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RecruitingNCT07408609Updated Nov 6, 2026

Perioperative Chemotherapy With Low-Dose Radiotherapy and Tislelizumab for Locally Advanced Gastric or Gastroesophageal Junction Adenocarcinoma

A Phase 2 interventional study of Low Dose Radiotherapy Combined with Tislelizumab and Chemotherapy and Chemotherapeutic Agent in Gastric or Gastroesophageal Junction Adenocarcinoma, sponsored by Jiangsu Cancer Institute & Hospital. Recruiting at 1 site in China. Open to participants aged 20 Years to 80 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-11-06.

Sponsored by Jiangsu Cancer Institute & Hospital · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Started May 2026; still recruiting 5 months later.
Updated Nov 6, 2026Now RecruitingFirst site in China+2 moreGo to Updates ↓
Phase
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
114
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
20 Years to 80 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

This study is a prospective, multicenter, randomized, phase II clinical trial enrolling patients with resectable locally advanced gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma. The study aims to compare the efficacy and safety of perioperative chemotherapy combined with low-dose radiotherapy and tislelizumab versus perioperative chemotherapy alone in this patient population.

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Conditions studied

  • Gastric or Gastroesophageal Junction Adenocarcinoma
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In context

Lead sponsor

Jiangsu Cancer Institute & Hospital is the lead sponsor of 40 studies on the registry; 21 are open to participants now.

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

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
20 Years to 80 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

1.Voluntary participation with written obtained; 2. confirmed gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma (Siewert type II/III) by endoscopic (pathology from outside institutions must be reviewed by the study center); 3. Staged as cT1-2N1-3M0 or cT3-4aN0-3M0 according to the AJCC 8th edition, based on endoscopy and imaging (CT, MRI, or PET-CT); 4. Age ≥20 and ≤80 years, male or female; performance status of 0-1; 5. Presence of measurable and/or non- per v1.1; 6.No prior systemic antitumor therapy, including chemotherapy, radiotherapy, targeted therapy, immunotherapy, biologic therapy, local therapy, or agents; Adequate organ function (no blood products or growth factors within 2 weeks prior to screening); 7. Women of must have a negative pregnancy test within 72 hours prior to first dosing and agree to use effective during the study and for 5 months after the last dose; men with partners of childbearing potential must use effective contraception during the study and for 7 months after the last dose.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. History of surgery for gastric or gastroesophageal junction tumors;
  2. Prior history of fistula formation caused by invasion of the primary tumor; 3.High risk of gastrointestinal bleeding or perforation;

4.Poor nutritional status, defined as \<18.5 kg/m² or PG-SGA score ≥9; 5. Major surgery or severe trauma within 4 weeks prior to first study drug administration; Uncontrolled pleural effusion, pericardial effusion, or ascites requiring repeated drainage; 6. Prior or ongoing treatment with /PD-L1 antibodies, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, or targeted therapy; 7. Use of any drug within 4 weeks prior to first study drug administration; Requirement for systemic ; 8. Prior receipt of antitumor vaccines or within 4 weeks before first study drug administration; 9. Active disease or history of autoimmune disease; 10.History of immunodeficiency, including infection, other acquired or congenital immunodeficiency, solid organ transplantation, or bone marrow transplantation; 11.Any condition requiring systemic corticosteroid or therapy within 14 days prior to treatment, except for minimal systemic absorption routes or short-term (≤7 days) prophylactic use; 12.Uncontrolled cardiac disease, including class II or higher heart failure, unstable angina, myocardial infarction within 1 year, or clinically significant arrhythmias requiring intervention; 13.Severe infection ( grade >2) within 4 weeks prior to treatment, including infections requiring hospitalization; evidence of active pulmonary infection at baseline imaging or infections requiring antibiotics within 2 weeks prior to enrollment (prophylactic antibiotics excluded); 14.History of interstitial lung disease, noninfectious pneumonitis, pulmonary fibrosis, or other uncontrolled acute pulmonary disease; 15.Active tuberculosis, history of active tuberculosis within 1 year prior to enrollment, or inadequately treated tuberculosis more than 1 year prior; 16.Active (HBV DNA ≥2,000 IU/mL) or infection (HCV antibody positive with detectable HCV RNA); 17.Any condition requiring systemic corticosteroid or immunosuppressive therapy within 14 days prior to treatment, except for minimal systemic absorption routes or short-term (≤7 days) prophylactic use; 18.Uncontrolled clinically significant cardiac disease, including NYHA class II or higher heart failure, unstable angina, myocardial infarction within 1 year, or clinically significant arrhythmias requiring intervention; 19.Severe infection (CTCAE grade >2) within 4 weeks prior to treatment; History of interstitial lung disease, noninfectious pneumonitis, pulmonary fibrosis, or other uncontrolled acute pulmonary disease; 20.Active tuberculosis, history of active tuberculosis within 1 year prior to enrollment, or inadequately treated tuberculosis more than 1 year prior; 21.Active hepatitis B (HBV DNA ≥2,000 IU/mL) or hepatitis C infection (HCV antibody positive with detectable HCV RNA); 22.Grade >1 abnormalities in serum sodium, potassium, or calcium within 2 weeks prior to enrollment that cannot be corrected with treatment.

Terms in these criteria, in plain language(22)

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Informed consent

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Histologically or cytologically confirmed

The diagnosis was confirmed by looking at a sample under a microscope: tissue from a biopsy or surgery (histology), or cells from a fluid or needle sample (cytology).

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Biopsy and archival tissue

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ECOG performance status

A scale of how much an illness limits everyday activity. For people being assessed to join a study, scores run from 0 (fully active) to 4; lower is more active.

0
Fully active, no restrictions.
1
Limited in strenuous activity, but walking and able to do light work, such as housework or office work.
2
Walking and able to look after yourself, but unable to work; up and about more than half of waking hours.
3
Able to look after yourself only in part; in bed or a chair more than half of waking hours.
4
Unable to look after yourself at all; in bed or a chair all day.

Studies most often ask for 0–1 or 0–2. Your doctor gives the score; the WHO scale uses the same steps. The full scale also has 5, which records death.

Measurable disease

The amount of disease can be tracked with a defined measurement, so the study can see whether it shrinks or grows. It might be a tumour measured on a scan or, in some blood cancers such as myeloma, a marker measured in blood or urine.

The criteria or the study team say which measurement counts — having no tumour visible on a scan does not by itself rule you out.

RECIST

The standard rules for measuring tumours on CT or MRI scans, to tell whether a cancer is shrinking, stable or growing during treatment.

“Measurable disease per RECIST 1.1” usually means at least one tumour 10 mm or more at its longest on a CT scan, or a lymph node 15 mm or more across its short axis.

Investigational drug or device

A drug or device being studied in a clinical trial.

It may be new, or already approved and being studied for another use, dose or form. Criteria often leave out people who took part in another study of one within a recent period, commonly 30 days or five half-lives.

Childbearing potential

Able to become pregnant: from the first period until menopause, unless permanently unable to through surgery (removal of the womb, or of both ovaries or both fallopian tubes).

Criteria for people of childbearing potential usually ask for a negative pregnancy test and for contraception during the study and for a time after it.

Contraception

Ways of preventing pregnancy. “Highly effective” methods fail less than 1% of the time a year when used correctly — for example an IUD or an implant.

Criteria usually say which methods count and how long to keep using them after the last dose, sometimes for male participants too. Some studies accept a partner’s vasectomy if it was confirmed successful and that person is the participant’s only sexual partner.

BMI (body mass index)

Weight in kilograms divided by height in metres squared. Example: 70 kg and 1.75 m gives 70 ÷ (1.75 × 1.75) ≈ 22.9.

What counts as overweight or obesity differs between countries (some use lower cut-offs), so go by the range the study states.

PD-1, PD-L1 and checkpoint inhibitors

PD-1, PD-L1 and CTLA-4 are proteins that act as brakes on the immune system. Checkpoint inhibitors, such as pembrolizumab or nivolumab, block them so the immune system can attack a cancer.

PD-L1 can also be measured in a tumour sample. Some scores count stained tumour cells only (TPS); others also count certain immune cells (CPS). The study names the score and the minimum it uses.

Corticosteroids (steroids)

Anti-inflammatory medicines such as prednisone, prednisolone and dexamethasone — not the anabolic steroids used for muscle.

Studies differ in what they allow: check which steroid medicines, routes (tablets, injections, creams, inhalers, eye drops) and doses this study accepts.

Live vaccines

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Autoimmune disease

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Immunotherapy studies often leave out active autoimmune disease, and some name exceptions, such as thyroid disease on replacement hormone. Check the exceptions this study lists.

HIV

The human immunodeficiency virus, which weakens the immune system.

Many studies now accept people whose HIV is controlled on treatment, judged by the viral load and the CD4 count. Check the limits this study sets.

Allogeneic and autologous transplant

Stem cell (bone marrow) transplants. Allogeneic uses cells from a donor; autologous uses your own cells, collected earlier and given back.

Immunosuppression

A weakened immune system. It can come from an illness, such as HIV or some blood cancers, or from medicines that turn the immune system down, for example after an organ transplant or for an autoimmune disease; steroids at higher doses count.

Read whether the line is about a condition or about medicines, and which medicines and doses it means.

Clinically significant

Judged by the study doctor to matter for your health or for the study. It is a doctor’s decision, so ask the study team if you are unsure whether something counts.

NYHA class (heart failure)

The New York Heart Association’s four classes of how much heart failure limits physical activity.

I
No limits: ordinary activity causes no undue tiredness or breathlessness.
II
Slight limits: comfortable at rest, ordinary activity causes symptoms.
III
Marked limits: comfortable at rest, less than ordinary activity causes symptoms.
IV
Symptoms even at rest; any activity makes them worse.

Studies set their own limit — many outside heart failure leave out class III–IV, while heart failure studies may ask for a particular class. Check the class this study names.

CTCAE grade

The US National Cancer Institute’s scale of how severe an adverse event is — any unwanted medical event during a study, such as a symptom, an illness or an abnormal test result, whether or not a treatment caused it. Whether it did is judged separately.

1
Mild.
2
Moderate.
3
Severe.
4
Life-threatening.
5
Death due to the event.

“Side effects of earlier treatment resolved to grade 1 or less” means they have settled to mild or gone.

Hepatitis B tests

Hepatitis B is a virus that infects the liver. These are separate tests: HBsAg positive usually means a current infection (a recent vaccination can briefly cause it too); total anti-HBc (HBcAb) positive means an infection now or in the past; HBV DNA measures how much virus is in the blood.

Some studies accept a past infection if HBV DNA is undetectable, sometimes with antiviral medicine during the study. Check what this study allows.

Hepatitis C tests

Hepatitis C is a virus that infects the liver. An HCV antibody test can stay positive after an infection has cleared (and is occasionally positive without one); an HCV RNA test shows whether the virus is there now.

After treatment, hepatitis C counts as cured when HCV RNA is still undetectable 12 weeks or more after the treatment ended. Studies often accept people cured this way.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 2
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
114 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Chemotherapy combined with Tislelizumab

    Drug: Low Dose Radiotherapy Combined with Tislelizumab and Chemotherapy · Device: low-dose radiotherapy

  • Active comparator
    Chemotherapy

    Drug: Chemotherapeutic Agent

Interventions

  • DrugLow Dose Radiotherapy Combined with Tislelizumab and Chemotherapy

    Drug page: Tislelizumab

    Chemotherapy: Oxaliplatin 130 mg/m² on days 1 and 22 plus capecitabine 1000 mg/m² twice daily on days 1-14, for a total of 3 cycles.Tislelizumab: 200 mg administered concurrently with chemotherapy on days 1 and 22 via intravenous infusion, for a total of 3 cycles. Low Dose Radiotherapy: Initiated within one week after the start of chemotherapy; total dose (DT): 30 Gy.

  • DrugChemotherapeutic Agent

    Chemotherapy: Oxaliplatin 130 mg/m² on days 1 and 22 plus capecitabine 1000 mg/m² twice daily on days 1-14, for a total of 3 cycles.

  • Devicelow-dose radiotherapy

    Radiotherapy: Initiated within one week after the start of chemotherapy; total dose (DT): 30 Gy.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Pathological Complete Response (pCR) Rate (ITT Population)

    The pathological complete response (pCR) rate is defined as the proportion of patients in the intention-to-treat (ITT) population who achieve pathological complete response after neoadjuvant treatment. Pathological complete response is defined as the absence of residual viable tumor cells in the resected primary tumor and all sampled regional lymph nodes (ypT0N0), as determined by histopathological examination of the surgical specimens according to standardized pathological assessment criteria.

    Time frame: At the time of surgery following completion of neoadjuvant therapy, based on pathological evaluation of the resected surgical specimen.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Pathological Complete Response (pCR) Rate (Surgical Population)

    The pathological complete response (pCR) rate in the surgical population is defined as the proportion of patients who undergo surgical resection and achieve pathological complete response after neoadjuvant treatment. Pathological complete response is defined as the absence of residual viable tumor cells in the resected primary tumor and all sampled regional lymph nodes (ypT0N0), as determined by histopathological examination of the surgical specimens according to standardized pathological assessment criteria.

    Time frame: At the time of surgery following completion of neoadjuvant therapy, based on pathological evaluation of the resected surgical specimen.

  2. R0 Resection Rate

    The R0 resection rate is defined as the proportion of patients who undergo surgical resection and achieve microscopically margin-negative resection (R0). R0 resection is defined as no residual tumor at the resection margins on histopathological examination of the surgical specimen, as assessed according to standard pathological criteria.

    Time frame: At the time of surgery, based on pathological evaluation of the resected surgical specimen.

  3. Event-Free Survival (EFS)

    Event-free survival (EFS) is defined as the time from randomization (or from treatment initiation in single-arm studies) to the first occurrence of any of the following events: disease progression precluding surgical resection, local or distant recurrence after surgery, or death from any cause. Patients who do not experience any of these events at the time of analysis will be censored at the date of the last disease assessment.

    Time frame: From the date of randomization until the occurrence of disease progression, recurrence, death, or end of follow-up, whichever occurs first, assessed up 60 months.

  4. Overall Survival (OS)

    Overall survival (OS) is defined as the time from randomization to death from any cause. Patients who are alive at the time of analysis will be censored at the date of last follow-up.

    Time frame: From the date of randomization until death from any cause or end of follow-up, whichever occurs first, assessed up to 60 months.

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Study locations

1 of 1 sites recruiting
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Timeline

1 registry update since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reachedDate before it movedWhere the date was before it moved

Started May 2026 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Feb 2029, 33 months after the start.

Start moved once since we started tracking on Sep 25, 2026: Feb 2026 → May 2026, on Nov 6, 2026.

Earlier changes are on the record history on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗

How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.

Registered
Feb 6, 2026
First posted
Feb 13, 2026
StartActual
May 14, 2026was Feb 2026
Primary completionEst.
Feb 20, 2029
CompletionEst.
Feb 20, 2031
Last update
Nov 6, 2026
What these dates mean
Start.
When the first participant enrolled; while estimated, when the study expects to open to recruitment.
Primary completion.
When the last participant was examined or treated to collect data for the study's main question, its primary outcome. A study that stopped early gives the date its data collection stopped.
Completion.
When the last participant's last visit took place, for every outcome, secondary ones and side effects included: the end of the study. Often later than primary completion, sometimes the same day.
Actual and Est.
Actual means the registry says the date has happened. Est. (estimated) is a date the sponsor plans or expects. It can still move, and the sponsor is expected to change it to actual once it has passed.
Status
Not yet recruiting→Recruiting
changed Nov 6, 2026
Sites
1 site added — first site in China
Show site
  • Jiangsu Cancer Institute & Hospital · Nanjing, China
Nov 6, 2026
Start date
Feb 26, 2026→May 14, 2026 (actual)
Nov 6, 2026
Show all 1 update
  1. Nov 6, 2026
    Not yet recruiting→Recruiting
    1 site added — first site in China
    Show site
    • Jiangsu Cancer Institute & Hospital · Nanjing, China
    Start date Feb 26, 2026→May 14, 2026 (now actual)
    + 1 other change: verification date

From the registry record's own update history. This site started tracking changes on Sep 25, 2026; for anything earlier, see the record history on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗

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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT07408609
Lead sponsor
Jiangsu Cancer Institute & Hospital
Responsible party
Gang Li (Clinical Professor, Jiangsu Cancer Institute & Hospital) — Principal investigator
First posted
Feb 13, 2026
Start date
May 14, 2026
Primary completion
Feb 20, 2029 (estimated)
Completion
Feb 20, 2031 (estimated)
Last update
Nov 6, 2026

Study contacts

Gang Li, PhD. MD.
Contact
Ligang@njmu.edu.cn
+8618351992292
Gang Li, PhD. MD.
principal investigator · Jiangsu Cancer Institute & Hospital

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
Yes
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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