ExAblate (MRgFUS) Treatment of Metastatic Bone Tumors for the Palliation of Pain

A Pivotal Study to Evaluate the Effectiveness and Safety of ExAblate Treatment of Metastatic and Multiple Myeloma Bone Tumors for the Palliation of Pain in Patients Who Are Not Candidates for Radiation Therapy

A Pivotal Study to Evaluate the Effectiveness and Safety of ExAblate Treatment of Metastatic Bone and Multiple Myeloma Tumors for the Palliation of Pain in Patients Who are not Candidates for Radiation Therapy

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Multiple Myeloma; Bone Metastases
• Intervention / Treatment: Device: ExAblate MRfFUS; Device: Sham

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 147
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Canada
  • Ontario
    • Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5G 2C4
      • Toronto General Hospital
• Israel
  • Haifa, Israel, 31096
    • Rambam medical Center -The Pain palliation unit
  • Tel Hashomer, Israel, 52621
    • Sheba Medical Center
• Italy
  • Rome, Italy, 00161
    • University of ROme "La Sapienza"
• Russian Federation
  • Rostov on Don, Russian Federation, 344037
    • Rostov State Research Institute of Oncology
  • St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, 197758
    • N. N. Petrov Institute of Oncology
• United States
  • California
    • La Jolla, California, United States, 92093-0987
      • University of California San Diego
    • Stanford, California, United States, 94305-5642
      • Stanford University Medical Center
  • Florida
    • Boca Raton, Florida, United States, 33431
      • University MRI & Diagnostic Imaging Centers
    • Tampa, Florida, United States, 33612
      • Moffitt Cancer Center
  • Massachusetts
    • Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02115
      • Brigham and Women's Hospital
  • New York
    • New York, New York, United States, 10065
      • Weill Cornell Medical College
  • Pennsylvania
    • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19111
      • Fox Chase Cancer Center
  • Virginia
    • Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, 22908
      • University of Virginia Health System

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years to 100 years (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion criteria:

1. Men and women age 18 and older
2. Patients who are able and willing to give consent and able to attend all study visits

3. Patients who are suffering from symptoms of bone metastases or multiple myeloma bone lesions and are radiation failure patients:

   Radiation failure candidates are those who have received radiation without adequate relief from metastatic bone pain as determined by the patient and treating physician, those for whom their treating physician would not prescribe radiation or additional radiation treatments, and those patients who refuse additional radiation therapy,

4. Patients who refuse other accepted available treatments such as surgery or narcotics for pain alleviation.
5. Patient with NRS (0-10 scale) pain score ≥ 4 irrespective of medication
6. Targeted tumor(s) are ExAblate device accessible and are located in ribs, extremities (excluding joints), pelvis, shoulders and in the posterior aspects of the following spinal vertebra: Lumbar vertebra (L3 - L5), Sacral vertebra (S1 - S5)
7. Targeted tumor (treated) size up to 55 cm2 in surface area
8. Patient whose targeted (treated) lesion is on bone and the interface between the bone and lesion is deeper than 10-mm from the skin.
9. Targeted (treated) tumor clearly visible by non-contrast MRI, and ExAblate MRgFUS device accessible
10. Able to communicate sensations during the ExAblate treatment

11. Patients on ongoing chemotherapy regimen for at least 1 month at the time of eligibility:

    - with same chemotherapy regimen (as documented from patient medical dossier),

    And

    - Worst pain NRS still >= 4

    And

    - do NOT plan to initiate a new chemotherapy for pain palliation should be eligible for the study.

12. No radiation therapy to targeted (most painful) lesion in the past two weeks
13. Bisphosphonate intake should remain stable throughout the study duration.
14. Patients will have from 1 to 5 painful lesions and only the most painful lesion will be treated.
15. Patients with persistent distinguishable pain associated with 1 site to be treated (if patient has pain from additional sites, the pain from the additional sites must be evaluated as being less intense by at least 2 points on the NRS compared to the site to be treated).

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Patients who either

   • Need surgical stabilization of the affected bony structure (>7 fracture risk score, see Section 7.3) OR
   • Targeted tumor is at an impending fracture site (>7 on fracture risk score, see Section 7.3).

   OR

   - Patients with surgical stabilization of tumor site with metallic hardware

2. More than 5 painful lesions, or more than 1 requiring immediate localized treatment
3. Targeted (treated) tumor is in the skull
4. Patients on dialysis
5. Patients with life expectancy < 3-Months
6. patients with an acute medical condition (e.g., pneumonia, sepsis) that is expected to hinder them from completing this study.

7. Patients with unstable cardiac status including:

   • Unstable angina pectoris on medication
   • Patients with documented myocardial infarction within six months of protocol entry
   • Congestive heart failure requiring medication (other than diuretic)
   • Patients on anti-arrhythmic drugs
8. Severe hypertension (diastolic BP > 100 on medication)
9. Patients with standard contraindications for MR imaging such as non-MRI compatible implanted metallic devices including cardiac pacemakers, size limitations (weight >250 pounds), etc.
10. Patients with an active infection or severe hematological, neurological, or other uncontrolled disease.
11. Known intolerance or allergies to the MRI contrast agent (e.g. Gadolinium or Magnevist) including advanced kidney disease
12. KPS Score < 60 (See "Definitions" below)
13. Severe cerebrovascular disease (multiple CVA or CVA within 6 months)
14. Individuals who are not able or willing to tolerate the required prolonged stationary position during treatment (approximately 2 hrs.)
15. Target (treated) tumor is less then 1cm from nerve bundles, bowels or bladder.
16. Are participating or have participated in another clinical trial in the last 30 days
17. Patients initiating a new chemotherapy regime, or radiation (for the targeted most painful lesion) within the last 2 weeks
18. Patients unable to communicate with the investigator and staff.
19. Patients with persistent undistinguishable pain (pain source unidentifiable)
20. Targeted (treated) tumor surface area >= 55 cm2
21. Patient whose bone-lesion interface is < 10-mm from the skin
22. Targeted (treated) tumor NOT visible by non-contrast MRI,
23. Targeted (most painful) tumor Not accessible to ExAblate
24. The targeted tumor is less than 2 points more painful compared to other painful lesions on the site specific NRS.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Treatment
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: Single

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: ExAblate Treatment Arm	Device: ExAblate MRfFUS; MR guided focused ultrasound.; Other Names: Focused Ultrasound; MRgFUS; FUS; MR guided Focused Ultrasound
Sham Comparator: ExAblate Sham Arm	Device: ExAblate MRfFUS; MR guided focused ultrasound.; Other Names: Focused Ultrasound; MRgFUS; FUS; MR guided Focused Ultrasound; Device: Sham; sham comparator

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Number of Responders	Using the Numerical Rating Score (NRS) for pain (0 being no pain and 10 being worst imaginable pain), each subject was rated as a Responder or Non-responder. A responder is defined as a subject with a reduction in NRS worst score from baseline of two (2) or more points, and no increase in pain medication use.	3 months post treatment

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Number of Participants With a Change in Medication Use	Medication Use change reported from baseline until of study. Medication use is quantified by "morphine equivalent usage" (measured separately from Responder/Non-responder definition for the primary endpoint)	3 months post treatment
Quality of Life (QOL) as Measured by Change in Bodily Pain Inventory (BPI) From Baseline	The BPI-QOL questionnaire is designed to show the severity and interference of pain in the lives of patients. This is a 7-item questionnaire that asks respondents the extent to which pain interferes with their general activity, mood, walking ability, normal work, relations with other people, sleep and enjoyment of life using a 0-10 numerical rating scale in which 0 represents 'does not interfere' and 10 indicates 'completely interferes'. Responses to the 7 items are averaged to form the pain interference scale score. Lower scores are better, showing less interference in daily activities while higher scores show more interference and hence worse outcomes.	3 months post treatment

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: InSightec

Publications and helpful links

General Publications

• Bitton RR, Rosenberg J, LeBlang S, Napoli A, Meyer J, Butts Pauly K, Hurwitz M, Ghanouni P. MRI-Guided Focused Ultrasound of Osseous Metastases: Treatment Parameters Associated With Successful Pain Reduction. Invest Radiol. 2021 Mar 1;56(3):141-146. doi: 10.1097/RLI.0000000000000721.
• Hurwitz MD, Ghanouni P, Kanaev SV, Iozeffi D, Gianfelice D, Fennessy FM, Kuten A, Meyer JE, LeBlang SD, Roberts A, Choi J, Larner JM, Napoli A, Turkevich VG, Inbar Y, Tempany CM, Pfeffer RM. Magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound for patients with painful bone metastases: phase III trial results. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2014 Apr 23;106(5):dju082. doi: 10.1093/jnci/dju082.

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: March 1, 2008
• Primary Completion (Actual): September 1, 2012
• Study Completion (Actual): September 1, 2012

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: April 2, 2008
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 7, 2008
• First Posted (Estimate): April 11, 2008

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): February 5, 2020
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: January 23, 2020
• Last Verified: January 1, 2020

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Breast Cancer; Multiple Myeloma; Lung Cancer; Prostate Cancer; Tumors; Metastasis; Bone Cancer; Pain Palliation; cancer related Pain
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Pathologic Processes; Cardiovascular Diseases; Vascular Diseases; Immune System Diseases; Neoplasms by Histologic Type; Neoplasms; Lymphoproliferative Disorders; Immunoproliferative Disorders; Hematologic Diseases; Hemorrhagic Disorders; Hemostatic Disorders; Paraproteinemias; Blood Protein Disorders; Neoplastic Processes; Multiple Myeloma; Neoplasms, Plasma Cell; Neoplasm Metastasis
• Other Study ID Numbers: BM004