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NCT Number: NCT06966089

ExosomeDx in MRI-negative Men With High PSA

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has become the current standard of care in risk stratifying men with an elevated Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) to determine who needs to undergo prostate biopsy, which is invasive and carries a 3-5% risk of serious infection. Recent data shows the negative predictive value of MRI to be only 77%, indicating that some men may inappropriately forego biopsy based on a negative MRI. Urinary exosomes can be captured and analyzed by the ExosomeDx (ExoDx) Prostate test, a urine based, gene signature derived from PCA3 (prostate cancer antigen 3) and ERG (erythroblast transformation-specific related gene), and SPDEF (SAM pointed domain-containing ETS transcription factor); ExoDx carries a 90% negative predictive value.

The use of ExoDx test among patients with negative MRIs has the potential to improve the risk stratification of patients with an elevated PSA in a way that the Urologist can more accurately determine which patients need to undergo prostate biopsy. In doing so, the Urologist can better risk-stratify which patients should undergo prostate biopsy and be exposed to the associated potential risks, and also be more confident about the safety of foregoing biopsy in those patients with negative MRI and negative ExoDx test.

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Key information

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

Male

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Mount Sinai Beth Israel / Union Square, New York, United States

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Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

To be eligible to participate in this study, an individual must meet all the following criteria;

  • Willingness to participate and provide signed and dated informed consent form
  • Male (sex)
  • Age ≥ 18 years
  • PSA screen-eligible, per investigator discretion
  • 45-75 years of age for average risk
  • 40-75 years of age for high risk
  • PSA ≥ 2.0 ng/mL and ≤ 10.0 ng/mL
  • MRI PIRADS score of 1 or 2
  • ECOG 0-1
  • Must have a negative urine culture prior to biopsy
  • No prior prostate biopsies within the last 5 years (biopsy-naïve)
  • Willingness to undergo a prostate biopsy as part of the diagnostic work-up
  • Digital rectal exam with no palpable nodules

Exclusion criteria

An individual who meets any of the following criteria will be excluded from participation in this study;

  • Prior or current histologic or pathologic confirmed diagnosis of prostate cancer
  • Prior transrectal ultrasound within the last 5 years
  • Any prior cancer diagnosis within the last 5 years
  • On immunosuppression or predefined immunosuppressed state
  • A known coagulopathy predisposition to bleeding
  • Diagnoses of any uncontrolled intercurrent illness including, but not limited to, ongoing or active infection, symptomatic congestive heart failure, unstable angina pectoris, cardiac arrhythmia, or psychiatric illness/social situations that, in the opinion of the investigator, would limit compliance with study requirements
  • Cognitive inability or psychiatric conditions that preclude informed decision making or compliance with study requirements (per investigator discretion)

Treatment and study plan

Urinary ExoDx test

Device

A urine sample for ExoDx Study Kit will be collected onsite and shipped to Exosome Diagnostic's laboratory.

Transrectal ultrasound-guided prostate biopsy

Diagnostic Test

Participants will be scheduled for transrectal ultrasound-guided prostate biopsy as per the standard diagnostic practice after urinary test.

Transperineal 12-core prostate biopsy

Diagnostic Test

Participants will be scheduled for transperineal 12-core prostate biopsy as per the standard diagnostic practice after urinary test.

Primary outcomes

  1. Sensitivity

    Time frame: duration of study, average 3 months

    Sensitivity is defined as the probability that clinically significant cancer is detected when it is cancer.

    Sensitivity = true positive cases / true positive cases + false negative cases

  2. Specificity

    Time frame: duration of study, average 3 months

    Specificity is defined as the probability that clinically significant cancer is not detected when it is not cancer.

    Specificity = true negative cases / true negative cases + false positive cases

Secondary outcomes

  1. Cancer Detection Rate

    Time frame: duration of study, average 3 months

    Cancer Detection Rate (CDR): Cancer detection rate is defined as the proportion of enrolled patients with histologically Gleason grade group 1+ cancers and as determined by the Investigator.

    Cancer detection rate = true positive (histologically Gleason grade 1+) / all tests performed

  2. csPCa Detection Rate

    Time frame: duration of study, average 3 months

    csPCa Detection Rate (csCDR): clinically significant cancer detection rate is defined as the proportion of enrolled patients with histologically Gleason grade group 2+ cancers.

    csPCa detection rate = true positive (histologically Gleason grade 2+) / all tests performed

  3. Biopsy aversion rate

    Time frame: duration of study, average 3 months

    Biopsy aversion rate is defined as the proportion of patients in whom the biopsy could have been potentially averted using ExosomeDx, as compared to decisions based on PSA density.

  4. Net Benefit

    Time frame: duration of study, average 3 months

    Decision curve analysis will be used to calculate the net benefit of adding ExoDx to PSA density (including kinetics and density) and MRI in the diagnostic workflow following.

    Net benefit is calculated across a range of threshold probabilities, defined as the minimum probability of disease at which further intervention would be warranted, as net benefit = sensitivity × prevalence - (1 - specificity) × (1 - prevalence) × w where w is the odds at the threshold probability.

  5. Diagnostic Accuracy

    Time frame: duration of study, average 3 months

    Accuracy is defined as the potential of ExoDx to correctly detect the presences or absence of disease.

    Diagnostic Accuracy = (True Positive) + True Negative / All) * 100

  6. Positive Predictive Value (PPV)

    Time frame: duration of study, average 3 months

    Positive predictive value is defined as the probability that an elevated ExoDx actually has cancer.

    Positive Predictive Value = (True Positive)/(True Positive + False Positive)

  7. Negative Predictive Value (NPV)

    Time frame: duration of study, average 3 months

    Negative predictive value is defined as the probability a negative ExoDx test does not cancer.

    Negative Predictive Value = (True Negative)/(True Negative + False Negative)

Study contacts

Contact information is provided by the study sponsor or research team.

Nikhil Waingankar, MD

CONTACT

[email protected]

(718) 808-7777

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Other

Collaborators

  • Bio-Techne Corporation

Registry information

Official study title

Evaluation of Urinary Exosomes as a Risk Stratification Tool Among Men With Elevated PSAs and Negative Prostate MRIs

Important dates

Study start
2025
Primary completion
2026
Study completion
2026
First posted
May 11, 2025
Registry last updated
May 11, 2025

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