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Filter by:To evaluate the long-term locoregional control, survival rate, late toxicity and quality of life after reducing the target volume in patients with locoregionally advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients treated with induction chemotherapy plus concurrent chemoradiotherapy.
Every year, 12500 primary renal cell carcinoma (RCC) are diagnosed in France. Metastases occur in half of RCC patients. Management of metastatic RCC is based on systemic treatments (targeted therapies/immunotherapy). However, resistance to systemic treatment is frequent. In case of progression, usual therapeutic attitude is initiating another systemic therapy. Because of the emergence of resistant tumor clonal cells, some patients progress only on few sites while the rest of tumor burden is controlled. In this setting named oligoprogressive disease [isolated progression of <3-5 metastase(s)], ablative treatments of these evolving metastatic sites could allow a disease control and a reduced risk of new metastases occurrence by tumor-cell reembolization. Such strategy is challenging to prolong ongoing systemic treatment and delay further lines. Although RCC was considered radioresistant and radiotherapy with conventional fractionation was mainly used for palliation of symptoms, stereotactic radiotherapy (SRT), by delivering high dose in one or few fractions, allows local control for about 90% of RCC metastases through various radiobiological pathways. Furthermore, some data suggest that high-dose focal irradiation of RCC could induce a systemic antitumor response mediated by immunologic effectors(1). This phenomenon ("abscopal effect") could be enhanced in patients under immunotherapy, including anti-PD1. Several retrospective studies and one non-randomized phase-II study highly suggest the interest of SRT as focal ablative treatment in RCC oligometastases with excellent local control rates and low toxicity(2,3). Furthermore, the multicentric retrospective study the sponsor recently conducted within the GETUG group among 101 metastatic RCC patients with oligoprogression under systemic therapy highlighted that SRT on progressive sites provided a median of 8.6-month progression-free survival and allowed to continue current systemic line for 10.5 months. However, to date, there are no prospective data assessing the interest of SRT for management of oligoprogressive metastatic RCC. The sponsor aim to prospectively evaluate the interest of SRT as a therapeutic strategy for local control of oligoprogressive metastatic RCC under ongoing systemic treatment, and consequently delay subsequent systemic treatment.
Background: Recently, an increasing international interest has arisen in using morbidity and mortality rates to monitor the quality of hospital cares (1, 2). Many hospitals have integrated the morbidity and mortality review (MMR) meetings into their governance processes, by making them mandatory and more accountable for taking corrective action (3-5). Quality of radiotherapy (RT) delivery is highly operator dependent. The operator is a team of professionals including radiation oncologists, planning dosimetrists, physicists and technicians. Because of this complex, multi-step process, there is margin for error, which may affect outcomes and toxicity. Some deviations may have minimal effects on outcome, while others may have a profound effect and compromise long-term results. For the morbidity after RT, MMR is identified as one of the most adapted process to highlight whether and how these meetings provide assurance within the organizations' governance processes in radiation departments. In France, many teams have not reached a formalized procedure for a systematic MMR. Furthermore, implementation of MMR in RT departments is very heterogeneous and not always meets the criteria defined by the Health Authorities (HAS) (6). Systemic analysis conducted during the MMR is a comprehensive analysis of the situation, taking into account all technical and human elements. The diagnosis and type of morbidity depends on the irradiated volume, the dose delivered to the organ at risk and the individual radiosensitivity. Follow-up after RT is important to evaluate outcome results and late toxicity. In general, late effects consist of tissue fibrosis and vascular damage, which can result in cosmetic and functional deterioration. Some of the radiation-induced sequelea may require particular management including hospitalization (lung fibrosis, gastro-intestinal and genito-urinary toxicities,..), while for other ones, only local treatments are needed (mucosal toxicity, skin fibrosis…). The challenge for clinicians in the frame of the MMR is to make sure that there is no controversy about the delivered RT quality and investigate other potential causes such as particular intrinsic radiosensitivity of the patient for a given standard treatment.
Hepatic metastases are common in solid cancers (up to 30% of patients with colorectal cancer and up to 50% of patients during their follow-up). The incidence of primary liver cancer increases due to the increase in chronic liver diseases induced by excessive alcohol consumption, hepatitis B and C viruses, and excess fat in the liver. Surgical excision of these liver lesions is the reference treatment but it cannot always be realised. Stereotactic radiotherapy is a recent technique proposed to hepatic metastases treatment from solid cancers and primary hepatic lesions (HCC or cholangiocarcinomas); it is possible to deliver high doses of radiation in the most conformational way possible in order to limit the irradiation of the non-tumor liver. The results of this stereotactic radiotherapy are currently very good with control rates of 75 to 80% at 1 and 2 years with acceptable rates of severe toxicities of 10%. However, the fear of hepatic, digestive (colon, esophagus, stomach) or even cardiac toxicities limits its using to the majority of patients because coupled with a conventional scanner it do not allow direct visualization of the lesion. Due to its non-irradiating nature, MRI guided stereotactic radiotherapy can generate continuous imaging, during the irradiation session, offering " in live " a visualization of the tumor target and organs at risk of proximity. In increasing the precision and safety in the delivery of irradiation, it allows to hope for several areas for improvement of treatment: - reduced uncertainty margins - an increase in the dose delivered - the accessibility of tumor lesions near sensitive organs (esophagus, stomach, heart chambers, intestines, duodenum, right kidney). More, this accelerator allows a re-optimization of the initial dosimetric plan to the anatomical changes of the day to allow an MRI guided adaptive radiotherapy.
This is a open-label, single-arm study to investigate the safety and efficacy of consolidative chemotherapy with camrelizumab, an anti-PD-1 antibody drug following short course radiotherapy and subsequent surgical therapy in patients with locally advanced resectable rectal cancer.
The primary objective of this study is to determine if hypofractionated RT delivered over 1 week to the breast or chest wall and regional nodes (26Gy in 5 daily fractions) following BCS or mastectomy, is non-inferior to conventional fractionation to the breast or chest wall and regional nodes delivered over 3 weeks (40Gy in 15 daily fractions) in patients with node-positive breast cancer.
The main purpose of this study is to see how well the experimental drug camrelizumab(SHR-1210) works in people with oligometastatic NPC who have already had locally radiotherapy for their disease. All patients will receive 200 mg of camrelizumab intravenously on Day 1 of each 21-day cycle. Patients will receive the study drug for up to 18 cycles.
This is a phase 1 study to determine the feasibility and utility of using serial magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to assess treatment response during and after radiation therapy (standard of care cancer treatment) for participants with advanced esophageal cancer, glioblastoma, prostate cancer, vulvar cancer or pediatric glioma. The research study procedures include three MRI scans (one before, one during, and one after standard of care cancer radiation therapy) for participants with advanced esophageal cancer, glioblastoma, prostate cancer, vulvar cancer or pediatric glioma. The research study procedures include: - Screening for eligibility - Three MRI scans
Postoperative adjuvant radiotherapy is a key component of comprehensive treatment of meningioma. However, for atypical meningioma after total resection, there is still a huge controversy in patients who need adjuvant radiotherapy after surgery. Many scholars have focused on this problem and carried out some small-scale retrospective studies, but they have contradictory results. Some of the studies found that postoperative adjuvant radiotherapy could not improve the prognosis of patients, but was questioned because the sample size was too small, resulting in insignificant results, while other studies found that postoperative adjuvant radiotherapy can improve progression free survival. A study based on the National Cancer Database found that postoperative adjuvant radiotherapy and gross tumor resection are associated with a good prognosis. A recent meta-analysis enrolled a total of 757 patients and found that postoperative adjuvant radiotherapy reduced the risk of tumor recurrence but did not improve survival time. Our team reviewed the meningioma data in the SEER database and conducted a study previously. The study found that postoperative adjuvant radiotherapy did not improve the overall survival of these patients. The relevant research results were recently published in Frontiers in oncology. We further reviewed and summarized the single-center data of our hospital and found that postoperative adjuvant radiotherapy could not improve the progression free survival and overall survival of patients. Besides, we also performed a meta-analysis and found that postoperative adjuvant radiotherapy had a trend to improve progression-free survival, but there was no statistical difference. Because there are many deficiencies in previous researches, and the research results are also contradictory, it is still unclear whether patients with atypical meningioma who have undergone gross total resection can benefit from postoperative adjuvant radiotherapy. Further high quality clinical trials is still needed to be conducted in order to guide the postoperative care of patients. Therefore, we intend to conduct this multicenter randomized controlled trial to determine the value of postoperative adjuvant radiotherapy in patients with atypical meningioma who underwent gross total resection.
Adjuvant radiotherapy in breast cancer improves local control, also in the elderly. Hormonal therapy in hormone sensitive tumors improves results but can not substitute radiotherapy. Improved local control leads to less breast cancer related morbidity and mortality, also in an older population (Schonberg, JCO, 2011). Unfortunately, in older patients with lower life expectancy, adjuvant radiotherapy is often omitted. Following reasons are invoked: - frailty of the patient - fear for toxicity - impaired mobility, rendering transportation and positioning more difficult - dependency for transportation to and from the radiotherapy departement - negative cost effectiveness ratio, due to high cost (especially for complex techniques and long schedules) and lower benefit (lower life expectancy) Hypofractionation is feasible without increased toxicity, and combines better local control with patient comfort and lower costs. Further lowering the number of fractions (from 15-21 to 5) will further improve patient comfort, but is challenging when different doses are needed in the same target volume. This problem is addressed using advanced techniques permitting dose-integration. In the elder with cancer, several unrecognized geriatric problems, including depression and cognitive impairment, can be detected by CGA . Some problems do interact with cancer treatment. In this study screening and assessment is provided to support patients and to develop an inventory of radiotherapy obstacles. Our study includes breast cancer patients, ≥70 years old, referred for adjuvant radiotherapy after surgical treatment. A schedule of 5 fractions is offered, encompassing different targets of treatment.