A Phase III Randomised Trial of Peri-Operative Chemotherapy Versus sUrveillance in Upper Tract Urothelial Cancer (POUT)

NCT01993979 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: PHASE3 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 261

Last updated 2020-05-04

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Summary

POUT is a multi-centred randomised controlled phase III trial. 345 patients who have undergone nephro-ureterectomy, are surgically staged pT2-pT4, N0-3 or are pT1 and node positive, and who are fit for adjuvant chemotherapy, will be randomised to four cycles of adjuvant platinum based chemotherapy (experimental group) or surveillance (control group). Participants will be followed up according to routine practice.

Primary endpoint: Disease-free survival (DFS)

Secondary endpoints:

* Overall Survival
* Metastasis free survival
* Incidence of bladder second primary tumours
* Incidence of contralateral primary tumours
* Acute and late toxicity
* Treatment compliance
* Quality of life

Conditions

  • Transitional Cell Carcinoma of Ureter

Interventions

OTHER

Surveillance

Patients will be closely monitored for early signs of recurrence, for which they will receive treatment as decided in discussion between the clinician and patient. This may include chemotherapy.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Cancer Research UK

    collaborator OTHER
  • Institute of Cancer Research, United Kingdom

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Dr Alison Birtle · Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-05-31
Primary Completion
2018-11-07
Completion
2022-05-31

Countries

  • United Kingdom

Study Locations

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