Hepatocellular CarcinomaPhase 3NCT04202523
Combined Radiotherapy and Radiofrequency Ablation for Hepatocellular Carcinoma
A Phase 3 study testing Radiofrequency ablation and IMRT & SBRT in people with Hepatocellular Carcinoma, run by Guangxi Medical University at 1 site in China.
Trial summary
Liver cancer is a clinically high-grade malignant tumor, and the current incidence rate is increasing year by year. It has become the third most malignant tumor after gastric cancer and lung cancer, and has a high mortality rate. Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Any age
- Conditions the study is for
- Hepatocellular Carcinoma
- What is being tested?
- Radiofrequency ablation and IMRT & SBRT
- Type of treatment
- Medical device, Surgery or procedure
- Could I receive a placebo?
- No, everyone receives an active treatment
- How many people
- 50 participants
- Where
- 1 siteChina
- Study dates
- 1 Dec 2019to 31 Dec 2020
- Phase
- Phase 3
- 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 Any age
- All sexes
- No healthy volunteers
- Child, Adult, Older adult
Who may be able to join
- 1. According to the diagnosis and treatment of primary liver cancer (2017 version), patients diagnosed as primary liver cancer; 2, after surgery, CT or MRI and other related imaging examinations suggest recurrence of liver cancer and can not exclud micro lesions; 3. There is no history of systemic liver cancer chemotherapy and large vessel embolism; 4. Child-Pugh classification of liver function is grade A or B, and no xternal liver metastasisoccurs; 5, no serious cardiovascular or cerebrovascular diseases, renal or pulmonary organ disease; 6, no other malignant tumors; 7. all volunteered to participate in the study and signed informed consent.
Who cannot join
- 1, with hepatic encephalopathy, refractory ascites and other serious complications; 2, combined with serious blood system diseases; 3, pregnant or lactating women; 4, during the period of receiving other treatment measures; Those who refused follow-up or follow-up data were not confirmed.
Trial locations and contacts
1 site in 1 country.
China1 site, 1 recruiting
- Recruiting
TaoBai
Nanning, Guangxi, 530000
Tao Bai, MD, +86 13878862632, baitao@gxmu.edu.cn
About this study
Official title: Study of Combined Radiotherapy and Radiofrequency Ablation for Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Liver cancer is a clinically high-grade malignant tumor, and the current incidence rate is increasing year by year. It has become the third most malignant tumor after gastric cancer and lung cancer, and has a high mortality rate. The patient's five-year survival rate is less than 8.5%, which the second leading cause of cancer death is a serious threat to the health of patients. Surgical resection is the preferred treatment plan for liver cancer. With the development of medical technology, the clinical efficacy of liver cancer has been significantly improved, but postoperative recurrence has not been effectively controlled. According to statistics, the recurrence rate of liver cancer after 5 years is as high as 77.0%. Even for small liver cancer resection, the recurrence rate is 40.0%~50.0% within 5 years after operation. At the same time, for recurrent liver cancer, surgical resection is still the preferred treatment plan, but affected by the location, size, distal metastasis and multi-center pathogenesis of liver cancer, only 10.4%~31.0% can be surgically removed. In recent years, RFA has been widely used in liver cancer and recurrent liver cancer due to its unique advantages such as minimally invasive, simple operation, wide indication, reproducible, low cost, and accepted by patients, and has achieved satisfactory results. However, study found that because of the special location of recurrent liver cancer, its multi-center origin, and the characteristics of intrahepatic micrometastasis, it is often accompanied by microvascular tumor thrombus (MVI), which greatly increases the risk of liver cancer recurrence. Moreover, since the treatment of RFA can only be effective for the local detection of recurrent foci, and the effect of detecting small lesions is poor, there is a higher risk of recurrence. The use of radiation therapy is getting more and more attention, and it is changing from the past palliative treatment to current curable treatment. From an oncologic point of view, a narrow margin <1 cm and microvascular invasion is not safe and is often associated with higher rates of recurrence and shorter patient survival. On the other hand, it is also believed that most intrahepatic recurrences arise from multicentric carcinogenesis and are distant from the resection margin.
Whether combined radiotherapy and RFA treatment of liver cancer and recurrent liver cancer can further improve the clinical efficacy, there are few reports. Therefore, the short-term and long-term effects of radiotherapy combined with RFA in the treatment of liver cancer and recurrent liver cancer are studied to provide guidance for clinical treatment.
- Conditions
- Hepatocellular Carcinoma
- Being tested
- Radiofrequency ablation, IMRT & SBRT
- Medical subject headings
- Carcinoma, Hepatocellular
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
Radiofrequency ablationRadiation
Liver cancer radiofrequency ablation is a clinical treatment method that uses electrode needles to penetrate the skin and liver into the tumor and completely destroy the tumor through the principle of heat production to achieve the purpose of treating tumors.
IMRT & SBRTDevice
Tumor radiation therapy is a local treatment method using radiation to treat tumors. Radiation includes alpha, beta, and gamma rays produced by radioactive isotopes and x-rays, electron beams, proton beams, and other particle beams produced by various types of x-ray therapy machines or accelerators. Current mainstream radiotherapy technologies include stereotactic radiation therapy (SRT). Stereotactic radiation therapy (SRT) includes three-dimensional conformal radiation therapy (3DCRT) and three-dimensional conformal intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT).
| Study group | Role | What they receive |
|---|---|---|
| RT&RFA | Experimental | Not described Receives: Radiation: Radiofrequency ablation; Device: IMRT & SBRT |
| RFA | Active comparator | Not described Receives: Radiation: Radiofrequency ablation |
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
DFS
Measured: 2 years
Secondary outcomes (1)
OS
Measured: 3 years
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted17 Dec 2019
- Study start1 Dec 2019
- Primary completion1 Dec 2020 (estimated)
- Study completion31 Dec 2020 (estimated)
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Other trials for Hepatocellular CarcinomaStudies of the same condition, open and under way.
- What the trial phases meanHow a treatment moves from first tests in people to approval.
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 3
- Primary purpose
- Treatment
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Masking
- None (open label)
- Enrolment
- 50 participants (estimated)
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- Guangxi Medical University
- Sponsor type
- University, hospital or other
- Responsible party
- Principal investigator, TaoBai, Guangxi Medical University
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT04202523
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- GuangXiMU-HCC-RT&RFA
- Status last verified
- Dec 2019
- First submitted
- 16 Dec 2019
- Last updated
- 17 Dec 2019
- Results posted
- No
- FDA-regulated drug
- No
- FDA-regulated device
- No
- Individual data sharing
- No
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 17 Dec 2019. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official title
- Study of Combined Radiotherapy and Radiofrequency Ablation for Hepatocellular Carcinoma
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT04202523
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- GuangXiMU-HCC-RT&RFA
- Conditions
- Hepatocellular Carcinoma
- Phase
- Phase 3
- Study type
- Interventional
- Recruitment status
- Unknown status
- Enrolment
- 50 participants (estimated)
- Lead sponsor
- Guangxi Medical UniversityUniversity, hospital or other
- Study start
- 1 Dec 2019 (actual)
- Primary completion
- 1 Dec 2020 (estimated)
- Study completion
- 31 Dec 2020 (estimated)
- First posted
- 17 Dec 2019 (actual)
- Results
- Not posted in the source record
Clinical summary
The research question as the sponsor registered it. This describes what the study plans to test, not what it found.
Liver cancer is a clinically high-grade malignant tumor, and the current incidence rate is increasing year by year. It has become the third most malignant tumor after gastric cancer and lung cancer, and has a high mortality rate. The patient's five-year survival rate is less than 8.5%, which the second leading cause of cancer death is a serious threat to the health of patients. Surgical resection is the preferred treatment plan for liver cancer. With the development of medical technology, the clinical efficacy of liver cancer has been significantly improved, but postoperative recurrence has not been effectively controlled. According to statistics, the recurrence rate of liver cancer after 5 years is as high as 77.0%. Even for small liver cancer resection, the recurrence rate is 40.0%~50.0% within 5 years after operation. At the same time, for recurrent liver cancer, surgical resection is still the preferred treatment plan, but affected by the location, size, distal metastasis and multi-center pathogenesis of liver cancer, only 10.4%~31.0% can be surgically removed. In recent years, RFA has been widely used in liver cancer and recurrent liver cancer due to its unique advantages such as minimally invasive, simple operation, wide indication, reproducible, low cost, and accepted by patients, and has achieved satisfactory results. However, study found that because of the special location of recurrent liver cancer, its multi-center origin, and the characteristics of intrahepatic micrometastasis, it is often accompanied by microvascular tumor thrombus (MVI), which greatly increases the risk of liver cancer recurrence. Moreover, since the treatment of RFA can only be effective for the local detection of recurrent foci, and the effect of detecting small lesions is poor, there is a higher risk of recurrence. The use of radiation therapy is getting more and more attention, and it is changing from the past palliative treatment to current curable treatment. From an oncologic point of view, a narrow margin <1 cm and microvascular invasion is not safe and is often associated with higher rates of recurrence and shorter patient survival. On the other hand, it is also believed that most intrahepatic recurrences arise from multicentric carcinogenesis and are distant from the resection margin.
Whether combined radiotherapy and RFA treatment of liver cancer and recurrent liver cancer can further improve the clinical efficacy, there are few reports. Therefore, the short-term and long-term effects of radiotherapy combined with RFA in the treatment of liver cancer and recurrent liver cancer are studied to provide guidance for clinical treatment.
Study design
- Primary purpose
- Treatment
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Masking
- None (open label)
- Number of arms
- 2
| Arm | Type | Receives |
|---|---|---|
| RT&RFA | Experimental | Radiation: Radiofrequency ablation, Device: IMRT & SBRT |
| RFA | Active comparator | Radiation: Radiofrequency ablation |
Who may qualify
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
- Age groups
- Child, Adult, Older adult
Key inclusion criteria (1 listed)
- 1. According to the diagnosis and treatment of primary liver cancer (2017 version), patients diagnosed as primary liver cancer; 2, after surgery, CT or MRI and other related imaging examinations suggest recurrence of liver cancer and can not exclud micro lesions; 3. There is no history of systemic liver cancer chemotherapy and large vessel embolism; 4. Child-Pugh classification of liver function is grade A or B, and no xternal liver metastasisoccurs; 5, no serious cardiovascular or cerebrovascular diseases, renal or pulmonary organ disease; 6, no other malignant tumors; 7. all volunteered to participate in the study and signed informed consent.
Key exclusion criteria (1 listed)
- 1, with hepatic encephalopathy, refractory ascites and other serious complications; 2, combined with serious blood system diseases; 3, pregnant or lactating women; 4, during the period of receiving other treatment measures; Those who refused follow-up or follow-up data were not confirmed.
Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening; this overview does not establish that a patient qualifies. Full inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Interventions
| Intervention | Type | Arms |
|---|---|---|
| Radiofrequency ablationLiver cancer radiofrequency ablation is a clinical treatment method that uses electrode needles to penetrate the skin and liver into the tumor and completely destroy the tumor through the principle of heat production to achieve the purpose of treating tumors. | Radiation | RFA, RT&RFA |
| IMRT & SBRTTumor radiation therapy is a local treatment method using radiation to treat tumors. Radiation includes alpha, beta, and gamma rays produced by radioactive isotopes and x-rays, electron beams, proton beams, and other particle beams produced by various types of x-ray therapy machines or accelerators. Current mainstream radiotherapy technologies include stereotactic radiation therapy (SRT). Stereotactic radiation therapy (SRT) includes three-dimensional conformal radiation therapy (3DCRT) and three-dimensional conformal intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT). | Device | RT&RFA |
Primary outcome
DFS
Time frame: 2 years
1 secondary outcome
OS
Time frame: 3 years
Results and safety
Results are not available in the source record.
Research links
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govLast updated by the sponsor 17 Dec 2019.
- Individual participant dataSharing planned: No
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Referral and contact
AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals. Contact the study team or a site listed below; they decide who can take part. This study is not recruiting at the moment.
1 site in 1 country: see every site and its status.
Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
A Phase 3 study testing Radiofrequency ablation and IMRT & SBRT in people with Hepatocellular Carcinoma, run by Guangxi Medical University at 1 site in China.
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 1 inclusion and 1 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 17 Dec 2019. 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 China. 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 3 studies compare the treatment with the current standard treatment or a placebo in a large group, to confirm how well it works and watch for side effects.
Not every study follows the same path, and some studies (observational studies, device studies) have no phase.
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?
Each site lists its own contact: choose the nearest one under Trial locations. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.
What does the primary outcome measure?
DFS (time frame: 2 years). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.
Where can I read the original study information?
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 17 Dec 2019.