Status:

RECRUITING

Spinal Palliation in Irradiation for Neoplastic Analgesia and Life Quality

Lead Sponsor:

Institut de Cancérologie de Lorraine

Conditions:

Bone Metastasis

Oncology Pain

Eligibility:

All Genders

18+ years

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to assess the impact of reducing the volume of palliative metastatic bone irradiation on analgesic effectiveness at day 30 and to evaluate the efficiency of telemoni...

Detailed Description

Palliative analgesic radiotherapy (RT) is used to relieve pain in patients with bone metastases. This technique involves irradiating the vertebrae above and below the ones responsible for the pain. Tr...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Patient with bone pain related to at least 1 or more bone metastases of spinal location, contiguous or not, cervical (excluding C1), thoracic, lumbar or sacral up to and including S2; a patient can be included even if he or she is irradiated concomitantly or not for analgesic purposes on another non-spinal bone metastatic site. Bone lesions are objective on an imaging examination less than 3 months old: CT and/or MRI and/or PET and/or bone scintigraphy;
  • Patient with at least moderate pain with EN ≥ 5;
  • Patient on analgesic drug treatment for at least 7 days or poor tolerance of analgesics;
  • Patient irradiated for palliative analgesic purposes. Post-cementoplasty irradiation is possible; an extension to the soft tissues is not a contraindication to inclusion;
  • Patient with a validated palliative bone irradiation plan: 8 Gy / 1 fr or 20 Gy / 5 fr;
  • Patient with planning only in static IMRT, arc therapy or helical tomotherapy;
  • Patient with a primary cancer or a haemopathy;
  • Patient currently undergoing or not a specific oncological systemic treatment, left to the discretion of the investigating physician;
  • Patient currently undergoing or not a treatment with bisphosphonates and denosumab, left to the discretion of the investigating physician;
  • WHO ≤ 2;
  • Patient with a life expectancy ≥ 3 months;
  • Patient able and agreeing to follow all study procedures in accordance with the protocol;
  • Patient having understood, signed and dated the consent form;
  • Patient affiliated to the social security system.

Exclusion

  • Pediatric patient;
  • Patient undergoing stereotaxic irradiation;
  • Patient undergoing oligometastatic disease;
  • Patient undergoing re-irradiation unless the dose is not limiting to OARs;
  • Patient treated with RT2D (conventional 2-dimensional radiotherapy) or RT3D (conventional 3-dimensional radiotherapy);
  • Patient with MESCC (metastatic epidural spinal cord compression) except for a Bilsky grade \< 1b;
  • Patient who does not have a means of responding to online questionnaires;
  • Patient and their entourage who cannot read or express themselves in French;
  • Visually impaired patient;
  • Patient already included in another therapeutic trial with an experimental molecule;
  • Persons deprived of liberty or under guardianship (including curatorship).
  • Pregnant woman, likely to be pregnant, or breastfeeding

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

July 2 2025

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ESTIMATED

End Date :

January 2 2029

Estimated Enrollment :

598 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT06884332

Start Date

July 2 2025

End Date

January 2 2029

Last Update

September 23 2025

Active Locations (4)

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Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Brest

Brest, Brest, France, 29609

2

Centre Henri Becquerel Rouen

Rouen, Rouen, France, 76038

3

Institut de cancérologie de l'Ouest (ICO)

Saint-Herblain, Saint-Herblain, France, 44805

4

Institut de Cancérologie de Lorraine

Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy, France, 54511