Evaluation of Technological Innovation in Radiotherapy

Cancer Clinical Trial

— PERA  

Official title:

Partnership Initiative for the Evaluation of Technological Innovation in Radiotherapy

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03378856
• Other study ID #: 17.032
• Status: Recruiting
• Start date: November 1, 2017
• Est. completion date: October 2025

Study information

• Verified date: September 2023
• Source: Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM)
• Contact: Cynthia Ménard, MD, M.Sc
• Phone: 514-890-8254
• Email: Cynthia.Menard[@]umontreal.ca
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational [Patient Registry]

Clinical Trial Summary

Prospective cohort study of patients receiving standard-care radiotherapy is paramount to a better understanding of radiation effects and longterm outcomes.

The primary objective is to determine the feasibility of establishing infrastructure to systematically collect clinical data, patient-reported outcomes, and imaging data from daily radiotherapy practice.

Secondary objectives are to provide a control cohort for comparative effectiveness research of investigational interventions through a cmRCT design; compare imaging features with clinical outcomes; understand dose-effect relationships; quantify imaging quality metrics.

Description:

The study consists of an effort to develop infrastructure that will support systematic collection of data from daily radiotherapy practice. At the core, PERA is a large observational cohort study, serving as a multiple cohort randomized trial and image banking facility. It includes consent for the collection of imaging data, patient-reported outcomes, and broad randomization for studies according to the innovative cohort multiple randomized controlled trial design (cmRCT).

The basis of this design is a prospective cohort of participants receiving care as usual, who give informed consent for cohort participation.

Participants can furthermore be asked for informed consent to be randomized in future RCTs conducted within the cohort. Participants are informed that they will be offered an experimental intervention if they are randomly selected. They are also informed that they otherwise might serve as controls without being notified and that their data can be used in a trial context. For each participant in the cohort, PROs are captured at baseline and at regular intervals during follow-up. Within this cohort, multiple RCTs can be conducted. The design is especially attractive for clinical research areas with rapid evolution of technology, and for highly desired or expensive interventions.

In the first stage, at entry into the cohort, all potential participants are asked for their informed consent to participate in a cohort study and broad consent to be either randomly selected to be approached for experimental interventions or to serve as control without further notice during participation in the cohort. In a second stage, at the initiation of an RCT within the cohort, informed consent to receive the intervention is then only sought in those randomly selected for the intervention arm. At the third stage, after completion of each RCT, all cohort participants receive aggregate disclosure of trial results.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 1500
• Est. completion date: October 2025
• Est. primary completion date: October 2025
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Ability to provide informed consent

• Receiving radiotherapy or brachytherapy

Exclusion Criteria:

-

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Cancer
• Radiotherapy Side Effect

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Canada	Centre de santé et de services sociaux de Laval	Laval	Quebec
Canada	London Health Regional Cancer Centre	London	Ontario
Canada	Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal	Montréal	Quebec
Canada	CHUQ	Québec	Quebec
Canada	Princess Margaret Cancer Centre	Toronto	Ontario

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM)

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Canada, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Accrual rates	Determine feasibility of achieving high accural rates (greater than 80%) with this approach.	2 years
Secondary	Number of cmRCT trials activated	Measure if success would be the activation of 2 or more trials in the time frame.	2 years