Clinical trial NCT06153147: KIdney aNd blooD prESsure ouTcomes in Childhood Cancer Survivors (CCS)
Official title: KIdney aNd blooD prESsure ouTcomes in Childhood Cancer Survivors (CCS): Prospective Study
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: RECRUITING
Conditions: Childhood Cancer
Chronic Kidney Diseases
Hypertension
Acute Kidney Injury
Nephrotoxicity
Lead sponsor: The Hospital for Sick Children
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2023-12-01
Enrollment: 500
Sex: ALL
Maximum age (years): 19
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Observational cohort study of CCS at 5 Ontario child cancer centres

Brief summary: Background: Childhood cancer survivors (CCS) are at elevated risk of chronic health conditions. Chemotherapies can cause recurrent acute kidney injury which may progress to kidney fibrosis, chronic kidney disease (CKD) or hypertension (HTN). CCS surviving to adulthood are at ≥3 times the risk (vs. non-CCS) for CKD, HTN and lower quality of life. However, the timing of CKD and HTN onset in CCS completing cancer therapy in childhood remains unclear.

Guidelines provide recommendations on managing post-cancer therapy effects in CCS, but they lack specificity on kidney testing content, frequency and complications. This discord is largely due to knowledge gaps on which CCS develop CKD or HTN after cancer therapy, when outcomes occur and their severity. Existing work has shown in select patients, CKD and HTN in CCS likely begins in the first 5 years post-cancer therapy and that the burden is significant. With robust data on CKD and HTN, international CCS follow-up guidelines can be optimized to include detailed and actionable recommendations on kidney and blood pressure monitoring and treatment.

Detailed description: Significant improvements in childhood cancer survival rates have come at the cost of an increase in chronic health conditions. Childhood cancer survivors (CCS) often experience chronic kidney disease (CKD) and hypertension (HTN), yet data on the onset and severity of these diseases in the primary years after childhood cancer therapy is unclear. Both CKD and HTN are major treatable cardiovascular risk factors, and the knowledge gap in the first 5 years after therapy impedes the creation of evidence-based guidelines and early intervention plans.

Currently, the Children's Oncology Group international guidelines, which are used to identify and manage therapy effects in CCS, lack information on CKD testing and appropriate measures. With appropriate treatment, CKD and HTN complications are treatable.

In 500 CCS at high risk for blood pressure (BP) and late kidney effects due to cancer therapy, we will determine the prevalence of HTN and CKD at 3 and 5 years after cancer therapy, and the extent to which eGFR, albuminuria and BP worsen from 3 to 5 years after therapy. In addition, we will assess whether acute kidney injury during cancer therapy and cardiometabolic risk factors are associated with these outcomes.

Based on the evidence from the study, we hope to improve current CCS kidney and BP guidelines to advise on appropriate treatments and measures for HTN and CKD. As CCS are vulnerable to cardiovascular disease, addressing CKD and HTN complications will improve their overall quality of life.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* 3 years ± 6 months after therapy for first cancer
* Received high-risk therapy for first cancer, as defined by the Canadian Oncology Group (COG) as alkylating agents; platinums; abdominal or total body radiation; high dose methotrexate; stem cell transplant; nephrectomy; or other therapy which may be known to possibly cause late kidney and/or BP effects.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Pre-cancer severe CKD and/or previous kidney transplant
* \>19 years old at 3 years after cancer therapy completion

Primary outcomes:
measure: Prevalence of Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) based on eGFR (using an equation) at 3 years post cancer therapy
timeFrame: 3 years +/- 6 months after cancer therapy end
measure: Prevalence of Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) based on eGFR (using an equation) at 5 years post cancer therapy
timeFrame: 5 years +/- 6 months after cancer therapy end
measure: Prevalence of Hypertension (HTN) from office blood pressure (vis blood pressure machine) at 3 years post cancer therapy
timeFrame: 3 years +/- 6 months after cancer therapy end
measure: Prevalence of Hypertension (HTN) using Ambulatory Blood Pressure Measurement (ABPM) at 5 years post cancer therapy
timeFrame: 5 years +/- 6 months after cancer therapy end
measure: Change in markers of kidney health (eGFR)(using an equation) between 3 and 5 years post cancer therapy
timeFrame: Change from 3 to 5 years in eGFR
measure: Change in markers of kidney health (Albuminuria) (using lab values) between 3 and 5 years post cancer therapy
timeFrame: Change from 3 to 5 years in Albuminuria
measure: Change in markers of kidney health (Proteinuria) (using Lab values) between 3 and 5 years post cancer therapy
timeFrame: Change from 3 to 5 years in Proteinuria
measure: Change in markers of cardiovascular health (using blood tests) between 3 and 5 years post cancer therapy
timeFrame: Change from 3 to 5 years
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Impact of Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) and Cardiometabolic risk factors (using blood work) at baseline on CKD outcomes
timeFrame: At baseline for independent factors on CKD outcomes at 3 and 5 years
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Toronto
country: Canada
facility: The Hospital For Sick Children
state: Ontario
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