Promising combo aims to wipe out esophageal cancer before surgery
NCT ID NCT07595770
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study tests whether adding adalimumab to standard chemotherapy and radiation before surgery can help eliminate esophageal cancer more effectively. About 37 adults with resectable esophageal squamous cell carcinoma will receive this combination. The main goal is to see how many patients have no cancer cells left at the time of surgery.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Phase 2
Tests whether the treatment actually works, and watches for side effects, in a larger group.
- Participants
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About 37 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Expected to start
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May 2026
An estimate. Start dates often move.
- Expected to finish
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Oct 2029
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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18 to 75 years
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * \- 1. Provided informed consent and sign the informed consent form; * 2\. Male or female, Aged 18-75 years (counted on the date of signing informed consent); * 3\. Pathological confirmed ESCC; * 4\. Patients assessed by thoracic oncologists as resectable without distant metastasis * 5\. Patients evaluate with clinical staging of T1-4aN1-3M0 or T3-4aN0M0(AJCC 9.0) based on imaging and pathological examination results; * 6\. Have at least one assessable lesion according to the RECIST V1.1 * 7\. ECOG-PS score: 0-1; * 8\. Patients with normal function of organs such as heart, brain, lungs, and kidneys who can tolerate surgery; * 9\. With a life expectancy of ≥ 6 weeks; * 10\. Adequate major organ function without severe hematologic, cardiac, pulmonary, hepatic, renal, or bone marrow dysfunction, and no immunodeficiency disease; Exclusion Criteria: * 1\. Patients who have received or are currently receiving chemotherapy, radiotherapy, immunotherapy, or targeted therapy * 2\. Patients with distant metastasis or inability to undergo resection after evaluation by thoracic surgeons * 3\. Simultaneously developing tumors in other parts of the body * 4\. Severe impairment of heart, liver, and kidney function (heart function grade 3-4, ALT and/or AST exceeding the upper limit of normal by more than 1.5 times, Cr (serum creatinine) exceeding the upper limit of normal by more than 1.5 times) * 5\. Patients with a history of autoimmune diseases who were receiving immunosuppressive therapy prior to enrollment, with immunosuppressive doses\>10 mg/day or oral prednisone for more than 2 weeks * 6\. Severe allergy to immune preparations * 7\. Abnormal coagulation function: (PT\>16s, APTT\>53s, TT\>21s, Fib\<1.5 g/L), bleeding tendency or during thrombolytic or anticoagulant therapy * 8\. Pregnancy or lactation period * 9\. Other situations as judged by investigators not suitable for inclusion.;
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Conditions
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How to take part
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The places running it
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University
RECRUITINGGuangzhou, Guangdong, China
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