MR Image Guided Focal Therapy in Prostate Cancer
Background:
- Pilot study is designed to evaluate the safety and feasibility of thermal laser
ablation of focal prostate tumors.
- Prostate cancer is relatively slow growing, with doubling times for local tumors
estimated at 2 to 4 years.
- Some prostate cancers prove to be small, low grade, and noninvasive and they appear to
pose little risk to the life or health of the host. Recent patient series suggest that
20% to 30% of men undergoing radical prostatectomy have pathologic features in the
radical prostatectomy specimen consistent with an insignificant or indolent cancer
which poses little threat to life or health.
- We propose that patients with low volume and low grade disease can be best served with
focal ablation of the visible prostate cancer without the side effects of urinary
incontinence and erectile dysfunction associated with radiation therapy or radical
surgery.
Objectives:
Primary Objective:
-To determine feasibility and safety of magnetic resonance image-guided focal laser ablation
of biopsy confirmed and MR visible prostate cancer.
Secondary Objective:
- To evaluate tolerability of treatment
- To determine changes in imaging and biopsy characteristics after thermal ablation of
localized prostate cancer
- To obtain preliminary data, as a follow-up to this study, regarding the effect of
thermal ablation using Visualase on short and long term complication rate.
- To compare Visualase estimates of thermal damage to post contrast MRI images.
- Determine outcome of laser ablation for treatment of prostate cancer using serial PSA,
PSA density, changes in imaging, IPSS, and SHIM.
Eligibility:
- Greater than 18 years of age
- Organ confined prostate cancer, observed on MR, and confirmed by Transrectal biopsy
- Preoperative workup as dictated by the NCCN.org prostate cancer guidelines
- PSA < 15 ng or PSA density < 0.15 ng/ml in patients with a PSA > 15 ng
Design:
- Pilot study, testing feasibility, safety and tolerability of thermal ablation of focal
prostate cancer
- It is anticipated that 15 patients will be accrued for this study
Interventional
Allocation: Non-Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Safety Study, Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Treatment
To determine feasibility and safety of magnetic resonance image-guided focal laser ablation of biopsy confirmed and MR visible prostate cancer.
3 years
No
Peter A Pinto, M.D.
Principal Investigator
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
United States: Federal Government
110158
NCT01377753
May 2011
April 2014
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National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, 9000 Rockville Pike | Bethesda, Maryland 20892 |