NCT02251730 - Smoking Cessation in Head and Neck Cancer Patients Receiving Curative Radiation Therapy | Crick

Overview

To propose a feasibility study of introducing a smoking cessation program in head and neck cancer patients with planned radiotherapy. The study will feature the feasibility, safety, and efficacy of a prospective smoking cessation program during head and neck irradiation.

Smoking during radiotherapy in head and neck cancers yields not only more radiotherapy acute and late complications but also poor clinical tumor response, poor local control, and poor overall survival. However, smoking cessation has not been included into the standard intervention in treating head and neck cancer patients in Taiwan. We propose a prospective study of introducing a smoking cessation program in head and neck cancer patients receiving radiotherapy. The study will feature the feasibility, safety, and efficacy of a prospective smoking cessation program during head and neck irradiation. The primary outcome is to test the feasibility of the smoking cessation intervention, and the secondary outcome is to test the efficacy of the intervention during radiotherapy on acute and late RT toxicities, tumor response, patterns of relapse, and overall survival.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

NA

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

64

Conditions

Head and Neck Neoplasms

Interventions

Smoking cessationBEHAVIORAL

Refer for smoking cessation

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 20 YearsMax age: 70 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Age 18 to 70 years * Head and Neck Malignancy Stage I-IVB without distant metastasis * Receiving five weeks or more of external beam radiotherapy * Report smoking one or more cigarettes in the past 30 days or self-identify as a smoker * KPS 70-100 Exclusion Criteria: * Serious or unstable cardiac, renal, hypertensive, pulmonary, endocrine, or neurologic disorders, as assessed by the study-site physician * A current diagnosis of major depressive episode or a history of psychosis, bipolar disorder, or seizure disorder * Pregnancy or lactation

Locations (1)

National Taiwan University Hospital

Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Successful smoking cessation at the end of radiotherapy, confirmed by CO breath test concentrations of 3 ppm or less.

The primary outcome was to test the feasibility of introducing a smoking cessation program in head and neck cancer patients undergoing radiotherapy. Smoking cessation status will be formally assessed by patient report and by carbon monoxide (CO) breath test. The status of tobacco abstinence will be confirmed by carbon monoxide breath test concentrations of 3 ppm or less.

Time frame: 10 weeks

Secondary Outcomes

≥ Grade 3 acute and late adverse event

The secondary outcomes were to test the efficacy of smoking cessation during radiotherapy on acute and late radiation therapy toxicities, tumor response, patterns of relapse, and overall survival.

Time frame: 2 years

One- and two-year local-regional control rates

All patients will be evaluated by the treating physician once per week during treatment, and acute toxicities will be rated with CTCAE v4.0. All patients will be followed up every 2-3 months for the first 2 years, every 4 months for the third year, and every 6 months until recurrence or death. Late toxicities will be assessed with late morbidity scoring criteria of Radiation Therapy Oncology Group.

Time frame: 2 years

One- and two-year distant metastases-free survival rates

All patients will be evaluated by the treating physician once per week during treatment, and acute toxicities will be rated with CTCAE v4.0. All patients will be followed up every 2-3 months for the first 2 years, every 4 months for the third year, and every 6 months until recurrence or death. Late toxicities will be assessed with late morbidity scoring criteria of Radiation Therapy Oncology Group.

Time frame: 2 years

One- and two-year progression-free survival rates

All patients will be evaluated by the treating physician once per week during treatment, and acute toxicities will be rated with CTCAE v4.0. All patients will be followed up every 2-3 months for the first 2 years, every 4 months for the third year, and every 6 months until recurrence or death. Late toxicities will be assessed with late morbidity scoring criteria of Radiation Therapy Oncology Group.