Trial reportCancer immunology, immunotherapy : CII2024
SAFFRON-104: a phase Ib/II study of sitravatinib alone or with tislelizumab in advanced hepatocellular carcinoma and gastric cancer/gastroesophageal junction cancer.
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A Phase 1/2 Study to Investigate the Safety, Tolerability, Pharmacokinetics, and Preliminary Antitumor Activity of Sitravatinib as Monotherapy and in Combination With Tislelizumab in Patients With Unresectable Locally Advanced or Metastatic Hepatocellular Carcinoma or Gastric/Gastroesophageal Junction Cancer
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10 citing papers in PubMed.
- Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma: integrating molecular insights for targeted interventions.Signal transduction and targeted therapy · 2026Review
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- Unlocking the potential: current landscape and future directions of immunotherapy in gastric cancer.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Review
- Tislelizumab: Structural Innovations and Expanding Clinical Horizons in Next-Generation PD-1 Immunotherapy.Chronic diseases and translational medicine · 2025Review
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- Overcoming immunotherapy resistance in gastric cancer: insights into mechanisms and emerging strategies.Cell death & disease · 2025Review
- Reprogramming tumor-associated macrophages in gastric cancer: a pathway to enhanced immunotherapy.Frontiers in immunology · 2025Review
- Angiogenesis and Immunosuppressive Niche in Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Reshaping Vascular - Immune Axis to Potentiate antiPD - 1/PD - L1 Therapy.Cancer management and research · 2025Review
- Clinical significance of the tumor microenvironment on immune tolerance in gastric cancer.Frontiers in immunology · 2025Review
- Sitravatinib in patients with solid tumors selected by molecular alterations: results from a Phase Ib study.Future oncology (London, England) · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundSitravatinib is a spectrum-selective tyrosine kinase inhibitor targeting TAM (TYRO3, AXL, MER), VEGFR-2, KIT, and MET. SAFFRON-104 (NCT03941873) was a multicohort phase Ib/II study investigating sitravatinib with/without tislelizumab, an anti-programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1) antibody, in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) or gastric cancer/gastroesophageal junction cancer (GC/GEJC).
methodsEligible patients had histologically/cytologically confirmed advanced HCC or GC/GEJC. Phase I determined the recommended phase II dose (RP2D) of sitravatinib with/without tislelizumab. Phase II evaluated sitravatinib monotherapy in patients with pretreated HCC, and sitravatinib plus tislelizumab in anti-PD-(L)1-naïve or -treated HCC and anti-PD-(L)1-naïve GC/GEJC. Primary endpoints were safety/tolerability (phase I) and objective response rate (ORR) (phase II).
resultsAt data cutoff (March 31, 2023), 111 patients were enrolled; 102 were efficacy-evaluable (median study follow-up 9.1 months [range: 0.7-36.9]). The RP2D of sitravatinib was determined as 120 mg orally once daily. In patients receiving sitravatinib monotherapy and sitravatinib in combination with tislelizumab, grade ≥ 3 treatment-related adverse events occurred in 14 (51.9%) and 42 (50.0%) patients, respectively. The ORR was 25% (95% confidence interval [CI]: 8.7-49.1) in patients with pretreated HCC receiving sitravatinib monotherapy. In patients receiving sitravatinib with tislelizumab, the ORR was 11.5% (95% CI 2.4-30.2) with anti-PD-(L)1-naïve HCC, 9.5% (95% CI 1.2-30.4) with anti-PD-(L)1-treated HCC, and 16.1% (95% CI 5.5-33.7) in patients with anti-PD-(L)1-naïve GC/GEJC.
conclusionsSitravatinib with/without tislelizumab was generally well tolerated and showed preliminary antitumor activity in patients with advanced HCC and GC/GEJC.
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