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Neoadjuvant vs Adjuvant in Locally Advanced Recurrent NPC

Neoadjuvant-Adjuvant Versus Adjuvant-Only Therapy Combined With Endoscopic Surgery in Advanced Recurrent Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma:A Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial

Status
Recruiting
Phases
Phase 3
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT06235203
Enrollment
154
Registered
2024-01-31
Start date
2024-07-09
Completion date
2027-06-30
Last updated
2025-06-03

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Conditions

Recurrent Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma

Brief summary

A multicenter randomized controlled study of surgery combined with neoadjuvant and adjuvant therapy for locally advanced recurrent nasopharyngeal carcinoma in comparison to surgery combined with adjuvant therapy

Detailed description

Eligible patients are randomized into the control group and the experimental group. Patients in the experimental group would be administrated 2 courses of neoadjuvant therapy before surgery.After endoscopic surgery, patients would continue to receive 2-4 courses of chemotherapy and 8 courses of immunotherapy. Patients in the control group would firstly receive endoscopic surgery, followed by chemotherapy and immunotherapy. In total, 4 to 6 courses of chemotherapy and 10 courses of immunotherapy would be administrated.

Interventions

PROCEDUREendoscopic surgery

The tumor was resected by endoscopic nasopharyngectomy.

DRUGNeoadjuvant therapy,Toripalimab Injection and Gemcitabine based therapy

Two courses of Toripalimab Injection and two courses of Toripalimab Injection and Gemcitabine based chemotherapy were given before endoscopic surgery.

DRUGAdjuvant therapy in experimental group,Toripalimab Injection and Gemcitabine based therapy

Eight courses of Toripalimab Injection and two to four courses of chemotherapy, or until unacceptable side effects.

DRUGAdjuvant therapy in control group,Toripalimab Injection and Gemcitabine based therapy

Ten courses of Toripalimab Injection and four to six courses of chemotherapy,or until unacceptable side effects.

Sponsors

Shenzhen Second People's Hospital
CollaboratorOTHER
Shanghai Zhongshan Hospital
CollaboratorOTHER
Shanghai 6th People's Hospital
CollaboratorOTHER
Changhai Hospital
CollaboratorOTHER
Fujian Medical University Union Hospital
CollaboratorOTHER
People's Hospital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region
CollaboratorOTHER
Eye & ENT Hospital of Fudan University
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE (Outcomes Assessor)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 75 Years
Healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

1. Pathologically diagnosed with recurrent nasopharyngeal carcinoma; 2. Resectable disease staging rT2 (deep parapharyngeal space, or distance to the internal carotid ≤5mm) or rT3 (excluding the lesions confined to the basal wall of sphenoid sinus), rT4, according to AJCC 8th edition; 3. Cervical lymph node metastasis can be controlled locally; 4. Aged 18 to 75 years; 5. Informed consent forms signed to participate in the trial; 6. Without distant metastasis; 7. ≥6months from the accomplishment of radical radiation to recurrence 8. previously only 1 course of radiotherapy; 9. Sufficient organ function; 10. ECOG score 0-2 and can tolerate surgery,chemotherapy and immunotherapy.

Exclusion criteria

1. Participate in other interventional clinical trials; 2. Uncontrolled illnesses that interfere with the therapy; 3. Suffering from another or multiple malignancy within 5 years (excluding fully treated basal cell or skin squamous cell carcinoma, cervical carcinoma in situ, etc.); 4. Any contradiction to surgery; 5. With serious autoimmune disease; 6. The patient is currently using immunosuppressive agents or systemic hormone therapy to achieve immunosuppressive effects (dosage\>10mg/day prednisone or other glucocorticoids), and continues to use them within 2 weeks before the first administration; 7. Severe allergic reactions to other monoclonal antibodies; 8. History of radioactive particle planting; 9. Vaccination with live vaccine within 4 weeks prior to initial administration or possibly during the study period; 10. Female patients who are at pregnancy or lactation; 11. Other situations that the researchers believe not suitable for enrollment

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
EFSFrom randomization and any events(like:progression or toxic effects precluding surgery;inability to resect all gross disease; progression;surgical complications precluding initiation of adjuvant therapy; recurrence;death) up to 1 yearEvent free survival

Secondary

MeasureTime frameDescription
DFSFrom randomization to recurrence, metastasis or death, up to 1 yearDisease free survival
LRFSFrom randomization to local recurrence or death, up to 1 yearLocal recurrence free survival
DMFSFrom randomization to distant metastasis or death, up to 1 yearDistant metastasis free survival
pCRTime point of pathological tumor evaluation after sugery, around 2 weeks after sugerypathologic complete response
OSTime interval of randomization and death of any cause, up to 5 yearsOverall Survival
DCRTime point of imaging evaluation before treatment(or randomization) and before surgery,up to 1 yearDisease Control Rate,Proportion of CR, PR and SD in all patients.
DoRFirst date of response to the date of progression, up to 5 yearsDuration of response,the time from the first assessment of the tumour as CR or PR to the first assessment of PD or death from any cause (whichever event occurs first).
1-and 2-year PFS rateone- and two-yearone- and two-year progression free survival rate
1-and 2-year OS rateone- and two-yearone- and two-year overall survival rate
ORRTime point of imaging evaluation before treatment(or randomization) and before surgery,up to 1 yearObjective response rate,Proportion of CR, PR in all patients.

Countries

China

Contacts

Primary ContactXiaole Song
jxfxsxl@163.com+8621 64377134

Outcome results

None listed

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