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NCT06492460RecruitingPhase 3

2 Courses of Concurrent Cisplatin Chemoradiotherapy After Surgery for High-risk Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma

A Multicenter, Randomized Controlled, Non-inferior Phase 3 Clinical Trial of 2 Courses of Concurrent Cisplatin Chemoradiotherapy Versus 3 Courses After Surgery for High-risk Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 14 Aug 2025 · Not updated for over 12 months - ask the site whether it is still open

Brief summary (registry, in English)

The main objective of this trial was to determine the value of 2 courses of cisplatin concurrent chemotherapy in postoperative adjuvant radiotherapy for high-risk head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.

Status (registry)
Recruiting
Phase (registry)
Phase 3
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
422 (estimated)
First submitted
2 Jul 2024
Start date
20 Sept 2024
Primary completion date
20 Sept 2029
Lead sponsor
Sun Yat-sen University
NCT number
NCT06492460

What you commit to

  • Study type: Interventional · Phase 3
  • Planned participants: 422
  • From 20 Sept 2024 to the primary completion date, 20 Sept 2029
  • 5 sites in 1 country
  • Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them

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Who cannot take part

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

Prior treatment

  • Previous chemotherapy (except induction chemotherapy prior to surgery).
  • Previous radiation therapy.

Other illness

  • Previous history of malignant tumor.
  • With other serious medical conditions that may pose a greater risk or affect compliance with the test. Examples include:
  • unstable heart disease that requires treatment
  • kidney disease
  • chronic hepatitis
  • mental illness.

Lab values

  • poorly controlled diabetes (fasting blood glucose \> 1.5×ULN)

Age

  • Age \>70 years or \<18 years.

Other

  • Treatment is palliative.
  • Women who are pregnant or breastfeeding

Who the study is looking for

  • The pathological type is head and neck squamous cell carcinoma
  • Stages III and IV
  • Radical surgery has been performed with high risk factors (one of below)
  • extracapsular invasion of cervical metastatic lymph nodes
  • positive incisional margin or inadequate incisional margin safety distance
  • No evidence of distant metastasis (M0).
  • Functional status: Karnofsky scale (KPS) \> 70.
  • Normal bone marrow function:
  • white blood cell count \> 4×109/L
  • hemoglobin \> 120g/L in males, 110g/L in females
  • platelet count \> 100×109/L
  • Normal liver function:
  • alanine aminotransferase (ALT), aspartate aminotransferase (AST) \< 1.5 times the upper limit of normal (ULN)
  • alkaline phosphatase (ALP) \< 2.5×ULN
  • bilirubin \< ULN.
  • Normal renal function: creatinine clearance \> 60 ml/min.
  • Patients must be informed of the basic contents of this study and sign informed consent.

Age in the registry: 18 years to 70 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers

Full criteria on ClinicalTrials.gov

Sites (5)

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SiteCityCountrySite status
Hunan Cancer Hospital
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ChangshaChinaNot yet recruiting
Xiangya Hospital Central South University
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ChangshaChinaNot yet recruiting
Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center
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GuangzhouChinaRecruiting
Affiliated Hospital of Guilin Medical College
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GuilinChinaNot yet recruiting
Jiangsu Cancer Hospital
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NanjingChinaNot yet recruiting

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