Clinical trial · Interventional
CA125 and Ultrasound in Detecting Ovarian Cancer in Postmenopausal Women
United Kingdom Collaborative Trial Of Ovarian Cancer Screening
- Source
- ClinicalTrials.gov
- Retrieved
- Sep 8, 2026
- Layer
- normalized (units and labels harmonized; values unchanged)
- Run
- ING-CLINICALTRIALS-20260908-000001
Summary
Brief summary (as posted)
RATIONALE: Screening tests may help doctors detect ovarian cancer early when the survival is much more encouraging. It is not yet known whether a CA125-based or ultrasound strategy is more effective in detecting ovarian cancer early thereby impacting on the mortality from the disease in postmenopausal women from the general population. PURPOSE: Randomized clinical trial to assess the impact of screening using a multimodal strategy using CA125 interpreted by the Risk of Ovarian Cancer Algorithm (ROCA) followed by transvaginal ultrasound as a second line test versus transvaginal ultrasound on mortality from the disease in postmenopausal women from the general population.
Conditions
Conditions (1)
Free-text conditions as registered, with the CancerIndex entity they were reconciled to and the match type.
| Condition (as posted) | Mapped entity | Match | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ovarian Cancer | Malignant Ovarian Neoplasm | CURATED_EXACT | 0.92 |
Interventions
Interventions (2)
| Intervention | Type | Mapped drug | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| annual screening | Procedure | — | UNRESOLVED |
| screening questionnaire administration | Other | — | UNRESOLVED |
Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (0)
[]Primary outcomes (2)
- measure
- UKCTOCS (2001-2014): Death due to ovarian cancer (WHO 2003) determined by independent outcomes committee review of patient notes for all women identified to have a 'possible ovarian cancer' (pre-specified ICD-10 codes) till 31st December 2014.
- measure
- Long term impact of screening on ovarian cancer mortality in the UKCTOCS (LTFU UKCTOCS) (2015-2021): Death due to ovarian cancer (WHO 2014) determined by independent outcomes committee review till 30 June 2020.
Secondary outcomes (5)
- measure
- Performance characteristics: Sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive values of the two screening strategies (multimodal and ultrasound) for detection of ovarian cancer diagnosed within one year of last screen.
- description
- Ovarian cancer diagnosis is based on outcomes review of medical notes of all women who developed ovarian cancer during the trial.
- measure
- Surgical complications in women who underwent false positive surgery and were found to have benign or normal adnexae.
- description
- This is assessed through central medical note review and assigned by designated trial gynaecological oncologist.
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- Female
- Minimum age
- 50 Years
- Maximum age
- 74 Years
Show eligibility criteria text
DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS: * Postmenopausal, as defined by meeting 1 of the following criteria: * More than 12 months of amenorrhea after natural menopause or hysterectomy * Received more than 12 months of hormone replacement therapy for menopausal symptoms * No prior ovarian malignancy * No prior bilateral oophorectomy * Not at high risk for ovarian cancer due to familial predisposition as defined by the UKCCCR Familial Ovarian Cancer Screening Study PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS: Age * 50 to 74 Performance status * Not specified Life expectancy * Not specified Hematopoietic * Not specified Hepatic * Not specified Renal * Not specified Other * No active non-ovarian malignancy * Prior malignancy allowed provided there is no documented persistent or recurrent disease and patient has not received treatment for more than 1 year PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY: Biologic therapy * Not specified Chemotherapy * Not specified Endocrine therapy * See Disease Characteristics Radiotherapy * Not specified Surgery * See Disease Characteristics Other * No concurrent participation in any other ovarian cancer screening study
References
Publications (11)
- RESULTJacobs I, Gentry-Maharaj A, Burnell M, Manchanda R, Singh N, Sharma A, Ryan A, Seif MW, Amso NN, Turner G, Brunell C, Fletcher G, Rangar R, Ford K, Godfrey K, Lopes A, Oram D, Herod J, Williamson K, Scott I, Jenkins H, Mould T, Woolas R, Murdoch J, Dobbs S, Leeson S, Cruickshank D, Skates SJ, Fallowfield L, Parmar M, Campbell S, Menon U. Sensitivity of transvaginal ultrasound screening for endometrial cancer in postmenopausal women: a case-control study within the UKCTOCS cohort. Lancet Oncol. 2011 Jan;12(1):38-48. doi: 10.1016/S1470-2045(10)70268-0. Epub 2010 Dec 10. PMID 21147030
- RESULTMenon U, Gentry-Maharaj A, Hallett R, Ryan A, Burnell M, Sharma A, Lewis S, Davies S, Philpott S, Lopes A, Godfrey K, Oram D, Herod J, Williamson K, Seif MW, Scott I, Mould T, Woolas R, Murdoch J, Dobbs S, Amso NN, Leeson S, Cruickshank D, McGuire A, Campbell S, Fallowfield L, Singh N, Dawnay A, Skates SJ, Parmar M, Jacobs I. Sensitivity and specificity of multimodal and ultrasound screening for ovarian cancer, and stage distribution of detected cancers: results of the prevalence screen of the UK Collaborative Trial of Ovarian Cancer Screening (UKCTOCS). Lancet Oncol. 2009 Apr;10(4):327-40. doi: 10.1016/S1470-2045(09)70026-9. Epub 2009 Mar 11. PMID 19282241
- RESULTJacobs IJ, Menon U, Ryan A, Gentry-Maharaj A, Burnell M, Kalsi JK, Amso NN, Apostolidou S, Benjamin E, Cruickshank D, Crump DN, Davies SK, Dawnay A, Dobbs S, Fletcher G, Ford J, Godfrey K, Gunu R, Habib M, Hallett R, Herod J, Jenkins H, Karpinskyj C, Leeson S, Lewis SJ, Liston WR, Lopes A, Mould T, Murdoch J, Oram D, Rabideau DJ, Reynolds K, Scott I, Seif MW, Sharma A, Singh N, Taylor J, Warburton F, Widschwendter M, Williamson K, Woolas R, Fallowfield L, McGuire AJ, Campbell S, Parmar M, Skates SJ. Ovarian cancer screening and mortality in the UK Collaborative Trial of Ovarian Cancer Screening (UKCTOCS): a randomised controlled trial. Lancet. 2016 Mar 5;387(10022):945-956. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(15)01224-6. Epub 2015 Dec 17. PMID 26707054
- RESULTMenon U, Ryan A, Kalsi J, Gentry-Maharaj A, Dawnay A, Habib M, Apostolidou S, Singh N, Benjamin E, Burnell M, Davies S, Sharma A, Gunu R, Godfrey K, Lopes A, Oram D, Herod J, Williamson K, Seif MW, Jenkins H, Mould T, Woolas R, Murdoch JB, Dobbs S, Amso NN, Leeson S, Cruickshank D, Scott I, Fallowfield L, Widschwendter M, Reynolds K, McGuire A, Campbell S, Parmar M, Skates SJ, Jacobs I. Risk Algorithm Using Serial Biomarker Measurements Doubles the Number of Screen-Detected Cancers Compared With a Single-Threshold Rule in the United Kingdom Collaborative Trial of Ovarian Cancer Screening. J Clin Oncol. 2015 Jun 20;33(18):2062-71. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2014.59.4945. Epub 2015 May 11.