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Medical and Surgical Management of Patients With Brain Metastases

Not Applicable
Completed
Conditions
Central Nervous System Tumor
Interventions
Other: Biological collection
Registration Number
NCT03981016
Lead Sponsor
Institut du Cancer de Montpellier - Val d'Aurelle
Brief Summary

The integrated cancer research site (SIRIC) of Montpellier proposes to develop a prospective and regional Clinical Database Project and regional biological collection (blood and tumor samples), which is an expanding data collection designed to contribute to a better understand the patient's management with brain metastases including quality of life and neuropsychological/cognitive aspects.

Detailed Description

Brain metastases (BM) represent the first cause of tumors of the central nervous system. Mortality, morbidity (cognitive disorders, neurological deficits, etc.) and their consequences on the quantity and the quality of life are very high. BM represent a real public health problem. The incidence is increasing related to the ageing of the population and the increase of cancer patient's survival rate. The medico-surgical care has highly evolved (neurosurgical progress, radiosurgery, stereotaxic radiotherapy and new chemo and targeted therapy).

Every histological or biological profile requires a specific evaluation, and management. Clinical trials are the reference to establish the efficacy and the toxicity of the new processes, but usually answer only at a single question and for very selected patients.

For this reason, the SIRIC Montpellier Cancer proposes to develop a prospective and regional Clinical Database Project and regional biological collection (blood and tumor samples), which is an expanding data collection designed to contribute to a better understand the patient's management with brain metastases including quality of life and neuropsychological/cognitive aspects.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
105
Inclusion Criteria
  1. Adult ≥ 18 years
  2. Radiological diagnosis of brain metastases
  3. Patient eligible for neurosurgical exeresis or treatment by radio-surgery
  4. Patient treated in a neurosurgery center of the Languedoc-Roussillon region (whatever therapeutic treatment realized on primary tumor)
  5. Present brain metastases not previously treated
  6. Signed informed consent
  7. Patient affiliated to a national insurance system or beneficiary of such a system
Exclusion Criteria
  1. Patient with primary brain tumor
  2. Impossibility to be regularly monitored for psychological, family, social, or geographical reasons
  3. Subject under guardianship

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
SINGLE_GROUP
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Biological collectionBiological collectionFor the patients include in the study : * blood samples collected at different times : Before surgery and during the post-operative visit and * frozen tumor samples and / or paraffin samples at the time of surgery and- paraffin around tumor samples at the time of surgery
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Number of patients who had a histological study of their brain metastases24 months
Number of patients who had a radiotherapy of their brain metastases24 months
Number of patients who had a neurosurgery of their brain metastases24 months
Number of patients who had a chemotherapy of their brain metastases24 months
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Quality of life by using the quality of life questionnaire core (QLQ-C30).24 months

The EORTC QLQ-C30 uses for the questions 1 to 28 a 4-point scale. The scale scores from 1 to 4: 1 ("Not at all"), 2 ("A little"), 3 ("Quite a bit") and 4 ("Very much"). Half points are not allowed. The range is 3. For the raw score, less points are considered to have a better outcome.

The EORTC QLQ-C30 uses for the questions 29 and 30 a 7-points scale. The scale scores from 1 to 7: 1 ("very poor") to 7 ("excellent"). Half points are not allowed. The range is 6. First of all, raw score has to be calculated with mean values. Afterwards linear transformation is performed to be comparable. More points are considered to have a better outcome.

Overall SurvivalApproximately 48 months
Quality of life by using the quality of life questionnaire - brain neoplasm (BN20)24 months

The QLQ-BN20 questionnaire contains 20 items organized into four scales; future uncertainty (3 items), visual disorder (3 items); motor dysfunction (3 items); and communication deficit (3 items), and seven single items (headaches, seizures, drowsiness, hair loss, itchy skin, weakness of legs, and bladder control). All items are rated on a four-point Likert-type scale ('1=not at all', 2='a little', '3=quite a bit' and '4=very much'), and are linearly transformed to a 0-100 scale, with higher scores indicating more severe symptoms.

Cognitive and neuropsychological functions by using Montreal Cognitive assessment (MoCA)24 months

Performance on the MoCA (Range : 0-30; higher score indicates better performance)

Trial Locations

Locations (12)

Centre hospitalier régional et universitaire de Nîmes

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Nîmes, Gard, France

Clinique les Franciscaines

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Nîmes, Gard, France

Centre médical Oncodoc Béziers

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Béziers, Hérault, France

Clinique Saint-Pierre

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Perpignan, Pyrénées-orientales, France

Laboratoire d'anatomo-pathologie de Nîmes

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Nîmes, Gard, France

Clinique Clémentville

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Montpellier, Hérault, France

Clinique du Millénaire

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Montpellier, Hérault, France

Institut régional du cancer

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Montpellier, Hérault, France

Centre d'Anatomie et Cytologie Pathologiques de Grabels

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Grabels, Hérault, France

Centre hospitalier régional et universitaire de Montpellier

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Montpellier, Hérault, France

Centre hospitalier de Perpignan

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Perpignan, Pyrénées-orientales, France

Centre médical Oncogard

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Nîmes, Gard, France

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