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Registration number
NCT01584258
Ethics application status
Date submitted
22/04/2012
Date registered
24/04/2012
Date last updated
19/01/2024

Titles & IDs
Public title
Prostate Advances in Comparative Evidence
Scientific title
International Randomised Study of Prostatectomy vs Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy (SBRT) and Conventionally Fractionated Radiotherapy vs SBRT for Organ-Confined Prostate Cancer
Secondary ID [1] 0 0
CCR3766
Universal Trial Number (UTN)
Trial acronym
PACE
Linked study record

Health condition
Health condition(s) or problem(s) studied:
Prostate Cancer 0 0
Condition category
Condition code
Cancer 0 0 0 0
Prostate

Intervention/exposure
Study type
Interventional
Description of intervention(s) / exposure
Treatment: Surgery - Prostatectomy
Treatment: Other - Conventionally Fractionated Prostate Radiotherapy
Treatment: Other - Prostate SBRT

Active Comparator: PACE-A: Prostatectomy vs prostate SBRT - Low and intermediate risk patients, for whom surgery is considered, will be randomised to prostatectomy vs prostate SBRT delivered with 36.25 Gy in 5 fractions.

Active Comparator: PACE-B: Conventionally Fractionated RT vs Prostate SBRT - Low and intermediate risk patients, for whom surgery is not considered or who refuse surgery, will be randomised to either conventionally fractionated radiotherapy delivered to a dose of 78 Gy in 39 fractions or 62 Gy in 20 fractions vs SBRT delivered with 36.25 Gy in 5 fractions.

Active Comparator: PACE-C: Conventionally Fractionated RT vs Prostate SBRT - Intermediate and high risk patients, indicated for 6 months ADT, will be randomised to either conventionally fractionated radiotherapy delivered to a dose of 60 Gy in 20 fractions vs SBRT delivered with 36.25 Gy in 5 fractions.


Treatment: Surgery: Prostatectomy
Radical prostatectomy: performed open, laparoscopically or using a robotically assisted laparoscopic approach.

Treatment: Other: Conventionally Fractionated Prostate Radiotherapy
Conventional fractionation delivered to a dose of:
(PACE-B) 78 Gy in 39 fractions or 62 Gy in 20 fractions; (PACE-C) 60 Gy in 20 fractions

Treatment: Other: Prostate SBRT
Prostate SBRT delivered to a dose of 36.25 Gy in 5 fractions.
Intervention code [1] 0 0
Treatment: Surgery
Intervention code [2] 0 0
Treatment: Other
Comparator / control treatment
Control group

Outcomes
Primary outcome [1] 0 0
PACE-B and PACE-C: Freedom from biochemical or clinical failure
Timepoint [1] 0 0
5 years from randomisation (primary timepoint)
Primary outcome [2] 0 0
PACE-A: Co-primary patient reported outcomes of urinary incontinence and bowel bother
Timepoint [2] 0 0
2 years from treatment (primary timepoint)
Secondary outcome [1] 0 0
All arms: Clinician reported acute toxicity
Timepoint [1] 0 0
10 years
Secondary outcome [2] 0 0
All arms: Clinician reported late toxicity
Timepoint [2] 0 0
10 years
Secondary outcome [3] 0 0
All arms: Patient reported acute and late bowel, bladder and erectile dysfunction symptoms.
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10 years
Secondary outcome [4] 0 0
All arms: Disease-specific and overall survival
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10 years
Secondary outcome [5] 0 0
All arms: Progression-free survival
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10 years
Secondary outcome [6] 0 0
PACE-A and PACE-B: Commencement of androgen deprivation therapy; PACE-C: Re-commencement of androgen deprivation therapy
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10 years
Secondary outcome [7] 0 0
PACE-A: Freedom from biochemical or clinical failure
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5 years from randomisation (primary timepoint)

Eligibility
Key inclusion criteria
Inclusion critieria (all arms):

- Histological confirmation of prostate adenocarcinoma within the last 18 months (unless
on active surveillance and not clinically indicated)

- Men aged =18 years at randomisation

- WHO performance status 0 - 2

- Patients considered candidates for surgery are eligible for PACE-A; patients not
considered candidates for surgery and patients who decline surgery or prefer to avoid
surgery are eligible for PACE-B and PACE-C.

- Ability of the research subject to understand and the willingness to sign a written
informed consent document.

Specific risk stratification inclusion criteria for PACE-A and PACE-B:

- Minimum of 10 biopsy cores.

- Gleason score = 3+4

- Clinical and/or MRI stage T1c -T2c, N0-X, M0-X

- PSA = 20 ng/ml (completed within 60 days of randomisation)

- Patients belonging to one of the following risk groups:

- Low risk - patients with tumours meeting all of the following criteria:

- Gleason = 6

- Clinical stage T1-T2a

- PSA < 10 ng/ml (within 60 days prior to randomisation)

- Intermediate risk - patients with tumours meeting any one of the following criteria:

- Gleason 3+4

- Clinical stage T2b or T2c

- PSA 10-20 ng/ml (within 60 days prior to randomisation)

Specific risk stratification inclusion criteria for PACE-C:

- Patient planned for a minimum of 6 months ADT (maximum of 12 months). Patients
receiving extended androgen deprivation therapy (18 months maximum) to permit safe
delay of radiotherapy as a result of the COVID19 pandemic (only) are eligible.

- Gleason score = 4+4

- MRI stage T1c -T3a, N0-X, M0-X

- PSA = 30 ng/ml (within 60 days prior to starting ADT)

- Patients belonging to one of the following risk groups:

- Intermediate risk - includes the presence of any of the following, assuming no high
risk features apply:

- Gleason 7 (3+4 or 4+3)

- T2 (N0, M0-X)

- PSA 10-20 ng/ml

- High risk - patients with tumours that meet a maximum of 2 of the following criteria:

- Gleason 4+4 (max = 50% cores)

- T3a (N0, M0)

- PSA >20 ng/ml
Minimum age
18 Years
Maximum age
No limit
Sex
Males
Can healthy volunteers participate?
No
Key exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria (all arms):

- Previous malignancy within the last 2 years (except basal cell carcinoma or squamous
cell carcinoma of the skin), or if previous malignancy is expected to significantly
compromise 5 year survival.

- Prior pelvic radiotherapy.

- Prior androgen deprivation therapy (including androgen agonists and antagonists) for
PACE-A and PACE-B participants.

- Any prior active treatment for prostate cancer (with the exception of ADT for PACE-C
participants). Patients previously on active surveillance are eligible if they
continue to meet all other eligibility criteria.

- Life expectancy <5 years.

- Bilateral hip prostheses or any other implants/hardware that would introduce
substantial CT artefacts.

- Medical conditions likely to make radiotherapy inadvisable eg inflammatory bowel
disease, significant urinary symptoms.

- For patients having fiducials inserted: Anticoagulation with warfarin/ bleeding
tendency making fiducial placement or surgery unsafe in the opinion of the clinician.

- Participation in another concurrent treatment protocol for prostate cancer.

Specific exclusion criteria for PACE-C:

- >14 weeks of androgen deprivation therapy prior to randomisation

- Medical conditions likely to make ADT inadvisable (e.g. significant and ongoing
cardiac issues).

Study design
Purpose of the study
Treatment
Allocation to intervention
Randomised controlled trial
Procedure for enrolling a subject and allocating the treatment (allocation concealment procedures)
Methods used to generate the sequence in which subjects will be randomised (sequence generation)
Masking / blinding
Open (masking not used)
Who is / are masked / blinded?



Intervention assignment
Parallel
Other design features
Phase
Phase 3
Type of endpoint/s
Statistical methods / analysis

Recruitment
Recruitment status
Active, not recruiting
Data analysis
Reason for early stopping/withdrawal
Other reasons
Date of first participant enrolment
Anticipated
Actual
7/08/2012
Date of last participant enrolment
Anticipated
Actual
Date of last data collection
Anticipated
1/12/2027
Actual
Sample size
Target
Accrual to date
Final
2205
Recruitment in Australia
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Funding & Sponsors
Primary sponsor type
Other
Name
Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
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Other
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The Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, Surrey, UK
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Ethics approval
Ethics application status

Summary
Brief summary
This study is an international multicentre randomised study of low, intermediate, and high
risk prostate cancer and is composed of three parallel randomisation schemes based on
applicability of surgery as a treatment for the patient and risk group. Low and intermediate
risk patients, for whom surgery is a consideration, are randomised to either prostatectomy or
prostate SBRT. Low and intermediate risk patients, for whom surgery is not a consideration,
are randomised to either conventionally fractionated radiotherapy or prostate SBRT.
Intermediate and high risk patients, for whom ADT treatment is indiacted and surgery is not a
consideration, are randomised to either conventionally fractionated radiotherapy or prostate
SBRT. Efficacy, toxicity and quality of life outcomes will be compared across the pairs in
each randomisation.
Trial website
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01584258
Trial related presentations / publications
Public notes

Contacts
Principal investigator
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Nicholas van As, MD
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Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom
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