Esophageal cancer is one of the common malignant tumors. The annual incidence of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma is 260,000 with the mortality of 210,000 in China. Different from that in western countries, esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) is still the dominant pathological type in China and account for more than 95% cases in clinic. The prognosis of ESCC is very poor. About 50% of patients have advanced disease at diagnosis with a 5-year survival rate of only 5-7%. Though esophagectomy is standard treatment, disease will relapse in many patients. For patients with unresectable or recurrent disease, chemotherapy is an important treatment alone or with radiotherapy. Taxane, platinum, and fluoropyrimidine have been reported effective in ESCC and is popularly used in first-line treatment of ESCC. However, there is still no standard 2nd-line treatment for patients who fail in first-line treatment. Both irinotecan and taxane had been studied as 2nd-line treatment for esophageal cancer patients. But there are only a few of ESCC patients involved in those studies. Except for chemotherapy, targeting treatment is another promising treatment for esophageal cancer. In recent years, antiangiogenic treatment has been proved to be effective and tolerable in many cancers such lung, colorectal, and gastric cancer. Apatinib is an also known as YN968D1, is an orally antiangiogenic agents. Preclinical and clinical data has shown that it is effective in the treatment of a variety of solid tumors including esophageal cancer. And it was approved and launched in China in 2014 as a 3rd-line treatment for patients with advanced gastric cancer. Therefore, investigators initialize this dose escalation phase I study to explore the safety of irinotecan and apatinib combination treatment in ESCC patients with relapse disease after esophagectomy and failure in 1st-line chemotherapy. Investigators will analyze the maximum tolerated dose (MDT) and dose-limiting toxicity (DLT) in this study.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
12
250mg p.o. qd in first cohort (3 subjects). 250mg p.o. bid in second cohort (3 subjects) 250mg p.o. tid in third cohort (3 subjects)
150mg/m\^2 i.v. q2w
Peking University Cancer Hospital
Beijing, Beijing Municipality, China
Dose limiting toxicity
Dose limiting toxicity (DLT) is referred to grade 3 non-hematological toxicity or grade 4 hematological toxicity according to NCI CTCAE 4.0 criteria.
Time frame: From enrollment to 1 months after completion of treatment. Estimated about 3 months.
Maximum tolerance dose
Maximum tolerance dose (MTD) is the dose of treatment in the cohort where there are 2 cases of DTL reported.
Time frame: From enrollment to 1 months after completion of treatment. Estimated about 3 months.
Objective response rate
Definition of ORR: clinical response of treatment according to RESIST v1.1 criteria (ORR, objective response rate).
Time frame: From enrollment to 3 months after treatment
Progression-free survival
Definition of PFS: The length of time from enrollment until the time of progression of disease (PFS, progression-free survival).
Time frame: From enrollment to progression of disease. Estimated about 6 months.
Overall survival
Definition of OS: The length of time from enrollment until the time of death (OS, overall survival).
Time frame: From enrollment to death of patients. Estimated about 1 year.
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