Sentinel Lymph Node in Early-Stage Endometrium Cancer

Endometrial Cancer Clinical Trial

Official title:

Sentinel Lymph Node Mapping With Double Tracer and Double Injection Sites in Early-Stage Endometrium Cancer

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT06163963
• Other study ID #: 2023/2015
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: July 1, 2023
• Est. completion date: May 2026

Study information

• Verified date: December 2023
• Source: Istanbul University
• Contact: Mustafa ALBAYRAK, MD
• Phone: +905326871051
• Email: mustafaalbayrak[@]icloud.com
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The aim of this prospective study is to investigate whether the detection rate of sentinel lymph node (SLN) with double tracer injected at two different sites may be increased compared to the standard use of a single tracer with single site (cervix) injection in early-stage endometrial cancer.

Description:

Endometrial cancer is the most common gynecologic cancer. Although 85-90% of women are diagnosed at early stage, about 10-15% are diagnosed at advanced stages. Treatment and prognosis depends on the surgical staging of the apparently early stage disease including the evaluation of lymphatic status of the disease. Detection of positive lymph node upstages the apparently early stage endometrial cancer. However, systematic lymphadenectomy carries immediate and long term risks for patients including bleeding, massive transfusions, prolongation of operation time, serious major vessel and major abdominal organ injury and death. These risks are especially increased in para-aortic lymphadenectomy which is a part of staging procedure in apparently early stage endometrial cancer.

Sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) procedure is the biopsy of one or two lymph node(s) which represents the lymph node basin draining the area of malignancy. This biopsy may potentially eliminate the need systemic pelvic / para-aortic lymphadenectomy which harbours potential complications. Although SLNB became an standard procedure in endometrial cancer, available data on the SLNB in endometrial cancer is variable. The relevant literature suggests that the detection rate of sentinel lymph node using various tracer agents are between %70-98, even with lower for bilateral pelvic detection and para-aortic sentinel lymph node(s). The most commonly used tracer agents are methylene blue, radiolabeled colloid technetium 99 (Tc99), isosulfan blue and fluorescent indocyanine green. Although subserosal, intramyometrial uterine injections and peritumoral injections using hysteroscopy with different tracers and different detection rates have been used, cervical injection with ICG is the most favoured and standard technique with highest pelvic SLN detection rates. However, the para-aortic SLN detection rates are not satisfactory with a single tracer injected into cervix which may be critical especially in high grade endometrioid, serous and clear cell histological types.

So, we aimed to investigate whether the sentinel lymph node detection rates may be improved with double tracer injected at two different sites (charcoal carbon black dye injected in subserosa and ICG injected into cervix) compared to standard single tracer injected in early-stage endometrial cancer, especially the para-aortic sentinel lymph nodes. Sterile charcoal carbon black dye is an agent previously used for sentinel lymph node detection in various cancers such as breast cancer.

Technically, 2 mL indocyanine green with sterile water is injected at 3 and 9 o'clocks (each 1 mL) of cervix before the start of laparoscopic operation. Additionally, 2-4 mL of sterile charcoal carbon black dye is carefully injected just beneath the serosal layer at uterine fundus bilaterally avoiding intravascular injection This is done classically during laparoscopy by a spinal needle introduced under optical supervision after all optical and operative instruments are entered. 10-15 minute interval is allowed before the start of harvesting sentinel lymph nodes in pelvic and paraaortic region.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 100
• Est. completion date: May 2026
• Est. primary completion date: November 2025
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Female
• Age group: 18 Years to 90 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Must have preoperative histologic diagnosis of endometrial carcinoma

2. Must be in early stage ( stage1 and 2) endometrial carcinoma radiologically and clinically

3. Must have written informed consent

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Possible allergic reaction to commonly used drugs

2. Medical or surgical contraindications for comphrensive staging

3. Preoperative or intraoperative findings of advanced endometrial cancer

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Endometrial Cancer
• Endometrial Neoplasms
• Sentinel Lymph Node

Intervention

Diagnostic Test:
• Sentinel Lymph Node Mapping With Double Tracer and Double Injection Sites in Early-Stage Endometrium Cancer
This is a single arm interventional prospective study. Sentinel lymph node detection rate of the tracer injected in cervix (ICG- indocyanine green) before operation and the second tracer injected in uterine fundal subserosa (sterile charcoal black) at the start of operation are investigated. It is anticipated that additional tracer used in the uterine serosa may overcome the insufficiency (or increase the detection rate) of the standard single tracer injected in cervix for detection rate of sentinel lymph nodes, especially in paraaortic sentinel lymph nodes.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Turkey	Istanbul University Medical Faculty Dept. of Obstet Gynecol, Division of Gynecologic Oncology	Istanbul	Istanbul / Turkey

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Istanbul University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Turkey, 

References & Publications (5)

Cibula D, Oonk MH, Abu-Rustum NR. Sentinel lymph node biopsy in the management of gynecologic cancer. Curr Opin Obstet Gynecol. 2015 Feb;27(1):66-72. doi: 10.1097/GCO.0000000000000133. — View Citation

Crosbie EJ, Kitson SJ, McAlpine JN, Mukhopadhyay A, Powell ME, Singh N. Endometrial cancer. Lancet. 2022 Apr 9;399(10333):1412-1428. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(22)00323-3. — View Citation

Holloway RW, Abu-Rustum NR, Backes FJ, Boggess JF, Gotlieb WH, Jeffrey Lowery W, Rossi EC, Tanner EJ, Wolsky RJ. Sentinel lymph node mapping and staging in endometrial cancer: A Society of Gynecologic Oncology literature review with consensus recommendations. Gynecol Oncol. 2017 Aug;146(2):405-415. doi: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2017.05.027. Epub 2017 May 28. — View Citation

Lee YC, Lheureux S, Oza AM. Treatment strategies for endometrial cancer: current practice and perspective. Curr Opin Obstet Gynecol. 2017 Feb;29(1):47-58. doi: 10.1097/GCO.0000000000000338. — View Citation

van den Heerik ASVM, Horeweg N, de Boer SM, Bosse T, Creutzberg CL. Adjuvant therapy for endometrial cancer in the era of molecular classification: radiotherapy, chemoradiation and novel targets for therapy. Int J Gynecol Cancer. 2021 Apr;31(4):594-604. doi: 10.1136/ijgc-2020-001822. Epub 2020 Oct 20. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Detection rate of sentinel lymph nodes with double tracer in early stage endometrial carcinoma	Detection rates of sentinel lymph nodes for both tracers in every pelvic and paraaortic lymph node basin are the primary outcome of the study.Sentinel lymph node detection rates of each region (pelvic, obturator, inframesenteric para-aortic, supra-mesenteric - infrarenal para-aortic), bilaterality/ unilaterality and staining with single or double tracer will be discussed compared to literature data.	From the day of surgery to final pathology report (2 weeks)