Clinical trials

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second leading cause of cancer-related death in the United States and Europe. Although selected patients with oligometastatic CRC undergo systemic therapy and surgery/local ablative therapy in curative intent, the treatment approach for the majority of metastatic CRC (mCRC) patients remains palliative with a median overall survival (OS) ranging between 9-38 months depending on various prognostic and predictive factors. Particularly in advanced stages (in the third line of therapy and beyond), interesting and promising results have recently been achieved with various treatment approaches. The aim of this registry is to establish a disease-specific registry to evaluate the treatment landscape of patients with mCRC who have already received at least two lines of therapy.

Lymphomas are a group of cancers that originate in the lymphatic system, a key component of the immune system. They can be broadly categorized into two main types: Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) and non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL). There are different subtypes of HL, including classical Hodgkin lymphoma (cHL) and nodular lymphocyte-predominant Hodgkin lymphoma (NLPHL). The subtypes of cHL include nodular sclerosis, mixed cellularity, lymphocyte-rich, and lymphocyte-depleted. Non-Hodgkin lymphomas are more diverse and comprise a wide range of subtypes, each with distinct genetic, molecular, and clinical features. Common subtypes of NHL include Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), Follicular lymphoma (FL), Mantle cell lymphoma (MCL), Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), myeloma, and other rarer subgroups. Many of these diseases typically present with lymph node enlargement, bone marrow infiltration, general and lymphoma subtype specific symptoms and laboratory abnormalities. Novel agents have improved the prognosis of high-risk lymphoma patients in the front-line and relapsed setting and more accurate prognostic tools enable less intensive treatment for low-risk patients, while maintaining their good prognosis. Lymphoma disease have not been systematically assessed in Austria to date. This medical registry of the AGMT is thus the first Austrian-wide standardized documentation of epidemiology, clinical course and molecular and other biologic data of this disease. As lymphomas are a very heterogeneous group, not all subtypes will always be documented simultaneously in this registry. Which lymphoma subtype is to be documented can change over time, depending on which clinical question is currently in focus.

For until very recently CLL has been considered an uncurable disease, with the only few exceptions of a part of patients capable of undergoing and successfully standing allogeneic stem cell transplant. However, the introduction of chemoimmunotherapy in particular the FCR (fludarabine, cyclophosphamide, rituximab) regimen has established a relevant population of IgVH mutated patients, who remain relapse-free for up to 10 years with a clear plateau at this level. However, for the largest proportion of all CLL patients the disease is still associated with a reduction in life expectancy as compared to a matched population. The field has made further substantial progress by the introduction of BTK inhibitors and Bcl2 inhibitors, novel antibodies as well as by the understanding of the role of minimal residual disease (MRD), mutations and their clonal evolution over time as risk factors and factors governing the kind and duration of therapy. Due to the limited follow up of frontline therapy trials using novel drugs, it is not yet clear, what the long-term results with many of the new drugs will be. Particularly, long-term PFS, the potential for cure and the long-term safety issues remain relevant parameters requiring examination, as are infections, interactions with other drugs or quality of life issues. CLL has not been systematically assessed in Austria to date. This medical registry of the AGMT is thus the first Austrian-wide standardized documentation of this disease.

Lung cancer is the second most common cancer in Austria with 2.868 men and 2.009 women diagnosed in 2016. Reflecting the high mortality of this disease, 2.415 men and 1.534 women died from lung cancer. Therefore, lung cancer is the most common reason for cancer associated death in men and second most common reason in women. This malignant disease can be divided into two main groups: small cell lung cancer (SCLC) and non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). NSCLC is a paradigm for personalized medicine, with an increasing number of targetable gene alterations. Despite this growing diversity of molecular subtypes, in most patients no targetable mutation can be detected. For these patients check-point inhibitors with or without chemotherapy is the mainstay of the initial tumor therapy. Until recently, little progress has been made in the treatment of SCLC in last decades. Recently, an overall survival benefit by the addition of an immune-checkpoint inhibitor to first-line chemotherapy for advanced SCLC has been reported. Despite the progress in the treatment of NSCLC, the performance of predictive biomarkers is weak. Therefore, the development of more precise prediction models is of great importance for the progress of personalized treatment strategies.

The Austrian Myeloid Registry (aMYELOIDr) is a non-interventional study. It collects data from patients with the myeloid diseases, primarily myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS), chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML) and acute myeloid leukemia (AML).The aMYELOIDr is multi-center database collecting data at various sites in Austria and potentially also at other centers in other countries in future. The registry has an electronic case report form (eCRF), where all data is entered by clinical trial personnel and/or physicians. It is set up to collect real-world experience in the management of patients with these diseases in Austria.

Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women worldwide. In Austria, this diagnosis is made more than 5000 times a year (STATISTICS AUSTRIA, Austrian Cancer Registry, as of 24.09.2012). Of these, already 5% to 10% have distant metastases at the time of initial diagnosis, and up to 30% of the node-negative tumours and up to 70% of the node-positive tumours metastasise at a later date. Metastatic breast cancer has not been systematically assessed in Austria to date. This medical registry of the AGMT is thus the first Austrian-wide standardised documentation of this disease. The aim of the registry is to answer both epidemiological and therapy-specific questions. This registry is a prospective and retrospective, multicentre collection of data on patients with metastatic breast cancer in Austria. All tumour characteristics, medical histories and also treatment sequences are documented in anonymised form.