About this trial
The goal of this clinical trial is to assess if a personalized regime of 177Lu-PSMA-617 (Lutetium Lu 177 vipivotide tetraxetan, also known as Pluvicto) is feasible and safe in a population of patients with metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). The main questions it aims to answer are:
1. Can the administered activity (cumulative or per-cycle) be increased in a majority of participants? 2. What is the incidence of some specific adverse reactions during the treatment?
Researchers will compare participants receiving a personalized regime to participants receiving the standard fixed-activity regime of 177Lu-PSMA-617 to see if the activity can be safely increased through personalization based on renal dosimetry (i.e. the measure of how much radiation is actually delivered to the kidney).
Participants will receive up to 6 treatments of 177Lu-PSMA-617 every 6 weeks and be regularly evaluated with imaging and laboratory tests, as well as with questionnaires.
Eligibility criteria
This trial does not accept healthy volunteersQualifiers
Patient aged ≥18 years with metastatic adenocarcinoma of the prostate, defined by documented histopathology of prostate adenocarcinoma;
Castration-resistant prostate cancer, as defined as disease progressing despite castration by orchiectomy or ongoing androgen deprivation therapy;
Progressive mCRPC with rising PSA level, defined by PCWG3 criteria (sequence of two rising values above a baseline at a minimum of 1-week intervals, with serum testosterone level ≤ 1.7 nmol/dL);
PSA ≥2 ng/mL ;
Disqualifiers
PSMA-PET "superscan" (i.e. extensive/diffuse PSMA-positive bone involvement);
Site(s) of disease that are FDG-positive, defined as SUVpeak in at least one lesion that is superior to twice (2x) SUVmean of the liver, and PSMA-negative (as above), within 45 days prior to randomization;
Prior treatment with more than two lines of chemotherapy for mHSPC and/or mCRPC (adjuvant and neoadjuvant chemotherapy does not count) towards the maximum of two regimens);
Prior radiopharmaceutical therapy;
Trial design
Parallel
Treatments tested in this trial
177Lu-PSMA-617
Drug6 cycles of personalized activity (1st cycle based on BSA and eGFR; cycles 2-6 based on renal dosimetry), maximum 22.2 GBq, every 6 weeks
177Lu-PSMA-617
Drug6 cycles of 7.4 GBq every 6 weeks
Treatment groups
Trial outcomes
Primary outcomes
Administered activity of 177Lu-PSMA-617
In GBq, cumulative and average per cycle.
Number of participants with subacute adverse events of special interest (AESIs)
Subacute AESIs are: * treatment-related grade 3-4 thrombopenia persisting more than 12 weeks * treatment-related grade 3-4 neutropenia persisting more than 12 weeks * treatment-related creatinine elevation to \>2x baseline and \>ULN (upper limit of normal) persisting more than 12 weeks * treatment-related grade 4 febrile neutropenia * treatment-related grade 4 non-hematological toxicity
Secondary outcomes
Best biochemical response
Maximum percent decrease of serum prostate-specific antigen (PSA) after first administration.
PSA progression-free survival (PSA-PFS)
Time from first administration to an increase in PSA greater than 25%, and greater than 2 ng/ml, above nadir, confirmed at least 3 weeks later.
Best radiological response rates
Percentage of participants achieving each RECIST 1.1 response category as their best response: complete response (CR), partial response (PR), stable disease (SD), progressive disease (PD), overall response (i.e., CR or PR; a.k.a. overall response rate, ORR), disease control (i.e CR, PR or SD; a.k.a. disease control rate, DCR).
Radiological progression-free survival (rPFS)
Time from first administration to the date of radiographic disease progression based on RECIST 1.1/PCWG3.
Sponsors and contacts
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Jean-Mathieu Beauregard
Lead sponsor
CHU de Quebec-Universite Laval
Sponsor institution
CHU de Quebec-Universite Laval
Collaborator
Novartis
Collaborator
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)
Collaborator