Neoadjuvant Treatment of Resectable or Locally Advanced Borderline Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma: Reproducibility of Tumor Measurement in CT VS MRI

Pancreas Cancer Clinical Trial

— ReMeTTI  

Official title:

Neoadjuvant Treatment of Resectable or Locally Advanced Borderline Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma: Reproducibility of Tumor Measurement in CT Versus MRI

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Active, not recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05511116
• Other study ID #: ReMeTTI
• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Start date: July 18, 2022
• Est. completion date: December 31, 2023

Study information

• Verified date: March 2023
• Source: Groupe Hospitalier Paris Saint Joseph
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Despite important therapeutic advances, pancreatic adenocarcinoma remains one of the cancers with a high mortality rate (4th leading cause of cancer death in the US in 2021), poor prognosis (5-year overall survival rate of 10%) and increasing incidence.

Patients are often metastatic from the start or at an advanced stage at diagnosis, making curative treatment difficult to envisage. Although the gold standard of treatment for resecable pancreatic adenocarcinoma is initial surgery followed by adjuvant chemotherapy, considerable interest has emerged in a treatment strategy involving neoadjuvant therapy in patients at high risk for positive resection margins (R1) on initial imaging workup.

The assessment of response to neoadjuvant therapy is complex, especially for the evaluation of vascular invasion with a high risk of overestimating residual invasion after neoadjuvant therapy. Accurate assessment of tumor size before and after neoadjuvant treatment is therefore crucial to identify good responders (according to RECIST 1.1 criteria) and thus improve the selection of patients who can benefit from curative surgery with healthy resection margins (R0).

In clinical practice, tumor size assessment is performed by injected computed tomography (CT). The latter has certain advantages in terms of technical reproducibility, but has a number of limitations. Indeed, the delineation of the tumor mass in CT seems to be subject to a significant inter-observer variability. The same is true for vascular invasion. CT also seems to underestimate the size of the tumor compared to the anatomopathological examination of the surgical specimen. On the other hand, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) has been shown to be superior to CT in tumor detectability and diagnosis of malignancy in the presence of an indeterminate pancreatic mass. It has also been shown that tumor size, whether measured in diameter or volume, is frequently underestimated on CT compared to multiparametric MRI or pathological examination of the resection specimen.

In the latest recommendations of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN), MRI is indicated at diagnosis in non-metastatic patients with indeterminate liver lesions on CT, or as a second-line alternative to CT for re-evaluation after neo-adjuvant therapy in patients with resectable or borderline resectable disease according to the NCCN classification. However, MRI is increasingly performed routinely in some centers, both at diagnosis and at re-evaluation after neo-adjuvant therapy. The question of which imaging modality between CT and multiparametric MRI is the most reproducible in terms of tumor size measurement becomes important, especially in the evaluation of the response to neoadjuvant therapy. A few studies have investigated the interobserver variability of tumor size measurement in CT versus MRI in the context of radiotherapy management for the delineation of an irradiation field, but to date investigators have not found any study evaluating the interobserver variability of tumor size measurement using RECIST criteria before and after neoadjuvant treatment for pancreatic adenocarcinoma.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Enrollment: 48
• Est. completion date: December 31, 2023
• Est. primary completion date: August 18, 2022
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patient whose age is = 18 years

• Patient with histologically proven pancreatic adenocarcinoma (biopsy or resection specimen)

• Non-metastatic (M0) on the PCR form

• Patient who received chemotherapy or radio-chemotherapy first

• MRI and CT scans performed before or at the beginning of neo-adjuvant (or induction) treatment, during treatment and/or at the end of neo-adjuvant treatment (but before excision surgery)

• French-speaking patient

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients who object to the use of their data for this research

• Patients operated on immediately without neoadjuvant treatment

• Patients for whom re-evaluation MRI or CT is not available or has not been done

• Patients for whom the re-evaluation MRI or CT scan was performed more than 60 days before surgery.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Adenocarcinoma
• Pancreas Cancer
• Pancreatic Neoplasms

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
France	Groupe Hospitalier Paris Saint-Joseph	Paris

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Groupe Hospitalier Paris Saint Joseph

Country where clinical trial is conducted

France, 

References & Publications (7)

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Saad AM, Turk T, Al-Husseini MJ, Abdel-Rahman O. Trends in pancreatic adenocarcinoma incidence and mortality in the United States in the last four decades; a SEER-based study. BMC Cancer. 2018 Jun 25;18(1):688. doi: 10.1186/s12885-018-4610-4. — View Citation

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Soloff EV, Al-Hawary MM, Desser TS, Fishman EK, Minter RM, Zins M. Imaging Assessment of Pancreatic Cancer Resectability After Neoadjuvant Therapy: AJR Expert Panel Narrative Review. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2022 Apr;218(4):570-581. doi: 10.2214/AJR.21.26931. Epub 2021 Dec 1. — View Citation

Tempero MA, Malafa MP, Al-Hawary M, Behrman SW, Benson AB, Cardin DB, Chiorean EG, Chung V, Czito B, Del Chiaro M, Dillhoff M, Donahue TR, Dotan E, Ferrone CR, Fountzilas C, Hardacre J, Hawkins WG, Klute K, Ko AH, Kunstman JW, LoConte N, Lowy AM, Moravek C, Nakakura EK, Narang AK, Obando J, Polanco PM, Reddy S, Reyngold M, Scaife C, Shen J, Vollmer C, Wolff RA, Wolpin BM, Lynn B, George GV. Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma, Version 2.2021, NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology. J Natl Compr Canc Netw. 2021 Apr 1;19(4):439-457. doi: 10.6004/jnccn.2021.0017. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Inter-observer reproducibility	This outcome corresponds to the comparison of tumor measurements of pancreatic adenocarcinomas between the 3 readers for each examination (MRI and CT).	Month 3
Secondary	Performances de la mesure tumorale par TDM vs. IRM	This outcome corresponds to the diagnostic performance of CT vs. MRI with reference to pathological examination.	Month 3
Secondary	Tumor response on morphological imaging vs. tumor response grade on pathology	This outcome corresponds to the Comparison of pathological FIT to morphological response by CT vs. MRI.	Month 3