Clinical trial · Interventional
Study Comparing Tumor Debulking Surgery Versus Chemotherapy Alone in Recurrent Platinum-Sensitive Ovarian Cancer
A Randomized Multicenter Study to Compare the Efficacy of Additional Tumor Debulking Surgery vs Chemotherapy Alone in Recurrent Platinum-Sensitive Ovarian 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)
It is still not clear whether a positive AGO-score just selects patients with less aggressive biologic tumor behavior who as well would have had a positive outcome by chemotherapy only, or , if it is a score selecting patients who really benefit from surgery. Nevertheless, the AGO-score was confirmed to select patients with a less than 30% risk of ending with residual tumor after surgery for recurrent disease. This could avoid including patients into the present surgical protocol who could not benefit from an operationThe goal of this third DESKTOP study is to evaluate in a prospectively randomized multicentre setting, whether maximum effort of cytoreductive surgery followed by platinum based combination chemotherapy can improve overall survival as compared to platinum based combination chemotherapy alone in AGO-score positive patients.
Conditions
Conditions (3)
Free-text conditions as registered, with the CancerIndex entity they were reconciled to and the match type.
| Condition (as posted) | Mapped entity | Match | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fallopian Tube Cancer | Malignant Fallopian Tube Neoplasm | ALIAS | 0.90 |
| Ovarian Cancer | Malignant Ovarian Neoplasm | CURATED_EXACT | 0.92 |
| Peritoneal Cavity Cancer | Malignant Peritoneal Neoplasm | ALIAS | 0.90 |
Interventions
Interventions (1)
| Intervention | Type | Mapped drug | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tumor Debulking Surgery (surgery in recurrent ovarian disease) | Procedure | — | UNRESOLVED |
Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (2)
- type
- NO_INTERVENTION
- label
- Control Arm - Chemotherapy only
- description
- Chemotherapy for platinum-sensitive Ovarian Cancer can be selected on investigators choice
- type
- EXPERIMENTAL
- label
- Procedure/Surgery
- description
- Maximum effort cytoreductive surgery
- interventionNames
- Procedure: Tumor Debulking Surgery (surgery in recurrent ovarian disease)
Primary outcomes (1)
- measure
- Overall survival
- timeFrame
- Approximately 36 months after last patient randomized and observation of 244 events
- description
- in patients with platinum-sensitive recurrent ovarian cancer with a positive AGO Score
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- Female
- Minimum age
- 18 Years
Show eligibility criteria text
Inclusion criteria: * Patients with first recurrence of platinum sensitive, invasive epithelial ovarian-, fallopian tube- or primary peritoneal cancer of any initial stage. * Progression-free interval of at least 6 months after end of last platinum-containing therapy, or recurrence within 6 months or later after primary surgery if the patient has not received prior chemotherapy in patients with FIGO I. Non cytostatic maintenance therapy not containing platinum will not be considered for this calculation. * A positive AGO-score. Obligatory requirements for a positive AGO recurrence score in platinum-sensitive disease: 1. Performance status ECOG 0 2. No residual tumor after primary surgery (if unknown, alternatively primary FIGO stage I/II). If report from 1st surgery is not available contact study chairman who will decide whether inclusion is possible or not. 3. Absence of ascites (cut off \< 500 ml: radiological or ultrasound estimation) * Complete resection of the tumor by median laparotomy seems possible * Patients who have given their signed and written informed consent and their consent to data transmission and -processing. Exclusion Criteria: * Patients with non-epithelial tumors as well as borderline tumors. * Patients without recurrence who are scheduled for diagnostic/second-look surgery or debulking surgery after completion of chemotherapy * More than one prior chemotherapy * Patients with second, third, or later recurrence * Patients with second malignancies who have been treated by laparotomy, as well as other neoplasms, if the treatment might interfere with the treatment of relapsed ovarian cancer or if major impact on prognosis is expected. * Patients with so-called platinum-refractory tumor, i.e. progression during chemotherapy or recurrence within 6 months after end of former first platinum-containing therapy * Only palliative surgery planned * Radiological signs suggesting metastases not accessible to surgical removal (i.e. complete resection is deemed impossible) * Any concomitant disease not allowing surgery and/or chemotherapy * Any medical history indicating excessive peri-operative risk * Any current medication inducing considerable surgical risk (e.g. bleeding: due to oral anticoagulating agents, bevacizumab)
References
Publications (2)
- RESULTHarter P, Sehouli J, Vergote I, Ferron G, Reuss A, Meier W, Greggi S, Mosgaard BJ, Selle F, Guyon F, Pomel C, Lecuru F, Zang R, Avall-Lundqvist E, Kim JW, Ponce J, Raspagliesi F, Kristensen G, Classe JM, Hillemanns P, Jensen P, Hasenburg A, Ghaem-Maghami S, Mirza MR, Lund B, Reinthaller A, Santaballa A, Olaitan A, Hilpert F, du Bois A; DESKTOP III Investigators. Randomized Trial of Cytoreductive Surgery for Relapsed Ovarian Cancer. N Engl J Med. 2021 Dec 2;385(23):2123-2131. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa2103294. PMID 34874631
- DERIVEDBommert M, Harter P, Heitz F, du Bois A. When should Surgery be used for Recurrent Ovarian Carcinoma? Clin Oncol (R Coll Radiol). 2018 Aug;30(8):493-497. doi: 10.1016/j.clon.2018.04.006. Epub 2018 May 7. PMID 29743148