Study of PolyIC and PD-1 mAb in Subjects With Unresectable Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Carcinoma, Hepatocellular

About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Carcinoma, Hepatocellular focused on measuring Hepatocellular carcinoma, Polyinosinic-polycytidylic acid, PD-1 mAb
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Hepatocellular carcinoma with imaging diagnosis, in barcelona stage C, or stage B but resistant/recurrent to prior local treatment (e.g., TACE).
- Eastern cooperative oncology group physical fitness score: 0-2.
- Predicted survival time≥3 months.
- Liver function of Child-Pugh A-B, no hepatic encephalopathy or physical examined ascites.
Routine blood tests were in accordance with the following criteria:
White blood cell (WBC)≥2.0x10^9/L, Neutrophil≥1.0x10^9/L, platelet (PLT)≥50x10^9/L, hemoglobin (HB)≥80 g/dL, creatinine≤1.5xULN (upper limit of normal value), Alanine transaminase (ALT) and aspartate aminotransferase (AST)≤5xULN, total bilirubin (TB)≤51.3umol/L, international normalized ratio (INR) or prothrombin time (PT)≤1.7xULN, activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT)≤1.5xULN, serum albumin≥28g/L
- Patients will be informed consent, and understand and are willing to cooperate with the trial and sign related documents.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Has a history of malignant tumor in last 2 years, except basal and skin squamous cell carcinoma, cervical carcinoma in situ, papillary thyroid carcinoma, superficial bladder cancer and carcinoma in situ of breast.
- Received the treatment of polyIC or immune checkpoint inhibitors (e.g., PD-1/PD-L1 mAb or CTLA-4 mAb) in last 2 years.
- Received the therapies of multi-kinase inhibitors (e.g., sorafenib, regorafenib), systemic chemotherapy, local therapy (e.g., TACE, radiotherapy), vaccination, immunomodulating therapy (e.g., interleukins, thymosin) or any other clinical trial in last 4 weeks.
- Received any corticosterone or immunosuppressive drug in last 2 weeks.
- Toxicity induced by previous anti-tumor therapies has not returned to the status of baseline or stability.
- HIV positive (including previous anti-retroviral therapy), active HCV infection or active syphilis.
- Any severe liver disease (e.g., severe liver cirrhosis, severe liver adenoma)
- Any active or recurrent autoimmune disease.
- Any interstitial pneumonia, non-infectious pneumonia, or uncontrolled systemic disease (e.g., uncontrolled hypertension or diabetes).
- Severe cardiovascular risk factors.
- Has a history of allogeneic stem cell transplantation or organ transplantation.
- Imaging confirmed brain or meninges metastases.
- Has the plan of pregnancy, or lactation.
- Any kind of psychiatric disease or laboratory test abnormality that may result in the subject's failure to fully comply with the laboratory protocol.
Sites / Locations
- The second affiliated hospital of Zhejiang UniversityRecruiting
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Experimental
'PolyIC plus PD-1 mAb' and 'PD-1 mAb'
'PolyIC plus PD-1 mAb' group: PolyIC, 2mg, i.m., every other day, for three weeks. PD-1 mAb, 200mg, i.v., every three weeks. 'PD-1 mAb' group: PD-1 mAb, 200mg, i.v., every three weeks.