) will be eligible for the study"}
- {"criterion_text":"- INR > 3. Uncontrolled hypertension. Known uncontrolled coagulopathy or bleeding disorder. Known hepatic cirrhosis or severe pre-existing hepatic impairment. Moderate to severe respiratory failure"}
- {"criterion_text":"- Active autoimmune disease that has required systemic treatment in past 2 years."}
- {"criterion_text":"- Patients have a diagnosis of immunodeficiency or are receiving chronic systemic steroid therapy (in dosing exceeding 10 mg daily of prednisone equivalent) or any other form of immunosuppressive therapy within 7 days prior the first dose of study drug. Limited use of corticosteroids to treat or prevent acute hypersensitivity reactions and asthma/COPD is not considered an exclusion criterion."}
- {"criterion_text":"- Known history of allergy to IL2, TNF, or other human proteins/peptides/antibodies"}
- {"criterion_text":"- Pregnancy or breast-feeding."}
- {"criterion_text":"- Ischemic peripheral vascular disease (Grade IIb-IV)."}
- {"criterion_text":"- Severe diabetic retinopathy."}
- {"criterion_text":"- Recovery from major trauma including surgery within 4 weeks prior to enrollment. Solid organ transplant recipient or patient with iatrogenic or pathologic severe immune suppression."}
- {"criterion_text":"- Patients with a history or current evidence of any condition, therapy, or laboratory abnormality that might confound the results of the study, interfere with the participant's participation for the full duration of the study, or is not in the best interest of the participant to participate, in the opinion of the treating investigator."}
- {"criterion_text":"- Patients who have received a live vaccine within 30 days prior to the first dose of study drug. Examples of live vaccines include, but are not limited to, the following: measles, mumps, rubella, varicella/zoster (chicken pox), yellow fever, rabies, Bacillus Calmette–Guérin, and typhoid vaccine. Seasonal influenza vaccines for injection are generally killed virus vaccines and are allowed; however, intranasal influenza vaccines (e.g., FluMist®) are live attenuated vaccines and are not allowed."}
- {"criterion_text":"- Radiation therapy on the tumor sites in the 4 weeks prior to study drug administration."}
- {"criterion_text":"- Any conditions that in the opinion of the investigator could hamper compliance with the study protocol."}
- {"criterion_text":"- Current topical or systemic chemotherapy, immunotherapy."}
- {"criterion_text":"- Presence of visceral metastasis."}
- {"criterion_text":"- Presence of active severe bacterial or viral infections or other severe concurrent disease/infection requiring therapy, including positive tests for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1 or HIV-2 serum antibody, hepatitis B virus (HBV), or hepatitis C virus (HCV). For HBV serology, the determination of HBsAg and anti-HBcAg Ab is required. In patients with serology documenting previous exposure to HBV, negative serum HBV-DNA is required. For HCV, HCV-RNA or HCV antibody test is required. Subjects with a positive test for HCV antibody but no detection of HCV-RNA indicating no current infection are eligible."}
- {"criterion_text":"- History within the last year of acute or subacute coronary syndromes including myocardial infarction, unstable or severe stable angina pectoris, inadequately treated cardiac arrhythmias and heart insufficiency (any grade, New York Heart Association (NYHA) criteria)."}
- {"criterion_text":"- Any abnormalities observed during baseline ECG investigations that are considered clinically significant by the investigator."}
- {"criterion_text":"- Known arterial aneurysms."}
- {"criterion_text":"- Chronically impaired renal function as indicated by creatinine clearance < 60 mL/min/1.73m2 or for patients older than 65 years without albuminuria or proteinuria, creatinine clearance < 45 mL/min/1.73m2."}
Endpoints
Primary endpoints
- {"endpoint_text":"- Best Overall Response Rate (BORR) as defined by the BCC-RECIST-like criteria according to an Independent Central Review (ICR).","definition_or_measurement_approach":"BORR measured as defined by the BCC-RECIST-like criteria, assessed by an Independent Central Review (ICR)."}
Recruitment
- Planned Sample Size
- 92
- Recruitment Window Months
- 58
- Consent Approach
- Informed consent required from each participant (adults 18-100). Subject information and informed consent forms are provided per participating country (documents listed for Germany, Greece, Italy, Spain and English recruitment/informed consent materials). No assent procedures referenced (adult population).
Geography
- Total Number Of Sites
- 13
- Total Number Of Participants
- 53
Germany
- Earliest CTIS Part Ii Submission Date
- 16-01-2026
- Latest Decision Or Authorization Date
- 10-02-2026
- Processing Time Days
- 25
- Number Of Sites
- 7
- Number Of Participants
- 17
Sites
- Site Name
- Universitaetsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein AöR
- Department Name
- Dermatology
- Principal Investigator Name
- Katharina Kaehler
- Principal Investigator Email
- kkaehler@dermatology.uni-kiel.de
- Contact Person Name
- Katharina Kaehler
- Contact Person Email
- kkaehler@dermatology.uni-kiel.de
- Site Name
- Universitaetsklinikum Tuebingen AöR
- Department Name
- Dermatology
- Principal Investigator Name
- Lukas Flatz
- Principal Investigator Email
- lukas.flatz@med.uni-tuebingen.de
- Contact Person Name
- Lukas Flatz
- Contact Person Email
- lukas.flatz@med.uni-tuebingen.de
- Site Name
- Universitaetsklinikum Essen AöR
- Department Name
- Dermatology
- Principal Investigator Name
- dirk Schadendorf
- Principal Investigator Email
- dirk.schadendorf@uk-essen.de
- Contact Person Name
- dirk Schadendorf
- Contact Person Email
- dirk.schadendorf@uk-essen.de
- Site Name
- Universitaetsklinikum Augsburg
- Department Name
- DermatoOncology
- Principal Investigator Name
- Julia Welzel
- Principal Investigator Email
- dermatologie@uk-augsburg.de
- Contact Person Name
- Julia Welzel
- Contact Person Email
- dermatologie@uk-augsburg.de
- Site Name
- Charite Universitaetsmedizin Berlin KöR
- Department Name
- Dermatology
- Principal Investigator Name
- Thomas Eigentler
- Principal Investigator Email
- thomas.eigentler@charite.de
- Contact Person Name
- Thomas Eigentler
- Contact Person Email
- thomas.eigentler@charite.de
- Site Name
- Heidelberg University
- Department Name
- Dermatology
- Principal Investigator Name
- Jessica Hassel
- Principal Investigator Email
- jessica.hassel@med.uni-heidelberg.de
- Contact Person Name
- Jessica Hassel
- Contact Person Email
- jessica.hassel@med.uni-heidelberg.de
- Site Name
- Universitaetsklinikum Halle (Saale) AöR
- Department Name
- Dermatology
- Principal Investigator Name
- Johannes Wohlrab
- Principal Investigator Email
- johannes.wohlrab@medizin.uni-halle.de
- Contact Person Name
- Johannes Wohlrab
- Contact Person Email
- johannes.wohlrab@medizin.uni-halle.de
Greece
- Earliest CTIS Part Ii Submission Date
- 13-11-2025
- Latest Decision Or Authorization Date
- 11-02-2026
- Processing Time Days
- 90
- Number Of Sites
- 1
- Number Of Participants
- 8
Sites
- Site Name
- Andreas Syngros Hospital Of Venereal And Dermatological Diseases
- Department Name
- Dermatology-Venereology
- Principal Investigator Name
- Alexandros Stratigos
- Principal Investigator Email
- alstrat2@gmail.com
- Contact Person Name
- Alexandros Stratigos
- Contact Person Email
- alstrat2@gmail.com
Italy
- Earliest CTIS Part Ii Submission Date
- 14-01-2026
- Latest Decision Or Authorization Date
- 10-02-2026
- Processing Time Days
- 27
- Number Of Sites
- 4
- Number Of Participants
- 17
Sites
- Site Name
- Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Senese
- Department Name
- U.O.C. immunoterapia oncologica
- Principal Investigator Name
- Anna Maria Di Giacomo
- Principal Investigator Email
- annamaria.digiacomo@unisi.it
- Contact Person Name
- Anna Maria Di Giacomo
- Contact Person Email
- annamaria.digiacomo@unisi.it
- Site Name
- Humanitas Mirasole S.p.A.
- Department Name
- oncology and hematology
- Principal Investigator Name
- paolo bossi
- Principal Investigator Email
- paolo.bossi@hunimed.eu
- Contact Person Name
- paolo bossi
- Contact Person Email
- paolo.bossi@hunimed.eu
- Site Name
- Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS
- Department Name
- UOC Dermatologia
- Principal Investigator Name
- Ketty Perris
- Principal Investigator Email
- ketty.peris@unicatt.it
- Contact Person Name
- Ketty Perris
- Contact Person Email
- ketty.peris@unicatt.it
- Site Name
- IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Tumori Fondazione Pascale
- Department Name
- SC Oncologia clinica sperimentale del melanoma
- Principal Investigator Name
- Ascierto Paolo
- Principal Investigator Email
- p.ascierto@istitutotumori.na.it
- Contact Person Name
- Ascierto Paolo
- Contact Person Email
- p.ascierto@istitutotumori.na.it
Spain
- Earliest CTIS Part Ii Submission Date
- 30-01-2026
- Latest Decision Or Authorization Date
- 12-02-2026
- Processing Time Days
- 13
- Number Of Sites
- 1
- Number Of Participants
- 11
Sites
- Site Name
- Hospital Clinic De Barcelona
- Department Name
- Dermatology
- Principal Investigator Name
- Agustin Toll Abello
- Principal Investigator Email
- atoll@clinic.cat
- Contact Person Name
- Agustin Toll Abello
- Contact Person Email
- atoll@clinic.cat
Sponsor
Primary sponsor
- Full Name
- Philogen S.p.A.
- Organisation Type
- Pharmaceutical company
- Country Of Registered Address
- Italy
Contract research organisations
- Name
- Pharmassist Ltd.
- Responsibilities
- Sponsor duties (code 1)
Third parties
- {"country":"Greece","full_name":"Pharmassist Ltd.","duties_or_roles":"Sponsor duties (code 1)","organisation_type":"Pharmaceutical company"}
Investigational products
- Investigational Product Name
- Fibromun
- Active Substance
- ONFEKAFUSP ALFA
- Modality
- Peptide/protein/enzyme
- Routes Of Administration
- INTRALESIONAL USE
- Route
- INTRALESIONAL
- Authorisation Status
- 1
- Maximum Dose
- 0.4 mg
- Investigational Product Name
- Darleukin
- Active Substance
- BIFIKAFUSP ALFA
- Modality
- Peptide/protein/enzyme
- Routes Of Administration
- INTRALESIONAL USE
- Route
- INTRALESIONAL
- Authorisation Status
- 1
- Maximum Dose
- 2.17 mg
- Combination Treatment
- Yes
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