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Stage IA Pancreatic CancerPhase 1NCT01918644

Neoadjuvant SBRT With Concomitant Capecitabine in Resectable Pancreatic Cancer

A Phase 1 study testing stereotactic body radiation therapy, capecitabine and therapeutic conventional surgery in people with Stage IA Pancreatic Cancer and Stage IB Pancreatic Cancer, run by University of Wisconsin, Madison at 1 site in United States.

Completed

Finished. The study has ended and is not enrolling. Results may be posted on the official record.

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Trial summary

This phase I trial studies the side effects and best dose of stereotactic body radiation therapy when given together with capecitabine before surgery in treating patients with pancreatic cancer that can be removed by surgery. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 19 years and older
What is being tested?
stereotactic body radiation therapy, capecitabine and therapeutic conventional surgery
Type of treatment
Surgery or procedure
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
21 participants
Where
1 siteUnited States
Study dates
8 Apr 2014to 26 Apr 2022
Phase
Phase 1
Are there results?
None posted in the registry

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 19 years and older
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Adult, Older adult

Who may be able to join

  • Histologically or cytologically confirmed carcinoma of exocrine pancreatic head amenable to oncological surgical resection per findings on a pancreatic-specific computed tomography (CT) or MRI scan. Tumors of the body that allow a surgical approach similar to pancreatic head tumors are acceptable.
  • Must be deemed a surgical candidate by the surgical oncology service.
  • Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance score of =< 2
  • Signed informed consent document(s)
  • Patients with no evidence of regional or distant metastatic disease based on CT scan of the chest/ abdomen/pelvis.
  • Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) >= 1,500 cells/mm3
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  • Platelet count >= 100,000 cells/mm3
  • Aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and alanine aminotransferase (ALT) =< 3 times the upper limit of normal
  • Total bilirubin =< 3 times the upper limit of normal if patient had recent biliary stenting, total bilirubin =< 1.5 times the upper limit of normal if no biliary stenting was done
  • Serum creatinine within normal range with a creatinine clearance >= 30 ml/min
  • Neoadjuvant chemotherapy will be permitted prior to the initiation of SBRT radiation therapy on this clinical trial. There must be a minimum of 2 weeks between the completion of any neoadjuvant chemotherapy and the beginning of SBRT radiation therapy. Furthermore, restaging must be done prior to registration to ensure that patients remain resectable.

Who cannot join

  • Patients with primary ampullary, biliary or duodenal cancer would be excluded
  • Patients with tumors primarily of the body or tail of the pancreas requiring a distal pancreaticoduodenectomy would be excluded
  • (H/ o) Crohn's disease/ ulcerative colitis/ scleroderma
  • History of prior allergic reactions attributed to compounds of similar chemical or biologic composition as capecitabine
  • History of prior allergic reactions attributed to compounds of CT/ MRI contrast that cannot be managed with appropriate pre-medication prophylaxis and thereby preclude use of baseline/ follow-up or radiation planning imaging
  • Any prior external beam radiation will be evaluated to determine radiation field overlaps and appropriateness of protocol radiation, any invasive cancer in the last 5 years (except for a diagnosis of low-risk prostate cancer, treated non-melanoma/melanoma skin cancer, appropriately treated ductal carcinoma in situ or early stage invasive carcinoma of breast and appropriately treated in-situ/early stage cervical/endometrial cancer)
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  • Pregnant or nursing women; women of child-bearing potential and men must agree to use adequate contraception (hormonal or barrier method of birth control; abstinence) from the point of study entry and for the duration of all active treatments; should a woman become pregnant or suspect she is pregnant while participating in this study, she should inform her treating physician immediately
  • Treatment with a non-approved or investigational drug within 28 days of study treatment
  • History of having MRI non-compatible metal (injury- or treatment-related) in the body will be an exclusion criteria specific to the MRI sub-study
  • Considering the small size of the PET/MR scanner bore, subjects with known severe claustrophobia or with body habitus not compatible with the bore (>300lbs, BMI>40) may also have to be excluded.
  • Subjects unable to maintain blood glucose less than 200mg/dl may not be suitable for the PET/MRI substudy.

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country.

United States1 site
  • University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center

    Madison, Wisconsin, 53792

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About this study

Official title: A Phase Ia-Ib Dose-escalation Study Evaluating Safety and Efficacy of Neoadjuvant Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy (SBRT) With Concomitant Capecitabine Chemotherapy for Resectable Carcinoma of Exocrine Pancreas.

This phase I trial studies the side effects and best dose of stereotactic body radiation therapy when given together with capecitabine before surgery in treating patients with pancreatic cancer that can be removed by surgery. Stereotactic body radiation therapy may be able to send x-rays directly to the tumor and cause less damage to normal tissue. Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as capecitabine, work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. Giving stereotactic body radiation therapy and capecitabine before surgery may make the tumor smaller and reduce the amount of normal tissue that needs to be removed.

Read the detailed description

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:

  1. To determine the recommended-phase-II-dose (RPTD) of stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) at an escalating dose schedule when combined with standard-dose capecitabine as neoadjuvant therapy for resectable carcinoma of exocrine pancreas.

SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:

  1. To estimate the incidence of overall 30-day post-operative complications.

II. To estimate the radiological response rates.

III. To estimate the pathological response rates.

IV. To estimate the rates of resection with negative margins.

  1. To estimate the recurrence free survival (RFS).

VI. To estimate the overall survival (OS).

TERTIARY OBJECTIVES (OPTIONAL):

  1. To define tumor volume (TV), dynamic contrast enhancement (DCE) pattern and mean apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) measurements in diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance (MR) imaging (DWI) in patients with resectable pancreatic cancer undergoing neoadjuvant SBRT and concomitant chemotherapy (ChT).

II. To correlate TV, DCE and ADC measurements at baseline magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) versus final pathological response.

III. To correlate TV, DCE and ADC changes from baseline in MRI done three weeks post-SBRT versus final pathological response.

IV. To predict surgical margin status using MRI done at baseline and at three weeks post-SBRT.

  1. To correlate TV, DCE and ADC changes from baseline in MRI done post-3rd fraction at baseline versus final pathological response.

VI. To describe in the biopsy and/ or the surgical specimen, expression of following markers: secreted protein acidic and rich in cysteine (SPARC) expression; distribution of pancreatic stellate cells (PSC); distribution of cluster of differentiation (CD)4+/ CD8+ T cell, CD56+ natural killer (NK) cells; other molecular and inflammatory cellular markers may be explored.

VII. To describe changes induced by neoadjuvant therapy by comparison of expression of these markers between the biopsy and the surgical specimen.

VIII. To compare baseline and/ or post-treatment expression with treatment response, toxicity and clinical survival outcome.

OUTLINE: This is a dose-escalation study of SBRT.

Participants undergo SBRT every other day over 2 weeks for a total of 5 fractions and receive capecitabine orally (PO) every 12 hours 5 days a week for 2 weeks. Participants then undergo definitive surgery after a minimum of 2 weeks from the completion of SBRT.

After completion of study treatment, participants are followed up at 1 month and 3 months, every 3 months for 1 year, and then every 6 months for 2 years.

Being tested
stereotactic body radiation therapy, capecitabine, therapeutic conventional surgery, magnetic resonance imaging, laboratory biomarker analysis
Medical subject headings
Pancreatic Neoplasms

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • stereotactic body radiation therapyRadiation

    Also called SBRT, stereotactic radiation therapy, stereotactic radiotherapy

    Undergo SBRT

  • capecitabineDrug

    Also called CAPE, Ro 09-1978/000, Xeloda

    Given PO

  • therapeutic conventional surgeryProcedure or surgery

    Undergo definitive surgery

  • magnetic resonance imagingProcedure or surgery

    Also called MRI, NMR imaging, NMRI, nuclear magnetic resonance imaging

    Optional correlative studies

  • laboratory biomarker analysisOther

    Optional correlative studies

Study groups in NCT01918644
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
Treatment (SBRT, capecitabine, and surgery)ExperimentalPatients undergo SBRT every other day over 2 weeks for a total of 5 fractions and receive capecitabine PO every 12 hours 5 days a week for 2 weeks. Patients then undergo definitive surgery after a minimum of 2 weeks from the completion of SBRT.
Receives: Radiation: stereotactic body radiation therapy; Drug: capecitabine; Procedure: therapeutic conventional surgery; Procedure: magnetic resonance imaging; Other: laboratory biomarker analysis

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Incidence of dose-limiting toxicity defined as any grade 3-4 non-hematologic toxicity or grade 5 toxicity attributable to combination chemo-radiotherapy per the National Cancer Institute Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events version 4.0

    The number and percent of patients reporting adverse events (all, severe or worse, serious and related) will be quantified for each dose level.

    Measured: Up to 90 days from the start of SBRT and capecitabine

Secondary outcomes (6)
  1. Incidence of 30-day post-operative complications

    Will be expressed as a percentage.

    Measured: 30 days

  2. Radiological response per Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) and volumetric measurements

    Will be expressed as a percentage.

    Measured: Up to 3 years

  3. Pathological response, graded based on the College of American Pathologists (CAP) and Ishikawa, Evans, and Chun grading systems

    Will be expressed as a percentage.

    Measured: Up to 3 years

  4. Incidence of margin-negative resection, defined as the absence of viable tumor cells at the inked surgical margin

    Will be expressed as a percentage.

    Measured: Up to 3 years

  5. Loco-regional recurrence free survival, defined with follow-up radiological assessment

    Kaplan-Meier estimates will be calculated. Log-rank test and Cox regression analysis will be used for univariate and multivariate analyses, respectively. Chi square and regression analysis will be performed to test association of categorical variables with treatment response.

    Measured: From the point of start of SBRT to the point of recurrence or death, assessed up to 3 years

  6. OS

    Kaplan-Meier estimates will be calculated. Log-rank test and Cox regression analysis will be used for univariate and multivariate analyses, respectively. Chi square and regression analysis will be performed to test association of categorical variables with treatment response.

    Measured: From the point of start of SBRT to the time of death or last follow-up if alive, assessed up to 3 years

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted8 Aug 2013 (estimated)
  2. Study start8 Apr 2014
  3. Primary completion4 Dec 2019
  4. Study completion26 Apr 2022

Resources

More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase 1
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrolment
21 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT01918644
Sponsor's protocol ID
2017-1499
Other IDs
NCI-2013-01347, 2013-0645, RO12210, A533300, SMPH/HUMAN ONCOLOGY/HUMAN ONCO, Protocol Version 2/6/2018
Status last verified
May 2022
First submitted
5 Aug 2013
Last updated
1 Jun 2022
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
Yes

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A Phase 1 study testing stereotactic body radiation therapy, capecitabine and therapeutic conventional surgery in people with Stage IA Pancreatic Cancer and Stage IB Pancreatic Cancer, run by University of Wisconsin, Madison at 1 site in United States.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 11 inclusion and 11 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 1 Jun 2022. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 1 site in United States. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

What does this phase mean?

Phase 1 studies test a treatment in a small group of people for the first time or in a new way, mainly to check safety and find the right dose.

Not every study follows the same path, and some studies (observational studies, device studies) have no phase.

Are results available for this study?

The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Incidence of dose-limiting toxicity defined as any grade 3-4 non-hematologic toxicity or grade 5 toxicity attributable to combination chemo-radiotherapy per the National Cancer Institute Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events version 4.0 (time frame: Up to 90 days from the start of SBRT and capecitabine). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 1 Jun 2022.

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