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Prostate CancerPhase 2NCT00091390

Radiation Therapy in Treating Patients With Stage II or Stage III Prostate Cancer

A Phase 2 study testing High Dose brachytherapy boost and External beam radiotherapy in people with Prostate Cancer, run by Radiation Therapy Oncology Group at 12 sites in United States.

Completed

Finished. The study has ended and is not enrolling. Results may be posted on the official record.

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Trial summary

RATIONALE: Radiation therapy uses high-energy x-rays and other sources to damage tumor cells. Internal radiation therapy uses radioactive material placed directly into or near a tumor to kill tumor cells. Giving radiation therapy in different ways may kill more tumor cells. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 years and older, men only
Conditions the study is for
Prostate Cancer
What is being tested?
High Dose brachytherapy boost and External beam radiotherapy
Type of treatment
Surgery or procedure
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
129 participants
Where
12 sitesUnited States
Study dates
Jul 2004to Dec 2016
Phase
Phase 2
Are there results?
Yes, posted in the registrySummary in the doctors' view

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 18 years and older
  • Men only
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Adult, Older adult

Who may be able to join

  • Histologically confirmed, adenocarcinoma of the prostate, clinical stage T1c-T3b, N0, M0.
  • Patient will have clinically negative nodes as established by imaging (pelvic computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)).
  • The patient will be clinically M0.
  • Zubrod status 0-1.
  • No prior pelvic or prostate radiation or chemotherapy for prostate cancer; induction hormonal therapy beginning ≤ 120 days prior to registration is acceptable.
  • One of the following combinations of factors:
  • Clinical stage T1c-T2c, Gleason score 2-6 and prostate-specific antigen (PSA) >10 but ≤ 20 Clinical stage T3a-T3b, Gleason score 2-6 and PSA ≤ 20 Clinical stage T1c-T3b, Gleason score 7-10 and PSA ≤ 20
  • Patients must sign a study-specific consent form prior to registration.

Who cannot join

  • Stage T4 disease.
  • Lymph node involvement (N1).
  • Evidence of distant metastases (M1).
  • Radical surgery for carcinoma of the prostate.
  • Previous hormonal therapy beginning > 120 days prior to registration.
  • Major medical or psychiatric illness which, in the investigator's opinion, would prevent completion of treatment and would interfere with follow-up.
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  • Prior transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP).
  • Prior invasive malignancy(except non-melanomatous skin cancer) unless disease free for a minimum of 3 years (For example, carcinoma in situ of the oral cavity or bladder are permissible).
  • Hip prosthesis.

Trial locations and contacts

12 sites in 1 country.

12 sites in 1 country

United States12 sites
  • University of Colorado Cancer Center at University of Colorado Health Sciences Center

    Aurora, Colorado, 80045

  • Lynn Regional Cancer Center at Boca Raton Community Hospital - Main Center

    Boca Raton, Florida, 33486

  • Roswell Park Cancer Institute

    Buffalo, New York, 14263-0001

  • Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center - Burbank

    Burbank, California, 91505

  • Fletcher Allen Health Care - University Health Center Campus

    Burlington, Vermont, 05401

  • Cancer Care Consultants Medical Associates at Daniel Freeman Memorial Hospital

    Inglewood, California, 90301

  • Newark Beth Israel Medical Center

    Newark, New Jersey, 07112

  • OSF St. Francis Medical Center

    Peoria, Illinois, 61637

  • William Beaumont Hospital - Royal Oak Campus

    Royal Oak, Michigan, 48073

  • Radiological Associates of Sacramento Medical Group, Incorporated

    Sacramento, California, 95815

  • Maine Center for Cancer Medicine and Blood Disorders - Scarborough

    Scarborough, Maine, 04074

  • Waukesha Memorial Hospital Regional Cancer Center

    Waukesha, Wisconsin, 53188

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About this study

Official title: Phase II Trial Of Combined High Dose Rate Brachytherapy And External Beam Radiotherapy For Adenocarcinoma Of The Prostate

RATIONALE: Radiation therapy uses high-energy x-rays and other sources to damage tumor cells. Internal radiation therapy uses radioactive material placed directly into or near a tumor to kill tumor cells. Giving radiation therapy in different ways may kill more tumor cells.

PURPOSE: This phase II trial is studying how well giving internal radiation therapy together with external-beam radiation therapy works in treating patients with stage II or stage III prostate cancer.

Read the detailed description

OBJECTIVES:

Primary

  • Determine the rate of late grade 3 or greater genitourinary and gastrointestinal toxicity after treatment with external beam radiotherapy and high-dose rate brachytherapy in patients with stage II or III adenocarcinoma of the prostate.

Secondary

  • Determine acute grade 3 or greater genitourinary and gastrointestinal toxicity in patients treated with this regimen.
  • Determine freedom from biochemical failure in patients treated with this regimen.
  • Determine overall survival of patients treated with this regimen.
  • Determine disease-specific survival of patients treated with this regimen.
  • Determine clinical relapse (local and/or distant) in patients treated with this regimen.
  • Develop a quality assurance process for high-dose rate prostate brachytherapy.

OUTLINE: This is a multicenter study. Patients are stratified according to prostate-specific antigen (≤ 10 ng/mL vs 11-20 ng/mL), T stage (T1c-T2c vs T3a-T3b), combined Gleason score (2-6 vs 7 vs 8-10), prior hormonal therapy (no vs yes), and timing of high-dose rate brachytherapy (before external beam radiotherapy vs after external beam radiotherapy).

Patients are followed at 3, 7, 9, and 12 months, every 6 months for 5 years, and then annually thereafter.

Conditions
Prostate Cancer
Being tested
High Dose brachytherapy boost, External beam radiotherapy
Keywords
adenocarcinoma of the prostate, stage IIB prostate cancer, stage IIA prostate cancer, stage III prostate cancer
Medical subject headings
Prostatic Neoplasms

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • High Dose brachytherapy boostRadiation

    Also called HDR brachytherapy boost

    19 Gy in two fractions (on day of placement and 6-24 hours later) before or after external beam radiotherapy, such that all study treatment occurs within 8 weeks.

  • External beam radiotherapyRadiation

    Also called XRT, External beam RT

    45 Gy as 1.8 Gy five days a week for five weeks.

Study groups in NCT00091390
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
External Beam Radiotherapy and High Dose brachytherapy boostExperimentalNot described
Receives: Radiation: High Dose brachytherapy boost; Radiation: External beam radiotherapy

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Percentage of Participants With Late Grade 3-5 Genitourinary (GU) and Gastrointestinal (GI) Adverse Events (AE) at 18 Months

    Adverse events (AE) were graded using the Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) v3.0. Grade refers to the severity of the AE. The CTCAE v3.0 assigns Grades 1 through 5 with unique clinical descriptions of severity for each AE based on this general guideline: Grade 1 Mild, Grade 2 Moderate, Grade 3 Severe, Grade 4 Life-threatening or disabling, Grade 5 Death related to AE. "Late" is defined as occurring after 9 months from the start of study treatment. Because of the lead time of 9 months, the percentage at 18-months was estimated by the 9-month rate using the cumulative incidence method starting at the 10th month. Death was treated as a competing risk.

    Measured: From 9 to 18 months after start of study treatment

Secondary outcomes (7)
  1. Number of Participants With Acute Grade 3-5 Genitourinary (GU) and Gastrointestinal (GI) Adverse Events (AE)

    Adverse events (AE) were graded using the Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) v3.0. Grade refers to the severity of the AE. The CTCAE v3.0 assigns Grades 1 through 5 with unique clinical descriptions of severity for each AE based on this general guideline: Grade 1 Mild, Grade 2 Moderate, Grade 3 Severe, Grade 4 Life-threatening or disabling, Grade 5 Death related to AE. Acute is defined as occurring within 9 months from the start of study treatment.

    Measured: From treatment start to 9 months

  2. Percentage of Participants With Biochemical Failure at 10 Years Using American Society for Therapeutic Radiation and Oncology (ASTRO) Definition

    The ASTRO criteria for biochemical failure is three consecutive rises in prostate-specific antigen (PSA) level above the nadir after radiation therapy. The PSA nadir is defined as as the lowest PSA value reached immediately before a biochemical failure. The date of failure is midway between the last non-rising PSA and the first rise in PSA. Time to failure is defined as time from registration to the date of first failure, last known follow-up (censored), or death without failure (competing risk). Failure rate is estimated using the cumulative incidence method.

    Measured: From registration to ten years

  3. Percentage of Participants With Biochemical Failure at 10 Years Using the Phoenix Definition

    The Phoenix criteria for biochemical failure is a rise of 2 ng/mL or more above the nadir after radiation therapy. Time to failure is defined as time from registration to the date of first failure, last known follow-up (censored), or death without failure (competing risk). Failure rate is estimated using the cumulative incidence method.

    Measured: From registration to ten years

  4. Percentage of Participants Alive at 10 Years

    Overall survival time is defined as time from registration to the date of death from any cause or last known follow-up (censored). Overall survival rate is estimated by the Kaplan-Meier method.

    Measured: From registration to 10 years

  5. Percentage of Participants With Death Due to Prostate Cancer at 10 Years

    The following will be considered as death due to prostate cancer (failure):

    • Death certified as due to prostate cancer.
    • Death from other causes with active malignancy (clinical or biochemical progression).
    • Death due to complications of treatment, irrespective of the status of malignancy.

    Time to failure is defined as time from registration to the date of first failure, last known follow-up (censored), or death without failure (competing risk). Failure rate is estimated using the cumulative incidence method.

    Measured: From registration to ten years

  6. Percentage of Participants With Distant Failure at 10 Years

    Distant failure required documentation of regional nodal recurrence or distant disease relapse. Time to failure is defined as time from registration to the date of first failure, last known follow-up (censored), or death without failure (competing risk). Failure rate is estimated using the cumulative incidence method.

    Measured: From registration to ten years

  7. Percentage of Participants With Local Failure at 10 Years

    Local failure is defined as documented local progression as determined by clinical exam. Time to failure is defined as time from registration to the date of first failure, last known follow-up (censored), or death without failure (competing risk). Failure rate is estimated using the cumulative incidence method.

    Measured: From registration to ten years

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted9 Sep 2004 (estimated)
  2. Study startJul 2004
  3. Primary completionJan 2008
  4. Study completionDec 2016

Resources

More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase 2
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrolment
129 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT00091390
Sponsor's protocol ID
RTOG-0321
Other IDs
CDR0000382120
Status last verified
Jul 2020
First submitted
7 Sep 2004
Last updated
10 Aug 2020
Data monitoring committee
Yes

Publications

  • Hsu IC, Bae K, Shinohara K, Pouliot J, Purdy J, Ibbott G, Speight J, Vigneault E, Ivker R, Sandler H. Phase II trial of combined high-dose-rate brachytherapy and external beam radiotherapy for adenocarcinoma of the prostate: preliminary results of RTOG 0321. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2010 Nov 1;78(3):751-8. doi: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2009.08.048. Epub 2010 Mar 6.

    PubMed 20207506
  • Jacob D, Raben A, Sarkar A, Grimm J, Simpson L. Anatomy-based inverse planning simulated annealing optimization in high-dose-rate prostate brachytherapy: significant dosimetric advantage over other optimization techniques. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2008 Nov 1;72(3):820-7. doi: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2008.02.009. Epub 2008 May 1.

    PubMed 18455325
  • Hsu IC, Rodgers JP, Shinohara K, Purdy J, Michalski J, Roach M 3rd, Vigneault E, Ivker RA, Pryzant RM, Kuettel M, Taussky D, Gustafson GS, Raben A, Sandler HM. Long-Term Results of NRG Oncology/RTOG 0321: A Phase II Trial of Combined High Dose Rate Brachytherapy and External Beam Radiation Therapy for Adenocarcinoma of the Prostate. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2021 Jul 1;110(3):700-707. doi: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2020.11.008. Epub 2020 Nov 10.

    PubMed 33186617

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A Phase 2 study testing High Dose brachytherapy boost and External beam radiotherapy in people with Prostate Cancer, run by Radiation Therapy Oncology Group at 12 sites in United States.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 8 inclusion and 9 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 10 Aug 2020. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 12 sites in United States. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

What does this phase mean?

Phase 2 studies give the treatment to a larger group to see whether it has the intended effect and to keep checking safety.

Not every study follows the same path, and some studies (observational studies, device studies) have no phase.

Are results available for this study?

Yes. Results are posted in the registry (first posted 14 Nov 2014). A summary is in the For doctors view, and the full results are on ClinicalTrials.gov.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Percentage of Participants With Late Grade 3-5 Genitourinary (GU) and Gastrointestinal (GI) Adverse Events (AE) at 18 Months (time frame: From 9 to 18 months after start of study treatment). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?

On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT00091390, which also lists 3 linked publications.

Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 10 Aug 2020.

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