SABRE 1: Surgery Against Brachytherapy - a Randomised Evaluatio
- Conditions
- Prostate cancerCancerMalignant neoplasm of prostate
- Registration Number
- ISRCTN88144169
- Lead Sponsor
- Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust (UK)
- Brief Summary
2013 results in: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23826842
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Male
- Target Recruitment
- 400
1. Suspected prostate cancer that is confined to the prostate
2. Due for prostate biopsy
3. World Health Organisation performance status 0 - 1
4. Prostate-Specific Antigen (PSA) less than 15 ng/ml
5. Life expectancy more than 10 years
6. Written informed consent
Inclusion criteria for treatment randomisation:
1. Participation in decision aid randomisation
2. Histologically confirmed prostate cancer
3. Clinical T stage T1/T2
4. Either Gleason score less than or equal to 6 with a PSA of less than 15 or Gleason score 3 + 4 in less than 50% of the cores with a PSA less than 10 (PSA test less than 3 months prior to treatment intervention)
1. Unacceptable risk for radical prostatectomy
2. Unacceptable risk for brachytherapy
3. Prior pelvic radiotherapy
4. Other active malignancy likely to interfere with subsequent protocol treatment and follow-up
5. Previous abdominoperineal (AP) rectal excision
6. Previous transurethral resection of their prostate gland (TURP)
7. Significant obstructive urinary symptoms (peak urine flow rate less than 10 ml per second, post micturition bladder volume greater than 75 ml)
8. Severe lower urinary tract symptoms
9. Inability to attend or comply with treatment or follow-up scheduling
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <br> Decision aid randomisation:<br> Proportion of patients consenting to the treatment randomisation<br><br> Treatment randomisation:<br> Feasibility of randomisation in terms of average accrual rate per centre during the last 6 months of recruitment.<br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method