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NCT06551272RecruitingPhase 2

Microbiota Modification for Immuno-oncology in Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 5 Aug 2025 · Not updated for over 12 months - ask the site whether it is still open

Brief summary (registry, in English)

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common liver primary cancer with a high rate of mortality. Since the results of IMbrave150, immunotherapy have emerged as a standard of care for HCC patients advanced and/or unresectable in first line of treatment. The objective response rate was about 30%, but half of patients would present only stable disease and about 20% progressive disease. Faecalibacterium prausnitzii is one of the most abundant bacterial in human gut microbiota, around 5% of total bacteria in feces. For patients with metastatic melanoma, treated with ipilimumab, an antibody targeting CTLA-4 (Cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-associated antigen 4), patients with a baseline gut microbiota enriched with Faecalibacterium had a significantly better clinical outcomes. In patients with metastatic melanoma, the level of Faecalibacterium prausnitzi at baseline was predictive of response to anti-PD-1 (programmed death-1) or anti-CTLA-4 therapy. EXL01 is a pharmacological preparation of Faecalibacterium prausnitzii strains. Preclinical murine study suggests that the administration of EXL01 could reverse the resistance to ICI induced by antibiotics (unpublished data). We thus plan to test the concept of microbiota modification in patients treated with standard-of-care approved first-line immunotherapy for advanced HCC. We would include patients refractory to first-line treatment, and test the addition of EXL01 to standard-of-care approved first-line immunotherapy in order to reverse resistance.

Status (registry)
Recruiting
Phase (registry)
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
34 (estimated)
First submitted
9 Aug 2024
Start date
12 Mar 2025
Primary completion date
12 Mar 2026
Lead sponsor
Center Eugene Marquis
NCT number
NCT06551272

What you commit to

  • Study type: Interventional · Phase 2
  • Planned participants: 34
  • From 12 Mar 2025 to the primary completion date, 12 Mar 2026
  • 6 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

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Prior treatment

  • Partial response achieved under standard-of-care approved first-line immunotherapy
  • CTCAE Grade ≥3 or more toxicity under standard-of-care approved first-line immunotherapy, or persistent toxicity Grade \>1
  • Immunosuppression, including subjects with a condition requiring systemic treatment with either corticosteroids (\> 10 mg/day prednisone equivalent)
  • Transplanted liver, or patient with intent for transplantation
  • Has undergone major surgery or significant trauma ≤4 weeks prior to Screening. Note: Participants who had surgery \>4 weeks prior to Screening must have recovered adequately from any toxicity and/or complications from the surgery or trauma prior to starting study intervention.
  • Is currently participating in or has participated in a study with an investigational compound or device within 3 months prior to the first dose of study intervention.
    • Note: Participants who have entered the follow-up phase of an investigational study may participate so long as it has been at least 3 months since the last dose of the previous investigational agent.
  • Has a systemic infection or other serious infection requiring systemic treatment within 30 days prior to Screening.
  • Specific contra-indication to the continuation of the standard-of-care approved first-line immunotherapy :
    • 21.1: for atezolizumab-bevacizumab:
  • Thromboembolic events in the 3 months prior to inclusion
  • Prior bleeding event due to untreated or incompletely treated esophageal and / or gastric varices within 6 months' prior inclusion

Other illness

  • History of serious autoimmune disease
  • Interstitial lung disease
  • HBV chronic infection with HBV DNA \> 100 IU/mL or without antiviral therapy; HBV patients with cirrhosis should be treated
  • HIV infection
  • Has a history of hypersensitivity to EXL01 and/or any excipients, which are listed in the IB, and/or to soybean or soy-containing products
  • Has a history of hypersensitivity to Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) cell products or other recombinant human or humanised antibodies
  • Active inflammatory intestinal disease (Crohn disease, Hemorrhagic recto-colitis, coeliac disease) or any serious chronic intestinal disease with uncontrolled diarrhea, or other inflammatory disease requiring anti-inflammatory medications
  • Has a history of hypersensitivity to the atezolizumab or to any of the excipients listed in section 6.1 of the SmPC of atezolizumab
  • Has a history of hypersensitivity to bevacizumab or to any of the excipients listed in section 6.1 of the SmPC of bevacizumab
  • Uncontrolled hypertension
  • Clinically significant cardiovascular disease such as pre-existing coronary artery disease, or congestive heart failure
  • Has a history of hypersensitivity to the durvalumab or to any of the excipients listed in section 6.1 of the SmPC of durvalumab.

Other

  • Liver involvement \> 50%
  • Presence of major macro vascular invasion (except Vp1/Vp2)
  • Pregnant woman, or breastfeeding or women of child-bearing potential with no adequate contraception (see §4.3.1)
  • Under curatorship, guardianship, safeguard of justice or deprived of liberty
  • Has difficulties in swallowing.
  • Current probiotics administration, or planned probiotics administration during treatment course.
  • Proteinuria 21.2: for durvalumab:

Who the study is looking for

  • Male and Female
  • Age ≥18 years at time of signing informed consent
  • Presenting with HCC, diagnosed either by histological or radiological criteria as described by EASL
  • Locally advanced or metastatic and/or unresectable HCC according a Multidisciplinary Team meeting
  • Progressive disease after exposure to standard-of-care approved first-line immunotherapy
  • Decision made by the physician to continue the same standard-of-care approved first-line immunotherapy beyond progression
  • Child-Pugh A within 7 days prior to inclusion
  • ECOG performance status 0 to 1
  • Adequate hematological (Hemoglobin \>8.5g/dL, platelets \>60G/L, neutrophils \>1.5G/L) and renal (creatinine clearance \> 50 mL/min according to Cockcroft or MDRD formula) functions
  • Disease measurable by RECIST 1.1
  • Signed written Informed consent

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

Full criteria on ClinicalTrials.gov

Sites (6)

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SiteCityCountrySite status
Hopital Avicenne
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BobignyFranceActive, not recruiting
CHU de Bordeaux
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BordeauxFranceActive, not recruiting
Hopital Beaujon
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ClichyFranceRecruiting
CHU de Nantes - Hôtel Dieu
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NantesFranceActive, not recruiting
Centre de luttre contre le cancer Eugène Marquis
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RennesFranceRecruiting
Gustave Roussy
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VillejuifFranceActive, not recruiting

This page is information, not medical advice. Discuss any trial with your doctor.