Clinical Trial of Adjuvant Chemotherapy Followed by Concurrent Chemoradiotherapy Compared With Adjuvant Chemotherapy Alone in Patients With Gallbladder Carcinoma and Extrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma

Fudan University

Status and phase: Unknown; Phase 3

Conditions: Malignant Neoplasm Other Gallbladder/Extrahepatic Bile Duct

Treatments: Radiation: Concurrent Chemoradiotherapy; Drug: capecitabine; Drug: gemcitabine

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02798510

FDRT-PG001

Details and patient eligibility

About

The present study is designed to determine whether adjuvant concurrent chemoradiotherapy improves overall survivals.

Full description

The role of adjuvant radiotherapy in gallbladder carcinoma (GBCA) or extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (EHCC) is unknown. A retrospective study suggested that chemoradiotherapy provides greater benefit than chemotherapy alone in GBCA patients. SWOG S0809, a phase II study showed that adjuvant chemoradiotherapy has promising efficacy in GBCA or EHCC. The present phase III clinical trial is designed to compare adjuvant concurrent chemoradiotherapy with chemotherapy alone.

Enrollment: 140 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 70 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• The patients with pathologic diagnosis of gallbladder carcinoma (GBCA) or extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (EHCC) after radical resection.

• The patients with pathologic stage T2-4 or N1 in R0 resection or positive resection margins (R1).

• Aged 18 to 70 years old, male or female, body condition score generally ECOG 0～2, expected survival ≥ 6 months.

• Subjects were no major organ dysfunction, blood, liver, kidney and heart function was normal, the specific requirements of laboratory indicators:

  • Blood: Absolute neutrophil count > 1.5 × 109 / L, Platelet count > 100 × 109 / L, Hb > 8.0g/dl.
  • Liver function: serum bilirubin less than 1.5 times the upper limit of normal; ALT and AST less than 2.5 times the upper limit of normal.
  • Renal function: creatinine less than 1.5 times the upper limit of normal.

• Patients who can understand the circumstances of this study and signed informed consent.

Exclusion criteria

• Pregnancy, breast-feeding patients；
• Patients received prior anticancer therapy for the current malignancy or upper abdominal radiotherapy or chemotherapy at any time.
• Patients with malignant ascites.
• Patients with purulent and chronic infected wounds which delayed healing.
• Patients with liver, kidney and heart failure and coronary heart disease, angina, myocardial infarction, arrhythmia, cerebral thrombosis, stroke and other serious cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease;
• Patients has a history of mental illness and difficult to control;
• Patients who was considered inappropriate to participate in the trials by the researchers.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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140 participants in 2 patient groups

Arm 1

Experimental group

Description:

Patients in arm 1 will receive adjuvant chemotherapy followed by concurrent chemoradiotherapy. Patients will receive four cycles of gemcitabine (1,000mg/m2 intravenously on days 1 and 8) and capecitabine (1,500mg/m2 per day on days 1 to 14) every 21 days followed by concurrent capecitabine (1,330mg/m2 per day) and radiotherapy (50.4Gy/28fx to regional lymphatics with or without tumor bed)

Treatment:

Drug: gemcitabine

Radiation: Concurrent Chemoradiotherapy

Drug: capecitabine

Arm 2

Active Comparator group

Description:

Patients in arm 2 will receive six cycles chemotherapy of gemcitabine (1,000mg/m2 intravenously on days 1 and 8) and capecitabine (1,500mg/m2 per day on days 1 to 14) every 21 days

Treatment:

Drug: gemcitabine

Drug: capecitabine