Clinical trial NCT05468138: PD-1 Antibody Adjuvant Therapy for GC Patients With MSI-H After D2 Radical Surgery
Official title: PD-1 Antibody Adjuvant Therapy for Patients With MSI-H Advanced Gastric or Gastroesophageal Junction Cancer After Radical Surgery With D2 Dissection: a Phase II Single-center, Three-arm, Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Phase: PHASE2
Conditions: MSI-H
PD-1 Immunotherapy
Gastric Cancer
Adjuvant Therapy
Keywords: gastric cancer; MSI-H; PD-1 Immunotherapy; adjuvant therapy
Lead sponsor: Fudan University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2022-07-21
Enrollment: 141
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 75
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: Approximately 5% to 10% of gastric cancers have MSI-H/dMMR. According to the results of retrospective analysis of CLASSIC and MAGIC, MSI-H/dMMR was a good prognosis and potential negative predictor of adjuvant chemotherapy for resectable gastric cancer. GC patients with MSI-H/dMMR were relatively insensitive to chemotherapy. The prognosis of these patients receiving routine postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy was worse than that with surgery alone. However, these patients were sensitive to immunotherapy. MSI-H/dMMR is one of the most important biomarkers to predict the efficacy of immunotherapy for GC. In this study, patients with MSI-H locally advanced gastric adenocarcinoma after radical surgery with D2 dissection would be randomly treated with conventional adjuvant chemotherapy, PD-1 monoclonal antibody immunotherapy or follow-up observation. We intend to demonstrate that the prognosis of MSI-H GC patients after D2 radical gastrectomy receiving PD-1 monoclonal antibody immunotherapy would be better than that with standard postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy and follow-up observation.

Detailed description: We intend to demonstrate that the prognosis of MSI-H GC patients after D2 radical gastrectomy receiving PD-1 monoclonal antibody immunotherapy would be better than that with standard postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy and follow-up observation.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

1. Written (signed) informed consent;
2. D2 radical gastrectomy for gastric cancer
3. Postoperative pathology confirmed II-IIIc stage gastric adenocarcinoma with dMMR/MSI-H status;
4. Female or male, 18-75 years;
5. ECOG 0-1, no surgery contraindications;
6. No initial treatment (radiotherapy / chemotherapy / immunotherapy).;
7. Esophagus not involved ≥ 3cm;
8. Basic diseases without thyroid and cardiopulmonary dysfunction
9. Adequate hematological, liver, renal and coagulation function; 1) Platelet (PLT) count ≥100,000 /mm3; 2) Neutrophil count (ANC) ≥1,500 /mm3; 3) Hemoglobin (Hb) level ≥9.0 g/dl; 4) International normalized ratio (INR) ≤1.5; 5) Prothrombin time (PT) and activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT) ≤1.5×ULN; 6) Glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) \<7.5%; 7) Total bilirubin (TBIL) level ≤1.5×ULN; 8) Alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and aspartate aminotransferase (AST) level ≤2.5×ULN (≤5×ULN in case of liver metastasis); 9) Alkaline phosphatase level ≤2.5×ULN (≤5×ULN in case of liver metastasis); 10) Serum creatinine (Cr) level ≤1.5×ULN and creatinine clearance ≥60 ml/min; 11) Thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) ≤ULN; 12) Normal serum free thyroid hormone (T4); 13) Normal serum free triiodothyronine (T3); 14) Serum amylase ≤1.5×ULN; 15) Lipase ≤1.5×ULN.
10. Females of child bearing age must have a negative pregnancy test, and have to take contraception measures and avoid breast feeding during the study and for 3 months after the last dose; male subjects must agree to taken contraception measures during the study and for 3 months after the last dose.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Known allergy to study drug or excipients, or allergy to similar drugs;
2. Patients with active malignant tumor in recent 2 years, except the tumor studied in this research or cured localized tumor like resected basal cell or squamous cell skin cancer, superficial bladder cancer, cervical or breast carcinoma in situ;
3. Uncontrollable pleural effusion, pericardial effusion, or ascites in 2 weeks before recruitment;
4. The patient has a serious history of heart disease, including congestive heart failure, uncontrollable arrhythmia, unstable angina pectoris, myocardial infarction, severe heart valve disease and intractable hypertension;
5. Unable to swallow study drug;
6. Prior chemotherapy, radiotherapy for gastric cancer;
7. Prior therapy with a PD-1, anti-PD-Ligand 1 (PD-L1) or CTLA-4 agent;
8. Prior therapy with tyrosine kinase inhibitor within 2 weeks.
9. Concurrent medical condition requiring the use of cortisol (\>10mg/day Prednisone or equivalent dose) or other systematic immunosuppressive medications within 14 days before the study treatment. Except: inhalation or topical corticosteroids. Doses \> 10 mg/day prednisone or equivalent for replacement therapy;
10. Have vaccination with attenuated live vaccines within 4 weeks prior to initiation of the study treatment or plan to vaccinate during the study;
11. Poorly controlled hypertension or diabetes;
12. With bleeding tendency, or evident hemoptysis or other hemorrhagic events (e.g. gastrointestinal hemorrhage, hemorrhagic gastric ulcer) within 2 months prior to initiation of study treatment, or presence of hereditary or acquired bleeding or thrombotic tendency (e.g. hemophilia, coagulopathy, thrombocytopenia, etc.), or current/long-term thrombolytic or anticoagulant therapy (except aspirin ≤100 mg/day);
13. Present or history of any autoimmune disease;
14. With active tuberculosis or receiving previous anti-tuberculosis therapy within one year;
15. Diagnosed with interstitial pneumonia, non-infectious pneumonia, pulmonary fibrosis, acute lung disease;
16. Pregnancy or breast feeding;
17. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection (HIV antibody positive), or active hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection (HCV antibody positive), or active hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection (HBsAg or HBcAb positive, and HBV-DNA ≥2000 IU/ml (copies/ml)), or other severe infection requiring systemic antibiotic treatment, or unexplained body temperature \>38.5℃ during screening period/before study treatment;
18. Patients with other severe acute or chronic conditions that may increase the risk of participation in the study and study treatment, or may interfere with interpretation of study results, and judged by the investigator as not suitable for participation in this clinical trial.

Primary outcomes:
measure: 3 year Disease Free Survival
timeFrame: 3 years
Secondary outcomes:
measure: morbidity
timeFrame: 1 year
measure: mortality
timeFrame: 1 year
measure: adverse events during PD1 therapy
timeFrame: 1 year
measure: 5 year Overall Survival
timeFrame: 5 years
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Shanghai
country: China
facility: Dazhi Xu
Study officials:
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