NEOSCOPE: a randomised phase II study of induction chemotherapy followed by oxaliplatin/capecitabine or carboplatin/paclitaxel based pre-operative chemoradiation for resectable oesophageal adenocarcinoma

Mukherjee, Somnath, Hurt, Christopher Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1206-8355, Gwynne, Sarah, Sebag-Montefiore, David, Radhakrishna, Ganesh, Gollins, Simon, Hawkins, Maria, Grabsch, Heike I., Jones, Gareth, Falk, Stephen, Sharma, Ricky, Bateman, Andrew, Roy, Rajarshi, Ray, Ruby, Canham, Jo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3482-0990, Griffiths, Gareth, Maughan, Tim and Crosby, Tom 2017. NEOSCOPE: a randomised phase II study of induction chemotherapy followed by oxaliplatin/capecitabine or carboplatin/paclitaxel based pre-operative chemoradiation for resectable oesophageal adenocarcinoma. European Journal of Cancer 74 , pp. 38-46. 10.1016/j.ejca.2016.11.031

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Abstract

Background Oxaliplatin-capecitabine (OxCap) and carboplatin-paclitaxel (CarPac) based neo-adjuvant chemoradiotherapy (nCRT) have shown promising activity in localised, resectable oesophageal cancer. Patients and methods A non-blinded, randomised (1:1 via a centralised computer system), ‘pick a winner’ phase II trial. Patients with resectable oesophageal adenocarcinoma ≥ cT3 and/or ≥ cN1 were randomised to OxCapRT (oxaliplatin 85 mg/m2 day 1, 15, 29; capecitabine 625 mg/m2 bd on days of radiotherapy) or CarPacRT (carboplatin AUC2; paclitaxel 50 mg/m2 day 1, 8, 15, 22, 29). Radiotherapy dose was 45 Gy/25 fractions/5 weeks. Both arms received induction OxCap chemotherapy (2 × 3 week cycles of oxaliplatin 130 mg/m2 day 1, capecitabine 625 mg/m2 bd days 1–21). Surgery was performed 6–8 weeks after nCRT. Primary end-point was pathological complete response (pCR). Secondary end-points included toxicity, surgical morbidity/mortality, resection rate and overall survival. Statistics Based on pCR ≤ 15% not warranting future investigation, but pCR ≥ 35% would, 76 patients (38/arm) gave 90% power (one-sided alpha 10%), implying that arm(s) having ≥10 pCR out of first 38 patients could be considered for phase III trials. ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT01843829. Funder: Cancer Research UK (C44694/A14614). Results Eighty five patients were randomised between October 2013 and February 2015 from 17 UK centres. Three of 85 (3.5%) died during induction chemotherapy. Seventy-seven patients (OxCapRT = 36; CarPacRT = 41) underwent surgery. The 30-d post-operative mortality was 2/77 (2.6%). Grade III/IV toxicity was comparable between arms, although neutropenia was higher in the CarPacRT arm (21.4% versus 2.6%, p = 0.01). Twelve of 41 (29.3%) (10 of first 38 patients) and 4/36 (11.1%) achieved pCR in the CarPacRT and OxcapRT arms, respectively. Corresponding R0 resection rates were 33/41 (80.5%) and 26/36 (72.2%), respectively. Conclusion Both regimens were well tolerated. Only CarPacRT passed the predefined pCR criteria for further investigation.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine
Subjects:	R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Oesophageal; Chemotherapy; Radiotherapy; Surgery; Neo-adjuvant; Randomised phase II
Publisher:	Elsevier
ISSN:	0959-8049
Funders:	CRUK
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	8 February 2017
Date of Acceptance:	27 November 2016
Last Modified:	06 May 2023 00:06
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/98152

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