The goal of this clinical trial is to learn whether adding branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs) to lenvatinib and pembrolizumab improves treatment outcomes in adults with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The study will also evaluate the safety of this combination treatment.
The main questions this study aims to answer are:
Does the addition of BCAAs improve the time patients live without their cancer getting worse? Does the combination treatment improve tumor response compared with standard treatment alone? What medical problems or side effects do participants experience during treatment? Researchers will compare lenvatinib plus pembrolizumab with BCAAs to lenvatinib plus pembrolizumab alone to see whether adding BCAAs provides additional benefit for patients with unresectable HCC.
Participants will:
Be randomly assigned to receive lenvatinib and pembrolizumab with or without oral BCAAs Take lenvatinib by mouth every day and receive pembrolizumab by intravenous infusion every 3 weeks Continue treatment until disease progression, unacceptable side effects, or withdrawal from the study Visit the clinic regularly for physical examinations, imaging tests, blood tests, and safety assessments