Biliary drainage and stent placement remains to be the main palliative treatment choice for advanced perihiliar cholangiocarcinoma (pCCA), and the life expectancy is only 4-6 months. Previous single center prospective phase 2 trial showed that hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy (HAIC) with oxaliplatin and 5-fluorouracil was an encouraging treatment choice for advanced pCCA due to its high tumor control, survival benefit, and low toxicity. Thus, the multicenter prospective controlled trial was designed to explore and confirm the survival benefit of biliary drainage plus hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy with oxaliplatin and 5-fluorouracil compared with biliary drainage plus best support care treatment in locally advanced pCCA patients.
When a patient is not eligible for surgery, chemotherapy with gemcitabine and cisplatin can be considered for advanced biliary tract cancer. However, in the Advanced Biliary Tract Cancer, or ABC-02 trial in patients with pCCA, the efficacy of this regimen was not significantly higher than that of gemcitabine alone. Therefore, an optimal chemotherapeutic regimen has not been established for this subtype of cholangiocarcinoma. Currently, biliary drainage and stent placement remains to be the main palliative treatment choice, and the life expectancy is only 4-6 months. Previous single center prospective phase 2 trial showed that HAI with oxaliplatin and 5-fluorouracil was an encouraging treatment choice for advanced PCC due to its high tumor control, survival benefit, and low toxicity. So the multicenter prospective controlled trial was designed to explore and confirm the survival benefit of biliary drainage plus hepatic arterial infusion of oxaliplatin and 5-fluorouracil compared with biliary drainage plus best support care treatment in locally advanced pCCA patients.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
127
Intra-arterial chemotherapy consisted of Oxaliplatin (40mg/m2 for 2 hours), 5-fluorouracil (800 mg/ m2 for22 hours) on days 1-3 every 4 weeks.
External biliary drainage, or biliary stent placement; Biliary stent placement plus Iodine-125 seed strands is allowed
Nutrition support, symptomatic treatment, and other supportive treatments
External biliary drainage
Department of Interventional Oncology, Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Translational Research (Ministry of Education),Peking University Cancer Hospital and Institute
Beijing, China
Overall survival
Overall survival is measured from the date of first biliary drainage to death
Time frame: 1 year
Duration of jaundice remission
The time between remission of total bilirubin to less than 2 times of the upper limit of the normal value and time of rising again of bilirubin above more than 2 times of upper limit of the normal level.
Time frame: 1 year
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