Single-Dose HPV Vaccination for the Prevention of Cervical Cancer in Young Adult Women in Costa Rica, The PRISMA ESCUDDO Trial

NCT05237947Active, Not RecruitingPHASE4INTERVENTIONAL

Summary

Key Facts

Lead Sponsor

National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Enrollment

5000

Start Date

2022-03-01

Completion Date

2026-05-31

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Official Title

Single-Dose HPV Vaccination Among Young Adult Women in Costa Rica: the PRISMA-ESCUDDO Trial (PRevencIón Del Cáncer Cervical Con Una Sola Dosis de Vacuna Contra VPH en Mujeres Adultas Jóvenes)

Interventions

Diphtheria Toxoid/Tetanus Toxoid/Acellular Pertussis Vaccine AdsorbedQuestionnaire AdministrationRecombinant Human Papillomavirus Bivalent VaccineRecombinant Human Papillomavirus Nonavalent Vaccine

Conditions

Human Papillomavirus-Related Cervical Carcinoma

Eligibility

Age Range

18 Years – 30 Years

Sex

FEMALE

Inclusion Criteria:

* INCLUSION CRITERIA AT ENROLLMENT: Female.
* INCLUSION CRITERIA AT ENROLLMENT: Aged between 18 and 30 years inclusive.
* INCLUSION CRITERIA AT ENROLLMENT: Living in the study area.
* INCLUSION CRITERIA AT ENROLLMENT: Able to communicate with study personnel.
* INCLUSION CRITERIA AT ENROLLMENT: Willing to participate in the study and sign the informed consent.
* INCLUSION CRITERIA AT ENROLLMENT: In good health as determined by a medical history (physical exam will be conducted if necessary per the doctor's criterion.
* DEFERRAL CRITERIA AT ENROLLMENT VISIT: The enrollment visit will be deferred (i.e., rescheduled for another date) for participants if: the self-collected cervical sample is not able to be collected.
* DEFERRAL CRITERIA AT THE VACCINATION VISIT: The vaccination visit will be deferred (i.e., rescheduled for another date) for participants if:

  * They have an acute disease that precludes vaccination (though vaccines can be administered to potential participants with a minor illness such as diarrhea and mild upper respiratory infection)
  * They are receiving immunosuppressive treatment, e.g. corticosteroids
  * They have received any registered vaccine in the last 15 days.

Exclusion Criteria:

* EXCLUSION CRITERIA AT ENROLLMENT VISIT: They have been vaccinated against human papillomavirus (HPV).
* EXCLUSION CRITERIA AT ENROLLMENT VISIT: They are allergic to yeast or another vaccine components.
* EXCLUSION CRITERIA AT ENROLLMENT VISIT: They have a diagnosis of an autoimmune, degenerative, or neurological disease without treatment or adequate control; a progressive or severe neurological disease; a genetic immunodeficiency; or any other serious chronic disease without treatment and / or adequate control that, according to the principal investigator or designee, for which vaccination is contraindicated.
* EXCLUSION CRITERIA AT ENROLLMENT VISIT: They have plans to move outside the country in the next six months.
* EXCLUSION CRITERIA AT ENROLLMENT VISIT: They refuse or are unable to self-collect the cervical sample.
* EXCLUSION CRITERIA AT ENROLLMENT VISIT: They are pregnant.
* EXCLUSION CRITERIA AT ENROLLMENT VISIT: They do not have an identification document.
* EXCLUSION CRITERIA AT ENROLLMENT VISIT: The clinician determining eligibility in agreement with the principal investigator considers that there is a reason that precludes participation.
* EXCLUSION CRITERIA AT VACCINATION VISIT: Between the enrollment and vaccine visit, they have been vaccinated against HPV.
* EXCLUSION CRITERIA AT VACCINATION VISIT: Between the enrollment and vaccine visit, they are being evaluated for or have received a diagnosis of: an autoimmune, degenerative, or neurological disease without treatment or adequate control; a progressive or severe neurological disease; a genetic immunodeficiency; or any other serious chronic disease without treatment and/or adequate control, for which vaccination is contraindicated according to the principal investigator or designee.
* EXCLUSION CRITERIA AT VACCINATION VISIT: They have plans to move outside the country in the next six months.
* EXCLUSION CRITERIA AT VACCINATION VISIT: They refuse the urine pregnancy test.
* EXCLUSION CRITERIA AT VACCINATION VISIT: They have a positive urine pregnancy test result.
* EXCLUSION CRITERIA AT VACCINATION VISIT: They are pregnant.
* EXCLUSION CRITERIA AT VACCINATION VISIT: They refuse or are unable to perform the self-collected cervical sample.
* EXCLUSION CRITERIA AT VACCINATION VISIT: The clinician determining eligibility in agreement with the principal investigator considers that there is a reason that precludes participation.

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes

Incidence of persistent human papillomavirus (HPV) infection

Will estimate the rate of incident persistent infections (i.e. the primary endpoint defined above) in each of the three arms of an according to protocol (ATP) cohort and then estimate the two Vaccine Efficacies (VE), comparing each HPV vaccine arm against the control arm. Will require a one-sided p-value of \< 0.0125 for statistical significance. The 97.5% confidence intervals for the VE will be calculated by inverting appropriate hypotheses tests.

Time frame: 6-month persistence observed during follow-up

Secondary Outcomes

Benefit of one dose of HPV vaccination compared to no vaccination

Will require a one-sided p-value of \< 0.0125 for statistical significance. The 97.5% confidence intervals for the VE will be calculated by inverting appropriate hypotheses tests.

Time frame: 6-month persistence observed during follow-up

Health impact of older-age single-dose HPV vaccination

Will require a one-sided p-value of \< 0.0125 for statistical significance. The 97.5% confidence intervals for the VE will be calculated by inverting appropriate hypotheses tests.

Time frame: 6-month persistence observed during follow-up

Immunogenicity (absolute levels and stability of serum antibodies) of single dose HPV vaccination

Will report the Geometric Mean Titer of the antibodies for each HPV type at the five follow-up visits.

Time frame: 6-month persistence observed during follow-up

New HPV16/18 anal infection

Will report the VE against any new carcinogenic HPV type and against HPV 6/11 in the according to ATP cohort using an analysis plan similar to that described for the primary objectives.

Time frame: 6-month persistence observed during follow-up

New HPV16/18 oral infection

Will report the VE against any new carcinogenic HPV type and against HPV 6/11 in the ATP cohort using an analysis plan similar to that described for the primary objectives.

Time frame: 6-month persistence observed during follow-up

Carcinogenic HPV cervical, anal or oral infection detected at a single timepoint

Will report the VE against any new carcinogenic HPV type and against HPV 6/11 in the ATP cohort using an analysis plan similar to that described for the primary objectives.

Time frame: 6-month persistence observed during follow-up

Cervical HPV6/11 infection

Will report the VE against any new carcinogenic HPV type and against HPV 6/11 in the ATP cohort using an analysis plan similar to that described for the primary objectives.

Time frame: 6-month persistence observed during follow-up

Locations

Agencia Costarricense de Investigaciones Biomédicas (ACIB), Liberia, Costa Rica

Linked Papers

2025-11-24

Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination for the prevention of cervical cancer and other HPV-related diseases: a network meta-analysis

Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cause of cancer-related death amongst females worldwide. Persistent infection with high-risk human papillomavirus (HPV) is the key factor in cervical cancer development. HPV vaccines aim to prevent cancer by generating antibodies against HPV infection. To evaluate the safety and efficacy of HPV vaccines, in females and males, to prevent cervical cancer and other HPV-related diseases, in standard (pairwise) and network meta-analysis (NMA) of randomised controlled trials. On 10 January 2022, we searched the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), MEDLINE and Embase. We searched Epistemonikos, ClinicalTrials.gov, WHO International Clinical Trials Registry Platform, the Health Technology Assessment database and vaccine manufacturer websites, and we checked reference lists from other relevant systematic reviews. We applied for Clinical Study Reports (CSRs) from the European Medicines Agency. An update search of electronic databases was done on 18 September 2024. We included randomised controlled trials (RCTs) regardless of language or publication status, assessing HPV vaccines pre-qualified by the World Health Organization (WHO) (Cervarix, Gardasil, Gardasil-9 and Cecolin). We used methods recommended by Cochrane. We primarily used CSRs to collect data, and we included outcome data irrespective of participants' baseline HPV infection or serostatus. We assessed risk of bias using the Cochrane tool (RoB 2). All outcomes were dichotomous, and we estimated risk ratios (RR) with 95% confidence intervals (CI). We used pairwise analysis for all outcomes. Where data were available, we carried out NMA for critical outcomes for networks in females and males in three age groups, ranking the vaccines using surface under the cumulative ranking curve (SUCRA) and mean ranks. We assessed the certainty of evidence using the GRADE approach. We included 60 individual studies with 157,414 participants ranging in follow-up from seven months to 11 years. Few participants were under 15. There were no studies for males under 15 years and males over 25 years. We obtained CSRs for 33 of the included studies. We assessed the risk of bias as low to 'some concerns' for the critical outcomes. Cancer and pre-cancer outcomes The studies were not of sufficient duration for cancers to develop. Four studies reported on cancer. No cancers were detected. Critical pre-cancer outcomes were reported in 15- to 25-year-old populations by 11 studies and in > 25-year-old females by three studies with up to seven years follow-up. None were reported in the under 15 years age group. In 15- to 25-year-old females, there was a reduction in CIN2+ irrespective of HPV type after six years (RR 0.70, 95% CI 0.56 to 0.88) (moderate-certainty) and a larger reduction in CIN2+ from vaccine-matched HPV types after six years (RR 0.40, 95% CI 0.30 to 0.54) (moderate-certainty). In females over 25 years old, there was little to no difference between Cervarix and Gardasil compared with control (moderate-certainty). There was no evidence on CIN2+ irrespective of HPV type from studies assessing Cecolin, or from studies assessing different dose schedules. In 15- to 25-year-old females, there was a slight reduction in vaccine-matched HPV-type high-grade vulval (VIN) or vaginal (VaIN) intraepithelial neoplasia following vaccination with Gardasil or Gardasil-9 (moderate-certainty). The NMA found a slight reduction of 1 case per 1000 following Gardasil (RR 0.21, 95% CI 0.1 to 0.45) and 0 cases per 1000 following Gardasil-9 (RR 0.16, 95% CI 0.05 to 0.51). Little to no difference was found in the NMA for Cervarix compared with control (RR 0.28, 95% CI 0.06 to 1.37), or for Cervarix, Gardasil and Gardasil-9 compared to each other. There was a reduction in high-grade anal intraepithelial neoplasia (AIN) irrespective of HPV type in the Gardasil group in one study in men who have sex with men (RR 0.75, 95% CI 0.53 to 1.07) (low-certainty). For both high-grade penile intraepithelial neoplasia (PeIN) irrespective of HPV type and vaccine-matched HPV-type high-grade PeIN, little to no difference per 1000 participants was reported in the Gardasil group in one study with 3880 participants at 36 months follow-up (RR 1.00, 95% CI 0.20 to 4.93) (low-certainty). Serious adverse events In a pairwise analysis of serious adverse events in 39 studies across all vaccine types with 97,272 participants, there was little to no difference in the HPV vaccine groups compared with the control group at up to 72 months follow-up (RR 0.99, 95% CI 0.94 to 1.04) (high-certainty). Treatment rates for HPV-related pre-invasive disease In pairwise analysis of five studies with 38,606 participants, there were 12 fewer people that needed to seek treatment per 1000 participants (95% CI 5 to 17 fewer per 1000) in the HPV vaccine groups compared with the control group rate at up to 84 months follow-up (RR 0.76, 95% CI 0.65 to 0.89) (moderate-certainty). Anogenital warts In pairwise analysis of three studies with 21,271 participants, there were 25 fewer cases of anogenital warts irrespective of HPV type per 1000 participants (95% CI 22 to 28 fewer per 1000) in the HPV vaccine groups compared with the control group rate at up to 48 months follow-up (RR 0.38, 95% CI 0.32 to 0.46) (high-certainty). In the NMA for females 15 to 25 years old, Gardasil-9 was most likely to reduce the risk of developing anogenital warts. The evidence in this network meta-analysis of HPV vaccines is based on extensive searches and analyses. There is evidence from randomised controlled trials that HPV vaccination reduces the risk of pre-cancerous outcomes such as CIN2+ and anogenital warts. No data were available for cervical cancer or other cancer outcomes, and no data on pre-cancer outcomes were available for vaccination under age 15 years. There were no safety concerns noted in the studies.

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