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Study of Weekly Radiotherapy for Bladder Cancer (HYBRID)

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Institute of Cancer Research, United Kingdom

Status

Active, not recruiting

Conditions

Bladder Cancer

Treatments

Radiation: Standard planning radiotherapy
Radiation: Adaptive planning radiotherapy

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT01810757
CCR3973
CRUK/12/055 (Other Grant/Funding Number)
ICR-CTSU/2013/10039 (Other Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

Background Localised muscle invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) is life-threatening and can cause significant symptoms. Around 50% of patients with MIBC who are referred for radiotherapy are unfit for standard radical treatment (surgery or daily radiotherapy with chemotherapy), but would have a normal life expectancy if their cancer were adequately controlled. Retrospective studies suggest that radiotherapy which is given weekly using fewer fractions and higher doses (hypofractionated), may be an alternative where daily radiotherapy is not an option.

Radiotherapy treatment is planned based on information from a CT scan which shows the position and shape of the bladder. This plan needs to take into account the fact that the bladder's shape and position can change, depending on how full it is and because of where it is in relation to the bowel. A safety margin is therefore added around the bladder on the planned treatment, to reduce the risk of missing any of the bladder with the radiotherapy.

It is now possible to take scans of the bladder's position before each treatment and adjust the position of the treatment plan accordingly to ensure the bladder is fully covered by it. In this study we are also looking at whether it is possible to design a series of treatment plans with different size safety margins and then choose one that fits best for each particular day. This is called 'adaptive radiotherapy'. This technique may enable accurate treatment delivery using smaller safety margins and this might help to reduce side effects.

Aims

In patients with MIBC not suitable for cystectomy or daily radiotherapy we aim to assess:

  1. whether treatment using adaptive planning can be successfully delivered at multiple sites across the UK and results in acceptable levels of toxicity
  2. the local tumour control rate achieved by hypofractionated weekly radiotherapy
  3. the requirement to treat with adaptive planning.

How results will be used Results will provide robust evidence for use of hypofractionated radiotherapy and assess whether this is a plausible and worthwhile treatment in this patient population. The randomised element of the trial will support the implementation of image-guided adaptive radiotherapy for bladder cancer in the UK. HYBRID will provide evidence on the benefits or otherwise of this methodology and inform the development of further trials in this and other patient groups.

Enrollment

64 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Written informed consent
  • Age ≥18 years
  • Histologically confirmed invasive bladder carcinoma (T2-T4a N0 M0; any histological sub-type)
  • Unsuitable for radical cystectomy or daily fractionated radiotherapy for any reason (including performance status, co-morbidity, patient refusal)
  • Expected survival >6 months
  • WHO performance status 0-3
  • Willing to undergo post treatment cystoscopy

Exclusion criteria

  • Nodal or metastatic disease
  • Concurrent malignancy
  • Previous pelvic radiotherapy
  • Urinary catheter in-situ
  • Any other contra-indication to radiotherapy (e.g. inflammatory bowel disease)
  • Unable to attend for post treatment follow up

Trial design

Primary purpose

Treatment

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

64 participants in 2 patient groups

Standard planning
Active Comparator group
Description:
Standard planning radiotherapy
Treatment:
Radiation: Standard planning radiotherapy
Adaptive planning
Experimental group
Description:
Adaptive planning radiotherapy
Treatment:
Radiation: Adaptive planning radiotherapy

Trial contacts and locations

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