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Toripalimab Plus Surgery vs Surgery Alone for Resectable Recurrent Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma

Toripalimab Plus Surgery vs Surgery Alone for Resectable Recurrent Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma: a Prospecitve, Parallel, Multicenter, Phase III, Randomized Clinical Trial

Status
Recruiting
Phases
Phase 3
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT04778956
Enrollment
218
Registered
2021-03-03
Start date
2021-03-03
Completion date
2033-03-03
Last updated
2021-03-04

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma, PD-1, Surgery

Keywords

Nasopharyngeal carcinoma, Recurrent, Salvage surgery, Anti-programmed death-1 antibody, Disease free survival

Brief summary

Through multicenter, open-label, randomised clinical trials, we intend to demonstrate that PD-1 treatment added to salvage surgery could further decrease the rate of disease progression and improve the survival outcome of patients with resectable locally recurrent nasopharyngeal carcinoma compared with those treated with salvage surgery alone.

Detailed description

Through multicenter, open-label, randomised clinical trials, patients with resectable locally recurrent nasopharyngeal carcinoma are randomized into salvage surgery plus PD-1 treatment group and salvage surgery alone group. The efficacy and safety of patients between these two groups are compared.

Interventions

DRUGToripalimab

Toripalimab: 240 mg, intravenous injection over 60 minutes (Q3W); Toripalimab should be completed for 2 cycles at 1-2 weeks before surgery, and continually applied since 1-2 weeks after surgery until confirmed disease progression, death, unacceptable toxicity, withdrawal of consent, investigator decision, or 1 year.

Endoscopic nasopharyngectomy is used for recurrent nasopharyngeal tumor and selective neck dissection for recurrent regional lymph node.

Sponsors

First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University
CollaboratorOTHER
Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University
CollaboratorOTHER
First People's Hospital of Foshan
CollaboratorOTHER
Zhongshan People's Hospital, Guangdong, China
CollaboratorOTHER
Tenth Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University
CollaboratorUNKNOWN
Sun Yat-sen University
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 70 Years
Healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

1. The recurrence time is more than 6 months from the end of radiotherapy. 2. Histologically confirmed recurrent nasopharyngeal carcinoma. 3. Resectable nasopharyngeal diseases: recurrent T1 (the tumor is confined in nasopharynx, oropharynx and/or nasal cavity without parapharyngeal involvement); recurrent T2 (the tumor is confined in the superficial parapharyngeal spacer and is more than 0.5cm far from the internal carotid artery) and recurrent T3 (the tumor is confined in the base wall of the sphenoid sinus and is more than 0.5cm far from the internal carotid artery and cavernous sinus). (according to the 8th edition of American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) staging system for nasopharyngeal carcinoma) 4. Resectable recurrent regional lymph node diseases (recurrent N1-3) without prevertebral fascia, cervical vertebrae, or common/internal carotid artery involvement. (according to the 8th edition of AJCC staging system) 5. Given written informed consent.

Exclusion criteria

1. Karnofsky Performance Status (KPS) ≤70. 2. Has severe medical disorder, important organ dysfunction, and/or a substantial history of mental illness. 3. Has known subjects with other malignant tumors. 4. Has participated in other drug trials within 3 months of planned start of study treatment. 5. Received a systematic or local glucocorticoid therapy within 4 weeks of planned start of study treatment. 6. Suffered from diseases need long-term treatment with immunosuppressive drugs, or required systematic or local glucocorticoid therapy with immunosuppressive doses. 7. Prior therapy with a PD-1, anti-PD-Ligand 1 (PD-L1) or cytotoxic T lymphocyte-associated antigen 4 (CTLA-4) agent. 8. Has active autoimmune disease (e.g., uveitis, enteritis, hepatitis, hypophysitis, nephritis, vasculitis, hyperthyroidism, and asthma requiring bronchodilator therapy). Patients with skin disease that doesn't require systemic treatment (e.g., vitiligo, psoriasis, or alopecia) will be allowed to enroll. 9. Has a known history of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), has hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) positive with hepatitis B virus (HBV) DNA copy number of ≥1000cps/ml or hepatitis C virus (HCV) antibody positive. 10. Has received a live vaccine within 4 weeks of planned start of study treatment. 11. Pregnancy or breast feeding. 12. Cannot complete regular follow-up.

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Disease-free survival2 yearsDefined as the time interval from randomization to disease progression or death due to any cause, whichever come first.

Secondary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Major Pathological Response Rate4-6 weeksDefined as the proportion of patients with no more than 10% viable tumor cells which is identified on routine hematoxylin and eosin staining within the recurrent nasopharyngeal tumor and/or regional lymph node after neoadjuvant PD-1 treatment.
Overall Survival2 yearsDefined as the time interval from randomization to death due to any cause.
Distant Metastasis-Free Survival2 yearsDefined as the time interval from randomisation to the date of first distant metastases.
Objective Response Rate3-5 weeksDefined as the proportion of patients with radiologically confirmed complete or partial response according to RECIST 1.1.
Score of survival quality according to the EORTC Quality of Life Questionnaire (QLQ)-C30 (V3.0)up to 2 yearsScore of survival quality according to the EORTC Quality of Life Questionnaire (QLQ)-C30 (V3.0) before treatment, during treatment, after treatment.
Score of survival quality according to the EORTC Quality of Life Questionnaire Head and Neck (The QLQ-H&N35)up to 2 yearsScore of survival quality according to the EORTC Quality of Life Questionnaire Head and Neck (The QLQ-H&N35) before treatment, during treatment, after treatment.
Locoregional Relapse-Free Survival2 yearsDefined as the time from randomisation to the date of first locoregional relapse.

Countries

China

Contacts

Primary ContactMing-Yuan Chen, MD, PhD
chmingy@mail.sysu.edu.cn86-20-87343624
Backup ContactYou-Ping Liu, MD, PhD
liuyoup@sysucc.org.cn86-20-87343379

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026