This Enriched-CRT 2017 trial is a prospective, multicenter trial for adjuvant chemoradiotherapy (CRT) and chemotherapy (CT) in radical resected advanced gastric cancer (GC) patients with lymph node metastasis (LN+) and lymphovascular Invasion (LVI+). The primary purpose of this study is to evaluate the 3-year overall survival (OS) of enrolled patients receiving adjuvant chemoradiotherapy compared with those receiving adjuvant chemotherapy. The second purpose is to evaluate 3-year disease free survival (DFS) and determine the safety of CRT compared with CT in the patients enrolled in this study.
Gastric cancer is an important health problem, being the fourth most common cancer and the third leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide. Age standardized mortality rates for gastric cancer are 14.3 per 100 000 in men and 6.9 per 100 000 in women. More than 679 000 new cases and 498,000 deaths occur every year in China. Local recurrence is considered as the most common way of recurrence for advanced gastric cancer, as well as an important factor for poor prognosis. Radiotherapy is a widely used technique in Western countries, and has been identified to have a significant role in decreasing local recurrence rate in breast cancer, and colon rectal cancer. At this moment, several randomized controlled trials have been conducted to identify the role of radiotherapy in advanced gastric cancer. Although the results from Europe (INT-0116), Dutch (CRITICS), and Korea (ARTIST) did not find that radiotherapy could improve the overall survival of enrolled patients, the sub-group analyses demonstrated that radiotherapy could improve the disease-free survival in patients with lymph node metastasis. We also found that adjuvant chemoradiotherapy could improve the survival of patients with lymph node metastasis or lymphovascular Invasion based on a large cohort study from National Cancer Database. Therefore, our hypothesis is that advanced gastric cancer patients with lymph node metastasis or lymphovascular invasion are the group entity that could benefit from radiotherapy. At present, a new clinical trial (ARTIST II), aiming at advanced gastric cancer with positive lymph node metastasis, has been launched. China is one of the countries with the highest incidence of gastric cancer, sand nearly 80% of patients are diagnosed with advanced stage. So it's necessary to conduct the clinical research on this issue. This Enriched-CRT 2017 trial is a prospective, multicenter trial for adjuvant chemoradiotherapy (CRT) and chemotherapy (CT) in radical resected advanced gastric cancer patients with lymph node metastasis and lymphovascular Invasion. The primary purpose of this study is to evaluate the 3-year overall survival (OS), and the second purpose is to evaluate 3-year disease free survival (DFS) and determine the safety of CRT compared with CT in the patients enrolled in this study.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
556
CRT (1 cycle CT: Xelox or SOX, Q21d×1, Followed by RT: 45 Gray (Gy), 5d/week×5 with capecitabine or S1, Followed by 3 cycles CT: Xelox or SOX, Q21d×3) will be applied to radical resected advanced gastric cancer patients with lymph node metastasis and lymphovascular Invasion.
CT (6 cycles CT: Xelox or SOX, Q21d×3) will be applied to radical resected advanced gastric cancer patients with lymph node metastasis and lymphovascular Invasion.
ZhongShan hospital FuDan university
Shanghai, Shanghai Municipality, China
3-year Overall Survival
3-year Overall survival (OS) was defined as the time from the date of enrollment to the date of death or last visit.
Time frame: 3-year
3-year Disease Free Survival
3-year Disease Free Survival (DFS) was defined as time from the date of enrollment to the date of recurrence or last visit.
Time frame: 3-year
Adverse effect (Safety and Tolerability)
The evaluation of adverse effect is based on the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) v4.0
Time frame: 30 days
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