Clinical trial Recruiting at 1 site Phase 1 Interventional Ages 18 to 80

Canagliflozin added to immunotherapy for advanced solid tumors

Official title: Safety and Efficacy of Canagliflozin in Patients With Locally Advanced or Advanced Solid Cancer

Run by West China Hospital · NCT07703163 · Data updated 2026-11-12

This study tests whether adding canagliflozin to tislelizumab-based immunotherapy helps people with unresectable or metastatic solid tumors.

Quick facts

PhasePhase 1
Study typeInterventional
Ages18 Years to 80 Years
SexAll
Enrollment15 (estimated)
SponsorWest China Hospital
Academic / other
Drugs / interventionstislelizumab, immunotherapy, chemotherapy
Locations1 site (Chengdu, Sichuan)
StatusRecruiting
StartedSeptember 10, 2026
Main results expectedJuly 31, 2028
Study endsJuly 31, 2028
Registry record updatedSeptember 9, 2026
Trial IDNCT07703163 on ClinicalTrials.gov

Is this trial a fit for you?

Likely a good fit

Adults 18-80 with histologically confirmed locally advanced or advanced solid tumors who have failed or are unsuitable for standard therapy and who are considered suitable for tislelizumab-based immunotherapy.

Probably not a fit

Patients whose tumors do not respond to immunotherapy or who experience intolerable side effects may not benefit from this combination.

A plain-English reading of the study's rules. Only the study team can confirm whether you qualify.

What this trial studies

This is an early-phase interventional trial in adults with locally advanced or advanced solid tumors who have limited treatment options. Participants will receive canagliflozin alongside a tislelizumab-based immunotherapy regimen to explore safety and potential anti-tumor activity. The study aims to define a recommended dose and observe preliminary signals of effectiveness while closely monitoring for adverse events. The design focuses on patients whose disease has progressed after standard therapies or for whom no standard options exist. Enrollment is limited to a single site at West China Hospital in Chengdu, China.

Why it matters

Potential benefit: If successful, the combination could offer an additional therapeutic option and potentially improve tumor control for patients with advanced solid cancers.

How similar studies have gone: Preclinical and early clinical data suggest potential synergy with SGLT2 inhibitors and immunotherapy, but this approach is exploratory in cancer and not yet proven.

Who can join: the full rules

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Inclusion Criteria:

1. Aged ≥18 years and ≤80 years old at the time of signing the written informed consent form, regardless of gender.
2. Patients with histologically or cytologically confirmed locally advanced or advanced solid tumors, including:

   1. Patients with unresectable locally advanced, recurrent, or distant metastatic solid tumors.
   2. Patients who have failed, are intolerant to, or are unsuitable for standard therapy, or for whom no standard therapy is available.
   3. Patients considered suitable for treatment with tislelizumab-based immunotherapy by the investigator.
3. According to the Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST 1.1), patients must have at least one target lesion with measurable diameters (tumor lesions with a long diameter ≥10 mm on CT scan, lymph node lesions with a short diameter ≥10 mm on CT scan, and a scan slice thickness of no more than 5 mm). Lesions that have received local treatments such as radiotherapy can be used as target lesions after clear progression is confirmed.
4. Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status score of 0 to 1, with an expected survival period of ≥3 months.
5. Patients must be type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients and meet the indications for canagliflozin; or patients have no diagnosis of diabetes, no history of type 1 diabetes or diabetic ketoacidosis.

   The diagnosis of type 2 diabetes mellitus is defined as typical diabetic symptoms plus random blood glucose ≥11.1 mmol/L, or plus fasting blood glucose ≥7.0 mmol/L, or plus 2-hour post-load blood glucose in oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) ≥11.1 mmol/L, or plus HbA1c ≥6.5%. For those without typical diabetic symptoms, reexamination on another day is required for confirmation (excluding random blood glucose).
6. Good function of major organs, that is, the relevant examination indicators within 14 days before randomization meet the following requirements (without blood or blood product transfusion, without the use of hematopoietic stimulating factors, and without the use of albumin or blood products):

   * Routine blood test: Hemoglobin ≥80 g/L; neutrophil count \>1.5×10⁹/L; platelet count ≥90×10⁹/L.
   * Biochemical test: Total bilirubin ≤1.5×ULN (upper limit of normal value); serum alanine aminotransferase (ALT) or aspartate aminotransferase (AST) ≤2.5×ULN; serum creatinine (SCr) ≤1.5×ULN or creatinine clearance rate ≥50 mL/min (Cockcroft-Gault formula).
   * Prothrombin time (PT), international normalized ratio (INR) ≤1.5×ULN (unless warfarin anticoagulation is being used).
   * Cardiac Doppler ultrasound evaluation: Left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) ≥50%.
   * Renal function: eGFR ≥60 mL/min/1.73 m².
   * Blood glucose: HbA1c ≤9%.
7. Patients of childbearing potential (both male and female) must use effective medical contraceptive measures during the study period and within 6 months after the end of drug administration.
8. Body mass index (BMI) ≥18.5 kg/m² during the study screening period.
9. If complicated with hypertension, blood pressure must be controlled to a stable level with other medications.
10. No history of peripheral vascular disease, neuropathy, or diabetic foot ulcers.
11. Patients voluntarily join this study, sign the informed consent form, have good compliance, and patients and their families agree to cooperate with survival follow-up.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Participation in other drug clinical trials within 4 weeks.
2. History of other tumors, except for in-situ cervical cancer, treated cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma, bladder epithelial tumors, or other malignant tumors that have received radical treatment (at least 5 years prior to enrollment).
3. Patients with symptomatic or rapidly progressive central nervous system metastases, extensive lung metastases causing dyspnea, or tumors approaching or invading major blood vessels or nerves.
4. Uncontrolled cardiac clinical symptoms or diseases, such as heart failure of NYHA class 2 or above, unstable angina, myocardial infarction within 1 year, or clinically significant supraventricular or ventricular arrhythmias requiring treatment or intervention.
5. Pregnant or lactating women.
6. Patients with active tuberculosis, bacterial or fungal infections (≥ grade 2, based on NCI-CTCAE 5.0), or HIV infection.
7. Patients with a history of psychoactive drug abuse that cannot be 戒除 (abstained from) or with mental disorders.
8. Subjects with any active autoimmune diseases or a history of autoimmune diseases (including but not limited to: uveitis, enteritis, hypophysitis, nephritis, hyperthyroidism, hypothyroidism; subjects with vitiligo or childhood asthma that has fully remitted and requires no intervention in adulthood may be included; subjects with asthma requiring medical intervention with bronchodilators shall not be included).
9. Previous treatment with SGLT2 inhibitors (such as dapagliflozin, empagliflozin, canagliflozin).
10. Long-term steroid use or combined use of insulin/insulin sensitizers.
11. Baseline HbA1c \>10%, history of stroke or transient ischemic attack within 5 years, and uncontrolled comorbidities.
12. Female subjects with a pregnancy plan or male subjects whose partners have a pregnancy plan from the screening period to 12 months after medication.
13. Patients with primary peritoneal carcinoma.
14. Patients with type 1 diabetes or diabetic ketoacidosis.
15. History of peripheral vascular disease, neuropathy, or diabetic foot ulcers.
16. Patients with severe renal insufficiency (eGFR \<30 mL/min/1.73 m²).
17. Patients with recurrent genitourinary infections within six months or requiring long-term anti-infective treatment.
18. Patients with a history of lower limb amputation, severe peripheral vascular disease, or neuropathy.
19. Patients with uncontrolled hypothyroidism.
20. Other conditions deemed unsuitable for enrollment by the investigator.

Where it's running

  • West China Hospital
    Chengdu, Sichuan, China
    Recruiting

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How to take part

  1. Review the eligibility criteria above with your treating physician.
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