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NCT Number: NCT04199026

Implantable Microdevice for the Delivery of Drugs and Their Effect on Tumors in Patients With Metastatic or Recurrent Sarcoma

This early phase I trial studies the side effects of implanting and removing a microdevice in patients with sarcomas that have spread to other places in the body (metastatic) or have come back (recurrent). Microdevices are rice-sized devices that are implanted into tumor tissue and are loaded with 10 different drugs that are delivered at very small doses, or "microdoses," which may only affect a very small, local area inside the tumor. The purpose of this study is to determine which drugs delivered in the microdevice affect tumor tissue in patients with sarcomas.

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Key information

Age range

10 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

M D Anderson Cancer Center

Houston, Texas, 77030, United States

Location status: Recruiting

Location contact

Joseph A. Ludwig

CONTACT

[email protected]

713-792-3626

Joseph A. Ludwig

PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

About this study

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:

I. Assess the safety of drug delivery microdevice (microdevice) placement and removal in subjects undergoing resection of sarcoma.

II. Determine the technical feasibility of microdevice placement and removal with intact surrounding tissue in subjects undergoing resection of a sarcoma.

SECONDARY OBJECTIVE:

I. Use the intratumoral cellular response to evaluate individual agents and/or drug combinations released from the microdevice reservoirs to assess the relative drug efficacy across all individual agents or drug combinations tested using the microdevice technology.

EXPLORATORY OBJECTIVES:

I. Evaluate the microdevice performance for its capacity to predict Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) response in the subset of patients that receive systemic chemotherapies as part of their standard-of-care or clinical trial treatments. II. Determine genomic, transcriptomic, and proteomic predictive biomarkers from resected specimens that correlate with local (i.e. microdevice-based) and systemic drug response. III. Determine, at a single-cell level, proteomic traits associated with chemosensitivity versus (vs.) resistance using mathematical notions of network robustness and fragility.

OUTLINE:

Patients undergo percutaneous implantation of up to 3 drug delivery microdevices up to 2 days before standard of care surgery. Patients receive doxorubicin hydrochloride, ifosfamide, vincristine, irinotecan, temozolomide, pazopanib, everolimus, polyethylene glycol, ganitumab, and temsirolimus via the microdevice in the absence of unacceptable toxicity. At the time of surgery 2 days later, patients have the drug delivery microdevice(s) removed. Conditions Conditions: Metastatic Sarcoma Recurrent Sarcoma

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

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

Inclusion:

  • Patients with a biopsy-confirmed recurrent or metastatic sarcoma for which surgery is indicated as a standard of care.
  • 10 years of age or older
  • Documented, signed, dated informed consent to participate in the microdevice study
  • Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of =< 2

Exclusion:

  • Subjects who do not wish to undergo surgical resection, or those who are high-risk or not candidates for surgical resection
  • Age < 10 years old
  • Women of childbearing potential without a negative pregnancy test; or women who are lactating
  • Allergies or prior adverse drug reactions to any of the drugs loaded within the microdevice.

Treatment and study plan

Doxorubicin

Drug

Given via microdevice

Other names: Adriablastin, Hydroxydaunomycin, Hydroxyl Daunorubicin, Hydroxyldaunorubicin

Doxorubicin hydrochloride

Drug

Given via microdevice

Other names: 5,12-Naphthacenedione, 10-[(3-amino-2,3,6-trideoxy-alpha-L-lyxo-hexopyranosyl)oxy]-7,8, 9,10-tetrahydro-6,8,11-trihydroxy-8-(hydroxyacetyl)-1-methoxy-, hydrochloride, (8S-cis)- (9CI), ADM, Adriacin, Adriamycin, Adriamycin Hydrochloride, Adriamycin PFS, Adriamycin RDF, ADRIAMYCIN, HYDROCHLORIDE, Adriamycine, Adriblastina, Adriblastine, Adrimedac, Chloridrato de Doxorrubicina, DOX, DOXO-CELL, Doxolem, Doxorubicin HCl, Doxorubicin.HCl, Doxorubin, Farmiblastina, FI 106, FI-106, hydroxydaunorubicin, Rubex

Drug Delivery Microdevice

Device

Undergo percutaneous implantation of drug delivery microdevice

Other names: Microdevice

Everolimus

Drug

Given via microdevice

Other names: 42-O-(2-Hydroxy)ethyl Rapamycin, Afinitor, Certican, RAD 001, RAD001, Votubia, Zortress

Ganitumab

Biological

Given via microdevice

Other names: AMG 479, Anti-IGF-1R Human Monoclonal Antibody AMG-479

ifosfamide

Drug

Given via microdevice

Other names: Asta Z 4942, Asta Z-4942, Cyfos, Holoxan, Holoxane, Ifex, IFO, IFO-Cell, Ifolem, Ifomida, Ifomide, Ifosfamidum, Ifoxan, IFX, Iphosphamid, Iphosphamide, Iso-Endoxan, Isoendoxan, Isophosphamide, Mitoxana, MJF 9325, MJF-9325, Naxamide, Seromida, Tronoxal, Z 4942, Z-4942

Irinotecan

Drug

Given via microdevice

Pazopanib

Drug

Given via microdevice

Other names: GW786034

Polyethylene glycol

Drug

Given via microdevice

Other names: Glycol, polyethylene, PEG, Poly(oxyethylene), Polyethylene Glycol 400, Polyethylene Glycol 8000, POLYETHYLENE GLYCOL, UNSPECIFIED, Polyethylene Oxide

Temozolomide

Drug

Given via microdevice

Other names: CCRG-81045, Imidazo[5,1-d]-1,2,3,5-tetrazine-8-carboxamide, 3, 4-dihydro-3-methyl-4-oxo-, M & B 39831, M and B 39831, Methazolastone, RP-46161, SCH 52365, Temcad, Temodal, Temodar, Temomedac, TMZ

temsirolimus

Drug

Given via microdevice

Other names: CCI-779, CCI-779 Rapamycin Analog, Cell Cycle Inhibitor 779, Rapamycin Analog, Rapamycin Analog CCI-779, Torisel

therapeutic conventional surgery

Procedure

Undergo standard of care surgery

Vincristine

Drug

Given via microdevice

Other names: LEUROCRISTINE, VCR, Vincrystine

Primary outcomes

  1. Determination of the safety and technical feasibility of microdevice insertion/removal, as assessed by adverse events by CTCAE 5.0.

    Time frame: Up to 1 year

    Assess the safety of microdevice placement and removal in subjects undergoing resection of sarcoma.

  2. To assess efficacy across all individual agents or drug combinations tested using the microdevice technology.

    Time frame: Up to 1 year

    The primary outcome measure is the number of participants that experience a grade 3 or 4 adverse event, as defined by CTCAE 5.0. A second primary outcome measure of device technical feasibility measures the number of devices that successfully generate high-quality data from each of at least 50% of the patients enrolled. A successful device is one that generated high-quality data from at least 40% of the drugs in the device by IHC and/or other methodologies

Secondary outcomes

  1. Determine the drug antineoplastic drug effects observed in the adjacent tumor tissues following exposure to drug micro-doses released by each microdevice reservoir.

    Time frame: Up to 1 year

    The degree of cell apoptosis and cell proliferation observed in the adjacent tumor tissues will be compared for the placebo control (i.e. PEG) to gauge the antineoplastic effect elicited by each of the drug micro-doses released by the respective microdevice reservoirs.

Study contacts

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

Joseph A Ludwig, MD

CONTACT

[email protected]

713-792-3626

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Other

Collaborators

  • National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Registry information

Official study title

Pilot Trial of an Implantable Microdevice for In Vivo Drug Sensitivity Testing in Patients With Sarcomas

Important dates

Study start
2025
Primary completion
2028
Study completion
2028
First posted
Dec 13, 2019
Registry last updated
Feb 19, 2026

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