Personalising and Refining Neo-adjuvant Chemotherapy in Locally Advanced but Resecable Colon Cancer in the Elderly of 70 Years Old or More

Recruiting now · Phase 3

Conditions studied: Colon Cancer

In brief

Colon cancer (CC) is the 5th most common cancer worldwide. Standard care for locally advanced disease is surgical resection followed by 3-6 months of adjuvant chemotherapy (AC) with oxaliplatin and 5-fluorouracil (OxFp). Almost all of these patients undergo surgery, but many do not receive AC due to frailty (following surgery). This particularly affects patients over 70, who represent the majority of patients diagnosed with CC. FOxTROT 2, a trial to test the role of NAC in older patients.

Key facts

Study ID: NCT06293625
Run by: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Dijon
People needed: 150
Starts: 2024-06-07
Expected to finish: 2032-06-01
Last updated by the study team: 2025-03-30

Who can join

Age: 70 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

Biopsy-confirmed adenocarcinoma of the colon (or upper rectum if too high for radiotherapy), high-grade dysplasia is not acceptable ,
Patients with synchronous tumors are eligible, if the most advanced tumor meets the criteria above
Radiological stage T3/T4 and N0/N1/N2 and M0
Patient eligible for curative surgery (without the need for of chemotherapy)
No clinical, radiological and colonoscopy evidence of bowel obstruction
Age ≥ 70 at the time of registration
pMMR/MSS tumour status
Fit to receive 6 weeks (3 courses) of NAC with FOLFOX (either full or 80% of FOLFOX dose) and surgery, as assessed by a colon cancer specialist or geriatric oncologist (if available on site).
Uracilemia <16 ng/ml.
Adequate full blood count: WBC >3.0 x109/l; platelets >100 x109/l and neutrophils ≥ 1.5 x x109/l Anaemia (Hb < 10.0 g/dl) is not an exclusion, but should be corrected by transfusion prior to surgery and chemotherapy. If Hb remains low despite transfusions, surgery and chemotherapy can be given according to the decision of the surgical and oncology teams.
Serum electrolytes: Ca2+ > 2.1 mmol/L, Mg2+ > 0.65 mmol/L, K+> 3.4 mmol/LAdequate renal biochemistry: GFR >50 ml/min as assessed by local standards
Adequate hepatobiliary function:
bilirubin < 1.5 x ULN (Patients with Gilbert's syndrome who have raised bilirubin but otherwise normal liver function tests are eligible for the study if bilirubin < 3 x ULN)
AST/ALT < 2.5 x ULN
Patient able to understand and willing to provide written informed consent for the study
Patient affiliated to a social security scheme

You may not qualify if…

Any patient for whom radiotherapy is advised by the MDT
Strong evidence of distant metastases or peritoneal nodules (cM1), However, cases with indeterminate abnormalities should be managed and investigated as per standard local MDT procedures and can be considered for trial entry if the MDT opinion is that these are considered most likely to be benign.
Peritonitis (secondary to perforated tumour)
T1-T2
Serious medical comorbidity, as assessed by leading clinician (such as uncontrolled angina)
Any other malignant disease within the preceding 5 years with the exception of non-melanomatous skin cancer, carcinoma in situ and early stage disease with a recurrence risk <10%
Known dMMR/ MSI-H tumour status
Have a peripheral sensitive neuropathy with functional impairment (≥ grade 2 according to NCI-CTCAE v5.0)
Recent (within four weeks prior to randomisation) or concomitant treatment with brivudine, sorivudine or their chemically related analogues
Person under guardianship, curatorship, and safeguard of justice or person deprived of liberty
Impossibility to undergo the medical follow-up of the trial for geographical, social or psychological reasons
Known hypersensitivity to the active substance of the trial treatments or to any of the excipients
Patient with poor nutritional status at appreciation by each clinician
bone marrow hypoplasia
Potentially severe infection within1 month before NAC
Patients who have received live attenuated vaccines (yellow fever, varicella, shingles, measles, mumps, rubella, tuberculosis, rotavirus, influenza) within 1 month before NAC
Any case of clinically significant active heart disease or myocardial infarction within 6 months,
Any chronic condition not controlled in the last 6 months: Liver failure, renal failure, respiratory failure,
QT/QTc interval > 450 msec for men and > 470 msec for women
Known Pernicious anaemia or other anaemias due to vitamin B12 deficiency

Where it is running

CHU Dijon Bourgogne — Dijon, France (enrolling)

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