A randomised controlled trial of Standard Of Care versus RadioAblaTion in Early Stage HepatoCellular Carcinoma (SOCRATES HCC)

Wigg, A; Tibballs, J; Woodman, R; Stuart, K; Le, H; Roberts, SK; Olynyk, JK; Strasser, SI; Wallace, M; Martin, J; Haworth, A; Hardcastle, N; Loo, KF; Tang, C; Lee, YY; Chu, J; De Abreu Lourenco, R; Koukourou, A; De Boo, D; McLean, K; Buck, J; Sawhney, R; Nicoll, A; Dev, A; Wood, M; Braund, A; Weltman, M; Khor, R; Levy, M; Wang, T; Potter, M; Haridy, J; Raj, A; Duncan, O; Zekry, A; Collier, N; O&#39;Beirne, J; Holliday, C; Trada, Y; Tronidjaja, J; George, J; Pryor, D

Author(s): Wigg, A; Tibballs, J; Woodman, R; Stuart, K; Le, H; Roberts, SK; Olynyk, JK; Strasser, SI; Wallace, M; Martin, J; Haworth, A; Hardcastle, N; Loo, KF; Tang, C; Lee, YY; Chu, J; De Abreu Lourenco, R; Koukourou, A; De Boo, D; McLean, K; Buck, J; Sawhney, R; Nicoll, A; Dev, A; Wood, M; Braund, A; Weltman, M; Khor, R; Levy, M; Wang, T; Potter, M; Haridy, J; Raj, A; Duncan, O; Zekry, A; Collier, N; O'Beirne, J; Holliday, C; Trada, Y; Tronidjaja, J; George, J; Pryor, D;
Details: Publication Year 2024-07-08,Volume 24,Issue #1,Page 813
Journal Title: BMC Cancer
Publication Type: Research article
Abstract: BACKGROUND: Therapeutic options for early-stage hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in individual patients can be limited by tumor and location, liver dysfunction and comorbidities. Many patients with early-stage HCC do not receive curative-intent therapies. Stereotactic ablative body radiotherapy (SABR) has emerged as an effective, non-invasive HCC treatment option, however, randomized evidence for SABR in the first line setting is lacking. METHODS: Trans-Tasman Radiation Oncology Group (TROG) 21.07 SOCRATES-HCC is a phase II, prospective, randomised trial comparing SABR to other current standard of care therapies for patients with a solitary HCC ≤ 8 cm, ineligible for surgical resection or transplantation. The study is divided into 2 cohorts. Cohort 1 will compromise 118 patients with tumors ≤ 3 cm eligible for thermal ablation randomly assigned (1:1 ratio) to thermal ablation or SABR. Cohort 2 will comprise 100 patients with tumors > 3 cm up to 8 cm in size, or tumors ≤ 3 cm ineligible for thermal ablation, randomly assigned (1:1 ratio) to SABR or best other standard of care therapy including transarterial therapies. The primary objective is to determine whether SABR results in superior freedom from local progression (FFLP) at 2 years compared to thermal ablation in cohort 1 and compared to best standard of care therapy in cohort 2. Secondary endpoints include progression free survival, overall survival, adverse events, patient reported outcomes and health economic analyses. DISCUSSION: The SOCRATES-HCC study will provide the first randomized, multicentre evaluation of the efficacy, safety and cost effectiveness of SABR versus other standard of care therapies in the first line treatment of unresectable, early-stage HCC. It is a broad, multicentre collaboration between hepatology, interventional radiology and radiation oncology groups around Australia, coordinated by TROG Cancer Research. TRIAL REGISTRATION: anzctr.org.au, ACTRN12621001444875, registered 21 October 2021.
Publisher: BioMed Central
Keywords: Humans; *Liver Neoplasms/pathology/therapy/radiotherapy/surgery; *Carcinoma, Hepatocellular/therapy/pathology/radiotherapy/surgery; *Standard of Care; *Radiosurgery/methods; Prospective Studies; Male; Female; Neoplasm Staging; Middle Aged; Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; Aged; Adult; Early-stage hepatocellular carcinoma; Sabr; Sbrt; Stereotactic ablative radiotherapy; Thermal ablation; Transarterial therapies; Treatment stage migration
Department(s): Physical Sciences
Publisher's Version: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-024-12504-2
Open Access at Publisher's Site: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-024-12504-2
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