Immunotherapy boosts chemo before stomach cancer surgery in new trial

Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.

Inclusion Criteria: * Age older than 18 and younger than 75 years * Primary GC or AEG (Siewert II/III)confirmed pathologically by endoscopic biopsy * Clinical stage T3/T4N+M0 disease as assessed by CT/MRI, PET-CT, and laparoscopy, if feasible * At least one measurable lesion according to the RECIST, version 1.1 * Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0 or 1 * Surgical treatment after neoadjuvant chemotherapy is planned according to clinical staging criteria. * Life expectancy of at least 3 months * Acceptable bone marrow, hepatic, and renal function, including: a)Blood routine examination(No blood transfusion within 14 days; No granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) or other hematopoietic stimulating factors were used): white blood cell count ≥3.5 ×109/L, neutrophils ≥1.5 × 109/L, platelet count \>100 × 109/L, and hemoglobin ≥90 g/L; b)Hepatic function: alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and aspartate aminotransferase (AST), ALT and AST≤2.5×ULN; total bilirubin (TBIL) ≤1.5×ULN (Gilbert syndrome patients, ≤3×ULN); c)Renal function: serum creatinine (Cr) ≤1.5×ULN or creatinine clearance (Ccr) ≥60mL/ min; d)Coagulation function: activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT), international standardized ratio (INR), prothrombin time (PT) ≤1.5×ULN; * Written informed consent Exclusion Criteria: * Squamous cell carcinoma, adenosquamous cell carcinoma, small cell carcinoma, and undifferentiated gastric cancer were confirmed by pathology * Positive Her-2 detection (IHC3+ or IHC2+ amplified by FISH detection) * Prior chemotherapy, radiotherapy, hormone therapy, targeted therapy, or immunotherapy * Contraindications for surgical treatment or chemotherapy * Presence of distant metastasis * History of other malignant disease within the past 5 years, except: basal cell carcinoma of the skin, squamous cell carcinoma of the skin, or in situ cervical cancer that have been treated radically and have shown no signs of disease for at least 5 years * Any active or history of autoimmune disease, or history of syndrome that required systemic steroids or immunosuppressive medications, except for subjects with vitiligo or resolved childhood asthma/atopy * History of immunodeficiency diseases, including human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), or other acquired or congenital immune-deficient disease, or transplantation * Severe mental disorder * Presence of digestive tract obstruction, jaundice, acute infectious diseases, inflammatory bowel disease, Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, chronic diarrhea, active tuberculosis * Immunosuppressive drugs are required for 2 weeks or within 2 weeks or during the study period, excluding the following: a) intranasal, inhaled, topical or topical steroid injections (e.g. intra-articular injections); b) Physiological dose of systemic corticosteroids (≤10mg/ day prednisone or equivalent dose); c) Short-term (≤7 days) use of steroids for the prevention or treatment of non-autoimmune allergic diseases; * Patients who have undergone major surgery or received live virus vaccine within 4 weeks * Pregnant or breast-feeding women, subjects who are unwilling to receive effective contraception during treatment and within 6 months after the end of treatment (including male subjects who have the ability to impregnate women and female subjects and their male partners) * Evidence of bleeding tendency or receiving thrombolytics or anticoagulants * According to the criteria of the term Common Adverse Events (NCI-CTCAE V5.0), the corresponding symptoms have been diagnosed; * Hepatitis B or hepatitis C virology tests at the time of screening meet any of the following: a) HBsAg positive and HBV-DNA titer ≥104 copy number /mL or ≥2000IU/mL (hepatitis B carriers should ask researchers for appropriate antiviral treatment); b) Active hepatitis C: HCV antibody positive and HCV-RNA higher than the lower detection limit of the assay; * Allergic to study drugs * The investigator believes that the subjects have other conditions that may affect their adherence to the protocol and evaluation of the study indicators, and the subjects are not suitable to participate in the study.