Preoperative Planning With PSMA-PET in Melanoma Surgery Trial
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- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: 68Ga-PSMA.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Malignant Melanoma. Basic parameters: from 18 years · Male.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- United Kingdom
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Overview
This is a non-randomised, single-centre Phase 2 study, investigating whether the diagnostic biomarker, prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA), can detect melanoma metastases using PSMA PET/ CT.
Detailed description
The proposed 'Preoperative Planning PSMA-PET in Melanoma Surgery (PPPIMS)' trial is a Phase 2 study, investigating the ability of PSMA as a biomarker to accurately detect melanoma metastases in patients with palpable lymphadenopathy and oligometastatic melanoma. If proven to have diagnostic utility, it may allow more precise 3D lymphatic mapping and identification of tumour in intricate anatomical areas, resulting in more accurate surgical planning. A more precise delineation of nodal disease and metastasis will result in a more accurate and lesser surgical dissection, and consequent reduction in morbidity.
The PSMA-PET-CT will be compared with the standard-of-care imaging, FDG-PET-CT to evaluate utility of this approach. It is of note that FDG-PET CT has a high background FDG uptake normally seen in the brain and liver, and PSMA could potentially be a more favourable tracer if there is less background uptake.
Interventions
- Drug 68Ga-PSMA
This is an imaging radionuclide tracer and is in chemical form. Up to 200 MBq. Route of administration is Intravenous.
Primary outcome measures
- PSMA PET-CT detection of melanoma metastases [Time frame: 1 Year]
Secondary outcome measures (1)
- Compare FDG PET-CT & PSMA PET-CT [Time frame: 1 Year]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Males ≥18 years of age
- Biopsy proven first and recurrent metastatic melanoma with palpable nodal disease who have undergone a staging FDG PET-CT scan as part of routine clinical care and are scheduled for surgery for resection of the primary site
Exclusion criteria
- Patients unable to give voluntary written informed consent to participate in this study
- Patients not willing to complete all the study assessments
- Patients who are females
- Patients who are taking androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) and other therapies targeting the androgen pathway, such as androgen receptor antagonists.
- Patients who have or have previously been diagnosed with prostate cancer
- Patients who have had Lu-177 PSMA therapy or barium studies within a period of 10 days prior to undergoing PSMA PET-CT scanning
- Patients not fluent in English
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Allocation
- N/A
- Model
- Single group
- Masking
- Open label
- Primary purpose
- Diagnostic
Study locations
United Kingdom · 1 center
- The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust — London
Identifiers
NCT: NCT06560905 · CCR5614