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Precision Palliative Care for Patients With Advanced Esophageal Cancer

Precision Palliative Care for Patients With Advanced Esophageal Cancer: a Randomized Phase III Trial

Status
Recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Observational
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT06787313
Enrollment
624
Registered
2025-01-22
Start date
2024-12-31
Completion date
2028-12-31
Last updated
2026-01-13

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

Conditions

Esophageal Cancer

Keywords

Precision palliative Care, immunotherapy, PD-1

Brief summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if precision palliative care improves survival of patients with advanced esophageal cancer in adults. Researchers will compare precision palliative care and standard palliative care to see if precision palliative care works more effectively to treat advanced esophageal s cancer. Participants will receive precision palliative care or standard palliative care. All participants will answer survey questions about their quality of life, MDASI, PHQ-9, GAD-7 for 1 years.

Interventions

OTHERprecision palliative care

Participants receive precision palliative care based on scale screening result.

Sponsors

Fudan University
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Observational model
COHORT
Time perspective
PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

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

Inclusion criteria

1. Written informed consent 2. Aged ≥18 years 3. Histologically confirmed esophageal cancer 4. Clinical stages IV based on the 8th AJCC TNM classification, or recurrent esophageal cancer 5. plan to treated with anti-PD-1/PD-L1 immunotherapy 6. Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group(ECOG) performance status: 0-2 7. Adequate organ functions Absolute neutrophil counts (ANC) ≥1.5×109⁄L; Hemoglobin (Hb) ≥9g⁄dl; Platelet (Plt) ≥100×109⁄L; Total bilirubin ≤1.5 upper limit of normal (ULN); Aspartate transaminase (AST) ≤2.5 ULN; Alanine aminotransferase (ALT) ≤2.5 ULN; Creatinine ≤1.5 ULN.

Exclusion criteria

1. Esophageal perforation or hematemesis 2. Any active autoimmune disease or a history of autoimmune disease (such as the following, but not limited to: autoimmune hepatitis, interstitial pneumonia, uveitis, enteritis, pituitary inflammation, vasculitis, nephritis, hyperthyroidism and hypothyroidism (effective hormone replacement therapy excepted)) and immunosuppressive agents or systemic hormonal therapy indicated within 28 days (for adverse events of chemoradiotherapy excepted). 3. Disease progression occurs within 3months after anti-PD-1/PD-L1 immunotherapy. 4. Allergic to macromolecular protein preparations, or to any of the ingredients in anti-PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitors for injection. 5. Uncontrolled heart diseases or clinical symptoms, such as: (1) New York Heart Association(NYHA) class II or higher heart failure; (2) unstable angina; (3) myocardial infarction within 1 year; (4)clinically significant arrhythmia requiring clinical intervention. 6. Congenital or acquired immunodeficiency (such as HIV infection); active hepatitis B (HBV-DNA≥104 copy number/ml) or hepatitis C (positive hepatitis C antibody, and HCV-RNA is higher than the detection limit of the analytical method); active tuberculosis. 7. Active infection or unexplained fever \>38.5 °C within 2 weeks before randomization (fever due to tumor excepted, according to investigator). Patients with fertility reluctant to take contraceptive measures during the trial, or female patients pregnant or breastfeeding. 8. According to the investigator, other factors that may cause termination of the study. ie, other serious diseases (including mental illness) require combined treatment, family or social factors, which may affect the safety or the collection of trial data.

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Overall survival2 yearsOverall survival for all patients

Secondary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Quality of life1 yearQuality of life for all patients
PFS2 yearsPFS for all patients
biomarker2 yearsbiomarker to predict immunotherapy effect

Countries

China

Contacts

Primary ContactKuaile Zhao, PhD
kuaile_z@sina.com+86 18017312534

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Mar 6, 2026