A Phase 3 interventional study of Biospecimen Collection and Brachytherapy in Cervical Adenocarcinoma, Cervical Adenosquamous Carcinoma and Cervical Squamous Cell Carcinoma, sponsored by NRG Oncology. Not yet recruiting. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-11-10.
Sponsored by NRG Oncology · Phase 3, Interventional, and Treatment
This phase III trial compares the effect of a shorter duration (hypofractionated) of intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) with brachytherapy and cisplatin to standard duration IMRT with brachytherapy and cisplatin in treating patients with newly diagnosed stage IB2-IIIC1 cervical cancer. Cisplatin is in a class of medications known as platinum-containing compounds. It works by killing, stopping or slowing the growth of tumor cells. Radiation therapy uses high energy x-rays, particles, or radioactive seeds to kill tumor cells and shrink tumors. IMRT is a type of 3-dimensional radiation therapy that uses computer-generated images to show the size and shape of the tumor. Thin beams of radiation of different intensities are aimed at the tumor from many angles. This type of radiation therapy reduces the damage to healthy tissue near the tumor. Hypofractionated radiation therapy delivers higher doses of radiation therapy over a shorter period of time and may kill more tumor cells and have fewer side effects. A radiation boost is extra radiation to the area where the tumor is located which increases the amount of radiation given to the tumor bed. Brachytherapy, also known as internal radiation therapy, uses radioactive material placed directly into or near a tumor to kill tumor cells. Giving hypofractionated chemoradiation therapy may be as safe, tolerable and/or effective as the standard, longer course of chemoradiation therapy in treating patients newly diagnosed with stage IB2-IIIC1 cervical cancer.
PRIMARY OBJECTIVE:
I. To determine if hypofractionated IMRT with concurrent cisplatin and brachytherapy boost is non-inferior to conventionally fractionated treatment with respect to progression-free survival (PFS).
SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:
I. To estimate the rates of timely treatment completion. II. To determine the nature and degree of toxicity of hypofractionated IMRT with concurrent cisplatin and brachytherapy as assessed by Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) version (v) 5.
III. To evaluate late toxicity, progression-free survival, and overall survival (OS) at 3 years.
OUTLINE: Patients are randomized to 1 of 2 arms.
ARM 1: Patients undergo IMRT with a simultaneous integrated boost once daily (QD) on Monday-Friday weekly for up to 5 weeks (25 treatment fractions) followed by brachytherapy for up to 3-5 treatment fractions in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients receive cisplatin intravenously (IV) once weekly (QW) for up to 5 cycles while undergoing IMRT in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Additionally, patients undergo blood sample collection and positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT), CT, or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) throughout the study.
ARM 2: Patients undergo hypofractionated IMRT QD on 5 days per week for up to 3-4 weeks (15 treatment fractions) then a nodal boost (if indicated) for up to 4 treatment fractions followed by brachytherapy for up to 3-5 treatment fractions in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients receive cisplatin IV QW for up to 5 cycles while undergoing IMRT in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Additionally, patients undergo blood sample collection and PET/CT, CT, or MRI throughout the study.
After completion of study treatment, patients are followed up at 30 days, every 3 months for 2 years then every 6 months for up to 3 years.
33 studies on the registry are indexed under Carcinoma, Adenosquamous; 7 are open to participants now.
This study's planned enrollment of 550 is above the median of 42 across 32 interventional studies indexed under Carcinoma, Adenosquamous.
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Inclusion Criteria:
N1:
One or more pelvic lymph nodes with short axis diameter of ≥ 10 mm and standarized uptake value maximum (SUVmax) ≥ 2.5 by fludeoxyglucose F-18 (FDG)-PET
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The diagnosis was confirmed by looking at a sample under a microscope: tissue from a biopsy or surgery (histology), or cells from a fluid or needle sample (cytology).
Your pathology report is the document that shows this.
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.
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.
The number of neutrophils, white blood cells that help fight infection, in a given amount of blood. Too few raises the risk of infection.
It is a count, not a percentage of the white cells. Limits are written in units that mean the same: ≥ 1.5 × 10⁹/L is ≥ 1,500 per mm³ (µL). Each lab has its own reference range.
Blood cells that help blood clot. Too few raises the risk of bleeding and bruising. A usual adult range is about 150–400 × 10⁹/L (150,000–400,000 per µL); each lab has its own reference range.
The protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen. A low level is anaemia, which can cause tiredness and breathlessness. Measured in g/dL or g/L (9 g/dL is 90 g/L).
How quickly the kidneys clear creatinine, a waste product, from the blood. A study may estimate it from a blood test with age, weight and sex (often by the Cockcroft–Gault formula), or measure it using blood and urine collected over a set time. Given in mL/min; higher is better.
A yellow substance made when red blood cells are broken down, which the liver clears. A high level can mean a problem with the liver or the bile ducts.
Criteria often allow more for people with Gilbert’s syndrome, a harmless inherited condition that raises bilirubin.
The top of the normal range for a blood test, as set by the laboratory that runs it. Each lab prints its own range next to your result.
“≤ 2.5 × ULN” means the result can be up to two and a half times that top value.
Two enzymes measured in a routine blood test of the liver. Higher levels can mean the liver is under strain or damaged. SGPT and SGOT are older names for ALT and AST.
Criteria usually give a limit as a multiple of the upper limit of normal (ULN), often higher when cancer has spread to the liver.
The New York Heart Association’s four classes of how much heart failure limits physical activity.
Studies set their own limit — many outside heart failure leave out class III–IV, while heart failure studies may ask for a particular class. Check the class this study names.
Histologically or cytologically confirmed
The diagnosis was confirmed by looking at a sample under a microscope: tissue from a biopsy or surgery (histology), or cells from a fluid or needle sample (cytology).
Your pathology report is the document that shows this.
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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.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Absolute neutrophil count (ANC)
The number of neutrophils, white blood cells that help fight infection, in a given amount of blood. Too few raises the risk of infection.
It is a count, not a percentage of the white cells. Limits are written in units that mean the same: ≥ 1.5 × 10⁹/L is ≥ 1,500 per mm³ (µL). Each lab has its own reference range.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Platelets
Blood cells that help blood clot. Too few raises the risk of bleeding and bruising. A usual adult range is about 150–400 × 10⁹/L (150,000–400,000 per µL); each lab has its own reference range.
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Hemoglobin (Hb)
The protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen. A low level is anaemia, which can cause tiredness and breathlessness. Measured in g/dL or g/L (9 g/dL is 90 g/L).
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Creatinine clearance (CrCl)
How quickly the kidneys clear creatinine, a waste product, from the blood. A study may estimate it from a blood test with age, weight and sex (often by the Cockcroft–Gault formula), or measure it using blood and urine collected over a set time. Given in mL/min; higher is better.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Bilirubin
A yellow substance made when red blood cells are broken down, which the liver clears. A high level can mean a problem with the liver or the bile ducts.
Criteria often allow more for people with Gilbert’s syndrome, a harmless inherited condition that raises bilirubin.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
ULN (upper limit of normal)
The top of the normal range for a blood test, as set by the laboratory that runs it. Each lab prints its own range next to your result.
“≤ 2.5 × ULN” means the result can be up to two and a half times that top value.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
ALT and AST (liver enzymes)
Two enzymes measured in a routine blood test of the liver. Higher levels can mean the liver is under strain or damaged. SGPT and SGOT are older names for ALT and AST.
Criteria usually give a limit as a multiple of the upper limit of normal (ULN), often higher when cancer has spread to the liver.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
NYHA class (heart failure)
The New York Heart Association’s four classes of how much heart failure limits physical activity.
Studies set their own limit — many outside heart failure leave out class III–IV, while heart failure studies may ask for a particular class. Check the class this study names.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Patients undergo IMRT with a simultaneous integrated boost QD on Monday-Friday weekly for up to 5 weeks (25 treatment fractions) followed by brachytherapy for up to 3-5 treatment fractions in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients receive cisplatin IV QW for up to 5 cycles while undergoing IMRT in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Additionally, patients undergo blood sample collection and PET/CT, CT, or MRI throughout the study.
Procedure: Biospecimen Collection · Radiation: Brachytherapy · Drug: Cisplatin · Procedure: Computed Tomography · Radiation: Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy · Procedure: Magnetic Resonance Imaging · Procedure: Positron Emission Tomography · Radiation: Radiation Boost
Patients undergo hypofractionated IMRT QD on 5 days per week for up to 3-4 weeks (15 treatment fractions) then a nodal boost (if indicated) for up to 4 treatment fractions followed by brachytherapy for up to 3-5 treatment fractions in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients receive cisplatin IV QW for up to 5 cycles while undergoing IMRT in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Additionally, patients undergo blood sample collection and PET/CT, CT, or MRI throughout the study.
Procedure: Biospecimen Collection · Radiation: Brachytherapy · Drug: Cisplatin · Procedure: Computed Tomography · Radiation: Hypofractionated External Beam Radiation Therapy · Procedure: Magnetic Resonance Imaging · Procedure: Positron Emission Tomography · Radiation: Radiation Boost
Undergo blood sample collection
Also known as: Biological Sample Collection, Biospecimen Collected, Sample Collection, Specimen Collection
Undergo brachytherapy
Also known as: Brachytherapy, NOS, Internal Radiation, Internal Radiation Brachytherapy, Internal Radiation Therapy, Radiation Brachytherapy, Radiation, Internal
Given IV
Also known as: Abiplatin, Blastolem, Briplatin, CDDP, Cis-diammine-dichloroplatinum, Cis-diamminedichloridoplatinum, Cis-diamminedichloro Platinum (II), Cis-diamminedichloroplatinum, Cis-dichloroammine Platinum (II), Cis-platinous Diamine Dichloride, Cis-platinum, Cis-platinum II, Cis-platinum II Diamine Dichloride, Cismaplat, Cisplatina, Cisplatinum, Cisplatyl, Citoplatino, Citosin, Cysplatyna, DDP, Lederplatin, Metaplatin, Neoplatin, Peyrone's Chloride, Peyrone's Salt, Placis, Plastistil, Platamine, Platiblastin, Platiblastin-S, Platinex, Platinol, Platinol- AQ, Platinol-AQ, Platinol-AQ VHA Plus, Platinoxan, Platinum, Platinum Diamminodichloride, Platiran, Platistin, Platosin
Undergo CT or PET/CT
Also known as: CAT, CAT Scan, Computed Axial Tomography, Computerized Axial Tomography, Computerized axial tomography (procedure), Computerized Tomography, Computerized Tomography (CT) scan, CT, CT Scan, Diagnostic CAT Scan, Diagnostic CAT Scan Service Type, tomography
Undergo hypofractionated IMRT
Undergo IMRT
Also known as: IMRT, Intensity modulated radiation therapy (procedure), Intensity Modulated RT, Intensity-Modulated Radiotherapy, Radiation, Intensity-Modulated Radiotherapy
Undergo MRI
Also known as: Magnetic Resonance, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Magnetic resonance imaging (procedure), Magnetic Resonance Imaging Scan, Medical Imaging, Magnetic Resonance / Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, MR, MR Imaging, MRI, MRI Scan, MRIs, NMR Imaging, NMRI, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging, sMRI, Structural MRI
Undergo PET/CT
Also known as: Medical Imaging, Positron Emission Tomography, PET, PET Scan, Positron emission tomography (procedure), Positron Emission Tomography Scan, Positron-Emission Tomography, PT
Undergo integrated boost
Also known as: BOOST, Boost Radiation, Boost Radiation Therapy, Boost Radiotherapy, Radiation Therapy Boost, Radiotherapy Boost
Undergo a nodal boost
Also known as: BOOST, Boost Radiation, Boost Radiation Therapy, Boost Radiotherapy, Radiation Therapy Boost, Radiotherapy Boost
Progression-free survival (PFS)
Tests will be based on stratified log-rank tests to assess the randomized treatment effect among all randomized patients. Analyses will be supported by the intent-to-treat population, with patients analyzed according to their randomized treatment assignment. The log-rank tests will be stratified by the factor recorded at randomization. The treatment hazard ratio estimates and their 95% confidence intervals for the interim and primary analyses will be estimated using Cox proportional hazards models specified with a main effect for the randomized treatment assignment and stratified by the factor recorded at randomization.
Time frame: From randomization to first occurrence of disease progression or death from any cause, whichever occurs first, assessed up to 3 years
Rates of timely treatment completion
Will be defined as completing treatment within the protocol specified timeframes. Will be estimated for each treatment arm using binomial method, with corresponding confidence intervals, and the difference between treatment arms will be evaluated using 2-sided Fisher's exact test.
Time frame: From initiation of the assigned protocol therapy to treatment completion, assessed up to 46 days (for control arm) and up to 56 days (for experimental arm)
Incidence of acute adverse events (AEs)
The nature, frequency, and degree will be tabulated at the system organ class and AE-specific term levels using Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) version (v) 5.0. Each patient will be represented by the maximum grade observed for each term. Tabulations will present the number and percentage of patients by maximum grade, within the treatment group received, regardless of the randomized treatment assignment. Will be dichotomized as severe (grade 3 or higher) or non-severe (grade 2 or lower). The proportion of patients experiencing severe toxicity will be estimated for each arm using the binomial method. The difference in proportions (experimental minus control) and its two-sided 90% confidence interval will be calculated. A 2-sided Fisher's exact test will be used to evaluate whether the distribution of severe toxicity differs between the 2 arms at 10% significance level.
Time frame: Up to 30 days after last dose of study treatment
Incidence of late AEs
The nature, frequency, and degree will be tabulated at the system organ class and AE-specific term levels using CTCAE v 5.0. Each patient will be represented by the maximum grade observed for each term. Tabulations will present the number and percentage of patients by maximum grade, within the treatment group received, regardless of the randomized treatment assignment. Will be dichotomized as severe (grade 3 or higher) or non-severe (grade 2 or lower). The proportion of patients experiencing severe toxicity will be estimated for each arm using the binomial method. The difference in proportions (experimental minus control) and its two-sided 90% confidence interval will be calculated. A 2-sided Fisher's exact test will be used to evaluate whether the distribution of severe toxicity differs between the 2 arms at 10% significance level.
Time frame: During follow-up beyond 30 days after stopping protocol treatment, assessed up to 3 years
PFS
Will be estimated for each arm using Kaplan-Meier method. The distributions by treatment arm will be illustrated with Kaplan-Meier curves.
Time frame: At 3 years
Overall survival
Will be estimated for each arm using Kaplan-Meier method. The distributions by treatment arm will be illustrated with Kaplan-Meier curves. The treatment effect (Arm 2 versus Arm 1) will be evaluated using a 2-sided log-rank test, stratified by the factor specified at randomization. The hazard ratio and its 95% confidence intervals will be estimated using a Cox proportional hazards model, including main effects for the randomized treatment assignment (Arm 2 vs Arm 1) and stratified by the factor specified at randomization.
Time frame: At 3 years
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Start is estimated for May 2027; primary completion for Jan 2034, 80 months later.
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