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Advanced Stage Serous Epithelial Cancer of the OvaryQUALOVNCT04826029

Impact of Systematic Imaging for Follow up of Patients With Ovarian, Fallopian Tube or Primary Peritoneum Cancer

A study testing Standard strategy and Follow-up strategy in people with Advanced Stage Serous Epithelial Cancer of the Ovary and Advanced Stage Cancer of Tubes, run by Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris at 1 site in France.

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Withdrawn. The study stopped before anyone enrolled.

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Trial summary

After well-conducted treatment of ovarian, tubal and primary peritoneum cancer by maximum tumor reduction surgery and chemotherapy including platinum salt and paclitaxel, the clinical remission rate is over 50%. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 years and older, women only
What is being tested?
Standard strategy and Follow-up strategy
Type of treatment
Injection or infusion
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
0 participants
Where
1 siteFrance
Study dates
22 Jun 2021to 22 Jun 2021
Phase
Interventional
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 18 years and older
  • Women only
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Adult, Older adult

Who may be able to join

  • Patients aged at least 18 years.
  • Patients in remission from proven stage III and above serous epithelial cancer of the ovary, peritoneum or tubes with complete macroscopic surgical resection (whether initial or interval)
  • Signature of informed consent by the patient
  • Affiliation to a French social security scheme (excluding AME)

Who cannot join

  • Patients with a contraindication to MRI or CT examination (wearing a material with magnetic properties : pacemaker, ferromagnetic material, etc.)
  • Intolerance to iodinated contrast or gadolinium or severe renal failure (DFG <30 ml/min/1.73 m2)
  • Patients deprived of their liberty and patients Under legal protection (under guardianship or under curatorship)
  • Patients participating in another interventional research (in particular research with radiological exposure as well

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country.

France1 site
  • Hôpital Pitié Salpêtrière

    Paris, 75013

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About this study

Official title: Randomized Study Evaluating the Impact on the Cost and Quality of Life of Follow up by Systematic Imaging in Patients With Advanced Stage Ovarian, Fallopian Tube or Primary Peritoneum Cancer

After well-conducted treatment of ovarian, tubal and primary peritoneum cancer by maximum tumor reduction surgery and chemotherapy including platinum salt and paclitaxel, the clinical remission rate is over 50%. However, 75-80% of patients with ovarian, tube or primary peritoneum cancer recur within 2 years of the end of treatment. In the latest INCa recommendations for 2018, systematic imaging (thoraco-abdomino-pelvic scanner (CT), MRI, PET CT) is not recommended based on the literature because of its low added value compared to CA 125 dosage (sensitivity ranging from 67% to 95%, and specificity of 87% to 93%), its irradiating character (CT) and its cost. However, the recommendations are based on imaging studies dating back at least a decade. Since these studies, technological advances have improved the diagnostic performance of imaging: sensitivity is 78% for whole-body CT scans and 98% for full-body MRI for the diagnosis of ovarian cancer recurrence. Furthermore, previous randomized studies showed no survival benefit with early treatment of relapse on the basis of a high concentration of CA125 alone, so the value of routine CA125 measurement in the follow-up of ovarian cancer patients may be limited. These recent studies lead to heterogeneity in surveillance protocols for ovarian cancer patients despite recommendations. In addition, treatments for recurrences have evolved as well as maintenance treatments to become chronic treatments, with the emergence of the maintenance new treatments detecting early recurrence is particularly important (notably through the development of new molecules given in maintenance treatment). But early detection have to be balanced with the quality of life of these patients.

In usual care, imaging surveillance is often carried out despite the absence of recommendations or data from the literature of high level of evidence.

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The question arises as to whether radiological monitoring could make an impact on patient survival without being a source of excessive false positives, patient stress and non-productive costs.

QUALOV trial is a multicenter randomized study for patients in remission after treatment of advanced stage serous epithelial ovarian, fallopian tube or primary peritoneum cancer (stage III and beyond).

The main objective is to assess the effectiveness of systematic imaging for patients followed after advanced stage serous epithelial ovarian, fallopian tube or primary peritoneum cancer

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This is a randomized multi-center study. Randomization will be stratified on two major prognostic factors:

  • The BRCA mutation (germline or somatic)
  • the serous high or low grade histological subtype of histological se topical (defined according to morphological-well-differentiated criteria, low to moderate atypia, <3-4 mitoses/10 fields-and immunohistochemical-RO - strong p16/p53 low) At J0, after obtaining informed consent or within 7 days, patients will be randomized in one of the two arms (intervention group/standard group).

In the intervention arm, patients will perform a ca125 dosing ,/he4 dosage, a thoraco abdomino pelvic CT scan after contrast product injection and a full-body MRI (T2, DW and T1 sequences after fat saturation before and after gadolinium injection) with a maximum of 15 days between the two examinations, and will complete the HAD and EQ5D self-tests. A senior radiologist from each center will perform a prospective reading of each of the imaging. For any suspicious anomaly identified, the following criteria will be analyzed: Size, location, number, scalability, contrast taking after injection, MRI signal (T2, Diffusion, Dynamic Enhancement Curve). The RECIST criteria (version 1.1) will be applied.

In the standard arm, patients will perform a dosage of CA 125 (HE4 dosage), complete the HAD and EQ5D self-questionnaires, and the patient will be managed according to the INCa 2018 recommendations.

In the case of clinical abnormality (symptoms such as pain, transit changes, increased abdominal volume; or abnormality in clinical examination such as palpation of a mass, carcinosis nodule or suspicious adenopathy), marker elevation (CA125 >2N and/or 70 IU/L, HE4 > 140 pmol/L) and/or imaging (read by a senior at the center), the patient will be referred to the Multidisciplinary Consultation Meeting (PCR) for management according to the INCa 2018 recommendations.

In the case of a biopsy or surgery recommendation, it will be performed within a maximum of 2 months (according to the recommendations of good practice).

In common practice, the diagnosis of recurrence is often based on obvious imaging elements (RECIST criteria) without histological evidence. It is only in uncertain cases that a biopsy will be performed or a diagnostic surgery, so in this study it will be placed as in current practice without adding procedures that are not performed in common practice to start a new treatment.

In terms of the management of recidivism, this is the most complex element because it is difficult to homogenize all attitudes. Indeed, many studies are still underway to define the best ways to manage recurrences with contradictory results (such as DESKTOP III in favour of new complete secondary surgery and the study by Coleman et al published in the NEJM in 11/2019 which does not find this advantage). The purpose of this study is not to be not to define (or impose) optimal support (which has yet to be defined). In addition, this study is in real life and the modalities of care can change over the duration of the study.

We will therefore follow the main standard principles of the management of recidivism based on the characterization of platinosensitivity according to recurrence at less than 6 months, 6 to 12 months or more than 12 months of recidivism. Surgery will be considered if it is a localized recurrence, accessible for complete resection and less than 6 months delay compared to the last platinum chemotherapy (use of the AGO score).

Cost-utility analysis and AIB The economic assessment will be conducted in accordance with the recommendations of the HAS (updated) and the CHEERS collaboration, by measuring prospectively on the population study population the costs and outcomes at 24 months and extrapolating them over a lifetime.

We will carry out a cost utility study, based on the measurement of survival and quality of life from the EQ 5D. We will estimate a cost-utility incremental ratio and conduct a probabilistic sensitivity analysis to locate the systematic imaging surveillance strategy at cost-effectiveness.

For the economic assessment, we selected two perspectives, the collective perspective and the perspective of Medicare. The measurement of route efficiency will be based on an analysis of the different costs from a community perspective and an analysis of clinical effectiveness in real life and will be supplemented by a budgetary impact analysis from the perspective of Medicare. The time horizon for the main study ranges from inclusion to 2 years with secondary modelling over the whole life, with an annual discount of costs and benefits at 4% for the first 30 years, 1.5% then according to the latest recommendations of the HAS.

The data will be analyzed for all patients included in the study, based on the principle of the intention-to-treat analysis. We plan to perform sub-analyses based on BRCA (germinal or somatic) stratification and histological serous subtype.

The reference intervention is the usual management of patients with a dosage of CA 125 (OR/- dosage of HE4) and management according to the INCa 2018 recommendations according to the results. The procedure studied is also a dosage of CA125 (HE4 dosage), followed by a thoraco abdominopelvic CT scan after contrast product injection and a whole body MRI. Management will be decided on the basis of the results of the examinations

Being tested
Standard strategy, Follow-up strategy
Keywords
Ovarian cancer, Recurrence, Imaging follow up, HE4, CA125
Medical subject headings
Ovarian Neoplasms, Recurrence

What participants receive

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

  • Standard strategyOther

    In the standard arm, patients will complete CA 125 (+/- HE4) at 3 months, 6 months, 12 months, 18 months and 24 months (+/- 15 days), complete the HAD and EQ5D self-questionnaires, and be managed according to INCa 2018 recommendations. If clinical symptoms, marker elevation, and/or imaging workup occur, the patient will be referred to the multidisciplinary consultation meeting (MDC) for management according to INCa 2018.

  • Follow-up strategyOther

    In the interventional arm, patients will perform at 3 months, 6 months, 12 months, 18 months and 24 months (+/- 15 days) a CA125 assay (+/- HE4 assay), a thoracoabdominal CT scan after contrast injection and a whole body MRI (T2, DW and T1 sequences after fat saturation before and after gadolinium injection) with a maximum delay of 15 days between the two examinations, and will complete the HAD and EQ5D self-questionnaires. A senior radiologist from each center will perform a prospective reading of each of the images. For any suspicious anomaly identified, the following criteria will be analyzed: Size, location, number, evolution, contrast after injection, MRI signal (T2, Diffusion, Dynamic Enhancement Curve). The RECIST criteria (version 1.1) will be applied.

Study groups in NCT04826029
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
Standard armOtherNot described
Receives: Other: Standard strategy
Interventional armExperimentalNot described
Receives: Other: Follow-up strategy

What is being measured

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

  1. 24-month incremental cost-to-utility ratio

    Incremental cost-utility ratio defined as the difference in total cost at 2 years between the systematic imaging strategy and the standard strategy, relative to the difference in survival and quality of life (QALYs).

    Measured: At 24 months after inclusion

Secondary outcomes (15)
  1. Duration without treatment

    Duration without treatment is defined as the time between randomization at the end of the initial treatment and initiation of the following treatment (surgery or chimiotherapy)

    Measured: At 24 months after randomization

  2. Mean score of HAD (Hospital Anxiety and Depression scale)

    Hospital Anxiety and Depression scale will be used

    Measured: at 3 months, 6 months, 12 months, 18 months and 24 months after randomization

  3. Mean score of Quality of Life

    Quality of life of patients will be measured using the EQ5D questionnaire

    Measured: at 3 months, 6 months, 12 months, 18 months and 24 months after randomization

  4. Overall survival

    Overall survival is defined as the time from the date of randomization to death regardless of the cause of death.

    Measured: At 24 months after randomization

  5. Tumor board's decision to treat the patient for recurrence

    Tumor board decision elements (CA125 elevation alone, CA125 elevation and suspicious imaging, normal but normal CA125 mass detection, modification of several biological dosages, change in suspicious volume to imaging,...) will be collected and linked to

    Measured: At 24 months after randomization

  6. Rate of complete secondary surgery

    To predict the possibility of complete resection of recurrence by surgery

    Measured: At 24 months after inclusion

  7. Rate of surgery for recurrence

    To compare the percentage of operable patients in each group

    Measured: At 24 months after inclusion

  8. Change in caregiver preference on ideal monitoring modalities

    Caregiver preference questions on ideal monitoring modalities :

    • "How important is imaging to you in the monitoring of ovarian, tube and primary peritoneal cancers" rated on a scale of 0 to 4.

    Measured: at randomization and at 24 month after the last patient randomization (end of the study)

  9. Patient preference on ideal monitoring modalities for patient of interventional group

    Patient preference questions on ideal monitoring modalities :

    • "Do you think the constraints of routine follow-up imaging are acceptable for a situation like yours? " rated on a scale of 0 to 4.

    Measured: at 24 month after randomization

  10. Diagnostic performance of HE4

    Diagnostic performance (sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, negative predictive value) of CA125 and CA125-HE4 will be estimated on the subgroup of patients who had both dosages during their follow-up.

    Measured: At 24 months after inclusion

  11. Cost/life-year gained over lifetime horizon

    Survival measured by the area between the two Kaplan Meier curves, costs are in euros

    Measured: 2 years

  12. Number of subjects to be screened to gain one

    Number of subjects to be screened to gain one

    Measured: 2 years

  13. Incremental cost-to-utility ratio

    Incremental cost-utility ratio defined as the difference in total cost between the systematic imaging strategy and the standard strategy, relative to the difference in survival and quality of life (QALYs).

    Measured: 2 years

  14. Budgetary impact at 5 years

    Costs in euros

    Measured: At 5 years

  15. Cost/complete resection of recurrent disease

    Cost/complete resection of recurrent disease

    Measured: At 24 months

Timeline

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

  1. First posted1 Apr 2021
  2. Study start22 Jun 2021
  3. Primary completion22 Jun 2021
  4. Study completion22 Jun 2021

Why it stopped: No longer feasible because of new recommendations (RPC St Paul de Vence) which advocate the performance of systematic imaging in addition to CA 125 in patients treated in first line maintenance in order not to ignore a relapse (2021).

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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 N/A
Primary purpose
Prevention
Allocation
Randomised
Intervention model
Parallel groups
Masking
None (open label)
Enrolment
0 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT04826029
Sponsor's protocol ID
APHP200051
Other IDs
2020-A02836-33
Acronym
QUALOV
Status last verified
Dec 2021
First submitted
8 Mar 2021
Last updated
10 Dec 2021
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A study testing Standard strategy and Follow-up strategy in people with Advanced Stage Serous Epithelial Cancer of the Ovary and Advanced Stage Cancer of Tubes, run by Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris at 1 site in France.

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 4 inclusion and 4 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: withdrawn, as of the sponsor's last update on 10 Dec 2021. 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 France. 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.

Are results available for this study?

The study was withdrawn before enrolling participants, so there are no results.

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?

24-month incremental cost-to-utility ratio (time frame: At 24 months after inclusion). 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 10 Dec 2021.

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