Oncological Outcome After Completing or Abandoning (Radical) Hysterectomy in Patients With Cervical Cancer and Intraoperative Detection of LN Positivity

NCT ID: NCT04037124

Last Updated: 2022-08-09

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Total Enrollment

718 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2017-12-01

Study Completion Date

2020-12-01

Brief Summary

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The ABRAX trial is multicentre retrospective cohort study. Included are patients with negative LN in clinical staging, in whom LN involvement is detected intraoperatively. Completion or abandonment of planned cervical procedure stratifies the cohort in two subgroups in which oncological outcome and morbidity will be compared.

The investigators hypothesise that in patients with intraoperative LN involvement, a completion of radical hysterectomy or other cervical procedure does not improve oncological outcome of definitive chemoradiation.

Detailed Description

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The management of patients with intraoperative detection of lymph node (LN) involvement currently varies widely. Options include completing or abandoning radical hysterectomy, performing or abandoning pelvic lymph node dissection and even continuing with inframesenteric or infrarenal paraaortic lymph node dissection. The most significant aspect is the decision regarding the performance of radical hysterectomy, due to the high morbidity caused by combined treatment composed of radical parametrectomy and adjuvant radiotherapy in these patients - patients are referred to pelvic radiotherapy after distal ureters, bladder and rectum have been surgically dissected \[1\].

Data on the oncologic outcome of patients with LN involvement after radical hysterectomy and adjuvant radiotherapy are broadly available. Recent figures show five-year survival in stage IB at around 70-85 % \[2,3\]. In contrast, the data on patients in whom radical hysterectomy was abandoned due to intraoperative detection of LN involvement are scarce. Available literature mostly refers to small groups of cases with grossly involved LN detected during surgery \[4-7\].

The goal of this study is to obtain the best data available from an adequate number of patients treated by both types of management in the same period of time and to analyse the risks and benefits of the performance of radical hysterectomy if LN involvement is detected intraoperatively in spite of non-suspicious preoperative radiological assessment.

ABRAX is an international multicenter retrospective trial. Data of cervical cancer patients with preoperatively negative LN in whom nodal involvement is detected during operation will be evaluated. The protocol has been developed to be inclusive and reflect current clinical practice. All surgical approaches are eligible for the study. Lymph node infiltration can be detected either by intraoperative pathology assessment or by gross assessment (macroscopic suspicion has to be confirmed by the final histology). Sentinel or any other pelvic lymph node can be subject of intraoperative assessment. Any type of nodal metastasis (macrometastasis, micrometastasis ot isolated tumor cells) is considered a positive LN. All types of cervical procedures (such as conisation, simple hysterectomy, trachelectomy, any type radical hysterectomy or radical trachelectomy) are eligible for the trial and administration of neoadjuvant chemotherapy is not an exclusion criterion. The abandonment of planned cervical procedure depends solely on the decision of the surgeon and on local institutional guidelines. The completion or abandonment of cervical procedure stratifies the cohort in two subgroups.

The primary end-point is the progression free survival assessed separately in both subgroups. Prevalence of ≥ G2 treatment related morbidity (CTCAE), overall and pelvic progression free survival are the secondary end-points.

Oncological outcome will be stratified according to the prognostic parameters such as tumour size, number of involved LN, type of LN metastases, presence of LVSI (lymphovascular space invasion), tumor type, administration of neoadjuvant chemotherapy, performance of systematic pelvic lymphadenectomy.

Conditions

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Uterine Cervical Neoplasms

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

COHORT

Study Time Perspective

RETROSPECTIVE

Study Groups

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Cervical procedure abandoned

Cervical procedure (hysterectomy, radical hysterectomy or fertility sparing treatment) is abandoned due to intraoperatively reported lymph node matestasis. Patient is referred for primary (chemo)radiation.

No interventions assigned to this group

Cervical procedure completed

Cervical procedure (hysterectomy, radical hysterectomy or fertility sparing treatment) is completed. Patient is referred for adjuvant chemoradiation.

Cervical procedure

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

simple hysterectomy, radical hysterectomy or fertility sparing surgery

Interventions

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Cervical procedure

simple hysterectomy, radical hysterectomy or fertility sparing surgery

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Histologically confirmed squamous cell carcinoma, adenocarcinoma, adenosquamous carcinoma
* Stage pT1a - pT2b
* Patient referred for primary surgical treatment such as radical / simple hysterectomy or fertility-sparing procedure (FST) and LN staging
* Intraoperative detection of LN involvement (any type of metastasis):
* Macroscopic involvement = grossly involved lymph nodes (if confirmed by final pathology) OR Microscopic involvement = SLN / LN intraoperative pathologic evaluation (frozen section)
* Follow-up data available for ≥ 2 years
* Surgery performed between January 2005 and December 2015

* Negative pelvic LN
* LN involvement reported by the final histology but not detected during the surgery
* Unavailability of follow-up data

Exclusion Criteria

* Preoperative evidence of grossly involved LN
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

FEMALE

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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General University Hospital, Prague

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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David Cibula

Head of Gynecologic Oncology Center

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

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Gynecologic Oncology Center, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague and General University Hospital in Prague, Czech Republic

Prague, MUDr., Czechia

Site Status

Countries

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Czechia

References

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Landoni F, Maneo A, Colombo A, Placa F, Milani R, Perego P, Favini G, Ferri L, Mangioni C. Randomised study of radical surgery versus radiotherapy for stage Ib-IIa cervical cancer. Lancet. 1997 Aug 23;350(9077):535-40. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(97)02250-2.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 9284774 (View on PubMed)

Cibula D, Abu-Rustum NR, Dusek L, Zikan M, Zaal A, Sevcik L, Kenter GG, Querleu D, Jach R, Bats AS, Dyduch G, Graf P, Klat J, Lacheta J, Meijer CJ, Mery E, Verheijen R, Zweemer RP. Prognostic significance of low volume sentinel lymph node disease in early-stage cervical cancer. Gynecol Oncol. 2012 Mar;124(3):496-501. doi: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2011.11.037. Epub 2011 Nov 25.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 22120175 (View on PubMed)

Richard SD, Krivak TC, Castleberry A, Beriwal S, Kelley JL 3rd, Edwards RP, Sukumvanich P. Survival for stage IB cervical cancer with positive lymph node involvement: a comparison of completed vs. abandoned radical hysterectomy. Gynecol Oncol. 2008 Apr;109(1):43-8. doi: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2007.12.002. Epub 2008 Jan 29.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 18234297 (View on PubMed)

Potter ME, Alvarez RD, Shingleton HM, Soong SJ, Hatch KD. Early invasive cervical cancer with pelvic lymph node involvement: to complete or not to complete radical hysterectomy? Gynecol Oncol. 1990 Apr;37(1):78-81. doi: 10.1016/0090-8258(90)90312-9.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 2323617 (View on PubMed)

Bremer GL, van der Putten HW, Dunselman GA, de Haan J. Early stage cervical cancer: aborted versus completed radical hysterectomy. Eur J Obstet Gynecol Reprod Biol. 1992 Nov 19;47(2):147-51. doi: 10.1016/0028-2243(92)90045-z.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 1459328 (View on PubMed)

Suprasert P, Srisomboon J, Charoenkwan K, Siriaungul S, Khunamornpong S, Siriaree S, Phongnarisorn C, Lorvidhaya V. Outcomes of abandoned radical hysterectomy in patients with stages IB-IIA cervical cancer found to have positive nodes during the operation. Int J Gynecol Cancer. 2005 May-Jun;15(3):498-502. doi: 10.1111/j.1525-1438.2005.15315.x.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 15882176 (View on PubMed)

Gray HJ, Seifert E, Sal Y Rosas VG, Nicandri KF, Koh WJ, Goff BA. The abandoned radical hysterectomy for cervical cancer: clinical predictors and outcomes. Obstet Gynecol Int. 2010;2010:743794. doi: 10.1155/2010/743794. Epub 2010 Apr 28.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 20454444 (View on PubMed)

Cibula D, Dostalek L, Hillemanns P, Scambia G, Jarkovsky J, Persson J, Raspagliesi F, Novak Z, Jaeger A, Capilna ME, Weinberger V, Klat J, Schmidt RL, Lopez A, Scibilia G, Pareja R, Kucukmetin A, Kreitner L, El-Balat A, Pereira GJR, Laufhutte S, Isla-Ortiz D, Toptas T, Gil-Ibanez B, Vergote I, Runnenbaum I. Completion of radical hysterectomy does not improve survival of patients with cervical cancer and intraoperatively detected lymph node involvement: ABRAX international retrospective cohort study. Eur J Cancer. 2021 Jan;143:88-100. doi: 10.1016/j.ejca.2020.10.037. Epub 2020 Dec 5.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 33290995 (View on PubMed)

Dostalek L, Runnebaum I, Raspagliesi F, Vergote I, Dusek L, Jarkovsky J, Cibula D. Oncologic outcome after completing or abandoning (radical) hysterectomy in patients with cervical cancer and intraoperative detection of lymph node positivity; ABRAX (ABandoning RAd hyst in cerviX cancer). Int J Gynecol Cancer. 2020 Feb;30(2):261-264. doi: 10.1136/ijgc-2019-000890. Epub 2019 Nov 20.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 31748245 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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ENGOT-Cx3/CEEGOG/ABRAX

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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