Whole Brain Irradiation or Stereotactic RadioSurgery for five or more brain metastases (WHOBI-STER) : A prospective comparative study of neurocognitive outcomes, level of autonomy in daily activities and quality of life

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AIMS: To evaluate neurocognitive performance, daily activity and quality of life (QoL), other than usual oncologic outcomes, among patients with brain metastasis ≥5 (MBM) from solid tumors treated with Stereotactic Brain Irradiation (SBI) or Whole Brain Irradiation (WBI).

METHODS: This multicentric randomized controlled trial will involve the enrollment of 100 patients (50 for each arm) with MBM ≥ 5, age ≥ 18 years, Karnofsky Performance Status (KPS) ≥ 70, life expectancy > 3 months, known primary tumor, with controlled or controllable extracranial disease, baseline Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) score ≥ 20/30, Barthel Activities of Daily Living score ≥ 90/100, to be submitted to SBI by LINAC with monoisocentric technique and non-coplanar arcs (experimental arm) or to WBI (control arm). The primary endpoints are neurocognitive performance, QoL and autonomy in daily-life activities variations, the first one assessed by MoCa Score and Hopkins Verbal Learning Test-Revised, the second one through the EORTC QLQ-C15-PAL and QLQ-BN-20 questionnaires, the third one through the Barthel Index, respectively. The secondary endpoints are time to intracranial failure, overall survival, retreatment rate, acute and late toxicities, changing of KPS. It will be considered significant a statistical difference of at least 30% between the two arms (statistical power of 80% with a significance level of 95%).

DISCUSSION: Several studies debate what is the decisive factor accountable for the development of neurocognitive decay among patients undergoing brain irradiation for MBM: radiation effect on clinically healthy brain tissue or intracranial tumor burden? The answer to this question may come from the recent technological advancement that allows, in a context of a significant time saving, improved patient comfort and minimizing radiation dose to off-target brain, a selective treatment of MBM simultaneously, otherwise attackable only by WBI. The achievement of a local control rate comparable to that obtained with WBI remains the fundamental prerequisite.

TRIAL REGISTRATION: NCT number: NCT04891471.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:32

Enthalten in:

Clinical and translational radiation oncology - 32(2022) vom: 12. Jan., Seite 52-58

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Ferini, Gianluca [VerfasserIn]
Viola, Anna [VerfasserIn]
Valenti, Vito [VerfasserIn]
Tripoli, Antonella [VerfasserIn]
Molino, Laura [VerfasserIn]
Marchese, Valentina Anna [VerfasserIn]
Illari, Salvatore Ivan [VerfasserIn]
Rita Borzì, Giuseppina [VerfasserIn]
Prestifilippo, Angela [VerfasserIn]
Umana, Giuseppe Emmanuele [VerfasserIn]
Martorana, Emanuele [VerfasserIn]
Mortellaro, Gianluca [VerfasserIn]
Ferrera, Giuseppe [VerfasserIn]
Cacciola, Alberto [VerfasserIn]
Lillo, Sara [VerfasserIn]
Pontoriero, Antonio [VerfasserIn]
Pergolizzi, Stefano [VerfasserIn]
Parisi, Silvana [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

3D-CRT, 3Dimensional-ConformalRadioTherapy
Autonomy in daily activities
BSC, Best Supportive Care
Brain metastases
CRF, Case Report Form
CT, Computerized Tomography
CTV, Clinical Target Volume
EORTC QLQ-C15-PAL, European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire Core 15 for Palliative Care
FSRT, Fractionated Stereotactic Radiation Therapy
GTV, Gross Tumor Volume
Journal Article
KPS, Karnofsky Performance Status
LINAC, Linear Accelerator
MBM, Multiple Brain Metastastes
MRI, Magnetic Resonance Imaging
MoCA, Montreal Cognitive Assessment
NCCN, National Comprehensive Cancer Network
Neurocognitive decay
Neurocognitive performance
Neurocognitive tests
OAR, Organ At Risk
OS, Overall Survival
PTV, Planning Target Volume
Palliative care
QLQ-BN20, Quality of Life Questionnaire - Brain Neoplasm 20
QoL, Quality of Life
Quality of life
RT, Radiation Therapy
RTOG, Radiation Therapy Oncology Group
Radiotherapy for multiple brain metastases
SBI, Stereotactic Brain Irradiation
SRS, Stereotactic RadioSurgery
SRT, Stereotactic Radiation Therapy
Stereotactic Brain RadioSurgery
Stereotactic Brain Radiotherapy
Supportive care in cancer patients
VEGF, Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor
Whole Brain Radiotherapy

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Date Revised 29.04.2022

published: Electronic-eCollection

ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT04891471

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.ctro.2021.11.008

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM334628938