This study will test the safety and efficacy of living donor liver transplant after standard-of-care chemotherapy for participants with non-resectable liver metastases (LM) from colorectal cancer. 25 donor-recipient pairs will be enrolled (50 participants). Donors will be on study for 2 years and recipients will be on study for up to 5 years.
This study is a single center, open-label study available to male and female adults with CRC LM that are deemed to be "unresectable" and who are receiving standard of care chemotherapy. Participants will be worked up for LDLT while continuing to receive chemotherapy and, if deemed eligible for surgery, will stop chemotherapy 4 weeks prior to receiving a living donor transplant. Recipients will be followed for 5 years (for safety, survival and disease recurrence for purposes of study data collection). They will continue to be monitored for safety, survival and disease recurrence indefinitely as part of University of Wisconsin (UW) Health's Organ Transplant Program care standards. Living liver donors will be followed for 2 years after transplant surgery for safety monitoring as part of this study. Recruitment will be done in two stages. The first stage will be a pilot study of 5 recipients to determine if LDLT is a suitable treatment for patients with non-resectable LM. If, after 3 years of follow-up, the overall survival is greater than 60%, stage two recruitment will commence. Thus, an interim analysis will be done for the first 5 recipients prior to requiring a larger number of subjects. Stage two recruitment will focus on accruing a total of up to 20 additional recipients to be analyzed. The control group will consist of any potential recipients that sign the informed consent and are enrolled in the study but do not undergo LDLT due to a lack of an eligible donor. These participants will be referred back to their medical oncologists to receive standard of care chemotherapy, and will continue to be followed as the control group. Patients who sign the informed consent and are enrolled in the study with an eligible live donor but do not undergo LDLT due to disease progression or a contraindication is established for undergoing LT (exclusion criteria) will also be referred back to their medical oncologists to receive standard of care chemotherapy. This group will be followed as part of the intent to treat cohort.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
The LDLT will be performed by the UW Division of Transplantation in accordance with the standard of care for this operation.
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Overall Survival (OS)
Overall survival, defined as length of time from the start of (neoadjuvant) chemotherapy that subjects diagnosed with colorectal liver metastases are still alive.
Time frame: participants followed up to 5 years
Disease Free Survival (DFS)
DFS, defined as length of time after LDLT during which no disease is found according to RESIST v1.1 criteria.
Time frame: up to 5 years
Site of Recurrence (Organs Affected)
Patterns of recurrence will be investigated, assessed by standard of care chest, abdominal and pelvis imaging.
Time frame: up to 5 years
Number of Sites of Recurrence per Participant
Patterns of recurrence will be investigated, assessed by standard of care chest, abdominal and pelvis imaging.
Time frame: up to 5 years
Survival Rate
Surviving number of recipients who receive LDLT vs. control subjects will be assessed at 1-, 3-, and 5-years.
Time frame: up to 5 years
Quality of Life Survey Score: EORTC QLQ-C30
Quality of life is measured at 1-, 3-, and 5-years using the EORTC QLQ-C30 (European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire). The questionnaire assesses multi-item scales, each item scoring from 1 to 4, with higher scores representing a higher level of symptomatology or problems.
Time frame: up to 5 years
Quality of Life Survey Score: EORTC QLQ-LMC21
Quality of life is measured at 1-, 3-, and 5-years using the EORTC QLQ-LMC21 (European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire). The questionnaire assesses multi-item scales, each item scoring from 1 to 4, with higher scores representing a higher level of symptomatology or problems.
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Time frame: up to 5 years