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Active, not recruitingNCT05043688Updated Sep 17, 2026

Camrelizumab Plus Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy or Chemoradiotherapy Versus Chemoradiotherapy in Resectable ESCC.

A Phase 3 interventional study of Camrelizumab and radiotherapy in Resectable Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma, sponsored by Zhigang Li. Active, not recruiting at 5 sites in China. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 75 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-09-17.

Sponsored by Zhigang Li · Phase 3, Interventional, and Treatment

Phase
Phase 3
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
426
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years to 75 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

The purpose of this study is to explore the effectiveness and safety of neoadjuvant immune combined chemotherapy or radiochemotherapy compared with traditional neoadjuvant radiochemotherapy in patients with locally advanced Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma.

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This study aimed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of adding immunotherapy to neoadjuvant chemotherapy (CT) or chemoradiotherapy (CRT) compared to neoadjuvant CRT alone for resectable locally advanced esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC)

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Conditions studied

  • Resectable Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma
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In context

Lead sponsor

Zhigang Li is the lead sponsor of 3 studies on the registry; 2 are open to participants now.

Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 75 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

  1. The result of pathological biopsy showed esophageal squamous cell carcinoma;
  2. Have not received systemic or local treatment for esophageal cancer in the past;
  3. Age 18-75 years (including 18 and 75 years old), both male and female;
  4. ECOG score 0-1;
  5. Thoracic esophageal cancer assessed by CT/MRI/PET-CT etc. as resectable and the clinical stage is T1b-3N1-3M0 or T3N0M0, according to the 8th edition of AJCC staging;
  6. Those who are expected to achieve R0 resection;
  7. Voluntarily sign an informed consent form before treatment;
  8. Plan to receive surgical treatment after neoadjuvant treatment is completed;
  9. No surgical contraindications;
  10. Normal function of major organs
  11. Female subjects with fertility must undergo a serum pregnancy test within 72 hours before starting the study drug administration, and the result is negative, and take effective contraception during the trial and at least 3 months after the last administration Measures (such as intrauterine devices, contraceptives, or condoms); for male subjects whose partners are females of childbearing age, effective contraceptive measures should be taken during the trial and within 3 months after the last administration;
  12. The subjects have good compliance and can follow up the efficacy and adverse events/reactions according to the requirements of the plan;

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. There are unresectable factors, including unresectable tumors, unresectable contraindications for surgery, or rejection of surgery;
  2. Patients with supraclavicular lymph node metastasis;
  3. Poor nutritional status, BMI \<18.5 Kg/m2; if the symptomatic nutritional support is corrected before randomization, the main investigator can continue to consider it after evaluation;
  4. Those who are known to have a history of allergies to the drug components of this program;
  5. Have received or are receiving any of the following treatments in the past:

    1. Any radiotherapy, chemotherapy or other anti-tumor drugs for tumors;
    2. Immunosuppressive drugs or systemic hormone drugs are being used within 2 weeks before the first use of the study drug to achieve immunosuppressive purposes (dose>10mg/day prednisone or equivalent dose); if there is no active autoimmune disease In the case of inhalation or topical use of steroids and prednisone doses> 10 mg/day or equivalent doses of adrenal cortex hormone replacement are allowed;
    3. Received a live attenuated vaccine within 4 weeks before using the study drug for the first time;
    4. Have undergone major surgery or severe trauma within 4 weeks before using the study drug for the first time;
  6. A history of immunodeficiency, including a positive HIV test, or other acquired or congenital immunodeficiency diseases, or a history of organ transplantation or allogeneic bone marrow transplantation;
  7. There are clinical symptoms or diseases of the heart that are not well controlled;
  8. Severe infections (CTCAE v5.0> level 2) occurred within 4 weeks before the first use of the study drug, such as severe pneumonia, bacteremia, infectious comorbidities that require hospitalization, etc.; baseline chest imaging examinations suggest activity Pulmonary inflammation, symptoms and signs of infection in the 14 days before the first use of the study drug, or those who require oral or intravenous antibiotic treatment, except for the prophylactic use of antibiotics;
  9. Participated in other drug clinical studies within 4 weeks before randomization;
  10. People who are currently accompanied by interstitial pneumonia or interstitial lung disease, or have a history of interstitial pneumonia or interstitial lung disease that requires hormone therapy, or have other pulmonary fibrosis that may interfere with the judgment and management of immune-related lung toxicity , Organizing pneumonia (such as bronchiolitis obliterans), pneumoconiosis, drug-related pneumonia, idiopathic pneumonia, or subjects whose CT shows active pneumonia or severe lung dysfunction during the screening period; active tuberculosis;
  11. Patients with any active autoimmune diseases or history of autoimmune diseases with the possibility of recurrence; patients with skin diseases that do not require systemic treatment, such as leukoplakia, psoriasis, hair loss, and insulin treatment Patients with controllable type I diabetes or a history of asthma, but who have been completely relieved during childhood without any intervention can be included in the group; patients with asthma who need bronchodilator intervention cannot be included in the group;
  12. There is active hepatitis B (HBV-DNA ≥ 2000 IU/mL or 104 copies/mL), hepatitis C (hepatitis C antibody is positive, and HCV-RNA is higher than the lower limit of the analytical method);
  13. Other malignant tumors have been diagnosed within 5 years before the first use of the study drug, unless malignant tumors with low risk of metastasis or death (5-year survival rate> 90%), such as fully treated skin basal cell carcinoma or squamous cell Skin cancer or cervical carcinoma in situ, etc., may be considered for inclusion;
  14. Women who are pregnant or breastfeeding;
  15. According to the judgment of the investigator, there are other factors that may lead to the forced termination of the study, such as suffering from other serious diseases (including mental illness) requiring combined treatment, alcoholism, drug abuse, family or social factors, which may affect the subjects Factors of safety or compliance.
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Study design

Phase
Phase 3
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
426 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy With Camrelizumab

    Chemotherapy: Paclitaxel(Albumin Bound)100mg/m2, Day 1,8,15,Carboplatin AUC=5mg/ml/min, Day 1; Camrelizumab: Day 1, every 3 weeks, 2 cycles; Postoperative adjuvant treatment: Camrelizumab maintenance

    Drug: Camrelizumab

  • Experimental
    Neoadjuvant Radiochemotherapy With Camrelizumab

    Chemotherapy: Paclitaxel 50mg/m2, Day 1,8,15,22,29,Carboplatin AUC=2mg/ml/min,Day 1,8,15,22,29 Camrelizumab: 200mg,Day 1,22 Radiotherapy: 41.4 Gy , D1-5/W Postoperative adjuvant treatment:Camrelizumab maintenance

    Drug: Camrelizumab · Radiation: radiotherapy

  • Active comparator
    Neoadjuvant Radiochemotherapy

    Chemotherapy: Paclitaxel 50mg/m2, Day 1,8,15,22,29,Carboplatin AUC=2mg/ml/min,Day 1,8,15,22,29 Radiotherapy:41.4 Gy , D1-5/W. Postoperative adjuvant treatment: non-pCR: Camrelizumab maintenance; PCR: surveillance

    Radiation: radiotherapy

Interventions

  • DrugCamrelizumab

    The study perform preoperative neoadjuvant therapy, surgery and postoperative adjuvant therapy on subjects. Preoperative neoadjuvant therapy includes 3 groups: iCamrelizumab combined with neoadjuvant chemotherapy; Camrelizumab combined with neoadjuvant radiochemotherapy, and neoadjuvant radiochemotherapy.

  • Radiationradiotherapy

    The study perform preoperative neoadjuvant therapy, surgery and postoperative adjuvant therapy on subjects. Preoperative neoadjuvant therapy includes 3 groups: iCamrelizumab combined with neoadjuvant chemotherapy; Camrelizumab combined with neoadjuvant radiochemotherapy, and neoadjuvant radiochemotherapy.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. EFS assessed by the investigator according to RECIST 1.1

    defined as event free survival,defined as the time from randomization to the occurrence of tumor progression/recurrence /death, whichever comes first

    Time frame: median EFS approximately over 45 months

Secondary outcomes

  1. OS

    defined as the time from registration to death due to any cause, or censored at date last known alive

    Time frame: median OS approximately over 80 months

  2. R0 resection rate

    defined as complete surgery resection rate

    Time frame: within 28 working days after surgery

  3. DFS

    defined as the time from the date of surgery who completed R0 resection to local or distant recurrence, or death due to any cause, whichever occurs first;

    Time frame: median DFS approximately over 40 months

  4. HRQoL

    defined as quality and nutrition assessment

    Time frame: approximately 48 months

  5. pCR

    pCR is defined as pathological complete response(ypT0/TisN0)

    Time frame: within 28 working days after surgery

  6. MPR

    MPR is defined as the percentage of subjects with \<10% residual tumor in the primary tumor site

    Time frame: within 28 working days after surgery

  7. Adverse events (AEs)

    Incidence and grade (including serious adverse events \[SAEs\] and immune-related adverse events \[irAEs\]), determined according to the NCI-CTCAE 5.0 criteria

    Time frame: through study completion, assessed up to 50 months

Other outcomes

  1. biomarker testing

    explore the correlation between the expression of PD-L1 and outcomes

    Time frame: approximately 48 months

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Study locations

5 sites
  • Shanghai Chest Hospital
    Shanghai, Shanghai Municipality 200000, China
  • Anyang Tumour Hospital
    Anyang, China
  • Sun yat-sen University Cancer Center
    Guangzhou, China
  • Anhui Provincial Hospital
    Hefei, China
  • Zhongshan Hospital of Fudan University
    Shanghai, China
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References and documents

Publications

  • Yang Y, Zhu L, Cheng Y, Liu Z, Cai X, Shao J, Zhang M, Liu J, Sun Y, Li Y, Yi J, Yu B, Jiang H, Chen H, Yang H, Tan L, Li Z. Three-arm phase II trial comparing camrelizumab plus chemotherapy versus camrelizumab plus chemoradiation versus chemoradiation as preoperative treatment for locally advanced esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (NICE-2 Study). BMC Cancer. 2022 May 6;22(1):506. doi: 10.1186/s12885-022-09573-6. PubMed 35524205 ↗

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Sep 17, 2026, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT05043688
Lead sponsor
Zhigang Li
Collaborators
Jiangsu HengRui Medicine Co., Ltd.
Responsible party
Zhigang Li (chief physician, Shanghai Chest Hospital) — Sponsor-investigator
First posted
Sep 14, 2021
Start date
Sep 1, 2021
Primary completion
Dec 31, 2028 (estimated)
Completion
Dec 31, 2030 (estimated)
Last update
Sep 17, 2026

Study contacts

Yang Yang
principal investigator · Shanghai Chest Hospital

Oversight

FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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