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60% of hypopharyngeal cancers were locally advanced at the time of diagnosis. The standard treatment was surgery and postoperative radiotherapy. Compared with traditional surgery and postoperative radiotherapy, induction chemotherapy combined with radiotherapy has a better laryngeal retention rate without reducing the curative effect, and established an organ function preservation treatment strategy. Induction chemotherapy can reduce tumor burden and reduce distant metastases. At present, induction chemotherapy followed by concurrent chemoradiotherapy has become the standard treatment for the laryngeal preservation in locally advanced hypopharyngeal and laryngeal cancer. This study aimed to investigate the efficacy and safety of a PD-1 inhibitor toripalimab combined with chemotherapy as induction therapy in hypopharyngeal cancer.


Clinical Trial Description

This is a phase II, multicenter, open-label, single-arm study, planned to enroll 100 patients with localized hypopharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma who are newly treated and could accept radical treatment. Patients would be treated with toripalimab combined with docetaxel and cisplatin for two cycles. After the induction chemotherapy is completed, the investigator choose appropriate radical treatment (surgery or chemoradiotherapy) based on tumor evaluation. The primary endpoint is overall objective rate (ORR), the second endpoint include major pathologic response (MPR), 2-year DFS for surgery patients, 2-year PFS for radiotherapy patients, OS and QOL. ;


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NCT number NCT04296747
Study type Interventional
Source Peking Union Medical College Hospital
Contact Chunmei Bai, doctor
Phone 8601069156114
Email baichunmei1964@163.com
Status Not yet recruiting
Phase Phase 2
Start date March 2020
Completion date March 2023

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