E.1 Medical condition or disease under investigation |
E.1.1 | Medical condition(s) being investigated |
Differentiated thyroid cancer - subgroup of patients with intermediate risk of postoperative residual disease |
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E.1.1.1 | Medical condition in easily understood language |
Differentiated thyroid cancer - subgroup of patients with intermediate risk of postoperative residual disease |
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E.1.1.2 | Therapeutic area | Diseases [C] - Cancer [C04] |
MedDRA Classification |
E.1.2 Medical condition or disease under investigation |
E.1.2 | Version | 21.1 |
E.1.2 | Level | PT |
E.1.2 | Classification code | 10066474 |
E.1.2 | Term | Thyroid cancer |
E.1.2 | System Organ Class | 10029104 - Neoplasms benign, malignant and unspecified (incl cysts and polyps) |
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E.1.3 | Condition being studied is a rare disease | No |
E.2 Objective of the trial |
E.2.1 | Main objective of the trial |
- To assess whether a strategy of RAI-treatment guided by a post-operative work-up is non-inferior to a systematic RAI-treatment strategy in terms of excellent response rate at 3 years post-randomization in a “low-risk” subgroup of patients within the intermediate-risk category. |
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E.2.2 | Secondary objectives of the trial |
- To compare both strategies in terms of:
•Rate of excellent response at 1 and 5 years
•Patient’s quality-of-life, anxiety, impact of event scale and fear of cancer recurrence,
• Salivary, nasal and lachrymal toxicities
• Supplemental treatments (RAI, surgery, others) performed within 5 years
•Management cost over 5 years.
-To compare diagnostic and post-therapeutic scintigraphy (in the guide follow-up group)
-To assess the added value of diagnostic RAI scintigraphy in decision-making for RAI treatment (in the guide follow-up group)
-To assess the predictive value of post-operative serum Tg level under Thyroxine (Tg/LT4) and after rhTSH (Tg/rhTSH) on the presence of RAI avid lesions on the post-therapeutic scintigraphy in the RAI group, and on the excellent response rate at 3 years in both groups
-To assess the excellent response rate of cure in case of supplemental treatments
-To collect a tumor biobank for further translational research |
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E.2.3 | Trial contains a sub-study | No |
E.3 | Principal inclusion criteria |
• Subgroup of patients with differentiated thyroid cancer and intermediate-risk defined as follows according to TNM 2017:
o Papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) without aggressive subtype, follicular thyroid cancer (FTC) or Hürthle cell carcinoma (HCC)
o T1b or T2 with minimal extra-thyroid extension into the perithyroidal soft tissues and/or pN1 with largest nodal dimension between 2 and 10 mm, without extra-capsular invasion and with positive nodes ≤ 5
• Patient treated by total thyroidectomy with complete tumor resection ± neck dissection
• Total thyroidectomy performed within 6 to 10 weeks before randomization
• Patient with or without anti-thyroglobulin antibodies (TgAb)
• No known distant metastases
• Normal post-operative neck US or if doubtful US, negative cytology and normal Tg value (<10 ng/ml) in FNA washout fluid
• Post-operative LT4 treatment initiated at least 6 weeks before inclusion
• PS 0 or 1
• Patients aged 18 years or older
• Signed informed consent form
• Patient agreeing to be followed annually during 5 years
• Patient affiliated to the social security system
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E.4 | Principal exclusion criteria |
• Patients with:
o medullary or anaplastic thyroid cancer
o or poorly differentiated carcinoma
o or well differentiated FTC with more than 4 foci of vascular invasion
o or PTC with aggressive variants (tall cell or columnar cell carcinoma,diffuse sclerosing papillary, hobnail variant)
o NIFTP (Noninvasive follicular thyroid neoplasm with papillary-like nuclear features)
• Low-risk or high-risk DTC patients according to ATA 2015, and intermediate-risk patients with extra-thyroid extension into the perithyroidal muscles (pT3b according to pTNM 2017), and/or pN1 with nodal largest dimension >10 mm or with extra-capsular invasion or more than 5 positive nodes. This excludes the following patients:
o All pT1a, pT3 or pT4
o pT1bN0/x without extra-thyroid extension
o pT1bN1 without extra-thyroid extension and with nodal largest dimension <2mm
o pT1bN1 without extra-thyroid extension and with nodal largest dimension >10mm
o pT2N0/Nx without extra-thyroid extension
o pT2N1 without extra-thyroid extension and with nodal largest dimension <2mm
o pT2N1 without extra-thyroid extension and with nodal largest dimension >10mm
o Surgery considered as incomplete
• Patients who have undergone lobectomy only
• Post-operative neck US with metastatic lymph-nodes proven cytologically or with increased Tg in FNA washout fluid
• Drugs affecting thyroid function including iodinated contrast agents in the 6 weeks prior to randomization. Amiodarone should have been stopped at least 1 year before randomization.
• Previous RAI treatment for thyroid cancer
• Pregnant or lactating women
• Any associated geographical, social or psychopathological condition that could compromise the patient's ability to participate in the study
• Patient deprived of liberty or placed under the authority of a tutor
• History of malignancy in the past 3 years, except skin cancer excluding melanoma, carcinoma in situ of the cervix. Any other solid tumor or lymphoma (without bone marrow involvement) must have been treated and not show signs of recurrence for at least 3 years
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E.5 End points |
E.5.1 | Primary end point(s) |
the rate of patients with excellent response (normal neck ultrasonography and Tg on LT4 <0.2 ng/mL and the absence of TgAb and if performed no abnormalities on other imaging), at 3 years post-randomization |
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E.5.1.1 | Timepoint(s) of evaluation of this end point |
at 3 years post-randomization |
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E.5.2 | Secondary end point(s) |
- Excellent response rate at 1 and 5 years post-randomization, defined similarly as above detailed, will be used for non-inferiority comparison
- The scores on HRQoL, anxiety and fear of cancer recurrence will be calculated according to the corresponding scoring manual from the various questionnaires at inclusion, end of diagnostic assessment, end of treatment (for treated patients), 1 year and 3 years The lachrymal, nasal and salivary glands toxicities will be evaluated from specific questionnaires at inclusion, end of diagnostic assessment, end of treatment (for treated patients), 1 year and 3 years
- Supplemental treatments (surgery, RAI administration or others) realized within 5 years post-randomization in both groups. The response to these treatments will be defined according to 2015 ATA guidelines: excellent response, biochemical incomplete response, structural incomplete response, and indeterminate response
- Costs within 5 years post randomization in both groups, from the French collective perspective
- The results of diagnostic and post-therapeutic scintigraphy (in the guide follow-up group)
- The proportion of patients for whom the diagnostic RAI scintigraphy results will have changed the decision-making for RAI treatment (in the guided follow-up group)
- The post-operative serum thyroglobulin (Tg/LT4) level and after rhTSH to assess its predictive value on the presence of RAI avid lesions in the RAI group and on the rate of excellent response at 3 years in both groups.
- The excellent response rate at 3 and 5 years after randomization in case of supplemental treatments
- The predictive values of somatic molecular markers (especially BRAF and TERTp) on the risk of persistent disease
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E.5.2.1 | Timepoint(s) of evaluation of this end point |
at inclusion, end of diagnostic assessment, end of treatment (for treated patients), 1 year, 3 years and 5 years |
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E.6 and E.7 Scope of the trial |
E.6 | Scope of the trial |
E.6.1 | Diagnosis | No |
E.6.2 | Prophylaxis | No |
E.6.3 | Therapy | Yes |
E.6.4 | Safety | No |
E.6.5 | Efficacy | Yes |
E.6.6 | Pharmacokinetic | No |
E.6.7 | Pharmacodynamic | No |
E.6.8 | Bioequivalence | No |
E.6.9 | Dose response | No |
E.6.10 | Pharmacogenetic | No |
E.6.11 | Pharmacogenomic | No |
E.6.12 | Pharmacoeconomic | No |
E.6.13 | Others | No |
E.7 | Trial type and phase |
E.7.1 | Human pharmacology (Phase I) | No |
E.7.1.1 | First administration to humans | No |
E.7.1.2 | Bioequivalence study | No |
E.7.1.3 | Other | No |
E.7.1.3.1 | Other trial type description | |
E.7.2 | Therapeutic exploratory (Phase II) | No |
E.7.3 | Therapeutic confirmatory (Phase III) | Yes |
E.7.4 | Therapeutic use (Phase IV) | No |
E.8 Design of the trial |
E.8.1 | Controlled | Yes |
E.8.1.1 | Randomised | Yes |
E.8.1.2 | Open | Yes |
E.8.1.3 | Single blind | No |
E.8.1.4 | Double blind | No |
E.8.1.5 | Parallel group | No |
E.8.1.6 | Cross over | No |
E.8.1.7 | Other | No |
E.8.2 | Comparator of controlled trial |
E.8.2.1 | Other medicinal product(s) | No |
E.8.2.2 | Placebo | No |
E.8.2.3 | Other | Yes |
E.8.2.3.1 | Comparator description |
Iode 131 at standard dose |
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E.8.2.4 | Number of treatment arms in the trial | 2 |
E.8.3 |
The trial involves single site in the Member State concerned
| No |
E.8.4 | The trial involves multiple sites in the Member State concerned | Yes |
E.8.4.1 | Number of sites anticipated in Member State concerned | 27 |
E.8.5 | The trial involves multiple Member States | No |
E.8.6 Trial involving sites outside the EEA |
E.8.6.1 | Trial being conducted both within and outside the EEA | No |
E.8.6.2 | Trial being conducted completely outside of the EEA | No |
E.8.7 | Trial has a data monitoring committee | No |
E.8.8 |
Definition of the end of the trial and justification where it is not the last
visit of the last subject undergoing the trial
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Patient followed up to 5 years after randomization |
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E.8.9 Initial estimate of the duration of the trial |
E.8.9.1 | In the Member State concerned years | 7 |
E.8.9.1 | In the Member State concerned months | 6 |
E.8.9.1 | In the Member State concerned days | |