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Hemithoracic Irradiation With Proton Therapy in Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma

Not Applicable
Recruiting
Conditions
Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma
Interventions
Radiation: Proton beam therapy
Registration Number
NCT05655078
Lead Sponsor
University College, London
Brief Summary

Phase III randomised-controlled trial for patients with unilateral malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM).

Detailed Description

Study design: Randomised phase III clinical trial for patients with unilateral MPM.

Primary endpoint: Progression free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS), defined as the time from randomisation to the date of progression and death from any cause.

Secondary Endpoints: Safety and Tolerability, Health related Quality of Life (QOL): EuroQoL EQ-5D-3L, Locoregional Control.

Randomisation and stratification: 1:1 randomisation. Patients with be stratified for histology (epithelioid versus non-epithelioid), potential PBT centre (UCLH or The Christie)

, laterality (left or right sided) and time since diagnosis (\<1 year or \> 1 year)

Treatment:

Experimental Arm: Patients in the experimental arm will receive PBT to the hemithorax to a dose of 50Gy in 25 fractions with a boost to 60Gy for the visible tumour (gross tumour volume-GTV). Treatment is given daily Monday-Friday over 5 weeks. Following completion of treatment in the experimental arm patients will have 2 years of follow-up from time of randomisation at the local recruiting/referring centre.

Control Arm:

The patients in the control arm would be under standard of care surveillance i.e. "watch and wait", with no treatment or other intervention. Patients will have 2 years of follow-up from time of randomisation at the local recruiting/referring centre. If the disease progresses, the patient will receive SOC treatment i.e. immunotherapy with nivolumab and ipilimumab, or chemotherapy at the clinician's discretion.

Statistical analysis plan:

The sample size is 148 patients (74 patients per arm). This is to detect a OS hazard ratio of 0.58, equivalent to an improvement in 2-year OS from 30% to 50%, with 85% power and 5% two-sided alpha. Recruitment to complete in 3 years across 20 UK centres with 2 years of additional follow-up and up to 5% dropout. Interim analyses for OS efficacy will be performed when 50, 75 and 110 patients have been randomised at around 1.5, 2.0 and 2.5 years respectively. Using a fixed-sequence approach, a difference for OS will only be tested if the co-primary endpoint of PFS is statistically significant (p\<0.05); N=148 will provide \>85% power to detect a PFS hazard ratio of 0.58 accounting for up to 10% dropout.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
RECRUITING
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
148
Inclusion Criteria

Not provided

Exclusion Criteria

Not provided

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Proton beam therapyProton beam therapyMPM participants to receive 5 weeks of proton beam therapy to the hemithorax. Following completion of treatment participants will have follow-up at the referring centre for 2 years (3 monthly in year 1, 4 monthly in year 2).
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Progression free survivalFrom randomisation up to 2 years of follow up

Defined as the time from randomisation to the date of disease progression

Overall survivalFrom randomisation up to 2 years of follow up

defined as the time from randomisation to the date of death from any cause.

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Number of PBT-related adverse events as assessed by CTCAE v5.0From start of PBT up to 2 years of follow up, for long term effects

AEs related to proton beam therapy will be collected

Measurement of costs in economic evaluations using iMTA Valuation of Informal Care (iVICQ) questionnaireFrom randomisation up to 2 years of follow up

Scoring (no scale) to evaluate health economics comparing PBT vs SOC surveillance and other SOC treatments for malignant pleural mesothelioma.

Participant reported healthcare resource use from information collected on Client Service Receipt Inventory (CSRI)From randomisation up to 2 years of follow up

A tool used to collect participant reported information on the range of healthcare services and supports study participants may use, to calculate the rate of service usage to evaluate resource use as part of health economic analysis.

The EORTC quality of life questionnaire (QLQ), EORTC QLQ-C30 score, scale of 0-100.From randomisation up to 2 years of follow up

Participant reported quality of life outcomes. The QLQ-C30 is composed of both multi-item scales and single-item measures. These include five functional scales, three symptom scales, a global health status / quality of life (QoL scale), and six single items. All of the scales and single-item measures range in score from 0 to 100. A high scale score represents a higher response level.

Thus a high score for a functional scale represents a high / healthy level of functioning, a high score for the global health status / QoL represents a high QoL, but a high score for a symptom scale / item represents a high level of symptomatology / problems.

ED-5D-5L scoreFrom randomisation up to 2 years of follow up

Participant reported quality of life outcomes. The questionnaire comprises descriptive systems: mobility, self care, usual activities, pain/discomfort, anxiety/depression; scored from, level 1 to 5; level 1 indicating no problem and level 5 indicating unable to/extreme problems. There is also a scale from 0-100 to describe health status, 100 being the best health the patient can imagine, 0 being the worst health they can imagine.

Trial Locations

Locations (11)

Royal Berkshire Hospital

🇬🇧

Reading, England, United Kingdom

Southend University Hospital

🇬🇧

Southend, Essex, United Kingdom

Queen Alexandra Hospital

🇬🇧

Portsmouth, Hampshire, United Kingdom

Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn

🇬🇧

King's Lynn, Norfolk, United Kingdom

Addenbrooke's Hospital

🇬🇧

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Velindre Cancer Centre

🇬🇧

Cardiff, United Kingdom

Broomfield Hospital

🇬🇧

Chelmsford, United Kingdom

St Bartholomew's Hospital

🇬🇧

London, United Kingdom

University College London Hospital

🇬🇧

London, United Kingdom

Christie Hospital

🇬🇧

Manchester, United Kingdom

Wythenshawe Hospital

🇬🇧

Manchester, United Kingdom

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