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NCT05690048RecruitingPhase 2

Fecal Microbiota Transfer in Liver Cancer to Overcome Resistance to Atezolizumab/Bevacizumab (FLORA)

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 6 Aug 2025 · Not updated for over 12 months - ask the site whether it is still open

Brief summary (registry, in English)

The interventional, randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind phase II-trial FLORA will assess safety and immunogenicity of fecal microbiota transfer in combination with standard of care immunotherapy in advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in a parallel group design. Subjects will be randomized 2:1 into either the FMT or placebo group.

Status (registry)
Recruiting
Phase (registry)
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
48 (estimated)
First submitted
13 Dec 2022
Start date
16 Jul 2025
Primary completion date
Mar 2028
Lead sponsor
Michael Dill
NCT number
NCT05690048
EU CT number
2023-506887-15-00

What you commit to

  • Study type: Interventional · Phase 2
  • Planned participants: 48
  • From 16 Jul 2025 to the primary completion date, Mar 2028
  • 9 sites in 1 country
  • Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them

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Who cannot take part

Copied verbatim from ClinicalTrials.gov and grouped by topic. Only the trial team decides who can take part.

Prior treatment

  • Use of immunosuppressive medication within 6 months prior to the first dose of Atezolizumab / Bevacizumab.
  • Active or prior documented autoimmune or inflammatory disorders
  • Prior exposure to immune-mediated therapy including, but not limited to, other anti-CTLA-4, anti-PD-1, anti-PD-L1, and anti-VEGF antibodies.
  • Refractory nausea and vomiting, chronic gastrointestinal disease, inability to swallow a formulated product, or previous significant bowel resection that would preclude adequate absorption, distribution, metabolism or excretion of investigational product.
  • Usage of systemic antibiotic therapy within 2 weeks prior to the first dose of Atezolizumab/Bevacizumab.
  • Usage of probiotic products/supplements within 1 week prior to the first dose of Atezolizumab/Bevacizumab.
  • Receipt of live attenuated vaccine within 30 days prior to the first dose of study intervention.

Other illness

  • Known to have tested positive for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection.
  • Co-infection of HBV and HCV. Subjects with a history of HCV infection but who are negative for HCV RNA by PCR will be considered non-infected with HCV.
  • Evidence by investigator assessment of varices at risk of bleeding on upper endoscopy undertaken within 12 months of randomization.
  • Uncontrolled arterial hypertension defined by a systolic pressure \> 150 mm Hg or diastolic pressure \> 90 mm Hg or other hypertensive cardiovascular complications despite standard medical treatment.
  • Any history of nephrotic or nephritic syndrome.
  • History of another primary malignancy.
  • History of hypersensitivity to the investigational medicinal product or to any drug with similar chemical structure or to any excipient present in the pharmaceutical form of the investigational medicinal product.
  • Known hypersensitivity to any component of the vancomycin, atezolizumab or bevacizumab formulation.

Other

  • Known fibrolamellar HCC, sarcomatoid HCC, infiltrative-type HCC, or mixed cholangiocarcinoma and HCC.
  • Pregnancy or lactation.
  • Participation in other interventional clinical trials or observation period of competing clinical trials, respectively.
  • Held in an institution by legal or official order.
  • Legally incapacitated.

Who the study is looking for

  • Age 18 years or older
  • Confirmed radiologic or histological diagnosis of HCC
  • Disease not amenable to resection, liver transplantation or loco-regionary therapy
  • Eligible for therapy with Atezolizumab / Bevacizumab according to standard of care
  • Measurable disease per RECIST 1.1
  • Preserved liver function with a Child-Pugh score A or B (maximally 7 points)
  • Performance status ECOG 0-1

Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers

Full criteria on ClinicalTrials.gov

Sites (9)

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SiteCityCountrySite status
Universitaetsklinikum Augsburg
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AugsburgGermanyRecruiting
Charite Universitaetsmedizin Berlin KöR
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BerlinGermanyRecruiting
University Hospital Cologne AöR
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CologneGermanyRecruiting
Universitaetsklinikum Essen (AoR)
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EssenGermanyRecruiting
Universitaetsklinikum Heidelberg AöR
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HeidelbergGermanyRecruiting
Universitaetsklinikum Mannheim GmbH
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MannheimGermanyRecruiting
Universitaetsklinikum Regensburg AöR
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RegensburgGermanyRecruiting
Universitaetsklinikum Tuebingen AöR
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TuebingenGermanyRecruiting
Universitaetsklinikum Ulm AoR
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UlmGermanyRecruiting

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