Clinical trial · Interventional
A Randomised Trial of Pulmonary Metastasectomy in Colorectal Cancer
- 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)
Patients who have been treated successfully for bowel cancer (colorectal cancer) sometimes go on to develop nodules of disease in another part of the body. If this disease is found to be related to the original cancer it is called a metastasis. Some patients develop one or more metastases particularly in the lungs or the liver. There is a growing trend to remove lung metastases with an operation, in the belief that this will help patients live longer, however there have not been any scientific studies to prove this. There is also very little published information about the side effects of this surgery and how it affects subsequent daily living. This is a feasibility study to determine whether it will be possible to conduct a large randomised controlled trial investigating the value of pulmonary metastasectomy (surgery to remove lung metastases) in patients who have been successfully treated for colorectal cancer. There is a two stage consent and randomisation process. Firstly, patients will be invited to consent to having a full range of investigations to assess their suitability for surgery. If found to be suitable, they will then be invited to consent to randomisation between active monitoring of their disease or active monitoring with pulmonary metastasectomy. Patients will be followed up regularly for 5 years to assess their disease status and to measure their quality of life and lung function.
Conditions
Conditions (2)
Free-text conditions as registered, with the CancerIndex entity they were reconciled to and the match type.
| Condition (as posted) | Mapped entity | Match | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colorectal Cancer | Malignant Colorectal Neoplasm | CURATED_BROADER | 0.80 |
| Pulmonary Metastases | Colorectal Neoplasm | PROBABILISTIC | 0.70 |
Interventions
Interventions (2)
| Intervention | Type | Mapped drug | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| Active monitoring | Procedure | — | UNRESOLVED |
| Metastasectomy | Procedure | — | UNRESOLVED |
Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (2)
- type
- EXPERIMENTAL
- label
- Pulmonary metastasectomy
- description
- Pulmonary metastasectomy
- interventionNames
- Procedure: Metastasectomy
- type
- ACTIVE_COMPARATOR
- label
- Active monitoring
- description
- Active monitoring
- interventionNames
- Procedure: Active monitoring
Primary outcomes (1)
- measure
- Feasibility of recruitment
- timeFrame
- 2 years
- description
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- All
- Minimum age
- 16 Years
Show eligibility criteria text
Inclusion Criteria: * Patients with primary colorectal cancer who have undergone resection of the primary cancer with intent to cure, local control has been confirmed and no clinical indications of other active colorectal cancer other than the known lung metastases. Exclusion Criteria: * Previous malignancy likely to interfere with protocol treatment or measurement of endpoints, any concurrent illness which could interfere with the treatment protocol or confound survival, unavailable for follow up and assessment according to protocol, psychiatric or mental incapacity that precludes fully informed consent
References
Publications (3)
- RESULTMilosevic M, Edwards J, Tsang D, Dunning J, Shackcloth M, Batchelor T, Coonar A, Hasan J, Davidson B, Marchbank A, Grumett S, Williams NR, Macbeth F, Farewell V, Treasure T. Pulmonary Metastasectomy in Colorectal Cancer: updated analysis of 93 randomized patients - control survival is much better than previously assumed. Colorectal Dis. 2020 Oct;22(10):1314-1324. doi: 10.1111/codi.15113. Epub 2020 Jun 14. PMID 32388895
- DERIVEDTreasure T, Farewell V, Macbeth F, Batchelor T, Milosevic M, King J, Zheng Y, Leonard P, Williams NR, Brew-Graves C, Morris E, Fallowfield L; PulMiCC investigators. The Pulmonary Metastasectomy in Colorectal Cancer (PulMiCC) burden of care study: Analysis of local treatments for lung metastases and systemic chemotherapy in 220 patients in the PulMiCC cohort. Colorectal Dis. 2021 Nov;23(11):2911-2922. doi: 10.1111/codi.15833. Epub 2021 Aug 2. PMID 34310835
- DERIVEDTreasure T, Farewell V, Macbeth F, Monson K, Williams NR, Brew-Graves C, Lees B, Grigg O, Fallowfield L; PulMiCC Trial Group. Pulmonary Metastasectomy versus Continued Active Monitoring in Colorectal Cancer (PulMiCC): a multicentre randomised clinical trial. Trials. 2019 Dec 12;20(1):718. doi: 10.1186/s13063-019-3837-y. PMID 31831062