Methylprednisolone After Split-course Chemoradiotherapy For Bulky Local Advanced None-small Cell Lung Cancer

Non-small Cell Lung Cancer Clinical Trial

Official title:

A Prospective, Randomized, Controlled Phase Ⅱ Study of Preventively Use of Methylprednisolone After Split-course Chemoradiotherapy to Reduce the Risk of Radiation-induced Pulmonary Injury For Bulky Local Advanced None-small Cell Lung Cancer

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Terminated

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03661567
• Other study ID #: GASTO-1044
• Status: Terminated
• Phase: Phase 2
• Start date: August 9, 2018
• Est. completion date: September 10, 2021

Study information

• Verified date: November 2022
• Source: Sun Yat-sen University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This Phase II randomized controlled study is to determine the efficacy of the preventively use of methylprednisolone after split-course chemoradiotherapy (CCRT) in locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer with bulky tumor.

Description:

This study is to determine the efficacy of the preventively use of methylprednisolone after split-course chemoradiotherapy(CCRT) in locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer with bulky tumor.

All patients received four cycles of weekly docetaxel (25mg/㎡) and nedaplatin (25mg/㎡)(DP), each of 1 day's duration, combined with split-course thoracic radiotherapy, with one-month break. In the experimental arm, patients were treated with methylprednisolone after the first course of radiation, once a day, 32 milligram (mg) for 7 days, 24 mg for the next 7 days,then 16mg for 7 days, and 8 mg for the last 7 days. Toxicities will be graded according to National Cancer Institute Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) v. 4.0.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Terminated
• Enrollment: 52
• Est. completion date: September 10, 2021
• Est. primary completion date: September 10, 2021
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 75 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Pathologic confirmation of NSCLC.

• Patients have measurable or evaluable lesions based on the Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) criteria.

• Unresectable phase IIIA(N2) and IIIB lung cancer confirmed by PET/CT, CT or MRI.

• Whole lung V20>=35% when giving 60Gy which is the minimum dose of radical irradiation.

• Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status 0-1.

• Previously treated with chemotherapy or treatment-naive

• No previous chest radiotherapy, immunotherapy or biotherapy

• Hemoglobin=10 mg/dL, platelet=100000/µL,absolute neutrophil count =1500/µL

• Serum creatinine =1.25 times the upper normal limit(UNL), or creatinine clearance=60 ml/min

• Bilirubin =1.5 times UNL, AST(SGOT)=2.5 times UNL ,ALT(SGPT)=2.5 times UNL,alkaline phosphatase =5 times UNL

• FEV1 >0.8 L

• CB6 within normal limits

• patients and their family signed the informed consents

Exclusion Criteria:

• Previous or recent another malignancy, except nonmelanoma skin cancer or cervical cancer in situ

• Contraindication for chemotherapy

• Malignant pleural or pericardial effusion.

• Women in pregnancy, lactation period, or no pregnancy test 14 days before the first dose

• Women who has the probability of pregnancy without contraception

• Tendency of hemorrhage

• In other clinical trials within 30 days

• Addicted in drugs or alcohol, AIDS patients

• Uncontrollable seizure or psychotic patients without self-control ability

• Severe allergy or idiosyncrasy

• Not suitable for this study judged by researchers

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Lung Neoplasms
• Non-small Cell Lung Cancer
• Small Cell Lung Carcinoma

Intervention

Radiation:
• chest radiation
split-course chest radiation

Drug:
• concurrent chemotherapy
weekly docetaxel(25mg/?) and nedaplatin(25mg/?) concurrent with chest radiation
• Methylprednisolone
Methylprednisolone after the first course of radiation, once a day, 32 milligram (mg) for 7 days, 24 mg for the next 7 days, then 16mg for 7 days, and 8 mg for the last 7 days.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
China	Sun yat-sen University Cancer Center	Guangzhou	Guangdong

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Sun Yat-sen University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

China, 

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Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	rate of grade=2 radiation pneumonia(NCI-CTC4.0)	radiation-induced pulmonary injury is classified into 1-5 grades according to NCI-CTC4.0. The incidence of symptomatic radiation-induced pulmonary injury: the ratio of grade 2 and above radiation-induced pulmonary injury cases in 1 year after radio therapy to all cases can be evaluated .	1 year from the end of radiotherapy
Secondary	the rate of grade=2 pulmonary ventilation and diffusion capacity decline	It is divided into grade 1-4 according to SOMA.	1 year from the end of radiotherapy
Secondary	the rate of grade=2 visible change in CT after radiation	It is divided into grade 1-4 according to SOMA.	1 year from the end of radiotherapy