Comparing the Effectiveness of Combined Hyperthermia and External Beam Radiation (EBRT) Versus EBRT Alone in Treating Patients With Painful Bone Metastases

NCT ID: NCT01842048

Last Updated: 2016-10-13

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: UNKNOWN
• Clinical Phase: PHASE3
• Total Enrollment: 152 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2013-07-31
• Study Completion Date: 2019-06-30

Brief Summary

The main goals of deep hyperthermia combined with external beam radiation (EBRT) on bone metastases are the response on pain relief, duration of response and time to achieve complete pain relief.

Detailed Description

The goal of this study is to conduct comparative data on the efficacy of low temperature (40-43℃ range) deep hyperthermia adding on external beam radiation for treatment of metastatic bone tumors. There are 3 reasons of conducting this clinical trial. Firstly, radiotherapy is most effective modality for bony metastases treatment, but only limited radiation dose can be delivered to metastatic bony metastatic sites with relatively short response duration observed clinically. Since it is a palliative treatment for pain relief, some patients develop recurrent pain at the same lesions a few months later. Most patients must accept their hopeless conditions and accept toward the end of their lives due to difficulty of reirradiation. There is urgently need for more effective treatment. Secondly, most combination of hyperthermia and radiation trials were relatively high dose of radiation, with the basic idea of hyperthermic radiosensitization, the combination of hyperthermia and radiotherapy on bone metastasis is warrant. Clinical trials experiences on relatively less deep tumors such as breast, head and neck cancers, extremity sarcoma or melanoma may not be applied on deep seated tumors. Bony metastases are usually deep seated lesions with hard cortex bone surrounded. The real benefit of hyperthermia can be highlighted on bony metastases. Thirdly, metastatic bony microenvironment are critical for the providing of bone marrow-derived immune suppressor cells circulating to systemic tumor microenvironment, mild thermal therapy to metastatic bony microenvironment may have dual immunomodulatory effects: direct enhancement of immune cell activity through thermally sensitive molecular pathways associated with immune cell function/activation, and, indirect enhancement of immunosurveillance through a reduction in hypoxia-induced immune suppressor cells around metastatic foci via improved tumor vascular perfusion. An unexpected survival benefit may demonstrated from this study.

Patients are stratified according to solitary or multiple sites, primary cancer type (Breast or prostate vs others), and severity of pain (i.e., worst pain score in the last 24-hour period) (4-6 vs 7-10). Patients are randomized to 1 of 2 treatment arms.

Treatment protocol A was designed to compare the response of matched tumors in the same patient treated by radiation alone or by radiation combined with hyperthermia when the patient had multiple tumors. Two tumors of comparable size were treated with either protocol A or B, and the responses were compared. The tumor size was computed as the product of maximum length times maximum width.

Conditions

All Type of Cancers With Bony Metastasis

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

External-beam radiotherapy combine hyperthermia

Hyperthermia 42℃ ± 0.5℃ for 40min, 2 times/week within 2hr after irradiation. Radiation protocol are 3Gy 5 times a week for a total of 30Gy/10fx/2 weeks

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Hyperthermia

Intervention Type: OTHER

External-beam radiotherapy

Intervention Type: RADIATION

External-beam radiotherapy alone

External-beam radiotherapy alone comprising 30Gy/10 fractions, 5 times a week, administered with 2 weeks.

Group Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

External-beam radiotherapy

Intervention Type: RADIATION

Interventions

Hyperthermia

Intervention Type: OTHER

External-beam radiotherapy

Intervention Type: RADIATION

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Histologically or clinically confirmed solid tumor metastasis with index lesion involving or abutting bone. *Index lesion means an irradiated field covered lesions contoured from CT-Simulation which may generally less than 20cm, include 4-5 vertebra bodies, sacrum plus adjacent iliac lesions or a segment of femerol bone. Each patient can only have one index lesion for this study.
• Index lesion with bone destruction either osteolytic or osteoblastic in nature as assessed on CT or MRI imaging
• If the nature of the metastatic disease has been previously documented, the index lesion to be treated does not require further documentation (i.e., biopsy)
• ≥ One primary painful metastatic site. The most painful site that need treatment first will be elected as index lesion site for evaluation of response. Additional less painful metastatic sites may be present. Patients who elect to have another course of RT treatment on different metastatic sites after the initial treatment are allowed.
• Worst pain in the last 24 hours must be ≥ 4 on a 0-10 numeric scale.
• Index lesion causing clinical or radiographic evidence of partial spinal cord or cauda equina compression/effacement is allowed.
• Have developed pain or have persistent pain while on a stable chemotherapy, hormonal therapy, target therapy or bisphosphonate therapy regimen is allowed. There will be no change of chemotherapy, hormonal therapy, or bisphosphonate therapy for 4 weeks before and after radiotherapy
• ECOG performance status 0-3
• Life expectancy ≥ 3 months
• Patients with impending fracture of weight bearing bone or patients with symptoms of spinal cord compression should have surgical opinion before the start of radiotherapy. Patient should not be able to be enrolled in this study if surgery is scheduled.

Exclusion Criteria

• Index lesion involves the skull
• Index lesion has evidence of a pathologic fracture, impending fracture need immediate surgery are not eligible. Those patients had received decompression surgery are not eligible.
• Has undergone prior radiotherapy at the index lesion
• Those who chemotherapy or systemic treatment will be changed during study period.
• Patients had history of metal implant inside or outside irradiation field are not eligible .
• Patients had history of pacemaker insertion due to arrhythmia are not eligible.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 21 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 80 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Shin Kong Wu Ho-Su Memorial Hospital

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Locations

Shin Kong Wu Ho-Su Memorial Hospital

Taipei, , Taiwan

Site Status: RECRUITING

Countries

Taiwan

Central Contacts

Kwan-Hwa Chi, M.D.

Role: CONTACT

M006565@ms.skh.org.tw

886-2-28332211 ext. 2273

Yu-Shan Wang, Ph.D

Role: CONTACT

T006659@ms.skh.org.tw

886-2-28332211 ext. 2614

Facility Contacts

Su-Chen Huang, M.S.

Role: primary

A007267@ms.skh.org.tw

886-2-28332211 ext. 2612

Other Identifiers

20120305D

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id