Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy and Surgery for Early-stage Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Zhejiang University

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Hepatectomy; Hepatocellular Carcinoma; Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy

Treatments: Procedure: laparoscopic hepatectomy (surgery); Radiation: stereotactic body radiotherapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03609151

IR2018001024

Details and patient eligibility

About

The prognosis of small liver cancer (≤5 cm) with stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) is encouraging, the 1-year local control rate has been reported to be 95-100%, 3-year local control rate about 91%, and 3-year overall survival rate around 70%. So far, there is no randomized controlled study comparing SBRT and surgical treatment for early-stage liver cancer. It is hoped that this study will further compare the efficacy of SBRT and surgery for early stage liver cancer.

Full description

Early stage liver cancer, according to Milan criteria, are chose for this study. The patients are divided into two groups randomly. Patients in group A receive laparoscopic hepatectomy, group B patients receive SBRT.The 3-year progression free survival, 3-year local recurrence free survival, 3- year overall survival and other endpoints events were recorded and analyzed, to assess whether SBRT is non-inferior to surgery.

Enrollment: 110 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. 18 years old and above.
2. Clinical or pathological diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma, initial treatment (without surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy or targeted therapy).
3. Early-stage hepatocellular carcinoma meeting the Milan criteria: single lesion ≤ 5cm, or tumor number ≤ 3, maximum diameter ≤ 3cm, no major vascular invasion of portal vein, hepatic vein, inferior vena cava, no bile duct invasion, no lymph node and extrahepatic metastasis.
4. No serious blood system, heart, lung, liver, kidney dysfunction and immune deficiency.
5. The neutrophil count is at least 1.0*10^9/ml, and the platelet count is at least 50*10^9/ml. Hemoglobin is at least 80g/L.
6. Men or women with fertility are willing to take contraceptive measures during the trial.
7. Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group score 0-1 points.
8. Expected survival period > 3 months.
9. Voluntary participation and signing of informed consent.

Exclusion criteria

1. Patients who have undergone chemoradiation or targeted therapy for liver cancer.
2. Recent hematemesis due to portal hypertension.
3. Child-Pugh score ≥10 points.
4. Total bilirubin>70umol/L, aspartate aminotransferase (ALT), alanine aminotransferase (AST) exceed the upper limit of normal 3 times.
5. who was considered unsuitable for surgery after hepatobiliary and pancreas multidisciplinary treatment（MDT） meeting.
6. Patients undergoing major surgery within 1 month of study initiation
7. Patients with previous history of malignancy (excludes tumor-free survival after treatment of basal cell carcinoma of the skin and carcinoma of the cervix in situ for more than 3 years)
8. Researchers consider it inappropriate to participate in the test

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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110 participants in 2 patient groups

group A

Active Comparator group

Description:

laparoscopic hepatectomy (surgery)

Treatment:

Procedure: laparoscopic hepatectomy (surgery)

group B

Experimental group

Description:

stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT)

Treatment:

Radiation: stereotactic body radiotherapy