This is an randomized controlled, multicenter clinical trial. The purpose of this study is to evaluate acute toxicity and efficacy of concurrent cisplatin chemoradiation with or without capecitabine as adjuvant chemotherapy in local advanced high risk nasopharyngeal carcinoma.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
180
Patients in the control arm received radical radiotherapy with IMRT, and cisplatin (100mg/m2 on day 1) every three weeks for three cycles during RT.
Patients in the experimental arm received radical radiotherapy with IMRT, and cisplatin (100mg/m2 on day 1) every three weeks for three cycles during RT,followed by adjuvant chemotherapy with oral capecitabine(1000mg/m2/ twice a day for 14 days)every three weeks for eight cycles.
Cancer Center, Sun Yat-sen University
Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
Failure free survival
Defined as the time from date of recruitment to documented relapse or death from any cause.
Time frame: 3-year
Acute Toxicity
To evaluate the acute toxicity with CTC 3.0 when concurrent cisplatin chemoradiation with or without capecitabine as adjuvant chemotherapy is used.
Time frame: 18 months
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