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ADT +/- Darolutamide in de Novo Metastatic Prostate Cancer Patients With Vulnerable Functional Ability (PEACE6-Vulnerable)

Phase 3
Recruiting
Conditions
Prostate Cancer Metastatic
Interventions
Drug: Placebo
Drug: Androgen deprivation therapy
Registration Number
NCT04916613
Lead Sponsor
UNICANCER
Brief Summary

This is a Phase III, international, multicentre, randomised, double-blinded placebo controlled trial, evaluating the efficacy and safety of ADT +/- darolutamide in castration-naïve de novo metastatic prostate cancer patients with vulnerable functional ability who have not elected for docetaxel or other androgen receptor pathway inhibitors.

Detailed Description

This is a Phase III, international, multicentre, randomised, double-blinded placebo controlled trial, evaluating the efficacy and safety of ADT +/- darolutamide in castration-naïve de novo metastatic prostate cancer patients with vulnerable functional ability who have not elected for docetaxel or other androgen receptor pathway inhibitors. The study plans to enroll 300 patients who will be randomized (1:1) to receive either: (i) Experimental arm: ADT + darolutamide 600 mg po bid, or (ii) Control arm: ADT + placebo po bid. Response to treatment will be assessed according to the Prostate Cancer Clinical Trials Working Group 3 (PCWG3) criteria (Scher, 2016). Treatment will be continued until radiographic disease progression. Treatment may also be terminated at the initiative of either the patient or the investigator for any reason that would be beneficial to the patient, including: unacceptable toxicity, intercurrent conditions that preclude continuation of treatment, or patient request. Following treatment discontinuation patients will enter the follow-up period and will be monitored for up to 10 years with regards to survival status, subsequent antineoplastic treatments and the status of ongoing adverse events (AEs) and/or new investigational product related AEs.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
RECRUITING
Sex
Male
Target Recruitment
300
Inclusion Criteria
  1. Signed a written informed consent form prior to any trial specific procedures.

  2. Men with histologically or cytologically confirmed adenocarcinoma of the prostate.

  3. Aged ≥18 years old at the time of signing informed consent.

  4. De novo metastatic disease defined by clinical or radiological evidence of metastases.

    Note: For patients with nodal metastases only, only patients with extra-pelvic enlarged lymph nodes (lymph nodes located above the iliac bifurcation) can be included if they have either:

    • At least one extra-pelvic lymph node ≥2 cm
    • At least one extra-pelvic lymph node ≥1 cm if the patients also have at least one pelvic lymph node ≥2 cm
  5. Measurable disease or bone lesions that are evaluable according to PCWG3 criteria.

  6. Ineligible for treatment with all of the following drugs: docetaxel, abiraterone, enzalutamide, apalutamide; AND meets at least one of the following frailty criteria:

    1. Activities of daily living (ADL) assessment (excluding urinary incontinence question) score 3 or 4/5;
    2. 4-Instrumental activities of daily living (4-IADL) assessment score 2 or 3/4;
    3. A Grade 3 event on the Cumulative Illness Score Rating-Geriatrics (CISR-G) questionnaire;
    4. Body mass index (BMI) ≤21 kg/m² and/or >10% weight loss in the last 6 months;
    5. Timed up and go test (TUG) >14 sec.
  7. Adequate bone marrow function: haemoglobin ≥80 g/L, white blood cells ≥3.0 x10⁹/L and platelets ≥80 x10⁹/L.

  8. Adequate liver function: alanine aminotransferase (ALT) <2 x upper limit of normal (ULN) and bilirubin <1.5 x ULN, (or if bilirubin is between 1.5-2 x ULN, they must have a normal conjugated bilirubin). For patients with documented liver metastasis, ALT <5 x ULN is acceptable.

  9. Adequate renal function: calculated creatinine clearance >30 ml/min (using the Modification of Diet in Renal Disease [MDRD] or Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration [CKD EPI) method).

  10. For sexually active men, agreement to use adequate contraception for the duration of trial participation and up to 2 weeks after completing study treatment.

  11. Affiliated to the social security system or in possession of equivalent private health insurance (according to local regulations for participation in clinical trials).

  12. Willing and able to comply with the protocol for the duration of the trial including undergoing treatment and scheduled visits, and examinations including follow-up.

Exclusion Criteria
  1. Three or more Grade 3, or any Grade 4 events on the CISR-G questionnaire.
  2. Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status score ≥3.
  3. Hypertension not controlled by an anti-hypertensive treatment (systolic blood pressure [BP] ≥160 mmHg or diastolic BP ≥95 mmHg; 3 consecutive measures taken 5 minutes apart).
  4. Acute toxicities of prior treatments and procedures not resolved to grade ≤1 or baseline before randomisation, with the exception of hot flushes and erectile dysfunction.
  5. Previous systemic treatment for prostate cancer, except less than 12 weeks of ADT and/or an old-generation AR inhibitor.
  6. Severe or uncontrolled concurrent disease, infection or co-morbidity.
  7. Known hypersensitivity to the study treatment or any of its ingredients.
  8. Major surgery within 28 days before randomisation.
  9. Any of the following within 6 months before randomisation: stroke, myocardial infarction, severe/unstable angina pectoris, coronary/peripheral artery bypass graft; congestive heart failure New York Heart Association (NYHA) Class III or IV.
  10. Prior malignancy ≤3 years before study enrolment. Adequately treated basal cell or squamous cell carcinoma of skin or superficial bladder cancer that has not spread behind the connective tissue layer (i.e., pTis, pTa, and pT1) is allowed, as well as any localized cancer for which treatment has been completed ≥6 months before randomisation and from which the subject has been disease-free, or for which the risk of relapse is less than 30%, as well as early stage chronic lymphocytic leukaemia that does not require any specific treatment.
  11. Inability to swallow oral medications.
  12. Gastrointestinal disorder or procedure that can be expected to interfere significantly with the absorption of study treatment.
  13. Known to have active viral hepatitis, active human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or chronic liver disease at screening.
  14. Treatment with any investigational product within 28 days before randomisation.
  15. Concurrent participation in another clinical trial involving an investigational product (patients enrolled in non-experimental trials with no modification of the standard of care can be included).
  16. Individual deprived of liberty or placed under the authority of a tutor.
  17. Significantly altered mental status prohibiting the understanding of the study or with psychological, familial, sociological or geographical condition potentially hampering compliance with the study protocol and follow-up schedule or any condition that, in the opinion of the investigator, would preclude participation in this trial.

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
ADT + darolutamideAndrogen deprivation therapyADT + darolutamide 600 mg po bid
ADT + placeboPlaceboADT + placebo po bid
ADT + darolutamideDarolutamide 300 mgADT + darolutamide 600 mg po bid
ADT + placeboAndrogen deprivation therapyADT + placebo po bid
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Radiographic progression-free survivalFrom randomisation to radiographic progression or death, up to 18 months

Time from randomisation to radiographic progression according to the Prostate Cancer Working Group 3 (PCWG3) criteria or death, whichever occurs first

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Castration-resistant prostate cancer-free survivalFrom randomisation to onset of CRPC or death, up to 18 months

Time from randomisation to onset of castrate resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) according to PCWG3 criteria, or death, whichever occurs first

Clinical progression-free survivalFrom randomisation to clinical progression or death, up to 18 months

Time from randomisation to first occurrence of any one of the following:

(i) Cancer pain deterioration (2-point deterioration from baseline according to the Brief Pain Inventory - Short Form \[BPI-SF\] questionnaire; initiation of opioid therapy, or a ≥30% increase in opiate use) (ii) Any deterioration of physical function measured using the 4-IADL assessment tools (Lawton, 1969) (iii) A deterioration in ECOG performance status of at least 2 points from baseline (iv) Death from any cause.

Frequency and severity of adverse eventsFrom inclusion until 100 days after last dose of investigational product

The National Cancer Institute-Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events version 5 (NCI-CTCAE v5) is widely accepted in the community of oncology research as the leading rating scale for adverse events. This scale, divided into 5 grades (1 = "mild", 2 = "moderate", 3 = "severe", 4 = "life-threatening", and 5 = "death") determined by the investigator, will make it possible to assess the severity of the disorders

Time to next symptomatic skeletal eventFrom randomisation to occurence of a skeletal event, up to 18 months

Time from randomisation until first occurrence of one of the following: a symptomatic fracture, radiation or surgery to bone or a spinal cord compression

Second line radiographic progression-free survivalFrom randomization up to 10 years.

Time from the date of initiation of a second SACT for CRPC to radiographic progression or death, whichever occurs first.

Progression-free survival after next line of treatment (PFS2)From randomization up to 10 years.

Time from randomisation to second objective disease progression, or death from any cause, whichever first

Geriatric statusAt baseline and every 120 days during first years of treatment and every 180 days thereafter if treatment is continued for more than 1 year

Evaluated using the G-CODE (Paillaud, 2018), a core set of commonly used tools/items for geriatric assessment which has been validated for the collection of geriatric data in clinical cancer trials of older adults, enabling comparison across trials. The tools/items proposed in G-CODE are:

(i) Social assessment: living alone or support requested to stay at home; (ii) Functional autonomy: Activities of Daily Living (ADL) questionnaire and short instrumental ADL questionnaire (4-IADL); (iii) Mobility: Timed Up and Go test; (iv) Nutrition: weight loss during the past 6 months and body mass index; (v) Cognition: Mini-Cog test; (vi) Mood: mini-Geriatric Depression Scale; (vii) Comorbidity: updated Charlson Comorbidity Index.

Overall survivalFrom randomization to death from any cause, up to 10 years.

Time from randomisation to the time of death from any cause

Prostate cancer-specific survivalFrom randomization to death from prostate cancer, up to 10 years.

Time from randomisation to the date of death due to prostate cancer (deaths due to other causes will be censored)

Health related quality of life questionnaire Brief Pain Inventory - Short Form (BPI-SF)On treatment day 1 and every 120 days during first years of treatment and every 180 days thereafter if treatment is continued for more than 1 year

The Brief Pain Inventory is a self reporting tool to assess the severity of pain and the impact of pain on daily functions in patients with chronically painful diseases or conditions such as cancer, osteoarthritis and low back pain, or with pain from acute conditions such as postoperative pain. The Short Form of the questionnaire (BPI-SF) has been specifically developed for clinical trials.

Time to worsening in prostate cancer-related urinary symptomsOn treatment day 1 and every 120 days during first years of treatment and every 180 days thereafter if treatment is continued for more than 1 year

Time from randomisation to first increase from baseline of greater or equal to 8 points in the urinary symptom scale/score (PRURI) measured using the prostate cancer module of the EORTC quality of life questionnaire (EORTC-QLQ-PR25).

This EORTC prostate cancer specific questionnaire is intended to supplement the QLQ-C30. The prostate cancer module is a 25-item questionnaire designed for use among patients with localized and metastatic prostate cancer. It includes subscales assessing urinary symptoms (9 items), bowel symptoms (4 items), treatment-related symptoms (6 items) and sexual functioning (6 items). Using a 4-point Likert scale (1 = "not at all", 2 = "a little", 3 = "quite a bit", and 4 = "very much"), patients indicate the degree to which they have experienced symptoms.

Complete prostate specific antigen (PSA) responseAt 6 months

Defined according to PCWG3 criteria as PSA ≤ 0.2 ng/ml

Time to first subsequent systemic anti-cancer therapy (SACT)From randomization up to 10 years.

Time from randomisation to the date of initiation of any SACT for CRPC, following initiation of the study treatment

Second line overall survivalFrom randomization up to 10 years.

Time from the date of initiation of a second SACT for CRPC to death

Time to deterioration for EORTC QLQ-PR25 symptom subscalesOn treatment day 1 and every 120 days during first years of treatment and every 180 days thereafter if treatment is continued for more than 1 year

Defined as the first decline in the HRQoL score from baseline equal to or greater than the minimally important difference (MID; a measure of clinical significance) defined as half the standard deviation of the baseline value for each subscale. The prostate cancer module QLQ-PR25 is a 25-item questionnaire designed for use among patients with localized and metastatic prostate cancer. It includes subscales assessing urinary symptoms (9 items), bowel symptoms (4 items), treatment-related symptoms (6 items) and sexual functioning (6 items). Using a 4-point Likert scale (1 = "not at all", 2 = "a little", 3 = "quite a bit", and 4 = "very much"), patients indicate the degree to which they have experienced symptoms.

Health related quality of life questionnaire EORTC-QLQ-PR25On treatment day 1 and every 120 days during first years of treatment and every 180 days thereafter if treatment is continued for more than 1 year

This EORTC prostate cancer specific questionnaire is intended to supplement the QLQ-C30.

The prostate cancer module is a 25-item questionnaire designed for use among patients with localized and metastatic prostate cancer. It includes subscales assessing urinary symptoms (9 items), bowel symptoms (4 items), treatment-related symptoms (6 items) and sexual functioning (6 items). Using a 4-point Likert scale (1 = "not at all", 2 = "a little", 3 = "quite a bit", and 4 = "very much"), patients indicate the degree to which they have experienced symptoms.

Health related quality of life questionnaire EORTC-QLQ-C30On treatment day 1 and every 120 days during first years of treatment and every 180 days thereafter if treatment is continued for more than 1 year

Developed by the EORTC, this self-reported questionnaire assesses the health-related quality of life of cancer patients in clinical trials.

The questionnaire includes five functional scales (physical, everyday activity, cognitive, emotional, and social), three symptom scales (fatigue, pain, nausea and vomiting), a health/quality of life overall scale, and a number of additional elements assessing common symptoms (including dyspnea, loss of appetite, insomnia, constipation, and diarrhea), as well as, the perceived financial impact of the disease.

All of the scales and single-item measures range in score from 0 to 100. A high scale score represents a higher response level.

Trial Locations

Locations (90)

CHU de la Martinique - Hôpital Albert Clarac

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Fort-de-France, France

Universitätsmedizin Essen Hufelandstraße

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Essen, Germany

University cancer center Hamburg-Eppendorf Martinistraße

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Hamburg, Germany

Universitätsklinikum Münster Klinik für Urologie und Kinderurologie Albert-Schweitzer-Campus 1 Gebäude A1

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Münster, Germany

University of Bari, Policlinico

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Bari, Italy

FPO IRCCS Candiolo Turin

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Candiolo, Italy

Istituto Scientifico Romagnolo per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori (I.R.S.T.)

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Meldola, Italy

Fondazione IRCSS Istituto Nazionale Tumori

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Milano, Italy

istituto tumori Fondazione "G.Pascale"

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Napoli, Italy

Azienda Ospedaliera S. Camillo-Forlanini

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Roma, Italy

Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS

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Roma, Italy

Istituto Clinico Humanitas - IRCCS

🇮🇹

Rozzano, Italy

UOC Oncologia Medica

🇮🇹

Siracusa, Italy

Santa Chiara Hospital

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Trento, Italy

Albert Schweizer Hospital

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Dordrecht, Netherlands

Radboudumc - Dutch Uro-Oncology Study Group (DUOS)

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Nijmegen, Netherlands

Institutul Oncologic Prof Dr Al Trestioreanu Bucuresti

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Bucharest, Romania

Amethyst Radiotherapy Center Cluj SRL

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Cluj, Romania

Institul Oncologic Cluj-Napoca

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Cluj, Romania

OncoHelp Hospital

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Timişoara, Romania

Narodny Onkologicky Institut

🇸🇰

Bratislava, Slovakia

Sahlgrenska University Hospital

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Gothenburg, Sweden

Skane University Hospital

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Malmö, Sweden

Istituto Oncologico della Svizzera Italiana (IOSI) - Ospedale S.Giovanni

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Bellinzona, Switzerland

Kantonsspital Graubünden, Onkologie/ Hämatologie

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Chur, Switzerland

Cantonal Hospital St.Gallen

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Saint Gallen, Switzerland

Istituto Oncologico della Svizzera Italiana (IOSI) - Ospedale Italiano di Lugano

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Viganello, Switzerland

Universitätsspital Zürich - Onkologie

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Zürich, Switzerland

Grand Hopital de Charleroi - site Notre Dame

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Charleroi, Belgium

Groupe Jolimont - Hôpital De Jolimont

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Haine-Saint-Paul, Belgium

CHU UCL NAMUR - Site STE. ELISABETH

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Namur, Belgium

Clinique Saint Pierre

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Ottignies, Belgium

Institut Sainte Catherine

🇫🇷

Avignon, France

Centre Hospitalier Cote basque

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Bayonne, France

CHU Besançon - Hopital Jean Mijoz

🇫🇷

Besançon, France

Centre Institut Bergonié

🇫🇷

Bordeaux, France

Clinique Pasteur

🇫🇷

Brest, France

Centre François Baclesse

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Caen, France

Centre Hospitalier Métropole Savoie

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Chambéry, France

Centre Jean Perrin

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Clermont-Ferrand, France

APHP - Hôpital Henri Mondor

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Créteil, France

Centre Georges François Leclerc

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Dijon, France

CHU Grenoble

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Grenoble, France

Centre CHV Vendée

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La Roche-sur-Yon, France

CHU le MANS

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Le Mans, France

Centre Oscar Lambret

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Lille, France

Polyclinique de Limoges

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Limoges, France

Groupe Hospitalier Bretagne Sud

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Lorient, France

Centre Léon Bérard

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Lyon, France

Institut Paoli-Calmettes

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Marseille, France

Centre Azuréen de Cancérologie

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Mougins, France

Centre Antoine Lacassagne

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Nice, France

CHU Nîmes

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Nîmes, France

Centre Groupe Hospitalier Diaconesses Croix Saint-Simon

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Paris, France

Hôpital Saint Louis

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Paris, France

Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou

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Paris, France

Hospices Civils de Lyon -Lyon Sud

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Pierre-Bénite, France

Hôpital Tenon

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Paris, France

CHU de Poitiers - Pôle Régional de Cancérologie

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Poitiers, France

CH Annecy Genevois

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Pringy, France

CHIC Quimper

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Quimper, France

Institut Jean Godinot

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Reims, France

Centre Eugène Marquis

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Rennes, France

Centre Hospitalier Rodez

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Rodez, France

CHP Centre Saint Grégoire

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Saint Grégoire, France

Hôpital Instruction des Armées - BEGIN

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Saint Mandé, France

CHU Saint-Etienne

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Saint-Étienne, France

Hôpital Privé de la Loire

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Saint-Étienne, France

Clinique Sainte Anne - Strasbourg Oncologie Libérale

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Strasbourg, France

Institut de cancérologie Strasbourg Europe

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Strasbourg, France

Hôpital FOCH

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Suresnes, France

Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal de Toulon-La Seyne - Hôpital Ste Musse

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Toulon, France

IUCT Oncopole

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Toulouse, France

Clinique Pasteur ONCORAD

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Toulouse, France

CHRU de Tours -Hôpital Bretonneau

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Tours, France

Institut de Cancérologie de Lorraine

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Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy, France

Gustave Roussy Center

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Villejuif, France

St Vincent's University Hospital

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Dublin, Ireland

Tallaght university Hospital

🇮🇪

Dublin, Ireland

Mater Misericordiae University Hospital

🇮🇪

Dublin, Ireland

Mater Private Hospital

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Dublin, Ireland

Institut Catala d'Oncologia, Badalona-Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol

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Badalona, Spain

Hospital Clinic

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Barcelona, Spain

Hospital del Mar

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Barcelona, Spain

Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology. Vall d'Hebron University Hospital

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Barcelona, Spain

Institut Català d'Oncologia de Girona

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Girona, Spain

Centro Integral Oncologico HM Clara Campal

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Madrid, Spain

Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre

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Madrid, Spain

Althaia, Xara Assistencial Universitaria Mansera

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Manresa, Spain

Fundacion Instituto Valenciano De Oncologia

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Valencia, Spain

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