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Stomach NeoplasmPhase 2NCT05184803

A Phase 2 Study of Neoadjuvant Docetaxel, Oxaliplatin, S-1 in Patients With Unresectable Locally Advanced or Distant Metastasis Limited to Lymph Node Gastric Cancer

A Phase 2 study testing Docetaxel injection, oxaliplatin, S-1 in people with Stomach Neoplasm, run by Asan Medical Center at 1 site in South Korea.

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Sites and contacts
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Trial summary

Gastric cancer is the fifth most common carcinoma in the world, and cancer-related deaths rank third. It is one of the main causes of death from cancer in Korea. The cure method for gastric cancer is radical resection, but in most patients, radical resection is impossible due to local infiltration or peripheral organ… Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 19 years and older
Conditions the study is for
Stomach Neoplasm
What is being tested?
Docetaxel injection, oxaliplatin, S-1
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
63 participants
Where
1 siteSouth Korea
Study dates
23 Mar 2022to 31 Dec 2027
Phase
Phase 2
Are there results?
Not yet: the study is under way

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 19 years and older
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Adult, Older adult

Who may be able to join

  • Histologically or cytologically proven metastatic gastric adenocarcinoma patients
  • As a patient who has been proven by CT to have invasion of surrounding organs (T4) according to the 8th edition of the American Joint Commission (AJCC) or confined to remote lymph nodes, the criteria for lymph node invasion are 8 mm or more in single diameter and central necrosis (rounder), (Refer to Appendix B)
  • Over 18 years old.
  • Patients with a life expectancy of at least 3 months.
  • Patients with 0 or 1 ECOG performance status
  • As defined in the relevant items below, those who have confirmed appropriate normal organ and bone marrow function:
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  • Haemoglobin 9 9.0 g/dL.
  • Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) > 1.5 x 103/mCL (> 1,500 per mm3)
  • Platelet count 100 100 x 109/L
  • Serum bilirubin 1.5 1.5 x Test Laboratory Upper Limit of Normal (ULN).
  • AST(SGOT)/ALT(SGPT) 2.5 2.5x ULN of test institution.
  • Measured creatinine clearance (CL) > 40 mL/min or Cockcroft-Gault formula (Cockcroft and Gault 1976) calculated by or according to 24-hour urine samples for determining creatinine cleaning rates.
  • Male creatinine CL (mL/min) = Weight (kg)x (140-age) / 72x Serum creatinine (mg/dL)
  • Women's creatinine CL (mL/min) = Weight (kg)x (140-age) / 72 x Serum creatinine (mg/dL) x 0.85
  • A patient who has never had chemotherapy before.
  • Patients who have not previously had radiation therapy experience
  • Physical, family, social, and geographic conditions for the follow-up of patient conditions required for this study should be free of obstacles in this study.
  • Evidence of menopause or negative findings of urine or blood pregnancy response should be confirmed in premenopausal women. Women who are premenstrual for more than 12 months without any other medical cause are considered menopause. In addition, if bilateral ovarian resection, bilateral ovariectomy, and hysterectomy are performed, menopause is considered.
  • Subjects who can provide signed consent, such as compliance with the requirements and taboos specified in the test subject's consent (ICF) and this plan. Written consent must be obtained from the patient and the patient's legal representative prior to implementing the plan-related procedures, including screening evaluation.

Who cannot join

  • When pregnant women, lactating women, or pregnant women do not use appropriate contraception methods.
  • Cancer other than adenocarcinoma.
  • Patients with distant metastasis other than lymph nodes or confirmed ascites on abdominal CT before surgery.
  • History of other carcinomas or presence of pathogenic cancer (excluding non-melanoma skin cancer or cervical epithelial cancer)
  • Central nervous system metastasis.
  • Clinically significant intestinal obstruction or gastrointestinal bleeding.
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  • A patient with a history of organ transplantation.
  • Active infections such as tuberculosis, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, or HIV identified by TB tests according to medical history, physical examination, radiological findings, and regional standards.
  • Tuberculosis: Tuberculosis confirmed by medical history, physical examination, or radiologically active tuberculosis, and tuberculosis tests according to regional standards (excluding active TB, old TB is acceptable)
  • Hepatitis B: If HBsAg is negative, register, and if HBsAg is positive, HBV DNA test is performed.
  • HBV DNA 500 500iu/ml (or 2500 copies/ml): Excluded
  • HBV DNA ▶500iu/ml (or 2500 copies/ml): Allow
  • Hepatitis C: If HCV Ab is negative, register, and if HCV Ab is positive, HCV RNA test is performed.
  • If HCV RNA is positive, I'll exclude it.
  • If it's HCV RNA's voice, it's allowed.
  • HIV: HIV Ag/Ab : excluding reactive faces, HIV Ag/Ab : non-reactive faces registration
  • Average QTcF (average QT interval for heart rate correction using fridericia formula) > 470 ms when calculated with three ECG tests (within 15 minutes at 2-5 minute intervals).
  • If -1 test is performed and QTcF > 470 ms, 2 additional tests are performed to determine the average QTcF value.
  • -If QTcF 4 470 ms after one test, no additional test is performed.
  • Other serious diseases or medical conditions.
  • Uncurable unstable heart disease, myocardial infarction within 6 months before the start of the study.
  • A history of neurological or psychiatric diseases including dementia or seizures.
  • Active, non-regulatory infection.
  • Clinically serious diarrhea.
  • Severe high calcium conditions above 12 mg/dL, which are not controlled by phonates.
  • Other serious medical conditions that may affect participation in this study.
  • Active random intravascular coagulation.
  • Patients who other researchers find inappropriate.
  • In the case of recent corticosteroids (or corresponding) treatment, except for acute hypersensitivity response therapy or low-dose (<20 mg methylprednisolone or corresponding) chronic treatment (started 6 months before the start of the study) as preventive therapy,
  • In addition to the test drug, administration of other clinical research drugs within 4 weeks or in combination.
  • Combination chemotherapy, hormone therapy, or immunotherapy.

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country. Contact the study team or a site near you to ask about taking part.

South Korea1 site, 1 recruiting
  • Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine

    Seoul, Seoul, 138-736

    Yoon-Koo Kang, MD, PhD, +82-2-3010-3230, ykkang@amc.seoul.kr

    Min-Hee Ryu, MD, PhD, +82-2-3010-5935, miniryu@amc.seoul.kr

    Recruiting

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About this study

Gastric cancer is the fifth most common carcinoma in the world, and cancer-related deaths rank third. It is one of the main causes of death from cancer in Korea. The cure method for gastric cancer is radical resection, but in most patients, radical resection is impossible due to local infiltration or peripheral organ or distant metastasis. Many assisted chemotherapy has been studied to improve survival rate, and in East Asia, assisted chemotherapy after complete D2 resection is the standard treatment. In the West, on the other hand, preoperative chemotherapy and postoperative assisted chemotherapy are currently standard treatments. However, due to the limited effect of adjuvant chemotherapy, it has been reported that better clinical course can be improved by increasing anticancer intensity.

In this context, a large number of prior chemotherapy have been attempted, and prior chemotherapy has several potential effects as follows. (1) Improvement of R0 resection rate due to reduced primary cancer size, (2) early treatment for micro metastasis, (3) evaluation of treatment response rate in patients with measurable lesions, and (4) unnecessary laparotomy can be avoided in patients with biologically aggressive diseases.

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Based on the efficacy of chemotherapy in the combination of docetaxel, fluoropyrimidine, and platinum in metastatic gastric cancer, the investigators conducted a preceding auxiliary anti-cancer clinical trial of docetaxel, capecitabine and cisplatin in advanced gastric cancer patients who could not be completely resected by surgery. DXP was performed 4-6 cycles before surgery with the recommended dose in phase 1-2. In a total of 49 patients, R0 resection was performed in 31 (63%), and among patients, R0 resection was improved in cases where resection was not possible due to local infiltration (71%) and in cases where para-aortic node metastasis was performed (73%).

We have reported that docetaxel, oxaliplatin, and S-1 chemotherapy (DOS) as preoperative adjuvant therapy can be safely administered in combination with D2 gastrectomy and postoperative adjuvant therapy S-1 in potentially resectable local progressive gastric cancer patients. R0 resection was achieved in 97.6% of patients, and pathological complete remission was observed in 19.5%. Based on this, a phase 3 PRODIGY study was performed to evaluate the benefit of S-1 (CSC group) as a preoperative prior chemotherapy compared to S-1 (SC group) as a postoperative adjuvant therapy in gastric cancer of cT2/3N+ or cT4Nany stage, and 0.75% of the CSC group was administered HR. In the patient group undergoing surgery, the R0 resection rate was 95% in the CSC group and 84% in the SC group. In the CSC group, the pathological complete remission rate was 10.4%.

Based on these results, a clinical trial of DOS as a preoperative chemotherapy was planned for progressive gastric cancer that could not be resected due to local progression or metastasis limited to remote lymph nodes.

Primary goal: Evaluation of R0 resection rate in patients who underwent prior chemotherapy as a clinical trial.

Secondary objective: safety evaluation, overall survival period, progression-free survival period, pathological complete remission rate, and investigation of biological markers.

Being tested
Docetaxel injection, oxaliplatin, S-1
Keywords
Neo-adjuvant/Adjuvant, distant metastasis limited to lymph node gastric cancer, unresectable locally advanced gastric cancer
Medical subject headings
Stomach Neoplasms

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • Docetaxel injection, oxaliplatin, S-1Drug

    As a prior chemotherapy, intravenous administration is performed every 3 weeks for docetaxel 50 mg/m2 D1, intravenous administration for oxaliplatin 100 mg/m2 D1, and oral administration twice a day for S-140 mg/m2 D1 to 14.

Study groups in NCT05184803
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
treatmentExperimentaltreatment arm(docetaxel, oxaliplatin, S-1)
Receives: Drug: Docetaxel injection, oxaliplatin, S-1

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Evaluation of R0 resection rate in patients who underwent prior chemotherapy as a clinical trial.

    Evaluation of R0 resection rate.

    Measured: 1 year

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted11 Jan 2022
  2. Study start23 Mar 2022
  3. Primary completion30 Jun 2027 (estimated)
  4. Study completion31 Dec 2027 (estimated)

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More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase 2
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrolment
63 participants (estimated)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT05184803
Sponsor's protocol ID
AMC2201
Status last verified
Apr 2026
First submitted
21 Dec 2021
Last updated
7 Apr 2026
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
Individual data sharing
No

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A Phase 2 study testing Docetaxel injection, oxaliplatin, S-1 in people with Stomach Neoplasm, run by Asan Medical Center at 1 site in South Korea.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 19 inclusion and 31 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: looking for participants now, as of the sponsor's last update on 7 Apr 2026. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 1 site in South Korea. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

What does this phase mean?

Phase 2 studies give the treatment to a larger group to see whether it has the intended effect and to keep checking safety.

Not every study follows the same path, and some studies (observational studies, device studies) have no phase.

Are results available for this study?

This study is still under way. Results are not available in the source record yet.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

Each site lists its own contact: choose the nearest one under Trial locations. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Evaluation of R0 resection rate in patients who underwent prior chemotherapy as a clinical trial. (time frame: 1 year). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 7 Apr 2026.

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