NCT04575935RecruitingPhase 3
Minimally Invasive Surgery After Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy for the Treatment of Stage IIIC-IV Ovarian, Primary Peritoneal, or Fallopian Tube Cancer, LANCE Trial
Laparoscopic Cytoreduction After Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 14 Sept 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
This phase III trial compares minimally invasive surgery (MIS) to laparotomy in treating patients with stage IIIC-IV ovarian, primary peritoneal, or fallopian tube cancer who are receiving chemotherapy before and after surgery (neoadjuvant chemotherapy). MIS is a surgical procedure that uses small incision(s) and is intended to produce minimal blood loss and pain for the patient. Laparotomy is a surgical procedure which allows the doctors to remove some or all of the tumor and check if the disease has spread to other organs in the body. MIS may work the same or better than standard laparotomy after chemotherapy in prolonging the return of the disease and/or improving quality of life after surgery.
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Phase (registry)
- Phase 3
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 580 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 8 Sept 2020
- Start date
- 5 Aug 2020
- Primary completion date
- 31 Dec 2028
- Lead sponsor
- M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
- Diseases
- Ovarian cancer
- NCT number
- NCT04575935
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional · Phase 3
- Planned participants: 580
- From 5 Aug 2020 to the primary completion date, 31 Dec 2028
- 19 sites in 5 countries
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Other illness
- Evidence of tumor not amenable to minimally invasive resection on pre-operative imaging (CT, PET-CT, or MRI) including but not limited to the following findings that may preclude minimally invasive resection per surgeon's assessment. • Failure of improvement of ascites during NACT (trace ascites is allowed) • Small bowel or gastric tumor involvement • Colon or rectal tumor involvement • Diaphragmatic tumor involvement • Splenic or hepatic surface or parenchymal tumor involvement • Mesenteric tumor involvement • Tumor infiltration of the lesser peritoneal sac
- History of psychological, familial, sociological or geographical condition potentially preventing compliance with the study protocol and follow-up schedule
Other
- Inability to tolerate prolonged Trendelenburg position or pneumoperitoneum as deemed by participating institution's clinicians
- Any other contraindication to MIS as assessed by the clinician
Who the study is looking for
- Age ≥ 18 years old
- Stage IIIC or IV, high-grade (serous, endometrioid, clear-cell, transitional carcinomas), invasive epithelial ovarian carcinoma, primary peritoneal carcinoma, or fallopian-tube carcinoma or pathology consistent with high-grade mullerian carcinoma.
- Patient is considered by treating physician to be a surgical candidate after completion of 3 to 4 cycles of platinum-based chemotherapy, or an investigational neoadjuvant regimen given according to protocol, with complete radiologic resolution of any disease outside the abdominal cavity. Pleural effusions are acceptable per the local PI's discretion.
- Normalization of CA-125 according to individual participating center reference range (Note: Among patients with a normal CA-125 at initiation of therapy, the CA-125 cannot exceed 35 U/mL at the completion of NACT prior to interval debulking surgery.) or has a CA-125 value ≤500 and is scheduled to undergo a diagnostic laparoscopy prior to debulking surgery. a. For patients undergoing diagnostic laparoscopy, surgeon considers that optimal debulking is feasible either by MIS or laparotomy.
- Timeframe of \< 6 weeks (42 days) from the last cycle of NACT to interval debulking surgery. Overall timeframe may be extended per MD Anderson PI discretion.
- ECOG performance status 0-2
- Signed informed consent and ability to comply with follow-up
- Negative pregnancy test by blood or urine (within 14 days prior to surgery)
- Disease free of other active malignancies in the previous five years, except basal and squamous cell carcinomas of the skin
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: Female · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (19)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arthur J.E. Child Comprehensive Cancer Centre - Calgary Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Calgary | Canada | Recruiting |
| University Health Network - Princess Margaret Cancer Centre Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Toronto | Canada | Recruiting |
| Sant'Orsola Hospital di Bologna Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Bologna | Italy | Recruiting |
| Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Rome | Italy | Recruiting |
| Instituto Nacional de Cancerología (Mexico) Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Tlalpan | Mexico | Recruiting |
| Amsterdam UMC - Locatie AMC | H5Zuid 154 Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Amsterdam | Netherlands | Recruiting |
| St. Luke's University Health Network Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Bethlehem | United States | Recruiting |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Boston | United States | Recruiting |
| Massachusetts General Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Boston | United States | Recruiting |
| Cleveland Clinic Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Cleveland | United States | Recruiting |
| Duke Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Durham | United States | Recruiting |
| M D Anderson Cancer Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Houston | United States | Recruiting |
| Houston Methodist Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Houston | United States | Recruiting |
| Lyndon Baines Johnson General Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Houston | United States | Recruiting |
| University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Madison | United States | Active, not recruiting |
| University of Miami Miller School of Medicine-Sylvester Cancer Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Miami | United States | Recruiting |
| NYU Langone Health Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Mineola | United States | Recruiting |
| Columbia University Medical Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | New York | United States | Recruiting |
| Cleveland Clinic Foundation - Florida Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Weston | United States | Recruiting |
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