NCT05568017

Brief Summary

Neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) are relatively rare tumors, mainly originating from the digestive system, that tend to be slow growing and are often diagnosed when metastatic. Surgery is the sole curative option, but is feasible only in a minority of patients. Peptide Receptor Radionuclide Therapy (PRRT) has been experimented for almost 20 years and is an established effective therapeutic modality for well/moderately differentiated, inoperable or metastasized gastro-entero-pancreatic (GEP) and bronchial NETs. Clinical studies demonstrated that partial and complete objective responses can be obtained in up to 30% of patients. Side effects may involve the kidneys and the bone marrow and are usually mild. Renal protection is used to minimize the risk of a late decrease of renal function. A new application for P-NETs is preoperative PRRT. Since surgery is the only curative option for GEPNETs, preoperative PRRT could increase the efficacy of surgery. However, this modality has not been fully explored in dedicated studies and there are just few sporadic case reports that described the preoperative use of PRRT in pancreatic NETs who could then be operated on successfully. Moreover there are few experiences demonstrating the advantage of PRRT associated to surgery in a multidisciplinary setting. In addition, the possibility of detecting the circulating NET transcripts by means of transcriptome analysis could represent an early marker of response to PRRT and improve the patient management. Aim of this study is to evaluate the response and rate of R0 surgery in patients with unresectable or borderline resectable PNETs eligible to PRRT with 90Y-DOTATOC and correlate the response to the variation in circulating NET transcripts measured before and after the end of PRRT. It has been recently shown that a PCR-based 51 transcript signature is significantly more sensitive and efficient than single analytes (e.g. CgA) in NET diagnosis and follow up. 30 patients will be enrolled in the study; each of them will receive 1.85 GBq/cycle of 90Y-DOTATOC with a cumulative activity of 9.25-11.1 GBq in 5-6 cycles (depending on personalized dosimetry). Therapy response will be assessed by morphological (CT/MRI) and functional (PET/CT or Octreoscan) imaging after 3 and 6 months from the completion of PRRT and compared with transcript analysis. Based on literature reports we expect a response rate of about 35% of patients.

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Enrollment
11

participants targeted

Target at below P25 for phase_2

Timeline
Completed

Started Sep 2020

Typical duration for phase_2

Geographic Reach
1 country

1 active site

Status
terminated

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Study Timeline

Key milestones and dates

Study Start

First participant enrolled

September 15, 2020

Completed
2 years until next milestone

First Submitted

Initial submission to the registry

September 23, 2022

Completed
Same day until next milestone

Primary Completion

Last participant's last visit for primary outcome

September 23, 2022

Completed
12 days until next milestone

First Posted

Study publicly available on registry

October 5, 2022

Completed
2.1 years until next milestone

Study Completion

Last participant's last visit for all outcomes

November 11, 2024

Completed
Last Updated

November 20, 2024

Status Verified

September 1, 2022

Enrollment Period

2 years

First QC Date

September 23, 2022

Last Update Submit

November 18, 2024

Conditions

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (2)

  • objective response evaluation

    objective responses (partial and complete responses, stable disease) will be evaluated according to modified RECIST criteria (mRECIST).

    3 months after end of PRRT

  • objective response evaluation

    objective responses (partial and complete responses, stable disease) will be evaluated according to modified RECIST criteria (mRECIST).

    6 months after end of PRRT

Secondary Outcomes (3)

  • rate of operability

    3 months after the end of PRRT.

  • rate of operability

    3 months after the end of PRRT.

  • analysis of tumor specific circulating NET transcripts

    before PRRT, and 3 and 6 months after therapy.

Study Arms (1)

Y-90-DOTATOC

EXPERIMENTAL

Patients will receive PRRT with Y-90-DOTATOC

Drug: peptide receptor radionuclide therapy with Y-90-DOTATOC

Interventions

Patients with unresectable or borderline resectable pNETs will recive PRRT with 90Y-DOTATOC

Also known as: PRRT, Y-90-DOTATOC
Y-90-DOTATOC

Eligibility Criteria

Age18 Years+
Sexall
Healthy VolunteersNo
Age GroupsAdult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

  • Patients affected by unresectable or borderline resectable P-NETs and limited liver disease
  • Multidisciplinary evaluation in which a global therapy approach is proposed with PRRT in a neoadjuvant setting.
  • Histopathologic diagnosis of WHO G1/G2 P-NET
  • Conserved hematological, liver and renal parameters: hemoglobin \>/= 10 g/dL, absolute neutrophil count (ANC) \>/= 1.5 x 109 /L, platelets \>/= 100 x 109 /L, bilirubin \</= 1.5 X UNL (upper normal limit), ALT \< 2.5 X UNL (\< 5 X UNL in presence of liver metastases), creatinine \< 2 mg/dL.
  • Age more than 18 years.
  • Patients with documented disease will be admitted to therapeutic phase only if the diagnostic receptor imaging (Ga-68-peptides PET/CT or OctreoScan) demonstrate a significant uptake in the tumor (grade 2 or 3, according to a preset scoring, where grade 1= equal to normal liver, grade2 = higher than normal liver, grade 3= higher than kidneys and spleen), that may allow delivering a low absorbed dose to normal organs and a high dose to the tumor \[Cremonesi 1999, Cremonesi 2010\].
  • Disease must be measurable by means of conventional imaging (CT or MRI)
  • Before treatment clinical history data will be collected, physical examination will be performed and diagnostic and laboratory data will be examined.
  • Patients must not receive other treatments (e.g. chemo- or radiotherapy) from one month before to two months after the completion of 90Y-DOTATOC cycles.
  • Patients must be naive from previous radionuclide treatments with radiopeptides (e.g. 111Inpentetreotide, Lu-177-petides) or other radiopharmaceuticals (e.s. 131I-MIBG, 131I).

You may not qualify if:

  • \- Pregnancy/breastfeeding (a pregnancy test not older than 7 days is mandatory).
  • Assessed bone marrow invasion \> 25%.
  • Other concomitant neoplasm (excluding in situ basaliomas and radically treated cervical cancers).
  • ECOG score higher than 2.
  • Expectancy of life shorter than 6 months.
  • Patients with psycho-physical conditions that are not suitable for entering this clinical study and fulfilling its requirements.
  • No multidisciplinary indication to surgery after PRRT

Contact the study team to confirm eligibility.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Study Sites (1)

Chiara Maria Grana

Milan, 20141, Italy

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Adenoma, Islet Cell

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

AdenomaNeoplasms, Glandular and EpithelialNeoplasms by Histologic TypeNeoplasmsPancreatic NeoplasmsDigestive System NeoplasmsNeoplasms by SiteEndocrine Gland NeoplasmsDigestive System DiseasesPancreatic DiseasesEndocrine System Diseases

Study Design

Study Type
interventional
Phase
phase 2
Allocation
NA
Masking
NONE
Purpose
TREATMENT
Intervention Model
SINGLE GROUP
Model Details: Patients affected by unresectable or borderline resectable P-NETs and limited liver disease will be enrolled
Sponsor Type
OTHER
Responsible Party
SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

First Submitted

September 23, 2022

First Posted

October 5, 2022

Study Start

September 15, 2020

Primary Completion

September 23, 2022

Study Completion

November 11, 2024

Last Updated

November 20, 2024

Record last verified: 2022-09

Data Sharing

IPD Sharing
Will not share

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