Combined Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy Regimen After Optimal Interval Surgery in Advanced Ovarian Cancer: BICOV-1 (Bidirectional Chemotherapy in Ovarian Cancer)
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An automatic summary of structured registry data. It is an orientation aid, not a substitute for the official protocol or a physician assessment.
- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Following 3 or 4 cycles of systemic neoadjuvant chemotherapy and complete interval CC-0 surgery, patients in the study will receive 4 cycles of 21 days every 3 weeks of the regimen studied by Armstron.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Ovarian Cancer. Basic parameters: 18 years — 70 years · Female.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- Spain
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Overview
A multicenter, low-intervention, drug-based study to evaluate the feasibility and safety of a combined regimen of two intraperitoneal chemotherapy modalities (used in routine clinical practice) following interval surgery for the treatment of advanced ovarian cancer. This is an independent research project (free of commercial interests).
Detailed description
Based on the available evidence, an optimized protocol is proposed for the radical approach to primary advanced ovarian cancer with peritoneal dissemination (FIGO III/IV). After optimal interval surgery defined as CRS + HIPEC, bidirectional therapy (BIC) will be evaluated, reproducing the scheme studied by Armstrong 8 with the modifications and recommendations of GEICO (Spanish Ovarian Cancer Research Group) 18. A series of measures are proposed to minimize the risk of complications and toxicity related to intraperitoneal treatment. All of this, with the ultimate objective of maximizing the patient's disease-free survival.
Interventions
- Drug Following 3 or 4 cycles of systemic neoadjuvant chemotherapy and complete interval CC-0 surgery, patients in the study will receive 4 cycles of 21 days every 3 weeks of the regimen studied by Armstron
Following 3 or 4 cycles of systemic neoadjuvant chemotherapy and complete interval CC-0 surgery, patients in the study will receive 4 cycles of 21 days every 3 weeks of the regimen studied by Armstrong 8 and modified by GEICO 18: IV paclitaxel 175 mg /m2 (day 1) + IP cisplatin 100 mg/m2 (day 2) + IP paclitaxel 60 mg/m2 (day 8).
Primary outcome measures
- Disease-free interval [Time frame: Up to 5 years]
Secondary outcome measures (2)
- Safety related to the intervention [Time frame: Up to 5 years]
- Quality of life of the participants [Time frame: Up to 5 years]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Women aged 18-70 years with a histologically proven diagnosis of FIGO stage IIIB-C/IV epithelial ovarian cancer (high-grade serous epithelial carcinoma)
- Absence of extraperitoneal disease.
- Good performance status: Karnofsky score >70 or Performance status <= 2
- Adequate liver function, defined as bilirubin <0.15 times the upper limit of normal (ULN), aspartate aminotransferase and alanine aminotransferase <= 2.5 times ULN, and alkaline phosphatase <= 3 times ULN.
- Adequate renal function, defined as serum creatinine <= 1.5 times ULN
- Acceptable bone marrow function, defined as neutrophils >1.5 x 106 L-1, hemoglobin >10 g/dL-1, and platelets >100.0 x 109 L-1
- Absence of cardiac, pulmonary, hepatic, renal, or neurological disease that contraindicates major surgery.
- Negative serum and urine pregnancy test results for women of childbearing potential at the screening visit.
- Administration of neoadjuvant chemotherapy with a total of 3 or 4 systemic cycles.
- Surgery with complete CC0 cytoreduction without digestive anastomoses.
- Patients who have signed the written IC.
Exclusion criteria
- Disease progression during systemic treatment with neoadjuvant chemotherapy.
- Extraperitoneal disease (including retroperitoneal lymph node metastases)
- Inability to achieve complete cytoreduction (CC-0) during preoperative (imaging) or intraoperative evaluation.
- Performance of at least one digestive anastomosis of any type. Active infection of any origin
- Allogeneic transplant, or prior bone marrow transplant, or high-dose chemotherapy with bone marrow or stem cell rescue.
- Participation in a clinical trial with an investigational drug within the last 30 days.
- Pregnant or breastfeeding women, where pregnancy is defined as the state of a woman after conception and until the end of pregnancy, confirmed by a positive human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) test result, or who plan to become pregnant or breastfeed during study treatment or within 30 days of the end of treatment with the study drug.
- Patients with a history of allergic reactions or hypersensitivity to drugs chemically related to cisplatin and paclitaxel.
- Failure to sign written informed consent.
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Allocation
- N/A
- Model
- Single group
- Masking
- Open label
- Primary purpose
- Treatment
Study locations
Spain · 1 center
- HCUVA — Murcia
Identifiers
NCT: NCT06902467 · IMIB-BICOV-2022-01