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Second Uterine Evacuation for Low-risk Gestational Trophoblastic Neoplasia

A Phase 3 interventional study of Uterine curettage and Chemotherapy in Gestational Trophoblastic Neoplasia, Molar Pregnancy and Gestational Trophoblastic Tumor, Non-Metastatic, sponsored by Brigham and Women's Hospital. Recruiting at 7 sites in Brazil. Open to female participants. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2022-05-27.

Sponsored by Brigham and Women's Hospital · Phase 3, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Primary completion was expected by Dec 2024, 1 year 10 months ago, but the record still lists the study as recruiting.
  • Started Feb 2021; still recruiting 5 years 9 months later.
Phase
Phase 3
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
150
Allocation
Randomized
Sex
Female
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Study summary

To evaluate the efficacy and safety of second uterine curettage in patients with low-risk non-metastatic GTN.

Read the detailed description

This is a randomized, multicenter clinical trial including patients seen at one of 13 gestational trophoblastic disease reference centers in Brazil. Subjects are eligible if they have low-risk gestational trophoblastic neoplasia according to FIGO 2000 criteria and the FIGO/WHO prognostic risk score. The study includes two treatment arms: immediate treatment with single-agent chemotherapy (center choice of agent) or second uterine curettage. The primary outcome is the rate of primary remission. Secondary outcomes are the number of chemotherapy cycles required to achieve remission, rate of primary chemotherapy resistance, rate of relapse, and overall survival.

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Conditions studied

  • Gestational Trophoblastic Neoplasia
  • Molar Pregnancy
  • Gestational Trophoblastic Tumor, Non-Metastatic
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In context

Gestational Trophoblastic Disease

57 studies on the registry are indexed under Gestational Trophoblastic Disease; 16 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 150 is above the median of 40 across 35 interventional studies indexed under Gestational Trophoblastic Disease.

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Lead sponsor

Brigham and Women's Hospital is the lead sponsor of 1,267 studies on the registry; 228 are open to participants now.

Of its 116 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 65 (56%) have results posted.

Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
Child (0–17), Adult (18–64), Older adult (65+)
Sexes eligible
Female
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  • Histopathological diagnosis of molar pegnancy according to the morphological criteria described by Sebire et al., who meet the diagnostic criteria for low-risk non- GTN according to FIGO 2000 criteria

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. High risk GTN (FIGO risk score ≥ 7) or disease at diagnosis of GTN (stage II, III or IV);
  2. Histopathological diagnosis of choriocarcinoma, placental site trophoblastic or epithelioid trophoblastic tumor at the second curettage;
  3. Previous chemotherapy treatment;
  4. Level of hCG at the time of GTN diagnosis less than 20 IU/L (to minimize the risk of inclusion of patients with false positive hCG, either by cross-reaction with pituitary hormones or by the presence of circulating heterophilic antibodies);
  5. GTN;
  6. Incomplete medical records.
  7. Loss to follow-up;
  8. Voluntary desire to stop participating in the study.
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(2)

Underlined terms in the criteria open these too. Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.

Metastases

Cancer that has spread from where it began to other parts of the body. “Metastatic” cancer is cancer that has spread this way.

Relapsed and refractory

Relapsed: the illness came back after treatment had worked. Refractory: it did not respond to treatment, or stopped responding while still on it.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 3
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
Double (Investigator, Outcomes assessor)
Enrollment
150 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Active comparator
    Chemotherapy

    Patients allocated to receive conventional chemotherapy will be treated with methotrexate (1 mg/kg intramuscular) with rescue of folinic acid (15mg orally). In cases of chemoresistance, second-line chemotherapy will be performed with actinomycin-D (Act-D) 1.25 mg intravenous pulse every 14 days. The third line of chemotherapy will be the EMA/CO regimen (reserving the EP / EMA regimen (E, cisplatin, MTX / Act-D) for the fourth line.

    Drug: Chemotherapy

  • Experimental
    Uterine evacuation

    Patients randomized to undergo a second curettage will undergo manual or electronic vacuum aspiration under ultrasound guidance. Following discharge after the second curettage patients will return to weekly hCG monitoring. If hCG levels are decreasing, patients will remain on weekly hCG follow-up until the first normal hCG (\<5 IU/L) is achieved. Then they will have monthly hCG monitoring for 12 months. If patients do not attain remission and develop persistent GTN as established by FIGO 2000, the tumor will be re-staged and appropriate chemotherapy will be initiated.

    Procedure: Uterine curettage

Interventions

  • ProcedureUterine curettage

    Manual or electric vacuum aspiration under ultrasound guidance.

  • DrugChemotherapy

    conventional chemotherapy will be treated with MTX (1 mg/kg intramuscular) with rescue of FA (15mg orally). In cases of chemoresistance, second-line chemotherapy will be performed with actinomycin-D (Act-D) 1.25 mg intravenous pulse every 14 days. The third line of chemotherapy will be the EMA/CO regimen (, reserving the EP / EMA regimen (E, cisplatin, MTX / Act-D) for the fourth line.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Remission rate from primary therapy

    Undetectable hCG on weekly serum assay for at least three weeks

    Time frame: 3 years

Secondary outcomes

  1. Cycles to remission

    Total number of cycles of chemotherapy required to attain remission

    Time frame: 3 years

  2. Time to remission

    Time in days from randomization to remission

    Time frame: 3 years

  3. Need for multiagent chemotherapy

    Need for progression from single agent to multiagent chemotherapy

    Time frame: 3 years

  4. Relapse

    Re-elevation of hCG after achieving remission

    Time frame: 1 year

  5. Death

    Death from any cause

    Time frame: 1 year

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Study locations

6 of 7 sites recruiting
  • Paulista State University UNESP
    Botucatu, Brazil
    Not yet recruiting
    • Izildinha Maestá · Contact
  • Campinas State University UNICAMP
    Campinas, Brazil
    Recruiting
    • Daniela A Yela · Contact
  • University of Caxias do Sul
    Caxias Do Sul, Brazil
    Recruiting
    • José Mauro Madi · Contact
  • Federal University of Ceará
    Ceará, Brazil
    Recruiting
    • Cecília Maria Ponte · Contact
  • Medical School of Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Porto Alegre
    Porto Alegre, Brazil
    Recruiting
    • Elza -Maria Hartmann · Contact
    • Rodrigo Bernardes Cardoso · Principal investigator
  • Maternidade Escola da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
    Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    Recruiting
  • Federal University of São Paulo UNIFESP
    São Paulo, Brazil
    Recruiting
    • Sue Yazaki Sun · Contact
    • Marcia Marcelino Ishigai · Principal investigator
    • Gustavo Rubino Focchi · Principal investigator
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References and documents

Publications

  • Osborne RJ, Filiaci VL, Schink JC, Mannel RS, Behbakht K, Hoffman JS, Spirtos NM, Chan JK, Tidy JA, Miller DS. Second Curettage for Low-Risk Nonmetastatic Gestational Trophoblastic Neoplasia. Obstet Gynecol. 2016 Sep;128(3):535-542. doi: 10.1097/AOG.0000000000001554. PubMed 27500329 ↗
  • Hemida R, Vos EL, El-Deek B, Arafa M, Toson E, Burger CW, van Doorn HC. Second Uterine Curettage and the Number of Chemotherapy Courses in Postmolar Gestational Trophoblastic Neoplasia: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Obstet Gynecol. 2019 May;133(5):1024-1031. doi: 10.1097/AOG.0000000000003232. Erratum In: Obstet Gynecol. 2019 Sep;134(3):652. doi: 10.1097/AOG.0000000000003424. PubMed 30969220 ↗

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reached

Started Feb 2021 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Dec 2024, 46 months after the start.

How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.

Registered
Feb 12, 2021
First posted
Feb 16, 2021
StartActual
Feb 11, 2021
Primary completionEst.
Dec 31, 2024
CompletionEst.
Dec 31, 2025
Last update
May 27, 2022
What these dates mean
Start.
When the first participant enrolled; while estimated, when the study expects to open to recruitment.
Primary completion.
When the last participant was examined or treated to collect data for the study's main question, its primary outcome. A study that stopped early gives the date its data collection stopped.
Completion.
When the last participant's last visit took place, for every outcome, secondary ones and side effects included: the end of the study. Often later than primary completion, sometimes the same day.
Actual and Est.
Actual means the registry says the date has happened. Est. (estimated) is a date the sponsor plans or expects. It can still move, and the sponsor is expected to change it to actual once it has passed.
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on May 27, 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
NCT04756713
Collaborators
Maternidade Escola da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Federal University of Ceará, Federal University of São Paulo UNIFESP, Campinas State University UNICAMP, Paulista State University UNESP BOTUCATU, Medical School of Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Porto Alegr, University of Caxias do Sul
Responsible party
Kevin Elias (Co-investigator, Brigham and Women's Hospital) — Principal investigator
First posted
Feb 16, 2021
Start date
Feb 11, 2021
Primary completion
Dec 31, 2024 (estimated)
Completion
Dec 31, 2025 (estimated)
Last update
May 27, 2022

Study contacts

MARCIO BARCELLOS, MD
Contact
mbezerrab@yahoo.com.br
(21)2556-9747
Antonio Braga, MD, PhD
study director · Maternidade Escola da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Oversight

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