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Association of Nutritional Status With Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Efficacy in Metastatic Metastatic Esophagogastric Cancer.

Exploring the Correlation Between Nutritional Status and Efficacy of First-Line Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors in Metastatic Esophagogastric Cancer: A Prospective Cohort Study.(Nutrition EGC)

Status
Enrolling by invitation
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Observational
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT06923020
Enrollment
200
Registered
2025-04-11
Start date
2024-10-31
Completion date
2027-10-31
Last updated
2025-04-11

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Conditions

Esophageal Adenosquamous Carcinoma, Gastric Neoplasm

Brief summary

In patients with advanced gastrointestinal cancers, malnutrition can lead to increased incidence of adverse events during the peri-chemoradiotherapy period, reduced treatment tolerance, lower completion rates of therapy, compromised efficacy and quality of life, and ultimately shortened survival. Currently, immunotherapy represented by PD-1 inhibitors has become a cornerstone in the treatment of advanced gastrointestinal cancers. Nutritional status plays a critical role in malignancies, with the Prognostic Nutritional Index (PNI) and Controlling Nutritional Status (CONUT) score being particularly important for assessing nutritional conditions in cancer patients. Gastrointestinal cancers, as a group of heterogeneous tumors with distinct morphological and molecular genetic features, are closely linked to nutritional status. Peripheral blood cell profiles reflect the inflammatory impact of malignancies and immune responses in patients, which are crucial for determining treatment responses and clinical outcomes to enable early stratification, intervention, and monitoring. Therefore, this study aims to explore the clinical significance of nutrition-related prognostic indicators in immunotherapy by evaluating nutritional status and comparing treatment efficacy of first-line immune checkpoint inhibitors among advanced gastric cancer and esophageal cancer patients (including unresectable locally advanced, recurrent, or metastatic gastrointestinal cancers such as gastric/gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma and esophageal carcinoma) with different nutritional profiles.

Interventions

OTHERExposure: Nutritional Status

The assessment of nutritional risk screening (NRS) and nutritional assessments were conducted using NRS 2002 and Patient-Generated Subjective Global Assessment (PG-SGA).

Sponsors

Yongxu Jia
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

* Histologically confirmed esophageal squamous carcinoma and gastric adenocarcinoma, metastatic disease. * Measurable disease according to the RECIST criteria(diameter of the lesion should be more than 10mm by spiral CT or MRI, more than 20mm by common CT, the date of image should be less than 15 days before enrollment) * Karnofsky performance status ≥80 * Life expectancy of ≥ 3 month * WBC \> 3,000/mm3, absolute neutrophil count ≥1500/mm3, platelet \> 100,000/mm3, Hb \> 9g/dl(within 14 days before enrollment),ALT and AST \< 2.5 times ULN (≤5 times ULN in patients with liver metastases),Bilirubin level \< 1.0 times ULN,Serum AKP \< 2.5 times ULN,Serum creatinine \< 1.5 times ULN * No sever complication, such as active gastrointestinal bleeding, perforation, jaundice, obstruction, non-cancerous fever \> 38℃; * Normal ECG and heart function * Fertile patients must use effective contraception * Good compliance

Exclusion criteria

* Previous treatment of palliative chemotherapy * Only with Brain or bone metastasis * No measurable lesions, eg. pleural fluid and ascites * Suffer from severe heart disease or disease with other important organs * Chronic diarrhea or renal dysfunction * Pregnancy or lactation period * Other previous malignancy within 5 year, except non-melanoma skin cancer Chronic diarrhea * Mentally abnormal or disable cognition,including CNS metastasis

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Overall Survival (OS)5 yearsOverall survival (OS) is defined as the duration from the beginning of first-line immunotherapy until death due to any cause. Subjects who are still alive at the end of the study observation period will be censored at the time of last known vital status.

Secondary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Progression-free survival (PFS)3 yearsTime from the beginning of first-line immunotherapy to the first progression (PD) in patients with EGC.

Countries

China

Outcome results

None listed

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