Prospective Evaluation of 68-Ga-prostate Specific Membrane Antigen (PSMA)-Positron Emission Tomograph (PET) and Early Prostatic Specific Antigen (PSA) Kinetics During Salvage Radiotherapy for Personalizing the Management of Men With Relapse of Prostate Cancer After Radical Prostatectomy
- Conditions
- Relapsed Prostate Cancer
- Interventions
- Radiation: External radiation therapy
- Registration Number
- NCT02699424
- Lead Sponsor
- Lund University Hospital
- Brief Summary
This is an open-label, phase II trial in patients with PSA recurrence after prostatectomy. Patients entering the study will all receive initial 50 Gray (Gy) radiotherapy (25 x 2Gy) to the prostate bed and thereafter be classified as either responders or non-responders depending on PSA response at fifth week of radiotherapy.
A 68-Ga- PSMA-PET is done before start of radiotherapy, and analyzed before fifth treatment week in order to identify cancer lesions in patients with poor PSA response. Patients with PSA response after 5 weeks of radiotherapy will not receive any subsequent therapy, whilst patients with poor PSA response may be in need for additional therapy such as radiotherapy to lymph node metastases and/or boost fractions to local recurrence. Patients with more than 3 lymph node metastases or distant metastases will not receive any more radiotherapy, but individualized systemic therapy will be started.
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- Male
- Target Recruitment
- 100
- Histological evidence of prostate cancer in the radical prostatectomy specimen
- At least 2 rising PSA values, of which the last ≥ 0.15 ng/ml
- Tumor, regional nodes, metastasis (TNM): any T, N0/x, M0/x
- Age: 18 years or older
- World Health Organization (WHO) performance status 0-1
- Life expectancy > 10 years
- Adequate laboratory findings: hematological: hemoglobin > 90 g/L (may be transfused to maintain or exceed this level) absolute neutrophil count (ANC) ≥ 1,0 x 109/L, platelets ≥ 75 x 109/L hepatic: bilirubin ≤ 1.5 x upper limit of normal (ULN), alanine aminotransferase (ALAT) ≤ 5 x ULN renal: creatinine ≤ 1.5 x ULN
- Signed written informed consent
- The patient must be able to comply with the protocol
- Evidence of metastasis on imaging or in specimen (e.g. N1 at lymph-node dissection)
- Prior or ongoing treatment with hormones (antiandrogens, GnRH)
- Prior radiotherapy to the pelvis
- Previous malignancy other than prostate cancer and basalioma the past 5 years.
- Clinically significant (i.e. active) cardiovascular disease e.g. myocardial infarction (≤ 6 months), unstable angina, New York Heart Association (NYHA) grade III-IV congestive heart failure
- Severe pulmonary disease e.g. pulmonary fibrosis
- Any other serious or uncontrolled illness which in the opinion of the investigator makes it undesirable for the patient to enter the trial
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- SINGLE_GROUP
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Radiotherapy External radiation therapy -
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Assessment of PSA response during radiotherapy. Is evaluated once weekly during radiotherapy, duration of radiotherapy is 35 days; 70 Gy in 2 Gy fractions. Tumor detection rate measured with Ga-PSMA-PET in non-responders versus responders. PSA response is evaluated after 5 weeks of radiotherapy. Ga-PSMA-PET at baseline is compared in the PSA-responder group as compared to the non-responder group
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Lund University Hospital
🇸🇪Lund, Sweden