Clinical trial Recruiting at 4 sites Phase1; Phase2 Interventional Ages 18 to 75

Testing PM14 for advanced soft tissue sarcomas and other solid tumors

Official title: Phase Ib/II Multicohort Trial of Different Schemes of PM14 in Monotherapy and in Combination with Radiotherapy in Soft Tissue Sarcomas and Other Solid Tumors

Run by Grupo Espanol de Investigacion en Sarcomas · NCT05146440 · Data updated 2026-11-12

This study is testing a new treatment called PM14 for people with advanced soft tissue sarcomas and other solid tumors to see if it can help them live longer and feel better.

Quick facts

PhasePhase1; Phase2
Study typeInterventional
Ages18 Years to 75 Years
SexAll
Enrollment195 (estimated)
SponsorGrupo Espanol de Investigacion en Sarcomas
Academic / other
Drugs / interventionschemotherapy, radiation
Locations4 sites (Zaragoza, Aragon and 3 other locations)
StatusRecruiting
StartedNovember 23, 2021
Main results expectedNovember 30, 2025
Study endsMay 31, 2026
Registry record updatedMarch 21, 2025
Trial IDNCT05146440 on ClinicalTrials.gov

Is this trial a fit for you?

Likely a good fit

Ideal candidates are adults aged 18-75 with advanced soft tissue sarcomas or other solid tumors that are not suitable for surgical intervention.

Probably not a fit

Patients with early-stage tumors or those who are candidates for surgical resection may not benefit from this study.

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

What this trial studies

This multicohort, open-label clinical trial aims to evaluate the efficacy and safety of PM14 as a monotherapy and in combination with radiotherapy for patients with advanced soft tissue sarcomas and other solid tumors. The study includes multiple cohorts, with a dose-finding phase for PM14 in patients who are not candidates for surgery. Patients will receive PM14 through intravenous infusion over 24 hours in 21-day cycles, with the goal of determining optimal dosing and treatment outcomes. The trial will assess progression-free survival rates to determine the treatment's effectiveness.

Why it matters

Potential benefit: If successful, this treatment could provide a new therapeutic option for patients with advanced soft tissue sarcomas and other solid tumors.

How similar studies have gone: While this approach is novel in its specific application, similar studies have shown promise in evaluating new treatments for sarcomas.

Who can join: the full rules

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Inclusion Criteria:

Cohorts A, B, E, and F

1. The patient must voluntarily sign the informed consent before any study test is conducted that is not part of routine patient care.
2. Age: 18-75 years.
3. Patients must have a diagnosis of soft tissue sarcoma with metastasis, and not suitable for metastasectomy or surgery resection or not oncologically recommended metastasectomy. A centralized diagnosis confirmation will be performed and the tumor sample must be available and sent prior to inclusion to this end.
4. A centralized diagnosis of DD liposarcoma or mixoid/hypercellular liposarcoma or leiomyosarcoma must be confirmed for patients in cohort E.
5. A centralized diagnosis of other sarcomas includes: undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma (UPS), myxofibrosarcoma, synovial sarcoma, malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors, sarcoma NOS, fibrosarcoma, pleomorphic rhabdomyosarcoma, pleomorphic liposarcoma, epithelioid sarcoma, clear cell sarcoma, dedifferentiated or aggressive features in solitary fibrous tumor, extraskeletal myxoid chondrosarcoma, angiosarcoma, epithelioid hemangioendothelioma,
6. Patients must have received a previous chemotherapy line in advanced disease unless contraindicated or not indicated.
7. Radiological disease progression must be documented within 6 months prior to study entry.
8. The patient must have been considered eligible for systemic chemotherapy. A maximum of two previous lines for advanced/metastatic disease are allowed.
9. Measurable disease according to RECIST v1.1 criteria.
10. Performance status ≤1 (ECOG).
11. Adequate bone marrow function (hemoglobin \>10 g/dL, neutrophils ≥ 1,500/mm3, platelets ≥ 100,000/mm3). Patients with creatinine clearance ≥ 30 mL/min (Cockcroft and Gault's formula), transaminases ≤ 3.0 times the ULN, total bilirubin ≤ ULN, are acceptable.
12. Men or women of childbearing potential must be using an effective method of contraception before entry into the study and throughout the same and for 3 months (men) and 6 months (women) after ending study treatment. Women of childbearing potential must have a negative serum or urine pregnancy test before study entry.
13. Normal cardiac function with a LVEF ≥ 50% by echocardiogram or MUGA.
14. HBV and HCV serologies must be performed prior to inclusion. If HbsAg is positive it is recommended to reject the existence of replicative phase (HbaAg+, DNA VHB+). If these were positives the inclusion is not recommended, remaining at investigators' discretion the preventive treatment with lamivudine. If a potential patient is positive for anti-HCV antibodies, presence of the virus should be ruled out with a qualitative PCR, or the patient should NOT be included in the study (if a qualitative PCR cannot be performed then patient will not be able to enter the study).
15. Patient must have a central venous catheter for PM14 treatment.

Cohort C

1. The patient must voluntarily sign the informed consent before any study test is conducted that is not part of routine patient care.
2. Age: 18-75 years.
3. Patients must have a diagnosis of advanced soft tissue sarcoma, or recurrent head \& neck suitable for reirradiation or other advanced or metastatic solid tumor not suitable for metastasectomy or surgery resection or not oncologically recommended metastasectomy. A centralized diagnosis will be performed and the tumor sample must be available and sent prior to inclusion to this end. For phase II part, onlysoft tissue sarcomas will be enrolled.
4. Patients must have received a previous chemotherapy line in advanced disease.
5. Disease distribution must allow meeting with normal tissue constrains of radiation therapy. Radiation oncologist must confirm this point at local sites.
6. Metastatic spread could be present in several organs (i.e. lungs and pelvic fossa) however, not all the locations have to be irradiated.
7. Those lesions considered for radiation therapy have to be related to symptoms (for phase II).
8. It is allowed that not all the lesions will be under radiation fields. As a general rule, the priority is to select, as target-irradiating lesions, those with greater increase in size and those largest lesions if related with symptoms. Irradiating pulmonary lesions with infiltration of pleural serosa is discouraged.
9. Radiological disease progression must be documented within 6 months prior to study entry.
10. The patient must have been considered eligible for systemic chemotherapy. A maximum of two previous lines for advanced/metastatic disease are allowed.
11. The following histological subtypes can be included for the phase II part (central pathology review is mandatory before accrual): undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma (UPS), leiomyosarcoma, angiosarcoma, epithelial hemangioendothelioma, liposarcoma and its variants (well differentiated, dedifferentiated, myxoid/round cell, pleomorphic), synovial sarcoma, fibrosarcoma and its variants (epithelial fibrosarcoma/low grade fibromyxoid sarcoma), solitary fibrous tumor, malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor (MPNST), myxofibrosarcoma, epithelioid sarcoma and (NOS) unclassified sarcoma.
12. Measurable disease according to RECIST v1.1 criteria.
13. Performance status ≤1 (ECOG).
14. Adequate respiratory functions: FEV1 \> 1L; DLco \> 40% (patients with pulmonary target lesions).
15. Adequate bone marrow function (hemoglobin \> 10 g/dL, neutrophils ≥ 1,500/mm3, platelets ≥ 100,000/mm3). Patients withcreatinine clearance ≥ 30 mL/min (Cockcroft and Gault's formula), transaminases ≤ 2.5 times the ULN, total bilirubin ≤ ULN are acceptable.
16. Men or women of childbearing potential must be using an effective method of contraception before entry into the study and throughout the same and for 3 months (men) and 6 months (women) after ending study treatment. Women of childbearing potential must have a negative serum or urine pregnancy test before study entry.
17. Normal cardiac function with a LVEF ≥ 50% by echocardiogram or MUGA.
18. HBV and HCV serologies must be performed prior to inclusion. If HbsAg is positive it is recommended to reject the existence of replicative phase (HbaAg+, DNA VHB+). If these were positives the inclusion is not recommended, remaining at investigators' discretion the preventive treatment with lamivudine. If a potential patient is positive for anti-HCV antibodies, presence of the virus should be ruled out with a qualitative PCR, or the patient should NOT be included in the study (if a qualitative PCR cannot be performed then patient will not be able to enter the study).
19. Patient must have a central venous catheter for PM14 treatment.

Cohort D

1. The patient must voluntarily sign the informed consent before any study test is conducted that is not part of routine patient care.
2. Age: 18-75 years.
3. Patients must have a diagnosis of localized soft tissue sarcoma that lacks one or more of the following risk criteria: G3, deep and \> 5 cm. At least G2 is required (i.e. G3, superficial and \> 5 cm; or G3 \< 5 cm deep; or G2, deep and \> 5 cm, etc.).
4. Patients must be diagnosed by core-biopsy and the elapsed time between biopsy and enrollment must be shorter than 6 weeks.
5. Patients must be diagnosed by central pathology review with one of the following subtypes: leiomyosarcoma, undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma (UPS), myxofibrosarcoma, synovial sarcoma, sarcoma NOS, fibrosarcoma, myxoid liposarcoma,dedifferentiated liposarcoma, solitary fibrous tumor (the formerly malignant subtype).
6. Only those sarcomas of limbs or trunk wall will be eligible for this cohort.
7. Disease distribution allows meeting with normal tissue constraints of radiation therapy. Radiation oncologist must confirm this point at local sites.
8. Patients must have resectable primary tumor while it is allowed to enroll patients with metastatic spread that could be potentially resectable.
9. Patients must have criteria of operability for the primary tumor.
10. The patient must have been considered eligible for systemic chemotherapy.
11. Measurable disease according to RECIST v1.1 criteria.
12. Patients have to be candidates for MRI test.
13. Performance status ≤ 1 (ECOG).
14. Adequate bone marrow function (hemoglobin \> 10 g/dL, neutrophils ≥ 1,500/mm3, platelets ≥ 100,000/mm3). Patients withcreatinine clearance ≥ 30 mL/min (Cockcroft and Gault's formula), transaminases ≤ 2.5 times the ULN, total bilirubin ≤ ULN are acceptable.
15. Men or women of childbearing potential must be using an effective method of contraception before entry into the study and throughout the same and for 3 months (men) and 6 months (women) after ending study treatment. Women of childbearing potential must have a negative serum or urine pregnancy test before study entry.
16. Normal cardiac function with a LVEF ≥ 50% by echocardiogram or MUGA.
17. It should be performed HBV and HCV serologies prior to inclusion. If HbsAg is positive it is recommended to reject the existence of replicative phase (HbaAg+, DNA VHB+). If these were positives the inclusion is not recommended, remaining at investigators' discretion the preventive treatment with lamivudine. If a potential patient is positive for anti-HCV antibodies, presence of the virus should be ruled out with a qualitative PCR, or the patient should NOT be included in the study (if a qualitative PCR cannot be performed then patient will not be able to enter the study).
18. Patient must have a central venous catheter for treatment with PM14.

Exclusion Criteria:

Cohorts A, B, E, and F

1. Performance status ≥ 2 (ECOG).
2. Plasma bilirubin \> ULN.
3. Creatinine \> 1.6 mg/dL.
4. History of other cancer with less than 5 years free of disease with the exception of adequately treated basal cell carcinoma or in situ cervical cancer.
5. Patients who do not provide consent for mandatory biological samples (including those required for the translational study) cannot participate in the study.
6. Significant cardiovascular disease (for example, dyspnea \> 2 NYHA).
7. Significant systemic diseases grade 3 or higher on the NCI-CTCAE v5.0 scale, that limit patient availability, or according to investigator judgment may significantly contribute to treatment toxicity.
8. Uncontrolled bacterial, mycotic or viral infections.
9. Women who are pregnant or breastfeeding.
10. Psychological, family, social or geographic circumstances that limit the patients' ability to comply with the protocol or informed consent.
11. Patients participating in another clinical trial or receiving any other investigational product.
12. Patients who had participated in another clinical trial and/or had received any other investigational product in the last 30 days prior to inclusion.
13. Histologies other than those described in the inclusion criteria.

Cohort C

1. Previous treatment with radiotherapy (except if previous radiotherapy treatment plus planned study radiotherapy treatment allow tissue constrains).
2. Performance status ≥ 2 (ECOG).
3. Plasma bilirubin \> ULN.
4. Creatinine \> 1.6 mg/dL.
5. History of other cancer with less than 5 years free of disease with the exception ofadequately treated basal cell carcinoma or in situ cervical cancer.
6. Severe COPD or other severe pulmonary diseases.
7. Significant cardiovascular disease (for example, dyspnea \> 2 NYHA).
8. Significant systemic diseases grade 3 or higher on the NCI-CTCAE v5.0 scale, that limit patient availability, or according to investigator judgment may significantly contribute to treatment toxicity.
9. Patients who do not provide consent for mandatory biological samples (including those required for the translational study) cannot participate in the study.
10. Uncontrolled bacterial, mycotic or viral infections.
11. Women who are pregnant or breastfeeding.
12. Psychological, family, social or geographic circumstances that limit the patients' ability to comply with the protocol or informed consent.
13. Patients participating in another clinical trial or receiving any other investigational product.
14. Patients who had participated in another clinical trial and/or had received any other investigational product in the last 30 days prior to inclusion.
15. Histologies other than those described in inclusion criteria.

Cohort D

1. High-risk localized patients are not allowed to be enrolled (those G3, deep, and larger than 5 cm or those with risk of death at least 40% by sarculator nomogram).
2. Previous treatment with radiotherapy.
3. Primary tumor location other than those indicated in the inclusion criteria.
4. Histological subtypes other than those indicated in the inclusion criteria.
5. Unresectable or inoperable primary tumor.
6. Patients who do not provide consent for mandatory biological samples (including those required for the translational study) cannot participate in the study.
7. Performance status ≥ 2 (ECOG).
8. Plasma bilirubin \> ULN.
9. Creatinine \> 1.6 mg/dL.
10. History of other cancer with less than 5 years free of disease with the exception of adequately treated basal cell carcinoma or in situ cervical cancer.
11. Significant cardiovascular disease (for example, dyspnea \> 2 NYHA).
12. Significant systemic diseases grade 3 or higher on the NCI-CTCAE v5.0 scale, that limit patient availability, or according to investigator judgment may significantly contribute to treatment toxicity.
13. Uncontrolled bacterial, mycotic or viral infections.
14. Women who are pregnant or breastfeeding.
15. Psychological, family, social or geographic circumstances that limit the patients' ability to comply with the protocol or informed consent.
16. Patients participating in another clinical trial or receiving any other investigational product.
17. Patients who had participated in another clinical trial and/or had received any other investigational product in the last 30 days prior to inclusion.

Where it's running

  • Hospital Universitario Miguel Servet
    Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain
    Recruiting
  • Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron
    Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
    Recruiting
  • Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau
    Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
    Recruiting
  • Hospital Universitario Fundación Jiménez Díaz
    Madrid, Madrid, Spain
    Recruiting

Study contacts

  • Principal investigator: Javier Martínez Trufero — Hospital Miguel Servet
  • Study coordinator: Patricio Ledesma
  • Email: ensayos@sofpromed.com
  • Phone: 971 439 900

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