About this trial
This study will evaluate whether starting denosumab early, together with a locked uniform PD-1-based systemic therapy, can reduce skeletal-related events and delay worsening bone pain compared with a delayed/rescue bone-modifying strategy in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma and bone metastases. Participants will be randomly assigned in a 1:1 ratio to receive either early denosumab plus the same PD-1-based systemic therapy or the same systemic therapy with no routine prophylactic bone-modifying agent at baseline and rescue treatment only when predefined triggers occur. The primary outcome is skeletal-related event-free survival. Secondary outcomes include time to first skeletal-related event, pain outcomes, quality of life, intrahepatic antitumor activity at Week 12, progression-free survival, overall survival, and safety.
Eligibility criteria
Qualifiers
Age 18 to 75 years
Hepatocellular carcinoma confirmed by imaging and/or histology according to current institutional diagnostic standards
Bone metastasis confirmed by CT, MRI, bone scintigraphy, PET-CT, or pathology
ECOG performance status 0 to 1
Disqualifiers
Prior treatment with PD-1, PD-L1, CTLA-4, or other immune checkpoint inhibitors
Receipt of denosumab or intravenous/oral bisphosphonates for tumor-related bone disease within 6 months before randomization
Uncorrected hypocalcemia or severe vitamin D deficiency that cannot be corrected promptly
Current or prior osteonecrosis of the jaw, jaw osteomyelitis, or high-risk dental condition requiring near-term extraction, implantation, or other invasive dental procedures that cannot be deferred
Trial design
Treatments tested in this trial
- Denosumab
- Sintilimab
- Delayed/Rescue Bone-Modifying Strategy