Second-Line Chemotherapy Combined With Endostatin for Recurrent/Metastatic HN Epithelial Tumors

The prognoses of recurrent/metastatic head and neck epithelial tumors after first-line platinum-based chemotherapy is poor. The efficacy of second-line chemotherapy for those patients that cannot be re-irradiated or re-operated is limited according to NCCN guideline and other published data. New agent for second-line treatment of recurrent and/or metastatic head and neck tumors is urgently needed. Recombinant human endostatin is an anti-angiogenetic target drug, which has been demonstrated a good efficacy for NSCLC. Studies about recombinant human endostatin in head and neck cancer mainly focus on NPC. And phase I study of endostatin combined with chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy for NPC showed a promising results. This study was designed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of endostatin combined with second-line chemotherapy for patients of recurrent/metastatic head and neck epithelial tumors that cannot be re-irradiated or re-operated after fist-line platinum-based chemotherapy.