PD-1 Inhibitor Plus Anti-EGFR Therapy And Radiotherapy in Locally Advanced NPC Resistant to Induction Chemotherapy

Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Clinical Trial

Official title:

Radiotherapy Combined With PD-1 Inhibitor and Anti-EGFR Monoclonal Antibody for Locally Advanced Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Resistant to Induction Chemotherapy: A Prospective Phase II Study

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT06156878
• Other study ID #: 2022007
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: Phase 2
• Start date: August 1, 2022
• Est. completion date: August 2025

Study information

• Verified date: November 2023
• Source: Fudan University
• Contact: Xiaoshen Wang, MD, Ph.D
• Phone: 18917785187
• Email: xiaoshen.wang[@]fdeent.org
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Because nasopharyngeal carcinoma （NPC）is very sensitive to radiation and the specificity of the anatomical structure, radiotherapy has become the core treatment for NPC. Although induction chemotherapy combined with cisplatin-based concurrent chemoradiotherapy can effectively improve the overall survival and progression-free survival of NPC, such a sequential pattern can further exacerbate the toxic side effects of treatment, such as mucosal reactions and gastrointestinal toxicity. Therefore, it is particularly important to explore another treatment mode with high efficiency and low toxicity. Secondly, patients with poor response after induction chemotherapy indicate chemotherapy resistance. Whether patients can still benefit from concurrent platinum-based chemotherapy in the followed radiotherapy is doubtful. PD-1 inhibitor and anti-EGFR monoclonal antibody have proved to improve outcomes of head and neck cancers including EBV-related NPC, which have also showed relatively low toxicity. In this study, radiotherapy combined with PD-1 inhibitor and anti-EGFR monoclonal antibody were applied to treat patients with locally advanced NPC who were resistant to induction chemotherapy.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 41
• Est. completion date: August 2025
• Est. primary completion date: August 2025
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 75 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

Histologically confirmed locally advanced NPC; IHC EGFR positive; Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0 or 1; Imaging assessment of MR after induction chemotherapy revealed the responses to induction chemotherapy are less than 50% Partial Response(PR) or EBVDNA copy number decreased by less than 50%; No prior anti-tumor treatment; Normal complete blood count; Normal hepatic function; Normal renal function (creatinine = 1.5 times the upper limit of normal). - Exclusion Criteria: Previous radiotherapy; A history of any other type of malignancy; Pregnancy or lactation; Allergy to anti-EGFR monoclonal antibody; IHC EGFR negative; Allergy to PD-1 inhibitor; Obvious disfunction of liver, renal, cardiac or lung function; Un controlled infection; Systemic metastasis or distant metastasis; Patients with severe gastrointestinal diseases; Patients with mental disorders affecting patient participation in trial judgement; Cannot take contrast-MRI imaging. -

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Carcinoma
• Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma

Intervention

Combination Product:
• Anti-EGFR and PD-1 inhibitor arm
Drug: PD-1 inhibitor and anti-EGFR monoclonal antibody The patients will receive radiotherapy (66-70.4Gy) combined with PD-1 inhibitor (every 3 weeks) and anti-EGFR monoclonal antibody (every 1 week). The specific treatment description is included in arm description.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
China	Eye & ENT Hospital of Fudan University	Shanghai	Shanghai

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Fudan University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

China, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	PFS	Progression Free Survival	3 years
Primary	OS	Overall Survival	3 years
Secondary	DCR	Disease-free survival	3 years
Secondary	Number and percentage of Participants With Treatment-Related Adverse Events as Assessed by CTCAE v5.0 and RTOG	The detail number and percentage of adverse events by every systems Assessed by CTCAE v5.0 and RTOG.	3 years