In patients with resectable oeso-gastric adenocarcinoma, radical surgery is the only curative option. Despite the evolution in treatment with multimodality treatment strategies, oeso-gastric cancer remains one of the most lethal malignancies with 5-year survival rates reaching only 22%. When the disease is localized, perioperative chemotherapy with cytotoxic agents is the preferred strategy since it increases the overall survival (OS) rate. However, in oeso-gastric cancers with microsatellite instability (MSI), is a favorable prognostic factor, the recommended cytotoxic chemotherapy combination seems inefficient and even deleterious.~It is now well established that dMMR and or the MSI phenotype are the surrogate markers of response to immunotherapy.~The combination of nivolumab and ipilimumab had shown promising efficacy in multiple tumor types (dMMR/MSI).~Based on the data above, we have designed this phase II study to evaluate the complete pathological response rate (cPRR) in patients with non-metastatic MSI/dMMR oeso-gastric adenocarcinoma treated with neoadjuvant nivolumab and ipilimumab treatment.
This is a non-randomized study, open label phase II study. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the complete pathologic response rate (cPRR) with neoadjuvant nivolumab and ipilimumab combination in patients with MSI and/or dMMR localized oeso-gastric cancer.