Clinical Management Decisions for Recurrent Prostate Cancer Patients Based on [11C]Acetate PET Scan
| Status: | No longer available |
|---|---|
| Conditions: | Prostate Cancer, Cancer |
| Therapuetic Areas: | Oncology |
| Healthy: | No |
| Age Range: | 45 - 80 |
| Updated: | 5/18/2018 |
Clinical Management Decisions Based on [11C]Acetate Positron Emission Tomography Performed on Prostate Cancer Patients With Biochemical Recurrence
When evaluating prostate cancer patients for recurrent disease, computed tomography (CT), and
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are both highly sensitive methods for detecting lymph nodes,
but are not specific as to whether the lymph nodes are malignant or benign.
While positron emission tomography (PET) utilizing radioactive glucose (FDG) has
revolutionized staging, restaging, and monitoring response to therapy in many prevalent
cancers such as breast, colorectal, esophageal, head and neck, lung, lymphoma, and melanoma,
findings with prostate cancer have proven less sensitive because prostate cancer has a lower
avidity for glucose. A newer PET isotope, utilizing acetate that is incorporated into the
cell membrane of rapidly proliferating cells, has shown greater sensitivity than FDG in
detecting prostate cancer.
This study will assess the clinical effectiveness of utilizing [11C]Acetate PET scans in
identifying recurrent prostate cancer.
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are both highly sensitive methods for detecting lymph nodes,
but are not specific as to whether the lymph nodes are malignant or benign.
While positron emission tomography (PET) utilizing radioactive glucose (FDG) has
revolutionized staging, restaging, and monitoring response to therapy in many prevalent
cancers such as breast, colorectal, esophageal, head and neck, lung, lymphoma, and melanoma,
findings with prostate cancer have proven less sensitive because prostate cancer has a lower
avidity for glucose. A newer PET isotope, utilizing acetate that is incorporated into the
cell membrane of rapidly proliferating cells, has shown greater sensitivity than FDG in
detecting prostate cancer.
This study will assess the clinical effectiveness of utilizing [11C]Acetate PET scans in
identifying recurrent prostate cancer.
FDG-PET imaging uses a form of radioactive glucose (18-fluoro-deoxyglucose or FDG), which
allows the measurement of glucose metabolic rate of any tissue in the body. The most
prevalent tumors have a glucose avidity that is typically greater than 2.5 times the avidity
of benign tissue. Therefore, FDG-PET is able to discriminate between benign lymph nodes and
those containing metastases, and similarly between scar tissue and recurrence of tumor.
Unfortunately, prostate cancer is only minimally glucose avid, and therefore, FDG-PET is much
less effective in staging prostate cancer. The current FDA-approved imaging agent for
prostate cancer is a monoclonal antibody specific for prostate cancer cells, capromab
pendetide, labeled with a long-lived radionuclide [111]Indium that is used to image the
patient over a six day period. However, recent data show that another PET
radiopharmaceutical, [11C]Acetate (which has been FDA approved for years for cardiac
imaging), is avidly taken up by prostate metastasis and is more sensitive than either
[111]Indium capromab pendetide or FDG-PET.
This study will assess the clinical effectiveness of utilizing [11C]Acetate PET scans in
identifying recurrent prostate cancer and aim to find at what PSA levels it is most
effective.
allows the measurement of glucose metabolic rate of any tissue in the body. The most
prevalent tumors have a glucose avidity that is typically greater than 2.5 times the avidity
of benign tissue. Therefore, FDG-PET is able to discriminate between benign lymph nodes and
those containing metastases, and similarly between scar tissue and recurrence of tumor.
Unfortunately, prostate cancer is only minimally glucose avid, and therefore, FDG-PET is much
less effective in staging prostate cancer. The current FDA-approved imaging agent for
prostate cancer is a monoclonal antibody specific for prostate cancer cells, capromab
pendetide, labeled with a long-lived radionuclide [111]Indium that is used to image the
patient over a six day period. However, recent data show that another PET
radiopharmaceutical, [11C]Acetate (which has been FDA approved for years for cardiac
imaging), is avidly taken up by prostate metastasis and is more sensitive than either
[111]Indium capromab pendetide or FDG-PET.
This study will assess the clinical effectiveness of utilizing [11C]Acetate PET scans in
identifying recurrent prostate cancer and aim to find at what PSA levels it is most
effective.
Inclusion Criteria:
- Positive for recurrent prostate cancer by PSA criteria
- Recurrence definition:
- Status post-operative radical prostatectomy, recurrence is defined by a PSA of greater
than or equal to 0.2 ng/ml
- Patients who have failed external beam radiation, or status post-brachytherapy, have
recurrence as defined as PSA above 2.0 ng/ml the nadir PSA after treatment
- Subject is able to comprehend the study objectives and provide written informed
consent before the initiation of any study-related procedures.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) status of ≥ 2
- Any other concurrent malignancy
- Patients without remission of disease (no PSA decrease)
- Patients without recurrence of disease (PSA remains low)
We found this trial at
1
site
3901 Rainbow Blvd
Kansas City, Kansas 66160
Kansas City, Kansas 66160
(913) 588-5000
Principal Investigator: Wendell Yap, MD
Phone: 913-588-6815
University of Kansas Medical Center The University of Kansas Medical Center serves Kansas through excellence...
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