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Prostate CancerPROTRACTNCT04004858

Prostate Margin Reduction to Reduce Acute Rectal Toxicity (PROTRACT)

A study testing External beam radiation therapy in people with Prostate Cancer, run by Southlake Health at 3 sites in Canada.

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Trial summary

The objectives of this study are: 1. Retrospectively validate a reduced margin schema for intermediate risk prostate hypofractionated VMAT treatments 2. Demonstrate in a prospective pilot clinical trial that patients planned and treated with the reduced margin schema will have reduced acute rectal toxicity 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?
External beam radiation therapy
Type of treatment
Surgery or procedure
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
50 participants
Where
3 sitesCanada
Study dates
1 Aug 2019to 1 Aug 2021
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
  • Men only
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Adult, Older adult

Who may be able to join

  • Male patients with intermediate-risk prostate cancer receiving external beam radiotherapy
  • Age greater than or equal to 18 years
  • Agreeable to proposed follow-up schedule and able to complete quality of life questionnaire as proposed

Who cannot join

  • Previous radiotherapy to the pelvic region
  • Inflammatory bowel disease or chronic colitis.
  • Connective tissue disorders such as scleroderma.
  • Patients with hip replacements

Trial locations and contacts

3 sites in 1 country.

Canada3 sites
  • Southlake Regional Health Centre

    Newmarket, Ontario, L3Y 2P9

  • Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

    Toronto, Ontario, M4N 3M5

  • Princess Margaret Cancer Centre

    Toronto, Ontario, M5G 2M9

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About this study

Official title: Reducing Acute Rectal Toxicity for Hypofractionated Prostate Radiotherapy - An Multi-institution Pilot Study of Reduced PTV Margin

The objectives of this study are:

  1. Retrospectively validate a reduced margin schema for intermediate risk prostate hypofractionated VMAT treatments
  2. Demonstrate in a prospective pilot clinical trial that patients planned and treated with the reduced margin schema will have reduced acute rectal toxicity
Read the detailed description

Hypofractionated radiotherapy is being adopted as standard practice for intermediate risk prostate cancer patients. The objective of this project is to retrospectively validate whether reducing the Planning Target Volume (PTV), a margin placed around the prostate to account for movement and variability in patient placement, will have reduced acute rectal toxicity. The project will focus on patients with intermediate risk prostate cancer treated with hypofractionated Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy (VMAT) from multiple institutions. The investigators intend to prospectively demonstrate that patients planned and treated with the reduced margin, along with using advanced image-guidance and consistent bladder and rectum preparation will have reduced acute rectal toxicity.

The project consists of two phases: phase one is a retrospective planning study and phase two is a prospective pilot clinical trial.

Phase one aims to validate the benefits of the proposed decrease in PTV margin by assessing whether the investigators can continue to deliver the intended radiation dose to the prostate while further sparing the rectum. This will be accomplished by evaluating the daily delivered dose on Cone-Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT), a daily scan performed during treatment that determines the location of the prostate and rectum. Using these CBCT scans, the investigators can reconstruct the radiation dose delivered to any organs of interest which was affected by their relative positions each day. There are two parts in this phase one retrospective planning study. Part one will focus on 30 intermediate risk prostate cancer cases already treated with hypofractionation (60 Gy in 20 fractions) using the standard PTV margins from all three participating institutions. All 30 cases will then be re-planned using the reduced PTV margin and dose reconstruction will be performed on daily CBCT to confirm adequate target coverage of the prostate. Part two aims to demonstrate that the reduced PTV margin can help enable hypofractionation. Thirty cases that were originally intended to receive a hypofractionated regimen of 60 Gy in 20 fractions but had to either switch to a standard fractionation treatment of 78 Gy in 39 fractions (a regimen used when 60Gy in 20 fractions is not achievable), or where there had to be compromised target coverage of the prostate, due to Organs at Risk (OAR) receiving unacceptable doses of radiation, will be selected. These cases will be re-planned with the validated smaller PTV margin to illustrate that they would now be eligible to receive hypofractionation due to the reduced dose to OARs.

Phase two aims to demonstrate that patients treated with the reduced PTV margin will have reduced acute rectal toxicity as evaluated by the Cancer Care Ontario (CCO) Expanded Prostate Cancer Index Composite for Clinical Practice (EPIC-CP) Quality of Life (QOL) questionnaire. Two groups of patients will be accrued: one group of 25 patients will be planned and treated with the current standard PTV margin as the control group, while the second group of 25 patients will be planned and treated with the reduced PTV margin validated from the phase one retrospective study. A comparison of rectal toxicity scores between these two groups will then be carried out using the EPIC-CP questionnaire.

Conditions
Prostate Cancer
Being tested
External beam radiation therapy
Keywords
Radiation toxicity, Hypofractionation, Margin reduction
Medical subject headings
Prostatic Neoplasms, Radiation Injuries

What participants receive

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

  • External beam radiation therapyRadiation

    Patient will receive 60Gy in 20 fractions as per standard practice

Study groups in NCT04004858
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
Standard marginActive comparatorPatient cohort planned with the current standard PTV margin
Receives: Radiation: External beam radiation therapy
Reduced marginExperimentalPatient cohort planned with the reduced margin validated from the retrospective study
Receives: Radiation: External beam radiation therapy

What is being measured

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

  1. Reduced acute rectal toxicity from reduced PTV margin

    Patients planned and treated with reduced PTV margin will have a change of 2 points in Cancer Care Ontario (CCO) Expanded Prostate Cancer Index Composite for Clinical Practice (EPIC-CP) bowel symptom scores, demonstrating better toxicity outcomes. This patient reported outcome questionnaire evaluates bowel symptom scores in four aspects: rectal pain or urgency of bowel movement, increased frequency of bowel movements, overall problems with bowel movements, and bloody stools. Each aspect has a score ranging from 0 to 4. The total scores for an individual patient ranges from 0 to 16, with lower score indicating a better outcome.

    Measured: 6 months

Timeline

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

  1. First posted2 Jul 2019
  2. Study start1 Aug 2019 (estimated)
  3. Primary completion1 Aug 2020 (estimated)
  4. Study completion1 Aug 2021 (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
Sequential
Model description
The prospective pilot study will consist of two cohorts of patients: one cohort planned with the current standard PTV margin and the second cohort planned with the reduced margin validated from the retrospective study. The first cohort will be recruited while the retrospective study is being carried out and the second cohort will be accrued once the retrospective validation is completed.
Masking
None (open label)
Enrolment
50 participants (estimated)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT04004858
Sponsor's protocol ID
043-1819
Acronym
PROTRACT
Status last verified
Jul 2019
First submitted
28 Jun 2019
Last updated
5 Jul 2019
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
Individual data sharing
No

Publications

  • National Comprehensive Cancer Network: Prostate cancer, 2016. https://www.nccn.org/professionals/physician_gls/pdf/prostate.pdf

  • Wortel RC, Incrocci L, Pos FJ, van der Heide UA, Lebesque JV, Aluwini S, Witte MG, Heemsbergen WD. Late Side Effects After Image Guided Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy Compared to 3D-Conformal Radiation Therapy for Prostate Cancer: Results From 2 Prospective Cohorts. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2016 Jun 1;95(2):680-9. doi: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2016.01.031. Epub 2016 Jan 22.

    PubMed 27055398
  • Dearnaley DP, Khoo VS, Norman AR, Meyer L, Nahum A, Tait D, Yarnold J, Horwich A. Comparison of radiation side-effects of conformal and conventional radiotherapy in prostate cancer: a randomised trial. Lancet. 1999 Jan 23;353(9149):267-72. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(98)05180-0.

    PubMed 9929018
  • Alayed Y et al: Clinical impact of reducing planning target volume margins during radiation therapy for localized prostate cancer: early outcomes of a 2-stage prospective trial. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 93:(S)E249, 2015

  • Nijkamp J, Pos FJ, Nuver TT, de Jong R, Remeijer P, Sonke JJ, Lebesque JV. Adaptive radiotherapy for prostate cancer using kilovoltage cone-beam computed tomography: first clinical results. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2008 Jan 1;70(1):75-82. doi: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2007.05.046. Epub 2007 Sep 17.

    PubMed 17869445
  • Gill SK, Reddy K, Campbell N, Chen C, Pearson D. Determination of optimal PTV margin for patients receiving CBCT-guided prostate IMRT: comparative analysis based on CBCT dose calculation with four different margins. J Appl Clin Med Phys. 2015 Nov 8;16(6):252-262. doi: 10.1120/jacmp.v16i6.5691.

    PubMed 26699581
  • Battista JJ, Johnson C, Turnbull D, Kempe J, Bzdusek K, Van Dyk J, Bauman G. Dosimetric and radiobiological consequences of computed tomography-guided adaptive strategies for intensity modulated radiation therapy of the prostate. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2013 Dec 1;87(5):874-80. doi: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2013.07.006. Epub 2013 Aug 24.

    PubMed 23978708
  • Nuver TT, Hoogeman MS, Remeijer P, van Herk M, Lebesque JV. An adaptive off-line procedure for radiotherapy of prostate cancer. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2007 Apr 1;67(5):1559-67. doi: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2006.12.010. Epub 2007 Feb 15.

    PubMed 17306934
  • Engels B, Soete G, Gevaert T, Storme G, Michielsen D, De Ridder M. Impact of planning target volume margins and rectal distention on biochemical failure in image-guided radiotherapy of prostate cancer. Radiother Oncol. 2014 Apr;111(1):106-9. doi: 10.1016/j.radonc.2014.02.009. Epub 2014 Mar 13.

    PubMed 24631146
  • Quon HC et al: PATRIOT trial: randomized phase II study of prostate stereotactic body radiotherapy comparing 11 versus 29 days overall treatment time. J Clin Oncol 33:(S)6-6, 2015.

  • Catton CN, Lukka H, Gu CS, Martin JM, Supiot S, Chung PWM, Bauman GS, Bahary JP, Ahmed S, Cheung P, Tai KH, Wu JS, Parliament MB, Tsakiridis T, Corbett TB, Tang C, Dayes IS, Warde P, Craig TK, Julian JA, Levine MN. Randomized Trial of a Hypofractionated Radiation Regimen for the Treatment of Localized Prostate Cancer. J Clin Oncol. 2017 Jun 10;35(17):1884-1890. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2016.71.7397. Epub 2017 Mar 15.

    PubMed 28296582
  • Dearnaley D, Syndikus I, Mossop H, Khoo V, Birtle A, Bloomfield D, Graham J, Kirkbride P, Logue J, Malik Z, Money-Kyrle J, O'Sullivan JM, Panades M, Parker C, Patterson H, Scrase C, Staffurth J, Stockdale A, Tremlett J, Bidmead M, Mayles H, Naismith O, South C, Gao A, Cruickshank C, Hassan S, Pugh J, Griffin C, Hall E; CHHiP Investigators. Conventional versus hypofractionated high-dose intensity-modulated radiotherapy for prostate cancer: 5-year outcomes of the randomised, non-inferiority, phase 3 CHHiP trial. Lancet Oncol. 2016 Aug;17(8):1047-1060. doi: 10.1016/S1470-2045(16)30102-4. Epub 2016 Jun 20.

    PubMed 27339115
  • Chang P, Szymanski KM, Dunn RL, Chipman JJ, Litwin MS, Nguyen PL, Sweeney CJ, Cook R, Wagner AA, DeWolf WC, Bubley GJ, Funches R, Aronovitz JA, Wei JT, Sanda MG. Expanded prostate cancer index composite for clinical practice: development and validation of a practical health related quality of life instrument for use in the routine clinical care of patients with prostate cancer. J Urol. 2011 Sep;186(3):865-72. doi: 10.1016/j.juro.2011.04.085. Epub 2011 Jul 23.

    PubMed 21788038
  • Howell D et al: Feasibility of implementing EPIC-CP: recommendations to enhance the quality of person-centred clinical care of men with early-stage prostate cancer. Cancer Care Ontario report.

  • Wei JT, Dunn RL, Litwin MS, Sandler HM, Sanda MG. Development and validation of the expanded prostate cancer index composite (EPIC) for comprehensive assessment of health-related quality of life in men with prostate cancer. Urology. 2000 Dec 20;56(6):899-905. doi: 10.1016/s0090-4295(00)00858-x.

    PubMed 11113727

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A study testing External beam radiation therapy in people with Prostate Cancer, run by Southlake Health at 3 sites in Canada.

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 3 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 5 Jul 2019. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 3 sites in Canada. 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 Charles Cho, MD (905-895-4521 ext. 6539, ccho@southlakeregional.org), or a site near the patient. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Reduced acute rectal toxicity from reduced PTV margin (time frame: 6 months). 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 NCT04004858, which also lists 17 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 5 Jul 2019.

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