Immunophenotyping From Blood of Patients Suffering From Chronic Degenerating Joint Diseases and Receiving Local Low Dose Radiation Therapy (LDRT)
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 招募中
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 250
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Change of circulating immune cells of treated patients by deep immunophenotyping.
研究概览
简要总结
Patients suffering from chronic degenerating diseases are often treated by a plethora of NSAIDs, DMARDs, Biologicals, as well as combinations of these therapeutics. However, many patients are refractory to this treatment and suffer from chronic pain over years, leading to a worsening of the quality of live. The mobilization of these patients is one main goal in the therapy of these chronic and inflammatory diseases. Low dose radiation therapy (LDRT) is applied since more than one century for the local treatment of chronic degenerating joint diseases. The success of the treatment was described by many retrospective as well as pattern of care studies, respectively.
Local (only at the painful joint) low dose irradiation of the chronic patients results in most patients in a significantly reduced pain, not only direct after the therapy, but also lasting for more than 12 month in many cases. The patients experience enhanced mobility and increased quality of life. The molecular and cellular processes leading to the pain reduction are just fragmentarily analyzed. Our group revealed that macrophages are key players in radiation-induced immune modulation. Inflammatory macrophages exposed to low doses of radiation showed a reduced inflammatory capacity and attenuated an inflammatory microenvironment. Besides macrophages further immune cells are most likely involved in reduction of inflammation following LD-RT, as in vitro already shown for neutrophils.
The IMMO-LDRT01 study aims for the first time to analyze in detail the immune status of patients suffering from inflammatory, chronic joint diseases before, during and after LD-RT in a longitudinal manner. The multi-color flow cytometry-based assay will allow determining over 30 immune cell subsets and additionally their activation status. Further, biodosimetry will be performed with the whole-blood samples to get hints about dose that the immune cells are exposed to. This will be performed with national and international co-operation partners.
The IMMO-LDRT01 study is a prospective and observational study not influencing the standard therapeutic scheme and will provide hints how the LDRT affects besides local cells in the irradiated area also the systemic inflammatory response.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Observational
- 观察模型
- Case Only
- 时间视角
- Prospective
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Patients suffering and diagnosed for:
- •painful shoulder syndrome (periarthritis humeroscapularis)
- •painful elbow syndrome (Epicondylopathia humeri)
- •benign achillodynia
- •benign calcaneodynia
- •arthosis (finger- , rhiz-, gon-, and anklearthrosis
- •arthritis (gon- and anklearthrosis)
- •Planned local low dose radiation therapy (LDRT) at the Department of Radiation Oncology, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen.
- •Age at least 18 years
排除标准
- •patients who are suffering or had suffered from any malignant diseases
- •fertile patients who refuse effective contraception during study treatment
- •persistent drug and/or alcohol abuse
- •patients not able or willing to behave according to study protocol
- •patients in care
- •patients that are not able to speak German
结局指标
主要结局
Change of circulating immune cells of treated patients by deep immunophenotyping.
时间窗: up to 3 month after completion of RT
Immunophenotyping of the patients: Detection of about 30 distinct immune sell (sub)types together with their activation markers. The analyses are conducted at time points before (day 0) and after low dose radiation therapy (day 21): before LDRT (day 0), end of first round of LDRT (last day of LDRT, usually at 3 Gy), and 3 month (day 111) after completed RT. This scheme is repeated if patient receives additional round of LDRT for relapse treatment.
次要结局
- description of pain quality(up to 9 month after completion of RT)
- Change of joint pain intensity of the treated patients.(up to 9 month after completion of RT)
- Change of functional capacity in daily life of the treated patients(up to 9 month after completion of RT)
- Change of health-related quality of life(up to 9 month after completion of RT)