Neoadjuvant Immunotherapy Plus CRT Versus Neoadjuvant CRT for Locally Advanced Resectable ESCC

Korábbi kezelés

• Pre-treatment stage as cM+, cN3 or cT4b(non-curatively-resectable verified by the local surgical investigator, AJCC/UICC 8th Edition) or cTis-1a, cT1bN0;
• Patients with another previous or current malignant disease which is likely to interfere with treatment or the assessment of response in the judgement of the local surgical investigator;
• Patients who have received or are receiving other chemotherapy, radiotherapy or targeted therapy;
  • Other Exclusion Criteria:
• Recently or currently taking Glucocorticoids or Immunosuppressants;
• Patients who underwent immunotherapy in the past;
• Patients with organ transplantation (including autologous bone marrow transplantation and peripheral stem cell transplantation);
• Participation in another intervention clinical trial with interference to the chemotherapeutic or chemoradiotherapeutic intervention during this study or during the last 30 days prior to informed consent;

Más betegség

• Patients with advanced non-operable or metastatic esophageal cancer;
• Patients with autoimmune diseases history;
• Allergy to any antibody drugs or allergy to Paclitaxel and Carboplatin.
• Past or currently suffering from chronic or recurrent autoimmune diseases;
• Patients with active infection of immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B virus (HBV) or hepatitis C virus (HCV); HIV seropositivity; HBV DNA or HCV RNA positive;
• Patients with severe systematic intercurrent disease, such as active infection or poorly controlled diabetes; coagulation disorders; hemorrhagic tendency or under treatment of thrombolysis or anticoagulant therapy;
• Any patient with a significant medical condition which is thought unlikely to tolerate the therapies. Such as cardiac disease (e.g. symptomatic coronary artery disease or myocardial infarction within last 12 months), clinically-significant lung disease, clinically-significant bone marrow, liver, renal function disorder;

Egyéb

• Patients with histological non-squamous cell carcinoma;
• Pregnant or lactating women and fertile women who will not be using contraception during the trial;
• Expected lack of compliance with the protocol.

• Histologically-confirmed esophageal squamous cell carcinoma and whose tissue samples were taken before treatment;
• Tumors of the esophagus are located in the thoracic cavity;
• Pre-treatment stage as clinical II-III (AJCC/UICC 8th Edition)
• Age is between 18 years and 75 years;
• Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status 0-1, and expected survival time ≥12 months;
• Adequate cardiac function. All patients should perform ECG, and those with a cardiac history or ECG abnormality should perform echocardiography with the left ventricular ejection fraction > 50 %;
• Adequate respiratory function with FEV1≥1.2L, FEV1%≥50% and DLCO≥50% shown in pulmonary function tests ;
• Adequate bone marrow function (White Blood Cells >4x10\^9 /L; Neutrophil >2.0×10\^9 /L; Hemoglobin > 90 g/L; platelets>100x10\^9 /L);
• Adequate liver function (Total bilirubin <1.5x Upper Level of Normal (ULN); Aspartate transaminase(AST) and Alanine transaminase (ALT) <1.5x ULN);
• Adequate renal function (Glomerular filtration rate (CCr) >60 ml/min; serum creatinine (SCr) ≤120 µmol/L);
• The patient has provided written informed consent and is able to understand and comply with the study;