Outcomes of Elective Cancer Surgery During the COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis

NCT ID: NCT04384926

Last Updated: 2020-05-12

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

UNKNOWN

Total Enrollment

1000 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2020-03-30

Study Completion Date

2020-12-31

Brief Summary

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CovidSurg-Cancer is an international, multicentre, observational cohort study designed to evaluate the 30-day COVID-19 infection rates in elective cancer surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Centres can elect to include one or more cancer types in the study, in any combination, depending on local expertise and capacity. During the pilot study, investigators should enrol patients with confirmed diagnoses of:

* Colorectal cancer
* Oesophagogastric cancer

As a rapid response study to the COVID-19 pandemic, included cancer types will evolve throughout the course of the CovidSurg-Cancer study period, for example, to include breast, liver, pancreatic, gynaecological, urological cancers, or sarcomas.

Detailed Description

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The rapid emergence of the COVID-19 virus has led to a global impact on elective surgical care.

We have very little evidence to guide us. The magnitude and effects of these changes are uncertain. The safety of operating on patients electively with the risks of COVID-19 postoperative pneumonia is unknown.

High-quality data will allow policy planning at regional and hospital level for both this outbreak and future pandemics. CovidSurg-Cancer will run in parallel to CovidSurg (which is capturing outcomes of patients undergoing surgery for all indications with concurrent COVID-19).

The primary aim is to evaluate the 30-day COVID-19 infection rates in elective cancer surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Secondary aims include; comparison of the 30-day postoperative mortality rate in cancer surgery patients that develop COVID-19 infection versus those who do not; an exploration of the scale of resource constraints related to the COVID-19 pandemic, and their impact on outcomes of elective cancer surgery; to explore variation in the selection of patients for continuing elective cancer surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic; to evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on treatment pathways for cancers with a decision for surgical resection with curative intent.

This investigator-led, non-commercial, non-interventional study is extremely low to zero risk. This study does not collect any patient identifiable information and data will not be analysed at hospital-level.

Conditions

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COVID-19 Coronavirus Cancer Surgery

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

COHORT

Study Time Perspective

OTHER

Study Groups

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Cohort 1

Adult patients (aged ≥18 years), planned for curative cancer surgery, that have surgery completed during the COVID-19 pandemic

Elective Cancer Surgery

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Planned, curative cancer surgery

Cohort 2

Adult patients (aged ≥18 years), planned for curative cancer surgery, that have surgery delayed or cancelled during the COVID-19 pandemic

Elective Cancer Surgery

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Planned, curative cancer surgery

Interventions

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Elective Cancer Surgery

Planned, curative cancer surgery

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

\- Any centre performing elective cancer surgery


* Adults (age ≥18 years) with a confirmed diagnosis of an included cancer type
* Decision made for surgical management with a curative intent

Exclusion Criteria

* Surgery planned with non-curative intent
* Planned neoadjuvant therapy without a firm date for surgery, or awaiting restaging
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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University of Birmingham

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Aneel Bhangu

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Birmingham

Locations

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Hospital del Henares

Madrid, , Spain

Site Status RECRUITING

Countries

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Spain

Central Contacts

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Aneel Bhangu

Role: CONTACT

+44 1216272949

Dmitri Nepogodiev

Role: CONTACT

+44 1216272949

Facility Contacts

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Ana Minaya-Bravo

Role: primary

References

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NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Global Surgery; STARSurg Collaborative. A prognostic model for use before elective surgery to estimate the risk of postoperative pulmonary complications (GSU-Pulmonary Score): a development and validation study in three international cohorts. Lancet Digit Health. 2024 Jul;6(7):e507-e519. doi: 10.1016/S2589-7500(24)00065-7.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 38906616 (View on PubMed)

COVIDSurg Collaborative. Effect of COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns on planned cancer surgery for 15 tumour types in 61 countries: an international, prospective, cohort study. Lancet Oncol. 2021 Nov;22(11):1507-1517. doi: 10.1016/S1470-2045(21)00493-9. Epub 2021 Oct 5.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 34624250 (View on PubMed)

Glasbey JC, Nepogodiev D, Simoes JFF, Omar O, Li E, Venn ML, Pgdme, Abou Chaar MK, Capizzi V, Chaudhry D, Desai A, Edwards JG, Evans JP, Fiore M, Videria JF, Ford SJ, Ganly I, Griffiths EA, Gujjuri RR, Kolias AG, Kaafarani HMA, Minaya-Bravo A, McKay SC, Mohan HM, Roberts KJ, San Miguel-Mendez C, Pockney P, Shaw R, Smart NJ, Stewart GD, Sundar Mrcog S, Vidya R, Bhangu AA; COVIDSurg Collaborative. Elective Cancer Surgery in COVID-19-Free Surgical Pathways During the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic: An International, Multicenter, Comparative Cohort Study. J Clin Oncol. 2021 Jan 1;39(1):66-78. doi: 10.1200/JCO.20.01933. Epub 2020 Oct 6.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 33021869 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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CSC-20200324

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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