| Autor: |
Noriyuki Okonogi, Hirokazu Usui, Kazutoshi Murata, Makoto Hori, Tomoya Kurokawa, Tadami Fujiwara, Yasuhisa Fujii, Michiko Hanawa, Yohei Kawasaki, Yoko Hattori, Kazuko Suzuki, Kyoko Tsuyuki, Masaru Wakatsuki, Sumitaka Hasegawa, Shigeru Yamada, Hideki Hanaoka, Makio Shozu, Hiroshi Tsuji |
| Rok vydání: |
2022 |
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| Zdroj: |
BMJ Open. 12:e056424 |
| ISSN: |
2044-6055 |
| DOI: |
10.1136/bmjopen-2021-056424 |
| Popis: |
IntroductionConcurrent chemoradiotherapy is considered the standard treatment strategy for locally advanced cervical cancer. Most recent reports indicate that patients with bulky tumours or adenocarcinoma subtypes have poorer local control. Carbon-ion radiotherapy (CIRT) with the concurrent use of chemotherapy has shown promising results in such cases of difficult-to-treat uterine cervical cancer. Programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) upregulation was observed in tumour tissue samples from patients who had undergone CIRT. Thus, a combination of CIRT and anti-PD-L1 antibody may suppress metastasis by activating antitumour immune response, in addition to exhibiting strong local effects.ObjectiveWe will assess the safety and tolerability (primary endpoint) of the concomitant use of durvalumab, an anti-PD-L1 antibody, with CIRT and weekly cisplatin for locally advanced cervical cancer.Methods and analysisThis study is a non-randomised, open-label, prospective phase 1b study. Up to 10 patients with histologically proven uterine cervical cancer at stage IIB, IIIA, IIIB, IIIC1 or IVA as per International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (2018) staging will be enrolled. All patients will receive CIRT of 74.4 Gy relative biological effectiveness in 20 fractions over 5 weeks (four fractions per week). Weekly cisplatin at a dose of 40 mg/m2will be administrated up to five times. Durvalumab at a dose of 1500 mg/body will be administrated at weeks 2 and 6. Safety and tolerability will be evaluated based on the frequency of dose-limiting toxicities until 92 days after CIRT starts. Patients will be followed-up strictly as per the scheduled protocol for 1 year after CIRT initiation.Ethics and disseminationThe Human Research Ethics Committees of QST Hospital (#C21-002) and Chiba University (#2021006) have approved this study protocol. The findings will be published in peer-reviewed journals and presented at scientific conferences.Trial registration numberJapan Registry of Clinical Trials (jRCT2031210083), registered on 12 May 2021. |
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OpenAIRE |
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