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NCT Number: NCT07150949

Long-course Chemoradiotherapy or Short-course Radiotherapy Combined With CAPOX, PD-1antibody, and COX-2 Inhibitor for MSS Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer (SERRAC)

SERRAC is a prospective, multicentre, randomized phase II trial. 138 LARC (T3-4/N+M0, distance from anal verge ≤10cm) patients will be treated with neoadjuvant therapy and assigned to Group A and Group B (1:1). Group 1 receives LCRT (50Gy/25Fx) followed by 3 cycles of CAPOX.Group 2 receives SCRT (25Gy/5Fx) followed by 4 cycles of capecitabine plus oxaliplatin (CAPOX) chemotherapy and PD-1 antibody. The COX2 inhibitor celecoxib 200 mg was started orally twice a day during chemotherapy until the end of neoadjuvant treatment.TME surgery is scheduled after TNT while a watch and wait (W&W) option can be applied to patients achieving clinical complete response (cCR). The primary endpoint is complete response (CR, pathological complete response [pCR] plus cCR) rate. The secondary endpoints include the grade 3-4 acute adverse effects (AE) rate, anal preservation rate, 3-year DFS rate, etc.

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Key information

Age range

18 year–75 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Phase 2

Primary location

Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center

Shanghai, Shanghai Municipality, 200030, China

Location status: Recruiting

Location contact

Zhang Zhen, MD PhD

CONTACT

[email protected]

+86 18017312217

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Age 18-75 years, gender not limited
  • Pathologically confirmed rectal adenocarcinoma
  • ≤10 cm from the anus
  • Baseline stage T3-4/N+
  • No distant metastasis
  • MSI/MMR status MSS/pMMR
  • Karnofsky performance status score ≥70
  • No prior chemotherapy or other anti-cancer treatment prior to enrollment
  • No prior immunotherapy prior to enrollment
  • Ability to comply with the study protocol
  • Written informed consent

Exclusion criteria

  • Pregnancy or breast-feeding women;
  • Known history of other malignancies within 5 years;
  • Known history of previous anti-tumor treatment, including radiotherapy, chemotherapy, immune checkpoint inhibitors, T cell-related therapy, etc;
  • Known history of severe neurological or mental illness (such as schizophrenia, dementia or epilepsy);
  • Current severe cardiac disease (cardiac dysfunction and arrhythmia), renal dysfunction and liver dysfunction;
  • Acute cardiac infarction or cerebral ischemic stroke occurred within 6 months before recruitment;
  • Uncontrolled infection which needs systemic therapy;
  • Active autoimmune disease or immunodeficiencies, known history of organ transplantation or systematic use of immunosuppressive agents;
  • Known history of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection (i.e., HIV 1 to 2 antibody positive), active syphilis infection, active pulmonary tuberculosis infection
  • Allergic to any component of the therapy.

Treatment and study plan

Long-course radiotherapy

Radiation

Long-course radiation: 50Gy/25Fx

Other names: LCRT

Oxaliplatin

Drug

Oxaliplatin: 130mg/m2 d1 q3w

Capecitabine

Drug

Xeloda

Celecoxib

Drug

celecoxib 200 mg orally twice a day

Short-course radiotherapy

Radiation

Short-course radiotherapy: 25Gy/5Fx

Other names: SCRT

Serplulimab

Drug

Serplulimab 300mg, d1, q3w

Primary outcomes

  1. Complete response (CR) rate

    Time frame: 1 month after the surgery or the decision of W&W

    Rate of complete response (CR), including the rate of pathologic complete response (pCR) after surgery and the rate of cCR with W&W strategy.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Grade 3-4 adverse effects rate

    Time frame: From date of randomization until 3 months after the completion neoadjuvant therapy

    Rate of chemotherapy, radiotherapy and immunotherapy related adverse events

  2. 3 year anal preservation rate

    Time frame: From date of randomization until the date of or date of death from any cause, whichever came first, assessed up to 36 months.

    3 year anal preservation rate

  3. 3 year disease free survival rate

    Time frame: From date of randomization until the date of first documented progression or date of death from any cause, whichever came first, assessed up to 36 months.

    Rate of 3 year disease free survival

  4. 3 year local recurrence free survival rate

    Time frame: From date of randomization until the date of first documented pelvic failure, assessed up to 36 months.

    Rate of 3 year local recurrence free survival

  5. 3 year overall survival rate

    Time frame: From date of randomization until the date of death from any cause, assessed up to 36 months.

    Rate of 3 year overall survival

  6. Rate of surgical complications

    Time frame: The surgical complications were assessed within 3 months after the surgery.

    Rate of surgical complications, such as intraoperative hemorrhage, anastomotic leakage, intestinal obstruction, etc.

Study contacts

Contact information is provided by the study sponsor or research team.

Yajie Chen, PH.D

CONTACT

[email protected]

18917239680

Zhen Zhang, M.D, PH.D

CONTACT

[email protected]

18801735029

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Fudan University

Other

Registry information

Official study title

A Prospective Randomized Phase II Trial of Long-Course Chemoradiotherapy or Short-Course Radiotherapy Combined With CAPOX, PD-1 Antibody, and a COX-2 Inhibitor for Microsatellite Stable Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer (SERRAC)

Important dates

Study start
2025
Primary completion
2027
Study completion
2028
First posted
Sep 2, 2025
Registry last updated
Sep 2, 2025

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