Low PSMA SUV Boost (LPS-Boost): Intensified 177Lu-PSMA-617 Treatment for Patients With Metastatic Castrate-Resistant Prostate Cancer With Low PSMA Expressing Disease
A Phase 2 Study of Biomarker-Modulated PSMA Theranostics
Who can join
As published by the study on ClinicalTrials.gov. "Not stated" means the study hasn't said — ask the study team.
- Age
- 18 Years and older
- Sex
- Male only
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
- Compensation
- Not stated
Other requirements are listed under Eligibility below. Only the study team can confirm whether you can join.
What to expect
No one can promise a trial will help you personally — that is what the research is trying to find out.
What participation involves
- Time periods mentioned: 2 years
- Procedures mentioned: CT scans, Blood draws, MRI scans
Only what the study's summary and detailed description on ClinicalTrials.gov say. Time periods may describe the whole study or a part of it — ask the study team what applies to you.
Show the study's own words
- "Patients undergo PSMA positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) during screening and single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT)/CT on study."
- "Patients also undergo CT or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), bone scan, as well as blood sample collection throughout the study."
- "After completion of study treatment, patients are followed up at 30 days and then every 12 weeks for up to 2 years."
- Compensation
- Not stated
- Study-related exams and procedures are typically provided at no cost. This is how many trials work in general — confirm the details for this study with the study team.
- Participants are monitored closely by the research team throughout the study.
- Some participants may receive access to an investigational treatment, which is still being studied.
- Your participation helps researchers learn whether this approach could help future patients.
About this study
In plain language
This phase II study tests a more intense treatment plan using 177Lu-PSMA-617, a drug that delivers radiation to prostate cancer cells. It is for adults whose prostate cancer has spread and keeps growing despite treatment to lower testosterone. Their cancer must have low levels of PSMA, a marker the drug targets, as measured on a special scan.
This phase II trial tests how well 177Lu-PSMA-617 works in treating patients with prostate cancer that has spread from where it first started (primary site) to other places in the body (metastatic) and that remains despite treatment (resistant). Lutetium Lu 177 (177Lu), the radioactive (tracer) component being delivered by prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA)-617, has physical properties that make it ideal radionuclide (imaging tests that uses a small dose tracer) for treatment of metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). 177Lu-PSMA-617 works by binding to prostate cancer cells and inducing damage to deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) inside prostate cancer cells. Giving 177Lu-PSMA-617 may improve treatment outcomes for patients with mCRPC.
Compensation is read from the study's own description and may be missing — always confirm with the study team.
Eligibility
Who can join
- Be age 18 or older, able to understand and sign the consent form, and able to follow study rules.
- Have confirmed prostate cancer that has spread and is getting worse. A scan within 45 days before treatment must show at least one area of spread.
- Have a PSMA PET/CT scan that meets the study rules: average tumor uptake below 10 and no areas that count as PSMA-negative.
- Have had surgery to remove the testicles and/or be on treatment to lower testosterone. Testosterone must be below 50 ng/dL. Have taken at least one hormone-blocking drug, such as enzalutamide or abiraterone.
- Be able to care for yourself and be out of bed at least half the day. Be expected to live more than 6 months, with past treatment side effects no worse than moderate.
- Meet the study's blood count, liver, and kidney test limits.
- If you have HIV, it must be well controlled. Hepatitis B must have no detectable virus on treatment if needed. Hepatitis C must be cured or have no detectable virus during treatment.
- If your partner could become pregnant, use approved birth control with barrier protection during treatment and for 14 weeks afterward. Do not donate sperm during this time.
Who can't join
- Any past PSMA-targeted radiation drug treatment, or certain other radioactive drugs or radiation to half the body within 6 months before treatment.
- Cancer treatment that travels through the body, an experimental drug, or a blood transfusion within 30 days before treatment.
- Other chemotherapy, immune treatment, radiation drug treatment, or experimental treatment during the study. Bone-strengthening drugs are allowed.
- A known allergy to the study drug's ingredients or similar drugs.
- Cancer spread to the brain or spinal cord that has not been treated and become stable without symptoms, or that needs steroids to maintain nerve function.
- Cancer in or near the spinal canal that has not been treated and become stable without nerve problems.
- Pressure on the spinal cord that causes symptoms, or signs that this pressure may soon occur.
- A serious health problem that could make participation unsafe or difficult, such as severe heart failure, an inherited heart rhythm disorder, uncontrolled infection, or active hepatitis B or C.
Simplified for readability. The official criteria below are what the study team uses.
Official eligibility criteria
Inclusion Criteria: * Patients must have the ability to understand and sign an approved informed consent. * Patients must have the ability to understand and comply with all protocol requirements. * Patients must be ≥ 18 years of age. * Patients must have an Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0 to 2. * Patients must have a life expectancy \> 6 months. * Patients must have histological, pathological, and/or cytological confirmation of prostate cancer. * Patients must have a positive 68Ga-PSMA PET/CT scan with no PSMA negative lesion, as determined by the Nuclear Medicine site investigator. The presence of PSMA-positive lesions was defined as 68Ga-PSMA-11 uptake greater than that of liver parenchyma in one or more metastatic lesions of any size in any organ system. PSMA negative disease defined as lymph nodes of 2.5 cm or visceral lesions or soft tissue component of a lytic bone lesion of 1.0 cm or larger with uptake less than that of liver parenchyma. * Patients must have whole body tumor SUVmean of \< 10 on 68Ga-PSMA PET/CT scan, as determined by the Nuclear Medicine site investigator. 68GaPSMA PET/CT will be analyzed using a semi-quantitative approach with MIM software (MIM Software Inc.). The workflow identified whole-body regions of interest (ROIs) with an maximum standardized uptake value (SUVmax) greater than 3 and a lesion size of at least 0.5 mm. The reviewer then manually removes any instances of physiological activity or uptake that are not related to the disease. The method of whole-body quantification will automatically calculate the whole body SUVmean. * Patients must have prior orchiectomy and/or ongoing androgen-deprivation therapy and a castrate level of serum testosterone (\< 50 ng/dL or \< 1.7 nmol/L) at the most recent evaluation before enrollment. * Patients must have received at least one androgen receptor pathway inhibitor (ARPI) (such as enzalutamide and/or abiraterone). * Patients must have progressive mCRPC. Documented progressive mCRPC will be based on at least 1 of the following criteria: * Serum PSA progression defined as 2 consecutive increases in PSA over a previous reference value measured at least 1 week prior. The minimal start value is 2.0 ng/mL. * Soft-tissue progression defined as an increase ≥ 20% in the sum of the diameter (SOD) (short axis for nodal lesions and long axis for non-nodal lesions) of all target lesions based on the smallest SOD since treatment started or the appearance of one or more new lesions. * Progression of bone disease: evaluable disease or new bone lesions(s) by bone scan (2+2 Prostate Cancer Working Group 3 (PCWG3) criteria, Scher et al 2016). * Patients must have ≥ 1 metastatic lesion that is present on baseline CT, MRI, or bone scan imaging obtained ≤ 45 days prior to beginning study therapy. Measurable disease by per Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) version (v) 1.1 is not required, as prostate cancer patients may not have RECIST-measurable disease but have detectable disease on bone scan. * Patients must have recovered to ≤ grade 2 from all clinically significant toxicities related to prior therapies (i.e. prior chemotherapy, radiation, immunotherapy, etc.). * White blood cell (WBC) count ≥ 2.5 x 10\^9/L (2.5 x 10\^9/L is equivalent to 2.5 x 10\^3/uL and 2.5 x K/uL and 2.5 x 10\^3/cumm and 2500/uL) OR absolute neutrophil count (ANC) ≥ 1.5 x 10\^9/L (1.5 x 10\^9/L is equivalent to 1.5 x 10\^3/uL and 1.5 x K/uL and 1.5 x 10\^3/cumm and 1500/uL). * Platelets ≥ 100 x 10\^9/L (100 x 10\^9/L is equivalent to 100 x 10\^3/uL and 100 x K/uL and 100 x 10\^3/cumm and 100,000/uL). * Hemoglobin ≥ 9 g/dL (9 g/dL is equivalent to 90 g/L and 5.59 mmol/L). * Total bilirubin ≤ 1.5 x the institutional upper limit of normal (ULN). For patients with known Gilbert's syndrome ≤ 3 x ULN is permitted. * Alanine aminotransferase (ALT) or aspartate aminotransferase (AST) ≤ 3.0 x ULN OR ≤ 5.0 x ULN for patients with liver metastases. * Albumin \> 3.0 g/dL (3.0 g/dL is equivalent to 30 g/L). * Serum creatinine ≤ 1.5 x ULN or creatinine clearance ≥ 50 mL/min. * HIV-infected patients who are healthy and have a low risk of AIDS-related outcomes are included in this trial. HIV-infected patients on effective anti-retroviral therapy with undetectable viral load within 6 months are eligible for this trial. * 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 14 weeks after last study drug administration. The patients should not donate sperm throughout the treatment period and for 14 weeks following the last treatment. * For patients with evidence of chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, the HBV viral load must be undetectable on suppressive therapy, if indicated. Patients with a history of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection must have been treated and cured. For patients with HCV infection who are currently on treatment, they are eligible if they have an undetectable HCV viral load. Exclusion Criteria: * Previous treatment with Strontium-89, Samarium-153, Rhenium-186, Rhenium-188, Radium-223 or hemi-body irradiation within 6 months prior to treatment day 1. Previous PSMA-targeted radioligand therapy is not allowed. * Any systemic anti-cancer therapy (e.g. chemotherapy, immunotherapy or biological therapy \[including monoclonal antibodies\]) within 30 days prior to treatment day 1. * Concurrent bone strengthening agents such as bisphosphonates (such as zolendronic acid) and RANKL inhibitors (such as denosumab) are allowed. * Any investigational agents within 30 days prior to treatment day 1. * Known hypersensitivity to the components of the study therapy or its analogs. * Other concurrent cytotoxic chemotherapy, immunotherapy, radioligand therapy, or investigational therapy. * Transfusion within 30 days of treatment day 1. * Patients with a history of central nervous system (CNS) metastases must have received therapy (surgery, radiotherapy, gamma knife) and be neurologically stable, asymptomatic, and not receiving corticosteroids for the purposes of maintaining neurologic integrity. Patients with epidural disease, canal disease and prior cord involvement are eligible if those areas have been treated, are stable, and not neurologically impaired. * Symptomatic cord compression, or clinical or radiologic findings indicative of impending cord compression. * Concurrent serious (as determined by the Principal Investigator) medical conditions, including, but not limited to, New York Heart Association class III or IV congestive heart failure, history of congenital prolonged QT syndrome, uncontrolled infection, active hepatitis B or C, or other significant co-morbid conditions that in the opinion of the investigator would impair study participation or cooperation.
Study sites (3)
CA
- University of California San Francisco · San Francisco, CA 94143Thomas Hope · Principal investigatorMore trials in San Francisco
- Olive View-University of California Los Angeles Medical Center · Sylmar, CA 91342Jeremie Calais · Principal investigatorMore trials in Sylmar
WA
- Fred Hutch/University of Washington Cancer Consortium · Seattle, WA 98109Akshata Mathur · Study contact · 206-667-5801 · nucmedresearch@fredhutch.orgAngela Castellanos Rodriguez, MD, MSc · Principal investigatorMore trials in Seattle