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Testing AAA617 with piflufolastat for oligometastatic prostate cancer (OMPC)

Official title: An Open-label Study Comparing Lutetium (177Lu) Vipivotide Tetraxetan Versus Observation in PSMA Positive OMPC.

An International, Prospective, Open-label, Multi-center, Randomized Phase III Study Comparing Lutetium (177Lu) Vipivotide Tetraxetan (AAA617) Versus Observation to Delay Castration or Disease Recurrence in Adult Male Patients With Prostate-specific Membrane Antigen (PSMA) Positive Oligometastatic Prostate Cancer (OMPC)

Condition: Oligometastatic Prostate Cancer (OMPC)Sponsor: Novartis PharmaceuticalsTarget enrollment: 450

Interventions

DRUG

AAA617

Radiopharmaceutical solution for infusion/injection

DRUG

piflufolastat (18F)

Provided as ready-to-use radiopharmaceutical

DRUG

gallium (68Ga) gozetotide (25μg)

Provided as PSMA-11 Kit for radiopharmaceutical preparation of gallium (68Ga) gozetotide

Canadian Sites (8)

Novartis Investigative Site

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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Novartis Investigative Site

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

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Novartis Investigative Site

London, Ontario, Canada

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Novartis Investigative Site

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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Novartis Investigative Site

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Novartis Investigative Site

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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Novartis Investigative Site

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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Novartis Investigative Site

Québec, Quebec, Canada

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Eligibility Criteria

See who this study is looking for36 criteria

The trial’s own eligibility text, word for word from the registry. Only the trial site can say who takes part.

Inclusion

  • +Participants must have OMPC with 1-5 PSMA -positive metastatic lesions on screeningScreeningThe checks done before joining, to see whether a study fits.Read more → PSMA PET/CT scan (with either gallium (68Ga) gozetotide or piflufolastat (18F)) as visually assessed by BIRC. For definition of PSMA PET positivity, please refer to Section 8.1 and the Imaging Manual. Metastatic lesions may include regional/pelvic lymph nodes (N1), distant lymph nodes (M1a), bone (M1b), lung and others visceral (M1c) except liver and brain classified using American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) 8. When counting the number of oligometastatic lesions, each lesion is counted as distinct metastasis irrespective of its anatomical location (e.g., one pelvic and one extra-pelvic lymph node will be counted as two metastatic lesions)
  • +Histologically confirmed prostate cancer prior to randomizationRandomisedWhich group you go into is decided by chance, not by you or your doctor.Read more →
  • +At least 1 PSMA-positive lesion must be a distant metastasis (M1) per AJCC8 classification at screening. For AJCC M staging, PSMA PET/CT information should be used
  • +Participants must have a negative CIConfidence intervalA range showing how precisely a result has been pinned down.Read more → for M1 disease at screening.
  • +For a participant not to be eligible, CI positive M1 lesions should be unequivocal in CI scans, i.e., potentially not attributable to findings thought to represent something other than tumor (e.g., degenerative, or post-traumatic changes or Paget's disease in bone lesions). For CI assessments, bone lesions must be assessed by bone scan only and soft tissue lesions must be assessed by CT/MRI scans only at screening.
  • +Prior knowledge of PSMA PET positivity should not influence the radiologist (reader) in determination of CI positivity. Two different readers will be involved, one reader for PSMA PET/CT scan and one reader for CI: Reader will be blinded to PSMA PET scan results while reading CI scans. Reader should not modify their assessment of CI scans (e.g. changing a lesion previously identified as equivocal in CI to unequivocal) after reading the PSMA PET scan. Similarly, biopsy positivity should not influence the reader in the assessment of CI positivity. More details on the reading paradigm will be provided in the imaging charter
  • +Participants with pelvic disease (N1) seen in CI are allowed if the local spread is below common iliac bifurcation (per AJCC 8 definition of local disease)
  • +Distant lymph node disease (M1a) that is visible per CI and less than 10mm in the short axis is not exclusionary irrespective of PSMA PET positivity.
  • +If a previously surgically removed lesion was unequivocal for M1 by bone scan or CT, the participant is not eligible.
  • +All metastatic lesions detected at screening must be amenable to SBRT
  • +Non-castration testosterone level \>100 ng/dL at screening
  • +Participants must have biochemically recurrent disease after definitive treatment to prostate by Radical Prostatectomy ((RP), (alone or with post-operative radiation to prostate bed/pelvic nodes)) or External beam Radiation Therapy (EBRT), (prostate alone or prostate with seminal vesicle and/or pelvic nodes) and/or brachytherapy prior to randomization. Biochemical recurrence (BCR) is defined as: nadir PSA + 2 ng/mL post XRT (if participant received-radiation therapy to intact prostate) and PSA \> 0.2 ng/mL and rising post RP (with or without post-operation Radiation Therapy (RT))
  • +MRI for radiation treatment planning may show M1 disease but this will not exclude the participant from the study if the lesion is deemed negative per baselineBaselineYour starting measurements, taken before treatment begins.Read more → CT or bone scans

Exclusion

  • Participants with de novo OMPC at screeningScreeningThe checks done before joining, to see whether a study fits.Read more →
  • Unmanageable concurrent bladder outflow obstruction or urinary incontinence at screening. Note: participants with bladder outflow obstruction or urinary incontinence, which is manageable and controlled with best available standard of careStandard of careThe treatment normally given for a condition outside a study.Read more → (incl. pads, drainage) are allowed
  • Prior therapy with:
  • ADT (including bilateral orchiectomy) and ARPIs used for metastatic prostate cancer treatment
  • Participants who received AR-directed therapy, whether ADT or an ARPI or both, as neoadjuvant or adjuvant therapy as a component of their primary therapy, are eligible provided that they discontinued therapy ≥12 months prior to randomizationRandomisedWhich group you go into is decided by chance, not by you or your doctor.Read more → for ADT (i.e., 12 months after the last day of the last injection) or ≥3 months if ARPI was given as monotherapy. ARPI's as a term includes both contemporary androgen synthesis inhibitors (e.g., abiraterone, galeterone, and orteneronel), and receptor inhibitors (enzalutamide, apalutamide and darolutamide).
  • Patients who biochemically relapsed after primary therapy may also have had treatment with AR directed therapy and participants who had SBRT with ADT are also eligible provided that the ARPI +/- ADT or ADT alone was terminated
  • ≥12 months prior to randomization for ADT (i.e., 12 months after the last day of the last injection) or ≥3 months if ARPI was given as monotherapy.
  • Participants who received first generation anti-androgens (bicalutamide, flutamide, nilutamide, cyproterone) for biochemical recurrence or adjuvant/neoadjuvant therapy are eligible provided that they discontinued therapy ≥3 months prior to randomization.
  • Participants who have discontinued ADT due to disease progression are not eligible (i.e., Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer (CRPC) participants)
  • Other hormonal therapy. e.g.,
  • Use of estrogens, 5-α reductase inhibitors (finasteride, dutasteride), other steroidogenesis inhibitors (aminoglutethimide) if used in the context of prostate cancer treatment. Same medications are allowed if used for other indications: e.g., Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH), if stopped ≥3 months before randomization.
  • Radiopharmaceutical agents (e.g., Strontium-89, PSMA-targeted radioligand therapy)
  • Any other investigational or systemic agents for metastatic disease
  • Diagnosed at screening with other malignancies that are expected to alter life expectancy or may interfere with disease assessment. However, participants with a prior history of malignancy that has been adequately treated and who have been disease/treatment free for more than 3 years are eligible, as are participants with adequately treated non-melanoma skin cancer and superficial bladder cancer.
  • History or current diagnosis of ECG abnormalities indicating significant risk of safety for participants participating in the study such as:
  • Concomitant clinically significant cardiac arrhythmias, e.g. sustained ventricular tachycardia, and clinically significant second or third degree Atrioventricular (AV) block without a pacemaker
  • History of familial long QT syndrome or known family history of Torsades de Pointe
  • Participants in immediate need of ADT or other systemic therapy as assessed by the investigatorPrincipal investigatorThe doctor or researcher responsible for running the study at a site.Read more →. In addition, investigators should only enroll participants who are committed to delay castration in accordance with the scope of the study and are willing to wait to start systemic therapy until distant progression (MFS event) as assessed by CIConfidence intervalA range showing how precisely a result has been pinned down.Read more → (consisting with existing treatment guidelines) and confirmed by BIRC is reached. This must be discussed with the participants before ICFInformed consentThe process of being told what taking part involves, then choosing freely.Read more → is signed.
  • Other protocolProtocolThe detailed plan a study must follow.Read more → defined InclusionInclusion criteriaThe things you must have or be for a study to consider you.Read more →/ExclusionExclusion criteriaThe things that would prevent someone from taking part.Read more → may apply.
  • Immunotherapy (e.g., sipuleucel-T)
  • Chemotherapy, except if administered in the adjuvant/neoadjuvant setting completed \> 12 months before randomization
  • Radiation therapy external beam radiation therapy (EBRT) and brachytherapy within 28 days before randomization
  • Concurrent cytotoxic chemotherapy, immunotherapy, radioligand therapy, hormonal therapy (see ADT initiation guidance in Section 6.8.2), Poly Adenosine Diphosphate-Ribose Polymerase (PARP) inhibitor, biological therapy or investigational therapy
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Learning 
What this study is

This study is testing a treatment for a condition.

Phase 3Phase 3A large study comparing a treatment against the current standard.Read more → — a large study comparing this against the current standard, usually across many hospitals.

What is being given or done in this study: AAA617, piflufolastat (18F), gallium (68Ga) gozetotide (25μg).

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How the study is run

Which group you would be placed in is decided by chance, like a coin flip — not by you and not by your doctor.

This study is open-labelOpen-labelEveryone knows which treatment is being given — nothing is hidden.Read more →: everyone knows which treatment is being given, including you and the study team.

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Is there a placebo?

This study does not list a placeboPlaceboA dummy treatment with no active medicine, used for comparison.Read more → group.

One group receives no study treatment at all, and is followed for comparison.

There are 2 groups in this study.

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Who the study is looking for

The study lists an age range of 18 years to 100 years.

The study lists male participants only.

The study does not accept healthy volunteersHealthy volunteerSomeone without the condition being studied who takes part anyway.Read more →.

These are the criteria the study lists. Only the trial siteTrial siteA hospital or clinic where a study is actually run.Read more → can decide whether someone can take part.

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How big and how long

The study aims to enrol about 450 people.

The study is currently expected to finish around October 2031.

The main measurement is taken over: From date of randomizationRandomisedWhich group you go into is decided by chance, not by you or your doctor.Read more → until first evidence of radiographically detectable bone or soft tissue distant metastasis or death due to any cause, whichever occurs first, assessed up to approximately 30 months.

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What the study measures

Blinded Independent Review Committee (BIRC) assessed Metastasis Free Survival (MFS) — measured over From date of randomizationRandomisedWhich group you go into is decided by chance, not by you or your doctor.Read more → until first evidence of radiographically detectable bone or soft tissue distant metastasis or death due to any cause, whichever occurs first, assessed up to approximately 30 months.

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What is being tested — in plain terms

About AAA617Drug

Radiopharmaceutical solution for infusion/injection

From the trial registry — its own words, unedited.

What a drug is here: A medicine — a chemical or small-molecule treatment — given as the thing being studied.

Read the full explanation → · in clinical review

About piflufolastat (18F)Drug

Provided as ready-to-use radiopharmaceutical

From the trial registry — its own words, unedited.

What a drug is here: A medicine — a chemical or small-molecule treatment — given as the thing being studied.

Read the full explanation → · in clinical review

About gallium (68Ga) gozetotide (25μg)Drug

Provided as PSMA-11 Kit for radiopharmaceutical preparation of gallium (68Ga) gozetotide

From the trial registry — its own words, unedited.

What a drug is here: A medicine — a chemical or small-molecule treatment — given as the thing being studied.

Read the full explanation → · in clinical review

Common questions

Answered from this trial’s registry record. Where the record doesn’t say, these answers say so rather than filling the gap.

Am I eligible for this trial?

Only the trial siteTrial siteA hospital or clinic where a study is actually run.Read more → can decide whether someone can take part. Concord cannot make that determination, and neither can any tool that has not examined you.

What the study lists: an age range of 18 years to 100 years.

The full inclusionInclusion criteriaThe things you must have or be for a study to consider you.Read more → and exclusion criteriaExclusion criteriaThe things that would prevent someone from taking part.Read more → are published on this page, exactly as the study team wrote them.

The useful next step is to bring this trial to your doctor. Answering a few questions first gives them something concrete to review.

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  • eligibilityModule.maximumAge
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Is there a placebo?

This study does not list a placeboPlaceboA dummy treatment with no active medicine, used for comparison.Read more → group.

One group receives no study treatment and is followed for comparison.

From the trial registry
  • armsInterventionsModule.armGroups[].type
Would I know which treatment I am getting?

This study is open-labelOpen-labelEveryone knows which treatment is being given — nothing is hidden.Read more →: everyone knows which treatment is being given, including you and the study team.

Which group you would be placed in is decided by chance, like a coin flip — not by you and not by your doctor.

From the trial registry
  • designModule.designInfo.maskingInfo.masking
  • designModule.designInfo.allocation
Who can join?

The study lists an age range of 18 years to 100 years.

It lists male participants only.

It does not accept healthy volunteersHealthy volunteerSomeone without the condition being studied who takes part anyway.Read more →.

Only the trial siteTrial siteA hospital or clinic where a study is actually run.Read more → can confirm whether a particular person can take part.

From the trial registry
  • eligibilityModule.minimumAge
  • eligibilityModule.maximumAge
  • eligibilityModule.sex
  • eligibilityModule.healthyVolunteers
How long would this take?

The study's main measurement is taken over: From date of randomizationRandomisedWhich group you go into is decided by chance, not by you or your doctor.Read more → until first evidence of radiographically detectable bone or soft tissue distant metastasis or death due to any cause, whichever occurs first, assessed up to approximately 30 months.

The study as a whole is currently expected to finish around 2031-10-03.

How long any one person takes part can differ from the study length. The study team can tell you what the schedule looks like in practice.

From the trial registry
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  • statusModule.completionDateStruct.date
How many people are taking part?

The study aims to enrol about 450 people.

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Where is this happening?

This study lists 13 locations, including: Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; London, Ontario, Canada; Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and 7 more.

Sites can open and close during a study, so confirm with the team before travelling.

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About This Trial

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of lutetium (177Lu) vipivotide tetraxetan (AAA617) in participants with oligometastatic prostate cancer (OMPC) progressing after definitive therapy to their primary tumor. The data generated from this study will provide evidence for the treatment of AAA617 in early-stage prostate cancer patients to control recurrent tumor from progressing to fatal metastatic disease while preserving quality of life by delaying treatment with androgen deprivation therapy (ADT).

Other Sites (7)

BAMF Health

Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States

Profound Research LLC

Royal Oak, Michigan, United States

William Beaumont Hospital

Royal Oak, Michigan, United States

Mayo Clinic Rochester

Rochester, Minnesota, United States

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Ctr

New York, New York, United States

Associated Med Professionals of NY

Syracuse, New York, United States

Montefiore Hospital

The Bronx, New York, United States

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