Clinical Trial: Radiation Therapy or Observation Only in Treating Patients With Endometrial Cancer Who Have Undergone Surgery

Study Status: Completed
Recruit Status: Completed
Study Type: Interventional

Official Title: A Phase III Randomized Trial Comparing TAH BSO Versus TAH BSO Plus Adjuvant Pelvic Irradiation in Intermediate Risk Carcinoma of the Endometrium

Brief Summary:

RATIONALE: Radiation therapy uses high-energy x-rays to damage cancer cells. It is not yet known whether radiation therapy is more effective than observation only after sugery in treating endometrial cancer.

PURPOSE: This randomized phase III trial is studying radiation therapy to see how well it works compared to observation only in treating patients with stage I or stage II endometrial cancer who have undergone hysterectomy and oophorectomy.


Detailed Summary:

OBJECTIVES:

  • Compare the overall survival in patients with intermediate-risk endometrial cancer treated with pelvic radiotherapy vs observation after laparoscopically-assisted vaginal hysterectomy or total abdominal hysterectomy and bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy.
  • Compare the time to locoregional recurrence (i.e., in the vaginal mucosa or elsewhere in the central pelvic area or lateral pelvic walls) in patients treated with these regimens.
  • Compare the duration of ultimate pelvic control and event-free survival in patients treated with these regimens.
  • Compare the toxic effects of these regimens in these patients.
  • Compare the quality of life of patients treated with these regimens.
  • Compare sexual health issues in patients treated with these regimens.

OUTLINE: This is a randomized, multicenter study. Patients are stratified by center, tumor grade (1 vs 2 vs 3), surgical staging (yes vs no), and sexual health assessment (yes vs no).

Patients undergo laparoscopic-assisted vaginal hysterectomy or total abdominal hysterectomy and bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy. After surgery, patients are randomized to 1 of 2 treatment arms.

  • Arm I: Patients undergo observation alone.
  • Arm II: Beginning within 12 weeks (preferably within 6-8 weeks) after surgery, patients undergo radiotherapy 5 days a week for 5 weeks in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Protocol-defined brachytherapy is allowed.