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Retrospective studies suggested that the addition of thoracic concurrent chemoradiotherapy to systemic chemotherapy improved the survival and quality of life (QOL) of patients with metastatic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC). However, no prospective study had been conducted to confirm these findings. Recently, immunotherapy targeting the PD-1/PD-L1 checkpoints combined with chemotherapy had been proved to significantly prolong the survival of those patients compared with chemotherapy alone. Moreover, anti-PD-1 combined with radiotherapy exerts a synergistic anti-tumor effect, which may further improve the combination efficacy. This randomized, phase II study aimed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of the chemotherapy and anti-PD-1 combined with concurrent chemoradiotherapy to primary tumor versus systemic therapy alone in stage IVB ESCC. Of note, non-regional lymph node metastasis only was the stratification factor in the random assignment.


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NCT number NCT05512520
Study type Interventional
Source Sun Yat-sen University
Contact Mian Xi, MD
Phone 02087340540
Email ximian@sysucc.org.cn
Status Recruiting
Phase Phase 2
Start date September 20, 2022
Completion date September 30, 2025

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