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NCT04808427
Pilot Study to Investigate Magnetic Resonance (MR) Image Guided Focal Therapy in Prostate Cancer
Conditions: Prostate Cancer
Sex: Male
Ages: 18 Years – N/A
Healthy volunteers: No
Phase: NA
Enrollment: 21
Sponsor: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Location: National Institutes of Health Clinical Center Bethesda Maryland
Summary
Background:
The ability to treat early prostate cancer is still limited. Thermal ablation methods are being tested for focal prostate cancer therapy. Researchers want to improve on these methods.
Objective:
To understand if Transurethral UltraSound Ablation (TULSA) in combination with MRI guidance is useful to treat localized prostate cancer.
Eligibility:
English-speaking adults ages 18 and older with localized prostate cancer that can be seen on MRI and can be treated by thermal ablation.
Design:
Participants will be screened with the following:
* Medical history
* Physical exam
* Digital rectal exam
* Blood and urine tests
* Electrocardiogram
* Tumor biopsy
* Questionnaire to assess urinary tract symptoms
* MRI of the pelvis. The MRI scanner is a long, narrow tube. Participants will lie on a bed that moves in and out of the scanner.
Participants may also be screened with the following:
* Echocardiogram
* Chest x-ray
* Bone scan
* Urodynamic studies to see how well the bladder, sphincters, and urethra hold and release urine
* MRI of the brain
* Transrectal ultrasound
* Computer tomography (CT) scan of the chest, abdomen, and pelvis. A CT scan is a series of x-ray images taken of parts of the body.
Some screening tests will be repeated during the study.
Participants will have the TULSA procedure. They will have an MRI for guidance. A small ultrasound applicator will be placed into their urethra. It uses heat to destroy the cancer areas in the prostate. It is controlled by a robotic arm. A cooling catheter will be placed into their rectum.
Participants will use a urethral catheter for 1-7 days.
Participants will have follow-up visits at 3, 6, 12, 18, 24, and 36 months.
Eligibility Criteria
* INCLUSION CRITERIA:
Subjects must have prostate cancer amenable for ultrasound ablation defined as:
* diagnosed by transrectal ultrasound-guided prostate biopsy via standard 12 core biopsy and targeted biopsy of any MRI-visible or tracked lesions; pathological diagnosis must be confirmed by Laboratory of Pathology, NCI;
* Gleason Score \= 2 prostate cancer must be from an area overlying or within 1cm of an MRI-visible or tracked lesion(s) and reviewed by NCI urologic pathologist. (Left / Right, Base, Mid-Gland, Apex). Systematic and targeted cores of Grade Group 1 prostate cancer outside of proposed ablation zone do not affect inclusion status, as these can be observed by conventional guideline management.
* organ confined clinical T1c or clinical T2a prostate cancer that is visualized on MRI. Note: Participants after prostate cancer treatment with local recurrence or residual tumor which is visible on MRI are eligible.
* PSA \< 20 ng/ml or PSA \>20 with a PSA density \= 18 years of age)
* Participants must have adequate organ and marrow function as defined below:
Platelets \>= 50,000/mcL
Hemoglobin \>= 8 g/dL
Measured or calculated creatinine clearance (CrCl) (eGFR may also be used in place of CrCl)\* \>= 30 mL/min/1.73 m\^2
GFR=glomerular filtration rate; ULN=upper limit of normal.
\*Creatinine clearance (CrCl) or eGFR should be calculated per institutional standard.
* Subjects must be able to understand and willing to sign a written informed consent document.
* Subjects must be co-enrolled to NCI protocol 16-C-0010 "Care of the Prostate Cancer Patient and Prospective Procurement of Prostate Cancer Tissue."
EXCLUSION CRITERIA:
* Targeted lesion ablation length from apex to base of \>5 cm or lesion extending \>3 cm from the urethra.
* Target ablation volume greater than 100 ml.
* Presence of calcifications that would impede ultrasound transmission between the urethra and ablative target.
* Participants are unable to tolerate MRI (foreign body, i.e., pacemaker or other implanted device; claustrophobia; inability to tolerate rectal coil; etc.)
* Acute urinary tract infection
* Lower urinary tract symptoms defined by an IPSS \> 20
* Participants with uncontrolled coagulopathies (including liver dysfunction, or untreated hereditary coagulopathies which have a standard of care treatment) per surgeon discretion based on bleeding risk.
* 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 situation (within time frame) that would limit compliance with study requirements.
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT04808427). StuddyBuddy aggregates publicly available trial information.