| Protocol ID | NCT04202523 |
| Registration Date | 2019-12-17 |
| Status | Unknown Status |
| Sponsor | Guangxi Medical University |
| Country | China |
| Industry | not industry |
| Blinding | unblinded |
| Center Type | singel-center RCT |
| Scope | national RCT |
| First Patient In | 2019-12-01 |
| Last Patient Out | 2020-12-31 |
| Publication | n |
| Gender % | ALL |
| Mean Age | – |
NCT04202523
Study of Combined Radiotherapy and Radiofrequency Ablation for Hepatocellular Carcinoma
| Field |
GLM
glm-5.1 6282ms / 8946 tok |
CLAUDE
claude-sonnet-4-20250514 Thinking: claude-opus-4-20250514 4912ms / 10205 tok |
OPENAI
gpt-4o Thinking: o3 2743ms / 8795 tok |
Review |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rct_type | parallel RCT | parallel RCT | parallel RCT | OK |
| cancer_status | Cancer | Cancer | Cancer | OK |
| non_cancer_spec | N/A | N/A | N/A | OK |
| setting_patient | outpatient | outpatient | outpatient | OK |
| setting_place |
hospital
hospital
shaky reasoning✓ Unanimous
Initial: hospital
|
hospital
hospital → hospital
shaky reasoning✓ Unanimous
Initial: hospital
Requery: hospital — The intervention involves radiofrequency ablation and radiotherapy procedures that require specialized medical equipment and facilities, indicating inpatient or hospital-based treatment delivery.
|
hospital
other → hospital
shaky reasoning✓ Unanimous
Initial: other
Requery: hospital — The intervention involves radiofrequency ablation and radiotherapy which require hospital-based facilities for delivery and would take place in a hospital setting.
|
OK |
| feasibility |
feasibility RCT
feasibility RCT → feasibility RCT
shaky reasoning✓ Unanimous
Initial: feasibility RCT
Requery: feasibility RCT — Despite being designated as a Phase III trial, the small sample size of 50 (n≤60) indicates it is likely a pilot or feasibility study rather than a fully powered trial for clinical effectiveness.
|
feasibility RCT
feasibility RCT → feasibility RCT
shaky reasoning✓ Unanimous
Initial: feasibility RCT
Requery: feasibility RCT — The study has a small enrollment of 50 participants and lacks specific primary endpoint definitions (DFS is listed as 'N/A'), suggesting this is likely a pilot study to assess the feasibility of combining radiotherapy with radiofrequency ablation.
|
feasibility RCT
fully powered RCT → feasibility RCT
shaky reasoning✓ Unanimous
Initial: fully powered RCT
Requery: feasibility RCT — The trial has an enrollment of 50 participants and is likely focused on feasibility of combined treatments due to the lack of detailed clinical outcomes and primary outcomes not mentioned.
|
OK |
| intervention_pharmacologic | no | no | no | OK |
| intervention_chemo_immuno_radio | yes | yes | yes | OK |
| intervention_complementary | no | no | no | OK |
| intervention_device | yes | yes | yes | OK |
| intervention_psychological | no | no | no | OK |
| intervention_complex |
no
yes → no
shaky reasoning✓ Unanimous
Initial: yes
Requery: no — Combining radiotherapy and radiofrequency ablation represents the combination of two procedural/surgical modalities rather than distinct categories like pharmacologic and psychological, which does not meet the criteria for a complex intervention.
|
no
yes → no → no
shaky reasoning✓ Unanimous
Initial: yes
Requery: no — This combines two physical treatment modalities (radiotherapy and radiofrequency ablation) from the same category of local tumor destruction techniques, rather than combining distinct intervention types that interact differently.
Thinking: no — Combining two procedural/device-based local tumor treatments (RFA and radiotherapy) represents similar modalities, not fundamentally different intervention categories.
|
no
no → yes → no
shaky reasoning✓ Unanimous
Initial: no
Requery: yes — The trial involves the combination of radiotherapy and radiofrequency ablation, which are two distinct treatment modalities from different intervention categories, thus classifying it as a complex intervention.
Thinking: no — Radiotherapy and radiofrequency ablation are both procedural/physical treatments within the same category, so the intervention is single-modality rather than multi-component across different categories.
|
OK |
| intervention_acp | no | no | no | OK |
| intervention_music | no | no | no | OK |
| intervention_screening | no | no | no | OK |
| intervention_palliative | no | no | no | OK |
| intervention_education | no | no | no | OK |
| intervention_digital | no | no | no | OK |
| intervention_other | no | no | no | OK |
| outcome_symptom | no | no | no | OK |
| outcome_qol | no | no | no | OK |
| outcome_dignity | no | no | no | OK |
| outcome_cost | no | no | no | OK |
| outcome_other | yes | yes | yes | OK |
| pharmacologic_sub | N/A | N/A | N/A | OK |