SIRT Followed by CIS-GEM Chemotherapy Versus CIS-GEM Chemotherapy Alone as 1st Line Treatment of Patients With Unresectable Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma (SIRCCA)
Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma
About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Willing, able and mentally competent to provide written informed consent.
- Aged 18 years or older.
- Histologically or cytologically confirmed unresectable and non-ablatable intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma.
- Liver-only or liver predominant intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma. Patient are permitted to have loco-regional lymph node involvement defined as: portal LN </= to 2 cm and/or para aortic LN </= to 1.5 cm in longest diameter, and/or up to 2 indeterminate lung lesions < 1 cm if these lung lesions are positron emission tomography (PET) negative.
- Chemotherapy naïve. Adjuvant chemotherapy is not permitted.
- Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status 0 or 1.
- Adequate hematological function defined as:
Hemoglobin >/= 10g/dL White Blood Cell count (WBC) >/= 3.0 x 10^9/L Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) >/= 1.5 x 10^9/L Platelet count >/= 100,000/mm^3 - Adequate liver function defined as: Total bilirubin </= 30 umol/L (1.75 mg/dL) Albumin >/= 30 g/L
- Adequate renal function defined as: Serum urea and serum creatinine < 1.5 times upper limit of normal (ULN) Creatinine clearance >/= 45 ml/min (calculated with Cockcroft-Gault Equation)
- Life expectancy of at least 3 months without any active treatment
- Female patients must either be postmenopausal, sterile (surgically or radiation- or chemically-induced), or if sexually active use an acceptable method of contraception during the study.
- Male patients must be surgically sterile or if sexually active must use an acceptable method of contraception during the study.
- Considered suitable to receive either regimen in the clinical judgement of the treating investigator.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients with only non-measurable lesions in the liver according to RECIST criteria
- Incomplete recovery from previous liver surgery, e.g. unresolved biliary tree obstruction or biliary sepsis or inadequate liver function
- Biliary stent in situ
- Main trunk Portal Vein Thrombosis (PVT)
- Ascites, even if controlled with diuretics. (A minor peri-hepatic rim of ascites detected at imaging is acceptable).
- Mixed hepatocellular carcinoma - intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (HCC-ICC) disease
- History of prior malignancy. Exceptions include in-situ carcinoma of the cervix treated by cone-biopsy/resection, non-metastatic basal and/or squamous cell carcinomas of the skin, recurrent intra-hepatic cholangiocarcinoma post local treatment or any early stage (stage 1) malignancy adequately resected with curative intent at least 5 years prior to study entry
- Suspicion of any bone metastasis/metastases or central nervous system metastasis/metastases on clinical or imaging examination.
- Prior internal or external radiation delivered to the liver.
- Pregnancy; breast feeding.
- Participation within 28 days prior to randomization, in an active part of another clinical study that would compromise any of the endpoints of the study.
- Evidence of ongoing active infection that may affect treatment feasibility or outcome.
- Prior Whipple's procedure.
Sites / Locations
- Providence Health Care
- Macquarie University Hospital
- Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
- Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc
- Hopital Beaujon
- CHU Dijon
- CHU de Grenoble
- CHU Lyon - Hospital de la Croix-Rousse
- Institut Paoli Calmettes
- CHU Montpellier
- CHU Nice - Hopital l'Archet 2
- Hopital Haut-Leveque
- CHU de Poitiers
- Centre Eugene Marquis Hospital de Jour
- Hopital Paul Brousse
- U.O. Oncologia Medica 2 Universitaria
- AMC Academic Medical Center
- Hospital Clinic Barcelona
- Clinica Universitaria de Navarra
- Hammersmith Hospital Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- The Christie NHS Foundation Trust
- Southampton General Hospital
- The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Active Comparator
Experimental
Chemotherapy (Cisplatin-Gemcitabine)
Radiation: SIRT + chemotherapy (Cisplatin-Gemcitabine)
Cisplatin 25mg/m2 in 1000ml 0.9% saline given over 1 hour followed by 500 ml 0.9% saline over 30 minutes, followed by Gemcitabine 1000 mg/m2 in 250-500 ml 0.9% saline over 30 minutes by intravenous infusions on days 1, and 8 of a 21-day cycle.
A single treatment of hepatic arterial injection of SIR-Spheres Y-90 resin microspheres (SIRT) followed 14-16 days later by systemic chemotherapy (ABC-02 CIS-GEM protocol) with an intention to treat with 8 cycles of cisplatin + gemcitabine, or until progression, toxicity or patient choice. Treatment may be continued beyond 8 cycles in the absence of significant disease progression, at the treating clinicians' discretion.