Pilot Study of an Implantable Microdevice for In Situ Evaluation of Drug Response in Patients With Pancreatic Cancer
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- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Device Arm with Therapeutic Agents.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Pancreatic Cancer. Basic parameters: from 18 years · All.
- 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 States
- 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
Predicting drug response offers an opportunity to improve cancer treatment delivery. Recently, microdevices were invented to ascertain in vivo drug response but have not yet been evaluated for pancreatic cancer. This study is a prospective phase 1 safety study of intraoperative placement and retrieval of a microdevice in patients with pancreatic cancer. The devices will be implanted intra-operatively and removed en-bloc with the tumor after a 4- hour incubation period. Patients will be monitored to ensure that the placement and retrieval of these devices does not increase complication rates within one month of surgery. To assess feasibility, the tissue surrounding the microdevices is then analyzed to determine the diffusion of drugs from the device(s) to surrounding tissue, and whether the chemotherapeutic effect of diffusing chemotherapy drug has an impact on the surrounding tissue. In an exploratory analysis, material from the patient's tumors will be grown into organoids and drug response correlation from organoids will be compared to the response observed from the microdevices.
Interventions
- Combination product Device Arm with Therapeutic Agents
Devices manufactured by the Jonas Lab containing microdoses (1/100,000th standard dosage) of chemotherapy agents will be implanted and remain in situ for 4 hours, after which resection of the tumor and corresponding microdevice(s) are removed. The chemotherapeutic agents include Doxorubicin, Gemcitabine , Paclitaxel, 5 Fluorouracil , Oxaliplatin, and Irinotecan.
Primary outcome measures
- To evaluate the safety of micro dosing devices placement and retrieval based on adverse events by assessment of adverse events as defined in the CTCAE v5.0. [Time frame: 1 year]
Secondary outcome measures (1)
- 1. To determine the feasibility of microdevice analysis after the intra-operative placement and retrieval of the devices with sufficient associated tissue for histopathologic assessment of drug sensitivity. [Time frame: 1 year]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Patients must be at least or greater than18 years old
- All sexes, genders, races, and ethnic groups are eligible for this trial
- Patients with a suspicious or histologically confirmed pancreatic lesion for which surgery is indicated for either diagnostic or therapeutic purposes, as determined by the treating surgeon
- Patients must be a candidate for pancreatoduodenectomy or pancreatectomy
- Patients must be evaluated by the operating Surgical Oncologist to determine the feasibility of microdevice implantation based on clinical history, extent, and anatomical location of the tumor seen on baseline imaging
- The effects of the microdevice on the developing human fetus is unknown. For this reason and because the therapeutic agents used in this trial are known to be teratogenic, women of childbearing age must agree to have a negative serum pregnancy test within 48 hours prior to operation.
- Patient must be willing and able to understand and sign informed consent for both the surgical resection as well as the proposed research study obtained prior to any procedures
- Males and females of childbearing potential must agree to use effective contraception starting prior to the first day of treatment and continuing for 30 days after the implantation of the microdevice. Additionally, due to the unknown but potential risks of nursing infants secondary to the treatment of the mother with the chemotherapeutic agents used in this study, breastfeeding should be discontinued for a total of 14 days after the insertion of the microdevice.
Exclusion criteria
- Patients with a tumor in a location not amenable to placement of the device prior to the removal of the tumor specimen as determined by the Surgical Oncologist
- Any patient that is pregnant at the time of enrollment or operative intervention is excluded due to the known teratogenicity of the medications involved.
- Patients with a history of prior or concurrent second primary malignancy whose natural history or treatment has the potential to interfere with the safety or primary endpoint efficacy assessment of the pancreas cancer
- Patients with metastatic or locally advanced disease on baseline imaging
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
- Treatment
Study locations
United States · 1 center
- Zuckerberg Cancer Center — New Hyde Park
Identifiers
NCT: NCT07254091 · 23-0695