FMISO-based Adaptive Radiotherapy for Head and Neck Cancer

Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age18+
SponsorUniversity Hospital Olomouc

About this trial

Hypoxia occurs in about 80% of head and neck tumors. Based on experimental and clinical data, hypoxia is a useful parameter for pretherapeutic stratification. These radioresistant regions can be detected with FMISO PET/CT. Moreover, hypoxic subvolumes of tumors can be evolving as target volumes for radiotherapy ("dose painting") in hypoxia imaging-based dose escalation.

Eligibility criteria

This trial does not accept healthy volunteers

Qualifiers

Pathologically proven new diagnosis of oropharyngeal p16 negative, or laryngeal, hypopharyngeal, oral cavity (independent of p16) squamous cell carcinoma of clinical stage III, IV confined to head and neck area

Evaluable tumor burden assessed by computed tomography scan or magnetic resonance imaging, based on RECIST (Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumours) version 1.1

Eligibiity for definitive chemoradiation or hyperfractionated accelerated radiotherapy

Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0 or 1

Disqualifiers

Prior surgical treatment - any surgery of primary tumor or involved nodes or prior surgical debulking apart from surgery with diagnostic intention (e.g. open biopsy if necessary)

Prior systemic therapy, targeted therapy, radiotherapy treatment for head and neck cancer

Cancer outside of the oropharynx, larynx, and hypopharynx or oral cavity, such as nasopharyngeal, sinus, other para-nasal, or unknown primary head and neck cancer

Known active central nervous system (CNS) metastases and/or carcinomatous meningitis or any distant metastasis

Trial design

Design model

Parallel

Treatments tested in this trial

  • Dose escalation

    Radiation

    Dose escalation 75,9 - 79,2 Gy in 33 fractions for GTV hypoxic or any hypoxic LN \> 2cm

Treatment groups

120 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groups
Group A: Dose escalationExperimental treatment 1 intervention
Group B: Standard fractionationNo intervention 0 interventions

Trial outcomes

Primary outcomes

1

Complete response rate

response rate

Time frame
2-year
2

Locoregional progresion free survival

locoregional progresion free survival

Time frame
2-year
3

Rate of acute (<3 months) radiation-induced events according to CTCAE 5.0

acute radiation-induced events

Time frame
3 months
4

Rate of late radiation-induced events according to CTCAE 5.0

late radiation-induced events

Time frame
2-year

Secondary outcomes

1

Overall survival

overall survival

Time frame
4 years
2

Distant metastasis free survival

distant metastasis free survival

Time frame
4 years
3

Change in QoL according to the standardised EQ-5D questionnaire

QoL according to the standardised EQ-5D questionnaire

Time frame
2 years
4

Rate of new hypoxic areas after two weeks of radiotherapy

rate of new hypoxic areas after two weeks of radiotherapy

Time frame
2 week after start of radiotherapy

Other outcomes

Sponsors and contacts

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University Hospital Olomouc

Lead sponsor

Masaryk Memorial Cancer Institute

Collaborator

University Hospital Ostrava

Collaborator