Gallium-68 PSMA-11 PET in Intermediate to High-risk Preprostatectomy Patients (PSMA PreRP)

The investigators are imaging patients with prostate cancer using a new PET imaging agent (Ga-68-PSMA-11) in order to evaluate it's ability to detection prostate cancer in patients with high risk disease prior to prostatectomy.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Prostate Cancer
• Intervention / Treatment: Drug: Ga-68 labeled PSMA-11 PET

Detailed Description

Imaging and staging of prostate cancer is critical for surgical and treatment planning. Patients with suspected metastatic prostate cancer will be imaged using Gallium-68 labeled PSMA-11 in order to demonstrate its utility. The investigators plan to utilize this data to obtain further approvals of the Ga-68-PSMA-11 compound, so that this agent will become available for clinical imaging in prostate cancer patients. In the pre-prostatectomy population, the primary objective is to determine the sensitivity and specificity for detection on nodal metastasis.

This compound has been shown to be superior to choline based PET agents for the staging of prostate cancer, both Carbon-11 and Fluorine-18 compounds. But this compound was not patented and therefore no company or private entity will make the investment required to bring Ga-68-PSMA-11 to market. In the vacuum of availability, academic groups must take the lead in order to collect the necessary data for future FDA approval.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 299
• Phase: Phase 2; Phase 3

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • California
    • San Francisco, California, United States, 94107
      • University of California, San Francisco

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:

• Biopsy proven prostate adenocarcinoma.
• Planned prostatectomy with lymph node dissection.
• Intermediate to high-risk disease (as determined by elevated Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) [PSA>10], T-stage [T2b or greater], Gleason score [Gleason score > 6] or other risk factors).
• Diagnostic CT or MRI as part of the PET study or performed within one month of PSMA PET.
• Karnofsky performance status of greater than 50 (or Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) /World Health Organization (WHO) equivalent).
• Age > 18.
• Ability to understand a written informed consent document, and the willingness to sign it.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients not capable of getting PET study due to weight, claustrophobia, or inability to lay still for the duration of the exam.
• Neoadjuvant chemotherapy or radiation therapy prior to prostatectomy.
• Including focal ablation techniques (HiFu).
• Androgen deprivation therapy or other neoadjuvant treatments prior to PET imaging and surgery.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Diagnostic
• Allocation: N/A
• Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm

Intervention / Treatment

Experimental: Ga-68 labeled PSMA-11 PET; PSMA PET imaging: Patients will receive Ga-68 labeled PSMA-11 PET and then undergo PET/CT or PET/MRI approximately 55-70 minutes later.

Drug: Ga-68 labeled PSMA-11 PET; Patients will be imaged using Ga-68 labeled PSMA-11 PET to determine if the presence of metastatic disease. Prostate Specific Membrane Antigen (PSMA) is a protein expressed on prostate cancer cells that can be imaged using small molecules that target this protocol.; Other Names: Ga-68 labeled DKFZ-PSMA-11; Ga-68 labeled Glu-urea- Lys(Ahx)-HBED-CC; Ga-68 labeled HBED-CC PSMA; Ga-68 labeled Glu-NH-CO-NH- Lys(Ahx)-HBED-CC

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Sensitivity of PSMA PET for the Detection of Regional Nodal Metastases Compared to Pathology at Radical Prostatectomy	Sensitivity is defined as the ratio of the proportion of the patients who have the condition of interest and whose test results are positive over the number who have the disease. Patients who have a positive node on imaging and on pathology will be considered a true-positive. Patients who have no nodes on imaging and pathology will be considered true-negatives. Patients with positive nodes on imaging and negative on pathology will be considered false positives and those with positive nodes on pathology but negative on imaging will be considered false negatives. Follow-up scans for up to one year can be used in analysis	Up to 1 year
Specificity of of PSMA PET for the Detection of Regional Nodal Metastases Compared to Pathology at Radical Prostatectomy	Specificity is defined as the number of non-diseased participants correctly classified divided by all non-diseased individuals. Patients who have a positive node on imaging and on pathology will be considered a true-positive. Patients who have no nodes on imaging and pathology will be considered true-negatives. Patients with positive nodes on imaging and negative on pathology will be considered false positives and those with positive nodes on pathology but negative on imaging will be considered false negatives. Follow-up scans for up to one year can be used in analysis	Up to 1 year
Positive Predictive Value (PPV) of of PSMA PET for the Detection of Regional Nodal Metastases Compared to Pathology at Radical Prostatectomy	PPV is the proportion of patients with positive test who actually have the disease. Patients who have a positive node on imaging and on pathology will be considered a true-positive. Patients who have no nodes on imaging and pathology will be considered true-negatives. Patients with positive nodes on imaging and negative on pathology will be considered false positives and those with positive nodes on pathology but negative on imaging will be considered false negatives. Follow-up scans for up to one year can be used in analysis	Up to 1 year
Negative Predictive Value (NPV) of PSMA PET for the Detection of Regional Nodal Metastases Compared to Pathology at Radical Prostatectomy	NPV is the ratio of participants truly diagnosed as negative to all those who had negative test results. Patients who have a positive node on imaging and on pathology will be considered a true-positive. Patients who have no nodes on imaging and pathology will be considered true- negatives. Patients with positive nodes on imaging and negative on pathology will be considered false positives and those with positive nodes on pathology but negative on imaging will be considered false negatives. Follow-up scans for obtained up to one year after study scan be used in analysis.	Up to 1 year

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Number of Participants With Grade 3 Treatment-related Adverse Events	All grade 3 and above adverse events were recorded using the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) v4.0. The Investigator assigns grade, attribution of the possible association of the event with use of the investigational drug. The safety parameters include spontaneous reports of adverse events reported to the investigator by patients	Up to 3 days
Sensitivity of PSMA PET for the Detection of Extra-pelvic Nodal Metastases	Gallium 68 labeled PSMA-11 (68Ga-PSMA-11) positive lymph nodes will be considered for detection of extra-pelvic nodal metastases and assessed by change in size. Participants who if on follow-up imaging within 3-12 months, have lymph nodes which decrease by more than 30% or increase by more than 20% in short axis diameter (with a minimum of 3 mm in change in size) or with solitary lymph node regions show a decrease of Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) by >50% after targeted treatment and the lymph nodes do not change in size (less than 30% decrease or less than 20% increase in short axis diameter) will be counted as true positives. If on follow-up imaging, sites of initial 68Ga-PSMA-11 positive lymph node lesions < 30% without systemic therapy or focal therapy at this site or if 68Ga-PSMA-11 positive lymph node lesions that do not meet criteria for above false positive or true positive will be counted as false positives.	Up to 1 year
Specificity of PSMA PET for the Detection of Extra-pelvic Nodal Metastases	68Ga-PSMA-11 positive lymph nodes will be considered for detection of extra-pelvic nodal metastases and assessed by change in size. Participants who if on follow-up imaging within 3-12 months, have lymph nodes which decrease by more than 30% or increase by more than 20% in short axis diameter (with a minimum of 3 mm in change in size) or with solitary lymph node regions show a decrease of PSA by >50% after targeted treatment and the lymph nodes do not change in size (less than 30% decrease or less than 20% increase in short axis diameter) will be counted as true positives. If on follow-up imaging, sites of initial 68Ga-PSMA-11 positive lymph node lesions < 30% without systemic therapy or focal therapy at this site or if 68Ga-PSMA-11 positive lymph node lesions that do not meet criteria for above false positive or true positive will be counted as false positives.	Up to 1 year
Positive Predictive Value of PSMA PET for the Detection of Extra-pelvic Nodal Metastases	68Ga-PSMA-11 positive lymph nodes will be considered for detection of extra-pelvic nodal metastases and assessed by change in size. Participants who if on follow-up imaging within 3-12 months, have lymph nodes which decrease by more than 30% or increase by more than 20% in short axis diameter (with a minimum of 3 mm in change in size) or with solitary lymph node regions show a decrease of PSA by >50% after targeted treatment and the lymph nodes do not change in size (less than 30% decrease or less than 20% increase in short axis diameter) will be counted as true positives. If on follow-up imaging, sites of initial 68Ga-PSMA-11 positive lymph node lesions < 30% without systemic therapy or focal therapy at this site or if 68Ga-PSMA-11 positive lymph node lesions that do not meet criteria for above false positive or true positive will be counted as false positives.	Up to 1 year
Negative Predictive Value of PSMA PET for the Detection of Extra-pelvic Nodal Metastases	68Ga-PSMA-11 positive lymph nodes will be considered for detection of extra-pelvic nodal metastases and assessed by change in size. Participants who if on follow-up imaging within 3-12 months, have lymph nodes which decrease by more than 30% or increase by more than 20% in short axis diameter (with a minimum of 3 mm in change in size) or with solitary lymph node regions show a decrease of PSA by >50% after targeted treatment and the lymph nodes do not change in size (less than 30% decrease or less than 20% increase in short axis diameter) will be counted as true positives. If on follow-up imaging, sites of initial 68Ga-PSMA-11 positive lymph node lesions < 30% without systemic therapy or focal therapy at this site or if 68Ga-PSMA-11 positive lymph node lesions that do not meet criteria for above false positive or true positive will be counted as false positives.	Up to 1 year
Sensitivity of PSMA PET for the Detection of Visceral Metastases	Visceral lesions (non-lymph node soft tissue or organ) will be assessed by change in size. 68Ga-PSMA-11 positive visceral lesions will be considered True positive if on follow-up imaging within 3-12 months, visceral lesions seen on imaging decrease by 30% (for patients undergoing systemic treatment of focal therapy at this site) or increase by 20% in largest diameter or if participants with solitary visceral metastasis show a decrease of PSA by greater than 50% after targeted treatment and lesions do not change in size (less than 30% decrease or 20% increase in largest diameter) and False positive if on follow-up imaging within 3-12 months, sites of initial 68Ga-PSMA-11 positive visceral lesions seen on CT or MRI decrease by more than 30% without systemic therapy or focal therapy at this site or if 68Ga-PSMA-11 positive visceral lesions do not meet the criteria for above false positive or true positive findings.	Up to 1 year
Specificity of PSMA PET for the Detection of Visceral Metastases	Visceral lesions (non-lymph node soft tissue or organ) will be assessed by change in size. 68Ga-PSMA-11 positive visceral lesions will be considered True positive if on follow-up imaging within 3-12 months, visceral lesions seen on imaging decrease by 30% (for patients undergoing systemic treatment of focal therapy at this site) or increase by 20% in largest diameter or if participants with solitary visceral metastasis show a decrease of PSA by greater than 50% after targeted treatment and lesions do not change in size (less than 30% decrease or 20% increase in largest diameter) and False positive if on follow-up imaging within 3-12 months, sites of initial 68Ga-PSMA-11 positive visceral lesions seen on CT or MRI decrease by more than 30% without systemic therapy or focal therapy at this site or if 68Ga-PSMA-11 positive visceral lesions do not meet the criteria for above false positive or true positive findings.	Up to 1 year
Positive Predictive Value of PSMA PET Visceral Metastases	Visceral lesions (non-lymph node soft tissue or organ) will be assessed by change in size. 68Ga-PSMA-11 positive visceral lesions will be considered True positive if on follow-up imaging within 3-12 months, visceral lesions seen on imaging decrease by 30% (for patients undergoing systemic treatment of focal therapy at this site) or increase by 20% in largest diameter or if participants with solitary visceral metastasis show a decrease of PSA by greater than 50% after targeted treatment and lesions do not change in size (less than 30% decrease or 20% increase in largest diameter) and False positive if on follow-up imaging within 3-12 months, sites of initial 68Ga-PSMA-11 positive visceral lesions seen on CT or MRI decrease by more than 30% without systemic therapy or focal therapy at this site or if 68Ga-PSMA-11 positive visceral lesions do not meet the criteria for above false positive or true positive findings.	Up to 1 year
Negative Predictive Value of PSMA PET for the Detection of Visceral Metastases	Visceral lesions (non-lymph node soft tissue or organ) will be assessed by change in size. 68Ga-PSMA-11 positive visceral lesions will be considered True positive if on follow-up imaging within 3-12 months, visceral lesions seen on imaging decrease by 30% (for patients undergoing systemic treatment of focal therapy at this site) or increase by 20% in largest diameter or if participants with solitary visceral metastasis show a decrease of PSA by greater than 50% after targeted treatment and lesions do not change in size (less than 30% decrease or 20% increase in largest diameter) and False positive if on follow-up imaging within 3-12 months, sites of initial 68Ga-PSMA-11 positive visceral lesions seen on CT or MRI decrease by more than 30% without systemic therapy or focal therapy at this site or if 68Ga-PSMA-11 positive visceral lesions do not meet the criteria for above false positive or true positive findings.	Up to 1 year
Sensitivity of PSMA PET for the Detection of Osseous Metastases	68Ga-PSMA-11 positive bone lesions will be considered a True positive if there was a corresponding positive sclerotic lesion on the CT portion of the 68Ga-PSMA-11 PET in the same location as the PSMA uptake, If there is focal uptake seen in the same location as the PSMA uptake on the baseline bone scan performed within one month of 68Ga-PSMA-11 PET, if there is a lesion noted in the same location as the PSMA uptake on the initial MRI performed within one month of 68Ga-PSMA-11 PET, if within 12 months follow-up CT demonstrates development of sclerosis in the same location as the PSMA uptake, if within 12 months follow-up MRI demonstrates a new bone lesion in the same location as the PSMA uptake, if within 12 months follow-up bone scan demonstrates new focal uptake in the same location as the PSMA uptake and a False positive if 68Ga-PSMA-11 positive bone lesions do not meet the criteria for true positive findings.	Up to 1 year
Specificity of PSMA PET for the Detection of Osseous Metastases	68Ga-PSMA-11 positive bone lesions will be considered a True positive if there was a corresponding positive sclerotic lesion on the CT portion of the 68Ga-PSMA-11 PET in the same location as the PSMA uptake, If there is focal uptake seen in the same location as the PSMA uptake on the baseline bone scan performed within one month of 68Ga-PSMA-11 PET, if there is a lesion noted in the same location as the PSMA uptake on the initial MRI performed within one month of 68Ga-PSMA-11 PET, if within 12 months follow-up CT demonstrates development of sclerosis in the same location as the PSMA uptake, if within 12 months follow-up MRI demonstrates a new bone lesion in the same location as the PSMA uptake, if within 12 months follow-up bone scan demonstrates new focal uptake in the same location as the PSMA uptake and a False positive if 68Ga-PSMA-11 positive bone lesions do not meet the criteria for true positive findings.	Up to 1 year
Positive Predictive Value of PSMA PET for the Detection of Osseous Metastases	68Ga-PSMA-11 positive bone lesions will be considered a True positive if there was a corresponding positive sclerotic lesion on the CT portion of the 68Ga-PSMA-11 PET in the same location as the PSMA uptake, If there is focal uptake seen in the same location as the PSMA uptake on the baseline bone scan performed within one month of 68Ga-PSMA-11 PET, if there is a lesion noted in the same location as the PSMA uptake on the initial MRI performed within one month of 68Ga-PSMA-11 PET, if within 12 months follow-up CT demonstrates development of sclerosis in the same location as the PSMA uptake, if within 12 months follow-up MRI demonstrates a new bone lesion in the same location as the PSMA uptake, if within 12 months follow-up bone scan demonstrates new focal uptake in the same location as the PSMA uptake and a False positive if 68Ga-PSMA-11 positive bone lesions do not meet the criteria for true positive findings.	Up to 1 year
Negative Predictive Value of PSMA PET for the Detection of Osseous Metastases	68Ga-PSMA-11 positive bone lesions will be considered a True positive if there was a corresponding positive sclerotic lesion on the CT portion of the 68Ga-PSMA-11 PET in the same location as the PSMA uptake, If there is focal uptake seen in the same location as the PSMA uptake on the baseline bone scan performed within one month of 68Ga-PSMA-11 PET, if there is a lesion noted in the same location as the PSMA uptake on the initial MRI performed within one month of 68Ga-PSMA-11 PET, if within 12 months follow-up CT demonstrates development of sclerosis in the same location as the PSMA uptake, if within 12 months follow-up MRI demonstrates a new bone lesion in the same location as the PSMA uptake, if within 12 months follow-up bone scan demonstrates new focal uptake in the same location as the PSMA uptake and a False positive if 68Ga-PSMA-11 positive bone lesions do not meet the criteria for true positive findings.	Up to 1 year

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University of California, San Francisco

Publications and helpful links

General Publications

• Hope TA, Eiber M, Armstrong WR, Juarez R, Murthy V, Lawhn-Heath C, Behr SC, Zhang L, Barbato F, Ceci F, Farolfi A, Schwarzenbock SM, Unterrainer M, Zacho HD, Nguyen HG, Cooperberg MR, Carroll PR, Reiter RE, Holden S, Herrmann K, Zhu S, Fendler WP, Czernin J, Calais J. Diagnostic Accuracy of 68Ga-PSMA-11 PET for Pelvic Nodal Metastasis Detection Prior to Radical Prostatectomy and Pelvic Lymph Node Dissection: A Multicenter Prospective Phase 3 Imaging Trial. JAMA Oncol. 2021 Nov 1;7(11):1635-1642. doi: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2021.3771.

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): September 23, 2016
• Primary Completion (Actual): December 31, 2019
• Study Completion (Actual): December 31, 2019

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: September 26, 2016
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: September 27, 2016
• First Posted (Estimate): September 29, 2016

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): December 10, 2020
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: November 13, 2020
• Last Verified: November 1, 2020

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Neoplasms; Urogenital Neoplasms; Neoplasms by Site; Genital Neoplasms, Male; Prostatic Diseases; Prostatic Neoplasms; Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action; Radiopharmaceuticals; Anticoagulants; Chelating Agents; Sequestering Agents; Calcium Chelating Agents; Edetic Acid; Gallium 68 PSMA-11
• Other Study ID Numbers: 16559; NCI-2018-00038 (Registry Identifier: NCI Clinical Trials Reporting Program (CTRP))

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: Yes
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No