Status:

UNKNOWN

Predictors of Normal Tissue Response From the Microenvironment in Radiotherapy for Prostate and Head-and-neck Cancer

Lead Sponsor:

Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milano

Conditions:

Prostate Cancer

Head and Neck Cancer

Eligibility:

All Genders

18+ years

Brief Summary

The main idea behind MICRO-LEARNER is to provide new insights about the response of healthy tissues to radiation by using information from the micro-environment obtained by biological measurements and...

Detailed Description

\*\*Prospective Clinical Trial: discovery population\*\* 130 PCa and 130 HNCa consecutive patients will be enrolled in 18 months. All patients will receive radiotherapy at radical curative doses at t...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Inclusion Criteria (PCa patients in discovery and validation cohorts):
  • Patients with histologically confirmed diagnosis of PCa candidate to exclusive or post-surgical radiotherapy, in both case it can be associated to hormone therapy
  • Prognostic risk included in the very low, low, intermediate or high risk classes following the NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology and patients with oligometastatic disease treated with curative doses to the prostate (≥70 Gy at 2 Gy per fraction)
  • Written informed consent to the study
  • Exclusion Criteria (PCa patients in discovery and validation cohorts):
  • Previous pelvic radiotherapy
  • Autoimmune disease (scleroderma,Chron's disease and ulcerative colitis), chronic kidney disease requiring dyalis
  • Patients with malignant neoplasm in treatment with local or systemic therapies, except for patients with PCa and skin cancers
  • Refusal to accept the study participation modalities
  • Inclusion Criteria (HNCa patients in discovery and validation cohorts):
  • ECOG PS ≤ 3
  • Histologically confirmed diagnosis of squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (oral cavity, pharynx, larynx, paranasal sinuses and nasal cavity, salivary glands)
  • Non-metastatic stage III-IV cancer of the pharinx, larynx according to AJCC VII edition. Patients with stage III-IV cancer of salivary glands o paranasal sinuses. Patients with stage I-II cancer of pharinx and larynx only if neck lymph nodes or oral mucosa are included in the irradiated volume
  • Indication to exclusive or post-surgical radiotherapy (associated or not to systemic therapy according to internal guidelines)
  • Written informed consent to the study
  • Exclusion Criteria (HNCa patients in discovery and validation cohorts):
  • Previous head and neck radiotherapy
  • Connective tissue disease (lupus erythematosus or scleroderma) or other concomitant head and neck cancers, except for in situ skin cancers not requiring radiotherapy or systemic therapies.
  • Refusal to accept the study participation modalities

Exclusion

    Key Trial Info

    Start Date :

    February 2 2017

    Trial Type :

    OBSERVATIONAL

    Allocation :

    ESTIMATED

    End Date :

    December 31 2019

    Estimated Enrollment :

    400 Patients enrolled

    Trial Details

    Trial ID

    NCT03294122

    Start Date

    February 2 2017

    End Date

    December 31 2019

    Last Update

    October 3 2017

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    Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Tumori

    Milan, Italy, 20133