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Liver Cancer: early-phase trial registry

30 of 81 indexed Liver Cancer trials are currently recruiting, with more weight in Phase 1-2.

Corpus placement: #172 of 28,707 conditions by registered trial count.

81 US clinical trials · 30 currently recruiting · #172 of 28,707 conditions by registered trial count

Liver Cancer: 81 US clinical trials tracked, 30 recruiting.

Liver Cancer is the subject of 81 registered US clinical trials on ClinicalTrials.gov, 30 of them currently open to new participants. 4 are in Phase 3-4 (later-stage) and 38 in Phase 1-2 (earlier-stage). The most active sponsor is Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, running 8 of these trials.

Enrollment posture brief

Registry condition liver-cancer

OPEN 30 | RECR 37% | LATE 4 | EARLY 38 | RANK #172 | SPON 8

Nearest open-share peer: Bipolar I Disorder (37% recruiting · 27 trials)

Small-cell Lung Cancer47.5%Stage IV Lung Cancer AJCC v845.1%Small Lymphocytic Lymphoma43.9%Peripheral Arterial Disease43.8%Liver Cancer (this)37%
Open-enrollment share among volume-matched conditions near Liver Cancer

Liver Cancer lists 30 open slots (37% of 81 indexed trials). Peers are matched on registered volume, not therapeutic-area browse lists. How peer matching works →

Key findings

What ClinicalTrials.gov does not surface for Liver Cancer on its own pages , computed from the registry mirror as of 2026-08-08. Each line carries its own denominator so it can be quoted as it stands.

  1. Liver Cancer is recruiting below its size-band peers.

    30 of 81 indexed trials (37%) are open to enrollment, against a 39.7% average across 762 conditions with 20-99 trials. The peer set uses the same ClinicalTrials.gov-derived counts as this page.

  2. Sponsorship of Liver Cancer trials is spread across many organizations.

    Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center accounts for 8 of 81 trials (9.9%). 54 distinct sponsors appear on at least one study for this condition label.

  3. Most Liver Cancer trials plan to enrol fewer than 100 people.

    Median target enrolment is 46 among the 79 trials that report a genuine target (sentinel values excluded). 50 of those (63.3%) plan for fewer than 100 participants.

  4. Liver Cancer research is mostly interventional.

    60 interventional and 21 observational studies make up this index (74.1% interventional). Study type is sponsor-reported on ClinicalTrials.gov.

Phase 116Phase 222Phase 33Phase 41

Open and recent trials

81 total, page 1 of 2

RECRUITING 9,150 participants

Biobank for Cholestatic Liver Diseases.

Mayo Clinic

NCT03445585

RECRUITING Phase 4 5,500 participants

National Liver Cancer Screening Trial

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

NCT06084234

RECRUITING 1,750 participants

Collection of Blood From Patients With Cancer

National Cancer Institute (NCI)

NCT00034216

RECRUITING 1,200 participants

Multi-analyte Blood Test Clinical Trial

Helio Genomics

NCT05199259

RECRUITING 750 participants

Follow-Up Study of Subjects Previously Enrolled in Poxviral Vector Gene Transfer Studies

National Cancer Institute (NCI)

NCT00451022

RECRUITING NA 644 participants

Diversity and Inclusion in Research Underpinning Prevention and Therapy Trials

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

NCT05146297

RECRUITING 600 participants

Identification of New Serum Diagnostic Markers of Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Stanford University

NCT00373347

RECRUITING 500 participants

National Translational Science Network of Precision-based Immunotherapy for Primary Liver Cancer

National Cancer Institute (NCI)

NCT04145141

RECRUITING 400 participants

Pre- and Post-operative TEG Indices in Patients With or Without Adenocarcinoma Undergoing Surgical Resection

University of Colorado, Denver

NCT05517811

RECRUITING NA 360 participants

Virtual Reality for GI Cancer Pain to Improve Patient Reported Outcomes

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

NCT04907643

RECRUITING NA 200 participants

EQUITY GI: A Prospective Study to Enhance Quality, Inclusivity, and Trial Participation in Black Patients With Gastrointestinal Cancer.

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center

NCT06263088

RECRUITING NA 100 participants

Histotripsy Plus Chemotherapy vs Chemotherapy Alone for Advanced Colorectal Liver Metastasis

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center

NCT07044362

RECRUITING 100 participants

DESTINY-PANTUMOUR04

AstraZeneca

NCT07124000

RECRUITING 100 participants

4D-MRI for Precision Medicine

University of Virginia

NCT04657042

RECRUITING NA 86 participants

Jump: MR Simulation For Radiation Therapy Master Protocol

Brigham and Women's Hospital

NCT04545957

RECRUITING Phase 1 80 participants

A Study to Evaluate Safety, Tolerability and Preliminary Activity of AGX101 in Participants With Advanced Solid Tumors

Angiex

NCT06440005

RECRUITING NA 78 participants

Interventional Radiology Liver Directed Therapies and Hypofractionated Image-Guided Radiation Therapy in Veteran and Non-Veteran, Non-surgical Hepatocellular Carcinoma Patients

Duke University

NCT04933435

RECRUITING Phase 2 62 participants

REGULUS: MRI-guided Adaptive SABR for Liver Cancers

Stanford University

NCT07223307

RECRUITING Phase 2 51 participants

Repurposing Riluzole for Cancer-Related Cognitive Impairment: A Pilot Trial

University of California, Irvine

NCT06580002

RECRUITING NA 50 participants

Feasibility Study of CBCT for IGRT in Cancer Patients

Varian, a Siemens Healthineers Company

NCT06681233

RECRUITING 40 participants

Development and Testing of a Patient-facing Educational Tool About Liver Cancer Prevention

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

NCT07010315

RECRUITING NA 40 participants

HepQuant: Study to Assess the Role of Blood-based Biomarkers and Quantitative MR Imaging for Patients Receiving Radiation Therapy for Liver Cancer

Montefiore Medical Center

NCT06899152

RECRUITING Phase 2 30 participants

Y-90 Treatment Response Using Transarterial Radioembolization

Thomas Jefferson University

NCT07145801

RECRUITING Phase 2 24 participants

Riluzole For Preventing Cognitive Dysfunction in Ca Pts Receiving Chemo (REFOCUS): Pilot Trial

University of California, Irvine

NCT07447050

RECRUITING Phase 1 24 participants

Interleukin-15 and -21 Armored Glypican-3-specific Chimeric Antigen Receptor Expressed in T Cells for Pediatric Solid Tumors

Baylor College of Medicine

NCT04715191

RECRUITING NA 18 participants

vGRID SBRT: A Phase I Clinical Trial in Unresectable or Metastatic HCC

University of Kansas Medical Center

NCT05727787

RECRUITING Phase 1 18 participants

Intra-tumoral (IT) Injection of vvDD-hIL2-2-RG-1 for Metastatic Gastrointestinal and Peritoneal Tumors

Allegheny Singer Research Institute (also known as Allegheny Health Network Research Institute)

NCT07001592

RECRUITING Phase 2 18 participants

Checkpoint Inhibition In Pediatric Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Allison O'Neill, MD

NCT04134559

RECRUITING Phase 1 15 participants

ET140203 T Cells in Pediatric Subjects With Hepatoblastoma, HCN-NOS, or Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Eureka Therapeutics

NCT04634357

RECRUITING 10 participants

Ovarian-Sparing Adaptive Radiotherapy in Young Adult Women

Washington University School of Medicine

NCT06904365

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING 6,000 participants

Collection of Tissue & Blood From Patients w/ Benign & Malignant Tumors of the Soft Tissue & Gastrointestinal Tract

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

NCT00582647

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING 2,990 participants

ALTUS: Performance of a Multi- Target Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC) Test in Subjects With Increased Risk

Exact Sciences Corporation

NCT05064553

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING Phase 3 545 participants

A Study of Nivolumab in Participants With Hepatocellular Carcinoma Who Are at High Risk of Recurrence After Curative Hepatic Resection or Ablation

Bristol-Myers Squibb

NCT03383458

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING Phase 3 231 participants

Patient Controlled Epidural Analgesia Versus Intravenous Patient Controlled Analgesia for Post-Operative Pain Control in Patients Undergoing Elective Liver Resection

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

NCT02523443

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING NA 150 participants

Examinations of Tissue From Ablated Malignant Liver Metastases as Predictors of Outcome

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

NCT01494324

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING NA 120 participants

Radioembolization Trial Utilizing Eye90 Microspheres™ for the Treatment of Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC)

ABK Biomedical

NCT05953337

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING Phase 2 58 participants

Domvanalimab and Zimberelimab in Advanced Liver Cancers

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

NCT05724563

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING NA 32 participants

Using an End-of-life Conversation Game to Engage Patients With Cancer in Advance Care Planning: Phase 2

Milton S. Hershey Medical Center

NCT06384417

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING Early Phase 1 20 participants

A Study to Test the Safety and Feasibility of Nivolumab With Drug Eluting Bead Transarterial Chemoembolization in Patients With Liver Cancer

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

NCT03143270

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING NA 20 participants

Pressure-enabled Delivery in Radioembolization (TriNav Study)

Massachusetts General Hospital

NCT05128032

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING NA 19 participants

TriNav Infusion System for the Evaluation of Fidelity Between 99mTc-MAA and Y90-Microspheres Hepatic Distribution for Dosimetry Treatment Planning

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

NCT05743842

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING Phase 1 16 participants

QUILT-2.025 NANT Neoepitope Yeast Vaccine (YE-NEO-001): Adjuvant Immunotherapy Using a Personalized Neoepitope Yeast-Based Vaccine To Induce T-Cell Responses In Subjects W/ Previously Treated Cancers.

NantBioScience

NCT03552718

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING Phase 1 14 participants

Interleukin-15 Armored Glypican 3-specific Chimeric Antigen Receptor Expressed in T Cells for Pediatric Solid Tumors

Baylor College of Medicine

NCT04377932

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING Phase 1 10 participants

Glypican 3-specific Chimeric Antigen Receptor Expressed in T Cells for Patients With Pediatric Solid Tumors (GAP)

Baylor College of Medicine

NCT02932956

COMPLETED 500 participants

Radiolabeled Glass Beads in Treating Patients With Liver Cancer That Cannot Be Removed by Surgery

Northwestern University

NCT00530010

COMPLETED Phase 3 405 participants

Early Palliative Care With Standard Care or Standard Care Alone in Improving Quality of Life of Patients With Incurable Lung or Non-colorectal Gastrointestinal Cancer and Their Family Caregivers

Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology

NCT02349412

COMPLETED 228 participants

A Retrospective Review of Malignant Liver Tumors

University of Oklahoma

NCT00728650

COMPLETED 180 participants

Human Liver Explants for HIF-1 Alpha Analysis/Comparison (HIF HCC)

Northwestern University

NCT00866957

COMPLETED Phase 2 172 participants

CS1008- in Combination With Sorafenib Compared to Sorafenib Alone in Subjects With Advanced Liver Cancer

Daiichi Sankyo

NCT01033240

COMPLETED 137 participants

Quality of Life in Patients With Liver Cancer Treated With Image-Guided Therapy

Vanderbilt University

NCT00482586

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Phase Distribution

PhaseTrial count
Phase 1 16
Phase 2 22
Phase 3 3
Phase 4 1

Named interventions

Most-linked intervention names on Liver Cancer records (sponsor-reported on ClinicalTrials.gov). Counts are trial links, not unique products.

exatecan mesylate Drug
2 trials
bevacizumab Biological
2 trials
Fludara Drug
2 trials
Sorafenib Drug
2 trials
Riluzole Drug
2 trials
Cytoxan Drug
2 trials
laboratory biomarker analysis Other
2 trials
Placebo Other
2 trials

US sites by state

Facility locations filed on Liver Cancer trials. A trial with sites in several states counts in each.

New York 21 trials
California 21 trials
Texas 19 trials
Pennsylvania 11 trials
Florida 10 trials
Maryland 8 trials
Massachusetts 8 trials
Illinois 8 trials

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, National Library of Medicine. Data is informational only.

What to do with this Liver Cancer page

81 registered trials, 30 currently recruiting, is a starting point for a conversation, not a diagnosis or a recommendation.

Trial and recruiting counts reflect ClinicalTrials.gov registry status as of the data vintage above; individual trial eligibility and enrollment status can change.

Every figure on PlainTrial is rendered directly from the ClinicalTrials.gov registry, no number is typed in by an editor. This Liver Cancer condition card totals 81 registered trials; most-linked intervention exatecan mesylate; top US site state New York. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, the data changelog, or report a data error.