Radiation Therapy and Chemotherapy, With or Without Cetuximab, Followed by Surgery in Treating Patients With Locally Advanced Esophageal Cancer That Can Be Removed by Surgery
Summary
RATIONALE: Radiation therapy uses high-energy x-rays and to kill tumor cells. Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as docetaxel and cisplatin, work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. Monoclonal antibodies, such as cetuximab, can block tumor growth in different ways. Some block the ability of tumor cells to grow and spread. Others find tumor cells and help kill them or carry tumor-killing substances to them. It is not yet known whether giving radiation therapy together with chemotherapy is more effective with or without cetuximab in treating patients with esophageal cancer. PURPOSE: This randomized phase III trial is studying giving radiation therapy together with chemotherapy, with or without cetuximab, followed by surgery in treating patients with locally advanced esophageal cancer that can be removed by surgery.
Timeline
- Start
- 2010-05-27
- Primary completion
- 2016-10-06
- Completion
- 2018-12-09
Publications
- Results Ruhstaller T, Thuss-Patience P, Hayoz S, Schacher S, Knorrenschild JR, Schnider A, Plasswilm L, Budach W, Eisterer W, Hawle H, Mariette C, Hess V, Mingrone W, Montemurro M, Girschikofsky M, Schmidt SC, Bitzer M, Bedenne L, Brauchli P, Stahl M; Swiss Group for Clinical Cancer Research (SAKK); German Esophageal Cancer Study Group; Austrian 'Arbeitsgemeinschaft Medikamentose Tumortherapie' (AGMT); Federation Francophone de Cancerologie Digestive (FFCD)/Federation de Recherche en Chirurgie (FRENCH). Neoadjuvant chemotherapy followed by chemoradiation and surgery with and without cetuximab in patients with resectable esophageal cancer: a randomized, open-label, phase III trial (SAKK 75/08). Ann Oncol. 2018 Jun 1;29(6):1386-1393. doi: 10.1093/annonc/mdy105.
- von Holzen U, Schmidt S, Hayoz S, Steffen T, Grieder F, Bartsch D, Schnider A, Knoefel WT, Piessen G, Kettelhack C, Marti WR, Schafer M, Fugger R, Koigsrainer A, Gloor B, Furrer M, Gerard MA, Hawle H, Walz MK, Alesina P, Ruhstaller T; Swiss Group for Clinical Cancer Research (SAKK), the German Esophageal Cancer Study Group, the Austrian Arbeitsgemeinschaft Medikamentose Tumortherapie (AGMT), the Federation Francophone de Cancerologie Digestive (FFCD)/Federation de Recherche en Chirurgie (FRENCH). Surgical Outcomes After Neoadjuvant Chemoradiation Followed by Curative Surgery in Patients With Esophageal Cancer: An Intergroup Phase III Trial of the Swiss Group for Clinical Cancer Research (SAKK 75/08). Ann Surg. 2022 Jun 1;275(6):1130-1136. doi: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000004334. Epub 2020 Aug 26.
- Fehr M, Hawle H, Hayoz S, Thuss-Patience P, Schacher S, Riera Knorrenschild J, Durr D, Knoefel WT, Rumpold H, Bitzer M, Zweifel M, Samaras P, Mey U, Kung M, Winterhalder R, Eisterer W, Hess V, Gerard MA, Templeton A, Stahl M, Ruhstaller T; Swiss Group for Clinical Cancer Research (SAKK); German Esophageal Cancer Study Group; Austrian Arbeitsgemeinschaft Medikamentose Tumortherapie (AGMT); Federation Francophone de Cancerologie Digestive (FFCD) / Federation de Recherche en Chirurgie (FRENCH). High thromboembolic event rate in patients with locally advanced oesophageal cancer during neoadjuvant therapy. An exploratory analysis of the prospective, randomised intergroup phase III trial SAKK 75/08. BMC Cancer. 2020 Feb 28;20(1):166. doi: 10.1186/s12885-020-6623-z.