Clinical trial NCT06149689: mFOLFIRINOX Plus Radiotherapy to Patients With CA19-9-normal Advanced Pancreatic Cancer
Official title: mFOLFIRINOX Plus Radiotherapy to Patients With CA19-9-normal Advanced Pancreatic Cancer
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: RECRUITING
Phase: PHASE2
Conditions: Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma
Lead sponsor: Fudan University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2023-11-29
Enrollment: 30
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 80
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of mFOLFIRINOX plus radiotherapy to Patients with CA19-9-normal Advanced Pancreatic Cancer.

Detailed description: Pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a highly lethal malignancy with a 5-year survival less than 10%. Approximately 80% of patients with pancreatic cancer are diagnosed at an advanced stage. Chemotherapy is one of the major treatments for advanced pancreatic cancer. In 2011, the PRODIGE trial has shown that oxaliplatin, irinotecan, fluorouracil, and leucovorin (FOLFIRINOX) was associated with a survival advantage but had increased toxicity.

Carbohydrate antigen 19-9 (CA19-9) is the most widely used biomarker in pancreatic cancer. Circulating CA19-9 levels are positively correlated with tumor burden and stage in pancreatic cancer with a diagnostic sensitivity of approximately 80%, suggesting that approximately 20% of patients have normal CA19-9 levels. It is well recognized that Lewis (-) individuals, constituting approximately 10% of the population, have low or no secretion of CA19-9 due to the lack of critical enzyme involved in CA19-9 biosynthesis. Thus, approximately 10% of patients with pancreatic cancer have normal CA19-9 levels regardless of tumor stage. Our previously retrospective study has shown that CA19-9-normal advanced pancreatic cancer may be more sensitive to chemotherapy combined with radiotherapy.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of mFOLFIRINOX plus radiotherapy to patients with CA19-9-normal advanced pancreatic cancer. Progression-free survival (PFS), objective response rate (ORR), overall survival (OS) and disease control rate (DCR) are measured every four weeks.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Ability to understand and the willingness to sign a written informed consent document.
* Age ≥ 18 years and ≤ 80 years.
* Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status 0-2.
* Histologically or cytologically confirmed advanced pancreas adenocarcinoma.
* Patients who have not received any form of anti-tumor therapy.
* Baseline serum CA19-9 ≤ 37 U/mL, CEA≤ 5.2 ng/mL, and CA125 ≤ 35 U/mL.
* Presence of at least of one measurable lesion in agreement to RECIST criteria.
* The expected survival ≥ 3 months.
* Adequate organ performance based on laboratory blood tests.
* Women of childbearing potential and men must agree to use adequate contraception prior to study entry and for the duration of study participation.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Pregnant or nursing women.
* Patients who have received any form of anti-tumor therapy.
* Baseline serum CA19-9 \> 37 U/mL, CEA \> 5.2 ng/mL, or CA125 \> 35 U/mL.
* The diagnosis was confirmed by pathology as non-adenocarcinoma of pancreas.
* Inflammation of the digestive tract, including pancreatitis, cholecystitis, cholangitis, etc.
* Severe and uncontrollable accompanying diseases that may affect protocol compliance or interfere with the interpretation of results.
* Renal insufficiency or dialysis
* Other serious accompanying illnesses, which, in the researcher's opinion, could seriously adversely affect the safety of the treatment.
* Patients who are allergic to oxaplatin or other chemotherapy drugs.
* Patients who are unwilling or unable to comply with study procedures.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Overall survival，OS
timeFrame: At the end of Cycle 1 (each cycle is 21 days)
Secondary outcomes:
measure: progression-free survival, PFS
timeFrame: At the end of Cycle 1 (each cycle is 21 days)
measure: objective response rate (ORR)
timeFrame: At the end of Cycle 1 (each cycle is 21 days)
measure: disease control rate (DCR)
timeFrame: At the end of Cycle 1 (each cycle is 21 days)
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Shanghai
country: China
facility: Shanghai Cancer Center
Study officials:
affiliation: Fudan University
name: Guopei Luo, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Luo G, Liu C, Guo M, Long J, Liu Z, Xiao Z, Jin K, Cheng H, Lu Y, Ni Q, Yu X. CA19-9-Low&Lewis (+) pancreatic cancer: A unique subtype. Cancer Lett. 2017 Jan 28;385:46-50. doi: 10.1016/j.canlet.2016.10.046. Epub 2016 Nov 10.
citation: Luo G, Jin K, Guo M, Cheng H, Liu Z, Xiao Z, Lu Y, Long J, Liu L, Xu J, Liu C, Gao Y, Ni Q, Yu X. Patients with normal-range CA19-9 levels represent a distinct subgroup of pancreatic cancer patients. Oncol Lett. 2017 Feb;13(2):881-886. doi: 10.3892/ol.2016.5501. Epub 2016 Dec 14.
citation: Luo G, Liu C, Guo M, Cheng H, Lu Y, Jin K, Liu L, Long J, Xu J, Lu R, Ni Q, Yu X. Potential Biomarkers in Lewis Negative Patients With Pancreatic Cancer. Ann Surg. 2017 Apr;265(4):800-805. doi: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000001741.