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CompletedNCT02888717GYNOSNAUpdated Mar 24, 2020

Molecular Biology Analysis for Para-aortic Nodes in the Ultra-staging of Advanced Cervical Cancers

An interventional study of 'OSNA stadification during surgery' in Advanced Cervical Cancer, sponsored by Institut Cancerologie de l'Ouest. Completed at 1 site in France. Open to female participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2020-03-24.

Sponsored by Institut Cancerologie de l'Ouest · Not applicable, Interventional, and Other

From the registry’s dates

  • Registered 1 year 4 months after the study started (first participant enrolled Apr 2015, registered Aug 2016).
Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
16
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
Female
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Study summary

The para-aortic lymph node involvement in the advanced stage of cervical cancer is a poor prognostic factor for overall survival. Concomitant chemo-radiotherapy has become the standard treatment for advanced cervical cancer. In case of para-aortic lymph node involvement, an extension of radiotherapy fields is recommended.

A prospective multicentre study shown that the survival rate of patients with node ≤ 5 mm and which benefited from the expansion of radiotherapy fields was identical to the survival of pN0 patients.

However, due to a specific disease, this technique should not be performed in all patients. It is necessary to reliably select patients with retroperitoneal lymph node involvement. For this, it is recommended that prior to the concurrent chemo-radiotherapy, nodal staging surgery with a definitive histological analysis.

So we propose to use molecular diagnostic test OSNA (One Step Nucleic Acid Amplification) to improve lymph node metastasis detection sensitivity to achieve ultra-staging compared to conventional histology.

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The para-aortic lymph node involvement in the advanced stage of cervical cancer is a poor prognostic factor for overall survival. Concomitant chemoradiotherapy has become the standard treatment for advanced cervical cancer. In case of para-aortic lymph node involvement, an extension of radiotherapy fields is recommended.

A prospective multicenter study shown that the survival rate of patients with node ≤ 5 mm and which benefited from the expansion of radiotherapy fields was identical to the survival of pN0 patients.

However, due to a specific disease, this technique should not be performed in all patients. It is necessary to reliably select patients with retroperitoneal lymph node involvement. For this, it is recommended that prior to the concurrent chemoradiotherapy, nodal staging surgery with a definitive histological analysis.

So we suggest using molecular diagnostic test OSNA (One Step Nucleic Acid Amplification) to improve lymph node metastasis detection sensitivity to achieve ultra-staging compared to conventional histology.

We propose to consider a new concordance study to assess the feasibility of the technical OSNA in a new indication: cervical cancer.

The analysis protocol of a concordance study is the same regardless of the location of the cancer. We evaluate the use of OSNA in order to ultrastaging of lymph node involvement for patients with advanced cancer of the cervix.

Our hypothesis is that OSNA would be:

  • better than the usual histological staging method
  • and equivalence in terms of sensitivity and specificity compared to intensive histological method To complete this study we propose to search the initial brain tumor expression of cytokeratin 19.
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Conditions studied

  • Advanced Cervical Cancer
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In context

Uterine Cervical Neoplasms

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This study's enrollment of 16 is below the median of 100 across 1,377 interventional studies indexed under Uterine Cervical Neoplasms.

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Lead sponsor

Institut Cancerologie de l'Ouest is the lead sponsor of 105 studies on the registry; 18 are open to participants now.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years and older
Sexes eligible
Female
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

  1. Women aged 18 or over
  2. Cervical cancer of any histological type
  3. Cervical cancer of advanced stage (>= IB2)
  4. negative para-aortic routine PET CT scan
  5. Patient affiliated to a social protection scheme
  6. Information on the study delivered to the patient

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Patients minor
  2. Patient pregnant or breastfeeding or of childbearing age without effective contraception
  3. Other concurrent cancer or history of cancer (in the 5 years preceding the entry into the trial), except in situ cervical cancer treated basal cell or squamous cell or treated carcinoma
  4. Legal incapacity or limited legal capacity. medical or psychological conditions not allowing the subject to understand the study and sign the consent
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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Other
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
16 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    OSNA stadification during surgery

    The para-aortic dissection surgery is performed in the usual way. The lymph nodes are isolated from fat tissue during surgery, and will be analysis both by histological analysis and OSNA analysis

    Procedure: 'OSNA stadification during surgery'

Interventions

  • Procedure'OSNA stadification during surgery'

    The para-aortic dissection surgery is performed in the usual way. The lymph nodes are isolated from fat tissue during surgery, and cut into 4 slices sterile. * Slices A and C are sent OSNA analysis * Slices B and D are sent ultimately histological analysis (1 cup HES or 5 cup HES + IHC) The nodes of less than 5 mm will be sent in final histological analysis due to the inability to cut into 4. After the analysis, the report indicates whether the node is: * Free (-): \<250 copies * Micrometastatic (+): 250 ≤ - \<5,000 copies, * Macrometastatic (++): ≥ 5000 copies.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. compare the performance of OSNA for the detection of lymph node metastases in advanced cervical cancer

    The main objective is to compare the performance of OSNA to both conventional methods and intensive histological analysis, for the detection of lymph node metastases in advanced cervical cancer. The evaluation criteria is : * Determination of number of lymph node metastases expressed in a size in mm for conventional and intensive histological analysis. * Determination of the number of lymph node metastases expressed in a number of copies in molecular biology.

    Time frame: 15 days between surgery and OSNA results

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Study locations

1 site
  • ICO René Gauducheau
    Saint-Herblain, 44805, France
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Mar 24, 2020, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT02888717
Lead sponsor
Institut Cancerologie de l'Ouest
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Sep 5, 2016
Start date
Apr 28, 2015
Primary completion
Nov 13, 2018
Completion
Nov 13, 2018
Last update
Mar 24, 2020

Study contacts

JAFFRE Isabelle, MD
principal investigator · Institut de Cancérologie de l'Ouest

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
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