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- Clinical Trial NCT00201344
A Phase III Study of Radiotherapy With or Without Adjuvant C/T in Advanced Stage Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Patients
A Phase III Study of Radiotherapy With or Without Adjuvant Chemotherapy in Advanced Stage Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Patients
- To investigate the efficacy of adjuvant PFL chemotherapy after radiotherapy vs radiotherapy alone in AJC stage IV nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients. The endpoints of the study includes : overall survival, relapse free survival, distant metastasis and local-regional control rates.
- To evaluate the toxicities of the two treatment methods.
Study Overview
Status
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Detailed Description
The head and neck contracts study tested induction and maintenance chemotherapy in patients with advanced head and neck cancers.There were no significant differences in survival between the two groups, but disease free survival was prolonged in the maintenance arm and not in the induction arm. Time to and frequency of distant metastases as the first site of relapse were significantly better for those on the maintenance arm. Many trials, designed several years ago, delivered single agent chemotherapy and were not particularly intensive. Most clinical trials were dealing with a heterogenous group of head and neck cancer patients. We felt that a better choice of adjuvant chemotherapy on cancers should include: (1) localized cancers with high metastatic potential following effective local treatment; (2) effective chemotherapy available; (3) chemotherapy should be intensive and effective enough to avoid the development of drug resistance. Of course, NPC had long been regarded as one of the most suitable head and neck cancers that may benefit from adjuvant chemotherapy due to its unique high response rate to chemotherapy and high metastatic potential after radiotherapy for localized, advanced staged disease.
If radiotherapy plus adjuvant chemotherapy can improve the treatment results of standard radiotherapy by increasing the survival rate, decreasing the metastatic rate and local recurrence rate, then many NPC patients may benefit.
Therefore, we propose this phase III study of radiotherapy with or without adjuvant PFL chemotherapy in advanced stage NPC patients.
Study Type
Enrollment
Phase
- Phase 3
Contacts and Locations
Study Locations
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Taipei, Taiwan, 112
- Veterans General Hospital-Taipei
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Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Genders Eligible for Study
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients must have histologically proven nasopharyngeal carcinoma who have just completed curative radiotherapy treatment.
- Original stage must be stage IV disease (M0)
- Patients must have a complete response, partial response or stable disease assessed 4 weeks after radiotherapy.
- Performance status scale ECOG grade 0,1.
- Creatinine ≦ 1.5mg/dl and bilirubin ≦ 2.0mg/dl, WBC ≧ 3,000/mm3 and PLT ≧ 100,000/mm3,or Creatinine Clearance > 45ml/min if Creatinine > 1.5mg/dl.
- Patients must be younger than 70 year-old.
- Patients must give signed informed consent.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients had progressive disease after radiotherapy
- Patients had evidence of distant metastasis.
- Patients had completed radiotherapy for more than 7 weeks.
- The presence of life-threatening illness
- History of prior malignancy excluding basal cell carcinoma or squamous carcinoma of the skin or in-situ cervical cancer within 3 years of the diagnosis of NPC cancer.
- Previous chemotherapy.
- Pregnancy.
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Treatment
- Allocation: Randomized
- Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
- Masking: None (Open Label)
What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
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overall survival, relapse free survival,distant metastasis and local-regional control rates.
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Secondary Outcome Measures
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toxicities of the two treatment methods.
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Collaborators and Investigators
Collaborators
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Kwan-Hwa Chi, MD,, Taiwan cooperative oncology group
Study record dates
Study Major Dates
Study Start
Study Completion
Study Registration Dates
First Submitted
First Submitted That Met QC Criteria
First Posted (Estimate)
Study Record Updates
Last Update Posted (Estimate)
Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria
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More Information
Terms related to this study
Additional Relevant MeSH Terms
- Neoplasms by Histologic Type
- Neoplasms
- Neoplasms by Site
- Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial
- Pharyngeal Neoplasms
- Otorhinolaryngologic Neoplasms
- Head and Neck Neoplasms
- Nasopharyngeal Diseases
- Pharyngeal Diseases
- Stomatognathic Diseases
- Otorhinolaryngologic Diseases
- Nasopharyngeal Neoplasms
- Carcinoma
- Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma
- Physiological Effects of Drugs
- Protective Agents
- Micronutrients
- Vitamins
- Antidotes
- Vitamin B Complex
- Leucovorin
Other Study ID Numbers
- T1394
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