Clinical trial · Observational
The PET-CT Predicting Response to Immunochemotherapy in Esophageal Cancer
The Efficiency of 18F-FDG PET-CT for Predicting Advanced Oesophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma Patients' Tumor Response to Immunochemotherapy in the Neoadjuvant Setting
- Source
- ClinicalTrials.gov
- Retrieved
- Sep 8, 2026
- Layer
- normalized (units and labels harmonized; values unchanged)
- Run
- ING-CLINICALTRIALS-20260908-000001
Summary
Brief summary (as posted)
Treatment with immune checkpoint inhibitors such as programmed death receptor 1 (PD-1 inhibitors) for advanced and metastatic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) significantly improves patients' overall survival compared to chemotherapy alone. Despite this milestone breakthrough, immunochemotherapy also has known limitations. Indeed, only 45-72% of patients achieved objective responses. It is urgent to find out easily-determined and convenient biomarkers to identify patients who will benefit from such treatment modality. Due to the luminal structure of the esophagus, the exact diameter of esophageal tumor cannot be precisely measured per RECIST 1.1. Moreover, the definition of the metastatic lymph node in which the short-axis lengths should be longer than 1.5 cm hinders the risk of missing the smaller metastatic lymph node foci. Thus, it is difficult to implement morphology-based criteria for evaluating the neoadjuvant immunochemotherapy response. The current study aimed to investigate the role of iPERCIST in predicting tumor response and the short-term overall survival of patients with locally advanced ESCC after neoadjuvant immunochemotherapy.
Conditions
Conditions (1)
Free-text conditions as registered, with the CancerIndex entity they were reconciled to and the match type.
| Condition (as posted) | Mapped entity | Match | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Esophageal Cancer | Malignant Esophageal Neoplasm | CURATED_EXACT | 0.92 |
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Design
Arms and outcomes
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[]Primary outcomes (1)
- measure
- Pathologic complete response rate (pCR)
- timeFrame
- Three to five working days after surgery
- description
- The rate of pathologic complete response rate after the combined treatment of chemotherapy and immunotherapy following surgery
Secondary outcomes (3)
- measure
- Overall survival
- timeFrame
- from the date of diagnosis to the date of death, assessed up to 100 months
- description
- Overall survival rate
- measure
- Event-free survival
- timeFrame
- from the date of treatment initiation to the date of first progression (local recurrence of tumor or distant metastasis) or death from any cause, assessed up to 100 months
- description
- EFS
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- All
- Minimum age
- 18 Years
- Maximum age
- 78 Years
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Inclusion Criteria: * pathologically confirmed locally advanced ESCC (cT3-4anyNM0) that was potentially resectable after neoadjuvant immunochemotherapy. * treatment-naïve and had the adequate cardiopulmonary function Exclusion Criteria: * previous autoimmune disease * unable to complete planned treatment courses and no complete follow-up PET-CT scan
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