About this trial
DRAGON III research, Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy (FLOT versus SOX) for Gastric Cancer, is an investigator initiated; phase 3, open label, multi-center randomized controlled study.
Eligibility criteria
This trial does not accept healthy volunteersQualifiers
Histology confirmed non-obstructive adenocarcinoma of stomach or esophago-gastric junction.
Clinical stage: Clinical Tumor-Node-Metastasis (cTNM:) stage III
Performance status: Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) ≤ 2 (normal to symptomatic but in bed less than half the day)
Clinically fit for systemic chemotherapy and gastric cancer surgery, i.e. adequate renal, hepatic, hematologic and pulmonary function.
Disqualifiers
Clinically unfit for systemic chemotherapy and gastric cancer surgery, i.e. uncontrolled cardiac disease, or other clinically significant uncontrolled comorbidities, unable to undergo general anesthesia
Distant metastases (including retroperitoneal lymph node)
Locally advanced inoperable disease (Clinical assessment)
Relapse of gastric cancer
Trial design
Parallel
Treatments tested in this trial
Chemotherapy
DrugPerioperative chemotherapy will be administered according to description in two arms.
Treatment groups
Trial outcomes
Primary outcomes
Total Percentage of Patients With Pathological Complete Tumor Regression (TRG1a) and Sub-total Tumor Regression (TRG1b) in the Primary Tumour
Tumor regression grade (TRG), Becker criteria Grade 1a :Complete tumor regression: 0% residual tumor per tumor bed Grade 1b: Subtotal tumor regression: \<10% residual tumor per tumor bed Grade 2: Partial tumor regression: 10-50% residual tumor per tumor bed Grade 3: Minimal or no tumor regression: \>50% residual tumor per tumor bed
Secondary outcomes
Overall Survival (OS)
Overall survival Time from randomization to death from any cause
Disease free survival (DFS)
Disease free survival Time from randomization to relapse or death from any cause
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