Evaluation of Technological Innovation in Radiotherapy

NCT ID: NCT03378856

Last Updated: 2024-12-20

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

RECRUITING

Total Enrollment

1500 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2017-11-01

Study Completion Date

2025-10-31

Brief Summary

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Prospective cohort study of patients receiving standard-care radiotherapy is paramount to a better understanding of radiation effects and longterm outcomes.

The primary objective is to determine the feasibility of establishing infrastructure to systematically collect clinical data, patient-reported outcomes, and imaging data from daily radiotherapy practice.

Secondary objectives are to provide a control cohort for comparative effectiveness research of investigational interventions through a cmRCT design; compare imaging features with clinical outcomes; understand dose-effect relationships; quantify imaging quality metrics.

Detailed Description

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The study consists of an effort to develop infrastructure that will support systematic collection of data from daily radiotherapy practice. At the core, PERA is a large observational cohort study, serving as a multiple cohort randomized trial and image banking facility. It includes consent for the collection of imaging data, patient-reported outcomes, and broad randomization for studies according to the innovative cohort multiple randomized controlled trial design (cmRCT).

The basis of this design is a prospective cohort of participants receiving care as usual, who give informed consent for cohort participation.

Participants can furthermore be asked for informed consent to be randomized in future RCTs conducted within the cohort. Participants are informed that they will be offered an experimental intervention if they are randomly selected. They are also informed that they otherwise might serve as controls without being notified and that their data can be used in a trial context. For each participant in the cohort, PROs are captured at baseline and at regular intervals during follow-up. Within this cohort, multiple RCTs can be conducted. The design is especially attractive for clinical research areas with rapid evolution of technology, and for highly desired or expensive interventions.

In the first stage, at entry into the cohort, all potential participants are asked for their informed consent to participate in a cohort study and broad consent to be either randomly selected to be approached for experimental interventions or to serve as control without further notice during participation in the cohort. In a second stage, at the initiation of an RCT within the cohort, informed consent to receive the intervention is then only sought in those randomly selected for the intervention arm. At the third stage, after completion of each RCT, all cohort participants receive aggregate disclosure of trial results.

Conditions

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Cancer Radiotherapy Side Effect

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

COHORT

Study Time Perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Ability to provide informed consent
* Receiving radiotherapy or brachytherapy

Exclusion Criteria

\-
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM)

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Locations

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London Health Regional Cancer Centre

London, Ontario, Canada

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

Princess Margaret Cancer Centre

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

Centre de santé et de services sociaux de Laval

Laval, Quebec, Canada

Site Status RECRUITING

Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Site Status RECRUITING

CHUQ

Québec, Quebec, Canada

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

Countries

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Canada

Central Contacts

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Cynthia Ménard, MD, M.Sc

Role: CONTACT

Phone: 514-890-8254

Email: [email protected]

Facility Contacts

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Karen Eddy

Role: primary

Philip Wong

Role: primary

Marie-Andrée Fortin, MD

Role: primary

Diane Trudel

Role: primary

Sophie Pouliot

Role: primary

References

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Petit C, Delouya G, Taussky D, Barkati M, Lambert C, Beauchemin MC, Clavel S, Mok G, Pare AG, Nguyen TV, Duplan D, Keu KV, Saad F, Juneau D, Menard C. PSMA-PET/CT-Guided Intensification of Radiation Therapy for Prostate Cancer (PSMAgRT): Findings of Detection Rate, Effect on Cancer Management, and Early Toxicity From a Phase 2 Randomized Controlled Trial. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2023 Jul 15;116(4):779-787. doi: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2022.12.055. Epub 2023 Jan 11.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 36639035 (View on PubMed)

Belliveau C, Barkati M, Delouya G, Taussky D, Beauchemin MC, Lambert C, Beaulieu L, Beliveau-Nadeau D, Nicolas B, Carrier JF, Vigneault E, Menard C. Focal HDR brachytherapy boost to stereotactic radiotherapy (fBTsRT) for prostate cancer: a phase II randomized controlled trial. Radiat Oncol. 2022 Dec 9;17(1):203. doi: 10.1186/s13014-022-02173-5.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 36494834 (View on PubMed)

Alley S, Jackson E, Olivie D, Van der Heide UA, Menard C, Kadoury S. Effect of magnetic resonance imaging pre-processing on the performance of model-based prostate tumor probability mapping. Phys Med Biol. 2022 Dec 13;67(24). doi: 10.1088/1361-6560/ac99b4.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 36223780 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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17.032

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id