Stereotactic Ablative Radiotherapy for Hepatocellular Carcinoma With Major Portal Vein Invasion

Hepatocellular Carcinoma Clinical Trial

Official title:

Multicenter Phase II Study of Stereotactic Ablative Radiotherapy for Hepatocellular Carcinoma With Major Portal Vein Invasion

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01850368
• Other study ID #: K-1209-001-007
• Secondary ID: KCT0000542KROG 1
• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 2
• Start date: October 2012
• Est. completion date: July 2017

Study information

• Verified date: September 2019
• Source: Korea Cancer Center Hospital
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Recently, several studies reported promising outcomes of patients after external beam radiotherapy (EBRT) for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) with portal vein tumor thrombosis. However, conventional EBRT is composed of many fractions (20-35 fractions). On the other hand, stereotactic ablative radiotherapy is a newly emerging treatment method to deliver a high dose of radiation to the target using a few fractions with a high precision within body. SABR increases radiation biologic effect for tumor, makes patients more comfortable due to reduction of the number of hospital visit, and enables patients to receive another treatment more quickly. This study will evaluate SABR effect with 40 Gy in 4 fractions for HCC with major portal vein tumor thrombosis.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 35
• Est. completion date: July 2017
• Est. primary completion date: July 2015
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 20 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Male or female patients = 20 years of age

• Initially diagnosed or recurrent hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC)

• Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance status 0 or 1

• HCC with major portal vein tumor thrombosis (tumor thrombosis in the main portal vein or 1st branch of portal vein)

• Cirrhotic status of Child Pugh class A or B7

• Patients can have extra-hepatic disease; provided the hepatic disease is the highest burden, the extra-hepatic disease is low burden and potentially treatable with radiotherapy, chemotherapy and target agent etc; patient survival is expected to be at least 6 months.

• Patient or guardian must be able to provide verbal and written informed consent

Exclusion Criteria:

• Prior trans-arterial chemo-embolization =4 after diagnosis of major portal vein tumor thrombosis

• Severe complication caused by liver cirrhosis eg. variceal bleeding, poorly controlled ascites, hepatic encephalopathy)

• Uncontrolled inter-current illness except liver cirrhosis

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Carcinoma
• Carcinoma, Hepatocellular
• Hepatocellular Carcinoma
• Portal Vein Tumor Thrombus
• Thrombosis

Intervention

Radiation:
• Stereotactic ablative radiotherapy
The HCC patients with major portal vein tumor thrombosis (tumor thrombosis in the main portal vein or 1st branch of portal vein) will be included in this study. Total stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR) doses will be 40 Gy in 4 fractionations. Patients receive 4 fractionations separated by >48 hours. At least 700 ml of normal liver (entire liver minus cumulative GTV) should not receive a total dose of > 19.2 Gy in three fractions. If volume of normal liver does not exceed 700 ml, at least 70% of normal liver should not receive a total dose of > 19.2 Gy. Dose of spinal cord do not exceed 26 Gy. Dose of esophagus, stomach and intestine do not exceed 35 Gy.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Korea, Republic of	Dongnam Institute of Radiological & Medical Sciences	Busan
Korea, Republic of	Keimyung University Dongsan Medical Center	Daegu
Korea, Republic of	Catholic University Incheon St. Mary's Hospital	Incheon
Korea, Republic of	Inha University Hospital	Incheon
Korea, Republic of	Gyeongsang National University Hospital	Jinju	Gyeongsang-nam-do
Korea, Republic of	Korea Cancer Center Hospital, Korea Institute of Radiological and Medical Sciences	Seoul
Korea, Republic of	Seoul National University Hospital	Seoul
Korea, Republic of	Soon Chun Hyang University Hospital Seoul	Seoul

Sponsors (8)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Korea Cancer Center Hospital	Dongnam Institute of Radiological & Medical Sciences, Gyeongsang National University Hospital, Incheon St.Mary's Hospital, Inha University Hospital, Keimyung University Dongsan Medical Center, Seoul National University Hospital, Soon Chun Hyang University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Korea, Republic of, 

References & Publications (6)

Andolino DL, Johnson CS, Maluccio M, Kwo P, Tector AJ, Zook J, Johnstone PA, Cardenes HR. Stereotactic body radiotherapy for primary hepatocellular carcinoma. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2011 Nov 15;81(4):e447-53. doi: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2011.04.011. Epub 2011 Jun 7. — View Citation

Bujold A, Massey CA, Kim JJ, Brierley J, Cho C, Wong RK, Dinniwell RE, Kassam Z, Ringash J, Cummings B, Sykes J, Sherman M, Knox JJ, Dawson LA. Sequential phase I and II trials of stereotactic body radiotherapy for locally advanced hepatocellular carcinoma. J Clin Oncol. 2013 May 1;31(13):1631-9. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2012.44.1659. Epub 2013 Apr 1. — View Citation

Kang JK, Kim MS, Cho CK, Yang KM, Yoo HJ, Kim JH, Bae SH, Jung DH, Kim KB, Lee DH, Han CJ, Kim J, Park SC, Kim YH. Stereotactic body radiation therapy for inoperable hepatocellular carcinoma as a local salvage treatment after incomplete transarterial chemoembolization. Cancer. 2012 Nov 1;118(21):5424-31. doi: 10.1002/cncr.27533. Epub 2012 May 8. — View Citation

Kim JY, Chung SM, Choi BO, Kay CS. Hepatocellular carcinoma with portal vein tumor thrombosis: Improved treatment outcomes with external beam radiation therapy. Hepatol Res. 2011 Sep;41(9):813-24. doi: 10.1111/j.1872-034X.2011.00826.x. Epub 2011 Jun 22. — View Citation

Tanaka A, Morimoto T, Yamaoka Y. Implications of surgical treatment for advanced hepatocellular carcinoma with tumor thrombi in the portal vein. Hepatogastroenterology. 1996 May-Jun;43(9):637-43. — View Citation

Yoon SM, Lim YS, Won HJ, Kim JH, Kim KM, Lee HC, Chung YH, Lee YS, Lee SG, Park JH, Suh DJ. Radiotherapy plus transarterial chemoembolization for hepatocellular carcinoma invading the portal vein: long-term patient outcomes. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2012 Apr 1;82(5):2004-11. doi: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2011.03.019. Epub 2011 May 27. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Tumor stabilization rate	Tumor stabilization rate was based on the combined number of patients with complete response(CR), partial response(PR), and stable disease(SD) by modified Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (mRECIST) criteria.	2 months
Secondary	Overall survival	From the date of SABR to the date of death or last follow-up	6 months, 1 year and 2 year
Secondary	Tumor progression free survival	From the date of SABR to the date of first failure or last follow-up	6 months, 1 year and 2 year
Secondary	Treatment related toxicity	Adverse events using Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) version 4.0; Classic radiation induced liver disease; Non-classic Classic radiation induced liver disease; Worsening of Child-Turcotte-Pugh score; Worsening of MELD score	1 year