Patient case: 64-year-old male with gastric cancer; genetic feature: ERBB2 amplification

Clinical trial: Neoadjuvant Immunotherapy for Resectable Gastric Cancer

Summary: 1. Target population: patients with resectable locally advanced proximal (including gastroesophageal junction, fundus and upper body) gastric cancer. (cT3-4aN+M0) 2. Primary objective:
  1. To evaluate the pathological remission rate (PRR) of PD-1 antibody monotherapy or in combination with anti-angiogenesis VEGFR2-TKI apatinib ± S1 in neoadjuvant (preoperative) treatment of resectable locally advanced proximal gastric cancer.
  2. To evaluate the relationship between tumor pathological remission and biomarkers related to immunotherapy.
  3. Secondary objectives:
  1. To evaluate the imaging objective response rate (ORR), progression-free survival (PFS), and overall survival (OS) of PD-1 antibody alone or in combination with apatinib ±S1 in neoadjuvant therapy for locally advanced gastric cancer.
  2. To evaluate the safety of PD-1 antibody or in combination with apatinib ± S1 in neoadjuvant (preoperative) treatment of resectable locally advanced proximal gastric cancer.
  Trial design: This is a monocenter, open, single arm, phase II study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of PD-1 antibody or in combination with apatinib ± S1 in neoadjuvant treatment of resectable locally advanced proximal gastric cancer.

Detailed description: Several important clinical trials including MAGIC, FLOT4, POET, RTOG 9904 and TOPGEAR have identified the efficacy and safety of neoadjuvant treatment in treating locally advanced GEJ cancer or gastric cancer.
  patients with resectable locally advanced proximal gastric cancer will receive neoadjuvant treatment of PD-1 antibody or in combination with apatinib ± S1.
  The investigators will shut down the study in advance, if situations below happens: 1) 1 treatment related death, >3 disease progression or >2 hyper-progressive disease happen during the first stage; 2) 2 treatment related death, >6 disease progression or >4 hyper-progressive disease happen during the whole study.
  Patients with abnormal autoimmune status, unfavorable body function, factors impeding drug taking, absorption and metabolism will be excluded. Study participants with disease progression or severe/ intolerant toxicity during treatment will withdraw the study.
  Hyper-progressive disease is defined as 1) progression 2) more than doubled growth rate 3) tumor volume increase >50% in 2 months after initialing the treatment.

Eligibility: Inclusion Criteria:
  1. Aged 18-70 years old, both genders, histologically documented gastric cancer.
  2. Newly diagnosed locally advanced, potentially resectable disease without any prior antitumor treatment
  3. clinically diagnosed stage T3-4aN+M0 according to ultrasound endoscopy or enhanced CT/MRI scan.
  4. Eligible and reasonably suitable for potentially curative resection
  5. Written (signed) informed consent.
  6. Pathological tissue available
  7. ECOG: 0-1.
  8. Adequate organ function.
  9. Willingness to provide blood and tissue samples for research purposes.
  10. Good compliance with the study procedures, including lab and auxiliary examination and treatment.
  11. Female patients should not be pregnant or breast feeding.
  12. Agree to take contraception measures during treatment and in 120 days after last dose of SHR-1210.
  13. Life expectancy of at least 6 months.
  Exclusion Criteria:
  1. patients with distant metastasis or unresectable primary lesion.
  2. History of chemotherapy, radiation, immunotherapy, or radical resection of gastric cancer.
  3. patients with active autoimmune disease or history of refractory autoimmune disease.
  4. patients with active malignant tumor in recent 2 years, except the tumor studied in this research or cured locally tumor like resected basal cell or squamous cell skin cancer, superficial bladder cancer, cervical carcinoma in situ.
  5. uncontrollable pleural effusion, pericardial effusion, or ascites in 2 weeks before recruitment.
  6. patients who have digestive tract bleeding in 2 weeks before recruitment or with high risk of bleeding.
  7. perforation / fistula of GI tract in 6 months before recruitment.
  8. pulmonary disease history: interstitial pulmonary disease, non-infective pneumonitis, pulmonary fibrosis, acute pulmonary disease.
  9. uncontrollable systemic diseases, including diabetes, hypertension etc.
  10. severe chronic or active infections in need of systemic antibacterial, antifungal, or antiviral treatment, including TB or HIV, etc.
  11. patients with untreated chronic hepatitis B or HBV DNA over 500 IU/ml or positive HCV RNA.
  12. patients with any cardiovascular risk factors below: （1）cardiac chest pain occurring in 28 days before recruitment, defined as moderate pain that limits daily activity.
  （2）pulmonary embolism with symptoms occurring in 28 days before recruitment. （3）acute myocardial infarction occurring in 6 months before recruitment. （4）any history of heart failure reaching grade 3/4 of NYHA in 6 months before recruitment.
  （5）ventricular arrhythmias of Grade 2 or grater in 6 months before recruitment, or accompanied by supraventricular tachyarrhythmias requiring medical treatment.
  （6）cerebrovascular accident within 6 months before recruitment. 14. patients with peripheral neuropathy NCI CTC AE grade 1, except those with only deep tendon reflex disappearing.
  15. moderate or severe renal injury [creatinine clearance rate≤50 ml/min (according to Cockroft & Gault equation)], or Scr>ULN.
  16. dipyrimidine dehydrogenase (DPD) deficiency. 17. allergic to any drug in this study. 18. history of allogeneic stem cell transplantation or organ transplantation. 19. use of steroids (dosage>10mg/d prednisone) or other systemic immune suppressive therapy in 14 days before recruitment, except patients treated with regimens below: a. steroids for hormone replacement (dosage>10mg/d prednisone); b. steroids for local application with little systemic absorption; c. short -term (≤ 7 days) steroids for preventing allergy or vomiting.
  20. vaccinated with live vaccine in 4 weeks before recruitment. 21. for patients with uncontrolled epilepsy, CNS diseases or history of mental disorder, researchers should evaluate whether their diseases will impede their signing of informed consent or compliance of treatment.
  22. existing of potential situation which will impede drug administration or affect toxicity analysis or alcohol/ drug abuse.

Relevance to patient case: not relevant