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Randomized, Open-label Economic and Medical Study on the Lymph Node Management of Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Oral Cavity and Oropharynx Tumor Stage 1 or 2, Nodes 0 (T1-T2 N0) Operable

NCT02855723 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 307

Last updated 2016-08-04

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Currently, patients with cancer of oral cavity or oropharynx T1-T2N0 classified, are treated surgically with systematic lymph node dissection while in 70%, there is no lymph node metastasis. The technique of identifying the sentinel node (GS) is validated for these tumors because the status of the sentinel node is predictive of the other nodes status in the neck. This helps to diagnose the presence of metastases without lymph node dissection and thus select patients requiring a treatment node. However, the oncological and functional results of a therapeutic strategy based on identifying the GS is unknown.

This open-label randomized multicenter clinical trial aims to compare the oncologic and functional outcome of two strategies : the current management versus the management based on the sentinel lymph node.

The hypothesis is based on a nodal control difference at 2 years in both arms not exceeding 10%. The medico-economic analysis will be conducted in two stages : a classic stage on 2 years with estimated incremental cost-effectiveness and incremental cost-utility, then a step with log term modeling.

A reduction in morbidity and treatment costs in the sentinel node arm are expected in this study.

Conditions

  • Head and Neck Tumors

Interventions

OTHER

Surgery: GS strategy

sentinel node biopsy

OTHER

Surgery: Classic strategy

systematic lymphadenectomy

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University Hospital, Montpellier

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-04-30
Primary Completion
2015-08-31
Completion
2015-08-31

Countries

  • France

Study Locations

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