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Bone Toxicity Following Pelvic Radiotherapy

Not Applicable
Active, not recruiting
Conditions
Fracture
Gynecologic Cancer
Radiotherapy Side Effect
Interventions
Combination Product: Musculoskeletal health package
Registration Number
NCT04555317
Lead Sponsor
The Christie NHS Foundation Trust
Brief Summary

A randomised controlled clinical feasibility trial to determine the feasibility and acceptability of a "musculoskeletal health package (MHP)" intervention in women undergoing pelvic radiotherapy for gynaecological malignancies and inform power calculations for a definitive trial.

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
Sex
Female
Target Recruitment
80
Inclusion Criteria
  • age over 18 years
  • histologically confirmed uterine or cervix cancer
  • patients undergoing potentially curative/adjuvant radiotherapy
  • ability to give informed consent to participate
Exclusion Criteria
  • age less than 18 years or greater than 85 years
  • patients with pre-existing bone conditions such as: osteoporosis treated with bisphosphonates in the previous 5 years/fibrous dysplasia/osteogenesis imperfecta or other metabolic bone condition
  • inability to give informed consent to participate
  • home address outside Greater Manchester
  • contraindication or intolerance of Magnetic Resonance scanning

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Musculoskeletal Health PackageMusculoskeletal health package3 month prehabilitation exercise program during radiotherapy and assessment of BMD at baseline with appropriate management according to fracture risk assessment (with either (a) lifestyle advice, (b) calcium and vitamin D (c) calcium, vitamin D and bisphosphonate (alendronate))
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Patient and physician acceptability ychange from baseline to 18 months

Patient and physician acceptability assessed with electronic questionnaires

Recruitment and study group allocation rate2 weeks post consent

proportion of eligible patients recruited, randomised and allocated to appropriate study populations

Attrition rateend of study 18 months

number of patients lost to follow-up

Intervention fidelity rateend of study 18 months

proportion of patients completing the elements of the study

Eligibility and screening ratebaseline

proportion of patients eligible for the study from the patient population

Health Economic QOL Analysischange from baseline to 18 months

EuroQol-5D-5L Quality of Life assessment

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Longitudinal change in fracture risk using FRAX (inc BMD by DXA)assessed at baseline and 18 months

FRAX assessment tool (including femoral neck BMD)

Quality of Life Assessment: SMFA adapted to lower limbschange from baseline to 18 months

adapted SMFA : short form musculoskeletal function assessment (scores are standardised with high scores indicating poor function. 39 questions min score possible 39, max score possible 195 (raw scores)

Incidence of Radiotherapy Related Insufficiency Fracture (RRIF)assessed at 6, 12 , 18 months post radiotherapy

Incidence of RRIF assessed by MR

Longitudinal change in BMDassessed at baseline and 18 months

BMD measured by DXA at baseline and 18 months

Quality of Life Assessment : adapted CTCAE pelvic questionnairechange from baseline to 18 months

CTCAE pelvic questionnaire, (common terminology criteria for adverse events). (measures: Bowel questions scored out of 22, urinary questions out of 19 and sexual questions out of 8. Total out of 49: higher score = worse quality of life)

Longitudinal change in biochemical markers of bone turnover (BTM)change from baseline to 18 months

serum Bone Turnover Markers

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Christie Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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Manchester, United Kingdom

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