Trial Details
Trial status:
Closed
Recruitment start date:
15/07/2010
Funder:
Cancer Research UK
Sponsor:
UCL
Chief Investigator:
Prof. Peter Hoskin
Recruitment target:
580
EudraCT number:
N/A
Contact details:
ctc.scorad@ucl.ac.uk
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Lay summary:
SCORAD III
A randomised phase III trial of single fraction radiotherapy compared to multifraction radiotherapy in patients with metastatic spinal cord compression (SCC).
Description
Design: SCORAD III was a multicentre, randomised phase III trial, stratified according to radiotherapy centre, ambulatory status, type of primary tumour and extent of disease (presence or absence of nonskeletal metastases).

Treatment:
Arm 1: Multiple fraction radiotherapy  20Gy/5f
Arm 2: Single fraction radiotherapy     8Gy/1f

Key inclusion/exclusion criteria:
Inclusions:
  • Decision to treat made ≤48 hours before SCC treatment.  
  • Single compression site or multiple sites treated in one radiation field
  • Malignant disease confirmed histologically or cytologically or a PSA >100 ng/ml at any point before randomisation (if biopsy done or planned but results not yet available patients may enter)
  • Life expectancy >8 weeks

Exclusions: 
  • Surgery or chemotherapy more appropriate
  • Multiple myeloma, lymphoma, leukaemia or glioma
  • Prophylactic treatment with no radiological spinal cord or cauda equina compression
  • Compression site has been treated previously with radiotherapy

Duration of recruitment: 6 Years (closed to recruitment 30 April 2016). 611 patients were randomised from 47 sites.
Aim
SCC is a common complication of metastatic cancer.  The main treatment is radiotherapy, to preserve or recover neurological function and prevent further progression of symptoms. There is currently no standard fractionation schedule. The aim is to show that ambulatory status using 8Gy/1f is no worse than with 20Gy/5f for patients with SCC. 
The primary endpoint is ambulatory status at 8 wks from treatment day 1, compared to randomisation.

Trial protocols
Trial protocols must not be applied to patients treated outside trials. UCL CTC can only ensure that approved trial investigators are provided with amendments to protocols.
NameVersionCurrent versRelease dateDownload
current SCORAD III protocol4 Current 03/03/2013
Trial documents
No documents have been currently made available for download
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