Heated chemotherapy followed by Niraparib for advanced ovarian cancer
Official title: GOG-3068: A Phase III Randomized Trial of Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy (HIPEC) With Cisplatin Versus no HIPEC at the Time of Optimal Interval Cytoreductive Surgery Followed by Niraparib Maintenance in Patients With Homologous Recombinant Deficient (HRD +) Newly Diagnosed Stage III and IV Ovarian, Primary Peritoneal, and Fallopian Tube Cancer (Heated Ovarian Treatment Trial)
Run by GOG Foundation · NCT05659381 · Data updated 2026-11-12
This study is testing if a heated chemotherapy treatment followed by a drug called Niraparib can help people with advanced ovarian cancer do better after surgery compared to regular chemotherapy.
Quick facts
| Phase | Phase 3 |
|---|---|
| Study type | Interventional |
| Ages | 18 Years and up |
| Sex | Women only |
| Enrollment | 220 (estimated) |
| Sponsor | GOG Foundation Research network |
| Drugs / interventions | bevacizumab, chemotherapy, radiation |
| Locations | 59 sites (Duarte, California and 58 other locations) |
| Status | Recruiting |
| Started | March 8, 2024 |
| Main results expected | August 1, 2029 |
| Study ends | August 1, 2034 |
| Registry record updated | April 16, 2026 |
| Trial ID | NCT05659381 on ClinicalTrials.gov |
Is this trial a fit for you?
✓Likely a good fit
Ideal candidates include patients with high grade serous or endometrioid epithelial ovarian, fallopian tube, or primary peritoneal carcinoma at stage III or IV who are eligible for neoadjuvant chemotherapy and interval cytoreductive surgery.
✕Probably not a fit
Patients with progressive disease during neoadjuvant chemotherapy or those with gross residual disease greater than 1.0 cm after surgery may not benefit from this study.
A plain-English reading of the study's rules. Only the study team can confirm whether you qualify.
What this trial studies
This clinical trial investigates the effectiveness of heated intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) using cisplatin, followed by Niraparib, in patients with advanced ovarian, primary peritoneal, and fallopian tube cancers. Patients will first undergo neoadjuvant chemotherapy before being randomized to receive either HIPEC or standard postoperative chemotherapy after interval cytoreductive surgery. The study aims to determine if HIPEC improves outcomes compared to surgery alone in patients with no gross residual disease after surgery.
Why it matters
Potential benefit: If successful, this approach could improve survival rates and quality of life for patients with advanced ovarian cancer.
How similar studies have gone: Previous studies have shown promising results with HIPEC in similar patient populations, suggesting potential for success in this approach.
Who can join: the full rules
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Inclusion Criteria:
1. Patients must have a pathologic diagnosis of high grade serous or endometroid epithelial ovarian, fallopian tube, or primary peritoneal carcinoma, FIGO stage III or IV documented on CT scan/MRI, must be recommended and agree to undergo platinum-based neoadjuvant chemotherapy with or without physician choice bevacizumab (3-4 cycles allowed, with bevacizumab held for at least 28 days preoperatively) and are considered candidates for (and planned to have) interval cytoreductive surgery (iCRS) followed by chemotherapy and niraparib maintenance as determined by the enrolling investigator. Patients may continue bevacizumab after a minimum of 28 days post iCRS and during niraparib maintenance per local standard.
2. Patients with stage IV disease must have complete response of extra-abdominal disease on preoperative imaging (e.g. pleural effusion, mediastinal, inguinal, supraclavicular lymphadenopathy, or other extra-abdominal metastases) or be deemed resectable with iCRS.
3. Patients must have HRD/LOH positive tumors. Patients with germline or somatic BRCA or other similar mutations (RAD51C, RAD51D, BRIP1, BARD) are not required to have HRD/LOH testing. Patients without BRCA or germline mutations must have HRD/LOH testing using Myriad myChoice®/Foundation Medicine/Caris Life Sciences platforms. HRD test results must be available prior to registration to meet entry criteria.
4. Patients must have R0 (no gross/visible residual disease) or R1 (gross/visible residual disease ≤ 1.0 cm in the longest diameter) following iCRS and prior to randomization.
5. Patient must have adequate bone marrow and organ function:
Bone marrow function:
Hemoglobin ≥ 8.5 g/dL. Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) ≥ 1,500/mm3. Platelets ≥ 100,000/mm3.
Renal function:
Creatinine ≤ 1.3mg/dl OR Calculated creatinine clearance (≥ 30 mL/min/1.73 m2) per National Kidney Foundation guidelines and NHANES III
Hepatic function:
Bilirubin ≤ 1.5 times ULN. ALT ≤ 3 times the ULN. AST ≤ 3 times the ULN.
Neurologic function:
Peripheral neuropathy ≤ CTC AE grade 2.
6. Patients must have an ECOG performance status of 0 or 1.
7. Patient must be age \> 18.
8. Patients must have a life expectancy \> 3 months.
9. Patients of childbearing potential must have a negative serum pregnancy test within 28 days prior to iCRS and must be practicing an effective form of contraception (with failure rate \<1% per year) during the study period and for 6 months following the last dose of niraparib. Patients of childbearing potential must consent to pregnancy testing prior to receiving niraparib and monthly thereafter for the duration of the study.
Patients are considered postmenopausal and not of child-bearing potential if they are free from menses for \>1 year or surgically sterilized.
10. Patients must have normal blood pressure (BP) or adequately treated and controlled hypertension based on local standard of care (systolic BP ≤ 140 mmHg and diastolic ≤ 90 mmHg) prior to starting niraparib.
11. Patients receiving corticosteroids may continue as long as their dose is stable for at least 4 weeks prior to randomization.
12. Patients must agree to not donate blood during the study or for 90 days after the last dose of study treatment.
13. Patients with known human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) are allowed if they meet all the following criteria:
1. Cluster of differentiation 4 ≥350/µL and viral load \<400 copies/mL
2. No history of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome-defining opportunistic infections within 12 months prior to enrollment
3. No history of HIV associated malignancy for the past 5 years
4. Concurrent antiretroviral therapy as per the most current National Institutes of Health (NIH) Guidelines for the Use of Antiretroviral Agents in Adults and Adolescents Living with HIV started \>4 weeks prior to study enrollment
14. Patient or a legally authorized representative must have signed an approved informed consent and authorization permitting the release of personal health information.
Exclusion Criteria
1. Patients with low-grade serous, clear cell, mucinous, non-epithelial ovarian cancers and borderline tumors.
2. Patients who have received prior treatment for ovarian cancer other than the first 3-4 cycles of platinum based neoadjuvant chemotherapy. Prior neoadjuvant treatment with bevacizumab is allowed; bevacizumab must be held for 28 days prior to surgery.
3. Patients whose tumors are HRD/LOH negative.
4. Patients not eligible for iCRS based on evidence of progression of disease during neoadjuvant chemotherapy (documented on CT scan/MRI required within 35 days of iCRS).
5. Patients not eligible for iCRS based on medical co-morbidities as per the enrolling investigator.
6. Patients with stage IV disease without complete response of extra-abdominal disease on preoperative findings (e.g., pleural effusion, mediastinal, inguinal, supraclavicular lymphadenopathy, mesemchymal liver metastases or other extra-abdominal metastases) who are not deemed resectable with iCRS.
7. Patients with a history of Myelodysplastic Syndrome or Acute Myeloid Leukemia.
8. Patients who are pregnant or lactating.
9. Patients with a severe infection requiring IV antibiotics within 2 weeks of planned randomization.
10. Patients with other uncontrolled, intercurrent medical conditions.
11. Patient with metastatic disease to the central nervous system.
12. Patient with uncontrolled insulin dependent diabetes or pre-existing renal condition.
13. Patients with pre-existing hearing loss related to prior platinum-based chemotherapy.
14. Patients with Prior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome (PRES).
15. Patients with current active liver or biliary disease (with the exception of Gilbert's syndrome or asymptomatic gallstones, liver metastases or otherwise stable chronic liver disease per investigator assessment). Severe hepatic impairment patients should be excluded.
16. Patients with any clinically significant gastrointestinal (GI) abnormalities that may alter absorption such as malabsorption syndrome or major resection of the stomach and/or bowels that is not related to ovarian cancer.
17. Patients with clinically significant cardiovascular disease (e.g., significant cardiac conduction abnormalities, uncontrolled hypertension, myocardial infarction, uncontrolled cardiac arrhythmia or unstable angina \<6 months to randomization, New York Heart Association Grade 2 or greater congestive heart failure, serious cardiac arrhythmia requiring medication, Grade 2 or greater peripheral vascular disease, and history of cerebrovascular accident within 6 months).
18. Patients with an increased bleeding risk due to concurrent conditions (e.g., major injuries or major surgery within the past 28 days prior to study randomization and/or history of hemorrhagic stroke, transient ischemic attack, subarachnoid hemorrhage, or clinically significant hemorrhage within the past 3 months).
19. Patients with known active hepatitis B (eg, hepatitis B surface antigen reactive) are excluded unless their HBV is stably controlled on nucleos(t)ide analogs (eg entecavir or tenofovir) which will be continued for the duration of the study.
20. Patient has had investigational therapy administered within 4 weeks or within a time interval less than at least 5 half-lives of the investigational agent, whichever is longer, prior to study randomization.
21. Patient has received a live vaccine within 30 days of study randomization. COVID-19 vaccines that do not contain live viruses are allowed at any time during the study.
22. Patient has a diagnosis, detection, or treatment of another type of invasive cancer ≤ 2 years prior to initiating protocol therapy (except for basal or squamous cell carcinoma of the skin, cervical cancer in situ, and ductal cancer in situ (DCIS) that has been definitively treated).
23. Patients must not have had radiotherapy encompassing \> 20% of the bone marrow within 2 weeks of randomization; or any radiation therapy within 1 week prior to randomization.
Where it's running
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City of Hope
Duarte, California, United States Recruiting -
University of California San Diego Moores Cancer Center
La Jolla, California, United States Recruiting -
Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian
Newport Beach, California, United States Recruiting -
Stanford Ambulatory Surgery Center Lane Operating Room
Palo Alto, California, United States Recruiting -
Stanford Women's Cancer Center
Palo Alto, California, United States Recruiting -
Stanford Hospital
Palo Alto, California, United States Recruiting
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University of Colorado Hospital - Anshutz Cancer Pavilion
Aurora, Colorado, United States Recruiting -
Hartford Hospital
Hartford, Connecticut, United States Recruiting -
Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale- New Haven
New Haven, Connecticut, United States Recruiting -
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, Connecticut, United States Recruiting -
Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center - The Lennar Foundation Medical Center
Coral Gables, Florida, United States Recruiting -
University of Miami Hospital and Clinics - Deerfield Beach
Deerfield Beach, Florida, United States Recruiting -
University of Miami Hospital and Clinics
Miami, Florida, United States Recruiting -
Miami Cancer Institute
Miami, Florida, United States Recruiting -
Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center - Plantation
Plantation, Florida, United States Recruiting -
University of Kansas Hospital
Kansas City, Kansas, United States Recruiting -
University of Kansas Medical Center MOB
Kansas City, Kansas, United States Recruiting -
University of Kansas Cancer Center Overland Park
Overland Park, Kansas, United States Recruiting -
University of Kansas Indian Creek Breast Surgery
Overland Park, Kansas, United States Recruiting -
University of Kansas Cancer Center Westwood
Westwood, Kansas, United States Recruiting -
University of Kansas Clinical Research Center
Westwood, Kansas, United States Recruiting -
University of Kentucky Medical Center
Lexington, Kentucky, United States Recruiting -
LSU Health New Orleans
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States Recruiting -
University Medical Center New Orleans
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States Recruiting -
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minnesota, United States Recruiting -
University of Kansas Cancer Center
Kansas City, Missouri, United States Recruiting -
University of Kansas Cancer Center North
Kansas City, Missouri, United States Recruiting -
University of Kansas Cancer Center Lee's Summit
Lee's Summit, Missouri, United States Recruiting -
Washington University School of Medicine
St Louis, Missouri, United States Recruiting -
Holy Name Medical Center
Teaneck, New Jersey, United States Recruiting -
University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States Recruiting -
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York, United States Recruiting -
Duke Cancer Center
Durham, North Carolina, United States Recruiting -
Duke Women's Cancer Care Raleigh
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States Recruiting -
UH Geauga Medical Center
Chardon, Ohio, United States Recruiting -
University of Cincinnati Medical Center
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States Recruiting -
TriHealth Cancer Institute - Good Samaritan Hospital
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States Recruiting -
TriHealth Cancer Institute- Thomas Comprehensive Care Center
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States Recruiting -
University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center
Cleveland, Ohio, United States Recruiting -
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, Ohio, United States Recruiting -
SCC at Lake University
Mentor, Ohio, United States Recruiting -
UH Minoff Health Center at Chagrin Highlands
Orange, Ohio, United States Recruiting -
West Chester Hospital
West Chester, Ohio, United States Recruiting -
St. John Medical Center
Westlake, Ohio, United States Recruiting -
Jefferson Abington Hospital
Abington, Pennsylvania, United States Recruiting -
Jefferson Hospital
Jefferson Hills, Pennsylvania, United States Recruiting -
Forbes Hospital
Monroeville, Pennsylvania, United States Recruiting -
West Penn Hospital
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States Recruiting -
Wexford Hospital
Wexford, Pennsylvania, United States Recruiting -
Asplundh Cancer Pavilion
Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, United States Recruiting
+9 more sites. See ClinicalTrials.gov for the full list.
Study contacts
- Study coordinator: Sarin Chhab
- Email: schhab@gog.org
- Phone: 215-854-0770
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How to take part
- Review the eligibility criteria above with your treating physician.
- Check the official listing on ClinicalTrials.gov for the latest contact details and recruitment status.
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