Post-prostatectomy Radiation Therapy--Moderate Versus Ultra-hypofractionated (Also Known as Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy [SBRT])

A Phase II Randomized Trial of Moderate Versus Ultra-hypofractionated Post-prostatectomy Radiation Therapy

The primary purpose of this study is to compare the quality of life (QOL) reported by prostate cancer patients 2 years after treatment with ultra-hypofractionated post-prostatectomy radiation therapy (also known as stereotactic body radiation therapy [SBRT]) versus the self-reported QOL of those treated with moderately hypo-fractionated post-prostatectomy radiation (a current standard of care option).

Study Overview

• Status: Recruiting
• Conditions: Prostate Cancer
• Intervention / Treatment: Radiation: Moderately Hypo-fractionated Radiation Therapy; Radiation: Ultra-hypofractionated radiation therapy

Detailed Description

Conventional or moderately hypo-fractionated radiation therapy are the current standard of care treatment options for men receiving post-prostatectomy radiation therapy. These treatment regimens typically span 4-8 weeks, representing a high burden of therapy, which may result in decreased utilization of salvage radiotherapy, the only potentially curable treatment for men with relapsed disease following prostatectomy. Ultra-hypofractionated radiation therapy (also known as stereotactic body radiation therapy [SBRT]) would decrease the total number of treatments to 5, delivered over 2 weeks, which would greatly reduce treatment burden.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Estimated): 136
• Phase: Phase 2

Contacts and Locations

• Study Contact: Name: Cancer AnswerLine; Phone Number: 1-800-865-1125; Email: CancerAnswerLine@med.umich.edu

Study Locations

• United States
  • Michigan
    • Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States, 98107
      • Recruiting
      • University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center
      • Principal Investigator: William Jackson, MD

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 14 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Men age ≥ 18 with histologically confirmed prostate cancer after radical prostatectomy with a PSA ≥ 0.1 ng/mL
• Interval between prostatectomy and planned radiation therapy start date ≥ 6 months
• KPS ≥ 70
• Patients with equivocal pelvic lymph nodes on imaging are eligible if the nodes are ≤ 1.5 cm in the short axis (equivocal evidence of metastatic disease outside of the pelvis on standard imaging requires documented negative biopsy)
• Ability to complete the EPIC-26 quality of life questionnaire
• Ability to obtain tissue from radical prostatectomy specimen for review by Michigan Medicine Pathology
• Ability to understand and the willingness to sign a written informed consent.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Prior history of pelvic radiation therapy
• History of moderate/severe or active Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis
• History of bladder neck or urethral stricture
• Evidence of distant metastatic disease or nodal involvement beyond the common iliac vessels
• Initiation of androgen deprivation therapy with a LHRH / GnRH agonist or antagonist greater than 6 months prior to enrollment or receipt of any non-LHRH / GnRH agonist or antagonist androgen deprivation or anti-androgen therapy
• History of another invasive malignancy within the previous 3 years except for adequately treated squamous or basal cell skin cancer
• Any condition that in the opinion of the investigator would preclude participation in this study

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Treatment
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Active Comparator: Moderately Hypo-fractionated Radiation Therapy; 20 fractions of moderately hypofractionated radiation therapy over no more than 5-6 weeks.	Radiation: Moderately Hypo-fractionated Radiation Therapy; 55 Gy in 20 fractions to prostate bed, daily, M-F, 4 weeks (42 Gy in 20 fractions to pelvic lymph nodes if included)
Experimental: Ultra-Hypofractionated Radiation Therapy; 5 fractions of ultra-hypofractionated radiation therapy with at least one day between each treatment over the course of no more than 3-4 weeks	Radiation: Ultra-hypofractionated radiation therapy; 34 Gy in 5 fractions to prostate bed, every other day, M-F, ~2 weeks (25 Gy in 5 fractions to pelvic lymph nodes if included); Other Names: stereotactic body radiation therapy [SBRT]

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Change in patient reported GI and GU quality of life (QOL) at 2-years post-treatment from baseline	GI and GU QOL assessed with the EPIC-26 questionnaire, bowel and urinary domains. Change scores will be calculated as baseline score subtracted from 2-year score. All patients with EPIC bowel and urinary domain scores will be included in the primary endpoint analysis. The EPIC scoring manual will be followed which requires ≥ 80% of items in a domain to be completed in order to obtain a score for that domain. High bowel score >96, low bowel score <= 96, high urinary score > 84, low urinary score <=84.	2-years post-treatment

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Patient reported GU quality of life (QOL) up to 60 months	GU QOL assessed with the EPIC-26 questionnaire, urinary domain; at the end of radiation, 3, 6, 12, and 60 months post-treatment. The EPIC scoring manual will be followed which requires ≥ 80% of items in a domain to be completed in order to obtain a score for that domain. High urinary score > 84, low urinary score <=84. A longitudinal analysis incorporating all follow-up time points, will be conducted separately for each domain score.	60 months post-treatment
Patient reported GI quality of life (QOL) up to 60 months	GI QOL assessed with the EPIC-26 questionnaire, bowel domain; at the end of radiation, 3, 6, 12, and 60 months post-treatment. The EPIC scoring manual will be followed which requires ≥ 80% of items in a domain to be completed in order to obtain a score for that domain. High bowel score >96, low bowel score <= 96. A longitudinal analysis incorporating all follow-up time points, will be conducted separately for each domain score.	60 months post-treatment
Treatment related toxicity - acute	Treatment related toxicity (adverse events) assessed with CTCAE version 5.0	≤ 90 days after treatment completion
Treatment related toxicity - late	Treatment related toxicity (adverse events) assessed with CTCAE version 5.0	>90 days after treatment completion, up to 5 years
Time to progression	Time to progression (where progression is defined as the first occurrence of biochemical failure, local failure, regional failure, distant metastasis, start of salvage therapy, or death from prostate cancer)	up to 5 years
Rate of biochemical failure	Biochemical failure will be assessed using two definitions. Definition one is a PSA ≥ 0.4 ng/mL followed by a second higher value. Definition two is the post-radiation PSA nadir + 2ng/mL	up to 5 years
Local failure, Regional failure, Distant metastases	Descriptive statistics will be used to describe the number of local, regional and distant metastases.; Local failure is defined as development of a new biopsy-proven mass or prostate specific PET avid mass in the prostate bed after completion of protocol treatment; Regional failure is defined as radiographic evidence of pelvic lymphadenopathy (lymph node size ≥ 1.5 cm in short axis) or PET avid lymph nodes within the pelvis following protocol treatment; Distant metastases is defined as any clinical or radiographic evidence of lymph node, bone, or visceral involvement of prostate cancer	up to 5 years
Prostate cancer specific survival	Prostate cancer specific survival defined as the duration of time from the start of treatment to death attributable to prostate cancer. Patients who have not died or die of non-prostate cancer related causes will be censored at the date of last known follow-up or date of death, respectively.	up to 5 years
Overall survival	Overall survival defined as the duration of time from the start of treatment to death from any cause. Patients who have not died will be censored at the date of last known follow-up.	up to 5 years

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: William Jackson, M.D., University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): November 12, 2021
• Primary Completion (Estimated): November 1, 2026
• Study Completion (Estimated): November 1, 2029

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: August 31, 2021
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: August 31, 2021
• First Posted (Actual): September 9, 2021

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Estimated): January 16, 2026
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: January 15, 2026
• Last Verified: January 1, 2026

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT); Post-prostatectomy; Ultra-hypofractionated Radiation Therapy
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Urogenital Diseases; Genital Diseases; Genital Neoplasms, Male; Urogenital Neoplasms; Neoplasms by Site; Neoplasms; Genital Diseases, Male; Prostatic Diseases; Male Urogenital Diseases; Prostatic Neoplasms; Investigative Techniques; Therapeutics; Surgical Procedures, Operative; Radiotherapy; Stereotaxic Techniques; Neurosurgical Procedures; Radiosurgery
• Other Study ID Numbers: UMCC 2021.046; HUM00200905 (Other Identifier: University of Michigan)

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: Yes