Toripalimab Adjuvant Therapy in Subjects With Resected Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma Who Achieved Pathological Complete Response (pCR)

Official title

A Prospective, Randomized, Open-label, Controlled Clinical Study Comparing Toripalimab Adjuvant Therapy Versus Clinical Observation in Subjects With Resected Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma Who Achieved Pathological Complete Response (pCR)

Overview

The goal of this clinical trial is to assess the 1-year DFS rate of toripalimab adjuvant therapy in participants with resected esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) who achieved pCR. The main questions it aims to answer are: * The toripalimab adjuvant therapy could impove the 1-year DFS rate in participants with rescted ESCC who achieved pCR? * Is this treatment regimen safe? Researchers will compare toripalimab adjuvant therapy to clinical observation to see if toripalimab could improve the 1-year DFS rate. Participants will receive toripalimab 240 mg IV once every 3 weeks for one year or clinical observation.

Interventions

• Drug TORIPALIMAB INJECTION(JS001 )
  Participants will receive toripalimab 240 mg IV once every 3 weeks. Treatment continued until disease progression, death, unacceptable toxicity, investigator decision, withdrawal, or completion of 1 years of treatment, whichever occurred first.

Primary outcome measures

• 1-year Disease free survival rate [Time frame: 1 year]

Secondary outcome measures (3)

• 1, 2, 3 years overall survival rates [Time frame: 3 years]
• Distant metastasis-free survival [Time frame: 2 years]
• Number of Participants with Adverse Events as a Measure of Safety and Tolerability [Time frame: 1.5 years]

Eligibility criteria

Inclusion criteria

• Stage II or III esophageal cancer with histologically confirmed predominant squamous cell carcinoma at initial diagnosis;
• Subjects must complete preoperative neoadjuvant therapy (unlimited treatment regimen) before being assigned to treatment and then undergo surgery;
• Subjects must undergo complete resection (R0), be surgically determined to be disease-free and have a negative margin on the resected specimen, defined as no viable tumor within 1 mm of the proximal, distal, or surrounding resection boundary;
• Subjects must have no residual pathology, the primary tumor is pCR, and the pathology report of the resected lymph nodes is ypN0;
• ECOG performance status of 0 or 1;
• The laboratory test meet the following requirements:

Bone marrow function: neutrophils ≥ 1.5×10(9)/L, platelets ≥ 100×10(9)/L, hemoglobin ≥ 90 g/L Liver function：Total bilirubin ≤ 1.5 x ULN；AST and ALT ≤ 3 x ULN Renal function：Cr ≤ 1.5 x ULN，Ccr ≥ 50 ml/min.

Exclusion criteria

• Subjects with stage M1 resectable disease；
• Received treatments for resected esophageal cancer (e.g., immunotherapy , chemotherapy, targeted therapy, radiotherapy, or biologic therapy);
• Known to be allergic, highly sensitive or intolerable to research-related drugs or excipient
• In the past 5 years, there were other malignant tumors, melanoma skin cancer or ervical carcinoma in situ were excepted.

Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.

Healthy volunteers: No

Study design

Allocation

Randomized

Model

Parallel assignment

Masking

Open label

Primary purpose

Treatment

Study locations

China · 1 center

• Hebei Medical University Fourth Hospital — Shijiazhuang

Identifiers

NCT: NCT06903871 · HebeiJLiu-ESCC-2025

Primary sources (government registries)

• ClinicalTrials.gov (US NIH)

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