International CIPN Assessment and Validation Study

NCT ID: NCT04633655

Last Updated: 2025-07-25

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

RECRUITING

Total Enrollment

1000 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2020-06-08

Study Completion Date

2025-12-31

Brief Summary

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This is an observational study of chemotherapy-induced peripheral neurotoxicity (CIPN) patients to be investigated prospectively in order to assess responsiveness of a set of outcome measures in an international multi-center study.

Detailed Description

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The study will be performed at all participating centers and will consist of the following assessments:

Core study (assessments at baseline and at the end of treatment)

* Standard oncology assessment per local site
* NCI-CTC (national cancer institute common toxicity criteria) v.5 sensory and motor
* PRO-CTCAE (patient reported outcome-cancer common tocixity adverse event)
* PI-NRS (pain intensity numeric rating scale)
* NPS-CIN (Neuropathic Pain Scale for chemotherapy-induced neuropathy)
* EORTC CIPN20© (The European Organisation of Research and Treatment of. Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire-CIPN twenty-item scale)
* FACT-GOG NTX v.4© (Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy/Gynecologic Oncology Group-Neurotoxicity)
* TNSn© (total neuropathy score, nurse version)
* PGIC (patient global impression of change)
* OXA-NQ (oxaliplatin neurotoxicity questionnaire)

Extended study (at all available sites - any combination of assessment methods is allowed, minimum at baseline and at the end of treatment)

* EORTC CIPN15
* CIPN-R-ODS (CIPN Rash overall disability scale)
* TNSc© at the same time points as for questionnaire
* OXA-NQ (also at mid-treatment)
* nerve conduction study of the radial (motor and sensory), ulnar (motor and sensory), sural, dorsal sural and common peroneal nerves (\*)
* QST (\*) \[quantitative sensory testing\]
* Serum for biomarkers search (\*)
* DN4

Rationale: Within a multi-center international collaboration among experienced neurologists, oncologists, nurses and symptom scientists, the principal aim of this study is to evaluate responsiveness of a set of outcome measures for CIPN evaluation in order to define the gold standard for its assessment.

The assessment of CIPN will be performed at different levels of investigation. The Core study will allow the evaluation of subjects with common devices, so that an assessment can be performed at any medical site (expected time for questionnaires completion 15 minutes).

The Extended study will add any combination of the listed assessment methods/biological sample collection, in order to ascertain whether this approach can provide a more careful and clinically-relevant estimate of the peripheral nervous system damage. Comparison between healthcare evaluation and subjects' report of CIPN severity using established questionnaires will be performed in both Core and Extended studies.

Aims: The primary aim for this study is to test responsiveness of the different assessment methods used in the core study, in a multi-center, multi-regional International setting, comparing changes from baseline to end of treatment. Secondary aims are:

* to evaluate responsiveness (changes from base line to end of treatment) also of the other outcome measures used in the Extended Study;
* to evaluate mid-treatment data predictiveness of end of treatment neurological status for each outcome measure;
* to evaluate recovery rate/modification of the neurological status for the follow up evaluations (3/6/12/24 months after treatment), stratifying data for different drugs.

Study Design: 1000 patients who are candidates for neurotoxic chemotherapy for any cancer with non-investigational drugs (including immune checkpoint inhibitors and "targeted" drugs) will be enrolled from participating centers. A trained investigator in each participating center will perform the selected healthcare-assessed scales and supervise the patient-completed measures as presented in Table 1. Subjects will be examined at least at baseline and end of treatment (Core Study) and at additional intermediate and follow-up timepoints (Extended study), according to their treatment plan.

Study Treatments: There are no study-specified treatments, as subjects will receive only their standard of care chemotherapy. The investigators will not influence decisions regarding treatment duration nor supply medication for this study. However, all treatment regimens will be registered.

Participating Centers minimum requirements: Participating Centers should:

1. accept the study protocol and have their participation approved by a local Ethics Committee/Institutional Review Board
2. have access through an internet connection to the secure server located at the main site
3. guarantee the proper assessment of the selected patients at least at the Core study level
4. have the potential to recruit at least 30 patients/year
5. have the capacity to upload the data collected from each patient within 1 week

Conditions

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Chemotherapy-induced Peripheral Neuropathy Quality of Life

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

COHORT

Study Time Perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Study Groups

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Patients who are receiving a neurotoxic chemotherapy

List of neurotoxic drugs eligible for enrolment

* Platinum drugs
* Taxanes
* Vinca alkaloids
* Epothilones
* Proteasome inhibitors
* Thalidomide
* Vedotin-based drugs
* checkpoint inhibitors
* Any combination of the aforementioned drugs

outcome measures for CIPN testing

Intervention Type OTHER

questionnaires administration, physician based scales for CIPN data collection

Interventions

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outcome measures for CIPN testing

questionnaires administration, physician based scales for CIPN data collection

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

1. Subjects must be candidates for neurotoxic chemotherapy at doses expected to be potentially neurotoxic (a list of neurotoxic drugs is provided in Appendix 1).
2. Male and female subjects who are 18 years of age or older.
3. Subjects freely provide informed consent by signing and dating an informed consent form prior to study entry.
4. Subjects must be willing to complete all study-related activities and follow-up visits required by the protocol.

Exclusion Criteria

Subjects presenting with any of the following will not be included in the study:

1. Poor prognosis, with high probability to be unable to complete the planned chemotherapy treatment.
2. Concomitant neurologic conditions (e.g., brain tumor, spinal or brain metastases) that would interfere or complicate the assessments.
3. Severe depression that in the opinion of the Investigator would complicate the assessments.
4. Chronic treatment with antiepileptic drugs, antidepressants and major analgesics, unless stable dosing and conditions have been reached for 3 months prior to entry.
5. Preventive interventions (e.g., antioxidants, cryotherapy, distal pressure).
6. Subjects who are currently receiving another medication other than antineoplastic chemotherapy drugs that has known potential to produce neurologic peripheral nerve toxicity (e.g. metronidazole, isoniazid, amiodarone, antiretroviral medications).
7. Subjects with any other condition, which, in the investigator's judgment, might decrease the chance of obtaining satisfactory data to achieve the objectives of the study.
8. Previous neurotoxic chemotherapy.
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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University of Milano Bicocca

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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GUIDO CAVALETTI, MD

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

University of Milano Bicocca

PAOLA ALBERTI, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Milano Bicocca

Locations

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Birmingham School of Nursing, University of Alabama

Birmingham, Alabama, United States

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

Northside Hospital

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

JHU

Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

University of Michigan School of Nursing

Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

Columbia University Irving Medical Center

New York, New York, United States

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

Cancer Center/Wexner Medical Center - Ohio State Medical Oncology Division

Columbus, Ohio, United States

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

Lebanon, Pennsylvania, United States

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

University of Vermont Medical Center

Burlington, Vermont, United States

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

Brain and Mind Center

Sydney, , Australia

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

Dept. of Neurology, Medical University of Vienna

Vienna, , Austria

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research

Dhaka, , Bangladesh

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

Clínica AMO

Salvador, , Brazil

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

The Ottawa Hospital

Ottawa, , Canada

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

Aarhus University Hospital

Aarhus, , Denmark

Site Status WITHDRAWN

Hôpital Percy

Clamart, , France

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

CHU Dupuytren

Limoges, , France

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

Center for Molecular Medicine

Cologne, , Germany

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

University of Larissa

Larissa, , Greece

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

"Saint Andrew's" State General Hospital

Pátrai, , Greece

Site Status RECRUITING

San Gerardo Hospital

Monza, Mb, Italy

Site Status RECRUITING

Ospedale Valduce

Como, , Italy

Site Status WITHDRAWN

Ospedale Policlinico San Martino

Genova, , Italy

Site Status RECRUITING

A.O.U. Policlinico "G. Martino"

Messina, , Italy

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

Padova Hospital

Padua, , Italy

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria

Verona, , Italy

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

Medical Oncoloy Unit - University of Nairobi

Nairobi, , Kenya

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

Centro Hospitalar Vila Nova de Gaia/Espinho

Vila Nova de Gaia, , Portugal

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

Dong-A University - Internal Medicine Dept.

Busan, , South Korea

Site Status RECRUITING

Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge-ICO L'Hospitalet

Barcelona, , Spain

Site Status RECRUITING

University of Basel - Department of Sport, Exercise and Health

Basel, , Switzerland

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

Countries

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United States Australia Austria Bangladesh Brazil Canada Denmark France Germany Greece Italy Kenya Portugal South Korea Spain Switzerland

Central Contacts

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GUIDO CAVALETTI, MD

Role: CONTACT

+ 39 02 6448 8039

PAOLA ALBERTI, MD, PhD

Role: CONTACT

+39 02 6448 8154

Facility Contacts

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Ellen M. Lavoie Smith, PhD

Role: primary

Guilherme Cantuaria, MD, PhD

Role: primary

Margaret Ferreira

Role: backup

Khoshnoodi Mohammad, MD

Role: primary

410-502-7683

Ellen Lavoie Smith, PhD

Role: primary

734-936-1267

Thomas III H Brannagan, MD

Role: primary

212-305-0405

Maryam Lustberg, MD, MPH

Role: primary

410-299-1044

Victoria H Lawson, MD

Role: primary

603-650-5104

Noah Kolb, MD

Role: primary

978-886-2828

Susanan B Park, PhD

Role: primary

+61293510701

Anna Grisold, MD

Role: primary

004314040031450

Badrul Islam

Role: primary

+88 01711595367

André Muniz, MD

Role: primary

557133116500

Kristopher Dennis, MD

Role: primary

613) 737-7700 ext. 70212

Camille Tafani, MD

Role: primary

+33679848495

Laurent Magy, MD

Role: primary

+335 55 05 65 68

Helmar Lehmann, MD, PhD

Role: primary

0221-478-87091

Efthmios Efthmios Dardiotis, MD

Role: primary

+302410685651

Andreas A Argyriou, MD

Role: primary

+30_2610_227908

PAOLA ALBERTI, MD, PhD

Role: primary

GUIDO CAVALETTI, MD

Role: backup

ANGELO SCHENONE

Role: primary

+ 39 049 8213600

Massimo Russo, MD

Role: primary

BRIANI CHIARA, MD

Role: primary

+ 39 049 8213600

Stefano Tamburin, MD, PhD

Role: primary

+39 3475235580

Ezzi Mohamed, MD

Role: primary

+254721211807

Anabela Amarelo, MD

Role: primary

+351917163485

Ji H Lee, MD

Role: primary

82-51-240-5044

Jordi Bruna, MD, PhD

Role: primary

0034932607711

Fiona Streckmann, MD

Role: primary

+41 (0) 61 207 47 30

Other Identifiers

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ICAVS

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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