This phase II trial studies how well chemotherapy with or without radiation or surgery works in treating participants with esophageal or gastric cancer that has spread to less than 3 places in the body (oligometastatic). Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as fluorouracil and capecitabine, work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells, by stopping them from dividing, or by stopping them from spreading. Radiation therapy uses high energy x-rays to kill tumor cells and shrink tumors. Surgery, such as complete surgical resection, may stop the spread of tumor cells by surgically removing organs or tumors. Giving chemotherapy with radiation or surgery may work better than chemotherapy alone in treating participants with oligometastatic esophageal or gastric cancer.
PRIMARY OBJECTIVES: I. To evaluate whether esophageal or gastric patients with oligometastatic cancer without disease progression after first line chemotherapy therapy will demonstrate improved overall survival (OS) with early local therapy (concurrent chemotherapy/radiation and surgery). SECONDARY OBJECTIVES: I. Assess the relationships between progression-free survival and overall survival between both treatment arms. II. Report local control, loco-regional control. III. Report time to progression of distant metastases. IV. Report toxicity. OUTLINE: Participants receive induction chemotherapy for a minimum of 6 cycles and a maximum of 8 cycles in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Participants are then randomized to 1 of 2 groups. GROUP I (MAINTENANCE CHEMOTHERAPY): Participants receive fluorouracil and capecitabine per instructions of the treating physician in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. GROUP II (LOCAL THERAPY): Participants receive fluorouracil and capecitabine and undergo radiation therapy (RT) per instructions of the treating physician in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Participants may also undergo surgery to some or all of the remaining sites of disease as is clinically prudent and indicated by treating physician. After completion of study treatment, participants are followed up at 4-8 weeks, 2-3 months, every 3-6 months for up to 3 years, and then every 6-12 months thereafter.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
100
Patients will receive 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) and capecitabine as maintenance chemotherapy.
Receive induction chemotherapy
Undergo surgery
Patients will receive 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) and capecitabine as maintenance chemotherapy.
Undergo RT
M D Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, Texas, United States
RECRUITINGOverall survival (OS)
OS distributions in the two arms will be estimated by the method of Kaplan and Meier. Bayesian piecewise exponential regression will be used to assess the relationships between each of OS and PFS, and patients' covariates and treatment arm.
Time frame: Up to 6 years
Local progression-free survival (PFS)
PFS distributions in the two arms will be estimated by the method of Kaplan and Meier. Bayesian piecewise exponential regression will be used to assess the relationships between each of OS and PFS, and patients' covariates and treatment arm.
Time frame: Up to 6 years
Distant PFS
PFS distributions in the two arms will be estimated by the method of Kaplan and Meier. Bayesian piecewise exponential regression will be used to assess the relationships between each of OS and PFS, and patients' covariates and treatment arm.
Time frame: Up to 6 years
Incidence of adverse events
Graded according to Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) version 4.0.
Time frame: Up to 6 years
Time to local or regional disease recurrence
To be analyzed by Bayesian piecewise regression to assess their relationships with treatment arm and prognostic covariates.
Time frame: Up to 6 years
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