Active clinical trials for "Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma"

The purpose of this study is to find out what effects (good and bad) the combination of three chemotherapy drugs (cetuximab, cisplatin, and irinotecan) have on esophageal cancer when given with radiation therapy.

This Phase II randomized study is to determine the efficacy of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy before definitive concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CCRT) in Patients with Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma(ESCC) by assessing their weight, nutritional status, performance status and treatment response.

This is an open-label, multi-center, single arm study to evaluate the efficacy, safety and tolerability of KN046 in subjects with advanced unresectable or metastatic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC). The study is composed of 3 stages. Stage 1 (Safety run-in period) will enroll approximately 6 subjects with KN046 3 mg/kg Q2W IV, for at least 4 cycles; thereafter, Scientific Monitoring Committee (SMC) will held to review the safety profiling data and decide whether proceed to stage 2 (Expansion period). Stage 2 will enroll up to 30 subjects. After completion of the enrollment from Stage 2 and all subjects have completed at least two post baseline tumor evaluation, an interim analysis will be performed for efficacy evaluation. SMC will continuously review the safety and clinical efficacy during the study and at the interim analysis and be responsible for the decision of proceeding to Stage 3 (Biomarker enrich period).

The objective of this study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of radiation therapy combined with anti-PD-1 antibody SHR-1210 in patients with esophageal cancer

There is no standard treatment strategy for recurrent or metastatic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma patients now, especially after the second-line treatment. Most of the patients have the bad ECOG (Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group) score and prognosis. Chemotherapy, radiotherapy, surgery are usually unacceptable for them. Previous data showed that apatinib treatment significantly improved OS(overall survival) and PFS(progression-free survival) with an acceptable safety profile in patients with advanced gastric cancer refractory to two or more lines of prior chemotherapy. The study will observe the efficacy and safety of Apatinib for recurrent or metastatic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma: A phase II, prospective, single-arm, multicenter trial.

This research study is studying a targeted therapy as a possible treatment for advanced esophageal cancer. The study intervention involved in this study is: -Pembrolizumab

The phase I study is to determine the maximum tolerated dose and dose limiting toxicity of docetaxel and nedaplatin prescribed twice weekly in combination with concurrent chest radiotherapy in patients with locally advanced esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.

Until today, the 5-FU/cisplatin combination is the reference regimen with 30-45% response rates, which is most commonly used to treat patients with metastatic, recurrent or locally advanced, unresectable squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus. Because the classical dose schedule of this two-drug combination is cisplatin 100 mg/m2 day 1 and 5-FU 1000 mg/m2/day continuous infusion for 96-120 hr, prolonged administration time and mucosal toxicity are inconvenient to the patients with the aim of palliation. Capecitabine, which is oral prodrug of 5-FU and mimic continuously-infused 5-FU, is being investigated in phase I, II and III trials for the treatment of gastric, gastroesophageal, and esophageal cancers, primarily in the first-line metastatic setting but also in the adjuvant setting. In the investigators experience, capecitabine plus cisplatin combination (XP) as a first-line treatment for 45 patients with advanced or recurrent esophageal squamous cell carcinoma demonstrated a promising anti-tumor activity with 57% of response rate and showed tolerable toxicity with convenience. Paclitaxel has been also investigated as monotherapy and in combination with cisplatin in patients with advanced esophageal cancer. A Dutch phase II study demonstrated that paclitaxel combination with carboplatin had shown an encouraging confirmed response rate of 59% with 51 patients with resectable esophageal cancer in neoadjuvant setting. Another Dutch phase II study showed 43% of response rate including 4% of CR with 8 months of response duration when paclitaxel plus cisplatin administration was given for patients with metastatic esophageal cancer. Although recently first-line palliative chemotherapy regimen in esophageal cancer has been investigated, many trials have failed to show superiority to 5-FU/cisplatin combination. Since the investigators considered that XP or XG (genexol) is more effective and convenient chemotherapy regimen than 5-FU/cisplatin, this randomized phase II study was planned to compare XP with XG in terms of efficacy and tolerability.

Assess the efficacy and safety of S1 combined with cisplatin in treatment of recurrence/metastasis of ESCC

This trial aims to study the safety, the local control, and the overall survival of S-1 combined with radiotherapy for patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma. 105 patients will be recruited into this trial.