The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of the Philips Sonalleve Magnetic Resonance Imaging-guided High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (MR-HIFU) device for treating painful bone metastases.
Magnetic Resonance Imaging-guided High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (MR-HIFU) is a non-invasive outpatient modality. In MR-HIFU, a specially designed ultrasound transducer is used to focus a beam of ultrasound energy into a small volume at a specific target site in the body. The focused beam is intended to produce therapeutic hyperthermia in the target field while only harmlessly warming the immediately surrounding tissue. Magnetic Resonance Imaging is used during the ultrasound treatment, both to focus the ultrasound beam on the target field and to perform real-time thermal mapping at and around the target. The Philips Sonalleve MR-HIFU system is expected to be efficacious in reducing pain scores in patients with painful bone metastases and in reducing their pain medication usage.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
20
A treatment session with the Philips Sonalleve MR-HIFU device for bone pain palliation with high-intensity focused ultrasound.
University Medical Center Utrecht
Utrecht, Netherlands
Samsung Medical Center
Seoul, South Korea
Royal Marsden Hospital / Institute of Cancer Research
Sutton, Surrey, United Kingdom
Pain response to therapy
Pain is measured using the Brief Pain Inventory (BPI) questionnaire. Patients are categorized into: * Complete response (CR): Pain score 0 without analgesic increase * Partial response (PR): Pain reduction of 2 or more without analgesic increase; or analgesic reduction of 25% without pain increase * Pain Progression (PP): Pain increase of 2 or more with stable analgesic use; or increase of 25% or more in analgesic use, with pain score stable or 1 point above baseline * No response corresponds to all other cases Patients with PR or CR at 30 days are considered responders to therapy.
Time frame: 30 days after treatment
Total number of Adverse Events
Total number of complications and adverse events, including the number of unintended lesions that occur as a result of treatment with MR-HIFU.
Time frame: within the first 90 days within treatment
Quality of Life (as measured by questionnaire)
Quality of Life will be measured at the given time points using a dedicated questionnaire for patients in palliative care: the European Organisation on Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) C15-PAL questionnaire.
Time frame: at day 0 before treatment, and at 7, 14, 30, 60 and 90 days after treatment
Subgroup analysis: pain response in radiation naïve patients
Assessment of positive response on pain (as determined by the Primary Outcome Measure) will be documented separately for radiation naïve patients and radiation failure patients, and a comparison between the two sub-groups will be performed.
Time frame: 30 days after treatment
Temporal evolution of pain response during the first 30 days after treatment
Patients are given a diary to complete during the first 30 days after treatment, which documents their daily pain level on a 0-10 scale and their pain medication usage.
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Time frame: during the first 30 days after treatment