Trial Evaluating Maintenance Chemotherapy for Metastatic Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma
Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma
About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma focused on measuring maintenance chemotherapy
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Age ≥ 18 and ≤ 70 years
- Histologically confirmed nasopharyngeal carcinoma, WHO (World Health Organization) classification II/III
- With distant metastasis
- With measurable lesions that can be detected by imaging studies
- Achieving PR (partial response) after 4 cycles of conventional chemotherapy
- Life expectancy ≥ 6 months
- ECOG (Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group): 0-1, no significant active concurrent medical illnesses
- Adequate laboratory values within 30 dyas of enrollment to study defined as follows: N > 2000/mm^3; PLT (platelet count) > 100,000/mm^3; total bilirubin < 1.5mg/dl; AST (aspartate aminotransferase)/ALT (alanine aminotransferase) < 1.5 ULN (upper limit of normal); SCr (serum creatinine) < 1.5mg/dl; CCR (creatinine clearance rate) > 60ml/min
- Willing to accept adequate contraception for women with childbearing potential
- Ability to understand character and individual consequences of the clinical trial
- Willing to sign the written informed consent; Informed consent must be signed before the enrollment in the trial
Exclusion Criteria:
- Received previous treatment for metastatic disease
- Pregnant or lactating women
- A diagnosis of malignancy other than CIS (carcinoma in situ) of the cervix, BCC (basal cell carcinoma) and SCC (squamous cell carcinoma) of the skin within the past 5 years
- Refusal of the patient to participate into the study
Sites / Locations
- Peking University Cancer HospitalRecruiting
- The First Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical UniversityRecruiting
- The First Affiliated Hospital of Xiamen UniversityRecruiting
- Cancer Hospital of Guangxi Medical UniversityRecruiting
- The People's Hospital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous RegionRecruiting
- Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College of HUSTRecruiting
- Jiangxi Province Tumor HospitalRecruiting
- Jiangxi Provincial Cancer HospitalRecruiting
- Fudan University Shanghai Cancer centerRecruiting
- Shanghai Proton and Heavy Ion CenterRecruiting
- Eye & ENT Hospital of Fudan UniversityRecruiting
- West China HospitalRecruiting
- National Cancer Centre, SingaporeRecruiting
- Taichung Veterans General HospitalRecruiting
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Arm 3
Active Comparator
Experimental
Experimental
Conventional chemotherapy
Maintenance chemotherapy 1
Maintenance chemotherapy 2
Patients in this arm will only receive 4-8 cycles of cisplatin-based regimen. TPF ( docetaxel, cisplatin and 5-fluorouracil ), TP (docetaxel and cisplatin), GP (gemcitabine and cisplatin) and PF (cisplatin and 5-fluorouracil) regimens are preferred.
Patients in this arm will receive 6 cycles of oral fluoropyrimidine monotherapy as maintenance therapy, in addition to 4-8 cycles of cisplatin-based standard chemotherapy.
Patients in this arm will receive oral fluoropyrimidine maintenance therapy until disease progression or intolerable toxicities, after 4-8 cycles of cisplatin-based standard chemotherapy.