IRinotecan and Oxaliplatin for Colon Cancer in Adjuvant Setting
IROCAS
A Phase III, Randomised, International Trial Comparing mFOLFIRINOX Triplet Chemotherapy to mFOLFOX for High-risk Stage III Colon Cancer in Adjuvant Setting
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interventional
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2 countries
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Brief Summary
The trial is a phase III, multicenter, open-labeled randomized trial comparing the association of 5-fluorouracil (5-FU), folinic acid, irinotecan, and oxaliplatin (mFOLFIRINOX) versus oxaliplatin, folinic acid, and 5-FU (mFOLFOX 6) chemotherapy protocols in patients with high-risk stage III colon cancer in the adjuvant setting.
Trial Health
Trial Health Score
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participants targeted
Target at P75+ for phase_3
Started Mar 2017
Longer than P75 for phase_3
17 active sites
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Study Timeline
Key milestones and dates
First Submitted
Initial submission to the registry
November 9, 2016
CompletedFirst Posted
Study publicly available on registry
November 18, 2016
CompletedStudy Start
First participant enrolled
March 27, 2017
CompletedPrimary Completion
Last participant's last visit for primary outcome
June 15, 2025
CompletedStudy Completion
Last participant's last visit for all outcomes
July 15, 2025
CompletedNovember 17, 2025
September 1, 2024
8.2 years
November 9, 2016
November 14, 2025
Conditions
Keywords
Outcome Measures
Primary Outcomes (1)
Disease Free Survival (DFS)
DFS : defined as the time from the date of randomization up to the date of: * first local, regional or distant relapse; * second colorectal cancer; * death from any cause included treatment-related death.
3 YEARS after inclusion
Secondary Outcomes (3)
Disease Free Survival
2 YEARS after inclusion
Overall Survival
5 YEARS after inclusion
Incidence of Treatment-Emergent Adverse Events [Safety and Tolerability]
2 YEARS after inclusion
Study Arms (2)
Arm A
EXPERIMENTALmFOLFIRINOX Folfox Protocol + Irinotecan
Arm B
ACTIVE COMPARATORmFOLFOX 6 Folfox Protocol
Interventions
every 14 days, 12 cycles, 24 weeks, new cycle beginning on day 15: irinotecan (Campto®) 180 mg/m² on D1, IV infusion over 90 minutes to begin 30 min after folinic acid infusion is started
every 14 days, 12 cycles, 24 weeks, new cycle beginning on day 15: oxaliplatin (Eloxatin®) 85 mg/m² on D1, IV infusion over 2 hours, followed by folinic acid 400 mg/m² (racemic mixture) (or 200 mg/m² if L-folinic acid) IV infusion over 2 hours 5-FU 2400 mg/m²/h IV continuous infusion over 46 hours starting at the end of folinic acid infusion
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if:
- Patient ≥18 years and \< 75 years
- Patient ≥18 years and \<71 years must have an ECOG ≤1 - Patients ≥71 years and \< 75 years must have an ECOG = 0
- Pathologically confirmed high-risk stage III colon adenocarcinoma, restricted to pT4N1 or pT1-4N2 tumor.
- Curative R0 surgical resection.
- Patients who have undergone surgery for colon cancer, defined as a tumor location \>12 cm from the anal verge by endoscopy and/or above the peritoneal reflection at surgery (high rectum), without gross or microscopic evidence of residual disease after surgery with curative intent
- Start of study drug treatment has to be performed less than 56 days after surgery.
- No prior chemotherapy.
- No prior abdominal or pelvic irradiation.
- Patient with adequate organ function:
- Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) ≥ 2 x 109/L
- Haemoglobin ≥9 g/dL
- Platelets (PTL) ≥100 x 109/L
- AST/ALT ≤2.5 x ULN
- Alkaline phosphatase ≤2.5 x ULN
- Total Bilirubin ≤1.5 x ULN (Upper Limit of Normal)
- +9 more criteria
You may not qualify if:
- Major surgical procedure, open biopsy or significant traumatic injury within 28 days prior to study treatment start. Incompletely healed wounds or anticipation of the need for major surgical procedure during the course of the study
- Metastatic disease
- Presence of inflammatory bowel disease and/or ileus
- Known hypersensitivity reaction to any of the components of study treatments.
- Pregnancy (absence to be confirmed by β-hCG test) or breast-feeding period
- Clinically relevant coronary artery disease or history of myocardial infarction in the last 12 months, or high risk of uncontrolled arrhythmia (for men: QTc ≥450 msec, for women: QTc ≥470 msec)
- Previous malignancy in the last 5 years except curative treated basal cell carcinoma of the skin and/or in situ carcinoma of the cervix
- Medical, geographical, sociological, psychological or legal conditions that would not permit the patient to complete the study or sign informed consent
- History or current evidence on physical examination of central nervous system disease or peripheral neuropathy ≥ grade 1 Common Toxicity Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) v4.03.
- Any significant disease which, in the investigator's opinion, would exclude the patient from the study.
- Patient with a DPD deficiency or UGT1A1 homozygous 7/7; the test should be done for all patients before 5-FU administration, according to ANSM communication regarding recommendation about high risk of no testing DPD in patient before 5-FU administration; (Appendices 8 to 11).
- Patients already included in another therapeutic trial involving an experimental drug
Contact the study team to confirm eligibility.
Sponsors & Collaborators
- UNICANCERlead
- Canadian Cancer Trials Groupcollaborator
- GONO GROUPcollaborator
Study Sites (17)
The PEI Cancer Treatment Centre Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada
Hopital Charles LeMoyne
Greenfield Park, Quebec, Canada
Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Allan Blair Cancer Centre
Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
Institut de Cancérologie de l'Ouest -site Paul Papin
Angers, France
CHD de Vendée
La Roche-sur-Yon, France
Ch Emile Roux
Le Puy-en-Velay, France
Hospices civils de Lyon - Hôpital Edouard Herriot
Lyon, France
Hôpital privé Jean Mermoz
Lyon, France
Icm Val D'Aurelle
Montpellier, France
Institut de Cancérologie de l'Ouest -site René Gauducheau
Nantes, France
Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou
Paris, France
Hôpital Saint Antoine
Paris, France
Centre Hospitalier Annecy Genevois
Pringy, France
Institut Jean Godinot
Reims, France
CHP Saint Grégoire
Saint-Grégoire, France
Clinique de la Côte d'Emeraude
St-Malo, France
Related Publications (1)
Bennouna J, Andre T, Campion L, Hiret S, Miglianico L, Mineur L, Touchefeu Y, Artru P, Asmis T, Bouche O, Borde F, Kavan P, Lam YH, Rajpar LS, Emile JF, Jouffroy C, Gill S, Taieb J. Rationale and Design of the IROCAS Study: Multicenter, International, Randomized Phase 3 Trial Comparing Adjuvant Modified (m) FOLFIRINOX to mFOLFOX6 in Patients With High-Risk Stage III (pT4 and/or N2) Colon Cancer-A UNICANCER GI-PRODIGE Trial. Clin Colorectal Cancer. 2019 Mar;18(1):e69-e73. doi: 10.1016/j.clcc.2018.09.011. Epub 2018 Oct 19.
PMID: 30415988DERIVED
MeSH Terms
Conditions
Interventions
Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)
Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)
Study Officials
- STUDY CHAIR
Jaafar BENNOUNA, Professor
Hôpital FOCH, SURESNES
- STUDY CHAIR
Julien TAIEB, Professor
Hôpital Européen Georges-Pompidou, PARIS
- STUDY CHAIR
Thierry ANDRE, Professor
AP-HP Hôpital Saint-Antoine, PARIS
Study Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Phase
- phase 3
- Allocation
- RANDOMIZED
- Masking
- NONE
- Masking Details
- The primary end-point is the Disease Free Survival (DFS) at 3 years, defined as the time from the date of randomization up to the date of: * first local, regional or distant relapse; * second colorectal cancer; * death from any cause included treatment-related death. Other primary cancer (except second primary colorectal) will be ignored. Second primary cancer will be recorded to have the opportunity of evaluating other definition of DFS.
- Purpose
- TREATMENT
- Intervention Model
- PARALLEL
- Sponsor Type
- OTHER
- Responsible Party
- SPONSOR
Study Record Dates
First Submitted
November 9, 2016
First Posted
November 18, 2016
Study Start
March 27, 2017
Primary Completion
June 15, 2025
Study Completion
July 15, 2025
Last Updated
November 17, 2025
Record last verified: 2024-09
Data Sharing
- IPD Sharing
- Will share
- Shared Documents
- STUDY PROTOCOL, SAP
- Time Frame
- The data shared will be limit to that required for independent mandated verification of the published results, the applicant will need authorization from Unicancer for personal access, and data will only be transferred after signing of a data access agreement.
- Access Criteria
- Unicancer will consider access to study data upon written detailed request sent to Unicancer, from 6 months until 5 years after publication of summary data.
Unicancer will share de-identified individual data that underlie the results reported. A decision concerning the sharing of other study documents, including protocol and statistical analysis plan will be examined upon request.