Watchful waiting in patients with good and intermediate risk metastatic renal cell carcinoma; an imaging guided observational approach
- Conditions
- kidney cancerrenal cell cancerRenal cell carcinoma10038364
- Registration Number
- NL-OMON44854
- Lead Sponsor
- Radboud Universitair Medisch Centrum
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 40
- Able to provide written informed consent
- Age >= 18 years
- Histological or cytological documented RCC with a clear cell component
- Good or intermediate prognosis, defined as none (good risk) or 1-2 (intermediate risk) of the below mentioned risk factors (6):
o Karnofsky performance <80
o Time from diagnosis detection of metastases < 1 year
o Haemoglobin < lower limit of normal (LLN)
o Corrected calcium > upper limit of normal (ULN)
o Neutrophils > ULN
o Platelets > ULN
- A watchful waiting period for 2 months is considered an option according to treating medical oncologist
- No prior systemic treatment for RCC (also non-adjuvant)
- Untreated central nervous system metastases, or symptomatic intracerebral metastases.
- Pregnant or breast feeding women.
- Any serious and/or unstable pre-existing medical, psychiatric, or other condition that would make the subject inappropriate for study participation including any serious condition that could interfere with subject*s safety, provision of informed consent, or compliance with study procedure.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational invasive
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <p>Primary endpoint: time to mccRCC progression under watchful waiting as assessed<br /><br>by CT-scans (2, 4, 6, 9, 12 months in year 1 and thereafter every 4 months<br /><br>until progressive disease) criteria. </p><br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method