Total Neoadjuvant Therapy Followed by 'Watch and Wait' Approach or Organ Preservation for Low-risk Rectal Cancer

NCT ID: NCT04405206

Last Updated: 2020-10-14

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

UNKNOWN

Total Enrollment

54 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2020-05-25

Study Completion Date

2023-12-30

Brief Summary

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Aim: To investigate the safety and efficacy of organ preservation (OP) with watch-and-wait strategy (W\&W) or local excision (LE) in MRI stratified low-risk rectal cancer treated by total neoadjuvant treatment. Meanwhile we will look into the role of ctDNA in the prediction of regrowth and metastasis in the wait and wait process.

Methods: Low-risk rectal cancer with following MRI features are recruited: mid-low tumor, mrT2-3b, MRF(-), EMVI(-), differentiation grade 1-3. Patients will receive IMRT 50.6Gy/22f with concurrent capecitabine and 4 cycles of consolidation CAPEOX. Patients with cCR/near-cCR were recommended for 'watch \& wait' approach or local excision (LE). The OPR and sphincter preservation rate (SPR) at 2 years will be analyzed.

As the extension of PKUCH-R01, BJCC-R01 trial will upgrade to a multi-center research enrolled 3 other colorectal center in Beijing.

Detailed Description

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Neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (nCRT), total mesorectal excision and adjuvant chemotherapy comprise the standard treatment for locally advanced rectal cancer, following which 15-30% patients achieved pathological complete response need to receive the removal of rectum without residual tumor and suffer significant functional impairment even after sphincter preservation. Adjuvant chemotherapy is also questioned for its benefit for prolonged survival through the data from various studies. More evidence demonstrated that organ-preservation (e.g. non-operative management or local excision) for patients with clinical complete response (cCR) or near-cCR following nCRT had similar survival when compared with those received standard care.

This study is designed to investigate the efficacy of neoadjuvant intensity modulated nCRT with concurrent capecitabine plus consolidation CapeOX for T2/DWI/Enhanced MRI defined cT2-T3b mid-low rectal cancer without threatening mesorectal fascia or extramural vascular invasion (EMVI) or mrN2 disease.

According to the response to treatment evaluated by multi-modal assessment including digital exam, T2/DWI/Enhanced MRI, endoscopy and serum CEA test, patients will receive tailored operative management like local excision or total mesorectal excision, or non-operative management. Intention to treatment was also allowed in this study.

Firstly, the investigators will observe the organ preservation rate at 2 years. Endpoints for organ-preservation like non-regrowth DFS, stoma-free survival and other conventional survival outcomes (DFS, OS) would be further collected. The short-term and long-term QoL will be measured in all patients.

. Our baseline data showed the 48% of locally advanced rectal cancers could be downstaged to stage ypT0-2N0 following IMRT with concurrent capecitabine. We hypothesize that at least 24% of rectal cancers could be candidates for LE or NOM after IMRT and the rectum preservation rate will increase to 40% in low-risk rectal cancers by LE or NOM following IMRT plus consolidation CapeOX at 2 years. As a superiority design, this study need to recruit 64 patients to test this hypothesis, with 85% power (exact binomial test for proportions, alpha = 5 %, one-sided), If the number of responses is 22 or more, the hypothesis that P \<= 0.240 is rejected. We anticipate about 10 % loss to follow-up, so we will recruit an additional 8 patients and the study will recruit 72 patients in all.

Conditions

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Rectum Cancer

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

COHORT

Study Time Perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Study Groups

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Group A:Clinical complete response (cCR)

Group A:Clinical complete response (cCR) Patients who achieve cCR when restaged by DRE-Endoscopy-MRI-CEA at 16 weeks following intensity modulated radiotherapy(IMRT) plus consolidation CapeOX(Capecitabine+Oxaliplatin) will receive Nonoperative Management(NOM).

Oxaliplatin

Intervention Type DRUG

OXA 130mg/m2

Capecitabine

Intervention Type DRUG

Cape 1000mg/m2

intensity modulated radiotherapy

Intervention Type RADIATION

IMRT 50.4Gy/22f

DRE-Endoscopy-MRI-CEA

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

examination process in follow up

Nonoperative Management

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Watch and Wait

Quality of Life Questionnaires

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

QLQ C30 and QLQ CR29

Group B:Near-cCR

Patients who achieve near-cCR when restaged by DRE-Endoscopy-MRI-CEA at 16 weeks following intensity modulated radiotherapy(IMRT) plus consolidation CapeOX(Capecitabine+Oxaliplatin) will receive Local Excision(LE) or Nonoperative Management(NOM).

Oxaliplatin

Intervention Type DRUG

OXA 130mg/m2

Capecitabine

Intervention Type DRUG

Cape 1000mg/m2

intensity modulated radiotherapy

Intervention Type RADIATION

IMRT 50.4Gy/22f

DRE-Endoscopy-MRI-CEA

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

examination process in follow up

Nonoperative Management

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Watch and Wait

Local excision

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

For ymriT1N0 and near-cCR patients,LE is optional.

Quality of Life Questionnaires

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

QLQ C30 and QLQ CR29

Group C:Residual tumor

Patients with residual tumor when restaged by DRE-Endoscopy-MRI-CEA at 16 weeks following intensity modulated radiotherapy(IMRT) plus consolidation

Oxaliplatin

Intervention Type DRUG

OXA 130mg/m2

Capecitabine

Intervention Type DRUG

Cape 1000mg/m2

intensity modulated radiotherapy

Intervention Type RADIATION

IMRT 50.4Gy/22f

DRE-Endoscopy-MRI-CEA

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

examination process in follow up

Total Mesorectal Excision

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Standard TME surgery openly or laporoscopically

Quality of Life Questionnaires

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

QLQ C30 and QLQ CR29

Interventions

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Oxaliplatin

OXA 130mg/m2

Intervention Type DRUG

Capecitabine

Cape 1000mg/m2

Intervention Type DRUG

intensity modulated radiotherapy

IMRT 50.4Gy/22f

Intervention Type RADIATION

DRE-Endoscopy-MRI-CEA

examination process in follow up

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Nonoperative Management

Watch and Wait

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Local excision

For ymriT1N0 and near-cCR patients,LE is optional.

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Total Mesorectal Excision

Standard TME surgery openly or laporoscopically

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Quality of Life Questionnaires

QLQ C30 and QLQ CR29

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Other Intervention Names

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OXA Cape IMRT NOM LE TME QLQ

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* 1\. the age is more than 18 years old and less than 85 years old;
* 2\. ECOG score of physical condition is 0-1;
* 3\. adenocarcinoma of rectum confirmed by pathology; differentiated into Grade 1-3, i.e. high, medium and low differentiated adenocarcinoma
* 4\. the distance from the lower edge of the tumor to the anal edge ≤ 12cm (endoscopy) or to the anorectal ring (ARJ) ≤ 8cm;
* 5\. the initial MRI was T2 / T3a / T3B, with negative EMVI and negative CRM. There was no lymph node metastasis outside the ilium, general ilium, obturator and abdominal aorta
* 6\. the maximum diameter of tumor ≤ 4cm or the circumferentially invasive area is less than 1 / 3 of intestinal circumference
* 7\. no evidence of distant metastasis;
* 8\. no history of pelvic radiotherapy;
* 9\. no history of surgery or chemotherapy for rectal cancer;
* 10\. systemic infection without antibiotic treatment;
* 11\. blood routine test: neutrophil absolute value \> 1.5 × 10 9 / L, HGB \> 10.0 g / dl, PLT \> 100 × 10 9 / L;
* 12\. blood biochemistry: total bilirubin ≤ 1.5 x ULN, AST ≤ 3 x ULN, ALT ≤ 4 x ULN;
* 13\. the patient read and signed the informed consent of the study and agreed to participate in the study;

Exclusion Criteria

* 1\. recurrent rectal cancer;
* 2\. initial local non resectable rectal cancer (no possibility of R0 whole block resection);
* 3\. the creatinine level is 1.5 times higher than the upper limit of normal value;
* 4\. have a history of pelvic radiotherapy;
* 5\. the patients could not tolerate the enhanced MRI;
* 6\. malignant tumors whose survival rate in the past 5 years is significantly lower than that of rectal cancer in our center (excluding well treated basal cell carcinoma, skin squamous carcinoma, small renal carcinoma, breast cancer and thyroid papillary carcinoma);
* 7\. in the past 6 months, the patients had arterial embolism diseases, such as angina, MI, TIA, CVA, etc;
* 8\. have received other types of anti-tumor or experimental treatment;
* 9\. the patients are pregnant or lactating women;
* 10\. patients with other diseases or mental disorders may affect their participation in this study;
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

85 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Peking University Cancer Hospital & Institute

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Aiwen Wu

Professor

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

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Beijing Cancer Hospital

Beijing, , China

Site Status RECRUITING

Countries

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China

Central Contacts

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Yiming Zhao, M.D.

Role: CONTACT

+8618600490721 ext. 18600490721

Aiwen Wu, M.D.

Role: CONTACT

+8613911577190

Facility Contacts

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Yiming Zhao, M.D.

Role: primary

+8618600490721

Other Identifiers

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BJCC-R01

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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