Real-time Imaging of Holmium Radioembolization: a Feasibility Study (Emeritus)

Real-time MR Imaged Treatment With Holmium Microspheres of Patients With Primary or Secondary Liver Cancer; a Feasibility Study

This is a feasibility study in which patients with liver tumors are treated with holmium radioembolization under real time MR imaging.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Liver Metastases; Liver Cancer
• Intervention / Treatment: Device: QuiremSpheres®

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 6
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Netherlands
  • Gelderland
    • Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands, 6525GA
      • Radboud University Medical Centre

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:

1. Patients must have given written informed consent.
2. Female or male aged 18 years and over.
3. Diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma or cholangiocarcinoma in the liver or diagnosis of metastatic malignancy to the liver (primary tumours: colorectal cancer, melanoma, breast cancer or neuro-endocrine tumour) with limited disease outside the liver (i.e. liver-dominant disease) defined as the sum of the diameters of all metastases in the liver be more than 200% of the sum of the diameters of all soft tissue lesions outside the liver.
4. Patient is not amenable for standard therapies (other than radioembolisation) or patient refuses standard therapies
5. Life expectancy of 12 weeks or longer.
6. World Health Organisation (WHO) Performance status 0-1 (see Appendix III).
7. One or more measurable lesions of at least 10 mm in the longest diameter by spiral CT according to the Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumours (RECIST) 1.1 criteria.
8. Negative pregnancy test for women of childbearing potential.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Brain metastases or spinal cord compression, unless irradiated at least 4 weeks prior to the date of the experimental treatment and stable without steroid treatment for at least 1 week
2. Radiation therapy within the last 4 weeks before the start of study therapy.
3. The last dose of prior systemic therapy has been received less than 4 weeks prior the start of study therapy.
4. Major surgery within 4 weeks, or incompletely healed surgical incision before starting study therapy.
5. Any unresolved toxicity greater than National Cancer Institute (NCI), Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE version 4.0, see Appendix II) grade 2 from previous anti-cancer therapy.
6. Serum bilirubin > 1.5 x Upper Limit of Normal (ULN).
7. Glomerular filtration rate <35 ml/min, determined according to the Modification of Diet in Renal Disease formula.
8. Alanine aminotransferase (ALT), aspartate aminotransferase (AST), or alkaline phosphatase (ALP) > 5 x ULN.
9. Leukocytes < 4.0 109/l and/or platelet count < 60 109/l.
10. Significant cardiac event (e.g. myocardial infarction, superior vena cava (SVC) syndrome, New York Heart Association (NYHA) classification of heart disease ≥2 within 3 months before entry, or presence of cardiac disease that in the opinion of the Investigator increases the risk of ventricular arrhythmia.
11. Pregnancy or breast feeding (women of child-bearing potential).
12. Patients suffering from diseases with an increased chance of liver toxicity, such as primary biliary cirrhosis or xeroderma pigmentosum.
13. Patients suffering from psychic disorders that make a comprehensive judgement impossible, such as psychosis, hallucinations and/or depression.
14. Patients ineligible to undergo MR imaging.
15. Patients who are claustrophobic.
16. Patient who had prior liver resection and/or coil placement inside the liver, expected to cause imaging artefacts on MRI that will limit MR quantification.
17. Patients who are declared incompetent.
18. Previous enrolment in the present study or previous treatment with radioembolisation.
19. Portal vein thrombosis (tumour and/or bland) of the main branch (diagnosed on contrast enhanced transaxial images). Involvement of the right or left portal vein branches and more distal is accepted.
20. Evidence of untreated, clinically significant grade 3 portal hypertension (i.e. large varices at oesophago-gastro-duodenoscopy). In these cases, therapy with non-selective beta blocker (propranolol) or rubber band ligation should be instituted according to accepted guidelines. In case of small varices, prophylactic propranolol is advised.
21. Untreated active hepatitis.
22. Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS).
23. Body weight over 150 kg (because of maximum table load).

24. Severe allergy for intravenous contrast agents used

    1. Iomeron®, because of CT evaluation, pre-treatment angiography and treatment angiography.
    2. Dotarem or Primovist, depending on the agent used at the time of treatment
25. Lung shunt >30 Gy, as calculated using scout dose SPECT/CT.
26. Uncorrectable extrahepatic deposition of scout dose activity. Activity in the falciform ligament, portal lymph nodes and gallbladder is accepted.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

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

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Other: Study patients; All patients receive holmium radioembolization as per usual	Device: QuiremSpheres®; Radioembolization with QuiremSpheres® under MR imaging

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Feasibility of MR imaged administration of holmium microspheres	Feasibility is defined as successful treatment under MRI in at least 4 of 6 patients. Unsuccessful treatment is defined as having to abort the procedure for safety reasons, judged by the interventional radiologist, and having to complete the administration of microspheres under X-ray guidance as in normal practice. Possible reasons for this are uncertainty about the location of the catheter, or luxation of the catheter as a result of transport to the MRI scanner.	1 month after inclusion

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Number of participants with treatment-related adverse events as assessed by CTCAE v4.0	Patients are followed up to 3 months after treatment, during which all adverse events are recorded.	Up to 3 months after treatment
Tumor/non-tumor ratio on MR based dosimetry	MR based dosimetry is performed immediately after treatment, resulting in dose maps. The dose that the tumor received is divided over the dose that the rest of the liver received.	1 month after inclusion
Comparison of dosimetry in Gray between MR based and SPECT based dose maps	Voxel-based dosimetry will be performed, leading to dose-volume histograms with a dose value per voxel in Gray. Statistical testing will be done for differences between these data sets, i.e. the two different imaging modalities (MR based and SPECT based). It is expected that dose-volume histograms will be similar between the two modalities.	1 month after inclusion
Tumor response after 3 months based on CT imaging (according to RECIST 1.1 criteria)		3 months after treatment

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Radboud University Medical Center
• Collaborators: Quirem Medical B.V.
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Frank Nijsen, PhD, Associate Professor

Publications and helpful links

General Publications

• Roosen J, Westlund Gotby LEL, Arntz MJ, Futterer JJ, Janssen MJR, Konijnenberg MW, van Wijk MWM, Overduin CG, Nijsen JFW. Intraprocedural MRI-based dosimetry during transarterial radioembolization of liver tumours with holmium-166 microspheres (EMERITUS-1): a phase I trial towards adaptive, image-controlled treatment delivery. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2022 Nov;49(13):4705-4715. doi: 10.1007/s00259-022-05902-w. Epub 2022 Jul 13.

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): November 11, 2019
• Primary Completion (Actual): May 10, 2021
• Study Completion (Actual): May 10, 2021

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: February 7, 2020
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: February 12, 2020
• First Posted (Actual): February 13, 2020

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): June 29, 2021
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: June 27, 2021
• Last Verified: June 1, 2021

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Digestive System Diseases; Neoplasms; Neoplasms by Site; Digestive System Neoplasms; Liver Diseases; Liver Neoplasms
• Other Study ID Numbers: 18100 Emeritus

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: Undecided

Drug and device information, study documents

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