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Neoplasm MetastasisHIFUNCT01489787

Study to Evaluate a High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) Procedure in Patient With Liver Metastases

A study testing HIFU in people with Neoplasm Metastasis, run by Centre Leon Berard at 1 site in France.

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Status not confirmed. The sponsor has not verified this record for over two years, so it may be out of date.

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Trial summary

The purpose of this study is to assess the feasibility, safety and efficacy of High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) patients undergoing hepatectomy for colorectal liver metastases. This is a phase I/II study. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 years and older
Conditions the study is for
Neoplasm Metastasis
What is being tested?
HIFU
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
38 participants
Where
1 siteFrance
Study dates
Mar 2010to Dec 2019
Phase
Interventional
Are there results?
None posted in the registry

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
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Adult, Older adult

Who may be able to join

  • 18 years old or more patient,
  • Affected of hepatic metastasis of a colorectal cancer,
  • Who must undergo a hepatectomy by laparotomy with the aim of the resection of hepatic metastasis,
  • ECOG performance status (PS) = 1,
  • Mandatory affiliation to a health security insurance,
  • Written informed consent.

Who cannot join

  • Having already undergone a major hepatic surgery (more than three segments) or biliary major (context of major iterative hepatic surgery),
  • Having already undergone a major abdominal surgery with the exception of a colorectal surgery for the treatment of its primitive tumor (the surgery of the gall-bladder by laparoscopy for the deadline upper to 6 months do not constitute a criterion of not inclusion),
  • Unable to be followed during the duration of the study,
  • Pregnant or breast-feeding woman (a pregnancy test must be negative at the time of the inclusion in the study for the women in age to procreate; a method of reliable contraception must be used during the duration of the study).

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country.

France1 site, 1 recruiting
  • Centre Léon Bérard

    Lyon, 69373

    Michel RIVOIRE, +33 478 78 28 28, michel.rivoire@lyon.unicancer.fr

    Michel RIVOIRE

    Recruiting

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About this study

Official title: A Phase I-II Study to Evaluate, in Patients Operated for a Hepatic Resection of Colorectal Liver Metastases, a High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) Procedure: Feasibility, Safety and Accuracy.

The purpose of this study is to assess the feasibility, safety and efficacy of High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) patients undergoing hepatectomy for colorectal liver metastases. This is a phase I/II study.

Read the detailed description

Justification and interest of the study:

Colorectal liver metastases (CLM) are a major public health issue (16 000 deaths each year in France). To date, complete resection of CLM offers the only potential curative approach. However, only a minority of patients (10 to 20%) is candidates. 5-year survival rates after liver resection are ranged from 20 to 35%. Consequently, alternative locally targeted therapies (radiofrequency, cryotherapy, laser, microwave) have been developed and evaluated. Their use presents many limitations: invasive procedures requiring the intraparenchymal introduction of a probe, impossibility of an accurate monitoring in real-time, small size destruction, time-consuming, high recurrence rate. The development of a non-invasive and more accurate technique combined to surgery is required.

High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) is a new approach, which enables to generate irreversible cell death through coagulative necrosis in a few seconds. There's no cooling effect of the perfusion because of the shortness of the phenomenon.

The surgical team of the Centre Leon Berard, in collaboration with the INSERM U556 one, has undertaken a research program on CLM treatment by HIFU. A new and very powerful device, without the previously named limitations, has been developed. Preclinical studies have revealed the interest, the feasibility and the safety of this process. These results enable considering preceding the program with an early clinical study.

Experimental design:

Prospective, monocentric phase I/II study evaluating a surgical medical device (SMD).

HIFU SMD will be evaluated in clinical conditions, in patients undergoing hepatectomy for colorectal liver metastases. Several HIFU "shootings" (the number will be function of the advancement of the study) will be performed on the liver witch will be resected

Objectives and main assessment criteria:

  1. st part: Phase I - on the healthy liver to remove. Feasibility 1, Safety 2, Tolerance 3. Success = 1 Ability to perform shootings, supplementary duration of intervention < 30 minutes; 2 Asepsis, absence of lesion of nearly tissues; 3 Preservation of hemodynamic and respiratory constants.
  2. nd part: Phase IIa - on the healthy liver to remove, distant then close to the vascular structures of the liver. Ability of targeting shootings. Success = distance from the epicentre of the HIFU lesion to the mark previously positioned in the liver ≤ 5mm.
  3. rd part: Phase IIb - on metastases to remove. Ability, by summation of HIFU lesions, to generate " macro-lesions " including a metastasis and insuring a sufficient safety margin in the healthy tissue.

Success = macro-lesion generated in negative margins.

Number of patients:

  1. st part: The inclusion from 2 to 6 patients is required. The next step (phase II) will depend on:
  • 1st analysis after 2 patients:
  • If < 2 failures: continuation,
  • If 2 failures: cessation of the study.
  • 2nd analysis after 6 patients:
  • If < 3 failures: continuation (phase II),
  • If ≥ 3 failures: cessation.
  1. nd part: Three patients will be successively included in each of the 2 landings (appendix 1):
  • If no failure: continuation (2nd landing / Phase IIb),
  • If ≤ 2 failures: + 3 patients,
  • If > 2 failures on 6 patients: cessation,
  • If ≤ 2 failures on 6 patients: continuation (2nd landing / phase IIb),
  • If 3 failures: cessation.
  1. rd part:
  • p0 = 0.70 = upper limit of the success rate resulting in the inefficacy of HIFU multi-shootings.
  • p1 = 0.90 = lower limit of the success rate resulting in the efficacy of HIFU shootings.

With a 5% risk of type I error and a 80% power, 28 metastases have to be targeted by HIFU in order to conclude in one-sided situation. Taking into account that an average of 1.5 metastases will be targeted in each patient, 20 patients will be enrolled. 24 observed successes will allow concluding in the reject of H0 to accept H1.

Being tested
HIFU
Keywords
Surgery, Ultrasonic therapy, Liver
Medical subject headings
Neoplasm Metastasis

What participants receive

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

  • HIFUProcedure or surgery

    The shootings will concern the healthy liver to remove, distant to the important vascular structures and metastases. Two HIFU shootings will be made on each patient:

    • One hurt on the surface starting from the Glisson capsule and extending to subjacent hepatic parenchyma.
    • One hurt at given depth, at least 10 mm deeper than the hurt done on the surface NB: The shooting depth will determined for each patient at the beginning of the operation, considering preoperative exams (scans, etc.), size and location of the liver part to be resected and physical structure of the patient.
  • HIFUProcedure or surgery

    The shootings will concern healthy liver to be resected, distant (step 1) then close (step 2) to the important vascular structures of the liver. Several shootings HIFU will be made on each patient (ideally 4 hurts, minimum 2 hurts)

  • HIFUProcedure or surgery

    Shootings will concern small metastases (≤ 20 mm) and peri lesional healthy liver. They will be juxtaposed on multiple plans in order to generate a large hurt containing the metastasis targeted and guaranteeing a sufficient safety margin in healthy liver.

    Several metastases can be treated in the same patient

Study groups in NCT01489787
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
Phase I : HIFUExperimentalNot described
Receives: Procedure: HIFU
Phase IIa : HIFUExperimentalNot described
Receives: Procedure: HIFU
Phase IIb : HIFUExperimentalNot described
Receives: Procedure: HIFU

What is being measured

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

  1. First step: Ability to shoot and supplementary duration of intervention, to use the medical device following requested asepsis procedures and no evidence of hurt on peripheral tissues and to keep vital signs stable

    Measured: At the end of surgery (realized about 1 week after enrollment)

  2. Phase IIa - First step: accuracy of shootings on a precise area

    both the distance between the hurt epicentre generated by hifu and a mark. These sizes will be measured in mm during anatomopathological exam.

    Measured: At the end of surgery (realized about 1 week after enrollment)

  3. Phase IIb: possibility of ≤ 15 shootings, safety margin ≥ 5 mm in healthy liver.

    Measured: At the end of surgery (realized about 1 week after enrollment)

  4. Phase IIa - Second step: accuracy of shootings on a zone to be spared

    between the hurt limit and a vessel border previously marked. These sizes will be measured in mm during anatomopathological exam.

    Measured: At the end of surgery (realized about 1 week after enrollment)

Secondary outcomes (10)
  1. Phase I: adjust the probe position to different liver segments and patient physical structure.

    The aim is to be free to generate a HIFU hurt in at least 80 % of the total liver volume

    Measured: At the end of surgery (realized about 1 week after enrollment)

  2. Phase I: Possibility to set a stationary mark, at given depth, echographically detectable

    Measured: At the end of surgery (realized about 1 week after enrollment)

  3. Phase I: Possibility to spot echographically a previously Patent Blue or Methylene blue marked vessel

    Measured: At the end of surgery (realized about 1 week after enrollment)

  4. Phase I: Mean duration to achieve each step expressed in minutes(initialization, conditioning, targeting, shooting)

    Measured: At the end of surgery (realized about 1 week after enrollment)

  5. Phase I: description of outline during perioperative echography

    diameters, depth, volume

    Measured: At the end of surgery (realized about 1 week after enrollment)

  6. Phase I: description of limits during anatomopathological analysis

    diameters, depth, volume

    Measured: At the end of surgery (realized about 1 week after enrollment)

  7. Phase I: distance between the mark / marked vessel and the hurt limits during anatomopathological analysis

    Precise measure given in mm by the anatomopathologist

    Measured: At the end of surgery (realized about 1 week after enrollment)

  8. Phase II: safety of the device

    no evidence of hurt on peripheral tissues (Glisson capsule on the opposite side of the HIFU shootings entrance area, retro-peritoneal, retro-hepatic tissues and diaphragm

    Measured: At the end of surgery (realized about 1 week after enrollment)

  9. Phase II: assessment of vital signs during shooting phase

    hemodynamic, respiratory, body temperature

    Measured: At the end of surgery (realized about 1 week after enrollment)

  10. Phase IIa: correlation between hurt perioperative echographic and postoperative macroscopic, measures

    hurt dimensions comparison (diameters, depth, volume, etc. - in mm), blind-measured, with echography in a first time and in a second time, right after the resection, in anatomopathology

    Measured: At the end of surgery (realized about 1 week after enrollment)

Timeline

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

  1. First posted12 Dec 2011 (estimated)
  2. Study startMar 2010
  3. Primary completionOct 2019 (estimated)
  4. Study completionDec 2019 (estimated)

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 N/A
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Non-randomised
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrolment
38 participants (estimated)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT01489787
Sponsor's protocol ID
HIFU
Other IDs
ET2009-068
Acronym
HIFU
Status last verified
Jan 2017
First submitted
24 Nov 2011
Last updated
29 Jan 2018
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
No

Publications

  • Manfredi S, Lepage C, Hatem C, Coatmeur O, Faivre J, Bouvier AM. Epidemiology and management of liver metastases from colorectal cancer. Ann Surg. 2006 Aug;244(2):254-9. doi: 10.1097/01.sla.0000217629.94941.cf.

    PubMed 16858188
  • Bismuth H, Adam R, Levi F, Farabos C, Waechter F, Castaing D, Majno P, Engerran L. Resection of nonresectable liver metastases from colorectal cancer after neoadjuvant chemotherapy. Ann Surg. 1996 Oct;224(4):509-20; discussion 520-2. doi: 10.1097/00000658-199610000-00009.

    PubMed 8857855
  • Mulier S, Ni Y, Jamart J, Ruers T, Marchal G, Michel L. Local recurrence after hepatic radiofrequency coagulation: multivariate meta-analysis and review of contributing factors. Ann Surg. 2005 Aug;242(2):158-71. doi: 10.1097/01.sla.0000171032.99149.fe.

    PubMed 16041205
  • Rivoire M, De Cian F, Meeus P, Negrier S, Sebban H, Kaemmerlen P. Combination of neoadjuvant chemotherapy with cryotherapy and surgical resection for the treatment of unresectable liver metastases from colorectal carcinoma. Cancer. 2002 Dec 1;95(11):2283-92. doi: 10.1002/cncr.10973.

    PubMed 12436433
  • Antoniou A, Lovegrove RE, Tilney HS, Heriot AG, John TG, Rees M, Tekkis PP, Welsh FK. Meta-analysis of clinical outcome after first and second liver resection for colorectal metastases. Surgery. 2007 Jan;141(1):9-18. doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2006.07.045. Epub 2006 Nov 17.

    PubMed 17188163
  • Pawlik TM, Schulick RD, Choti MA. Expanding criteria for resectability of colorectal liver metastases. Oncologist. 2008 Jan;13(1):51-64. doi: 10.1634/theoncologist.2007-0142.

    PubMed 18245012
  • Garcea G, Lloyd TD, Aylott C, Maddern G, Berry DP. The emergent role of focal liver ablation techniques in the treatment of primary and secondary liver tumours. Eur J Cancer. 2003 Oct;39(15):2150-64. doi: 10.1016/s0959-8049(03)00553-7.

    PubMed 14522372
  • Seifert JK, Morris DL. Indicators of recurrence following cryotherapy for hepatic metastases from colorectal cancer. Br J Surg. 1999 Feb;86(2):234-40. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2168.1999.00995.x.

    PubMed 10100794
  • Coleman DJ, Lizzi FL, Driller J, Rosado AL, Burgess SE, Torpey JH, Smith ME, Silverman RH, Yablonski ME, Chang S, et al. Therapeutic ultrasound in the treatment of glaucoma. II. Clinical applications. Ophthalmology. 1985 Mar;92(3):347-53. doi: 10.1016/s0161-6420(85)34028-9.

    PubMed 3991122
  • Valtot F, Kopel J, Petit E, Moulin F, Haut J. [Treatment of refractory glaucoma with high density focused ultrasonics]. J Fr Ophtalmol. 1995;18(1):3-12. French.

    PubMed 7738293
  • Chapelon JY, Margonari J, Vernier F, Gorry F, Ecochard R, Gelet A. In vivo effects of high-intensity ultrasound on prostatic adenocarcinoma Dunning R3327. Cancer Res. 1992 Nov 15;52(22):6353-7.

    PubMed 1423282
  • Poissonnier L, Chapelon JY, Rouviere O, Curiel L, Bouvier R, Martin X, Dubernard JM, Gelet A. Control of prostate cancer by transrectal HIFU in 227 patients. Eur Urol. 2007 Feb;51(2):381-7. doi: 10.1016/j.eururo.2006.04.012. Epub 2006 May 2.

    PubMed 16857310
  • Kinsey AM, Diederich CJ, Rieke V, Nau WH, Pauly KB, Bouley D, Sommer G. Transurethral ultrasound applicators with dynamic multi-sector control for prostate thermal therapy: in vivo evaluation under MR guidance. Med Phys. 2008 May;35(5):2081-93. doi: 10.1118/1.2900131.

    PubMed 18561684
  • Madersbacher S, Pedevilla M, Vingers L, Susani M, Marberger M. Effect of high-intensity focused ultrasound on human prostate cancer in vivo. Cancer Res. 1995 Aug 1;55(15):3346-51.

    PubMed 7542168
  • Vallancien G, Harouni M, Guillonneau B, Veillon B, Bougaran J. Ablation of superficial bladder tumors with focused extracorporeal pyrotherapy. Urology. 1996 Feb;47(2):204-7. doi: 10.1016/S0090-4295(99)80417-8.

    PubMed 8607235

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A study testing HIFU in people with Neoplasm Metastasis, run by Centre Leon Berard at 1 site in France.

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 6 inclusion and 4 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: status not confirmed, as of the sponsor's last update on 29 Jan 2018. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 1 site in France. 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.

Are results available for this study?

Results are not available in the source record.

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

Contact Séverine METZGER (+33 478 78 27 86, severine.metzger@lyon.unicancer.fr), or a site near the patient. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

First step: Ability to shoot and supplementary duration of intervention, to use the medical device following requested asepsis procedures and no evidence of hurt on peripheral tissues and to keep vital signs stable (time frame: At the end of surgery (realized about 1 week after enrollment)). The study lists 4 primary outcomes in all. 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 NCT01489787, which also lists 28 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 29 Jan 2018.

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