Role of Interim 18F-FLT PET/CT for Outcome Prediction in Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma

Initial Evaluation of Role of Early Interim 18F-FLT PET/CT for Outcome Prediction in Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma

To assess if percentage change in 18F-FLT PET/CT quantitative parameters (SUV max, or SUV peak or proliferative tumor volume) after 2 cycles of neoadjuvant chemotherapy can predict overall survival at 1 and 2 years and progression free survival at 6 months and 1 year in patients with borderline resectable or locally advanced, pancreatic adenocarcinoma.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Laboratory Biomarker Analysis; Procedure: Computed Tomography; Procedure: Positron Emission Tomography; Drug: 3'-deoxy-3'-[F-18] fluorothymidine: [F-18]FLT

Detailed Description

The experimental 18F-FLT-PET/CT is required to be completed before initiation of chemotherapy. Labs and correlative radiology, as directed per clinical care, are required within 30 days prior to 18F-FLT-PET/CT; and 18F-FDG-PET/CT is required within 30 days before the 18F-FLT-PET/CT. Follow-up will comprise 24 months of standard practice treatment and follow up.

Visit 1: Patients will have at least one visit with investigator (or investigator designee) prior to the study to review clinical history and prior treatment of pancreatic adenocarcinoma, and to explain the study. Correlative radiology studies including CT, MRI and 18F FDG-PET/CT as per institutional routine clinical care, and any clinically-directed laboratory tests performed as part of staging must be performed within 30 days of the 18F FLT-PET/CT

Visit 2 (Optional): The 18F-FDG-PET/CT may be done as a research scan, if the patient is unable to obtain a clinically-directed 18F-FDG-PET/CT as part of their clinical care or within 30 days of 18F FLT-PET/CT. The research 18F-FDG-PET/CT, in this instance, will be identical in procedure to the institution's clinical 18F-FDG-PET/CT. The blood glucose level will be < 200 mg/dl, before 18F-FDG injection, which is institutional standard clinical protocol. The following additional patient data will be obtained: histological diagnosis of primary and/or metastatic disease, date of diagnosis of primary and metastatic disease, gender, height, weight (for BMI), ECOG score and confirmation of absence of prior treatment.

Visit 3: Day of 18F-FLT-PET/CT: The patient will have an intravenous line placed in the hand or arm, 18F-FLT-PET/CT will be given by 1-2 minute IV push, and the dose administered will be approximately 5 mCi (+/- 20% dose). After approximately 60 +/- 10 minutes of uptake time, the patient will be positioned supine in the PET/CT scanner for standard whole body PET/CT scan from the skull base to mid-thigh. This scan will take approximately 20-30 min. The window from FLT PET/CT baseline study to initiation of chemotherapy should be no more than 30 days.

Visit 4: Day of Interim 18F-FLT-PET/CT: The interim 18F FLT-PET/CT will be performed after the 2nd cycle of chemotherapy regimen, but before the commencement of 3rd cycle. The second 18F-FLT-PET/CT study must be performed on the same scanner as the first 18F FLT-PET/CT and the imaging protocol described in Visit 3 should be closely followed.

Study duration:

Clinical Follow Up: Standard of care clinical follow-up data will be collected up to 2 years following the end of chemotherapy.

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• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 6
• Phase: Phase 2

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Texas
    • Dallas, Texas, United States, 75390
      • UT Southwestern Medical Center

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

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

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients with histologically confirmed pancreatic adenocarcinoma (resectable, borderline resectable or locally advanced disease at presentation) are eligible for the study.
• Patients should not have any type of curative or palliative therapy for pancreatic adenocarcinoma before enrolling in the study.
• Patients must be over 18 years old and capable and willing to provide informed consent.
• Patients must have measurable disease (by RECIST 1.1 criteria)
• Patients must have an ECOG performance status of 0-3 (restricted to ECOG PS 0-2 if age >70 years).
• Patients of childbearing potential must have a negative urine or serum pregnancy test within 7 days prior to FLT (or FDG if for research) PET/CT imaging per institution's standard of care; A female of child-bearing potential is any woman (regardless of sexual orientation, having undergone a tubal ligation, or remaining celibate by choice) who meets the following criteria; Has not undergone a hysterectomy or bilateral oophorectomy; or Has not been naturally postmenopausal for at least 12 consecutive months (i.e., has had menses at any time in the preceding 12 consecutive months).
• Medically stable as judged by patient's physician.
• Patients with known allergic or hypersensitivity reactions to previously administered radiopharmaceuticals of similar chemical or biologic composition to FLT are NOT eligible.
• Ability to understand and the willingness to sign a written informed consent.
• Patient must be able to lie still for a 20 to 30 minute PET/CT scan.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Subjects who had prior chemotherapy or radiotherapy for pancreatic adenocarcinoma cannot participate in the study.
• Patient must NOT be pregnant or breast-feeding.
• Patients have no clinical evidence of distant metastatic disease
• Patients must not weigh more than the maximum weight limit for the table for the PET/CT scanner where the study is being performed.(>200kg or 440lbs)

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: DIAGNOSTIC
• Allocation: NA
• Interventional Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Masking: NONE

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm

Intervention / Treatment

EXPERIMENTAL: Diagnostic (Interim FLT PET/CT); The experimental 18F-FLT-PET/CT is required to be completed before initiation of chemotherapy. Labs and correlative radiology, as directed per clinical care, are required within 30 days prior to 18F-FLT-PET/CT; and 18F-FDG-PET/CT is required within 30 days before the 18F-FLT-PET/CT. Follow-up will comprise 24 months of standard practice treatment and follow up.; Procedure: Computed Tomography; Drug: 3'-deoxy-3'-[F-18] fluorothymidine: [F-18]FLT; Other: Laboratory Biomarker Analysis; Procedure: Positron Emission Tomography

Other: Laboratory Biomarker Analysis; Correlative studies; Procedure: Computed Tomography; Undergo PET/CT; Other Names: CAT; CAT Scan; Computerized Axial Tomography; computerized tomography; CT SCAN; Procedure: Positron Emission Tomography; Undergo PET/CT; Other Names: Medical Imaging, Positron Emission Tomography; PET; PET Scan; Positron-Emission Tomography; positron emission tomography scan; Drug: 3'-deoxy-3'-[F-18] fluorothymidine: [F-18]FLT; Given IV The experimental 18F-FLT-PET/CT is required to be completed before initiation of chemotherapy. Labs and correlative radiology, as directed per clinical care, are required within 30 days prior to 18F-FLT-PET/CT; and 18F-FDG-PET/CT is required within 30 days before the 18F-FLT-PET/CT. Follow-up will comprise 24 months of standard practice treatment and follow up.; Other Names: FLT; 3'-deoxy-3'-[F-18] fluorothymidine

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Change From Baseline in Summed Standardized Uptake Value (SUVmax) of Lesion After 2 Cycles of Chemotherapy	Change in FLT PET/CT SUV Max after 2 cycles of chemotherapy will be compared to baseline (pre-treatment FLT PET/CT SUV Max)	Baseline(pre-treatment), 2 cycles after starting chemotherapy (each cycle 14 days)
Change From Baseline in SUV Peak of Lesion After 2 Cycles of Chemotherapy	Change in FLT PET/CT SUV peak after 2 cycles of chemotherapy will be compared to baseline (pre-treatment FLT PET/CT SUV Peak)	Baseline(pre-treatment), 2 cycles after starting chemotherapy (each cycle 14 days)
Change From Baseline in Proliferative Tumor Volume After 2 Cycles Chemotherapy	Change in FLT PET/CT Proliferative tumor volume after 2 cycles of chemotherapy (compared to pre-treatment FLT PET/CT proliferative tumor volume)	Baseline(pre-treatment), 2 cycles after starting chemotherapy (each cycle 14 days)
1 Year Overall Survival	Proportion of subjects who were alive at 1 year post-treatment is assessed	Baseline(pre-treatment), until date of first observed death, assessed up to 1 year
2 Year Overall Survival	Proportion of subjects who were alive at 2 years post-treatment is assessed	Baseline(pre-treatment), until date of first observed death, assessed up to 2 years

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
6 Months Progression Free Survival	Proportion of subjects who are progression free at 6 months post-treatment is assessed.	Baseline (pre-treatment), until date of first observed progression, assessed up to 6 months
1 Year Progression Free Survival	Proportion of subjects who are progression free at 1 year post-treatment is assessed.	Baseline(pre-treatment), until date of first observed progression, assessed up to 1 year

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Daniella Pinho, MD, UT Soutwestern Medical Center

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (ACTUAL): December 11, 2017
• Primary Completion (ACTUAL): June 15, 2021
• Study Completion (ACTUAL): June 15, 2021

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: October 6, 2017
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: October 18, 2017
• First Posted (ACTUAL): October 24, 2017

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (ACTUAL): November 8, 2022
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: October 10, 2022
• Last Verified: October 1, 2022

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Pancreatic adenocarcinoma; FLT; Borderline resectable pancreatic adenocarcinoma; 18F-FLT; Locally advanced pancreatic adenocarcinoma; resectable pancreatic adenocarcinoma
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Neoplasms by Histologic Type; Neoplasms; Carcinoma; Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial; Adenocarcinoma
• Other Study ID Numbers: STU 012017-029 Protocol V6

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