NCT06826066

Involvement of the Immune System in Intrinsic Radiosensitivity

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 40 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Radiotherapy is one of the major treatments for cancer. It may be indicated in more than two-thirds of patients, regardless of cancer location or disease stage. The mechanisms of radiotherapy action are numerous: halting tumor proliferation, inducing tumor cell death, triggering anti-tumor immune responses, and ensuring both local and systemic tumor control. As a result, current treatments are highly effective, providing, for instance, a 5-year overall survival rate of about 90%-95% for localized breast and prostate cancers.

Detailed description

In everyday clinical practice, the indications for radiotherapy are based on the benefit-to-risk ratio concerning toxicity. In most cases, radiotherapy causes mild to moderate acute or late side effects, depending on the patient and the volumes irradiated. However, in 1% to 5% of treated patients, these side effects can be severe, unexpected, and often unexplained. The cause of this toxicity remains poorly understood and largely unexplored, especially concerning the intrinsic radiosensitivity of patients. The PROUST study (French Registry for Review of Morbidity and Mortality; RMM) was initiated in France to prospectively collect clinical, dosimetric, and biological data on individual radiosensitivity in patients who experience severe radiation-induced toxicity. The goal of this study is to better characterize patients with severe radiation-induced toxicities and identify the cellular factors involved in this toxicity. Although the aim is to identify the cellular and molecular immune factors involved in severe radiation-induced toxicity, we currently cannot determine whether the immune monitoring observed in radiosensitive patients is a consequence of the toxicity itself or of radiotherapy. To answer this question, we have decided to create a control cohort, called TRANSPROUST, which includes patients treated with radiotherapy but who did not experience severe radiation-induced toxicity. After obtaining consent from patients who were treated with radiotherapy but did not develop severe toxicity, we will collect blood samples similar to those taken from the severe toxicity cohort. These samples will undergo flow cytometry analysis, and the results will be compared with those of patients included in the PROUST cohort.

Conditions

• Neoplasms

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Blood samples	We propose to include patients who have been treated with radiotherapy and did not experience severe radiation-induced toxicity, after obtaining their informed consent. A blood sample will then be collected by the nursing staff from the Oncology-Radiotherapy department at Henri Mondor University Hospital. After the patient signs the consent form, each patient will have their clinical information recorded and a blood sample taken. The blood samples will be immediately transported, at room temperature, to the INSERM U955 i-Biot unit at Henri Mondor (serum, plasma, and PBMC). All samples will be frozen at -80°C for later analysis.

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-05-12
• Primary completion: 2027-05-12
• Completion: 2027-05-12
• First posted: 2025-02-13
• Last updated: 2026-01-15

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France