Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy Versus Pelvic Lymphadenectomy in Early-stage Cervical Cancer (PHENIX/CSEM 010)
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02642471 |
Recruitment Status :
Recruiting
First Posted : December 30, 2015
Last Update Posted : July 14, 2020
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Condition or disease | Intervention/treatment | Phase |
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Cervical Cancer Surgery Quality of Life | Procedure: no systematic pelvic lymphadenectomy | Not Applicable |
Study Type : | Interventional (Clinical Trial) |
Estimated Enrollment : | 1080 participants |
Allocation: | Randomized |
Intervention Model: | Parallel Assignment |
Masking: | None (Open Label) |
Primary Purpose: | Treatment |
Official Title: | Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy Versus Pelvic Lymphadenectomy in Early-stage Cervical Cancer (PHENIX/CSEM 010) |
Actual Study Start Date : | December 2015 |
Estimated Primary Completion Date : | December 2022 |
Estimated Study Completion Date : | December 2022 |

Arm | Intervention/treatment |
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Experimental: Arm 1
patients with negative sentinel nodes confirmed by pathological examination of frozen section will be randomly assigned to Arm 1 or Arm 2 Arm 1: patients undergo radical hysterectomy±salpingo-oophorectomy (no systematic pelvic lymphadenectomy) Arm 2: patients undergo radical hysterectomy±salpingo-oophorectomy+pelvic lymph node dissection
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Procedure: no systematic pelvic lymphadenectomy
systematic pelvic lymphadenectomy is omitted in surgical treatment |
No Intervention: Arm 2
patients with negative sentinel nodes confirmed by pathological examination of frozen section will be randomly assigned to Arm 1 or Arm 2 Arm 1: patients undergo radical hysterectomy±salpingo-oophorectomy (no systematic pelvic lymphadenectomy) Arm 2: patients undergo radical hysterectomy±salpingo-oophorectomy+pelvic lymph node dissection
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Experimental: Arm 3
patients with positive sentinel nodes confirmed by pathological examination of frozen section will be randomly assigned to Arm 3 or Arm 4 Arm 3: patients undergo radical hysterectomy±salpingo-oophorectomy (no systematic pelvic lymphadenectomy) Arm 4: patients undergo radical hysterectomy±salpingo-oophorectomy+pelvic lymph node dissection
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Procedure: no systematic pelvic lymphadenectomy
systematic pelvic lymphadenectomy is omitted in surgical treatment |
No Intervention: Arm 4
patients with positive sentinel nodes confirmed by pathological examination of frozen section will be randomly assigned to Arm 3 or Arm 4 Arm 3: patients undergo radical hysterectomy±salpingo-oophorectomy (no systematic pelvic lymphadenectomy) Arm 4: patients undergo radical hysterectomy±salpingo-oophorectomy+pelvic lymph node dissection
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- Disease free survival in PHENIX-I [ Time Frame: 3 years ]
- Disease free survival in PHENIX-II [ Time Frame: 2 years ]
- Surgical morbidity [ Time Frame: 3 years ]
- Rate of retroperitoneal node recurrence [ Time Frame: 3 years ]
- Overall survival [ Time Frame: 5 years ]
- Patients' quality of life [ Time Frame: 5 years ]
- Performance of SLN detection [ Time Frame: 3 years ]
- Diagnostic accuracy of frozen section examination [ Time Frame: 3 years ]
- Anatomic distribution of SLNs [ Time Frame: 3 years ]

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Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years to 65 Years (Adult, Older Adult) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | Female |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients with newly histologically confirmed cervical carcinoma
- Histopathology squamous carcinoma, adenocarcinoma or adeno-squamous carcinoma
- Original clinical stage must be FIGO (2018) stage IA1 (lymphovascular space involvement), IA2, IB1, and IB2
- No suspected node should be found on imaging examination (RESIST 1.1)
- Age between 18-65
- Patients must give signed informed consent
- P.S status: 0-1
- Estimated survival time > 3 months
- Tumor diameter ≤ 3 cm
Exclusion Criteria:
- The presence of uncontrolled life-threatening illness
- Receiving other ways of anti-cancer therapy
- Investigator consider the patients can't finish the whole study
- With normal liver function test (ALT、AST>2.5×ULN)
- With normal renal function test (Creatinine>1.5×ULN)
- WBC<4,000/mm3 or PLT<100,000/mm
- The whole cervix has been occupied by tumor and there is no normal surface left for tracer injection
- History of severe heart disease or deep venous thrombosis; 4) Presence or history of other malignant disease
- Gestation or perinatal period
- Intention to fertility preservation.

To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT02642471
Contact: Jihong Liu, Ph. D | 86-20-87343102 | liujih@mail.sysu.edu.cn | |
Contact: Hua Tu, Ph. D | 86-20-87343014 | tuhua@sysucc.org.cn |
China, Guangdong | |
Department of Gynecologic Oncology, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center | Recruiting |
Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, 510060 | |
Contact: Jihong Liu, Ph.D. 86-20-87343102 liujih@mail.sysu.edu.cn | |
Contact: Hua Tu, Ph.D. 86-20-87343104 tuhua@sysucc.org.cn |
Principal Investigator: | Jihong Liu, Ph. D | Sun Yat-sen University |
Responsible Party: | Jihong Liu, Prof., Sun Yat-sen University |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT02642471 |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
2015-FXY-073 |
First Posted: | December 30, 2015 Key Record Dates |
Last Update Posted: | July 14, 2020 |
Last Verified: | July 2020 |
sentinel lymph node pelvic lymphadenectomy cervical carcinoma surgery radiotherapy |
Uterine Cervical Neoplasms Uterine Neoplasms Genital Neoplasms, Female Urogenital Neoplasms |
Neoplasms by Site Neoplasms Uterine Cervical Diseases Uterine Diseases |