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Neurocognitive DeficitWHOBI-STERNCT04891471

WHOle Brain Irradiation or STEreotactic Radiosurgery for Five or More Brain Metastases (WHOBI-STER)

A study testing Stereotactic RadioTherapy and Whole Brain Irradiation in people with Neurocognitive Deficit and Quality of Life, run by Mediterranean Institute of Oncology at 4 sites in Italy.

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Trial summary

This work aims to evaluate neurocognitive performance, daily activity and quality of life and local control among patients with brain metastasis (MBM) ≥ 5 due to solid tumors treated with Stereotactic RadioSurgery (SRS) or Whole Brain RadioTherapy (WBRT). Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 years and older
What is being tested?
Stereotactic RadioTherapy and Whole Brain Irradiation
Type of treatment
Surgery or procedure
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
100 participants
Where
4 sitesItaly
Study dates
15 Sep 2020to 15 Sep 2025
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

  • Age > 18
  • Life expectancy > 3 months
  • Brain metastases number ≥ 5
  • Primary tumor histologic diagnosis
  • Complete Extracranial staging
  • Montreal Cognitive Assessment ≥ 20/30
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  • Barthel Activities of Daily Living ≥ 90/100
  • KPS ≥ 70
  • Signed Informed Consent

Who cannot join

  • Brain-MRI contraindications
  • Contraindications to SRS
  • Pregnancy
  • Hemorrhagic cerebral disease
  • Miliary metastases
  • Massive perilesional edema
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  • Leptomeningeal involvement
  • Previous brain irradiation
  • Dementia
  • Non-solid brain tumor
  • Ischaemic event
  • Alcohol and/or drugs abuse
  • Anxiety and depression
  • KPS ≤ 60
  • Life expectancy < 3 months

Trial locations and contacts

4 sites in 1 country.

Italy4 sites, 4 recruiting
  • Radiation Oncology Unit - Department of Biomedical, Dental Science and Morphological and Functional Images, University of Messina

    Messina, 98125

    Silvana Parisi, +393406284095, silvana.parisi@unime.it

    Silvana Parisi, silvana.parisi@unime.it

    Recruiting
  • Radiation Oncology, ARNAS-Civico Hospital

    Palermo, 90127

    Gianluca Mortellaro, 3298811698, gianlucamortellaro@virgilio.it

    Giuseppe Ferrera

    Recruiting
  • Fondazione Istituto Oncologico del Mediterraneo

    Viagrande, Catania, 95029

    Irene R. Cravagno, Chief Radiation Oncology Unit, irene_rita.cravagno@fondazioneiom.it

    Anna Viola, Radiation Oncologist, anna.viola@fondazioneiom.it

    Recruiting
  • REM Radiotherapy (parent company of Mediterranean Institute of Oncology)

    Viagrande, Catania, 95029

    Gianluca Ferini, Chief Radiation Oncology Unit, +393311341117, gianluca.ferini@grupposamed.com

    Gianluca Ferini

    Recruiting

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About this study

Official title: WHOle Brain Irradiation and STEreotactic Radiosurgery for Five or More Brain Metastases (WHOBI-STER): a Prospective Comparative Study of Neurocognitive Outcomes, Level of Autonomy in Daily Activities and Quality of Life

This work aims to evaluate neurocognitive performance, daily activity and quality of life and local control among patients with brain metastasis (MBM) ≥ 5 due to solid tumors treated with Stereotactic RadioSurgery (SRS) or Whole Brain RadioTherapy (WBRT). This multicentric randomised controlled trial will be conducted at the Fondazione IOM (Viagrande) in collaboration with REM (Viagrande), Hospital G. Martino (Messina) and Hospital Civico ARNAS (Palermo). It will involve, within 5 years starting from 15 September 2020, the enrollment of 100 patients (50 for each arm) with MBM ≥ 5, age ≥ 18 years, Karnofsky Performance Status (KPS) ≥ 70, life expectancy > 3 months, histological confirmation of primary tumor, with controlled or controllable extracranial disease, baseline Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) of 20/30, Barthel Activities of Daily Living score 90/100, to be subjected to SRS on each brain lesion by LINAC with monoisocentric technique and non-coplanar arcs (experimental arm) or to WBRT (control arm). The primary endpoints are neurocognitive performance, quality of life and autonomy in daily-life activities variations, the first one assessed by Moca Score and Hopkins Verbal Learning Test - Revised, the second one through the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire Core 15 Palliative Care (EORTC QLQ-C15-PAL) and Brain Neoplasm (BN-20) questionnaires, the third one through the Barthel Index, respectively. The secondary endpoints are time to intracranial failure, overall survival, retreatments frequency, acute and late toxicities, KPS decrease. It will be considered significant a statistical difference of at least 29% between the two arms (statistical power of 80% with a significance level of 95%). This trial has been approved by the local ethics committee on July 7th 2020 (record 70). Several studies debate what is the predominant factor accountable for the development of neurocognitive decay among patients undergoing brain irradiation for MBM: radiotherapy, especially if extended to the entire brain, or intracranial disease progression? Answer to this question may come from current opportunity, thanks to recent technological advancement, to treat, with significant time savings, improved patient comfort and at the same time minimizing the dose to healthy brain tissue, Multiple Brain Metastasis simultaneously, otherwise attackable only by panencephalic irradiation. The pursuit of a local control rate comparable to that obtainable with WBRT remains the fundamental prerequisite for the aforementioned related assessments.

Being tested
Stereotactic RadioTherapy, Whole Brain Irradiation
Keywords
multiple brain metastasis, neurocognitive decay, whole brain radiotherapy, stereotactic radiosurgery, stereotactic body radiotherapy, quality of life, solid tumor, Activities of Daily Living, best supportive care, palliative radiotherapy

What participants receive

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

  • Stereotactic RadioTherapyRadiation

    Also called Stereotactic RadioSurgery, Stereotactic Body RadioTherapy

    To treat only brain metastasis identified through Magnetic Resonance imaging by means of stereotactic radiotherapy (experimental intervention) to determine if sparing of clinically uninvolved brain implies a better neurocognitive performance, quality of life and level of autonomy in activities of daily living respect to Whole Brain Irradiation (active comparator).

  • Whole Brain IrradiationRadiation

    Also called Whole Brain Radiotherapy, Panencephalic Radiotherapy

    To irradiate the entire brain, site of at least 5 parenchymal metastasis.

Study groups in NCT04891471
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
SRS/SBRT armExperimentalPatients with five or more brain metastasis assigned by randomization to Stereotactic RadioSurgery (SRS) or Stereotactic Body RadioTherapy (SBRT) will be treated with a highly-conformal metastasis-directed single dose between 15 and 24 Gy or fractionated dose (e.g. 27 Gy in 3 fractions), respectively, depending on lesion size, while sparing clinically negative brain. The treatment will be delivered using five non-coplanar arcs and a mono-isocentric technique.
Receives: Radiation: Stereotactic RadioTherapy
WBI armActive comparatorPatients with five or more brain metastasis assigned by randomization to Whole Brain Irradiation (WBI) will be treated using a 3D-Conformal RadioTherapy technique for a uniform dose delivery of 30 Gy in 10 daily/fractions to the target, that is entire brain.
Receives: Radiation: Whole Brain Irradiation

What is being measured

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

  1. Neurocognitive changes detected through Moca Score

    To assess how neurocognitive performance changes after SRS/SBRT compared to WBI

    Measured: Change from Baseline pre-Radiotherapy Neurocognitive Functional Status every three months after treatment through study completion, an average of 1 year

  2. Changes of Autonomy in daily activities detected through the Barthel Index

    To assess how level of autonomy in activities of daily living changes after SRS/SBRT compared to WBI

    Measured: Change from Baseline pre-Radiotherapy Barthel Index every three months after treatment through study completion, an average of 1 year

  3. Change in quality of life detected though the EORTC QLQ-C15-PAL questionnaire

    To assess how quality of life changes after SRS/SBRT compared to WBI

    Measured: Change from Baseline pre-Radiotherapy EORTC QLQ-C15-PAL questionnaire every three months after treatment through study completion, an average of 1 year

  4. Neurocognitive changes detected through Hopkins Verbal Learning Test - Revised

    To assess how neurocognitive performance changes after SRS/SBRT compared to WBI

    Measured: Change from Baseline pre-Radiotherapy Neurocognitive Functional Status every three months after treatment through study completion, an average of 1 year

  5. Change in quality of life detected though the BN-20 questionnaire

    To assess how quality of life changes after SRS/SBRT compared to WBI

    Measured: Change from Baseline pre-Radiotherapy BN-20 questionnaire every three months after treatment through study completion, an average of 1 year

Secondary outcomes (6)
  1. Time to local failure

    Time between treatment and cerebral disease progression detected through Magnetic Resonance imaging

    Measured: every three months after treatment through study completion, an average of 1 year

  2. Overall Survival

    Time from the first day of treatment to exitus

    Measured: after treatment completion through study completion, an average of 1 year

  3. Re-treatment rate

    Difference in needing further subsequent radiotherapy treatment between SRS/SBRT and WBI arms

    Measured: after first treatment completion through study completion, an average of 1 year

  4. Acute Central Nervous System (CNS) toxicities evaluated by means of Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG)/ European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) Radiation Toxicity Grading

    Toxicities registered within three months from treatment

    Measured: from treatment completion until three months later

  5. Late Central Nervous System (CNS) toxicities evaluated by means of Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG)/ European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) Radiation Toxicity Grading

    Toxicities registered after three months from treatment

    Measured: from three months after treatment completion through study completion, an average of 1 year

  6. Karnofsky Performance Status changing

    Evaluation of how patient's performance status modifies after treatment

    Measured: after treatment completion through study completion, an average of 1 year

Timeline

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

  1. First posted18 May 2021
  2. Study start15 Sep 2020
  3. Primary completion15 Sep 2025 (estimated)
  4. Study completion15 Sep 2025 (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
Prevention
Allocation
Randomised
Intervention model
Parallel groups
Masking
None (open label)
Enrolment
100 participants (estimated)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT04891471
Sponsor's protocol ID
70/2020/CECT2
Acronym
WHOBI-STER
Status last verified
Jan 2023
First submitted
20 Apr 2021
Last updated
18 Jan 2023
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
Individual data sharing
Yes

Publications

  • Ferini G, Viola A, Valenti V, Tripoli A, Molino L, Marchese VA, Illari SI, Rita Borzi G, Prestifilippo A, Umana GE, Martorana E, Mortellaro G, Ferrera G, Cacciola A, Lillo S, Pontoriero A, Pergolizzi S, Parisi S. Whole Brain Irradiation or Stereotactic RadioSurgery for five or more brain metastases (WHOBI-STER): A prospective comparative study of neurocognitive outcomes, level of autonomy in daily activities and quality of life. Clin Transl Radiat Oncol. 2021 Dec 2;32:52-58. doi: 10.1016/j.ctro.2021.11.008. eCollection 2022 Jan.

    PubMed 34926839

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A study testing Stereotactic RadioTherapy and Whole Brain Irradiation in people with Neurocognitive Deficit and Quality of Life, run by Mediterranean Institute of Oncology at 4 sites in Italy.

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 9 inclusion and 15 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 18 Jan 2023. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 4 sites in Italy. 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 Gianluca Ferini (+393311341117, gianluca.ferini@grupposamed.com), or a site near the patient. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Neurocognitive changes detected through Moca Score (time frame: Change from Baseline pre-Radiotherapy Neurocognitive Functional Status every three months after treatment through study completion, an average of 1 year). The study lists 5 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 NCT04891471, which also lists 1 linked publication.

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 18 Jan 2023.

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