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Reduced Dose Radiotherapy vs Standard Dose Radiotherapy for Early Stage Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma

Phase III Interventional Nasopharyngeal Cancinoma (NPC)

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What is being studied
The protocol lists: Reduced dose radiation, Standard dose radiation.
Who it may be relevant to
Registry conditions: Nasopharyngeal Cancinoma (NPC). Basic parameters: 18 years — 70 years · All.
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
China
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Official title

A Phase III Randomized Controlled Non-Inferiority Clinical Trial Comparing Reduced-Dose Versus Standard-Dose Radiotherapy Based on Treatment Response in Early-Stage Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma

Overview

This study investigates whether administering reduced dose is non-inferior to standard dose radiotherapy in terms of 3-year locoregional relapse-free survival (LRRFS) rate for stage I nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients who are sensitive to radiotherapy.

Detailed description

All the patients receive intensity-modulated radiotherapy. If patients receive CR and EBV DNA undetectable when completing 50.88Gy radiation, they will continue to receive radiotherapy until 61.48Gy, then the patients would be randomised assigned ( 1:1 ) to reduced dose group (observation) or standard dose group (continue to receive radiotherapy until 69.96Gy). Patients with stage IA will receive radiotherapy alone, and patients with stage IB will receive concurrent chemoradiotherapy. For patients with stage IB, those assigned to reduced dose group will receive a total of 2 cycles cisplatin concurrent chemotherapy, with 100mg/m2 per cycle; those assigned to standard dose group will receive a total of 3 cycles cisplatin concurrent chemotherapy, with 100mg/m2 per cycle. This study investigates whether administering reduced dose is non-inferior to standard dose radiotherapy in terms of 3-year locoregional relapse-free survival (LRRFS) rate for stage I nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients who are sensitive to radiotherapy. The primary endpoint is 3-year locoregional relapse-free survival.

Interventions

  • Radiation Reduced dose radiation
    Reduced dose group would receive 61.48Gy radiation.
  • Radiation Standard dose radiation
    Standard dose group would receive 69.96Gy radiation.

Primary outcome measures

  • Locoregional relapse-free survival [Time frame: 3 year]
Secondary outcome measures (5)
  • Progression-free survival [Time frame: 3 year]
  • Overall survival [Time frame: 3 year]
  • Distant metastasis-free survival [Time frame: 3 year]
  • Incidence rate of adverse events (AEs) [Time frame: 3 year]
  • Change of quality of life (QoL) score [Time frame: 1 year]

Eligibility criteria

Inclusion criteria

  • Age 18-70, regardless of sex.
  • Patients with newly histologically confirmed non-keratinizing nasopharyngeal carcinoma, type of WHO II or III, clinical stage I (according to the 9th American Joint Committee on Cancer\[AJCC\] edition).
  • Patients with CR according to RECIST and EBV DNA undetectable after received 50.88Gy radiation.
  • ECOG (Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group) score: 0-1.
  • Women in their reproductive years should ensure that they use contraception during the study period.
  • Hemoglobin (HGB) ≥90 g/L, white blood cell (WBC) ≥4×109 /L, platelet (PLT) ≥100×109 /L.
  • Liver function: Alanine transaminase(ALT), Aspartate aminotransferase(AST)< 1.5 times the upper limit of normal value (ULN), total bilirubin <1.5×ULN.
  • Renal function: serum creatinine <1.5×ULN or creatinine clearance rate≥60mL/min.
  • Patients must sign informed consent and be willing and able to comply with the requirements of visits, treatment, laboratory tests and other research requirements stipulated in the research schedule.

Exclusion criteria

  • Histologically confirmed keratinizing squamous cell carcinoma (WHO I).
  • Patients with PR/SD/PD according to RECIST and/or EBV DNA detectable after received 50.88Gy radiation.
  • Receiving radiotherapy or chemotherapy or targeted therapy previously.
  • Women of child-bearing potential who are pregnant or breastfeeding because of the potentially dangerous effects of the preparative chemotherapy on the fetus or infant.
  • Suffered from other malignant tumors (except the cure of basal cell carcinoma or uterine cervical carcinoma in situ) previously.
  • Patients with significantly lower heart, liver, lung, kidney and bone marrow function.
  • Severe, uncontrolled medical conditions and infections.
  • At the same time using other test drugs or in other clinical trials.
  • Refusal or inability to sign informed consent to participate in the trial.
  • Other treatment contraindications.
  • Emotional disturbance or mental illness, no civil capacity or limited capacity for civil conduct.

Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.

Healthy volunteers: No

Study design

Allocation
Randomized
Model
Parallel assignment
Masking
Open label
Primary purpose
Treatment

Study locations

China · 1 center
  • Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Centre — Guangzhou

Publications

  • Mayr NA, Magnotta VA, Ehrhardt JC, Wheeler JA, Sorosky JI, Wen BC, Davis CS, Pelsang RE, Anderson B, Doornbos JF, Hussey DH, Yuh WT. Usefulness of tumor volumetry by magnetic resonance imaging in assessing response to radiation therapy in carcinoma of the uterine cervix. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 1996 Jul 15;35(5):915-24. doi: 10.1016/0360-3016(96)00230-1. PMID 8751400
  • Miao J, Di M, Chen B, Wang L, Cao Y, Xiao W, Wong KH, Huang L, Zhu M, Huang H, Huang S, Han F, Deng X, Xiang Y, Lv X, Xia W, Tan SH, Wee JTS, Guo X, Chua MLK, Zhao C. A Prospective 10-Year Observational Study of Reduction of Radiation Therapy Clinical Target Volume and Dose in Early-Stage Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2020 Jul 15;107(4):672-682. doi: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2020 PMID 32272183
  • Pan JJ, Mai HQ, Ng WT, Hu CS, Li JG, Chen XZ, Chow JCH, Wong E, Lee V, Ma LY, Guo QJ, Liu Q, Liu LZ, Xu TT, Gong XC, Qiang MY, Au KH, Liu TC, Chiang CL, Xiao YP, Lin SJ, Chen YB, Guo SS, Wong CHL, Tang LQ, Xu ZY, Jia YZ, Peng WS, Hu LP, Lu TZ, Jiang F, Cao CN, Xu W, Ma J, Blanchard P, Williams M, Glastonbury CM, King AD, Patel SG, Seethala RR, Colevas AD, Fan DM, Chua MLK, Huang SH, O'Sullivan B, PMID 39388190
  • Rischin D, Corry J, Smith J, Stewart J, Hughes P, Peters L. Excellent disease control and survival in patients with advanced nasopharyngeal cancer treated with chemoradiation. J Clin Oncol. 2002 Apr 1;20(7):1845-52. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2002.07.011. PMID 11919243
  • Songthong AP, Kannarunimit D, Chakkabat C, Lertbutsayanukul C. A randomized phase II/III study of adverse events between sequential (SEQ) versus simultaneous integrated boost (SIB) intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) in nasopharyngeal carcinoma; preliminary result on acute adverse events. Radiat Oncol. 2015 Aug 8;10:166. doi: 10.1186/s13014-015-0472-y. PMID 26253488

Identifiers

NCT: NCT06912698 · 2024-FXY-129

Primary sources (government registries)

View this study on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗