SBRT for Organ Confined Prostate Cancer

Phase I Study of Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT) for Organ Confined Prostate Cancer

Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT) is a method of delivering radiation which can target the tumor more precisely and cause less damage to normal tissue. This is a Phase I research study looking at the safety of the dose of SBRT in organ confined prostate cancer.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Adenocarcinoma; Prostate Cancer
• Intervention / Treatment: Radiation: Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy

Detailed Description

Radiation options for treating early stage prostate cancer can include external radiation therapy, which is radiation given outside the body, or prostate seed implant, which is placing radioactive seeds directly into the prostate. For external beam radiation therapy, treatment can last up to 9 weeks. Treatment is given daily, Monday through Friday. This may not be the most convenient option for some patients.

One way to potentially overcome this challenge is to deliver a more intense dose of radiation treatment to the tumor over a shorter amount of time. Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT) is a technique that treats the prostate with fewer treatments and can decrease the effect of radiation to the surrounding tissues. This study is a Phase I research study, which means that it will look at the safety of the dose of the SBRT. While SBRT itself is a standard of care method to administer radiation therapy, there has not been a specific dose outlined in the past. The aim of this study is to determine the dose that will treat the prostate cancer but cause the least amount of side effects.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 36
• Phase: Phase 1

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • New York
    • Lake Success, New York, United States, 11042
      • North Shore-LIJ Cancer Institute

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years and older (ADULT, OLDER_ADULT)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: Male

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Willing and capable to provide informed consent
• Signed study specific informed consent
• Prostate specific-antigen (PSA) ≤ 10 Gleason 2-7
• Appropriate staging studies identifying as American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) stage T1a, T1b, T1c, T2a, T2b
• No direct evidence of regional or distant metastases after appropriate staging studies
• Histologic confirmation of cancer by biopsy
• Age ≥ 18
• Karnofsky Performance Status must be ≥ 70
• American Urological Association (AUA) score must be ≤ 15 (alpha blockers allowed)

Exclusion Criteria:

• Female
• Positive lymph nodes of metastatic disease from prostate cancer
• Prior invasive malignancy unless disease free for a minimum of 3 years (carcinoma in situ of the breast, oral cavity, or non-melanomatous skin cancer are all permissable)
• T2c, T3, or T4 tumors
• Previous pelvic radiotherapy
• Previous surgery or chemotherapy for prostate cancer
• Previous transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) or cryotherapy to the prostate
• Concomitant hormonal therapy
• Concomitant antineoplastic therapy (including surgery, cryotherapy, conventionally fractionated radiotherapy, and chemotherapy) while on this protocol
• History of Crohn's Disease or Ulcerative Colitis
• Previous significant obstructive symptoms; AUA score must be ≤ 15 (alpha blockers allowed)
• Significant psychiatric illness
• Severe, active co-morbidity defined as follows:
• Unstable angina and/or congestive heart failure requiring hospitalization within the last 6 months.
• Transmural myocardial infarction within the last 6 months
• Acute bacterial or fungal infection requiring intravenous antibiotics at the time of registration
• Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease exacerbation or other respiratory illness requiring hospitalization or precluding study therapy within 30 days before registration
• Hepatic insufficiency resulting in clinical jaundice and/or coagulation defects; note, however, that laboratory tests for liver function and coagulation parameters are not required for entry into this protocol
• Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) based upon current Center Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) definition; note, however, that HIV testing is not required for entry into this protocol. The need to exclude patients with AIDS from this protocol is necessary because the treatments involved in this protocol may be significantly immunosuppressive. Protocol-specific requirements may also exclude immuno-compromised patients.
• History of treatment with potent immunosuppressive drugs for such conditions as post organ transplant, severe rheumatoid arthritis, etc. within the past 6 months.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: TREATMENT
• Allocation: NON_RANDOMIZED
• Interventional Model: PARALLEL
• Masking: NONE

Number of Arms

3

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Cohort 1; Patients will receive 5 fractions of Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT). Dose per fraction is 8Gy. Total Dose: 40Gy. To escalate the dose of stereotactic radiotherapy to a tumoricidal dose without exceeding the maximum tolerated dose in patients with organ confined prostate cancer.	Radiation: Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy; Patients will receive 5 fractions of SBRT radiation, treated every other day. No more than three fractions per week. Total dose will depend on cohort. Cohort 1: 40Gy, Cohort 2: 45 Gy, Cohort 3: 50 Gy.; Other Names: SBRT
Experimental: Cohort 2; Patients will receive 5 fractions of Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT). Dose per fraction is 9Gy. Total Dose: 45 Gy. To escalate the dose of stereotactic radiotherapy to a tumoricidal dose without exceeding the maximum tolerated dose in patients with organ confined prostate cancer.	Radiation: Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy; Patients will receive 5 fractions of SBRT radiation, treated every other day. No more than three fractions per week. Total dose will depend on cohort. Cohort 1: 40Gy, Cohort 2: 45 Gy, Cohort 3: 50 Gy.; Other Names: SBRT
Experimental: Cohort 3; Patients will receive 5 fractions of Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT). Dose per fraction is 10Gy. Total Dose: 50Gy. To escalate the dose of stereotactic radiotherapy to a tumoricidal dose without exceeding the maximum tolerated dose in patients with organ confined prostate cancer.	Radiation: Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy; Patients will receive 5 fractions of SBRT radiation, treated every other day. No more than three fractions per week. Total dose will depend on cohort. Cohort 1: 40Gy, Cohort 2: 45 Gy, Cohort 3: 50 Gy.; Other Names: SBRT

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Maximum tolerated dose	Patients in each dose cohort will all be treated as a single dose group for dose escalation. Each cohort will have 7-15 patients. The study will be completed when either of the following events occur: 1- The Maximum Tolerated Dose (MTD) for a cohort is reached or 2- when the highest protocol dose level is treated and tolerated (10 Gy/fraction, total 50 Gy) where we consider the therapy likely to be tumoricidal per determination of the investigators. Follow up assessments will be: 1.5 months post treatment, 3, 6, 9, and 12 months post treatment, then every 6 months until five years post treatment, then annually for years 5-10. A period of 90 days must pass in order to assess toxicity. If 90 days have transpired without Dose Limiting Toxicity (DLT) in each of the first seven patients enrolled to a specific dose level, then dose escalation to the next level may proceed.	Up to 10 years

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Measurement of response - No Evidence of Disease	No clinical evidence of disease on digital rectal examination.	Up to 10 years
Measurement of response - Equivocal Disease	If abnormalities are present on the prostate digital rectal examination but are thought to be abnormal due to treatment and felt not to represent tumor.; If clinical evidence of residual tumor is present but this has regressed from a previous examination.	Up to 10 years
Measurement of response - Radiographic Evidence of Disease	Radiographic evidence of hematogenous (osseous, hepatic, etc.) and/or extrapelvic lymphatic of soft tissue relapse.; Radiographic evidence of tumor recurrence within the pelvic lymphatics or soft tissue beneath the bifurcation of the common iliac arteries.	Up to 10 years
Time to Biochemical failure	Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) levels should be obtained per study calendar. The RTOG-ASTRO definition (also known as the Phoenix definition) of PSA failure will be used. Thus, when the PSA rises by more than 2 ng/ml above the lowest level (nadir) achieved after treatment, biochemical failure has occurred and the date of the failure is recorded at the time the nadir plus 2 ng/ml level is reached.	Up to 10 years
Disease-Free Interval	The disease-free interval will be measured from the date of accession to the date of documentation of progression or until the date of death (from other causes).	Up to 10 years
Time to Distant Failure	The time to distant failure will be measured from the date of study entry to the date of documented regional nodal recurrence or distant disease relapse. Patients with evidence of biochemical failure, but a negative prostate biopsy, will be considered as distant failure only.	Up to 10 years
Overall Survival	The survival time will be measured from the date of accession to the date of death. All patients will be followed for survival. Every effort should be made to document the cause of death	Up to 10 years
Disease-Specific Survival	Disease-specific survival will be measured from the date of study entry to the date of death due to prostate cancer. The following will be considered as failure events in assessing disease specific survival.	Up to 10 years

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Northwell Health
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Louis Potters, MD, North Shore-LIJ

Publications and helpful links

General Publications

• Potters L, Rana Z, Lee L, Cox BW. Outcomes of a Dose-Escalated Stereotactic Body Radiation Phase 1 Trial for Patients With Low- and Intermediate-Risk Prostate Cancer. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2019 Jun 1;104(2):334-342. doi: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2019.01.092. Epub 2019 Feb 2.

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: August 1, 2010
• Primary Completion (Actual): June 1, 2018
• Study Completion (Actual): December 1, 2021

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: August 26, 2015
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: January 8, 2016
• First Posted (Estimate): January 12, 2016

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): February 9, 2022
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: February 7, 2022
• Last Verified: February 1, 2022

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Neoplasms; Urogenital Neoplasms; Neoplasms by Site; Genital Neoplasms, Male; Prostatic Diseases; Prostatic Neoplasms
• Other Study ID Numbers: 10-128B

Drug and device information, study documents

• product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.: No