Effect and Safety of Adjuvant Huaier Granule Versus SOX in Gastric Cancer Patients
Study Details
Study Description
Brief Summary
This is a prospective, multi-center, observational study. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of Huaier Granule versus SOX in the postoperative adjuvant treatment of resectable stage II-III gastric cancer.
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Detailed Description
Gastric cancer (GC) is the second most frequently diagnosed cancer and the second leading cause of cancer related deaths in China. China has a higher mortality/incidence ratio (0.845). For stage II-III GC patients, the current standard treatment is D2 gastrectomy followed by adjuvant chemotherapy. Studies showed the 5-year survival rate of early GC is nearly 95%, while the 1-year recurrence and metastasis rate after surgery is about 50%, and the rate of 2-year is as high as 70%.
Although adjuvant chemotherapy can prevent recurrence, it is inevitable to the appearance of toxic and side effects, which seriously affect the prognosis and quality of life.
Traditional Chinese medicine plays a unique role in enhancement of immune function, detoxification, and synergism of chemoradiotherapy. Huaier granule is an extract from a medicinal fungus. Previous studies have shown that Huaier granule can inhibit the proliferation, angiogenesis, metastasis and invasion of cancer cells, and can reverse the resistance of targeted drugs. Previous studies demonstrated Huaier granule is benefit to resistance to recurrence and metastasis, prolongation of patients' survival, and improvement of quality of life.
In this study, about 20 research centers will participate. Total of 828 participants will be divided into two groups (the Huaier group and the control group) at a ratio of 1:1. The Huaier group will receive Huaier granule as postoperative adjuvant therapy, and the control group will receive SOX. The planned length of patient recruitment enrolment will be 2 years and the total length of visits be 3 years. After enrollment, participants will be visited every 3 months (window period ± 14 days) until the end of the study or until the patient withdraws from the study for any reason or dies.
Study Design
Arms and Interventions
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| Huaier group The participants volunteering to take Huaier granule will be assigned to the Huaier group. |
Drug: Huaier granule
Huaier granule, oral administration, 20g each time, 3 times a day. Continuous medication until the end of the study, intolerable toxicity, withdrawal from the study for any reason or death, whichever occurs first; or after researcher's judgment, participants will no longer benefit from the treatment. After disease progression, whether to continue the medication or not should be determined by the researcher and participant together. Participants will start taking Huaier granule 1-3 weeks after surgery.
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| Control group The participants volunteering to take SOX will be assigned to the control group. |
Drug: Oxaliplatin
Participants will receive intravenous infusion of 130 mg/m² oxaliplatin on the first day of treatment cycle. The SOX will start 4-8 weeks after surgery and participants receive every 3 weeks, total eight treatment cycles.
Drug: Tegafur, Gimeracil and Oteracil Potassium
Participants will receive oral Tegafur, Gimeracil and Oteracil Potassium (40 mg/m², twice a day) for 2 weeks, followed by 1 week of rest. The SOX will start 4-8 weeks after surgery and participants receive every 3 weeks, total eight treatment cycles.
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Outcome Measures
Primary Outcome Measures
- 3-year DFS rate [up to 36-months follow-up]
The proportion of patients who does not have recurrence of primary cancer, new gastric cancer, distant metastases (assessed by each investigator), or death from any cause within 3 years after receiving surgery.
Secondary Outcome Measures
- 1, 2-year DFS rate [up to 12/24-months follow-up]
The proportion of patients who do not have recurrence of primary cancer, new gastric cancer, distant metastases (assessed by each investigator), or death from any cause within 1/2 years after receiving surgery.
- 1, 2, 3-year OS rate [up to 12/24/36-months follow-up]
The proportion of patients who will be alive within 1/2/3 years after receiving surgery.
- 1, 2, 3-year local recurrence-free survival rate [up to 12/24/36-months follow-up]
The proportion of patients who do not have local recurrence or death from an cause within 1/2/3 years after receiving surgery.
- 1, 2, 3-year distant metastasis-free survival rate [up to 12/24/36-months follow-up]
The proportion of patients who do not have distant metastasis or death from an cause within 1/2/3 years after receiving surgery.
- Quality of life score [Up to 36 months since the start of treatment]
The patients will evaluated by the Short-Form 36 (SF-36) Health Survey (Chinese version), which is a 36-item questionnaire measures health on 8 multi-item dimensions. Scores are computed for each dimension by adding the recorded item responses together and transforming the results onto a scale from 0 (worst health on scale) to 100 (best health on scale).
- Incidence and severity of adverse events and serious adverse events [up to 36-months follow-up]
The incidence of adverse events and serious adverse events (referring to CTCAE 5.0 ) will be analyzed.
- Incidence and severity of adverse reactions, serious adverse reactions, suspicious and unexpected serious adverse reactions [up to 36-months follow-up]
The incidence of ADR, SADR and SUSAR (referring to CTCAE 5.0 ) will be analyzed.
Eligibility Criteria
Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
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18-75 years
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Pathologically diagnosed as stage II or III gastric adenocarcinoma (The 8th edition of AJCC TNM classification).
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Receiving radical surgery (R0) for gastric adenocarcinoma within 2 months prior to enrolment, and not receiving adjuvant treatment. Patients who receive neo-adjuvant treatment are allowed to enroll.
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Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status from 0 to 2.
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Patients are volunteers, have signed informed consent, and agree to cooperate with investigators in data collection.
Exclusion Criteria:
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Patients allergic to the components of Huaier granules, or avoid to use Huaier granules or use with caution.
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More than two active primary tumors at the same time.
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Patients have not recovered from surgical complications after radical surgery.
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Expected survival time is less than 3 years.
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Patients received other Chinese patent medicine with anti-tumor effects (including but not limited to Fufangbanmao Capsule, Huachansu Capsule, Kangai Injection, Pingxiao Table) in the past 1 month.
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Not able to take medication orally cause by difficulty in swallowing, complete or incomplete gastrointestinal obstruction, active bleeding from the gastrointestinal tract, perforation, etc.
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Pregnant or lactating women or women prepare for pregnancy.
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Serious concomitant disease
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Patients with severe psychiatric illness or otherwise diseases are unsuitable for this study according to the judgment by investigators.
Contacts and Locations
Locations
| Site | City | State | Country | Postal Code | |
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| 1 | Wuhan Union Hospital | Wuhan | Hubei | China | 430022 |
Sponsors and Collaborators
- Wuhan Union Hospital, China
- LinkDoc Technology (Beijing) Co. Ltd.
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Kaixiong Tao, PhD, Wuhan Union Hospital, China
Study Documents (Full-Text)
None provided.More Information
Publications
None provided.- HE-202205