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The PROTECT trial will test the hypothesis that proton (PT) -enabled radiation dose reductions to sensitive, normal tissues will result in lower rates of treatment-related pulmonary complications in esophageal cancer compared to standard photon therapy (XT).


Clinical Trial Description

PROTECT is a unblinded international multicenter randomized phase III study for patients with operable EC or EGC receiving nCXT (standard of care) or nCPT (intervention). The study will be open-label for the patient and the treating physician. The radiation dose is either 41.4 Gy in 23 fractions, five fractions per week or 50.4 Gy in 28 fractions, five fractions per week. Prior to trial opening, each proton center will determine a single dose regimen for all patients treated in that specific proton center and its assigned photon centers. The protocol prescribes that all referring centers will use the same chemotherapy regimen, which is weekly carboplatin (AUC 2), and paclitaxel (50 mg/m2), five cycles, irrespective of choice of dose regimen. Chemotherapy is a non-investigational drug. Prior to referral to any proton therapy center, patients will be randomed (1:1) to either nCXT or nCPT. Only patients randomized to the PT arm will be referred to a PT center. Randomization will be performed centrally using an online 24-hour web-based system maintained by the Clinical Trial Office at Aarhus University Hospital, ensuring allocation concealment to the clinical investigators. The method of randomization will be stratified permuted blocks of size 4 and 6 (selected randomly) with the following strata: - Histopathology (non-squamous vs squamous cell carcinoma) - Planned surgical technique (open versus minimal invasive/robotic or hybrid) - Proton center and sites assigned to this center (which will deliver the nCXT) ;


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NCT number NCT05055648
Study type Interventional
Source University of Aarhus
Contact Dorte Winter
Phone +45 78456442
Email dorte.skriver.winther@auh.rm.dk
Status Recruiting
Phase N/A
Start date May 1, 2022
Completion date May 1, 2030

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