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Radio-chemotherapy With or Without Panitumumab (Vectibix®) in Irresectable Squamous Cell Carcinoma or Adenocarcinoma of the Oesophagus

NCT01262183 · Status: TERMINATED · Phase: PHASE2 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 4

Last updated 2012-05-11

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

For esophageal cancer that can not be removed by surgery, the choice of treatment is a combination of chemotherapy and radiotherapy. We call this combination- (or concurrent) chemoradiotherapy. Chemotherapy is treatment with drugs that kill cancer cells. Both chemotherapy and radiotherapy make the tumour smaller and enhance each other's effect. The goal of treatment with chemotherapy and radiation therapy is to cure the cancer. Unfortunately only a small proportion of patients are cured with this treatment.

Improvements in the outcome of treatment may be expected by using the so-called "targeted" treatments. With esophageal cancer, a protein (the epidermal growth factor receptor (this is a kind of trap), the EGFR), is present in many tumours. This protein causes the tumor to grow. Panitumumab is a drug that blocks the functioning of this receptor (catcher), so that possibly the growth and spread of esophageal cancer is prevented.

The main objective of this trial is to see if survival of patients with inoperable esophageal cancer improves as panitumumab is added to standard treatment with chemoradiotherapy.

It will also investigate whether patients tolerate the addition of panitumumab to the standard treatment. Also, the biological characteristics of the tumor will be examined. In a proportion of patients it will be determined how the enhancement of the cancer is visible on an FDG-PET scan before the start of treatment and how this changes during the treatment. It will be also be evaluated how this treatment affects the survival.

Conditions

  • Irresectable Squamous Cell or Adenocarcinoma of the Oesophagus

Interventions

DRUG

CRT + Panitumumab

Day -7, day +15 and day +36: panitumumab 9.0 mg/kg i.v. Day +1 to +39: radiation therapy 1.8 Gy fractions 5 times per week to a cumulative dose of 50.4 Gy Day +1 and +29: cisplatin 75 mg/m2 i.v. Day +1 to +4 and +29 to +32: 5-fluorouracil 1000 mg/m2 i.v.

DRUG

Concurrent chemoradiation therapy without panitumumab

Day +1 to +39: radiation therapy 1.8 Gy fractions 5 times per week to a cumulative dose of 50.4 Gy Day +1 and +29: cisplatin 75 mg/m2 i.v. Day +1 to +4 and +29 to +32: 5-fluorouracil 1000 mg/m2 i.v.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Radboud University Medical Center

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • C.M.L. van Herpen, Md PhD · University Medical Centre Nijmegen

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
70 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-01-31
Primary Completion
2012-04-30
Completion
2012-10-31

Countries

  • Netherlands

Study Locations

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