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An International, Prospective, Open-label, Multi-center, Randomized Phase III Study Comparing Lutetium (177Lu) Vipivotide Tetraxetan (AAA617) Versus Observation to Delay Castration or Disease Recurrence in Adult Male Patients With Prostate-specific Membrane Antigen (PSMA) Positive Oligometastatic Prostate Cancer (OMPC)

NCT ID: NCT05939414Sponsor: Novartis PharmaceuticalsLast updated: 2026-06-10

Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of lutetium (177Lu) vipivotide tetraxetan (AAA617) in participants with oligometastatic prostate cancer (OMPC) progressing after definitive therapy to their primary tumor. The data generated from this study will provide evidence for the treatment of AAA617 in early-stage prostate cancer patients to control recurrent tumor from progressing to fatal metastatic disease while preserving quality of life by delaying treatment with androgen deprivation therapy (ADT).

Detailed description

All participants will be assessed for eligibility and will undergo baseline disease assessments including a mandatory gallium (68Ga) gozetotide (also known as \[68Ga\]Ga-PSMA-11) or piflufolastat (18F) ( also known as\[18F\]DCFPyL) PET/CT scan and CI (i.e., CT/MRI and bone scans). Piflufolastat (18F) PET/CT scan will be performed in countries where it is approved. Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT) will be administered to all metastatic Prostate Cancer (PC) lesions after randomization and before the start of treatment with AAA617 or observation. * The duration of SBRT procedures is approximately 3 weeks. * For participants randomized to the investigational arm (AAA617), the treatment duration will be up to 4 cycles of AAA617. For participants randomized to the control arm (observation) the treatment duration will end at the last fraction of SBRT administration. * The visit frequency will be every week 1 and 3 of each of the 4 cycles and every 16 weeks thereafter (for both arms) until first event of disease progression (RECIST 1.1) * The study duration is approximately 6.5 years.

Arms & interventions

  • DrugAAA617

    Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT) followed by AAA617 will be administered once every 6 weeks (1 cycle) for a planned 4 cycles to participants randomized to the Investigational arm

Outcome measures

Primary

  • Blinded Independent Review Committee (BIRC) assessed Metastasis Free Survival (MFS)

    Blinded Independent Review Committee (BIRC) assessed Metastasis Free Survival (MFS) is defined as the time from randomization to first evidence of radiographically detectable bone or soft tissue distant metastasis by conventional imaging (i.e., Computed Tomography (CT)/Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and bone scans) as assessed by BIRC using RECIST 1.1 or death due to any cause, whichever occurs first. Participants who are alive without distant metastasis at the analysis data cut-off or are lost to follow-up at the time of analysis will be censored for MFS at the time of their last adequate radiographic assessment. Clinical deterioration without objective radiographic evidence will not be considered as documented distant metastasis.

    Time frame: From date of randomization until first evidence of radiographically detectable bone or soft tissue distant metastasis or death due to any cause, whichever occurs first, assessed up to approximately 30 months

Secondary

  • Key secondary endpoint: Time to Hormonal Therapy (TTHT)

    Time frame: From date of randomization until date of Androgen Deprivation Therapy (ADT), assessed up to approximately 74 months

  • Investigator assessed Metastasis Free Survival (MFS)

    Time frame: From date of randomization until first evidence of radiographically detectable bone or soft tissue distant metastasis or death from any cause, whichever occurs first, assessed up to approximately 74 months

  • Time to prostate specific antigen (PSA) progression (TTPSAP)

    Time frame: From date of randomization until date of first PSA progression, assessed up to approximately 74 months

  • Radiographic Progression Free Survival (rPFS)

    Time frame: From date of randomization until date of radiographic progression or date of death from any cause, whichever comes first, assessed up to approximately 74 months

  • Time to next therapy (local or systemic)

    Time frame: From date of randomization until initiation of the next line of therapy (local or systemic), assessed up to approximately 74 months

  • 24-month prostate-specific antigen (PSA) progression free survival (PFS)

    Time frame: From date of randomization until date of first documented PSA progression 2 or death from any cause, whichever occurs first, assessed up to approximately 74 months

  • Time to symptomatic progression

    Time frame: From date of randomization until date of first documented symptomatic progression, assessed up to approximately 74 months

  • Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy - Prostate (FACT-P) Questionnaire

    Time frame: From date of randomization up till 42 day safety Follow-up, assessed up to approximately 74 months

  • Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy - Radionuclide Therapy (FACT-RNT) Questionnaire

    Time frame: From date of randomization up till 42 day safety Follow-up, assessed up to approximately 74 months

  • Brief Pain Inventory - Short Form (BPI-SF) Questionnaire

    Time frame: From date of randomization up till 42 day safety Follow-up, assessed up to approximately 74 months

  • European Quality of Life (EuroQol) - 5 Domain 5 Level scale (EQ-5D- 5L)

    Time frame: From date of randomization up till 42 day safety Follow-up, assessed up to approximately 74 months

  • Time to First Symptomatic Skeletal Event (TTSE)

    Time frame: From date of randomization till end of treatment (EOT) or death, whichever happens first, assessed up to approximately 74 months

  • Incidence and severity of adverse events (AEs) and serious adverse events (SAEs)

    Time frame: From date of randomization up till 42 day safety Follow-up, assessed up to approximately 74 months

  • Dose modifications and intensity for AAA617

    Time frame: From date of randomization until end of treatment (EOT), assessed up to approximately 30 months

  • Overall survival (OS)

    Time frame: From date of randomization until date of death from any cause, assessed up to approximately 74 months

Eligibility criteria

Sex: MaleAge: 18 Years to 100 YearsHealthy volunteers: No
Key Inclusion criteria: 1. Histologically confirmed prostate cancer prior to randomization 2. Participants must have biochemically recurrent disease after definitive treatment to prostate by Radical Prostatectomy ((RP), (alone or with post-operative radiation to prostate bed/pelvic nodes)) or External beam Radiation Therapy (EBRT), (prostate alone or prostate with seminal vesicle and/or pelvic nodes) and/or brachytherapy prior to randomization. Biochemical recurrence (BCR) is defined as: nadir PSA + 2 ng/mL post XRT (if participant received-radiation therapy to intact prostate) and PSA \> 0.2 ng/mL and rising post RP (with or without post-operation Radiation Therapy (RT)) 3. Participants must have OMPC with 1-5 PSMA -positive metastatic lesions on screening PSMA PET/CT scan (with either gallium (68Ga) gozetotide or piflufolastat (18F)) as visually assessed by BIRC. For definition of PSMA PET positivity, please refer to Section 8.1 and the Imaging Manual. Metastatic lesions may include regional/pelvic lymph nodes (N1), distant lymph nodes (M1a), bone (M1b), lung and others visceral (M1c) except liver and brain classified using American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) 8. When counting the number of oligometastatic lesions, each lesion is counted as distinct metastasis irrespective of its anatomical location (e.g., one pelvic and one extra-pelvic lymph node will be counted as two metastatic lesions) 4. At least 1 PSMA-positive lesion must be a distant metastasis (M1) per AJCC8 classification at screening. For AJCC M staging, PSMA PET/CT information should be used 5. Participants must have a negative CI for M1 disease at screening. Note: * For a participant not to be eligible, CI positive M1 lesions should be unequivocal in CI scans, i.e., potentially not attributable to findings thought to represent something other than tumor (e.g., degenerative, or post-traumatic changes or Paget's disease in bone lesions). For CI assessments, bone lesions must be assessed by bone scan only and soft tissue lesions must be assessed by CT/MRI scans only at screening. * Prior knowledge of PSMA PET positivity should not influence the radiologist (reader) in determination of CI positivity. Two different readers will be involved, one reader for PSMA PET/CT scan and one reader for CI: Reader will be blinded to PSMA PET scan results while reading CI scans. Reader should not modify their assessment of CI scans (e.g. changing a lesion previously identified as equivocal in CI to unequivocal) after reading the PSMA PET scan. Similarly, biopsy positivity should not influence the reader in the assessment of CI positivity. More details on the reading paradigm will be provided in the imaging charter * MRI for radiation treatment planning may show M1 disease but this will not exclude the participant from the study if the lesion is deemed negative per baseline CT or bone scans * Participants with pelvic disease (N1) seen in CI are allowed if the local spread is below common iliac bifurcation (per AJCC 8 definition of local disease) * Distant lymph node disease (M1a) that is visible per CI and less than 10mm in the short axis is not exclusionary irrespective of PSMA PET positivity. * If a previously surgically removed lesion was unequivocal for M1 by bone scan or CT, the participant is not eligible. 6. All metastatic lesions detected at screening must be amenable to SBRT 7. Non-castration testosterone level \>100 ng/dL at screening Key Exclusion criteria: 1. Participants with de novo OMPC at screening 2. Unmanageable concurrent bladder outflow obstruction or urinary incontinence at screening. Note: participants with bladder outflow obstruction or urinary incontinence, which is manageable and controlled with best available standard of care (incl. pads, drainage) are allowed 3. Prior therapy with: 1. ADT (including bilateral orchiectomy) and ARPIs used for metastatic prostate cancer treatment * Participants who received AR-directed therapy, whether ADT or an ARPI or both, as neoadjuvant or adjuvant therapy as a component of their primary therapy, are eligible provided that they discontinued therapy ≥12 months prior to randomization for ADT (i.e., 12 months after the last day of the last injection) or ≥3 months if ARPI was given as monotherapy. ARPI's as a term includes both contemporary androgen synthesis inhibitors (e.g., abiraterone, galeterone, and orteneronel), and receptor inhibitors (enzalutamide, apalutamide and darolutamide). * Patients who biochemically relapsed after primary therapy may also have had treatment with AR directed therapy and participants who had SBRT with ADT are also eligible provided that the ARPI +/- ADT or ADT alone was terminated ≥12 months prior to randomization for ADT (i.e., 12 months after the last day of the last injection) or ≥3 months if ARPI was given as monotherapy. * Participants who received first generation anti-androgens (bicalutamide, flutamide, nilutamide, cyproterone) for biochemical recurrence or adjuvant/neoadjuvant therapy are eligible provided that they discontinued therapy ≥3 months prior to randomization. * Participants who have discontinued ADT due to disease progression are not eligible (i.e., Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer (CRPC) participants) 2. Other hormonal therapy. e.g., •Use of estrogens, 5-α reductase inhibitors (finasteride, dutasteride), other steroidogenesis inhibitors (aminoglutethimide) if used in the context of prostate cancer treatment. Same medications are allowed if used for other indications: e.g., Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH), if stopped ≥3 months before randomization. 3. Radiopharmaceutical agents (e.g., Strontium-89, PSMA-targeted radioligand therapy) 4. Immunotherapy (e.g., sipuleucel-T) 5. Chemotherapy, except if administered in the adjuvant/neoadjuvant setting completed \> 12 months before randomization 6. Any other investigational or systemic agents for metastatic disease 4. Radiation therapy external beam radiation therapy (EBRT) and brachytherapy within 28 days before randomization 5. Concurrent cytotoxic chemotherapy, immunotherapy, radioligand therapy, hormonal therapy (see ADT initiation guidance in Section 6.8.2), Poly Adenosine Diphosphate-Ribose Polymerase (PARP) inhibitor, biological therapy or investigational therapy 6. Diagnosed at screening with other malignancies that are expected to alter life expectancy or may interfere with disease assessment. However, participants with a prior history of malignancy that has been adequately treated and who have been disease/treatment free for more than 3 years are eligible, as are participants with adequately treated non-melanoma skin cancer and superficial bladder cancer. 7. History or current diagnosis of ECG abnormalities indicating significant risk of safety for participants participating in the study such as: * Concomitant clinically significant cardiac arrhythmias, e.g. sustained ventricular tachycardia, and clinically significant second or third degree Atrioventricular (AV) block without a pacemaker * History of familial long QT syndrome or known family history of Torsades de Pointe 8. Participants in immediate need of ADT as assessed by the investigator. Other protocol defined Inclusion/Exclusion may apply.

Study locations (41)

Highlands Oncology Group

Fayetteville, Arkansas, 72703

Recruiting
Tina Patrick · Contact
Joseph Thaddeus Beck · Principal Investigator

VA Greater LA Healthcare System

Los Angeles, California, 90073

Recruiting
Samantha Tran · Contact
Matthew Rettig · Principal Investigator

VA Palo Alto Health Care System

Palo Alto, California, 94304-1207

Recruiting
Niko Del Mar · Contact
Minal Vasanawala · Principal Investigator

Stanford University

Palo Alto, California, 94304

Recruiting
Camellia Djebroun · Contact
Mallika Marar · Principal Investigator

UCSF

San Francisco, California, 94115

Recruiting
Brittany Liu · Contact
Steven Seyedin · Principal Investigator

Rocky Mountain Cancer Centers

Denver, Colorado, 80218

Recruiting
Allen Cohn · Principal Investigator

Cancer Specialists of North Florida

Jacksonville, Florida, 32256

Recruiting
Bhaloo Desai · Contact
Richard Cassidy · Principal Investigator

Woodlands Medical Specialists

Pensacola, Florida, 32503

Recruiting
Jacqueline Martin · Contact
Michael Poiesz · Principal Investigator

Piedmont Healthcare

Atlanta, Georgia, 30318

Recruiting
Sharon Joseph · Contact
Adam Nowlan · Principal Investigator

University of Chicago

Chicago, Illinois, 60637

Recruiting
Mohammed Atiq · Principal Investigator

The Cancer Institute of Alexian Brothers

Elk Grove, Illinois, 60007

Recruiting
Khalada Ahmad · Contact

Unity Point Clinic

Des Moines, Iowa, 50323

Recruiting
Tracy Sarin · Contact
Mark Kellerman · Principal Investigator

University of Kansas Hospital

Kansas City, Kansas, 66160

Recruiting
Daniel Rivera · Contact
Xinglei Shen · Principal Investigator

Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center

Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 70809

Recruiting
Courtney Hill · Contact
Victor Lin · Principal Investigator

East Jefferson Hospital

Metairie, Louisiana, 70006

Recruiting
Alexandra Lieberman · Contact
Alton Oliver Sartor · Principal Investigator

University of Maryland Medical Ctr

Baltimore, Maryland, 21201

Recruiting
Dawn Barth · Contact
Arif Hussain · Principal Investigator

Johns Hopkins Kimmel Com Cancer Ctr

Baltimore, Maryland, 21231

Recruiting
Dana Kaplan · Contact
Ana Kiess · Principal Investigator

Dana Farber Cancer Institute

Boston, Massachusetts, 02115

Recruiting
Sinead Christensen · Contact
Mai Anh Huynh · Principal Investigator

Beth Israel Deaconess Med Ctr

Boston, Massachusetts, 02215

Recruiting
Stephen Duggan · Contact
David J Einstein · Principal Investigator

BAMF Health

Grand Rapids, Michigan, 49503

Recruiting
Kamara Kam Bailey · Contact
Brandon Mancini · Principal Investigator

Profound Research LLC

Royal Oak, Michigan, 48073

Withdrawn

William Beaumont Hospital

Royal Oak, Michigan, 48073

Recruiting
Andrew Thompson · Principal Investigator

Mayo Clinic Rochester

Rochester, Minnesota, 55905

Recruiting
Takeru Walleser · Contact
Ryan Phillips · Principal Investigator

St Louis University

St Louis, Missouri, 63104

Recruiting
Sabrina Abdullaeva · Contact
Medhat Osman · Principal Investigator

VA St Louis Health Care System

St Louis, Missouri, 63106

Recruiting
Janine Kampelman · Contact
Medhat Osman · Principal Investigator

Wash U School of Medicine

St Louis, Missouri, 63110

Recruiting
Collin Welch · Contact
Hiram Gay · Principal Investigator

The Urology Center PC DBA UroHealth Partners

Omaha, Nebraska, 68114

Recruiting
Amy Nelson · Contact
Andrew Trainer · Principal Investigator

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Ctr

New York, New York, 10065

Recruiting
Viktoria Matessi · Contact
Daniel Gorovets · Principal Investigator

Associated Med Professionals of NY

Syracuse, New York, 13210

Recruiting
Alex Bart · Contact
Steven Finkelstein · Principal Investigator

Montefiore Hospital

The Bronx, New York, 10467 2490

Recruiting
Darciann O Sullivan · Contact
Benjamin A Gartrell · Principal Investigator

East Carolina University

Greenville, North Carolina, 27858

Recruiting
Kayleigh Nunley · Contact
Andrew Ju · Principal Investigator

Dayton Physicians

Kettering, Ohio, 45409

Recruiting
Trevor Bluemel · Principal Investigator

Oregon Urology Institute

Springfield, Oregon, 97477

Recruiting
Victoria Evans · Contact
Bryan Mehlhaff · Principal Investigator

Coastal Cancer Center

Conway, South Carolina, 29526

Recruiting
Neal D Shore · Principal Investigator

Carolina Urologic Research Center

Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, 29572

Recruiting
Neal D Shore · Principal Investigator

Carolina Regional Cancer Center

Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, 29577

Recruiting
Neal D Shore · Principal Investigator

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Nashville, Tennessee, 37232

Recruiting
Laura Diedrich · Contact
Kerry Schaffer · Principal Investigator

Univ of Texas Southwest Med Center

Dallas, Texas, 75390-9034

Recruiting
Kevin Courtney · Principal Investigator

Rio Grande Urology

El Paso, Texas, 79912

Recruiting
Paola Delgado · Contact
Jameson T Mendel · Principal Investigator

Virginia Oncology Associates

Norfolk, Virginia, 23502

Recruiting
Mark Fleming · Principal Investigator

Blue Ridge Cancer Center

Wytheville, Virginia, 24382

Recruiting
Gayatri Chembula · Contact
David Buck · Principal Investigator