• Thomas Dipetrillo, Mohan Suntharalingam, Thomas Ng, Jacques Fontaine, Naomi Horiba, Nicklas Oldenburg, Kimberly Perez, Ari Birnbaum, Richard Battafarano, Whitney Burrows, and Howard Safran.
• The Brown University Oncology Group, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
• Am. J. Clin. Oncol. 2012 Feb 1; 35 (1): 64-7.

PurposeTo evaluate the pathologic complete response (CR) rate and safety of paclitaxel poliglumex (PPX), cisplatin, and concurrent radiation for patients with esophageal cancer.Patients And MethodsPatients with adenocarcinoma or squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus or gastroesophageal junction with no evidence of distant metastasis received PPX (50 mg/m(2)/wk) and cisplatin (25 mg/m(2)/wk) for 6 weeks with 50.4 Gy concurrent radiation. Six to eight weeks after completion of chemoradiotherapy, patients underwent surgical resection.ResultsForty patients were enrolled, 37 patients with adenocarcinoma and 3 patients with squamous cell cancer. The treatment-related grade 3 nonhematologic toxicities included esophagitis (7%), nausea (7%), and fatigue (5%). Three patients with clinical endoscopic CR (2 with squamous cell cancer) refused surgery. Twelve of the remaining 37 patients (32%) had a pathologic CR. The 12 patients with pathologic CR all had adenocarcinoma.ConclusionPPX, cisplatin, and concurrent radiation are well tolerated, easily administered regimen for esophageal cancer with a low incidence of significant esophagitis and a high pathologic CR rate consistent with the preclinical data of PPX and radiation.

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