Preoperative Dose-dense Chemotherapy With Weekly Cisplatin, Epirubicin and Paclitaxel to Treat Patients With Locally Gastric Cancer — IPEC-GC  

Stomach Neoplasms Clinical Trial

Official title: Preoperative Chemotherapy With Weekly Cisplatin, Epirubicin and Paclitaxel (Intensified PET) in Patients With Locally Gastric Cancer : a Phase II Proof-of-concept Study.

Status Terminated

Clinical Trial Summary

If surgery remains the main treatment for gastric cancer without distant metastases; perioperative-chemotherapy increased the likelihood of progression free survival. Perioperative chemotherapy appears to have many advantages : to reduce the tumor volume, to improve the R0 resection rate, and to act on micro-metastases. Therefore, peri-operative chemotherapy combining cisplatin, epirubicin and 5-Fluorouracile is a validated strategy to treat gastric cancer. However, several pitfalls remained. Particularly, only 42% of patients could received post-chemotherapy, due to post-operative complications and toxicities. To overcome this limitation, the investigators will conduct a phase II clinical trial assessing the clinical interest of a dose-dense preoperative chemotherapy combining cisplatin (P), epirubicin (E) and paclitaxel (T). The increasing evidence of taxane's role in gastric cancer treatment, as well as the biological synergisms reported in paclitaxel/cisplatin and paclitaxel/epirubicin combinations, sustain the development of dose density based on PET combination in gastric carcinoma. The aim of the IPEC-GC study is to evaluate the effectiveness of this PET preoperative regimen

Clinical Trial Description

The IPEC-GC study is a proof-of-concept study evaluating the efficacy and feasibility of PET regimen in 61 patients with lower oesophagus, oesophagus junction or gastric carcinoma.

Preoperative chemotherapy include eight weekly preoperative cycles of cisplatin (30mg/m2), epirubicin (50 mg/m2) and paclitaxel (90 mg/m2)with a break of one week without chemotherapy between cycle 4 and 5. Surgery is performed within 4-6 weeks after the end of the last cycle of chemotherapy. Primary endpoint of this trial is the curative resection rate (=R0). R0 must be higher than the 79% achieved in previous published studies. Response rate, histologic response rate (Becker score), progression-free survival, overall survival, impact of complete response in survival and dose-density are secondary endpoints. For an ancillary study, tumors (biopsies and operative specimens) and sera will be collected to identify biomarkers correlated with treatment efficacy.

This study is carried out by the Besançon University Hospital and were approved by the independent Est-II ethics committee and by the French National Authority for Health: AFSSAPS. ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Esophageal Neoplasms
• Lower Oesophagus Cancer
• Oesophageal Junction Cancer
• Stomach Neoplasms

• NCT number: NCT01830270
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Besancon
• Status: Terminated
• Phase: Phase 2
• Start date: May 2011
• Completion date: July 2016