CIK in Treating Patients With Esophageal Cancer

NCT ID: NCT02490735

Last Updated: 2015-07-07

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
• Clinical Phase: PHASE2
• Total Enrollment: 2000 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2015-08-31
• Study Completion Date: 2042-08-31

Brief Summary

Chemotherapy is the main treatment method for patients with Esophageal Cancer. However, Relapse remains the major cause of treatment failure.Biological therapies such as CIK stimulate the immune system and stop tumor cells from growing. A series of studies reported that cytokine-induced killer cells (CIK) have a broad anti-tumor spectrum. The investigators suppose that CIK will improve the prognosis. Combining chemotherapy with biological therapy may kill more tumor cells. In this study, the patients will be treated with CIK cells after chemotherapy. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of CIK for Esophageal Cancer.

Detailed Description

About 2000 patients with staging I-III of Esophageal Cancer, after accepting chemotherapy, will be randomly divided into group A (receive CIK treatment) or group B (just regularly follow up), and the randomize ratio will be 1:1. Patients in group A will receive 3 cycles of CIK cells treatment (every 12 weeks). Patients in group B will have no anti-tumor therapy.

Conditions

Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

No-CIK

After accepting chemotherapy, patients will regularly follow up.

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

CIK

After accepting chemotherapy, patients will receive at least 3 cycles of Cytokine-induced Killer Cells treatment per year

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Cytokine-induced Killer Cells

Intervention Type: BIOLOGICAL

chemotherapy plus 3 cycles of Cytokine-induced Killer Cells(CIK) treatment

Interventions

Cytokine-induced Killer Cells

chemotherapy plus 3 cycles of Cytokine-induced Killer Cells(CIK) treatment

Intervention Type: BIOLOGICAL

Other Intervention Names

CIK

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Patients histologically confirmed esophageal carcinoma;
• Patients with staging I-III of esophageal carcinoma;
• Patients who had completed chemotherapy;
• Patients who have a life expectancy of at least 12 weeks;
• Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status was 0-1;
• The bone marrow functioned normally (WBC>4.0×10^9/L, Hb>120 g/L, Platelet(PLT)>100×10^9/L);
• The ECG results were normal, and the liver and kidney were functional.

Exclusion Criteria

• Patients who had distant metastases by imaging studies;
• Patients with uncontrolled infection; underlying disease that was severe or life-threatening;
• Patients who were lactating;
• ECOG perform status ≥ 2;
• Patients who are suffering from auto immune diseases or patients who need to accept glucocorticoid treatment;
• Patients who are pregnant or nursing;
• Patients with active tuberculosis (highly positive skin tests allowed if no active disease);
• Patients with disease that would preclude general anesthesia;
• Patients with active intractable or uncontrollable infection.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 80 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

The First People's Hospital of Changzhou

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Other Identifiers

ESCC-CZYY-01

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id