Comparison of 177Lu-PSMA-617 and 225Ac-PSMA-617 in a Prostatectomy Model (LUTACT Trial)
Summary
There is evidence that Actinium-225 Prostate-Specific Membrane Antigen (225Ac-PSMA) has a potentially higher level of efficacy than 177 Lutetium Prostate-Specific Membrane Antigen (177Lu-PSMA) as a radioligand therapy. This single center, pilot study will compare differences in the mechanisms of actinium-225 and lutetium-177 radioligand therapies (RLT) in participants with high or very high risk localized or locoregional prostate cancer planning on undergoing a prostatectomy.
Detailed description
PRIMARY OBJECTIVES: 1. Compare the tumor absorbed dose between 177Lu-PSMA-617 and 225Ac-PSMA-617. 2. Compare the immunologic priming of 177Lu-PSMA-617 and 225Ac-PSMA-617 with controls in prostatectomy specimens. SECONDARY OBJECTIVES: 1. Determine the safety and tolerability of neoadjuvant 177Lu-PSMA-617 and 225Ac-PSMA-617 in participants with high or very high-risk prostate cancer planning to undergo radical prostatectomy. 2. Estimate PSA response for 177Lu-PSMA-617 and 225Ac-PSMA-617 treatment. 3. Estimate the rate of pathologic response in participants treated with 177Lu-PSMA-617 and 225Ac-PSMA-617. EXPLORATORY OBJECTIVES: 1. Determine the relationship between percent cell necrosis and tumor absorbed dose for both 177Lu-PSMA-617 and 225Ac-PSMA-617. 2. Compare the heterogeneity of cell necrosis for 177Lu-PSMA-617 and 225Ac-PSMA-617. 3. Compare messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) expression profiles of tumor treated with 177Lu-PSMA-617, 225Ac-PSMA-617, and controls. 4. Compare mRNA expression profiles of tumors in participants who achieve a PSA50 response and those that do not. 5. Compare mRNA expression profiles of tumors from archival tissue and at time of prostatectomy. 6. Compare the percent cell necrosis between participants receiving a single cycle of PSMA RLT versus participants receiving two cycles of PSMA RLT. 7. Compare the change in uptake on PSMA Positron Emission Tomography (PET) to PSA response and percent cell necrosis. 8. Descriptively evaluate cell necrosis at the tumor margins. 9. Evaluate changes in peripheral immune activation markers following radioligand therapy. 10. Compare the kidney absorbed dose (in Gray) between patients receiving 177Lu-PSMA-617 and those receiving 225Ac-PSMA-617, using post-treatment SPECT imaging acquired 7 days after administration of the first dose. 11. Evaluate feasibility of PET for imaging actinium-225. OUTLINE: Participants will be assigned to 1 of 2 cohorts to receive 177Lu-PSMA-617 or 225Ac-PSMA-617. Additional participants undergoing prostatectomy without RLT will be enrolled as a control group. Participants enrolled in the RLT cohorts will receive 1 to 2 cycles of PSMA radioligand therapy up to 6 weeks apart before a scheduled, non-investigational, prostatectomy four weeks after PSMA radioligand therapy. Participants receiving RLT will be followed up for a safety assessment 6 weeks after surgery and for up to 60 months after prostatectomy for long term follow-up. Participants in the prostatectomy only cohort will have safety and long-term follow-up performed as part of clinical care up to 24 months after surgery.
Arms & interventions
- Drug177 Lutetium Prostate-Specific Membrane Antigen 617
Given intravenously (IV) or intra-arterially (IA)
- DrugActinium-225 Prostate-Specific Membrane Antigen 617
Given IV or IA
- ProcedureNon-investigational, Prostatectomy
Undergo non-investigational surgical procedure to remove prostate.
- ProcedureProstate Tissue Collection
Whole prostate tissue will be collected for correlative research at time of prostatectomy.
- ProcedureSingle-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT)/Computerized tomography (CT)
Imaging procedure
- ProcedureBlood Sample Collection
Blood samples will be obtained for research purposes
Outcome measures
Primary
Mean of tumor absorbed dose (Cohorts 1 and 2)
The mean tumor absorbed dose on post-treatment SPECT imaging within 7 days of the first radioligand treatment (RLT) will be obtained by using MIM Software to measure absorbed dose and researchers will manually segment activity in the dominant prostate tumor while carefully excluding any activity within the bladder using a threshold of 5 Gray. Using this segmented volume, the mean dose within the tumor in Gray for each participant and standard deviation will be calculated and reported descriptively for Cohorts 1 and 2. A two-sample t-test comparing the dose between Cohort 1 and Cohort 2 and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) model to compare the dose between different treatment/fractionation modalities within each cohort will be performed.
Time frame: 1 week
Rate of Cluster of differentiation 3 positive (CD3+) T cell infiltration
Immunohistochemistry will be performed using standard methods, and stained slides will be scanned using an automated microscope scanner. Five randomly selected fields (0.25 mm\^2) from each participant's primary tumor will be captured. Using color-specific algorithms, CD3+ cell counts will be determined, and the mean of each of the five quantified fields will be used. We will use a two-sample t-test or ANOVA model comparing the CD3+ cell counts between Cohort 1 and Cohort 2 with participants who have not undergone prostatectomy enrolled in the biospecimen protocol, respectively.
Time frame: 1 day, at time of prostatectomy
Secondary
Proportion of participants with reported treatment-emergent adverse events (Cohorts 1 and 2)
Time frame: Up to 6 weeks after last PSMA RLT administration
Proportion of participants with perioperative complications
Time frame: Up to 6 weeks after prostatectomy
Median scores on the xerostomia-quality-of-life-scale (XeQoLS)
Time frame: Up to 12 months after prostatectomy
Proportion of participants with 50% decrease in level of prostate specific antigen (PSA50)
Time frame: Up to 8 weeks
Proportion of participants with complete pathologic response
Time frame: 1 day, at time of prostatectomy
Eligibility criteria
Study locations (1)
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, California, 94143