Project description
Treatment for high-risk ovarian cancer patients
Ovarian carcinoma treatment often involves systemic chemotherapy, surgery, and maintenance therapy. However, about 14 000 patients in Europe face poor outcomes with a five-year survival rate of under 20 %. These patients, characterised by low chemosensitivity and non-resectable disease after initial chemotherapy cycles, present a significant challenge. In this context, the EU-funded SALVOVAR project aims to address this issue by enhancing physician awareness and providing diagnostic tools to better identify these patients. The project will test a new treatment approach in a large-scale randomised trial across six countries, comparing the effects of weekly versus standard three-weekly chemotherapy regimens. SALVOVAR seeks to improve patient outcomes, quality of life, and cost-effectiveness through practical treatment adjustments.
Objective
The standard medical-and-surgical treatment of ovarian carcinoma patients relies on a systemic chemotherapy (carboplatin-paclitaxel), a tumor debulking surgery meant to be complete (no post-operative residual lesion), and a subsequent maintenance treatment with modern targeted agents. Recent studies identified a patient population (~14,000 patients / year in Europe), whose prognostic is poor (5 year-overall survival (OS) <20%) due to a refractory cancer, characterized by a poor chemosensitivity (assessable online with the numeric CA-125 KELIMTM score <1.0) and by a disease found non-resectable disease after 3-4 cycles of chemotherapy. In these patients, there is a high uncertainty about the best treatment adjustments to apply.
SALVOVAR is a European project led by HCL, meant 1) to raise the physician awareness, and propose practical and affordable diagnostic tools for identifying these patients, and 2) to assess the utility (OS benefit), acceptability (quality-of-life; patient perception) and affordability (cost-effectiveness, including country coverage policies) of solutions based on adjustments of their medical-and-surgical treatment. These solutions implementable in routine may improve their prognosis, according to recent literature data. The project will be based on a large pragmatic randomized phase III trial, sponsored by ARCAGY-GINECO group, and activated in 6 countries (ENGOT network; ~100 recruiting centers), with the objective of demonstrating an OS benefit with the chemotherapy densification (weekly carboplatine-paclitaxel dose-dense regimen) compared to the continuation of the standard 3-weekly regimen. Total 685 patients treated with the standard neo-adjuvant chemotherapy will be pre-screened to randomize 240 patients. Dissemination, and communication will be carried-on to ensure the quality of the project, and inform the stakeholders, patients, public, health authorities/ payers of the project outcomes, mean to change the practices.
This action is part of the Cancer Mission cluster of projects on ‘Diagnosis and treatment’.
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HORIZON.2.1 - Health
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69002 Lyon
France
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