Sarcoma Clinical Trials

The Sarcoma Foundation of America Clinical Trial Matching Service

The Sarcoma Foundation of America Clinical Trial Matching Service offers patients, caregivers and health care professionals up-to-date information about sarcoma cancer clinical trials throughout the United States and Canada. The service is provided in collaboration with EmergingMed and will help you quickly search for clinical trial options that match your specific diagnosis and treatment history.

This free and confidential service is designed to allow you to begin the search process online. However, we recommend that visitors begin the process by calling our toll-free number: 800-536-8718 or go to SFA Clinical Trial Matching Service.

Clinical Trials Resource Center

Welcome to the Sarcoma Foundation of America’s Clinical Trials Resource Center presented in partnership with CenterWatch.com, the leading publisher of information on clinical research for patients and their advocates. Please click on the links below to learn more about clinical research and new medical therapies.


Actively Recruiting Clinical Trials*

*For a comprehensive list, please go to the Patient Resources section at the bottom of the page.

TAPUR Study: Participants receive abemaciclib – dosage, frequency and duration per label; acceptable genomic matches include CDK4 amplification

This phase 2 study is a nonrandomized, open label study enrolling patients of all tumor types, including soft tissue sarcomas. One of the study arms investigates the study drug abemaciclib (Verzenio), an oral targeted therapy, for patients who are no longer benefitting from standard treatment, and whose tumor has a CDK4 amplification. The Targeted Agent and Profiling Utilization Registry (TAPUR) Study is a non-randomized clinical trial that aims to describe the safety and efficacy of commercially available, targeted anticancer drugs prescribed for treatment of patients with advanced cancer that has a potentially actionable genomic variant. TAPUR will study Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved targeted therapies that are contributed by collaborating pharmaceutical companies, catalogue the choice of molecular profiling test by clinical oncologists and develop hypotheses for additional clinical trials.

There are over 250 clinical sites across 28 states in the United States. For more information on the TAPUR Study, visit the TAPUR website at www.TAPUR.org. If you would like to learn more, the study team recently held a virtual live Grand Rounds which was recorded. The May 2023 TAPUR Grand Rounds recording is available for viewing and can be found under the “Study Results” page of the TAPUR website.

ClinicalTrials.gov: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02693535
Sponsor website: www.TAPUR.org


Brightline-1: A Study to Compare BI 907828 With Doxorubicin in People with a Type of Cancer Called Dedifferentiated Liposarcoma 

This study is open to people with a type of cancer called dedifferentiated liposarcoma. People with advanced liposarcoma aged 18 or older who are not receiving any other cancer treatment can participate. 

The purpose of this study is to compare a medicine called BI 907828 with doxorubicin in people with liposarcoma. BI 907828 is a so-called MDM2 inhibitor that is being developed to treat cancer. Doxorubicin is a medicine already used to treat cancer including liposarcoma. 

During the study, participants get either BI 907828 or doxorubicin. Every 3 weeks, participants take BI 907828 as tablets or doxorubicin as an infusion into a vein. Participants can switch to BI 907828 treatment if they did not benefit from doxorubicin treatment. 

Participants can continue treatment in the study as long as they benefit from it and can tolerate it. 

Doctors regularly check the size of the tumor and check whether it has spread to other parts of the body. The doctors also regularly check participants’ health and take note of any unwanted effects.

ClinicalTrials.gov:https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT05218499
Sponsor website:  https://brightline-1.researchstudytrial.com/


YH001 Plus Envafolimab With or Without Doxorubicin in Patients With Advanced or Metastatic Sarcoma

This is a multicenter, open label, Phase 1/2 study of YH001 initially given in combination with envafolimab, and then given in combination with envafolimab plus doxorubicin in patients with advanced or metastatic sarcoma, followed by Phase 2 cohorts of patients with select histologies of advanced or metastatic sarcoma.

ClinicalTrials.gov:  https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT05448820?term=envafolimab&draw=3
Sponsor website:   www.traconpharma.com


ENVASARC: Envafolimab And Envafolimab With Ipilimumab In Patients With Undifferentiated Pleomorphic Sarcoma Or Myxofibrosarcoma (ENVASARC)

This is a multicenter open-label, randomized, non-comparative, parallel cohort pivotal study of treatment with envafolimab (cohort A and C) or envafolimab combined with ipilimumab (cohort B and D) in patients with locally advanced, unresectable or metastatic undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma (UPS)/myxofibrosarcoma (MFS) who have progressed on one or two lines of chemotherapy.

ClinicalTrials.gov:  https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04480502?term=envafolimab&draw=4
Sponsor website: www.traconpharma.com


An open-label, single-arm, multicohort, Phase 2 study to assess the efficacy and safety of tabelecleucel in subjects with Epstein-Barr virus-associated diseases

This is a multi-cohort, Phase 2, single arm, open label study of tabelecleucel (allogenic EBV-specific T-cell immunotherapy) in patients with EBV+ sarcoma, to include leiomyosarcoma (one of six cohorts). Patients can be newly diagnosed or failed a first-line therapy for EBV+ sarcoma. Newly diagnosed patients should be ineligible to receive standard first-line therapy. Primary objective is to evaluate the clinical benefit of tabelecleucel.

ClinicalTrials.gov: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04554914
Sponsor website: www.atarabio.com


Phase 1 Trial of the LSD1 Inhibitor Seclidemstat (SP-2577) with and without Topotecan and Cyclophosphamide in Patients with Relapsed or Refractory Ewing Sarcoma and Select Sarcomas

This is an open label, phase I trial to evaluate the safety of an orally administered targeted agent, seclidemstat (LSD1 inhibitor) in combination with cyclophosphamide and topotecan, in patients with relapsed or refractory Ewing sarcoma who have received at least one line of prior treatment for Ewing sarcoma. The trial also enrolls both myxoid liposarcoma and Ewing-related sarcomas which share a similar translocation gene as Ewing sarcoma, who have received at least two prior lines of treatment for their sarcoma. The myxoid liposarcoma and translocated sarcoma patients will be enrolled to single-agent seclidemstat. This trial has completed the dose escalation phase of the trial and is now in dose expansion. The primary objective is safety and tolerability of seclidemstat, alone, and in combination with standard chemotherapy.

ClinicalTrials.gov: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03600649?term=salarius&draw=2&rank=2
Sponsor Website: http://salariuspharma.com/


Study of LOXO-101 in Subjects With NTRK Fusion Positive Solid Tumors

This phase 2 study will enroll patients of all tumor types, including sarcomas, who have a specific abnormality in the tumor called a fusion of one of the cancer cell’s NTRK genes (NTRK -1, -2, or -3) which may cause the sarcoma to grow. The study drug, LOXO-101, is a capsule and acts by blocking the effects of the NTRK fusions in these cancers. This study will measure how well and for how long LOXO-101 works. Patients with a sarcoma who would not be able to receive any other options for treatment can participate in this trial. If you are not sure if your cancer has one of these NTRK fusions, talk to your doctor about available options to have your tumor tissue tested.

ClinicalTrials.gov:  https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02576431?term=NCT02576431&draw=2&rank=1


Patient Resources

About Clinical Research
Background information about the clinical trials process and what to expect when you volunteer to participate in a clinical trial. Here, you’ll find answers to frequently asked questions about clinical trials and also suggestions for where to find more information.

CenterWatch Clinical Trials Listing Service
Database of industry sponsored clinical trial listings for Sarcoma.

Listing of Studies at ClinicalTrials.gov
Link to ClinicalTrials.gov, a comprehensive listing of federally and privately supported clinical trials. The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), through its National Library of Medicine (NLM), has developed this site in collaboration with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Profiles of Research Centers
Detailed descriptions of centers that conduct clinical research in the field of Oncology. Profiles include an overview of each center, descriptions of clinical research investigators and staff, and links to currently enrolling clinical research studies.

New FDA Drug Approvals
Database of new medical treatments approved by the FDA since 1995. Detailed summary descriptions for each drug are provided including drug name; manufacturer; mechanism of action; clinical trial results, and side effect profile.

CenterWatch Bookstore
Descriptions of all of CenterWatch’s publications for patients and for clinical research professionals.

Clinical Trials search site
The NCI has developed this premier site.  Just type in osteosarcoma, soft tissue sarcoma, etc., or refine the search to your personal interests.