Spots Global Cancer Trial Database for Pre-Operative Pembrolizumab + Chemoradiation in Patients With Locally Advanced Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma

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Trial Identification

Brief Title: Pre-Operative Pembrolizumab + Chemoradiation in Patients With Locally Advanced Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma

Official Title: Multicenter Preoperative Anti-PD-1 Antibody Combined With Chemoradiotherapy for Locally Advanced Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Esophageus

Study ID: NCT04435197

Conditions

Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma

Interventions

Pembrolizumab Injection

Study Description

Brief Summary: To investigate the safety and activity of preoperative pembrolizumab combined with chemoradiotherapy for resectable esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) ,20 patients enrolled in Phase Ib PALACE-1(NCT03792347).The results showed that preoperative pembrolizumab with concurrent chemoradiotherapy was safe, did not delay surgery and induced a pCR in 55.6% of resected tumors. In this multicentre prospective study(PALACE-2),the investigators will evaluate the efficacy of preoperative pembrolizumab with concurrent chemoradiotherapy in patients with locally advanced esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.

Detailed Description: For locally advanced esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC), neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy followed by surgery has been recommended as the optimal therapeutic strategy.Patients who achieved pathologic complete response(pCR) after receiving neoadjuvant therapy were more likely to have better survival. And the pCR rates was 43.2% reported in NEOCRTEC5010 trial, 49% with ESCC in the CROSS trial and 33.3% in FFCD 990130. In Phase Ib PALACE-1(NCT03792347), the investigators firstly present that preoperative pembrolizumab combined with chemoradiotherapy followed by surgery is safe.All 20 patients have received PPCT successfully, except 1 patient who missed the last dose of chemotherapy due to leukopenia. Grade 3 and higher adverse events (AEs) were observed in 13 patients (13/20, 65%), and 1 patient had a grade 5 AE. The most frequent grade 3 AE was lymphopenia (12/13, 92%). Eighteen patients underwent surgery within 4-9 weeks after PPCT and the pCR rate was 55.6% (10/18). This study (PALACE-2) will evaluate the efficacy of preoperative pembrolizumab with concurrent chemoradiotherapy in patients with locally advanced esophageal squamous cell carcinoma in multicentres.