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NCT04550260Active, not recruitingPhase 3

Study of Durvalumab Versus Placebo in Combination With Definitive Chemoradiation Therapy in Patient With ESCC

A Phase III, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo Controlled, Multi-Center, International Study of Durvalumab Given Concurrently With Definitive Chemoradiation Therapy in Patients With Locally Advanced, Unresectable Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma (KUNLUN)

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 13 Oct 2026

Brief summary (registry, in English)

This is a Phase III, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multi-center international study to assess the efficacy and safety of durvalumab administered concurrently with dCRT in patients with locally advanced, unresectable esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC).

Status (registry)
Active, not recruiting
Phase (registry)
Phase 3
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
640 (actual)
First submitted
9 Sept 2020
Start date
19 Oct 2020
Primary completion date
30 Jun 2027
Lead sponsor
AstraZeneca
NCT number
NCT04550260
EudraCT number
2020-001001-22

What you commit to

  • Study type: Interventional · Phase 3
  • Participants enrolled: 640
  • From 19 Oct 2020 to the primary completion date, 30 Jun 2027
  • 115 sites in 16 countries
  • Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them

Built from the registry fields of ClinicalTrials.gov. It describes the study, not your situation.

Who cannot take part

Copied verbatim from ClinicalTrials.gov and grouped by topic. Only the trial team decides who can take part.

Prior treatment

  • Prior anti-cancer treatment for ESCC.
  • Active or prior documented autoimmune or inflammatory disorders.

Other illness

  • Patient with a great risk of perforation and massive bleeding.
  • History of allogeneic organ transplantation.
  • Uncontrolled intercurrent illness.
  • History of another primary malignancy.
  • Active infection including tuberculosis, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, or human immunodeficiency virus.
  • Known allergy or hypersensitivity to any of the study drugs or any of the study drug excipients.

Other

  • Histologically or cytologically confirmed small cell esophageal carcinoma, esophageal adenocarcinoma or other mixed carcinoma.

Who the study is looking for

  • 18 years or older at the time of signing the ICF.
  • Histologically or cytologically confirmed esophageal squamous cell carcinoma, and present with locally advanced disease (Stage II-IVA).
  • Unresectable or refusing surgery, and has been deemed suitable for definitive chemoradiation therapy.
  • Patients with at least an evaluable lesion per RECIST 1.1.
  • Mandatory provision of available tumor tissue for PD-L1 expression analysis.
  • ECOG PS 0 or 1.
  • Adequate organ and marrow function.
  • Life expectancy of more than 3 months.

Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers

Full criteria on ClinicalTrials.gov

Sites (115)

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