Veterans Affairs Seamless Phase II/III Randomized Trial of STAndard Systemic theRapy With or Without PET-directed Local Therapy for Oligometastatic pRosTate Cancer

Last updated: January 6, 2025
Sponsor: VA Office of Research and Development
Overall Status: Active - Recruiting

Phase

2/3

Condition

Prostate Cancer

Prostate Cancer, Early, Recurrent

Metastatic Cancer

Treatment

PET-directed Local Therapy using Surgery

ADT + Apalutamide

ADT + Enzalutamide

Clinical Study ID

NCT04787744
ONCA-026-20S
CX002277-01
  • Ages > 18
  • Male

Study Summary

This is a prospective, open-label, multi-center seamless phase II to phase III randomized clinical trial designed to compare SST with or without PET-directed local therapy in improving the castration-resistant prostate cancer-free survival (CRPC-free survival) for Veterans with oligometastatic prostate cancer. Oligometastasis will be defined as 1-10 sites of metastatic disease based on the clinical determination of the LSI which incorporates all imaging, clinical, and pathologic data available.

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

Inclusion Criteria:

Age 18 years. Ability to provide Informed Consent for participation in the study ECOG Performance Status 2 at time of enrollment. Prostate cancer, confirmed histologically or cytologically. If original documentation of histology and cytology are not available, documentation of prostate cancer satisfies these criteria. If recurrent, prior curative-intent local therapy to all sites of prostate cancer with either upfront radiotherapy or prostatectomy with or without post-operative radiotherapy.

If recurrent, PSA suspicious for biochemical recurrence after local therapy, with lab value(s) taken prior to start of SST (if current SST has already started) or within 90 days prior to enrollment if not already on SST, and meeting one of the three below categories:

PSA 0.2 ng/ml x 2 after prostatectomy +/- post-operative radiotherapy; Elevation of PSA 2 ng/ml above the nadir after definitive radiotherapy; Or Two consecutively elevated PSAs with evidence of metastasis on the imaging Studies.

-Serum testosterone obtained prior to randomization based on one of the criteria below:

For patients who have a history of a prior episode of therapy with SST agents for prostate cancer, a total testosterone 100 ng/dl after completion of the prior episode of SST and before the start of current SST or within 30 days of starting current SST if the patient has already started SST for recurrence.

For patients who have no prior history of an episode of therapy with SST agents and have already started SST for recurrence, this pre-SST testosterone is not required.

CT or MRI abdomen/pelvis performed prior to start of SST (if current SST has already started) or within 90 days prior to enrollment if not already on SST. The results from the CT component of the PET/CT can be used to fulfill this criterion. This is optional for patients who have a PSMA PET/CT. Yechnetium (Tc99m-MDP) or sodium fluoride (NaF) bone scan (sodium fluoride preferred) performed prior to start of SST (if current SST has already started), or within 90 days prior to enrollment if not already on SST. This is optional for patients who have a PSMA PET/CT. Prostate PET/CT (currently PSMA, Fluciclovine, choline) performed prior to start of SST (if current SST has already started), or within 90 days prior to enrollment if not already on SST.

1-10 lesions suspicious for nodal recurrence or metastasis from prostate cancer as determined by the investigator based on the above imaging studies.

Has already undergone NPOP sequencing or a plan is in place for NPOP sequencing for prostate cancer.

For participants on SST at the time of enrollment only:

Has been on SST for 180 days. For participants with local recurrence after curative-intent local therapy on imaging :

Patients with local recurrence in the prostate, SV, or prostate bed are eligible as long as there is at least 1 nodal or distant metastatic recurrence. Biopsy must confirm local recurrence for patients who have had prior curative-intent radiation to the prostate, SV, or prostate bed.

Candidate for salvage local therapy (refer to Section 10.4) as determined by a urologist or radiation oncologist (depending on the respective modality to be used to treat the local recurrence).

For participants with de novo prostate cancer:

Candidate for prostate-directed radiation.

Exclusion

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Any current or prior evidence of castration-resistant prostate cancer, defined astwo consecutive rises in serum PSA, obtained at a minimum of 1-week interval, withthe final PSA value >/= 1 ng/ml, while having a total testosterone < 50 ng/dl).

  • Prior malignancy, except the following:

  • Adequately treated non-melanomatous skin cancer;

  • Adequately treated Stage 0, I, or II cancer from which the patient is currentlyin complete remission; or

  • Any other cancer from which the patient has been disease free for three years.

  • Presence of a symptomatic metastasis that requires palliative radiotherapy.

  • Any known brain metastases, presence of leptomeningeal disease, malignant spinalcord compression, or malignant cauda equina syndrome.

  • Prior nodal, bone, or visceral metastasis after curative-intent therapy other thanthose identified on the enrollment imaging studies which make the patient ineligiblefor PET-directed local therapy (per investigator discretion).

  • Prior radiation therapy to any sites requiring PET-directed local therapy or salvagelocal therapy that will lead to prohibitively high risk of toxicity from subsequentlocal therapy, as determined by the treating radiation oncologist (if radiation isintended as the study local therapy) or surgeon/urologist (if surgery is intended asthe study local therapy).

  • Any other previous or current condition, which, in the judgement of the LSI, islikely to interfere with any STARPORT treatments or assessments.

Study Design

Total Participants: 464
Treatment Group(s): 12
Primary Treatment: PET-directed Local Therapy using Surgery
Phase: 2/3
Study Start date:
July 01, 2021
Estimated Completion Date:
December 01, 2025

Study Description

Prostate Cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer among Veterans, comprising 30% of new cancer diagnoses in the VA. Eighty-five percent of men present with localized prostate cancer, which is typically treated with active surveillance or curative local therapy using surgery or radiation therapy. Unfortunately, twenty percent of Veterans undergoing curative local therapy will develop metastatic recurrence. These men typically receive palliative systemic hormonal therapy to control their disease. Despite this, over half of men will have cancer progression within 1-2 years and half will die within 5 years.

Two diverging paradigms have been studied in recent years to improve the survival of men with recurrent metastatic prostate cancer. First, a subset of patients has oligometastatic disease. These patients are hypothesized to have an intermediate clinical state in which ablative local therapy with surgery or radiation to all metastatic sites of disease (metastasis-directed therapy; MDT) can lead to durable disease control and potentially cure in select patients. Recent Phase II randomized trials have demonstrated improved long-term progression-free survival with MDT in the absence of systemic therapy.

Yet, 75% of patients receiving MDT for oligometastatic cancer develop progression in new areas, arguing that systemic therapy is needed to treat occult metastases. This is supported by data demonstrating that earlier palliative hormonal therapy is associated with improved survival. In fact, the second approach that has been studied in recent years, is whether escalating hormonal therapy by adding novel androgen receptor axis targeted agents or chemotherapy improves outcomes in men with metastatic prostate cancer. Multiple phase III randomized trials demonstrate that escalating hormonal therapy with these novel therapeutic agents improves progression-free survival and overall survival dramatically. Therefore, these agents have been integrated as an option into today's standard systemic therapy (SST) for metastatic prostate cancer.

Given the promise of MDT to induce long-term cancer control and the effectiveness of SST to prevent further cancer progression, there is an urgent need to determine whether adding MDT to SST improves disease outcomes further. Additionally, prior studies have excluded patients with local recurrence. However, these comprise a large proportion of Veterans with recurrent oligometastatic prostate cancer. The primary goal of our study is to determine if adding PET-directed local therapy (MDT and treatment of primary tumor [de novo] or primary tumor local recurrence on PET/CT if applicable) improves disease control compared to SST alone in Veterans with oligometastatic prostate cancer. This is a multi-institutional phase II/III randomized trial comparing SST with or without PET-directed local therapy. Other goals of the study are to determine any differences in patterns of cancer progression, survival, and quality of life. We also will determine if certain mutations present in tumor DNA can predict if Veterans will benefit from PET-directed local therapy.

Connect with a study center

  • VA Long Beach Healthcare System, Long Beach, CA

    Long Beach, California 90822
    United States

    Active - Recruiting

  • VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, West Los Angeles, CA

    West Los Angeles, California 90073
    United States

    Active - Recruiting

  • Bay Pines VA Healthcare System, Pay Pines, FL

    Bay Pines, Florida 33744
    United States

    Active - Recruiting

  • Atlanta VA Medical and Rehab Center, Decatur, GA

    Decatur, Georgia 30033
    United States

    Site Not Available

  • Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital, Hines, IL

    Hines, Illinois 60141-3030
    United States

    Active - Recruiting

  • Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center, Indianapolis, IN

    Indianapolis, Indiana 46202-2884
    United States

    Active - Recruiting

  • Baltimore VA Medical Center VA Maryland Health Care System, Baltimore, MD

    Baltimore, Maryland 21201
    United States

    Active - Recruiting

  • VA Boston Healthcare System Jamaica Plain Campus, Jamaica Plain, MA

    Boston, Massachusetts 02130
    United States

    Active - Recruiting

  • VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, MI

    Ann Arbor, Michigan 48105
    United States

    Active - Recruiting

  • Minneapolis VA Health Care System, Minneapolis, MN

    Minneapolis, Minnesota 55417-2309
    United States

    Active - Recruiting

  • Kansas City VA Medical Center, Kansas City, MO

    Kansas City, Missouri 64128-2226
    United States

    Site Not Available

  • St. Louis VA Medical Center John Cochran Division, St. Louis, MO

    Saint Louis, Missouri 63106
    United States

    Site Not Available

  • East Orange Campus of the VA New Jersey Health Care System, East Orange, NJ

    East Orange, New Jersey 07018
    United States

    Active - Recruiting

  • Manhattan Campus of the VA NY Harbor Healthcare System, New York, NY

    New York, New York 10010-5011
    United States

    Active - Recruiting

  • Durham VA Medical Center, Durham, NC

    Durham, North Carolina 27705
    United States

    Active - Recruiting

  • Louis Stokes VA Medical Center, Cleveland, OH

    Cleveland, Ohio 44106
    United States

    Active - Recruiting

  • Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA

    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-4551
    United States

    Active - Recruiting

  • VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System University Drive Division, Pittsburgh, PA

    Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15240
    United States

    Site Not Available

  • Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, Houston, TX

    Houston, Texas 77030
    United States

    Active - Recruiting

  • Hunter Holmes McGuire VA Medical Center, Richmond, VA

    Richmond, Virginia 23249
    United States

    Active - Recruiting

  • William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital, Madison, WI

    Madison, Wisconsin 53705-2254
    United States

    Active - Recruiting

  • Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI

    Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53295-1000
    United States

    Active - Recruiting

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