The Role of C-11 Choline PET in Patients With Prostate Cancer

The investigators determine the target number as 54 patients based on the following reasons: (a) The bony metastasis rate for the high risk prostate cancer patients with PSA from 20 to 99.9 ng/ml was 21% (166/767 cases in a systemic review) [8]; the estimated sample size would be 47 under the condition of 20% more distant metastasis cases were identified by the PET/MRI scan using the 90% power, significance level of 0.05 and one sample proportion test. Assuming a dropout rate of 10%, the final ideal sample size is 52 patients. (b) The newly diagnostic number for the high risk prostate cancer patients in our hospital annually is ~70, about 6 patients a month. It is clinically feasible to recruit 3 patients a month until 18 months since the study begin. The study could be completed in 2 years with 54 cases

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Key information

Conditions

Latent Cancer Prostate Genital Diseases Genital Diseases, Male Genital Neoplasms, Male Male Urogenital Diseases Neoplasms Neoplasms by Site Prostatic Diseases Prostatic Neoplasms Urogenital Diseases Urogenital Neoplasms

Age range

20 year and older

Sex eligibility

Male

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

About this study

[11C] choline positron emission tomography (PET) is an emerging modality for staging at initial diagnosis or re-staging at the time of treatment failure. The updated study shows 11C -labeled choline derivatives seem to be the most promising PET radionuclides in assessment of prostate cancer and USA FDA approves the utility of C-11 Choline in prostate cancer patients in 2012 September.

To our best literature search, there are only few preliminary studies regarding application of PET/MR in prostate cancer patients and the initial results in correlation of functional MRI and PET images seems promising. Combined PET/MRI images have the advantage of giving anatomical, functional, and metabolic information in a single image setting and provide a comprehensive survey including local regional extension and systemic metastasis. Unlike in the USA where more than 70% prostate cancer patients were diagnosed at early stage, most prostate cancer patients in Taiwan were diagnosed at advanced stage with high PSA or T3-4 disease, or even systemic metastasis. The need to implement good staging modality is even more urgently needed in Taiwan than in USA and related studies are still lacking. In the current study, our hypothesis is that C-11 Choline PET/MRI is a good modality in staging high risk prostate cancer patients, and in predicting patients' outcome after treatment. Our hypothesis will be examined by this clinical study.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

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

Inclusion criteria

Clinically suspicious and/or pathology-proved high risk group prostate cancer patients (PSA > 20 ng/mL, or Gleason score 8-10, or clinical stage >T2c)
Age equals or more than 20 years old
Willing to sign the informed consent

Exclusion criteria

Patients with a concomitant or previous malignancy history
Unable to tolerate MR or PET/CT scan, such as those with magnetic implants (e.g. those received intracranial aneurysm surgery, cardiac pacemaker, artificial valves replacement, artificial ears, hip prosthesis), claustrophobia, unable to lie still
Unable to give informed consent
Previous allergy to carbon-labelled radionuclide

Treatment and study plan

C-11 choline

Drug

This is an uncontrolled, open-labeled, non-randomized, prospective study. The study duration is expected to be completed in a period of 2 years. Up to 54 patients with primary prostate cancer and stratified as high risk group (PSA > 20 ng/mL, or Gleason score 8-10, or clinical stage >T2c) would be included.

Primary outcomes

The Role of C-11 Choline PET in Patients with Prostate Cancer

Time frame: Two years

Inconsistence rate (%) of C-11 Choline PET and MRI in detecting local regional and distant metastasis prostate cancer. The inconsistence rate (%) is defined as the proportion of inconsistent results by PET and MRI, i. e. PET positive but MRI negative, or PET negative but MRI positive.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Chang Gung Memorial Hospital

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Registry information

Important dates

Study start: 2015
Primary completion: 2016
Study completion: 2016
First posted: Aug 2, 2016
Registry last updated: Jan 4, 2017

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