Efficacy of Ra-223 in PSMA PET Optimally Selected Patients

This phase II trial studies how well prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) positron emission tomography (PET) scans (in combination with bone scans) work in selecting patients for Ra-223 radiation therapy that have castration-resistant prostate cancer that has spread from where it first started (primary site) to the bones (bone metastasis). Ra-223 is a type of therapy that emits radiation. Radiation gives off energy which can kill tumor cells and other cells that may support the tumor cells. Ra-223 is given by infusion into the veins, where it is absorbed by the bones. PSMA PET is a type of scan used to detect prostate cancer tumors. PSMA is a radioactive tracer that binds to a specific protein that is found on prostate tumor cells. The PSMA tracer shows the areas on the PET scan where tumor cells are active. A PET scan uses a special camera to detect the energy given off from radioactive tracers (such as PSMA) to make detailed pictures of areas where the tracer accumulates in the body. The PET scan is often combined with a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or computed tomography (CT) scan, which helps to map the locations where PSMA has accumulated. PSMA PET scans may be able to select patients that will benefit the most from Ra-223 treatment.

Study Overview

• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Conditions: Castration-Resistant Prostate Carcinoma; Metastatic Malignant Neoplasm in the Bone; Stage IVB Prostate Cancer AJCC v8
• Intervention / Treatment: Drug: Radium-223; Procedure: PSMA Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Scan; Drug: Technetium Tc 99M Medronate

Detailed Description

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE:

I. To determine the PSA50 response rate of participants treated with radium Ra 223 dichloride (Ra-223).

SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:

I. To determine the median overall survival (mOS) of participants treated with Ra-223.

II. To determine the PSA30 response rate of participants treated with Ra-223. III. To determine the time to the first skeletal symptomatic event. IV. To characterize the safety profile of Ra-223 treatment. V. To compare the lesion based PSMA PET response based on sodium fluoride (NaF) PET/technetium Tc-99m medronate (MDP) single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) uptake.

EXPLORATORY OBJECTIVES; I. To compare the PSA response stratified by PSMA PET tumor volume. II. To determine the location of progression by location. III. Safety on subsequent treatment with PSMA radioligand therapy (RLT).

OUTLINE:

Participants undergo NaF PET/CT or MDP scan within 45 days prior to standard of care (SOC) Ra-223 intravenously (IV). Treatment repeats every 28 days for 6 cycles in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Participants then undergo a PSMA PET/CT between 30-60 days after the last dose of Ra-223. Participants also undergo collection of blood samples during screening, on the first day of every Ra-223 cycle, and at 30 days after the last dose. Participants may also undergo a NaF PET/CT or MDP scan during treatment as clinically indicated, and/or CT scans during screening and treatment as clinically indicated.

After completion of Ra-223 treatment, participants are followed up at 30 days, and then every 3-6 months.

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

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • California
    • San Francisco, California, United States, 94143
      • University of California, San Francisco

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Male participants >= 18 years of age on the day of signing informed consent
• Castrate level of serum testosterone at study entry (< 50 ng/dL), checked within three months of enrollment
• Patient is a candidate for standard of care Ra-223 therapy

• Bone only disease on PSMA PET using a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved PSMA targeted PET radiopharmaceutical

  • Note: Nodal disease on PSMA PET that is less than 1 cm in short axis and without evidence of change in size over the past six months on conventional imaging is allowed
  • Positivity on PSMA PET is defined as uptake greater than the liver that is not attributable to physiologic activity
• Histologically confirmed prostate adenocarcinoma that is progressive by Prostate Cancer Working Group 3 (PCWG3) criteria at the time of study entry
• Prior progression on at least one second generation androgen signaling inhibitor including abiraterone, apalutamide, darolutamide, and/or enzalutamide
• Platelets > 100,000/microliter (mcL)
• Hemoglobin (Hgb) > 9.0 g/dL
• White blood cells (WBC) > 2.5
• Albumin > 3.0 g/dL
• Adverse events related to prior anti-cancer treatment must have recovered to =< Grade 2
• Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0 to 2
• For patients who have partners of childbearing potential: Partner and/or patient must use a method of birth control with adequate barrier protection, deemed acceptable by the principal investigator during the study and for 3 months after last study drug administration
• Individuals with a prior or concurrent malignancy whose natural history or treatment does not have the potential to interfere with the safety or efficacy assessment of the investigational regimen are eligible for this trial
• Ability to understand and the willingness to sign a written informed consent document

Exclusion Criteria:

• Prior treatment with Lutetium-177 (177Lu)-PSMA-617, Radium-223, Strontium-89, Samarium-153, Rhenium-186, Rhenium-188

• Prior exposure to taxane-based chemotherapy.

  * Note: Exposure is defined as two or more cycles of taxane-based agents

• Any systemic anti-cancer therapy (e.g., chemotherapy, immunotherapy or biological therapy, including monoclonal antibodies) within 21 days prior to the first day of treatment
• Greater than 75% bone involvement, based on PSMA PET
• Presence of visceral metastases, untreated central nervous system metastases, or untreated epidural or spinal cord involvement
• Prior treatment with radioligand therapy
• Blood transfusion within past 45 days
• Any condition that, in the opinion of the Principal Investigator, would impair the patient's ability to comply with study procedures

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

Experimental: Treatment (NaF PET/CT/MDP, Ra-223, PSMA PET); Patients undergo NaF PET/CT or MDP scan within 45 days prior to cycle 1 day 1. Patients then receive standard of care Ra-223 IV on day 1 of each cycle. Treatment repeats every 28 days for 6 cycles in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients then undergo PSMA PET/CT over 45-60 minutes between 30-60 days after the last dose of Ra-223. Patients also undergo collection of blood samples during screening, on day 1 of every Ra-223 cycle, and at 30 days after the last dose of Ra-223. Patients may also undergo NaF PET/CT or MDP scans during Ra-223 treatment as clinically indicated, and/or CT scans during screening and Ra-223 treatment as clinically indicated.

Drug: Radium-223; Given IV; Other Names: BAY 88-8223; BAY88-8223; Radium 223 Dichloride; Xofigo; Ra-223; Procedure: PSMA Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Scan; Undergo PSMA PET/CT; Other Names: PSMA PET; Prostate-specific Membrane Antigen (PSMA) PET; Drug: Technetium Tc 99M Medronate; Undergo MDP; Other Names: 99mTc-MDP; TechneScan MDP; (99m)Tc-Medronate, 121524-79-6; Technetium Tc 99m Methylene Diphosphonate

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
PSA50 response rate	The proportion of patients who achieve a greater than 50% decline from baseline prostate specific antigen (PSA) (PSA50) drawn prior to C1D1, at any point in the treatment course, will be descriptively reported along with 95% binomial confidence interval. It will be compared with the historical control by binomial test. A confirmation repeat PSA will be drawn after the initial PSA50 response to confirm the result. A PSA50 will only be counted if two PSA showing a 50% decline are measured.	Up to 6 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
PSA30 response rate	The proportion of patients who achieve a greater than 30% decline from baseline PSA (PSA30) drawn prior to cycle 1 day 1 (C1D1), at any point in the treatment course, will be descriptively reported along with 95% binomial confidence interval. It will be compared with the historical control by binomial test.	Up to 6 months
Overall Survival	Overall survival The time to event will be defined by the duration from the first date of study therapy to date of death from any cause. We will estimate the survival function using the Kaplan-Meier method, and obtain its 95% confidence bands over the survival times. The median overall survival time and 95% confidence interval of it will be derived from the estimated survival functions.	Up to 2 years
Time to first skeletal symptomatic event	The time to the first skeletal symptomatic event will measure the time to the first new symptomatic pathological bone fracture, spinal cord compression, tumor-related orthopedic surgical intervention, or requirement for radiation therapy to relieve bone pain, whichever occurs first. We will also estimate the survival function using the Kaplan-Meier method, and obtain its 95% confidence bands over the survival times. The median survival time and 95% confidence interval of it will be derived from the estimated survival functions.	Up to 30 days after the last dose of Ra-223 treatment
Proportion of participants reporting treatment-related adverse events	The incidence and severity of adverse events related to study treatment will be descriptively reported using CTCAE v5.0.	Up to 30 days after the last dose of Ra-223 treatment
Compare the lesion based PSMA PET response based on paired NaF PET / MDP uptake	Up to five lesions per patient will be measured by a board certified nuclear medicine physician. For each lesion the maximum SUV (SUVmax) will be measured on PSMA PET and NaF PET. Additionally, the SUVmax on the end of study PSMA PET will also be measured. As there is an underestimation of uptake on MDP bone scan compared to PET, we will multiply the uptake measured on MDP SPECT by 2.3 to correct for the differences in recovery coefficients between the two imaging technologies based on prior comparisons. The percent change in the PSMA PET uptake between baseline and end of study will be measured. A Spearman's rank correlation will be used to compare the baseline NaF uptake for each lesion with the percent change of PSMA PET SUVmax.	Up to 30 days after the last dose of Ra-223 treatment

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University of California, San Francisco
• Collaborators: Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals, Inc./Bayer Schering Pharma
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Thomas A Hope, MD, University of California, San Francisco

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): August 30, 2024
• Primary Completion (Actual): January 7, 2026
• Study Completion (Estimated): March 31, 2027

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: June 20, 2023
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: June 20, 2023
• First Posted (Actual): June 29, 2023

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Estimated): January 14, 2026
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: January 12, 2026
• Last Verified: January 1, 2026

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Urogenital Diseases; Genital Diseases; Genital Neoplasms, Male; Urogenital Neoplasms; Neoplasms by Site; Neoplasms; Genital Diseases, Male; Prostatic Diseases; Male Urogenital Diseases; Prostatic Neoplasms; Organic Chemicals; Hydrolases; Enzymes; Enzymes and Coenzymes; Organophosphorus Compounds; Organophosphonates; Peptide Hydrolases; Metalloproteases; Carboxypeptidases; Exopeptidases; Metalloexopeptidases; Diphosphonates; Organotechnetium Compounds; Organometallic Compounds; Technetium Tc 99m Medronate; Radium-223; Glutamate Carboxypeptidase II; 2-phenyl-6-(2'-(4'-(ethoxycarbonyl)thiazolyl))thiazolo(3,2-b)(1,2,4)triazole; radium Ra 223 dichloride
• Other Study ID Numbers: 23923; NCI-2023-04656 (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
• product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.: No