Artificial Intelligence Driven Personalisation of Radiotherapy and Concomitant Androgen Deprivation Therapy for Prostate Cancer Patients (the HypoPro Trial)

Summary

The aim of this prospective, single-arm phase II study is the individualization of both radiotherapy (RT) and androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) duration for patients with high-risk localized prostate cancer (PCa) according to the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) based on multimodal artificial intelligence (MMAI) classification. All patients will receive (i) a dose escalation to the prostate via HDR brachytherapy (boost), (ii) twelve months of ADT and (iii) extremely hypofractionated RT to the prostate (5 fractions). This way, patients in the HypoPro trial will receive a prostate-only dose escalation and benefit from shortening of the ADT compared with current guideline recommendations.

Timeline

Start

2024-11-01

Primary completion

2026-10-31

Completion

2027-10-31

Publications

• Background Gorovets D, Hopkins M, Kollmeier M, Moore A, Goel A, Shasha D, Brennan V, McBride S, Cohen G, Damato AL, Zelefsky MJ. Early outcomes of high-dose-rate brachytherapy combined with ultra-hypofractionated radiation in higher-risk prostate cancer. Brachytherapy. 2021 Nov-Dec;20(6):1099-1106. doi: 10.1016/j.brachy.2021.08.006. Epub 2021 Sep 26.
• Background van As N, Griffin C, Tree A, Patel J, Ostler P, van der Voet H, Loblaw A, Chu W, Ford D, Tolan S, Jain S, Camilleri P, Kancherla K, Frew J, Chan A, Naismith O, Armstrong J, Staffurth J, Martin A, Dayes I, Wells P, Price D, Williamson E, Pugh J, Manning G, Brown S, Burnett S, Hall E. Phase 3 Trial of Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy in Localized Prostate Cancer. N Engl J Med. 2024 Oct 17;391(15):1413-1425. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa2403365.
• Background Spratt DE, Tang S, Sun Y, Huang HC, Chen E, Mohamad O, Armstrong AJ, Tward JD, Nguyen PL, Lang JM, Zhang J, Mitani A, Simko JP, DeVries S, van der Wal D, Pinckaers H, Monson JM, Campbell HA, Wallace J, Ferguson MJ, Bahary JP, Schaeffer EM, Sandler HM, Tran PT, Rodgers JP, Esteva A, Yamashita R, Feng FY. Artificial Intelligence Predictive Model for Hormone Therapy Use in Prostate Cancer. NEJM Evid. 2023 Aug;2(8):EVIDoa2300023. doi: 10.1056/EVIDoa2300023. Epub 2023 Jun 29.
• Background Esteva A, Feng J, van der Wal D, Huang SC, Simko JP, DeVries S, Chen E, Schaeffer EM, Morgan TM, Sun Y, Ghorbani A, Naik N, Nathawani D, Socher R, Michalski JM, Roach M 3rd, Pisansky TM, Monson JM, Naz F, Wallace J, Ferguson MJ, Bahary JP, Zou J, Lungren M, Yeung S, Ross AE; NRG Prostate Cancer AI Consortium; Sandler HM, Tran PT, Spratt DE, Pugh S, Feng FY, Mohamad O. Author Correction: Prostate cancer therapy personalization via multi-modal deep learning on randomized phase III clinical trials. NPJ Digit Med. 2023 Feb 22;6(1):27. doi: 10.1038/s41746-023-00769-z. No abstract available.
• Background Kerkmeijer LGW, Groen VH, Pos FJ, Haustermans K, Monninkhof EM, Smeenk RJ, Kunze-Busch M, de Boer JCJ, van der Voort van Zijp J, van Vulpen M, Draulans C, van den Bergh L, Isebaert S, van der Heide UA. Focal Boost to the Intraprostatic Tumor in External Beam Radiotherapy for Patients With Localized Prostate Cancer: Results From the FLAME Randomized Phase III Trial. J Clin Oncol. 2021 Mar 1;39(7):787-796. doi: 10.1200/JCO.20.02873. Epub 2021 Jan 20.
• Zamboglou C, Doncker W, Christoforou AT, Arcangeli S, Berlin A, Blanchard P, Bauman G, Campi R, Castro E, Choudhury A, Pra AD, Draulans C, Desai N, Ferentinos K, Francolini G, Gillessen S, Grosu AL, Rivas JG, Hoelscher T, Hruby G, Jereczek-Fossa BA, Kamran S, Kasivisvanathan V, Kishan AU, Kounnis V, Loblaw A, Martin J, Mastroleo F, Merseburger AS, Miszczyk M, Mohamad O, Ost P, Papatsoris A, Peeken JC, Sanguedolce F, Sargos P, Schmidt-Hegemann N, Seibert TM, Shelan M, Siva S, Soeterik TFW, Spratt DE, Stenzl A, Strouthos I, Sutera P, Supiot S, Tilki D, Tran PT, Tree AC, Tward J, Urun Y, Vapiwala N, Waddle MR, Wegener E, Zilli T, Murthy V, Thieme AH, Spohn S. oDigital pathology biomarkers for guiding radiotherapy-based treatment concepts in prostate cancer - a systematic review and expert consensus. Radiother Oncol. 2025 Sep;210:111039. doi: 10.1016/j.radonc.2025.111039. Epub 2025 Jul 9.

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