Intra Peritoneal Chemo Hyperthermia (IPCH) : Cellular and Metabolic Consequences (CHIP)

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nice

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Peritoneal Carcinomatosis From Colorectal or Ovarian Origin

Treatments: Procedure: Surgery with IPCH; Procedure: Without surgery and without IPCH

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01685632

11-PP-01

Details and patient eligibility

About

Intra Peritoneal Chemo Hyperthermia (IPCH) is a recently validated option for the treatment of peritoneal carcinomatosis from colorectal or ovarian origin. This therapeutic program demonstrated a significant improvement of the late stages (i.e. carcinomatosis) of the disease. From a clinical point of view, within the first 24 hours after IPCH, patients undergo a systemic inflammatory response syndrome, and therefore require to be monitored in an intensive care unit. From a metabolic perspective, preliminary data have been shown a significant "anaerobic style" disturbance of energetic metabolism, suggesting a deep cellular energetic deficit throughout IPCH process.

Putative contradictory effects of IPCH, like the increase of chemotherapy-related cellular toxicity due to heat and on the other hand the initiation of a stress protein response (heat shock response) which helps to reduce the cell injuries, leads to conduct a research project on the underlying mechanisms: consequences, in terms of patient's care and follow-up, are of high relevance.

The primary goal is a multimodal assessment of the IPCH-related cell modifications: signaling pathways, apoptosis and antitumoral immune response.

The assessment criteria include Heat shock protein expression (blood/cell ratio) compared to baseline values, apoptosis and immune response before/after IPCH.

The scheduled sample size is 30 patients having an IPCH and 30 patients contraindicated per surgery.

Full description

Intra Peritoneal Chemo Hyperthermia (IPCH) is a recently validated option for the treatment of peritoneal carcinomatosis from colorectal or ovarian origin. This therapeutic program demonstrated a significant improvement of the late stages (i.e. carcinomatosis) of the disease (survival median > 33 months). IPCH induces morbidity as high as 20% and mortality less than 4%. From a clinical point of view, within the first 24 hours after IPCH, patients undergo a systemic inflammatory response syndrome, and therefore require to be monitored in an intensive care unit. From a metabolic perspective, preliminary data have been shown a significant "anaerobic style" disturbance of energetic metabolism, suggesting a deep cellular energetic deficit throughout IPCH process.

Putative contradictory effects of IPCH, like the increase of chemotherapy-related cellular toxicity due to heat and on the other hand the initiation of a stress protein response (heat shock response) which helps to reduce the cell injuries, leads to conduct a research project on the underlying mechanisms: consequences, in terms of patient's care and follow-up, are of high relevance.

Heat shock protein expression (stress protein response markers) and apoptosis are the main chosen tools to evaluate IPCH-related cellular consequences.

Goals of the study Primary goal Multimodal assessment of the IPCH-related cell modifications: signaling pathways, apoptosis and antitumoral immune response.

Secondary goal Comparative study of Heat shock protein expression, whether IPCH is done or the patient is recused for the surgery due to intraoperative contraindication.

Method Prospective cohort follow up Procedure

Besides the usual care (surgical debulking and extensive tumoral resection after laparotomy under general anesthesia), the research protocol includes :

• 7 blood samples over 72 hours (meaning less than 40 ml), including 4 samples under general anesthesia throughout surgery and 3 samples during the 3 following days (at 24th, 48th and 72th hours).
• 6 tissue biopsies, i.e. 2 from peritoneum disease-free and 2 from invaded peritoneum , each representing a volume less than 1 cm3 and 2 biopsies from healthy colonic tissue for the colon-related cancer and 4 biopsies (peritoneum n=2, tumoral tissue n=2) for ovarian-related cancer. All biopsies are done during the surgery under general anesthesia, and each biopsy per site before/after IPCH.

Assessment criteria

• main criteria : Heat shock protein expression (blood/cell ratio) compared to baseline values.
• associate criteria : apoptosis and immune response before/after IPCH Statistical method/Sample size/Study's lenght Scheduled sample size is 30 patients having an IPCH and 30 patients contraindicated per surgery.

The normal distribution is verified using the d'Agostino-Pearson test. For intragroup comparisons, the repeated measures ANOVA is done. For intergroup comparisons, an univariate analysis is done, using the Student t-test and the Fisher exact test.

Taking into account the planned sample size and the annual number of IPCH, the scheduled length of the study is 18 months.

Enrollment: 60 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• adult patient
• eligible for IPCH
• with a social security number
• having a signed an informed consent

Exclusion criteria

• study refusal
• parturiants
• psychiatric disorders

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

Surgery with IPCH

Active Comparator group

Description:

Patients having an IPCH (Intra Peritoneal Chemo Hyperthermia) during the surgery time

Treatment:

Procedure: Surgery with IPCH

patients without IPCH

Sham Comparator group

Description:

Patients recused for the surgery due to intraoperative contraindication

Treatment:

Procedure: Without surgery and without IPCH