Prospective Trial to Evaluate the Safety and Efficacy to Treat Esophageal Cancer Using 5-FU, Oxaliplatin, and Docetaxel
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT04699994 |
Recruitment Status :
Recruiting
First Posted : January 7, 2021
Last Update Posted : January 8, 2021
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Condition or disease | Intervention/treatment | Phase |
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Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma | Drug: FLOT therapy | Phase 2 |
Study Type : | Interventional (Clinical Trial) |
Estimated Enrollment : | 60 participants |
Allocation: | N/A |
Intervention Model: | Single Group Assignment |
Masking: | None (Open Label) |
Primary Purpose: | Treatment |
Official Title: | Multicenter Phase II Trial to Evaluate the Safety and Efficacy of FLOT Therapy for Resectable Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma (Preoperative FLOT PII) |
Actual Study Start Date : | June 25, 2020 |
Estimated Primary Completion Date : | October 31, 2024 |
Estimated Study Completion Date : | October 31, 2024 |

Arm | Intervention/treatment |
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Experimental: FLOT therapy |
Drug: FLOT therapy
Preoperative FLOT therapy |
- Histological response rate (Grade 2 or 3 in Japanese Classification of Esophageal Cancer, 11th Edition) [ Time Frame: 2.5 years ]
- Response rate [ Time Frame: 2.5 years ]
- Histological complete response rate [ Time Frame: 2.5 years ]
- Treatment completion rate [ Time Frame: 2.5 years ]
- Curative resection rate [ Time Frame: 2.5 years ]
- Recurrence free survival [ Time Frame: 4.5 years ]
- Overall survival [ Time Frame: 4.5 years ]
- Incidence rate of adverse event during FLOT [ Time Frame: 2.5 years ]
- Perioperative complication rate [ Time Frame: 2.5 years ]
- Late phase complication rate [ Time Frame: 4.5 years ]
- Incidence rate of severe adverse event [ Time Frame: 2.5 years ]
- Incidence rate of all adverse event [ Time Frame: 4.5 years ]

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Ages Eligible for Study: | 20 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Histologically diagnosed as esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (squamous, adenosquamous, basaloid)
- Primary tumor is located mainly in the thoracic esophagus
- cT1N1-3M0-1 (only supraclavicular LN metastasis is included as M1), cT2-3N0-3M0-1 (only supraclavicular LN metastasis is included as M1)
- Twenty years old or older as of registration
- Performance status (PS) 0 or 1
- Patients have target lesions
- No previous history of esophageal cancer except for the followings
1) pT1a-LPM (M2) or deeper following EMR/ESD 2) pT1a-MM (M3) with vascular invasion following EMR/ ESD 8. No previous history of chemotherapy/radiotherapy/endocrine therapy except for hormone therapy for prostate cancer after 5 years interval 9. Patients who meet the following criteria
- Neutrophil > 1,500 /mm3
- Platelet > 10.0x10^4 /mm3
- Hb ≧9.0 g/dL
- Total bilirubin ≦ 1.5 mg/dL
- AST ≦ 100 IU/L
- ALT ≦ 100 IU/L
- SpO2 ≧ 95 %
- Creatinine clearance ≧ 50 mL/min 10. Patients who can undergo esophagectomy 11. Agree with the participation to the current study
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients who received any treatment for cancer within 3 years
- Patients who have active infectious diseases
- HBs Ag positive or HIV Ab positive
- Pregnant or breast feeding
- Patients with psychological disorder
- On systemic steroid therapy
- Require flucytocine, phenytoin, warfarin
- Allergic to iodine
- Allergic to DTX, LOHP, polisorbate 80
- Uncontrollable diabetes
- Severe COPD or lung fibrosis
- Severe hypertension
- Unstable angina
- Patients whom investigators evaluate as ineligible

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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT04699994
Contact: Satoru Matsuda | +81333531211 | s.matsuda.a8@keio.jp |
Japan | |
Keio University Hospital | Recruiting |
Tokyo, Japan, 1608582 | |
Contact: Satoru Matsuda +81333531211 s.matsuda.a8@keio.jp |
Responsible Party: | Hirofumi Kawakubo, Associate Professor, Keio University |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT04699994 |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
N20190007 |
First Posted: | January 7, 2021 Key Record Dates |
Last Update Posted: | January 8, 2021 |
Last Verified: | January 2021 |
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Drug Product: | No |
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Device Product: | No |
Carcinoma Carcinoma, Squamous Cell Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial Neoplasms by Histologic Type Neoplasms Neoplasms, Squamous Cell Esophageal Neoplasms |
Gastrointestinal Neoplasms Digestive System Neoplasms Neoplasms by Site Head and Neck Neoplasms Digestive System Diseases Esophageal Diseases Gastrointestinal Diseases |