Multicentric Comparative Study Between a Conventional and an Intensive Follow up Strategy After Treatment of a Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma (SURVEILL'ORL)
Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma
About this trial
This is an interventional other trial for Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Males or females aged superior to 35 years
- Current or previous smokers (smoked more than 10 packs year) or alcohol drinkers (current or previous, more than 140 g alcohol per week) or both
- Histologically proven invasive HNSCC stage 0 to IVa, excluding T4b and nasopharynx. Patients with in situ carcinoma are eligible.
- Treated with curative intent
- Free of cancer at the post-treatment clinical and radiological examination (negative PET-CT for N≥2) at least 2 months after the end of the last treatment and no later than 4 months after. If there is a strong doubt of lack of complete remission (for example if more exams or longer follow-up are needed to affirm or deny complete remission), the patient is not eligible for the trial.
- Remark: Patients with several head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (concomitant or successive), all treated with curative intent and all in complete remission, are eligible.
- Agree to have a long term follow-up
- Signed informed consent
- Patient affiliated to a social security system or beneficiary of the same
Exclusion Criteria:
- Pregnant or breastfeeding women
- Severe psychiatric condition that may inhibit protocol participation and in the judgment of the investigator would make the patient inappropriate for entry into this study.
- Impossibility to perform the planned exams of the intensive strategy
- Nasopharyngeal carcinoma
- Other malignancies within 5 years prior to randomization that needs followup by PET-scan or chest CT or head and neck CT/MRI
- Any disease that needs follow-up by regular upper digestive endoscopy
Sites / Locations
- Gustave Roussy
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Active Comparator
Experimental
Conventional follow-up
Intensive follow-up strategy
clinical examination with nasofibroscopy every 1-3 months first year post-treatment, every 2-4 months second year, every 4-6 months third year (mean of around 13 visits) and every 6 months thereafter. Low Dose Chest CTscan every year in patients with tobacco consumption history of > 20 pack-year. Panendoscopy plus CT-scan are performed in case of clinical symptoms or abnormal clinical exam.
adding to the conventional follow-up strategy , an annual head&neck and thoracic injected CT-scan and Lugol upper gastrointestinal endoscopy (the first performed 12 months after inclusion), annual whole body PET-CT (the first at 6 months after inclusion). These 3 exams are performed every year during 3 years after inclusion (i.e. 3 CT-scan, 3 digestive endoscopies and 3 PET-CT per patient). Clinical follow up will be conducted as in the conventional follow up group and panendoscopy or bronchoscopy will be performed if needed. After 3 years, patients will be followed by conventional follow-up.