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Biliary Drainage Plus HAIC in Locally Advanced pCCA

Prospective Multicentre Trial of Biliary Drainage Plus Hepatic Arterial Infusion Chemotherapy Versus Biliary Drainage Plus Best Supportive Care in Locally Advanced Perihilar Cholangiocarcinomas.

Status
Completed
Phases
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT05024513
Enrollment
127
Registered
2021-08-27
Start date
2021-11-01
Completion date
2025-10-20
Last updated
2025-12-18

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

Conditions

Perihilar Cholangiocarcinoma

Keywords

Perihilar Cholangiocarcinoma, Hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy, Biliary Drainage, Best Supportive Care

Brief summary

Biliary drainage and stent placement remains to be the main palliative treatment choice for advanced perihiliar cholangiocarcinoma (pCCA), and the life expectancy is only 4-6 months. Previous single center prospective phase 2 trial showed that hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy (HAIC) with oxaliplatin and 5-fluorouracil was an encouraging treatment choice for advanced pCCA due to its high tumor control, survival benefit, and low toxicity. Thus, the multicenter prospective controlled trial was designed to explore and confirm the survival benefit of biliary drainage plus hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy with oxaliplatin and 5-fluorouracil compared with biliary drainage plus best support care treatment in locally advanced pCCA patients.

Detailed description

When a patient is not eligible for surgery, chemotherapy with gemcitabine and cisplatin can be considered for advanced biliary tract cancer. However, in the Advanced Biliary Tract Cancer, or ABC-02 trial in patients with pCCA, the efficacy of this regimen was not significantly higher than that of gemcitabine alone. Therefore, an optimal chemotherapeutic regimen has not been established for this subtype of cholangiocarcinoma. Currently, biliary drainage and stent placement remains to be the main palliative treatment choice, and the life expectancy is only 4-6 months. Previous single center prospective phase 2 trial showed that HAI with oxaliplatin and 5-fluorouracil was an encouraging treatment choice for advanced PCC due to its high tumor control, survival benefit, and low toxicity. So the multicenter prospective controlled trial was designed to explore and confirm the survival benefit of biliary drainage plus hepatic arterial infusion of oxaliplatin and 5-fluorouracil compared with biliary drainage plus best support care treatment in locally advanced pCCA patients.

Interventions

DRUGoxaliplatin and 5-fluorouracil

Intra-arterial chemotherapy consisted of Oxaliplatin (40mg/m2 for 2 hours), 5-fluorouracil (800 mg/ m2 for22 hours) on days 1-3 every 4 weeks.

External biliary drainage, or biliary stent placement; Biliary stent placement plus Iodine-125 seed strands is allowed

OTHERBest Supportive Care

Nutrition support, symptomatic treatment, and other supportive treatments

External biliary drainage

Sponsors

Peking University
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 80 Years
Healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

1. Locally advanced perihilar cholangiocarcinoma proved by histology or cytology. 2. Locally advanced unresectable perihilar cholangiocarcinoma, decided by hepatobiliary doctor and radiologist. 3. Age from 18 years old to 80 years old. 4. The performance of Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) \<2 5. Child-Pugh A or Child-Pugh B (≤ grade 7). 6. Expectant survival time ≥ 3 months. 7. Baseline blood count test and blood biochemical must meet following criteria: 1. Hemoglobin ≥ 90 g/L; 2. Absolute neutrophil count ≥ 1.5×10\^9/L; 3. Blood platelet count ≥ 100×10\^9/L; 4. Serum creatinine ≤ 1.5 times of ULN; 5. Albumin ≥ 30 g/L 8. Patients sign informed consent.

Exclusion criteria

1. Allergic to contrast agent. 2. Pregnant or lactational. 3. Allergic to 5-fluorouracil, or have metabolic disorder of 5-fluorouracil. 4. Previous systematic chemotherapy or radiotherapy. 5. Patients with complications such as bile leakage and bleeding after PTCD 6. N2 lymphatic metastasis, extrahepatic metastasis, or coinstantaneous a lot of malignant hydrothorax or ascites. 7. History of organ transplantation. 8. Coinstantaneous infection and need anti-infection therapy. 9. Coinstantaneous peripheral nervous system disorder or with history of obvious mental disorder and central nervous system disorder. 10. Diagnosed other kinds of malignant within 5 years, except for non-melanoma skin cancer and carcinoma in situ of cervix. 11. Without legal capacity. 12. Uncorrectable coagulation disorder. 13. Obvious abnormal in ECG or obvious clinical symptoms of heartdisease, like congestive heart failure (CHF), coronary heart disease with obvious clinical symptoms, unmanageable arrhythmia and hypertension. 14. Severe liver disease (like cirrhosis), renal disease, respiratory disease,unmanageable diabetes or other kinds of systematic disease.

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Overall survival1 yearOverall survival is measured from the date of first biliary drainage to death

Secondary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Duration of jaundice remission1 yearThe time between remission of total bilirubin to less than 2 times of the upper limit of the normal value and time of rising again of bilirubin above more than 2 times of upper limit of the normal level.

Other

MeasureTime frameDescription
Adverse effects6 monthsToxicities were graded according to the Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events, version 4.0

Countries

China

Outcome results

None listed

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