A Study of MG4101 (Allogeneic Natural Killer Cell) for Intermediate-stage of Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Hepatocellular Carcinoma

About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Patients who are between 20 to 80 years of age
- Life expectancy > 12 weeks
Patients have complete remission according to the mRECIST by Dynamic contrast-enhanced 3- or 4-phase CT or tissue biopsy
- Patients were diagnosed Hepatocellular Carcinoma BCLC stage B be-fore TACE.
- Dynamic contrast-enhanced CT must be within 4 weeks after the TACE.
Previous TACE with the following:
- Lipiodol mixed with chemotherapy (such as adriamycin etc.)
- Used with Gelatin sponge or Polyvinyl alcohol or microsphere.
- Patients who had local treatment such as Resection, Radiofrequency Ablation, Percutaneous ethanol injection and Transarterial chemoembolization can participates study.
- Patients whose Child-Pugh score is less than B8.
- Patients whose ECOG score is 0
Patients who satisfy the following conditions of the blood test, kidney function test, and liver function test.
- Absolute neutrophil count ≥ 1,000 x 10^6 /L
- hemoglobin level ≥ 8.5 g/㎗
- platelet count ≥ 50,000 /㎣
- Total bilirubin < 3.0 ㎎/㎗
- Serum creatinine ≤ 1.5 x upper normal limit (UNL)
- Total Albumin ≥ 2.8 ㎎/㎗
- Able and willing to provide written informed consent and to comply with the study protocol.
Exclusion criteria
- Patients who have metastasis.
- Patients who have Portal vein or hepatic vein invasion.
Patient with medical history for the following:
- Patients with Living donor Liver Transplantation or Orthotopic liver transplantation.
- Patients who have received anti-cancer chemotherapy for 4 weeks prior to the study.
- Patients who have not recovered adverse reaction prior to the study.
- Patients who have received external beam radiation on liver, immunotherapy, cell therapy, and target therapy.
- Prior use of systemic anticancer chemotherapy twice.
- Patients who have a history of malignant tumors in 5 years prior to the study with the exception of Carcinoma in situ..
- Patients who have a history of autoimmune disease such as Rheuma-toid arthritis, systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Vasculitis, Multiple sclerosis, Adolescent Insulin-dependent Diabetes Mellitus, etc.
- Patients who have history of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection.
- Patients who have participated in other clinical trials within 4 weeks prior to this study.
- Patients who treated with immunosuppressant for 3 months prior to this study.
- Patients who have any condition that was uncontrolled or needed treatment.
- Pregnant or breast-feeding subjects.
Sites / Locations
- Seoul National University Hospital
- Seoul Asan Medical center
- Samsung Medical Center
- Korea Univ. Guro Hospital
- Severance hospital
- Ajou Univ. Hospital
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
No Intervention
Experimental
The Control Group
The Treatment Group (MG4101)
Patients will be randomized 1:1 to the control group and the treatment group. Patients who had allocated control group will not receive adjuvant treatment.
Patients will be randomized 1:1 to the control group and the treatment group. The treatment group will receive 6 times of MG4101(allogeneic natural killer cells) on week 0, 1, 2, 5, 6, 7.