Study of Erectile Dysfunction, Urinary Incontinence and Related QoL After TOOKAD® VTP for Low Risk Prostate Cancer

Study of Erectile Dysfunction, Urinary Incontinence and Related Quality of Life After TOOKAD® Vascular Targeted Photodynamic Therapy (VTP) for Minimally Invasive Treatment of Unilateral Low Risk Prostate Cancer

Multiple center, single-arm, open-label, 12-month follow-up phase IV pragmatic clinical trial in men with unilateral prostate cancer meeting eligibility criteria for the drug (as per the European Economic Area (EEA) Marketing Authorisation) to assess the occurrence and dynamics of the time with toxicities (urinary incontinence Grade 2 and over and/or erectile dysfunction Grade 2 and over) in patients 12 months following TOOKAD® VTP.

Study Overview

• Status: Terminated
• Conditions: Low Risk Prostate Cancer
• Intervention / Treatment: Drug: TOOKAD VTP

Detailed Description

This is a multiple center, single-arm, open-label, 12-month follow-up phase IV pragmatic clinical trial. Men with unilateral prostate cancer meeting eligibility criteria for the drug (as per the EEA Marketing Authorisation) will receive TOOKAD® VTP under general anesthesia. The primary objective is to assess the occurrence and dynamics of the time with toxicities (urinary incontinence Grade 2 and over and/or erectile dysfunction Grade 2 and over) in patients 12 months following TOOKAD® VTP. Prior to the TOOKAD® VTP, patients will undergo routine ultrasound examination in the operating room for morphometric description of the prostate and to facilitate accurate treatment guidance for the treatment with TOOKAD® VTP. Treatment will then be applied to the prostate gland as a hemi-ablation procedure designed to destroy the lobe of the prostate gland that contains the cancer. Afterwards, patients will be followed for 12 months with clinical evaluation, data collection on erectile and urinary functions at 1, 2, 3 6 and 12 months, using the Expanded Prostate Cancer Index Composite (EPIC), International Index of Erectile Function (IIEF) and International Prostate Score Symptom (IPSS) questionnaires on Quality Of Life (QOL) and Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) testing at 3, 6 and 12 months.

The clinical follow-up of patients will follow local standard of care processes, based on recommendations in the European Summary of Product Characteristics (SmPC).

This study is a phase IV pragmatic trial using optimal dose of TOOKAD® and optimal light-energy level conditions that were determined during development and approved by the European Commission.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 23
• Phase: Phase 4

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• France
  • Angers, France
    • Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU)

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:

• Men over 18 years of age with a life expectancy ≥ 10 years

  -.Unilateral adenocarcinoma of the prostate accurately located and confirmed as unilateral using high resolution biopsy strategies based on current best practice, such as multi- parametric MRI based strategies or template-based biopsy procedures.

• Clinical stage T1c or T2a,
• Gleason Score ≤ 6, based on high-resolution biopsy strategies
• 3 positive cancer cores with a maximum cancer core length of 5 mm in any one core or 1 -2 positive cancer cores with ≥ 50 % cancer involvement in any one core or a PSA density ≥ 0.15 ng/mL/cm3.
• PSA ≤ 10 ng/mL
• If the patient is sexually active with women who are capable of getting pregnant, he and/or his partner should use an effective form of birth control to prevent getting pregnant during a period of 90 days after the VTP procedure.
• Signed Informed Consent Form

Exclusion Criteria:

GENERAL EXCLUSION CRITERIA :

• Unwillingness to accept the treatment;
• Any previous prostatic interventions where the internal urinary sphincter may have been damaged, including trans-urethral resection of the prostate (TURP) for benign prostatic hypertrophy.
• Participation in another clinical study involving an investigational product within 1 month before study entry;
• Inability to understand the informed consent document, to give consent voluntarily or to complete the study tasks, especially inability to understand and fulfill the health-related QOL questionnaire;
• Subjects in custody and or residing in a nursing home or rehabilitation facility;
• Biopsy proven locally advanced or metastatic prostate cancer.

SURGERY AND OTHER TREATMENT-RELATED CONDITIONS OF EXCLUSION

• Any condition or history of illness or surgery that in the opinion of the investigator might affect the conduct and results of the study or pose additional risks to the subject or any medical condition that precludes the administration of a general anaesthetic or invasive procedures.
• Hypersensitivity to the active substance or to the excipient (mannitol)
• Current or prior treatment for prostate cancer.
• Patients who have been diagnosed with cholestasis.
• Current exacerbation of rectal inflammatory bowel disease.
• Anticoagulant medicinal products and those that decrease platelet aggregation (e.g. acetylsalicylic acid) should be stopped at least 10 days before the procedure with TOOKAD. Medicinal products that prevent or reduce platelet aggregation should not be started for at least 3 days after the procedure.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

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

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm

Intervention / Treatment

EXPERIMENTAL: TOOKAD VTP; TOOKAD is administered as part of focal VTP under general anaesthetic. TOOKAD® VTP consists of the combination of a single, 10-minute IV infusion of TOOKAD® at the dose of 3.66 mg/kg, followed by the illumination of the zone to be treated with a 753-nm laser light delivered through transperineal interstitial optical fibers at a power of 150 mW/cm and light energy of 200 J/cm applied over 22 minutes and 15 seconds.

Drug: TOOKAD VTP; TOOKAD® VTP consists of the combination of a single, 10-minute IV infusion of TOOKAD® at the dose of 3.66 mg/kg, followed by the illumination of the zone to be treated with a 753-nm laser light delivered through transperineal interstitial optical fibers at a power of 150 mW/cm and light energy of 200 J/cm applied over 22 minutes and 15 seconds.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Cumulated time with toxicity (duration)	Time to onset, average duration and average time to resolution (either Erectile Dysfunction (ED) and/or Urinary Incontinence(UI)) during the 12 months following VTP of ED with severity grade 2 or over and/or UI of severity grade 2 or over, as assessed using the EPIC instrument	12 months
Cumulated time with toxicity (prevalence)	Prevalence at different points in time (either ED and/or UI) during the 12 months following VTP of ED with severity grade 2 or over and/or UI of severity grade 2 or over, as assessed using the EPIC instrument.	12 months
Cumulated time with toxicity (area under the curve)	Area under the curve with the presence of ED with severity grade 2 or over and/or UI of severity grade 2 or over, as assessed using the EPIC instrument	12 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Time with erectile dysfunction (duration)	Time to onset, duration, time to resolution of erectile dysfunction grade 2 or above, as assessed using the EPIC instrument	12 months
Time with erectile dysfunction (prevalence)	Prevalence at different points in time of erectile dysfunction grade 2 or above, as assessed using the EPIC instrument	12 months
Time with erectile dysfunction (Area under the curve)	Area under the curve with the presence of erectile dysfunction grade 2 or above, as assessed using the EPIC instrument	12 months
Time with urinary incontinence (duration)	Time to onset, duration, time to resolution of urinary Incontinence grade 2 or above, as assessed using the EPIC instrument,	12 months
Time with urinary incontinence (prevalence)	Prevalence at different points in time of urinary Incontinence grade 2 or above, as assessed using the EPIC instrument.	12 months
Time with urinary incontinence (Area under the curve)	Area under the curve with the presence of urinary Incontinence grade 2 or above, as assessed using the EPIC instrument.	12 months
Correspondence between results of EPIC and IIEF instruments	Average variation on urinary symptoms (UI) using the EPIC and IPSS instruments, erectile functions (ED) using the EPIC and IIEF instruments, and bowel function using the EPIC instrument, prior to treatment beginning and then at 1, 2, 3, 6 and 12 months after completing treatment: absolute scores and changes as compared to baseline (absolute difference of means and proportion change)	12 months
PSA density	Average changes from baseline in PSA density at month 12	12 months
Rate of Adverse Events	Rate of adverse events (AE) of TOOKAD® VTP treatment : all AE, important AE identified in Risk Management Plan (RMP) and suspected AE listed in RMP.	12 months
Time to resolution of Adverse events	Time to resolution of adverse events for each adverse event reported	12 months
Additional prostate cancer treatments	Rate of additional treatment as decided by local practice, such as radical therapy (surgical removal of the prostate gland, radiation treatment to the prostate gland) or other intervention therapy to the ipsilateral and/or contralateral lobe, use of hormone or chemotherapies.	12 months
Extension of prostate cancer	Rate of reported extension of prostate cancer based on locally decided investigations (such as clinical examination, biopsy, Magnetic resonance Imaging (MRI), other).	12 months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Steba Biotech S.A.
• Collaborators: International Drug Development Institute; PrimeVigilance LTD
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Abdel-Rahmène AZZOUZI, Professor, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) Angers

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (ACTUAL): January 21, 2019
• Primary Completion (ACTUAL): November 13, 2020
• Study Completion (ACTUAL): November 13, 2020

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: January 24, 2019
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: February 19, 2019
• First Posted (ACTUAL): February 21, 2019

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (ACTUAL): March 23, 2021
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: March 18, 2021
• Last Verified: March 1, 2021

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Behavioral Symptoms; Mental Disorders; Neoplasms; Urogenital Neoplasms; Neoplasms by Site; Urologic Diseases; Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms; Urological Manifestations; Genital Neoplasms, Male; Prostatic Diseases; Urination Disorders; Sexual Dysfunctions, Psychological; Sexual Dysfunction, Physiological; Elimination Disorders; Prostatic Neoplasms; Urinary Incontinence; Erectile Dysfunction; Enuresis
• Other Study ID Numbers: CLIN1802 PCM404; 2018-003228-35 (EUDRACT_NUMBER)

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