Proton Beam Therapy in Hepatocellular Carcinoma With Portal Vein Tumor Thrombosis

Liver Neoplasm Clinical Trial

— PTHP  

Official title:

Feasibility of High Dose Proton Therapy in Hepatocellular Carcinoma With Portal Vein Tumor Thrombosis: Prospective Phase II Trial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02571946
• Other study ID #: 2015-06-053
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: August 2015
• Est. completion date: September 2021

Study information

• Verified date: November 2023
• Source: Samsung Medical Center
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The standard treatment of advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is sorafenib. Though the agent showed clear survival benefit in two randomized phase III trials, the benefit was modest and response rate was just a few percent. Therefore, other loco-regional modalities, like trans-arterial chemo-embolization (TACE), hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy (HAIC), and radiotherapy (RT) were continuously tried, especially in locally advanced HCC including portal vein tumor thrombosis (PVTT).

With the advancement of conformal RT techniques, RT was actively applied in HCC, especially in PVTT combined HCC. Many researchers reported that there is a relationship between RT dose and tumor response rate. RT dose, however, is frequently limited because the complications (like radiation induced liver disease (RILD), radiation induced gastro-duodenal toxicity, etc.) are also closely related with higher exposed RT dose.

Proton beam has characteristic depth-dose distribution contrast to photon, the "Bragg peak". The advantage of this dose distribution could be more highlighted in HCC management, because of the weakness and maintenance importance of liver function itself in HCC patients. In fact, the superior results of proton beam therapy in HCC were constantly reported in several groups as prospectively as well as retrospectively.

In those background, the investigators planned the present study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of proton beam therapy in HCC patients combined with PVTT.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 53
• Est. completion date: September 2021
• Est. primary completion date: September 2021
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 20 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients

• pathologically proven

• HCC diagnosed based on American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) guideline

• Portal vein tumor thrombosis (main, first branch, segmental)

• Discussion in tumor board including gastroenterologist, radiologist, radiation oncologist

• 20 or more age

• Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance status 0 to 2 within 1 week before participate

• Adequate bone marrow function (absolute neutrophil count = 1.0 x 109/l, platelet = 30 x 109/l, hemoglobin = 8 g/dl)

• Adequate liver/renal function within 1 week before participate

• Child-Pugh class A, B, or early C (score = 10)

• Total bilirubin <3.0 mg/dL, Prothrombin time/International normalized ratio <1.7, Albumin=2.8g/dL, Aspartate aminotransferase/alanine aminotransferase<6 times of upper normal limit

• Serum creatinine < 1,5 x upper normal limit, glomerular filtration rate > 50 ml/min Informed consent

• Women of childbearing potential and male participants must agree to practice adequate contraception while on study and for at least 6 months following the last dose of RT and for at least 28 days following the last dose of sorafenib (whichever is later).

Exclusion Criteria:

• Uncontrolled hepatic encephalopathy

• Previous history of upper abdominal radiotherapy

• Status of pregnancy or breast feeding

• Less than 12 weeks of expected survival

• Uncontrolled ascites

• Combined with disease known as radiosensitive disorder (connective tissue disorder, Ataxia-telangiectasia)

• Hard to maintain stable respiration less than 5 minutes related with respiratory disease

• Combined with uncontrolled severe acute disease other than liver

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Carcinoma, Hepatocellular
• Liver Neoplasm
• Liver Neoplasms
• Portal Vein Tumor Thrombosis
• Proton Therapy
• Thrombosis

Intervention

Radiation:
• Proton beam therapy

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Korea, Republic of	Samsung Medical Center	Seoul

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Samsung Medical Center

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Korea, Republic of, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	one-year overall survival		one-year after proton beam therapy
Secondary	1 month objective response rate		1 month after proton beam therapy
Secondary	3 month objective response rate		3 months after proton beam therapy
Secondary	1 month portal vein tumor thrombosis response rate		1 month after proton beam therapy
Secondary	3 month portal vein tumor thrombosis response rate		3 month after proton beam therapy
Secondary	1 year progression free survival		one-year after proton beam therapy
Secondary	1 year local progression free survival		one-year after proton beam therapy
Secondary	1 year portal vein tumor thrombosis progression free survival		one-year after proton beam therapy
Secondary	Adverse event		one-year after proton beam therapy
Secondary	1 month Quality of life assessment compared with baseline		1 month after proton beam therapy
Secondary	3 month Quality of life assessment compared with baseline		3 month after proton beam therapy
Secondary	6 month Quality of life assessment compared with baseline		6 month after proton beam therapy
Secondary	Indocyanine green test change compared with baseline		3 month after proton beam therapy
Secondary	Hepatobiliary phase signal change after proton beam therapy		3 month after proton beam therapy