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RecruitingNCT06238713Updated Jul 23, 2026

Extraperitoneal SINgle-port rObotic-assisted Radical Prostatectomy (RARP) Versus Transperitoneal Multi-port RARP in the Treatment Of Prostate Cancer (SINO-TOP)

An interventional study of Single-port extraperitoneal robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy with Vattikuti Institute Prostatectomy(VIP) techniques and Multi-port transperitoneal robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy with bilateral intrafascial nerve-sparing techniques in Prostate Adenocarcinoma and Localized Prostate Carcinoma, sponsored by Shanghai Changzheng Hospital. Recruiting at 1 site in China. Open to male participants aged 18 Years to 75 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-07-23.

Sponsored by Shanghai Changzheng Hospital · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Started Jan 2024; still recruiting 2 years 10 months later.
Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
480
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years to 75 Years
Sex
Male
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Study summary

This study is a two-arm, multicenter, randomized controlled clinical trial on whether single-port extraperitoneal VIP RARP is non-inferior to multi-port transperitoneal RARP in terms of functional recovery rate and other key metrics.

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Multicenter enrollment of 480 patients with localized prostate cancer meeting enrollment criteria are randomized to undergo either single-port robotic extraperitoneal VIP radical prostatectomy or multi-port robotic transperitoneal bilateral intrafascial radical prostatectomy for perioperative data recording, treatment, and monitoring with 1 year follow up.

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Conditions studied

  • Prostate Adenocarcinoma
  • Localized Prostate Carcinoma

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Keywords

  • Prostate Cancer
  • Robotic-assisted Radical Prostatectomy
  • da Vinci surgical robot
  • Potency
  • Non-inferiority
  • RCT
  • Continence
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In context

Prostatic Neoplasms

7,046 studies on the registry are indexed under Prostatic Neoplasms; 1,580 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 480 is above the median of 60 across 5,348 interventional studies indexed under Prostatic Neoplasms.

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Lead sponsor

Shanghai Changzheng Hospital is the lead sponsor of 128 studies on the registry; 60 are open to participants now.

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

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 75 Years
Sexes eligible
Male
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  1. Men aged 18 years ≤ age ≤ 75 years;
  2. Prostate within 6 months with diagnosis of organ-localized prostate cancer with preoperative staging of T1c to T2b,N0M0;.
  3. Gleason Score\<8.
  4. PSA\<20ng/ml.
  5. Pathologic diagnosis of prostate follicular adenocarcinoma or prostate ductal adenocarcinoma;
  6. The patient has healthy sexual function before surgery and intention for sexual activities after surgery;
  7. Physiological condition acceptable for laparoscopic surgery;
  8. Willing to cooperate and complete the study follow-up and related examinations;
  9. The subject or his agent voluntarily participates in this trial and signs the written ;
  10. The questionnaire can be completed in Chinese.
  11. The patient has been informed of the trial;

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. High-risk and non-organ localized prostate cancer (clinical stage ≥ T2c, GS ≥ 8, PSA > 20ng/ml);
  2. Special type of prostate cancer, such as neuroendocrine etc.;
  3. History of previous abdominal surgery and radiotherapy which may affect abdominal incision and Port placement;
  4. Recent surgery of rectum, perianal abscess or around fistula and perineal area;
  5. Patients who have undergone previous electro-prostatectomy/enucleation of the prostate;
  6. Non-recurrent patients with less than 12 months of follow-up;
  7. >1.
  8. Combination of other systemic tumors;
  9. had received any type of preoperative antitumor therapy;
  10. Suffering from poor general condition with the presence of one of the following conditions: including severe mental disorders, cardiovascular disease, active infections, bone marrow transplantation within 3 months, or significant abnormalities in organ function;
  11. Participation in other clinical studies or previous treatment with any gene therapy product within the last 3 months;
  12. Other conditions that the researchers believe may affect the experimental results or are unethical;
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(3)

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Biopsy and archival tissue

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Informed consent

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ECOG performance status

A scale of how much an illness limits everyday activity. For people being assessed to join a study, scores run from 0 (fully active) to 4; lower is more active.

0
Fully active, no restrictions.
1
Limited in strenuous activity, but walking and able to do light work, such as housework or office work.
2
Walking and able to look after yourself, but unable to work; up and about more than half of waking hours.
3
Able to look after yourself only in part; in bed or a chair more than half of waking hours.
4
Unable to look after yourself at all; in bed or a chair all day.

Studies most often ask for 0–1 or 0–2. Your doctor gives the score; the WHO scale uses the same steps. The full scale also has 5, which records death.

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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
480 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Single-port extraperitoneal RARP

    Single-port extraperitoneal robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy with Vattikuti Institute Prostatectomy (VIP) techniques

    Procedure: Single-port extraperitoneal robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy with Vattikuti Institute Prostatectomy(VIP) techniques

  • Active comparator
    Multi-port transperitoneal RARP

    Multi-port transperitoneal RARP with bilateral intrafascial nerve-sparing techniques

    Procedure: Multi-port transperitoneal robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy with bilateral intrafascial nerve-sparing techniques

Interventions

  • ProcedureSingle-port extraperitoneal robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy with Vattikuti Institute Prostatectomy(VIP) techniques

    Patients with localized prostate cancer are randomized into this group in a 1:1 ratio and receive single-port extraperitoneal robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy with Vattikuti Institute Prostatectomy(VIP) techniques. The investigators will monitor patients for perioperative data recording, treatment and 1-year follow-up.

  • ProcedureMulti-port transperitoneal robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy with bilateral intrafascial nerve-sparing techniques

    Patients with localized prostate cancer are randomized into this group in a 1:1 ratio and receive multi-port transperitoneal robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy with bilateral intrafascial nerve-sparing techniques. The investigators will monitor patients for perioperative data recording, treatment and 1-year follow-up.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Potency recovery rate

    Potency recovery rate 3 months postoperatively, based on the patient's description of whether the erection is firm enough for sexual activity or intercourse.

    Time frame: 3 months after surgery

Secondary outcomes

  1. Continence recovery rate

    The rate of recovery of continence postoperatively, measured in the number of pads used per day.

    Time frame: Up to 1 year, at a frequency of 1, 3, 6, and 12 months postoperatively

  2. PSA

    PSA status postoperatively,measured in ng/mL

    Time frame: Up to 1 year, at a frequency of 1, 3, 6, and 12 months postoperatively

  3. Potency recovery rate

    Potency recovery rate will be assessed by patient's self-reported erectile firmness for sexual activity or intercourse, International Index of Erectile Dysfunction(IIEF-5) score(from 0-25 score, a higher score means a worse outcome), and phosphodiesterase5 (PDE-5)inhibitor intake frequency according to patients' despciption (a higher intake means a worse outcome).

    Time frame: Up to 1 year, at a frequency of 1, 6, and 12 months postoperatively

  4. Clavien-Dindo complication score

    Clavien-Dindo complication score measured in the following grades(a higher grade means a worse outcome) : First grade:complications that do not require medication, surgery or endoscopic treatment. Second grade: complications require to be treated with drugs, including blood transfusion and parenteral nutrition. Third grade: complications that require surgery, endoscopy, or radiation therapy. Fourth grade: the emergence of life-threatening complications, including cerebral hemorrhage, etc., which is also divided into 4a and 4b, 4a is single-organ dysfunction, 4b is mainly multi-organ dysfunction and injury. Fifth grade: death.

    Time frame: Every day during period of hospitalization (up to 7 days)

  5. Operative time

    Time elapsed from skin incision to placement of the final skin suture, measured in minutes

    Time frame: During operation(on an average of 90-120minutes )

  6. Estimated blood loss

    Estimated blood loss, measured in volume (mL)

    Time frame: During operation(on an average of 90-120minutes )

  7. Number of additional ports

    Number of additional ports needed in surgery

    Time frame: During operation(on an average of 90-120minutes )

  8. Period of hospitalization

    Hospital stay, counted in days from the first day of hospitalization to discharge

    Time frame: During period of hospitalization (up to 7 days)

  9. Period of hospitalization post surgery

    Hospital stay, counted in days from the time of transfer to the post anesthesia care unit (PACU) to discharge

    Time frame: Post surgery, during period of hospitalization (up to 7 days)

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Study locations

1 of 1 sites recruiting
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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reachedSimilar studies: half by the dot; the band is the middle halfHalf of similar studies reached it by the dot; the band is the middle half, from a quarter to three quarters

Started Jan 2024 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Jun 2028, 53 months after the start.

Of 1,098 non-industry interventional studies with no phase under Prostatic Neoplasms, half reached primary completion within 43 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 22 and three quarters within 86. This study's planned 53 months is above that.

Counting every sponsor, half of 1,155 studies reached it within 43 months; a quarter within 22 and three quarters within 84.

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

Registered
Jan 15, 2024
First posted
Feb 2, 2024
StartActual
Jan 8, 2024
Primary completionEst.
Jun 2028
CompletionEst.
Dec 2028
Last update
Jul 23, 2026
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 Jul 23, 2026, 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
NCT06238713
Collaborators
Shanghai Zhongshan Hospital, ShuGuang Hospital, Eastern Hepatobiliary Surgery Hospital, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital
Responsible party
Ren Shancheng (Professor,Chief of Urology, Shanghai Changzheng Hospital) — Principal investigator
First posted
Feb 2, 2024
Start date
Jan 8, 2024
Primary completion
Jun 2028 (estimated)
Completion
Dec 2028 (estimated)
Last update
Jul 23, 2026

Study contacts

Shancheng Ren, MD/PhD
Contact
renshancheng@gmail.com
021-81886999
Yi fan Chang
Contact
13661652533@163.com
13661652533

Oversight

FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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