Pre-operation Chemo and Antibody Therapy Followed by Surgical Resection and Adjuvant Chemoradiation for Gastric Cancer
Gastric Cancer, Stomach Cancer

About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Gastric Cancer focused on measuring stomach cancer, biologics, antibody, chemotherapy, chemoradiation, adjuvant therapy, neoadjuvant therapy, epidermal growth factor receptor, combination therapy
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients must have signed an approved informed consent.
- must have histologically documented untreated gastric/GEJ carcinoma (clinical stage T3 N0 or T4, or any T with N1-N3 M0)
- Patients with tumor tissue available for assessment of EGF receptor status by immuno-histochemistry (IHC).
- Patients with Performance Status 0-2.
- Patients, 18 years and older, must either be not of child bearing potential or have a negative pregnancy test within 7 days of treatment. Patients are considered not of child bearing potential if they are surgically sterile (they have undergone a hysterectomy, bilateral tubal ligation, or bilateral oophorectomy) or they are postmenopausal.
- Bone marrow function: absolute neutrophil count (ANC) at least 1,500/ul; platelets at least 100,000/ul.
- Renal function: creatinine not greater than 1.5 x institutional upper limit of normal (ULN).
- The PT and PTT should be within the range of normal values
- Hepatic function: bilirubin not greater than 1.5 x ULN; aspartate aminotransferase (AST) not greater than 2.5 x ULN.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Acute hepatitis or known HIV.
- Active or uncontrolled infection.
- Significant history of uncontrolled cardiac disease; i.e., uncontrolled hypertension, unstable angina, and congestive heart failure.
- Prior therapy that affects or targets the EGF pathway.
- Prior allergic reaction to chimerized or murine monoclonal antibody therapy or documented presence of human anti-mouse antibodies (HAMA).
- Any concurrent chemotherapy not indicated in the study protocol or any other investigational agent(s).
Sites / Locations
- NYU Cancer Center
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Experimental
Induction/ surgery/ chemoRT
Induction treatment (3 weeks/cycle x 4 cycles): Cisplatin and Irinotecan on days 1 and 8; Cetuximab on days 1, 8, and 15. Surgery (starts 3-4 weeks after induction treatment). Chemoradiation treatment (starts 4-6 weeks after surgery): weeks 1-19: Cetuximab on day 1 of every week; week 1: 5-FU and Leucovorin (LV) x 5 days; weeks 2-4: recovery; weeks 5-9: radiation, 150 cGy x 5 fractions/week x 5 weeks; week 5: 5-FU+ LV on days 1-4; week 9: 5-FU+ LV on days 1-3; weeks 14 and 19: 5-FU+LV x 5days