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Uterine Cervical NeoplasmsPhase 2NCT01717391

[F-18] Fluorothymidine PET/CT Imaging for Pelvic Cancers

A Phase 2 study testing fluorothymidine F 18 in people with Uterine Cervical Neoplasms and Endometrial Neoplasms, run by John M. Buatti at 1 site in United States.

Completed

Finished. The study has ended and is not enrolling. Results may be posted on the official record.

Official record
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Trial summary

[F-18] Fluorothymidine PET imaging will be used to create a radiation therapy treatment plan to avoid active bone marrow in the pelvis. This will be done to evaluate if sparing bone marrow will help maintain blood counts. This would impact chemotherapy administration. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 years and older
What is being tested?
fluorothymidine F 18
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
36 participants
Where
1 siteUnited States
Study dates
1 Oct 2012to 30 Apr 2017
Phase
Phase 2
Are there results?
Yes, posted in the registrySummary in the doctors' view

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 18 years and older
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Adult, Older adult

Who may be able to join

  • Ability to understand and willingness to sign a written informed consent document.
  • Recommended to undergo pelvic irradiation with concurrent chemotherapy.
  • At least 18 years of age. Pediatrics would be best served by a protocol designed for their specific needs.
  • Karnofsky Performance Status of at least 60% at time of screening.
  • Life expectancy of greater than 6 months.
  • Subject must have normal organ and marrow function (as defined below) within 30 days of study enrollment:
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  • leukocytes at least 3,000 / µL
  • absolute neutrophil count of at least 1500 / µL
  • platelets of at least 100,000 / µL
  • creatinine equal to or less than the upper limit of normal
  • not pregnant (as applicable)

Who cannot join

  • history of allergic reactions attributed to compounds of similar chemical or biologic composition to FLT
  • an oncology research protocol requiring full pelvic radiation (i.e., 4 field box technique)
  • uncontrolled intercurrent illness including, but not limited to, ongoing or active infection, symptomatic congestive heart failure, unstable angina pectoris, cardiac arrhythmia, or psychiatric illness/social situations that would limit compliance with study requirements.
  • subjects taking nucleoside analog medications such as those used as antiretroviral agents.

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country.

United States1 site
  • Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center

    Iowa City, Iowa, 52242

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About this study

Official title: Improving Pelvic Cancer Patient Chemoradiotherapy Outcomes With FLT PET Imaging

[F-18] Fluorothymidine PET imaging will be used to create a radiation therapy treatment plan to avoid active bone marrow in the pelvis. This will be done to evaluate if sparing bone marrow will help maintain blood counts. This would impact chemotherapy administration.

Read the detailed description

Overall survival of pelvic cancer patients depends on control of systemic disease. If local radiation therapy depletes bone marrow function to such an extent that systemic therapies must be withheld, chances of metastatic failure increase significantly. This may be more significant for this group of patients because approximately one third of adult bone marrow is located in the pelvic region. Strategies to minimize toxicities would benefit a range of pelvic cancer patients including gynecologic, anal, rectal, and prostate. New chemoradiation combinations improve outcomes for these disease sites, but come at the cost of higher levels of toxicity. As many as 40% of cervical cancer patients miss at least one chemotherapy cycle due to hematologic toxicity and 36% of anal cancer patients experience grade 3 or 4 hematologic toxicity when undergoing chemoradiation therapy. A clinical trial of concurrent chemoradiation therapy for rectal cancer was terminated due to toxicity, including hematologic toxicities. Concurrent chemoradiation therapy shows promise for advanced stage prostate cancers, but it also increases grade 3 and 4 toxicities. To successfully limit hematologic toxicities for pelvic cancers, it is extremely advantageous to avoid irradiating the highly proliferative compartments of the pelvic bone marrow. However, the complex structure of the pelvis makes it difficult to assess the efficacy of radiation therapy (RT) planning strategies to avoid areas critical to hematopoiesis. Uptake of [18F]fluorothymidine imaged with positron emission tomography (FLT PET/CT) can be an accurate and sensitive tool for identifying and monitoring the effects of chemoradiation on proliferative pelvic bone marrow. Clinically validating the utility of FLT PET/CT imaging for identifying active bone marrow in the design of bone marrow sparing RT-plans and the important bone marrow assessment time points would provide a method to reduce acute and chronic hematologic toxicities for pelvic cancer patients.

Being tested
fluorothymidine F 18
Keywords
radiotherapy, Positron-Emission Tomography and Computed Tomography, chemotherapy, bone marrow
Medical subject headings
Uterine Cervical Neoplasms, Endometrial Neoplasms, Anus Neoplasms, Rectal Neoplasms, Prostatic Neoplasms

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • fluorothymidine F 18Drug

    Also called [F-18] Fluorothymidine

    A patient-specific bone marrow map will be designed from the pre-therapy FLT PET/CT imaging. A highly conformal radiation plan will be designed to spare active bone marrow.

Study groups in NCT01717391
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
Fluorothymidine F 18 PET/CTExperimentalFluorothymidine F 18 (FLT) PET/CT imaging ordered pre-radiation therapy, during weeks 1 and 2 of radiation therapy, and then at 1 month and 12 months after radiation therapy. The FLT PET/CT imaging ordered pre-radiation therapy is used for bone marrow sparing IMRT radiation therapy.
Receives: Drug: fluorothymidine F 18

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Percent Difference From Baseline IMRT Plan (%)

    The difference in volume of bone marrow receiving radiation using a bone-marrow-sparing radiation plan compared to a standard radiation plan (IMRT), expressed as a percentage. Both plans are patient-specific. Bone-marrow is identified using the baseline FLT PET/CT obtained pre-imaging. Active bone marrow is considered to have an uptake value (SUV) of 2, 3, or 4. The standard IMRT plan was created using the criteria of the National Cancer Institute's Radiation Therapy Oncology Group study RTOG-0418. Radiation doses evaluated are 5 Gray, 10 Gray, 20 Gray, and 30 Gray. The change in dose to tumor is also provided. A negative value indicates that more bone marrow or tissue was spared using the bone-marrow sparing plan.

    Measured: Baseline (pre-treatment)

Secondary outcomes (5)
  1. Chemotherapy Compliance

    The number of participants who had chemotherapy withheld at least once for low blood counts.

    Measured: At 24 months

  2. Number of Participants With Standardized Toxicity Severity Grades for White Blood Cell Counts

    White blood cell counts measurements expressed in standardized toxicity severity grades (Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events, v4.03) measured weekly during combined chemotherapy and radiation therapy treatment and then once at 30 day follow-up and at 1 year follow-up

    Measured: baseline, weekly during radiation treatment for up to 5 weeks, 30 days and 1 year after treatment

  3. Number of Participants With Standardized Toxicity Severity Grades for Decreased Platelet Counts.

    Platelet cell counts measurements expressed in standardized toxicity severity grades (Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events, v4.03) measured once weekly during combined chemotherapy and radiation therapy, then once at 30 day follow-up, and once at 1 year follow-up

    Measured: baseline, weekly during radiation treatment for up to 5 weeks, 30 days and 1 year after treatment

  4. Number of Participants With Standardized Toxicity Severity Grades for Decreased Absolute Neutrophil Counts (ANCs)

    Absolute neutrophil counts (ANCs) measurements expressed in standardized toxicity severity grades (Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events, v4.03) measured once weekly during combined chemotherapy and radiation therapy, then once at 30 day follow-up, and once at 1 year follow-up

    Measured: baseline, weekly during radiation treatment for up to 5 weeks, 30 days and 1 year after treatment

  5. Number of Participants With Standardized Toxicity Severity Grades for Decreased Lymphocyte Counts.

    Lymphocyte counts measurements expressed in standardized toxicity severity grades (Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events, v4.03) measured once weekly during combined chemotherapy and radiation therapy, then once at 30 day follow-up, and once at 1 year follow-up

    Measured: baseline, weekly during radiation treatment for up to 5 weeks, 30 days and 1 year after treatment

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted30 Oct 2012 (estimated)
  2. Study start1 Oct 2012
  3. Primary completion29 Feb 2016
  4. Study completion30 Apr 2017

Resources

More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase 2
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrolment
36 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT01717391
Sponsor's protocol ID
201204712
Other IDs
R01CA169336
Status last verified
Mar 2019
First submitted
18 Oct 2012
Last updated
26 Mar 2019
Data monitoring committee
Yes
FDA-regulated drug
Yes
FDA-regulated device
No
Individual data sharing
Yes: Data are available upon request. A contract may need to be put into place, dependent upon data shared.

Publications

  • McGuire SM, Menda Y, Ponto LL, Gross B, Juweid M, Bayouth JE. A methodology for incorporating functional bone marrow sparing in IMRT planning for pelvic radiation therapy. Radiother Oncol. 2011 Apr;99(1):49-54. doi: 10.1016/j.radonc.2011.01.025. Epub 2011 Mar 22.

    PubMed 21397965
  • McGuire SM, Menda Y, Boles Ponto LL, Gross B, Buatti J, Bayouth JE. 3'-deoxy-3'-[(1)(8)F]fluorothymidine PET quantification of bone marrow response to radiation dose. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2011 Nov 1;81(3):888-93. doi: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2010.12.009. Epub 2011 Feb 6.

    PubMed 21300484
  • Menda Y, Ponto LL, Dornfeld KJ, Tewson TJ, Watkins GL, Gupta AK, Anderson C, McGuire S, Schultz MK, Sunderland JJ, Graham MM, Buatti JM. Investigation of the pharmacokinetics of 3'-deoxy-3'-[18F]fluorothymidine uptake in the bone marrow before and early after initiation of chemoradiation therapy in head and neck cancer. Nucl Med Biol. 2010 May;37(4):433-8. doi: 10.1016/j.nucmedbio.2010.02.005.

    PubMed 20447554
  • McGuire SM, Bhatia SK, Sun W, Jacobson GM, Menda Y, Ponto LL, Smith BJ, Gross BA, Bayouth JE, Sunderland JJ, Graham MM, Buatti JM. Using [(18)F]Fluorothymidine Imaged With Positron Emission Tomography to Quantify and Reduce Hematologic Toxicity Due to Chemoradiation Therapy for Pelvic Cancer Patients. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2016 Sep 1;96(1):228-39. doi: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2016.04.009. Epub 2016 Apr 19.

    PubMed 27319286
  • McGuire SM, Menda Y, Ponto LLB, Gross B, TenNapel M, Smith BJ, Bayouth JE. Spatial mapping of functional pelvic bone marrow using FLT PET. J Appl Clin Med Phys. 2014 Jul 8;15(4):129-136. doi: 10.1120/jacmp.v15i4.4780.

    PubMed 25207403

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A Phase 2 study testing fluorothymidine F 18 in people with Uterine Cervical Neoplasms and Endometrial Neoplasms, run by John M. Buatti at 1 site in United States.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 11 inclusion and 4 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 26 Mar 2019. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 1 site in United States. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

What does this phase mean?

Phase 2 studies give the treatment to a larger group to see whether it has the intended effect and to keep checking safety.

Not every study follows the same path, and some studies (observational studies, device studies) have no phase.

Are results available for this study?

Yes. Results are posted in the registry (first posted 5 Sep 2017). A summary is in the For doctors view, and the full results are on ClinicalTrials.gov.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Percent Difference From Baseline IMRT Plan (%) (time frame: Baseline (pre-treatment)). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?

On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT01717391, which also lists 5 linked publications.

Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 26 Mar 2019.

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