Definitive Therapy for Oligometastatic Solid Malignancies
Study Details
Study Description
Brief Summary
Patients with metastatic cancer are usually treated with systemic therapy (treating the entire body) with the assumption that any localized treatment of clinically apparent metastases would not impact survival. In the setting of increasingly effective systemic therapy and limited metastatic disease, aggressive treatment to clinically active sites of disease (alone or in addition to systemic therapy) may improve survival.
Condition or Disease | Intervention/Treatment | Phase |
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Phase 2 |
Detailed Description
Up to recently it has been assumed that in the setting of metastatic solid tumors, locoregional control of clinically apparent metastases does not substantially impact survival due to undetectable micrometastic (clinically not visualized) disease that ultimately lead to treatment failure/progression. However, as more advanced systemic therapy continue to improve control of micrometastatic disease, failures at the original sites of disease remain common. Furthermore, some studies have shown locoregional treatment of limited clinical metastases to actually improve survival. Therefore, the investigators hypothesize that aggressive treatment to clinically active sites of disease (alone or in addition to systemic therapy) may improve survival or alter the course of the disease in some patients with limited metastatic disease.
Study Design
Arms and Interventions
Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
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Experimental: Definitive locoregional treatment All sites of active disease should be treated definitively (with one of the interventions listed below). Definitive treatment does not have to be the same for all sites of disease. |
Procedure: Complete Surgical Removal
Radiation: Stereotactic Radiosurgery
Other Names:
Radiation: Ablative external beam radiation dose
Other Names:
Procedure: Subtotal surgical removal plus ablative radiation dose
Residual tumor or close/positive margins should be followed by ablative radiation doses (by either stereotactic radiosurgery or convential EBRT) to constitute definitive locoregional treatment
Other Names:
Radiation: Radioembolization
radioembolization of the liver with Y-90 microspheres or other site-appropriate techniques
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Outcome Measures
Primary Outcome Measures
- Survival [5 years]
Overall and disease-specific survival, to be assessed at 1, 3, and 5 years.
Secondary Outcome Measures
- Progression free survival (PFS) [5 years]
Time to first progression of disease (regardless of location)
- Locoregional disease control [5 years]
Time to first progression within definitively treated areas
- Toxicity [5 years]
Including grade 2+ toxicity attributable to localized study treatment as well as to systemic therapy
Eligibility Criteria
Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
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4 or less distinct sites of active disease. Locoregional disease counts as one site
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All sites of disease can safely be encompassed by radiation fields to doses ≥ 45 Gy (biologic equivalent dose) and/or removed completely with surgery and/or completely ablated with other appropriate site-specific techniques.
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sufficient blood cell counts and adequate liver function
Exclusion Criteria:
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Hematologic malignancies
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Distinct sites of disease > 4
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Karnofsky Performance Status < 70
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Unexplained weight loss > 10 %
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HIV, chronic viral hepatitis, or any chronically active infection
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Life expectancy < 6 months for any reason
Contacts and Locations
Locations
Site | City | State | Country | Postal Code | |
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1 | Rocky Mountain Cancer Centers - Aurora | Aurora | Colorado | United States | 80012 |
2 | Rocky Mountain Cancer Centers - Boulder | Boulder | Colorado | United States | 80303 |
3 | Rocky Mountain Cancer Centers - Littleton | Littleton | Colorado | United States | 80120 |
4 | Rocky Mountain Cancer Centers - Thornton | Thornton | Colorado | United States | 80260 |
Sponsors and Collaborators
- Rocky Mountain Cancer Centers
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Dennise Carter, MD, Rocky Mountain Cancer Centers
Study Documents (Full-Text)
None provided.More Information
Publications
None provided.- Carter 2005-01
- 1073869