National Registry of Liver First Approach

Rectal Cancer Clinical Trial

— RENACI  

Official title:

RENACI Project: National Registry of Liver First Approach

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04683783
• Other study ID #: PI19/256
• Status: Completed
• Start date: June 1, 2019
• Est. completion date: November 30, 2020

Study information

• Verified date: December 2020
• Source: Hospital Miguel Servet
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational [Patient Registry]

Clinical Trial Summary

Liver metastases are present in 15-25% of patients with colorectal cancer at the time of diagnosis of the primary tumor, which is defined as synchronous liver metastases. Treatment for the potential cure of this disease includes surgical resection of both the primary tumor and liver metastases. The liver first approach was described by Mentha for patients with asymptomatic rectal tumors with with initially unresectable or borderline resectable liver metastases. There is little data in the scientific literature on how many patients scheduled for this strategy complete both surgeries and/or undergo the full chemo/radiation therapy.

Description:

Liver metastases are present in 15-25% of patients with colorectal cancer at the time of diagnosis of the primary tumor, which is defined as synchronous liver metastases. Treatment for the potential cure of this disease includes surgical resection of both the primary tumor and liver metastases. However, due to the comorbidity or extent of the tumor disease, only a minority of patients are candidates for curative resections. When surgical treatment is indicated, different strategies can be used. In the classic strategy, the primary tumor is resected first, followed by surgery for metastases and, after that, adjuvant chemotherapy. More recently, simultaneous resection of primary and liver lesions has been used, mainly for limited liver disease without the need for large-volume liver resections. A third option is preoperative chemotherapy, followed by resection of liver metastases and surgery of the primary tumor in a second stage. This technique was initially described in 2006 by Mentha for patients with asymptomatic rectal tumors with initially unresectable or borderline resectable liver metastases. These patients were treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy, followed by surgery for liver metastases, chemo/radiotherapy of the primary tumor, and second stage surgery. This is what is called surgery or reverse strategy (liver first approach in the Anglo-Saxon world). This strategy has the potential advantage of allowing resection of advanced liver disease in patients when the primary tumor is asymptomatic. Advanced liver disease is the leading cause of mortality in these patients. Subsequently, this strategy has been used in colorectal tumors of any location with synchronous metastases. No clear advantage or disadvantage has been demonstrated with any of the three strategies in terms of long-term survival. There is also no prospective randomized clinical trial comparing classical with reverse strategy.

Most of the previous studies that evaluated this strategy only included patients with liver resection, not the primary one. Therefore, there is little data in the scientific literature on how many patients scheduled for this strategy complete both surgeries and/or undergo the full chemo/radiation therapy. The potential advantage of this strategy is the possibility of rescuing more patients with colorectal cancer liver metastases, thus increasing survival.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 168
• Est. completion date: November 30, 2020
• Est. primary completion date: November 30, 2020
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients = 18 year old.

• Scheduled surgery for colorectal cancer with synchronous liver metastases using the liver first approach.

• ASA score I-III.

• They have signed the informed consent.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients under 18 year old.

• ASA = IV.

• Urgent surgery.

• Patients who have not signed the informed consent.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Colonic Cancer
• Colonic Neoplasms
• Liver Metastases
• Rectal Cancer

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Spain	Mario Serradilla Martín	Zaragoza

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Hospital Miguel Servet	Asociación Española de Cirujanos

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Spain, 

References & Publications (12)

Adam R, De Gramont A, Figueras J, Guthrie A, Kokudo N, Kunstlinger F, Loyer E, Poston G, Rougier P, Rubbia-Brandt L, Sobrero A, Tabernero J, Teh C, Van Cutsem E; Jean-Nicolas Vauthey of the EGOSLIM (Expert Group on OncoSurgery management of LIver Metastas — View Citation

Adam R, de Gramont A, Figueras J, Kokudo N, Kunstlinger F, Loyer E, Poston G, Rougier P, Rubbia-Brandt L, Sobrero A, Teh C, Tejpar S, Van Cutsem E, Vauthey JN, Påhlman L; of the EGOSLIM (Expert Group on OncoSurgery management of LIver Metastases) group. M — View Citation

de Jong MC, van Dam RM, Maas M, Bemelmans MH, Olde Damink SW, Beets GL, Dejong CH. The liver-first approach for synchronous colorectal liver metastasis: a 5-year single-centre experience. HPB (Oxford). 2011 Oct;13(10):745-52. doi: 10.1111/j.1477-2574.2011 — View Citation

Ihnát P, Vávra P, Zonca P. Treatment strategies for colorectal carcinoma with synchronous liver metastases: Which way to go? World J Gastroenterol. 2015 Jun 14;21(22):7014-21. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v21.i22.7014. Review. — View Citation

Jegatheeswaran S, Mason JM, Hancock HC, Siriwardena AK. The liver-first approach to the management of colorectal cancer with synchronous hepatic metastases: a systematic review. JAMA Surg. 2013 Apr;148(4):385-91. doi: 10.1001/jamasurg.2013.1216. Review. — View Citation

Lam VW, Laurence JM, Pang T, Johnston E, Hollands MJ, Pleass HC, Richardson AJ. A systematic review of a liver-first approach in patients with colorectal cancer and synchronous colorectal liver metastases. HPB (Oxford). 2014 Feb;16(2):101-8. doi: 10.1111/ — View Citation

Mayo SC, Pulitano C, Marques H, Lamelas J, Wolfgang CL, de Saussure W, Choti MA, Gindrat I, Aldrighetti L, Barrosso E, Mentha G, Pawlik TM. Surgical management of patients with synchronous colorectal liver metastasis: a multicenter international analysis. — View Citation

Mentha G, Majno PE, Andres A, Rubbia-Brandt L, Morel P, Roth AD. Neoadjuvant chemotherapy and resection of advanced synchronous liver metastases before treatment of the colorectal primary. Br J Surg. 2006 Jul;93(7):872-8. — View Citation

Regimbeau JM, Cosse C, Kaiser G, Hubert C, Laurent C, Lapointe R, Isoniemi H, Adam R. Feasibility, safety and efficacy of two-stage hepatectomy for bilobar liver metastases of colorectal cancer: a LiverMetSurvey analysis. HPB (Oxford). 2017 May;19(5):396- — View Citation

Sturesson C, Valdimarsson VT, Blomstrand E, Eriksson S, Nilsson JH, Syk I, Lindell G. Liver-first strategy for synchronous colorectal liver metastases - an intention-to-treat analysis. HPB (Oxford). 2017 Jan;19(1):52-58. doi: 10.1016/j.hpb.2016.10.005. Ep — View Citation

Tsoulfas G, Pramateftakis MG. Management of rectal cancer and liver metastatic disease: which comes first? Int J Surg Oncol. 2012;2012:196908. doi: 10.1155/2012/196908. Epub 2012 Jun 20. — View Citation

Waisberg J, Ivankovics IG. Liver-first approach of colorectal cancer with synchronous hepatic metastases: A reverse strategy. World J Hepatol. 2015 Jun 18;7(11):1444-9. doi: 10.4254/wjh.v7.i11.1444. — View Citation

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Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Percentage of patients who complete the entire cycle	Percentage of patients who complete the cycle: neoadjuvant chemotherapy - liver surgery - CT / RT of the primary - surgery of the primary tumor	90 days
Secondary	Mortality rate	Postoperative mortality including liver surgery and primary tumor	90 days
Secondary	Morbidity rate	Postoperative morbidity including liver surgery and primary tumor (all type of postoperative complications)	90 days