Camrelizumab Combined With Chemotherapy and Radiotherapy Perioperative Treatment of Esophageal Gastric Junction Adenocarcinoma

The incidence of Adenocarcinoma of esophagogastric junction (AEG) is increasing in recent years. According to the statistics of The National Cancer Center of Japan, the proportion of AEG in gastric adenocarcinoma increased from 2.3% in the middle of the 20th century to 10.3% in the beginning of this century, and the proportion of Siewert II in AEG increased from 28.5% to 57.3%. Due to the special biological characteristics of tumor in this region, its definition and surgical treatment principles are controversial.

For AEG, the clinical study results of neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy + surgery + chemotherapy showed that the tumor stage could be reduced, R0 resection could be improved and overall survival could be improved, without increasing postoperative complications and mortality. Long-term follow-up results from the German TRIAL III of preoperative chemoradiotherapy for AEG (POET) showed that preoperative chemoradiotherapy reduced recurrence (5y-local recurrence: 21% vs. 38%) and prolonged survival (3y-OS: 46.7% vs. 26.1%), without a significant increase in treatment toxicity and perioperative complications . Although some patients with AEG were included in the resolve 、 prodigy and resolution study ,and the total population could benefit from postoperative adjuvant radiotherapy and chemotherapy, but it was uncertain whether the patients with AEG could benefit in Asia.

Therefore, this project intends to study the efficacy and safety of camrelizumab combined with chemotherapy followed by radiotherapy in the perioperative treatment of AEG.

Inclusion criteria

• Male or female subjects aged from 18 to 80 years old;
• Patients with pathologically confirmed gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma (Siewert II-III)
• Resectable tumors with staging t3-4N0M0 or T1-4N+M0 confirmed by CT or MRI according to AJCC version 8 staging System;
• Disease must be measurable by Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors version 1.1 (RECIST 1.1);
• No prior anti-tumor therapy, including surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, targeted and immunotherapy;
• Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group Performance Status (ECOG PS) of 0 to 1 at trial entry;
• Estimated life expectancy of more than 3 months;
• Adequate haematological, hepatic and renal functions defined by the protocol;
• Prior use of anti-tumor traditional Chinese medicine, proprietary Chinese medicine, immunomodulators (such as thymosin, interleukin, etc.) must be ≥2 weeks from the beginning of the study
• Negative blood pregnancy test at Screening for women of childbearing potential; Highly effective contraception for both male and female subjects if the risk of conception exists;
• The subjects participated in the study voluntarily, fully understood and informed the study and signed the informed consent;

Exclusion criteria

• Previous malignant disease within the last 5 years with the exception of basal or squamous cell carcinoma of the skin or carcinoma in situ (bladder, cervical, colorectal, breast)；
• Any active autoimmune disease or history of autoimmune disease (such as interstitial pneumonia, uveitis, enteritis, hepatitis, hypophysitis, vasculitis, myocarditis, nephritis, hyperthyroidism, hypothyroidism (can be included after hormone replacement therapy)); The subjects with childhood asthma who had been completely relieved and did not need any intervention or vitiligo in adulthood could be included, but the subjects who needed bronchodilator for medical intervention could not be included;
• Patients with congenital or acquired immune deficiency, such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, active hepatitis B (HBV DNA ≥ 500 IU / ml), hepatitis C (HCV antibody positive and HCV-RNA higher than the detection limit of the analytical method), or co infection of hepatitis B and hepatitis C;
• Active tuberculosis;
• Prior organ transplantation, including allogeneic stem-cell transplantation；
• Other protocol-defined inclusion/exclusion criteria could apply.
• Used immunosuppressive drugs within 14 days before the first dose of study drug, excluding nasal and inhaled corticosteroids or physiological doses of systemic corticosteroids;
• Accination with live or live/attenuated viruses within 4 weeks of the first dose of camrelizumab and while on trial is prohibited except for administration of inactivated vaccines;
• History of uncontrolled intercurrent illness including hypertension, active infection, diabetes , hereditary bleeding , coagulopathy with a risk of bleedingor, cardiac diseases or symptoms;
• Patients with past and current interstitial pneumonia, pneumoconiosis, radiation pneumonia, drug-associated pneumonia, and severe impaired lung function may interfere with the detection and management of suspected drug-associated pulmonary toxicity;
• Known history of allergy to the drug components of this regimen;
• Presence of unresectable factors, including tumor, contraindications to surgery, or rejection of surgery;
• Major surgical procedures were performed within 4 weeks prior to initial administration;