stereotactic radiosurgery for soft tissue sarcoma

Conditions: Soft Tissue Sarcoma

Summary: this study is evaluating treatment with cyberknife for soft tissue sarcomas.

because of these possible advantages of sbrt over conventional radiation, the investigators began a small pilot study to test this new treatment technique in the setting of resectable soft tissue sarcomas. the pilot study was planned for a total of 12 patients which was felt to be a good number to gauge if further expansion of this technology would be successful. as of 2/6/2015 13 participants have enrolled (two enrolled patients declined treatment on protocol and thus a total of 11 patients have been treated on protocol). as of this time, the investigators have not had seen grade 3 or higher toxicity and no instance of local failure. there have been several distant failures which would not be related to local therapy like sbrt and if anything, sbrt should reduce instance of distant failure by shortening time to chemotherapy. the following represents the initial experience for sbrt for sts (from manuscript submitted for publication). note that on the below abstract 8 participants were treated on the pilot study while 5 participants were treated prior to pilot study opening (the one instance of local failure is from patient treated pre-protocol). in terms of patient numbers the goal is to have 33 patients in cohorts one and two. using historical controls of late toxicity rates of 40% and late toxicity rates in the initial population of 20% with an alpha of 0.1 (which is reasonable for phase ii studies, an alpha of 0.05 is typical for phase iii studies) there would be 80% power to detect a difference with 33 patients. the expectation for this phase ii study includes the following 1. late toxicity 30% or less 2. local control rates 90% or better these numbers are based on historical controls and previous research. local control rates for historical series have been 90% or better and this also held true in the initial phase ii study. for late toxicity rates, historical controls are 35-43% (the nci study that used similar wound complication definitions to us and was a well powered study had a wound complication rate of 43%). the investigators feel that for this study to be promising enough for large phase iii non-inferiority studies that the current phase ii study should have late toxicity rates of 30% or better and local control rates of 90% or better.

Eligibility criteria:
inclusion criteria: * all cohorts: * age \> 18 * patients of child-bearing age must agree to contraception until radiosurgery has been completed. * note that patients with metastatic disease are eligible for protocol * cohort 1: soft tissue sarcoma (of any histology subtype) in patients that are -planned to have pre-operative radiation followed by surgical resection * anatomical site to include upper extremity (including shoulder) and lower extremity (including hip) * patient performance status and co-morbid conditions to allow for surgical resection * cohort 2: soft tissue sarcoma (of any histologic subtype) post-resection with no further plans for additional surgery. * patients must have high risk feature requiring post-operative radiation which can include large tumor (\> 5 cm), high grade, previous unplanned, non, oncologic surgery, close margins * anatomical site to include upper extremity (including shoulder) and lower extremity (including hip) * cohort 3: soft tissue sarcoma (of any histologic subtype) that is not amenable to surgical resection for any reason * anatomical site to include upper extremity (including shoulder) and lower extremity (including hip and pelvis) * patients cannot have planned surgical resection * note that retroperitoneal sarcomas are not eligible exclusion criteria: -tumors that do not fit criteria for any of the above cohorts