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Minimal Invasive Strategies for Good and Complete Response to Chemoradiation in Rectal Cancer

This study is currently recruiting participants.
Verified July 2011 by Maastricht University Medical Center
Sponsor:
Information provided by:
Maastricht University Medical Center
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
NCT00939666
First received: July 14, 2009
Last updated: July 21, 2011
Last verified: July 2011
History of Changes

July 14, 2009
July 21, 2011
July 2009
December 2013   (final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Local recurrence [ Time Frame: 2 and 5 years ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
Same as current
Complete list of historical versions of study NCT00939666 on ClinicalTrials.gov Archive Site
  • Overall survival [ Time Frame: 2 and 5 years ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
  • Disease-free survival [ Time Frame: 2 and 5 years ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
  • Distant metastasis-free survival [ Time Frame: 2 and 5 years ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
  • Quality of life [ Time Frame: 6 weeks to 1 year ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
  • Compliance [ Time Frame: 2 and 5 years ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
  • Percentage of patients that chooses the minimal invasive strategies over standard surgery [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
Same as current
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Minimal Invasive Strategies for Good and Complete Response to Chemoradiation in Rectal Cancer
Minimal Invasive Treatment for Patients With Good Response to Chemoradiation With Selection and Follow-up by MRI: a Single Arm Phase-II Feasibility Study in Rectal Cancer

The high proportion of complete and good responders with modern chemoradiation and the improvement in magnetic resonance (MR)-imaging techniques have stimulated a renewed interest to the question whether in patients with complete or good response the overall benefits of a 'wait-and-see policy' or transanal endoscopic microsurgery (TEM) combined with intensive follow-up may outweigh the benefits associated with conventional surgery (total mesorectal excision (TME)or abdominoperineal resection (APR)). On the one hand, less invasive strategies will expose subjects to more diagnostic procedures and possibly a slightly higher risk of local failure and the need for salvage surgery. On the other hand, mortality and morbidity associated with radical surgery (e.g. anastomotic leakage, relaparotomy, wound and pelvic infection, chronic wound healing disturbances, abscess, colostomy, faecal or urinary incontinence and sexual dysfunction) can be avoided. The investigators believe that wait-and-see policy for complete responders and TEM for good responders after chemoradiation is a feasible alternative to standard surgery, provided these patients are intensively followed.
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Interventional
Phase 2
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Treatment
Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer
Procedure: Omission of surgery or transanal endoscopic microsurgery, combined with intensive follow-up
Omission of surgery or transanal endoscopic microsurgery
Experimental: Minimal invasive strategies
Intervention: Procedure: Omission of surgery or transanal endoscopic microsurgery, combined with intensive follow-up
Maas M, Beets-Tan RG, Lambregts DM, Lammering G, Nelemans PJ, Engelen SM, van Dam RM, Jansen RL, Sosef M, Leijtens JW, Hulsewé KW, Buijsen J, Beets GL. Wait-and-see policy for clinical complete responders after chemoradiation for rectal cancer. J Clin Oncol. 2011 Dec 10;29(35):4633-40. Epub 2011 Nov 7. PubMed PMID: 22067400.

*   Includes publications given by the data provider as well as publications identified by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number) in Medline.
 
Recruiting
28
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December 2013   (final data collection date for primary outcome measure)

Inclusion Criteria:

  • 18 years or older
  • Patients with primary rectal cancer without distant metastases who underwent CRT and show clinical complete response or very good response: Clinical complete response (ycT0N0) or very good response (ycT1-2N0) after pre-operative chemoradiation will be determined clinically (digital rectal examination, endoscopy), radiologically (contrast-enhanced-MRI) and pathologically (biopsy)
  • Informed consent and capability of giving informed consent
  • Comprehension of the alternative strategies and the concept of unknown risks are clear to the patient (in other words that the patient understands the experimental base of the study).

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Recurrent rectal cancer.
  • Distant metastasis.
  • Unable or unwilling to comply to the intensive follow-up schedule.
  • Contra-indications for MRI. If MRI is not possible because of contra-indications (e.g. pacemaker) we will exclude patients. MRI is crucial for response evaluation and follow-up and can not be omitted in patients that follow the alternative strategies ('wait-and-see policy' or TEM).
Both
18 Years and older
No
Contact: Monique Maas, MD +31433876957 moniquemaas@live.nl
Contact: Geerard L Beets, MD, PhD +31433875492 g.beets@ah.unimaas.nl
Netherlands
 
NCT00939666
MEC 09-2-034
Yes
Geerard L Beets, MD, PhD, Maastricht University Medical Center
Maastricht University Medical Center
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Principal Investigator: Geerard L Beets, MD, PhD Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Maastricht University Medical Center
July 2011

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