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Clinical Trials in Germany / NCT07270991
Recruiting Phase 3

Trifluridine/Tipiracil + Fruquintinib Versus Trifluridine/Tipiracil Alone for Metastatic Oeso-gastric Adenocarcinoma

NCT07270991 · tracked via the Priya Life Science Germany tracker
Phase
Phase 3
Started
2025-12-15
Last updated
2026-02-05

Condition(s) studied

Metastatic Oesogastric Adenocarcinoma

Investigational drug(s) / intervention(s)

trifluridine/tipiracil →fruquintinib →

trifluridine/tipiracil: Cycle of 28 days 35 mg/m2 by mouth twice daily on Days 1 to 5, 2 days of rest and 35 mg/m2 by mouth twice daily on days 8 to 12 Treatment will be repeated every 4 weeks until radiological disease progression, unacceptable toxicity or patient's refusal.

fruquintinib: For fruquintinib: 5 mg by mouth once daily Day 1 to Day 21 (3 weeks) Treatment will be repeated every 4 weeks until radiological disease progression, unacceptable toxicity or patient's refusal.

Study summary

Advanced cancer of the stomach and the gastro-esophageal junction (G/GEJ) remains a very serious disease. Today, only about 10-15% of patients are alive after 5 years. Treatments mainly aim to control symptoms, extend life, and maintain quality of life.

First treatments usually combine two chemotherapies, but recent years have brought real progress. Immunotherapy - drugs that "unlock" the immune system - has shown clear benefits. For patients whose tumors have certain markers (like PD-L1), combining drugs such as nivolumab or pembrolizumab with chemotherapy can help patients live longer. Another breakthrough is zolbetuximab, a targeted therapy that attacks a protein (Claudin 18.2) found on many gastric cancers, also improving survival.

When cancer grows despite these therapies, second-line treatments are used. The most common is chemotherapy with paclitaxel + ramucirumab, which blocks the tumor's blood supply. These drugs extend survival, but usually only by a few months.

For patients who need a third option, the oral drug trifluridine/tipiracil (TAS-102) can provide extra time, though benefits remain limited. That's why researchers are now exploring combinations. Since stomach tumors rely on forming new blood vessels, combining trifluridine/tipiracil with anti-angiogenic drugs - medicines that cut off the tumor's blood supply - looks promising.

One of the most exciting of these drugs is fruquintinib, already proven effective in colorectal cancer. A new international trial, FRUQUITAS (ENGIC 06/PRODIGE 114), is now testing whether adding fruquintinib to trifluridine/tipiracil can improve survival for patients with advanced stomach or gastro-esophageal cancer.

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Min age
18 Years
Max age
—
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion Criteria: 1. Age ≥ 18 years (patients enrolled gender independently). 2. Histologically proven metastatic adenocarcinoma of the stomach or the esophagogastric junction (GEJ) or esophagus. 3. Prior treatment by two or three lines of treatment for metastatic setting (patients who received adjuvant therapy and developed metastatic disease within 6 months of completing treatment should be considered as having failed first-line therapy for metastatic disease). 4. Prior treatment (progression or intolerance) with platinum salts (oxaliplatin or cisplatin), fluoropyrimidine and irinotecan and/or taxane (+/- anti-HER2 agents +/- immune checkpoint inhibitors +/- ramucirumab +/- anti-claudin 18.2). 5. Measurable or non-measurable lesions. (Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST 1.1) 6. World Health Organisation (WHO) performance status 0-1. 7. Adequate organ function: ANC ≥ 1.5 x 109/L, hemoglobin ≥ 9 g/dL, platelets ≥ 100 G/L, AST/ALT ≤ 3 x ULN (≤ 5 x ULN in case of liver metastase(s)), total bilirubin ≤ 1.5 x ULN, creatinine clearance \> 30 mL/min (CKD EPI). 8. Adequate coagulation tests (INR and activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT) ≤1.5 × ULN) unless the patient is receiving anticoagulant therapy. 9. Evidence of post-menopausal status or negative urinary or serum pregnancy test for female pre-menopausal patients. 10. Man and woman of childbearing potential agrees to use two methods (one for the patient and one for the partner) of medically acceptable forms of contraception (use contraceptive methods that result in a failure rate of \<1% per year) during the study and for 6 months after the last treatment intake. 11. Patient is able to understand, sign, and date the written informed consent form at the screening visit prior to any protocol-specific procedures performed. 12. Available tumor block (surgical specimens of primary tumor and if not available tumor biopsies). 13. Patient willing to participate to biological studies. Exclusion Criteria: 1. Concurrent enrolment in another clinical study - unless it is an observational study or during the follow-up for survival status update only of an interventional study. 2. Administration of the last dose of anticancer therapy and palliative radiotherapy ≤ 2 weeks prior to the first dose of study drug. 3. Current or prior bowel obstruction within 28 days before the first dose of study drugs. 4. Any unresolved clinical significant toxicity NCI CTCAE v5.0 ≥ grade 2 from previous anticancer therapy (except neuropathy). 5. More than 3 prior lines of treatment. 6. Major surgical procedure (e.g. exploratory laparoscopy is not considered as a major surgical procedure) within 2 weeks prior to the first dose of treatment. 7. History of leptomeningeal carcinomatosis or symptomatic or untreated brain metastase(s). Patients whose brain metastase(s) have been treated may participate if any neurologic symptoms that developed as a result of the brain metastases are resolved or stable. 8. Severe cardiac disorders (including but not limited to acute myocardial infarction, stroke, unstable angina, NYHA class III/IV heart failure, or LVEF\<50%) within 6 months. 9. Severe liver dysfunction (cirrhosis Child Pugh B or C). 10. Gastric or duodenal active ulcer. 11. Thromboembolic events (including deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism) in the past 6 months 12. Uncontrolled intercurrent illness, including but not limited to, ongoing or active infection, uncontrolled hypertension (defined as systolic blood pressure ≥140 mm Hg and/or diastolic blood pressure ≥90 mm Hg despite optimal medical management), interstitial lung disease, serious chronic gastrointestinal conditions associated with diarrhea, 13. psychiatric illness/social situations that would limit compliance with study requirement, substantially increase risk of incurring AEs or compromise the ability of the patient to give written informed consent. 14. Patients with urine protein test 2+ or more and 24 hours urine protein≥1.0g/24h. 15. Known positive test for HIV, active hepatitis B or hepatitis C, active tuberculosis. 16. Known allergy or hypersensitivity to any of the study drugs or any of the study drug excipients (excipients with known effects and potential risk of allergies : tartrazine (E102) ,sunset yellow FCF (E110), Lactose monohydrate). 17. Prior treatment with trifluridine/tipiracil and/or fruquintinib and/or regorafenib and/or any anti-VEGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor. 18. Active infection requiring intravenous antibiotics at the time of Day 1 of Cycle 1. 19. Other malignancy within 3 years prior to study enrolment, except for localized cancer in situ, basal or squamous cell skin cancer or other localized tumor with complete resection. 20. Treatment with powerful CYP 450 inducers (no contraindication for inhibitors). 21. Pregnant or breastfeeding female patient. 22. Congenital galactosemia, total lactase deficiency (lactose intolerance) or glucose-galactose malabsorption syndrome. 23. Patients with clinically significant bleeding within the past 2 months.

Primary outcome measure(s)

Trial sites (64)

FacilityCityRegionStatus
Centre Hospitalier Aurillac France Not Yet Recruiting
Institut Sainte Catherine Avignon France Not Yet Recruiting
Centre Hospitalier Bayeux France Not Yet Recruiting
Bayonne- Clinique Belharra Bayonne France Not Yet Recruiting
Centre Hospitalier Côte Basque Bayonne France Not Yet Recruiting
ICONE Bezannes France Not Yet Recruiting
BORDEAUX-Institut Bergonié Bordeaux France Not Yet Recruiting
Clinique Tivoli Bordeaux France Not Yet Recruiting
C.H.U. de Brest Brest France Not Yet Recruiting
Cac - François Baclesse Caen France Not Yet Recruiting
CHU Côte de Nacre Caen France Not Yet Recruiting
Ch - Jean Rougier Cahors France Not Yet Recruiting
Centre Hospitalier Cholet France Not Yet Recruiting
Saint Côme Compiègne France Not Yet Recruiting
Clinique de Flandre Coudekerque-Branche France Not Yet Recruiting
Centre Leonard de Vinci Dechy France Not Yet Recruiting
Institut de cancérologie de Bourgogne GRReCC Dijon France Not Yet Recruiting
Centre Hospitalier Emile Roux Le Puy-en-Velay France Not Yet Recruiting
Hôpital Franco-Britannique Levallois-Perret France Not Yet Recruiting
CHU Dupuytren Limoges France Not Yet Recruiting
Groupement Hospitalier Bretagne Sud Lorient France Not Yet Recruiting
Hôpital Prive Jean Mermoz Lyon France Not Yet Recruiting
Chu - Hôpital La Timone Marseille France Not Yet Recruiting
CAC Paoli Calmettes Marseille France Not Yet Recruiting
Confluent Sas Nantes France Not Yet Recruiting
CAC Antoine Lacassagne Nice France Not Yet Recruiting
Gh Nord Essone Orsay France Not Yet Recruiting
Privé - Groupe Hospitalier Diaconesses Croix Saint Simon Paris France Not Yet Recruiting
Chu - Aphp - Hôpital Saint Louis Paris France Not Yet Recruiting
Chu - Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou Paris France Not Yet Recruiting
Hôpital Cochin (APHP) Paris France Not Yet Recruiting
Centre Hospitalier Pau France Not Yet Recruiting
Centre Hospitalier Saint Jean Perpignan France Not Yet Recruiting
Centre Hospitalier Lyon Sud Pierre-Bénite France Not Yet Recruiting
Chu - Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Poitiers - La Miletrie Poitiers France Recruiting
Clinique de La Croix du Sud Quint-Fonsegrives France Not Yet Recruiting
Chu - Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Robert Debre Reims France Not Yet Recruiting
CAC Jean Godinot Reims France Not Yet Recruiting
Centre Eugène Marquis Rennes France Not Yet Recruiting
Polyclinique Rillieux-la-Pape France Not Yet Recruiting

+ 24 more sites — see the full list on the official registry below.

More Federation Francophone de Cancerologie Digestive trials in Germany

Official registry record

This page summarises publicly available registry data for informational purposes — not medical advice. Eligibility is determined by each study team; patients should discuss participation with their clinician.

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