Immune System Modulation and Outcome in High-risk cSCC Treated With Surgery and Radiotherapy

Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Skin Clinical Trial

— HR-cSCC  

Official title:

Immune System Modulation and Outcome in High-risk Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma Treated With Surgery and Radiotherapy: a Prospective Study

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Not yet recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05246228
• Other study ID #: ASST Spedali Civili di Brescia
• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Start date: March 1, 2022
• Est. completion date: December 30, 2025

Study information

• Verified date: February 2022
• Source: Azienda Socio Sanitaria Territoriale degli Spedali Civili di Brescia
• Contact: Aldo Roccaro, MD
• Phone: +39 0303996851
• Email: coordinamento.ricerca[@]asst-spedalicivili.it
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Treatment with adjuvant radiotherapy modulates immune system in many diseases as witnessed by dynamic changes of humoral and cellular immunity. Moreover, the persistent lymphopenia after radiation therapy is a negative prognostic factor. This study is aimed to explore the changes in immune-cell populations during radiotherapy given as adjuvant treatment for high-risk cutaneous squamous cell carcinomas and to correlate them with patient's outcome.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Enrollment: 42
• Est. completion date: December 30, 2025
• Est. primary completion date: November 30, 2025
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Age = 18 years.

• Signed written informed consent.

• Histologically confirmed diagnosis of cSCC.

• cSCC categorized as high risk according to ASTRO Guidelines:

• close or positive margins that cannot be corrected with further surgery (secondary to morbidity or adverse cosmetic outcome).

• gross perineural spread, as identified by radiological or pathological assessment.

• disease recurrence after a prior margin-negative resection.

• pathological stage T3 and T4.

• desmoplastic or infiltrative tumors in the setting of chronic immunosuppression at pathological exam, cSCC involving regional lymphnodes, with the exception of a single, small (<3 cm) cervical lymph node harboring carcinoma, without extracapsular extension.

• cSCC addressed to adjuvant radiotherapy as per clinical practice (a complete post-operative treatment should be administered with 50-54 or 60-66 Gy depending on the margin status).

• Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) Performance status of 0-2.

Exclusion Criteria:

• cSCC not eligible for surgery.

• cSCC not eligible for adjuvant radiotherapy for any condition depending on disease characteristics or patient characteristics, co-morbidities or refusal.

• Any concurrent investigational product, biologic, or hormonal therapy for cancer treatment.

• Concurrent treatment with chemotherapy for the purpose of cSCC cure.

• History or current evidence of any condition that, in the opinion of the treating investigator, might interfere with the subject's participation for the full duration of the trial.

• Any major surgery, different from that planned for the protocol, in the 15 days before the protocol starting.

• Any radiotherapy treatment in the 28 days before the protocol starting

• Pregnant or breastfeeding.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Carcinoma
• Carcinoma, Squamous Cell
• Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Skin

Intervention

Other:
• Peripheral blood sampling in order to evaluate changes in the circulating immune population
Eveluation: circulating T cells CD3+CD8+ and CD3+CD4+, absolute lymphocyte count (ALC) and neutrophil counts (ANC) and neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio (NLR), Treg lymphocytes, Naïve/Memory T lymphocytes CD4+ and CD8+,myeloid-derived suppressor cells, Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells NK cells dimension and bright, NKT cells, Myeloid Dendritic cells, Monocytes subsets, B lymphocytes ,Analysis of plasma cytokines (TNFalpha, TGFbeta, IL-6, IL-10) by ELISA,FN signature: real-time PCR on mRNA from peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs)

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
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Sponsors (8)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Azienda Socio Sanitaria Territoriale degli Spedali Civili di Brescia	ASST Bergamo Ovest, ASST Valcamonica, Azienda Ospedaliera di Padova, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milano, IRCCS Sacro Cuore Don Calabria di Negrar, Istituti Ospitalieri di Cremona, San Gerardo Hospital

References & Publications (17)

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Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Disease-free survival (DFS) of patients with ALC < 500 cells/mL 28 days after the end of radiotherapy treatment	Disease-free survival (DFS) of patients with ALC < 500 cells/mL 28 days after the end of radiotherapy treatment	28 days after the end of radiotherapy treatment
Secondary	Evaluation of changes (?) in the circulating immune-cells population before the start of radiotherapy and 28 days after the end of radiotherapy	Evaluation of changes (?) in the circulating immune-cells population before the start of radiotherapy and 28 days after the end of radiotherapy.; Correlation between DFS and circulating immune cell population	Before and 28 days after the end of radiotherapy treatment