Actively Recruiting
Focal Salvage Brachytherapy Study (FocaSaBra)
Led by The Greater Poland Cancer Centre · Updated on 2025-04-30
100
Participants Needed
1
Research Sites
348 weeks
Total Duration
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AI-Summary
What this Trial Is About
The aim of this prospective phase II study is to evaluate the toxicity of salvage partial (focal) prostate brachytherapy in patients after prior radiotherapy (standard teleradiotherapy with / without brachytherapy, hypofractionated, self-reactive HDR / LDR brachytherapy) with local recurrence on the part of the prostate gland.
CONDITIONS
Official Title
Focal Salvage Brachytherapy Study (FocaSaBra)
Who Can Participate
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if you...
- Biopsy-confirmed local recurrence of prostate cancer after prior radical radiotherapy
- Localized tumor seen on MRI or, if MRI is not possible, on TRUS and CT
- No distant metastases confirmed by CT, MRI, or PET scans
- PSA doubling time longer than six months
- PSA level less than 10 ng/ml
- No anti-androgen treatment in the past year
- Urinary symptoms score (IPSS) 20 points or less
- General health status (WHO scale) 2 or less
- Signed informed consent to participate in the study
You will not qualify if you...
- PSA value greater than 10 ng/ml
- General health status (WHO scale) higher than 2
- Urinary symptoms score (IPSS) greater than 20 points
- PSA doubling time less than six months
- Cannot stop anticoagulant medications
- Active urinary tract infection
- Cannot undergo general anesthesia
- Active inflammatory bowel disease
- Another active cancer or treatment completed less than 3 years ago (except low-stage skin cancer)
- Estimated survival less than 5 years
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Trial Site Locations
Total: 1 location
1
Greater Poland Cancer Centre / Brachytherapy Department
Poznan, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland, 61-866
Actively Recruiting
Research Team
W
Wojciech Burchardt, PhD, MD
CONTACT
E
Ewa Tańska, PhD, MSc.
CONTACT
How is the study designed?
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Masking
NONE
Allocation
NA
Model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary Purpose
TREATMENT
Number of Arms
1
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