Clinical trial · no report yet · Phase 1/Phase 2
TACITO
Fecal Microbiota Transplantation to Improve Efficacy of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors in Renal Cell Carcinoma
- NCT04758507 ↗
- Completed
- Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS
- Deep
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| X threads | 16 | |
| YouTube | 3 | |
| Podcasts | 2 | |
| Bluesky threads | 1 |
The trial
ClinicalTrials.gov- Official title
- Targeting Gut Microbiota to Improve Efficacy of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors in Patients With Advanced Renal Cell Carcinoma
- Phase
- Phase 1/Phase 2
- Status
- Completed
- Conditions
- Renal Cell Carcinoma
- Interventions
- donor FMT; Placebo FMT
- Arms
- Donor FMT · Experimental
- Placebo FMT · Placebo comparator
- Enrollment
- 50
- Primary outcomes
- Number of participants who will be free from tumor progression, as assessed by RECIST criteria v. 1.1.
- Sponsor
- Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS
- Start
- Feb 18, 2021
- Primary completion
- Dec 16, 2024
- Results posted
- No
- Registry record
- NCT04758507 · updated Sep 8, 2025
Publications
linked from the registry- Ianiro G, Rossi E, Thomas AM, Schinzari G, Masucci L, Quaranta G, Settanni CR, Lopetuso LR, Armanini F, Blanco-Miguez A, Asnicar F, Consolandi C, Iacovelli R, Sanguinetti M, Tortora G, Gasbarrini A, Segata N, Cammarota G. Faecal microbiota transplantation for the treatment of diarrhoea induced by tyrosine-kinase inhibitors in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma. Nat Commun. 2020 Aug 28;11(1):4333. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-18127-y. PubMed 32859933
- Baruch EN, Youngster I, Ben-Betzalel G, Ortenberg R, Lahat A, Katz L, Adler K, Dick-Necula D, Raskin S, Bloch N, Rotin D, Anafi L, Avivi C, Melnichenko J, Steinberg-Silman Y, Mamtani R, Harati H, Asher N, Shapira-Frommer R, Brosh-Nissimov T, Eshet Y, Ben-Simon S, Ziv O, Khan MAW, Amit M, Ajami NJ, Barshack I, Schachter J, Wargo JA, Koren O, Markel G, Boursi B. Fecal microbiota transplant promotes response in immunotherapy-refractory melanoma patients. Science. 2021 Feb 5;371(6529):602-609. doi: 10.1126/science.abb5920. Epub 2020 Dec 10. PubMed 33303685
- Davar D, Dzutsev AK, McCulloch JA, Rodrigues RR, Chauvin JM, Morrison RM, Deblasio RN, Menna C, Ding Q, Pagliano O, Zidi B, Zhang S, Badger JH, Vetizou M, Cole AM, Fernandes MR, Prescott S, Costa RGF, Balaji AK, Morgun A, Vujkovic-Cvijin I, Wang H, Borhani AA, Schwartz MB, Dubner HM, Ernst SJ, Rose A, Najjar YG, Belkaid Y, Kirkwood JM, Trinchieri G, Zarour HM. Fecal microbiota transplant overcomes resistance to anti-PD-1 therapy in melanoma patients. Science. 2021 Feb 5;371(6529):595-602. doi: 10.1126/science.abf3363. PubMed 33542131
- Cammarota G, Ianiro G, Kelly CR, Mullish BH, Allegretti JR, Kassam Z, Putignani L, Fischer M, Keller JJ, Costello SP, Sokol H, Kump P, Satokari R, Kahn SA, Kao D, Arkkila P, Kuijper EJ, Vehreschild MJG, Pintus C, Lopetuso L, Masucci L, Scaldaferri F, Terveer EM, Nieuwdorp M, Lopez-Sanroman A, Kupcinskas J, Hart A, Tilg H, Gasbarrini A. International consensus conference on stool banking for faecal microbiota transplantation in clinical practice. Gut. 2019 Dec;68(12):2111-2121. doi: 10.1136/gutjnl-2019-319548. Epub 2019 Sep 28. PubMed 31563878
- Porcari S, Ciccarese C, Heidrich V, Rondinella D, Quaranta G, Severino A, Arduini D, Buti S, Fornarini G, Primi F, Stumbo L, Giannarelli D, Giudice GC, Damassi A, Giron Berrios JR, Puncochar M, Barbazuk TB, Piccinno G, Pinto F, Armanini F, Asnicar F, Schinzari G, Derosa L, Kroemer G, Sanguinetti M, Masucci L, Gasbarrini A, Tortora G, Cammarota G, Zitvogel L, Segata N, Iacovelli R, Ianiro G. Fecal microbiota transplantation plus pembrolizumab and axitinib in metastatic renal cell carcinoma: the randomized phase 2 TACITO trial. Nat Med. 2026 Apr;32(4):1316-1324. doi: 10.1038/s41591-025-04189-2. Epub 2026 Jan 28. PubMed 41606119