About this trial
HCC is a huge healthcare burden in Hong Kong and is one of the top 5 cancers in terms of incidence and mortality in Hong Kong. Patients with advanced HCC are treated with immunotherapy-based as first-line treatment as a standard of care. At the moment, there is limited evidence to guide subsequent treatments after patients progressed on immunotherapy. Oligoprogression is a term used to describe patients who had limited progression (usually less than 3 sites) on systemic therapy, with the rest of the lesions controlled. Previous studies in non-HCCs have shown that addition of locoregional treatment (e.g. radiotherapy) may prolong the use of systemic therapy, resulting in improved survival, but this has been relatively unexplored for HCC. In this prospective, single-arm study, we aim to evaluate the treatment outcome, efficacy and safety of the addition of radiotherapy to oligoprogressive sites for patients who had limited progression on First-line Immunotherapy.
Eligibility criteria
Qualifiers
Patients aged ≥ 18 years old
ECOG performance 0 to 1
Confirmed diagnosis of HCC
Oligoprogression on first-line immunotherapy, as defined as ≤ 5 lesions (intra- and extrahepatic lesions all together; vascular tumor thrombus is counted as one lesion)
Disqualifiers
History of another malignancy except appropriately-treated BCC of skin or CIN of cervix during the last 5 years
Previous radiotherapy to the abdomen
Previous yttrium-90 chemoembolization
Repetitive history of non-healing wounds or ulcers within 2 months of inclusion
Trial design
Treatments tested in this trial
- Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT)