Clinical trial NCT02279771: Transanal Reinforcement of Low Rectal Anastomosis in Rectal Cancer Surgery
Official title: Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial of Transanal Reinforcement of Low Rectal Anastomosis Versus Protective Ileostomy in the Prevention of Anastomotic Leak After Rectal Cancer Surgery
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Phase: NA
Conditions: Rectal Cancer
Keywords: colorectal anastomosis
anastomotic leak
ileostomy
complications
Lead sponsor: Societa Italiana di Chirurgia ColoRettale
Sponsor class: NETWORK
First posted: 2014-10-31
Enrollment: 140
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 30
Maximum age (years): 80
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: Anastomotic leak after low rectal cancer surgery occurs between 3 and 24% of the cases and is a severe complication leading to sepsis, permanent colostomy, higher risk of local cancer recurrence and eventually death. In order to prevent this complication a protecting diverting stoma is usually fashioned with consequent morbidity due to the stoma and its closure and severe impact on patients' quality of life. This prospective, multi-center, parallel-arm, randomized controlled equivalence trial is aimed to demonstrate whether a transanal reinforcement of the suture line can prevent anastomotic leakage after low rectal cancer surgery thus avoiding the need for a covering ileostomy


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Resectable, histologically proven primary adenocarcinoma of the medium-low rectum without internal and/or external sphincter muscle involvement.

Distal margin of the tumor at least 6 cm form the anal verge

Staged as follows prior to neoadjuvant chemoradiation:

Stage T2 - T4 at MRI N0-2 at MRI M0/M1 at CT scan Patient classified T3-T4 must undergo neoadjuvant chemoradiation with at least 8 weeks delay of surgery

Exclusion Criteria:

* Squamous cell carcinoma
* Adenocarcinoma Stage T1,
* T4 with one of the following:

with pelvic side wall involvement requiring sacrectomy requiring prostatectomy (partial or total)

* Unresectable primary rectal cancer or Inability to complete R0 resection.
* Rectal cancer under 6 cm from the anal verge requiring colo-anal anastomosis
* Recurrent rectal cancer
* Previous pelvic malignancy
* Inability to sign informed consent
* Pregnancy

Primary outcomes:
measure: anastomotic leak
timeFrame: 30 postoperative days
Secondary outcomes:
measure: duration of the two operations
timeFrame: Intraoperative
measure: Number of overall postoperative complications
timeFrame: 30 postoperative days
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Bari
country: Italy
Study officials:
affiliation: Societa Italiana di Chirurgia ColoRettale
name: Arcangelo Picciariello, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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