Clinical trial Recruiting at 59 sites Phase 3 Interventional Ages 18 and up Women only

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.

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Quick facts

PhasePhase 3
Study typeInterventional
Ages18 Years and up
SexWomen only
Enrollment220 (estimated)
SponsorGOG Foundation
Research network
Drugs / interventionsbevacizumab, chemotherapy, radiation
Locations59 sites (Duarte, California and 58 other locations)
StatusRecruiting
StartedMarch 8, 2024
Main results expectedAugust 1, 2029
Study endsAugust 1, 2034
Registry record updatedApril 16, 2026
Trial IDNCT05659381 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

  • 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

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