The treatment of distant metastasis is a key challenge for nasopharyngeal carcinoma because of poor outcomes, among which, chemotherapy is the cornerstone. However, many studies reported the use of different chemotherapy regimens to prolong the survival of metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma, while few of them focused on how to reduce the side effects of chemotherapy or improve the life quality of patients. Blocking the immune checkpoint is one of the effective strategies of tumor immunotherapy. Thus, we sought to find a proper chemotherapy regimen combined with PD-1 antibody JS001.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
622
Maximum 6 cycles for combined therapy and maintenance for up to 2 years.
Maximum 6 cycles for combined therapy.
Maximum 6 cycles for combined therapy.
Maximum 6 cycles for combined therapy.
Department of Radiation Oncology, Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center
Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
PFS
Progression-free survival
Time frame: Up to 5 years
OS
Overall survival
Time frame: Up to 5 years
Severe drug-related adverse events
grade III-V according to CTCAE v4.0
Time frame: Up to 2 approximately years
ORR
Objective response rate
Time frame: Up to 2 approximately years
DCR
Disease control rate
Time frame: Up to 2 approximately years
DOR
Duration of response
Time frame: Up to 2 approximately years
Minor drug-related adverse events
grade I-II according to CTCAE v4.0
Time frame: Up to 2 approximately years
Quality-adjusted survival
Quality-adjusted Time Without Symptoms of disease or Toxicity of treatment (Q-TWiST), a measure involving the partitioning of survival duration into clinically relevant health states (e.g., treatment toxicity, disease progression, progression-free), assigning preference weights (or utilities) to these health states, and calculating quality of life-adjusted weighted sums of the mean duration of each health state to create the overall Q-TWiST scores.
Time frame: Up to 5 years
Therapeutic gain
Calculated by dividing person-year rate of overall survival by person-year rate of serious toxicity.
Time frame: Up to 2 approximately years
Incremental Cost-Effectiveness Ratio (ICER)
To estimate the costs and health gains of different interventions, calculated as incremental cost divided by life years gained.
Time frame: Up to 2 approximately years
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