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NCT03937362Completed

Pre-Surgery If Needed for Oesophageal Cancer

Accuracy of Detecting Residual Disease After Neoadjuvant Chemoradiotherapy for Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma: the preSINO Trial (Pre-Surgery If Needed for Oesophageal Cancer)

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 3 Mar 2025

Brief summary (registry, in English)

A prospective, multi-centre, diagnostic cohort study investigating the accuracy of positron emission tomography with computed tomography (PET-CT), endoscopic bite-on-bite biopsies and endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS) with fine-needle aspiration (FNA) for detecting residual disease after neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy in patients with potentially resectable esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (SCC).

Status (registry)
Completed
Study type
Observational
Enrollment
200 (actual)
First submitted
1 May 2019
Start date
8 Aug 2019
Primary completion date
31 May 2023
Lead sponsor
Shanghai Chest Hospital
NCT number
NCT03937362

What you commit to

  • Study type: Observational
  • Participants enrolled: 200
  • From 8 Aug 2019 to the primary completion date, 31 May 2023
  • 4 sites in 4 countries
  • Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them

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Who cannot take part

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Prior treatment

  • Previous major surgery in the chest or upper abdomen;
  • Suspected positive lymph nodes that cannot be covered by an uninterrupted radiation field that also includes the primary tumor area;
  • Previous history of chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy;

Other illness

  • Cervical esophageal cancer.

Other

  • Patient with a second primary tumor;
  • Tumor not 18F-FDG-avid at baseline PET-CT;
  • Primary (early) lesion already removed by EMR/ESD;

Who the study is looking for

  • Histologically confirmed esophageal squamous cell carcinoma;
  • Tumor located in the chest;
  • Clinical stage cT1N1-2M0, cT2-4aN0-2M0, according to the 8th Edition of the AJCC TNM classification for Esophageal Cancer;
  • Age \> 20 at the date of informed consent;
  • Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) Performance Status of two or less;
  • Considered fit to undergo nCRT followed by surgical resection;
  • Expected survival time more than three months;
  • Written informed consent by the patient.

Age in the registry: 20 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers

Full criteria on ClinicalTrials.gov

Sites (4)

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SiteCityCountrySite status
Shanghai Chest Hospital
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ShanghaiChinaUnknown status
Queen Mary Hospital
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Hong KongHong Kong SAR ChinaUnknown status
Erasmus MC Cancer Institute
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RotterdamNetherlandsUnknown status
Chang Gung Memorial Hospital
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Linkou DistrictTaiwanUnknown status

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