A Study to Learn About the Medicine Ponsegromab in Adults With Cancer of the Pancreas Which Has Spread and Caused Significant Body Weight Loss and Fatigue
Study Phase: Phase 2/Phase 3
Recruitment Status: Recruiting
Start Date: October 03, 2025
End Date: December 10, 2029
inclusion Criteria:
- Signed Informed Consent Document
- Documented active diagnosis of metastatic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
- Cachexia defined by Fearon criteria of weight loss
- Completed 1 x 28-day cycle of first-line systemic nab-paclitaxel and gemcitabine chemotherapy or 2 x 14-day cycles of FOLFIRINOX chemotherapy and prior to receiving Cycle 2 chemotherapy
- ECOG PS ≤1 with life expectancy of at least 4 months Key
Exclusion Criteria:
- Current active reversible causes of decreased food intake
- Cachexia caused by other reasons
- Any prior or current clinical diagnosis of heart failure, irrespective of left ventricular ejection fraction or New York Heart Association classification
- Left ventricular ejection fraction <50%
- Receiving tube feedings or parenteral nutrition at the time of Screening or Randomization
- History of allergic or anaphylactic reaction to any therapeutic or diagnostic monoclonal antibody
- History of allergy or hypersensitivity to any of the chemotherapeutics or any of their excipients
- Neuroendocrine (carcinoid, islet cell) or acinar pancreatic carcinoma, symptomatic brain metastasis, leptomeningeal disease or other active CNS metastases
- Inadequate liver function
- Renal disease requiring dialysis or eGFR <30 mL/min/1.73m2