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TerminatedNCT03475680COLONPREPUpdated May 17, 2022

Mechanical Bowel Preparation and Oral Antibiotics Before Colon Cancer Surgery

A Phase 3 interventional study of Sennosides colonic preparation and Oral Gentamycin in Colon Cancer, sponsored by Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris. Terminated at 1 site in France. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2022-05-17.

Sponsored by Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris · Phase 3, Interventional, and Prevention

Why this study was terminated
lack of inclusions
Phase
Phase 3
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
193
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

This study aims to demonstrate that a preoperative combination of mechanical bowel preparation and oral antibiotics, before elective laparoscopic colon cancer surgery, is associated with a reduction of postoperative surgical site infection rate, as compared to mechanical bowel preparation alone, oral antibiotics alone, or no colonic preparation.

Our Hypothesis is that a preoperative colonic preparation including a combination of mechanical bowel preparation and oral antibiotics before elective laparoscopic colon cancer surgery is associated with a reduced rate of 30-day postoperative surgical site infection, as compared to mechanical bowel preparation alone, oral antibiotics alone, or no colonic preparation.

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Preoperative mechanical bowel preparation (MBP) has been proposed in an attempt to reduce the colonic fecal load and to limit the risk of surgical site contamination, thus theoretically limiting the risk of postoperative SSI. However, several randomized-controlled trials (RCT) and meta-analyses, have suggested the absence of benefit, in term of postoperative morbidity, of preoperative MBP before elective colon cancer surgery. A meta-analysis of RCT, comparing MBP to no-MBP before elective colon cancer surgery, even suggested that MBP could be associated with an increased SSI rate, as compared to no-MBP. These results led the latest French surgical guidelines of the Société Française de Chirurgie Digestive (SFCD) to recommend the absence of MBP before elective colon cancer surgery.

However, recent studies suggested that the adjunction of oral antibiotics during MBP could help efficiently reduce the risk of postoperative SSI. Indeed, a recent meta-analysis of RCT have suggested that patients preoperatively receiving both MBP and oral antibiotics were exposed to a significantly reduced risk of postoperative SSI, as compared to patients receiving only preoperative MBP. This result was confirmed in a recent RCT which compared preoperative MBP and oral antibiotics versus MBP alone in a heterogeneous population of patients who underwent laparoscopic colonic or rectal surgery. This latter study reported a 50% reduction of SSI rate in the "MBP and oral antibiotics" group, as compared to the "MBP alone" group. Finally, three recent large retrospective registry studies compared the outcomes of four different strategies of preoperative colonic preparation before colorectal surgery: 1) MBP and oral antibiotics, 2) MBP alone, 3) Oral antibiotics alone, and 4) No colonic preparation. However, to date, no RCT has compared the "No preparation" group, which is the gold standard according to the international and French guidelines, to the "MBP and oral antibiotics" group.

The present study is therefore the first double-blinded RCT to compare the SSI rate for 4 types of colonic preparation before elective laparoscopic colonic surgery: 1) MBP and oral antibiotics, 2) MBP alone, 3) Oral antibiotics alone, and 4) No preparation.

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Conditions studied

  • Colon Cancer

Keywords

  • Mechanical Bowel Preparation (MBP)
  • Oral antibiotics
  • Colon cancer surgery
  • Surgical site infection
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In context

Colonic Neoplasms

2,457 studies on the registry are indexed under Colonic Neoplasms; 458 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 193 is above the median of 75 across 1,711 interventional studies indexed under Colonic Neoplasms.

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Lead sponsor

Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris is the lead sponsor of 3,592 studies on the registry; 1,033 are open to participants now.

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Who can participate

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

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Inclusion criteria

  • Patients aged 18 or more
  • Scheduled to undergo elective restorative laparoscopic segmental colectomy for colon cancer
  • With Signed consent
  • And affiliated to the French social security system

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Emergent surgery
  • Scheduled total or subtotal colectomy (defined as a colectomy extended from the right colon to a least the left colonic angle)
  • Scheduled transverse colectomy
  • Scheduled associated proctectomy
  • Scheduled associated concomitant resection of another organ (liver, etc.), except the abdominal wall
  • Previous segmental colectomy
  • Associated inflammatory bowel disease
  • Active bacterial infection at the time of surgery or recent antimicrobial therapy (up to 2 weeks before surgery)
  • Patients with known colonization with multidrug-resistant enterobacteriacea
  • History of allergy or to the Ornidazole, Gentamycin, X-PREP or to any of the of the drugs used.
  • Cirrhosis of grade B and C ( classification)
  • Myasthenia
  • Allergy to one of the other treatments administered for the purpose of the trial (including betadine)
  • Patient suffering from severe central neurologic diseases, fixed or progressive.
  • Pregnant patients
  • Refusal to participate or inability to provide
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Study design

Phase
Phase 3
Primary purpose
Prevention
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
Double (Participant, Investigator)
Enrollment
193 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    1) " MBP and oral antibiotics " group

    Sennosides colonic preparation Oral Gentamycin Oral Ornidazole * Sennosides colonic preparation (X-PREP) : 1 per day, on day -2 and day -1. * Gentamycin : 80 mg, 4 per day, on day -2 and day -1; Liquid forms in individual vials. * Ornidazole : 1. g per day (2 tablet per day), on day -2 and day -1; In tablets.

    Drug: Sennosides colonic preparation · Drug: Oral Gentamycin · Drug: Oral Ornidazole

  • Placebo comparator
    2) " MBP alone " group

    Sennosides colonic preparation Oral placebo Gentamycin Oral placebo Ornidazole * Sennosides colonic preparation (X-PREP) : 1 per day, on day -2 and day -1. * Placebo for oral gentamycin: Same presentation as oral gentamycin x4 per day on day -2 and day -1. - Placebo for oral ornidazole : Same presentation as oral ornidazole 1g per day (2 tablet per day) on day -2 and day -1.

    Drug: Sennosides colonic preparation · Drug: Oral placebo Gentamycin · Drug: Oral placebo Ornidazole

  • Experimental
    3) " Oral antibiotics alone " group

    Oral Gentamycin Oral Ornidazole * Gentamycin : 80 mg, 4 per day, on day -2 and day -1; Liquid forms in individual vials. * Ornidazole : 1. g per day (2 tablet per day), on day -2 and day -1; In tablets.

    Drug: Oral Gentamycin · Drug: Oral Ornidazole

  • Placebo comparator
    4) " No preparation " group

    Oral placebo Gentamycin Oral placebo Ornidazole - Placebo for oral gentamycin : Same presentation as oral gentamycin x4 per day on day -2 and day -1 - Placebo for oral ornidazole : Same presentation as oral ornidazole 1g per day (2 tablet per day) on day -2 and day -1

    Drug: Oral placebo Gentamycin · Drug: Oral placebo Ornidazole

Interventions

  • DrugSennosides colonic preparation

    Mechanical bowel preparation : Sennosides colonic preparation (X-PREP) 1 per day, on day -2 and day -1

  • Gentamycin 80 mg, 4 per day, on day -2 and day -1; Liquid forms in individual vials

  • Oral Ornidazole : Ornidazole 1 g per day (2 tablet per day), on day -2 and day -1; In tablets

  • DrugOral placebo Gentamycin

    Placebo for oral gentamycin : Same presentation as oral gentamycin x4 per day on day -2 and day -1

  • DrugOral placebo Ornidazole

    Placebo for oral Ornidazole : Same presentation as oral ornidazole 1g per day (2 tablet per day) on day -2 and day -1

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Postoperative 30-day surgical site infection (SSI).

    SSI will be defined and classified as superficial, deep and/or organ-space infection on the basis of validated and well-defined criteria developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), validated in French by the Comité technique des infections nosocomiales et des infections liées aux soins

    Time frame: 30 days

Secondary outcomes

  1. Overall postoperative morbidity

    Including all postoperative complications occurring within 30 days after surgery, defined and classified according to the Clavien-Dindo classification.

    Time frame: 30 days

  2. Severe postoperative morbidity

    Including all complications graded 3 or more according to the Clavien-Dindo classification, and occurring within 30 days after surgery.

    Time frame: 30 days

  3. Postoperative mortality

    Including all deaths occurring within 30 days after surgery.

    Time frame: 30 days

  4. Postoperative anastomotic leakage

    Defined as the passing of any intra-colonic content (air, liquid, intestinal content, or radiological contrast) through an anastomosis or by an peri-anastomotic abscess, even in the absence of intra-colonic content leak through the anastomosis, observed in drainages, surgical incision, vagina, during a surgical procedure or on a radiological examination, occurring within 90 days after surgery.

    Time frame: 90 days

  5. Postoperative length of hospital stay

    Calculated from the day of surgery to the day of hospital discharge.

    Time frame: Day of hospital discharge

  6. Unplanned hospitalization

    Defined as any unplanned hospitalization between surgery and postoperative day 90.

    Time frame: 90 days

  7. Tolerance of the colonic preparation

    Evaluated using a dedicated tolerance of the colonic preparation questionnaire performed the evening before surgery.

    Time frame: The day before surgery

  8. Clostridium difficile colitis occurrence

    Defined as clinical symptoms of clostridium difficile colitis with at least 1 stool sample positive for Clostridium difficile toxin A/B as detected by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay within 30 days after surgery.

    Time frame: 30 days

  9. Rate of multi-resistant bacteria carriage

    Defined as rate of multi-resistant bacteria carriage

    Time frame: The day before or the day of surgery

  10. Date of adjuvant chemotherapy beginning

    If indicated

    Time frame: During 90 days

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Study locations

1 site
  • Service de chirurgie Colorectale / Hôpital Beaujon
    Clichy, 92110, France
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No — There is not a plan to make IPD available

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 May 17, 2022, 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
NCT03475680
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Mar 23, 2018
Start date
Aug 8, 2018
Primary completion
Aug 26, 2021
Completion
Mar 23, 2022
Last update
May 17, 2022

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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