protocolSection identificationModule nctId: NCT06381726, orgStudyIdInfo id: Progetto AIRC IG-2022 ID 27184, briefTitle: Personalized Rendering of Motor System Functional Plasticity Potential to Improve Glioma Resection and Quality of Life, statusModule overallStatus: RECRUITING, startDateStruct date: 2024-03-07, primaryCompletionDateStruct date: 2028-02-28, completionDateStruct date: 2028-02-28, studyFirstPostDateStruct date: 2024-04-24, lastUpdatePostDateStruct date: 2024-04-24, sponsorCollaboratorsModule leadSponsor name: University of Milan, class: OTHER, collaborators name: University of Turin, Italy, descriptionModule briefSummary: Background Lower-grade-gliomas affect young patients, thus the longest progression-free-survival (PFS) with a high level quality of life is crucial. Surgery most significantly impacts on tumor natural history, postponing recurrence, improving symptoms, decreasing the need of adjuvant therapies, with extent of resection, gross-total and supra-total (GTR and STR), strongly associating with longest PFS. Achievement of GTR or STR depends on the degree of functional reorganization induced by glioma. Consequently, a successful treatment fostering neural circuit reorganization before surgery, would increase the chance of GRT/STR.Hypothesis The plastic potential of motor system suggests that reorganization of circuits controlling hand movements could be presurgically fostered in LGG patients by enhancing plasticity with up-front motor-rehabilitation and/or by decreasing tumor infiltration with up-front chemotherapy. Advanced neuroimaging allows to infer the neuroplasticity potential. Intraoperative assessment of the motor circuits functionality will validate reliability of preoperative analyses.Aims The project has 4 aims, investigating: A) the presurgical functional (FC) and structural (SC) connectomics of the hand-motor network to picture the spontaneous reorganization and the influence of clinical, imaging and histomolecular variables; B) the dynamic of FC and SC after tumor resection; C) changes in FC and SC maps after personalized upfront motor rehabilitation and/or chemotherapy; D) the effect of FC and SC upfront treatment on the achievement of GTR/STR preserving hand dexterity.Experimental Design Resting-state fMRI and diffusion-MRI will provide FC and SC maps pre- and post-surgery; personalized up-front motor rehabilitation and/or chemotherapy will be administered; Intraoperative brain mapping procedures will generate data to validate the maps.Expected Results1. Provide a tool to render the motor functional reorganization predictive of surgical outcome.2. Identify demographic, clinical and imaging variables associated with functional reorganization.3. Describe the gain induced by up-front treatment.4. Distinguish "patterns" predicting chance for GTR/STR from "patterns" suggesting need for up-front treatment.Impact On Cancer Results will increase the achievement of GTR/STR, preserving motor integrity, with dramatic impact on LGGs natural history., conditionsModule conditions: Glioma, conditions: Glioma, Malignant, designModule studyType: INTERVENTIONAL, phases: NA, designInfo allocation: NON_RANDOMIZED, interventionModel: PARALLEL, interventionModelDescription: Patients immediately candidate for resection will be assessed neurologically, neuropsychologically and by functional MRI. Extent of resection will be assessed on \<48hrs and 2-month MRI. Neurological and neuropsychological assessment will be performed during regular follow-up. Patients not requiring an adjuvant treatment according to tumor board meeting will be submitted to functional MRI at 4-8 and 12 months from surgery. Patients not immediately eligible for resection will be submitted to biopsy for histomolecular definition. Patients not requiring radiation therapy will be submitted to neurological, neuropsychological, and functional MRI evaluation. Upon clinical context, patients will undergo motor rehabilitation and/or chemotherapy. After 3-6 months, patients will undergo functional MRI and evaluated for surgery. Neurological and neuropsychological evaluation will be performed at treatment initiation, every month during treatment, at admission for surgery and 1 month after surgery., primaryPurpose: TREATMENT, maskingInfo masking: NONE, enrollmentInfo count: 400, type: ESTIMATED, armsInterventionsModule interventions name: Resting State Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (rs-fMRI), interventions name: Up-front Motor Rehabilitation, interventions name: Up-front Chemotherapy, outcomesModule primaryOutcomes measure: Muscle power, primaryOutcomes measure: Motor praxia, secondaryOutcomes measure: Comprehensive neuropsychological assessment, eligibilityModule sex: ALL, minimumAge: 18 Years, stdAges: ADULT, stdAges: OLDER_ADULT, contactsLocationsModule locations facility: IRCCS Ospedale Galeazzi Sant'Ambrogio, status: RECRUITING, city: Milan, state: Lombardy, zip: 20157, country: Italy, contacts name: Lorenzo Bello, MD, role: CONTACT, phone: 0039-340-217-1453, email: lorenzo.bello@unimi.it, geoPoint lat: 45.46427, lon: 9.18951, hasResults: False