Ga-68-PSMA-11 in High-risk Prostate Cancer

An Open-label, Single-arm, Rater-blinded, Multicenter Phase 1/2 Study to Assess Safety and Diagnostic Accuracy and Radiotherapeutic Implications of Pre-operative Ga-68-PSMA-11 PET/CT Imaging in Comparison to Histopathology, in Newly-diagnosed Prostate Cancer (PCA) Patients at High Risk for Metastasis, Scheduled for Radical Prostatectomy (RP) With Extended Pelvic Lymph Node Dissection (EPLND)

This will be an open-label, single-arm, rater-blinded, multicenter, diagnostic phase 1/2 study to assess safety and diagnostic performance of Ga-68-PSMA-11 positron emission tomography / computer tomography (PET/CT) imaging to detect tumour tissue in patients with newly diagnosed PCA and a high risk for metastasis. As standard of truth, comprehensive histopathology covering prostate and the tributary pelvic lymph node system, will be used. Therefore, only patients scheduled for RP with EPLND (as part of their standard of care) will be eligible.

Patients will be recruited at up to 11 uro-oncological sites in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, with access to a radiopharmaceutical laboratory, experienced to prepare 68Ga-labelled compounds, and high-quality PET/CT imaging. Upon histological confirmation of PCA, pre-operative staging will be performed according to European Association of Urology (EAU) guideline [Mottet et al. 2015] (to include pelvic MRI or CT and a 99mTc-bone scan), to establish the indication for RP with EPLND. If the indication is confirmed, patients will be invited to participate in the present study. After consenting, review of inclusion and exclusion criteria, as well as screening investigations will be performed by the uro-oncologist (day 0). Thereafter, patients are referred to the collaborating nuclear medicine department for tracer injection, imaging, and post-dose safety evaluations (day 1). Subsequent investigations (day 2 and at end of study) will be made by the uro-oncologist or experienced nuclear medicine physician. Study participation ends on day 7. Routine surgery (RP with EPLND) will be performed after end of study, but no later than 42 days after study inclusion. This sequence allows adequate characterisation of tracer safety, while at the same avoiding unnecessary delay of, or confounding safety signals from therapy.

In total, 150 evaluable patients will be included to receive a single 68Ga dose of 150 MBq (± 50 MBq), administered as i.v. infusion. Due to an assumed dropout rate of 15%, up to 173 patients will be included in study.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Prostate Cancer; Prostate Cancer Metastatic; High-risk Prostate Cancer; Lymphnode Metastasis
• Intervention / Treatment: Drug: Ga-68-PSMA-11

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 173
• Phase: Phase 2; Phase 1

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Austria
  • Innsbruck, Austria, 6020
    • Medizinische Universität Innsbruck
• Germany
  • Dresden, Germany, 01307
    • Universitätsklinikum Carl Gustav Carus Dresden
  • Erlangen, Germany, 91054
    • Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen
  • Essen, Germany, 45147
    • Universität Duisburg-Essen
  • Freiburg, Germany, 79106
    • Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
  • Heidelberg, Germany, 69120
    • Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg
  • München, Germany, 81675
    • Technische Universität München Klinikum rechts der Isar
  • Tübingen, Germany, 72076
    • Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen

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:

1. Written informed consent.
2. Male ≥ 18 years of age.
3. Histologically confirmed adenocarcinoma of the prostate.

4. High risk for metastasis, defined by either:

   1. stadium cT3 according to TNM (primary tumor, regional nodes, metastasis) Classification of Malignant Tumours (TNM), or
   2. Gleason Score >7, or
   3. Prostate-Specific Antigen (PSA) >20 ng/mL.
5. Patient scheduled for radical prostatectomy (RP) with extended pelvic lymph node dissection (EPLND) according to current guidelines 7 - 60 days after start of study.
6. Consent to practise contraception until end of study (6 days after Ga-68-PSMA-11 injection).
7. Preoperative PCA staging performed according to guidelines, to include a mandatory 99mTc bone scintigraphy and an optional pelvic MRI or CT, not older than 56 days prior to inclusion, according to standard of care.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Known hypersensitivity to Ga-68-PSMA-11 or its components.
2. Presence of known lymph node metastases outside surgical field.
3. More than 5 bone metastases, as determined by 99mTc bone scintigraphy.
4. Previous prostate cancer therapy.
5. Administration of any kind of PET tracer within a period corresponding to 8 half-lives of the respective radionuclide.
6. Any other investigational medicinal product within 30 days prior and 7 days after receiving study medication.
7. Evidence of neuroendocrine small cell carcinoma.
8. Subjects not able to declare meaningful informed consent on their own (e.g. with legal guardian for mental disorders).
9. Simultaneous participation in other clinical trials

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-PSMA-11

Drug: Ga-68-PSMA-11; Single administration of 150 MBq (± 50 MBq), corresponding to a mass dose of ≤ 6 µg. A 2nd administration of 150 MBq (± 50 MBq), corresponding to a mass dose of ≤ 6 µg is possible in the unlikely case of a negative histological result (i.e. no prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) expression in dissected lymph nodes) to verify if PSMA PET-positive tissue as seen on day 1 has not been removed during RP with EPLND.; Other Names: 68Ga-PSMA; 68Ga-DKFZ-PSMA; 68Ga-PSMA(HBED); Glu-NH-CO-NH-Lys-(Ahx)-[68Ga(HBED-CC)]

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Time Frame
True positive fraction (TPF) and false positive fraction (FPF) of identified tumour tissue in soft tissue, analysed separately for prostate gland and pelvic lymph nodes, using histopathology as standard of truth.	up to day 21
Frequency of occurrence and severity of abnormal findings in safety investigations (physical examination, vital signs, 12-lead ECG, pulse oximetry, clinical laboratory, adverse events, concomitant medication).	Day 0 - Day 7

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Time Frame
Number of identified bone lesions, per patient.	Day 1
Correlation coefficient of recovery-corrected standardized uptake values (SUV) plotted against Gleason score in primaries after RP	Day 1
Percentage of subjects for whom the RP and EPLND will not be conducted	Day 1
Quantity of circulating tumour cells in blood	Day 1

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: German Cancer Research Center
• Collaborators: University Hospital Freiburg; ABX CRO; Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Frederik Giesel, Prof. Dr., University Hospital Heidelberg

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): October 9, 2017
• Primary Completion (Actual): July 6, 2020
• Study Completion (Actual): July 6, 2020

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: October 18, 2017
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: December 4, 2017
• First Posted (Actual): December 5, 2017

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): July 27, 2020
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 24, 2020
• Last Verified: July 1, 2020

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: 68Ga-PSMA-11; prostatectomy; EPLND
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Pathologic Processes; Neoplasms; Urogenital Neoplasms; Neoplasms by Site; Genital Neoplasms, Male; Prostatic Diseases; Neoplastic Processes; Prostatic Neoplasms; Neoplasm Metastasis; Lymphatic Metastasis; Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action; Radiopharmaceuticals; Gallium 68 PSMA-11
• Other Study ID Numbers: Ga-68-PSMA-11

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