Trial Evaluating the Tailored Versus the Systematic Use of Defunctioning Stoma After Total Mesorectal Excision for Rectal Cancer (GRECCAR17)

NCT ID: NCT05233787

Last Updated: 2024-05-16

Study Results

Results pending

The study team has not published outcome measurements, participant flow, or safety data for this trial yet. Check back later for updates.

Basic Information

Get a concise snapshot of the trial, including recruitment status, study phase, enrollment targets, and key timeline milestones.

Recruitment Status

RECRUITING

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

212 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2022-03-24

Study Completion Date

2025-09-30

Brief Summary

Review the sponsor-provided synopsis that highlights what the study is about and why it is being conducted.

GRECCAR 17 will be the first prospective and randomized trial to assess a tailored policy in the use of defunctioning stoma after TME according to the personalized risk of anastomotic leakage. The tailored use of defunctioning stoma after TME for rectal cancer should improve both the quality of life of patients and the anorectal function, without any impact on anastomotic leakage. Moreover, for the healthcare system, this new approach could be a cost-effective strategy, leading to a decrease in healthcare expenses.

The main objective is to compare the impact of tailored defunctioning stoma after TME for rectal cancer versus the systematic use of defunctioning stoma on the evolution of the specific Quality Of Life (QLQC30) during the 12 months after surgery.

Detailed Description

Dive into the extended narrative that explains the scientific background, objectives, and procedures in greater depth.

The introduction of Total Mesorectal Excision (TME) as the surgical procedure of choice for low and mid rectal cancer has led to decrease local recurrence and improved oncological results. Postoperative morbidity remains a major issue, and the most feared complication is anastomotic leakage. The systematic use of a defunctioning stoma during 3 months to protect low colorectal anastomosis (below than 7 cm from the anal verge) is the standard of practice after TME surgery in order to decrease risks of anastomotic leakage and urgent re-operations.

However, there have been a lot of controversies surrounding the role of defunctioning stoma mainly due to stoma-related complications, ranked from 20% to 60%, which may lead to prolonged inpatient care, urgent re-operation and devastating effects on quality of life (QOL) and healthcare expenses. Moreover, it has been reported that patients either without defunctioning stoma, or with early stoma closure (days 8-12 after TME) have a better functional outcomes than patients with systematic defunctioning stoma for 3 months.

The experimental arm (arm A) will benefit from a tailored use of defunctioning stoma after TME based on a 2-step process: i) to perform or not a defunctioning stoma according to the personalized risk of anastomotic leakage (defunctioning stoma only if Anastomotic Failure Observed Risk Score=\[2-6\]), ii) to perform an early stoma closure at day 8-12, according to clinical (fever), biological (CRP level days 2 and 4 postoperatively) and radiological postoperative assessment (CT-scan with colonic contrast retrograde enema day 7-8 postoperatively). The control arm (arm B) will benefit from systematic use of defunctioning stoma for 2-3 months after TME, according to French national and international guidelines.

Patients will be followed at 1, 4, 8 and 12 months after surgery, with chest, abdominal and pelvic scan and tumour markers.

Conditions

See the medical conditions and disease areas that this research is targeting or investigating.

Rectal Cancer Ileostomy; Functional Disturbance

Study Design

Understand how the trial is structured, including allocation methods, masking strategies, primary purpose, and other design elements.

Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

Review each arm or cohort in the study, along with the interventions and objectives associated with them.

Arm A: Tailored use of defunctioning stoma after TME

The tailored use of defunctioning stoma includes two steps:

* Firstly, the decision to use or not a defunctioning stoma will be based on the personalized risk of anastomotic leakage (according to AFOR score). This score is ranked from 0 to 6, and includes gender, Body Mass Index, smoking, diabetes, tumor size and preoperative radiotherapy.
* Patients with AFORS equal to 0 or 1 (risk of anastomotic leakage less than 10%) will not have defunctioning stoma;
* Patients with AFORS equal to or between 2 and 6 (risk of anastomotic leakage more than 20%) will have a defunctioning stoma.
* Secondly, in patients with a defunctioning stoma, an early closure will be performed day 8-12 after TME if:
* No fever postoperatively (≤ 38°C),
* CRP at day 2 lower than 115mg/L (+/- 10 mg/L), decreasing at day 4,
* CT-scan with colonic contrast retrograde enema showing no anastomotic leakage.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Tailored use of defunctioning stoma after TME

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Tailored use of defunctioning stoma after TME based on a 2-step process:

i) to perform or not a defunctioning stoma according to the personalized risk of anastomotic leakage (defunctioning stoma only if Anastomotic Failure Observed Risk Score=\[2-6\]), ii) to perform an early stoma closure at day 8-12, according to clinical (fever), biological (CRP level days 2 and 4 postoperatively) and radiological postoperative assessment (CT-scan with colonic contrast retrograde enema day 7-8 postoperatively)

Arm B: Systematic use of defunctioning stoma

Systematic use of defunctioning stoma for 3 months after TME according to French national guidelines

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Systematic use of defunctioning stoma

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Systematic use of defunctioning stoma for 2-3 months after TME, according to French national and international guidelines

Interventions

Learn about the drugs, procedures, or behavioral strategies being tested and how they are applied within this trial.

Tailored use of defunctioning stoma after TME

Tailored use of defunctioning stoma after TME based on a 2-step process:

i) to perform or not a defunctioning stoma according to the personalized risk of anastomotic leakage (defunctioning stoma only if Anastomotic Failure Observed Risk Score=\[2-6\]), ii) to perform an early stoma closure at day 8-12, according to clinical (fever), biological (CRP level days 2 and 4 postoperatively) and radiological postoperative assessment (CT-scan with colonic contrast retrograde enema day 7-8 postoperatively)

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Systematic use of defunctioning stoma

Systematic use of defunctioning stoma for 2-3 months after TME, according to French national and international guidelines

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Eligibility Criteria

Check the participation requirements, including inclusion and exclusion rules, age limits, and whether healthy volunteers are accepted.

Inclusion Criteria

* Age 18-80 years;
* Rectal adenocarcinoma (histologically proven)
* No metastasis or medical history of colorectal metastasis (M0)
* Patients with rectal cancer \< 12 cm from the anal verge (determined by rectal examination or MRI)
* Patients operated on by mini-invasive TME (laparoscopic, robotic or TaTME);
* With or without neo adjuvant treatment
* Realize a stapling anastomosis \< 7 cm from the anal verge (determined by rectal examination or MRI)
* Patients with expected defunctioning ileostomy
* Appropriate hematologic function: hemoglobin ≥ 10.5 g/dL, leukocytes \> 4000/mm3, blood platelets \> 100,000/mm3);
* Appropriate renal function (serum creatinine \< 15 mg/dL);
* Effective contraception of childbearing age : Male patients and premenopausal women should agree to use two medically validated contraceptive methods (one for the patient et one for the partner) during the study
* Patient affiliated or beneficiary to a health security system;
* Patient and doctor have signed informed consent

Exclusion Criteria

* Patients with rectal cancer requiring TME surgery with handsewn anastomosis;
* Patients operated on by open approach;
* Previous pelvic irradiation for reasons other than rectal cancer
* Concomitant cancer or medical history of cancer within 5 years other than cancers treated in situ (cervical carcinoma or basocellular carcinoma or spinocellular carcinoma)
* Patients with expected defunctioning colostomy;
* Patients with perforated rectal cancer or preoperative pelvic sepsis;
* Patients with inflammatory bowel disease and/or bowel obstruction,
* Patients operated on in emergency;
* Patients with poor nutrition (Albumin \< 34 g/L, pre-Alb \< 0.14 g/L)
* Patients with extended-TME or pelvic exenteration (prostate);
* Patients with history of heart or vascular ischemia;
* Severe heart disease or congestive heart disease;
* Patients with immunodeficiency and/or under corticotherapy;
* Severe lung disease or respiratory failure;
* Severe kidney disease;
* Previous disease or disability expected to influence the assessment of postoperative QOL;
* Pregnancy or breast feeding;
* Persons deprived of liberty or under guardianship (curatorship or tutorship) or incapable of giving consent;
* Any psychological, familial, sociological or geographical condition potentially hampering compliance with the study protocol or follow-up scheduled.
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

80 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

Meet the organizations funding or collaborating on the study and learn about their roles.

University Hospital, Bordeaux

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

Identify the individual or organization who holds primary responsibility for the study information submitted to regulators.

Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Learn about the lead researchers overseeing the trial and their institutional affiliations.

Christophe LAURENT

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University Hospital, Bordeaux

Locations

Explore where the study is taking place and check the recruitment status at each participating site.

CHU Amiens-Picardie - Service de Chirurgie Digestive

Amiens, , France

Site Status RECRUITING

CHRU de Besançon - Service de Chirurgie Générale, Digestive et Cancérologique - Unité de Transplantation Hépatique

Besançon, , France

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

CHU de Bordeaux - Service de Chirurgie Digestive et Endocrinienne - Unité Colorectale

Bordeaux, , France

Site Status RECRUITING

Clinique Tivoli Ducos - Service de Chirurgie Digestive

Bordeaux, , France

Site Status RECRUITING

CHU de Clermont-Ferrand - Service de Chirurgie Digestive et Hépato-biliaire

Clermont-Ferrand, , France

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

APHP - Hôpital Beaujon - Service de Chirurgie Digestive

Clichy, , France

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

CHU Grenoble Alpes - Service de Chirurgie Digestive

La Tronche, , France

Site Status RECRUITING

APHP - Hôpital Bicêtre - Service de Chirurgie Générale et Digestive

Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, , France

Site Status RECRUITING

CHU de Lille - Service de Chirurgie Générale et Digestive

Lille, , France

Site Status RECRUITING

Centre Lyonnais de Chirurgie Digestive

Lyon, , France

Site Status RECRUITING

APHM - Hôpital La Timone - Service de Chirurgie Digestive et Générale

Marseille, , France

Site Status RECRUITING

APHM - Hôpital Nord - Service de Chirurgie Digestive

Marseille, , France

Site Status RECRUITING

Hôpital Européen de Marseille - Service de Chirurgie Digestive

Marseille, , France

Site Status RECRUITING

Institut Paoli Calmette - Service de Chirurgie Digestive

Marseille, , France

Site Status RECRUITING

Institut du Cancer de Montpellier - Service de Chirurgie Digestive

Montpellier, , France

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

APHP - HEGP- Service de Chirurgie Digestive

Paris, , France

Site Status RECRUITING

APHP - Hôpital Saint Antoine - Service de Chirurgie Digestive

Paris, , France

Site Status RECRUITING

APHP - Hôpital Saint-Louis - Service de Chirurgie Viscérale, Cancérologique et Endocrinienne

Paris, , France

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

GH Diaconesses Croix Saint-Simon - Service de Chirurgie Digestive

Paris, , France

Site Status RECRUITING

Groupe Hospitalier Paris St. Joseph - Service de Chirurgie Digestive et Obésité

Paris, , France

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

Hospices Civils de Lyon - Sevice de Chirurgie Digestive

Pierre-Bénite, , France

Site Status RECRUITING

CHU de Rennes - Service de Chirurgie Hépatobiliaire et Digestive

Rennes, , France

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

CHU de Rouen - Service de Chirugie Digestive

Rouen, , France

Site Status RECRUITING

CHRU de Strasbourg - Service de Chirurgie Générale et

Strasbourg, , France

Site Status RECRUITING

CHU de Toulouse - Service de Chirurgie Digestive

Toulouse, , France

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

CHRU de Tours - Service de Chirurgie Digestive Oncologique et Colorectale

Tours, , France

Site Status RECRUITING

CHRU de Nancy - Service de Chirugie Digestive, Hépatobiliaire, endocrinienne et Cancérologique

Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy, , France

Site Status RECRUITING

Institut Gustave Roussy - Service de Chirurgie Viscérale Oncologique

Villejuif, , France

Site Status RECRUITING

Countries

Review the countries where the study has at least one active or historical site.

France

Central Contacts

Reach out to these primary contacts for questions about participation or study logistics.

Christophe LAURENT

Role: CONTACT

(0)5 57 65 67 69 ext. +33

Benjamin FERNANDEZ

Role: CONTACT

Facility Contacts

Find local site contact details for specific facilities participating in the trial.

Jean-Marc REGIMBEAU

Role: primary

Zaher LAKKIS

Role: primary

Christophe LAURENT

Role: primary

Marc-Olivier FRANCOIS

Role: primary

Anne DUBOIS

Role: primary

Yves PANIS

Role: primary

Jean-Luc FAUCHERON

Role: primary

Antoine BROUQUET

Role: primary

Guillaume PIESSEN

Role: primary

Benoît GIGNOUX

Role: primary

Diane MEGE

Role: primary

Laura BEYER-BERJOT

Role: primary

Antoine CAMERLO

Role: primary

Cécile DE CHAISEMARTIN

Role: primary

Philippe ROUANET

Role: primary

Mehdi KAROUI

Role: primary

Jérémie LEFEVRE

Role: primary

Léon MAGGIORI

Role: primary

Thierry BENSIGNOR

Role: primary

Jérôme LORIAU

Role: primary

Eddy COTTE

Role: primary

Véronique DESFOURNEAUX

Role: primary

Jean-Jacques TUECH

Role: primary

Benoît ROMAIN

Role: primary

Laurent GHOUTI

Role: primary

Mehdi OUAISSI

Role: primary

Adeline GERMAIN

Role: primary

Léonor BENHAIM

Role: primary

Other Identifiers

Review additional registry numbers or institutional identifiers associated with this trial.

CHUBX 2021/10

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

More Related Trials

Additional clinical trials that may be relevant based on similarity analysis.