Clinical trial NCT04751747: Adaptive Radiation Planning for the Reduction of Radiation-Induced Toxicity in Patients With Stage II-IV Non-small Cell Lung Cancer
Official title: The Role of Adaptive Radiation Planning in Patients With Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer on Radiation Induced Toxicity
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Locally Advanced Lung Non-Small Cell Carcinoma
Metastatic Lung Non-Small Cell Carcinoma
Stage II Lung Cancer AJCC v8
Stage IIA Lung Cancer AJCC v8
Stage IIB Lung Cancer AJCC v8
Stage III Lung Cancer AJCC v8
Stage IIIA Lung Cancer AJCC v8
Stage IIIB Lung Cancer AJCC v8
Stage IIIC Lung Cancer AJCC v8
Stage IV Lung Cancer AJCC v8
Stage IVA Lung Cancer AJCC v8
Stage IVB Lung Cancer AJCC v8
Unresectable Lung Non-Small Cell Carcinoma
Lead sponsor: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
First posted: 2021-02-12
Enrollment: 34
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Brief summary: This phase II trial studies the effect of adaptive radiation planning in reducing side effects associated with radiation treatment and immunotherapy in patients with stage II-IV non-small cell lung cancer. Prior to radiation, patients undergo simulation, where they are positioned on the treatment table in a manner that can be reproduced each time they receive treatment in order to reach the tumor exactly at the same spot each time. However, a patient's tumor may shrink as they receive radiation, exposing healthy tissue to radiation as well. Adaptive radiation planning involves re-designing a treatment plan at set intervals. The purpose of this study is to see whether establishing set time points through adaptive radiation planning, regardless of whether the doctor notices a significant decrease in tumor size, will reduce some of the side effects associated with radiation treatment and immunotherapy.

Detailed description: PRIMARY OBJECTIVE:

I. To evaluate whether implementing set intervals for radiation replanning reduces cardiopulmonary toxicity and preserves healthy lung and heart tissue, with the intention of establishing a new standard treatment modality.

OUTLINE:

Patients undergo computed tomography (CT) stimulation with or without intravenous (IV) contrast over 1.5 hours on days -15 to -1, then undergo standard of care (SOC) chemoradiation on days 1-40. Patients also undergo additional CT scan simulations without IV contrast over 20 minutes each on days 15 and 29.

After completion of study, patients are followed up at 3-12 weeks, and then every 6 months for approximately 2 years.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Written informed consent and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) authorization for release of personal health information
* Histologically or cytological evidence of locally advanced, biopsy-proven, stage II (inoperable), III-or oligometastatic stage IV NSCLC planned to be treated with chemoradiation with concurrent or adjuvant immunotherapy
* Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0 or 1
* Adequate organ and marrow laboratory values for radiation therapy deemed by appropriate the investigator obtained within 14 days prior to registration for protocol therapy
* Women of childbearing potential (WOCBP) must obtain a negative serum or urine pregnancy test (minimum sensitivity 25 IU/L or equivalent units of human chorionic gonadotropin \[HCG\]) at day -30 to day 0
* Women of childbearing potential must be willing to abstain from heterosexual activity or use an effective method of contraception during the time of the study period
* Men who are sexually active with WOCBP must use any contraceptive method with a failure rate of less than 1% per year

Exclusion Criteria:

* History or current evidence of any condition, therapy, or laboratory abnormality that might confound the results of the trial, interfere with the subject's participation for the full duration of the trial, or is not in the best interest of the subject to participate, in the opinion of the site investigator
* Pregnant or breastfeeding, or expecting to conceive or father children within the projected duration of the trial
* Active central nervous system (CNS) metastases (if symptomatic or without prior brain imaging, subjects must undergo a head computed tomography \[CT\] scan or brain magnetic resonance imaging \[MRI\] within 28 days prior to registration for protocol therapy to exclude brain metastases)
* Treatment with any investigational agent within 28 days prior to registration for protocol therapy
* Prior chemotherapy, adjuvant therapy, or radiotherapy for lung cancer other than standard concurrent chemoradiation or up to 2 cycles of consolidation therapy
* Active second cancers
* History of psychiatric illness or social situations that would limit compliance with study requirements

Primary outcomes:
measure: Determine if adaptive radiation therapy reduces radiation induced pneumonitis rates
timeFrame: At 6 months post chemoradiation
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Determine if adaptive radiation therapy reduces radiation doses to heart and lung
timeFrame: Baseline up to day 29 of treatment
measure: Dosimetric changes in lung, heart, and esophageal dosimetry parameters in patients treated with adaptive radiation planning
timeFrame: Baseline up to day 29 of treatment
measure: Change in toxicities, including cardiac and esophageal toxicities
timeFrame: Baseline up to 25 months after chemoradiation
measure: Toxicity correlation to disease-free survival (DFS)/progression-free survival (PFS)/overall survival (OS)
timeFrame: Up to 25 months after chemoradiation
measure: Tumor volume reduction
timeFrame: Up to 25 months after chemoradiation
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: New Brunswick
country: United States
facility: Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey
state: New Jersey
city: New Brunswick
country: United States
facility: RWJBarnabas Health - Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital
state: New Jersey
Study officials:
affiliation: Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey
name: Salma K Jabbour
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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