Sonocloud-9 in Association With Carboplatin Versus Standard-of-Care Chemotherapies (CCNU or TMZ) in Recurrent GBM

Glioblastoma Clinical Trial

— SONOBIRD  

Official title:

A Randomized, Open-label, Multicentric, Two-arm Pivotal Trial of SonoCloud-9 Combined With Carboplatin (CBDCA) vs Standard of Care Lomustine (CCNU) or Temozolomide (TMZ) in Patients Undergoing Planned Resection for First Recurrence Glioblastoma.

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05902169
• Other study ID #: SC9-GBM-03
• Secondary ID: 2023-505829-14-0
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: Phase 3
• Start date: January 29, 2024
• Est. completion date: June 30, 2028

Study information

• Verified date: April 2024
• Source: CarThera
• Contact: Carole Desseaux
• Phone: +33 472 626 268
• Email: carole.desseaux[@]carthera.eu
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The brain is protected from any toxic or inflammatory molecule by the blood-brain barrier (BBB). This physical barrier is located at the level of the blood vessel walls. Because of these barrier properties, the blood vessels are also impermeable to the passage of therapeutic molecules from the blood to the brain. The development of effective treatments against glioblastoma is thus limited due to the BBB that prevents most drugs injected in the bloodstream from getting into brain tissue where the tumour is seated. The SonoCloud-9 (SC9) is an investigational device using ultrasound technology and specially developed to open the BBB in the area of and surrounding the tumour. The transient opening of the BBB allows more drugs to reach the brain tumour tissue. Carboplatin is a chemotherapy that is approved to treat different cancer types alone or in combination with other drugs, and has been used in the treatment of glioblastoma. Despite its proven efficacy in the laboratory on glioblastoma cells, carboplatin does not readily cross the BBB in humans. A clinical trial has shown that in combination with the SonoCloud-9, more carboplatin can reach the brain tumour tissue. The objective of the proposed trial is to show that the association - carboplatin with the SonoCloud-9 - will increase efficacy of the drug in patients with recurrent glioblastoma.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 560
• Est. completion date: June 30, 2028
• Est. primary completion date: January 28, 2028
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Histologically proven glioblastoma (WHO criteria 2021), absence of IDH mutation demonstrated by negative IDH1 R132H staining on Immunohistochemistry.

2. Patient must have received prior first line therapy that must have contained both:

1. Prior surgery or biopsy and standard fractionated radiotherapy (1.8-2 Gy/fraction, >56 Gy<66 Gy) or hypofractionated radiotherapy (15 x 2.66 Gy or similar regimen)

2. One line of maintenance chemotherapy and/or immune- or biological therapy, (with or without Tumor-Treating Fields)

3. First, unequivocal disease progression with

1. measurable tumor (>100 mm2 or 1 cm3, based on RANO criteria) documented (e.g., increase of 25% in tumor diameter) on MRI performed within 14 days of inclusion and,

2. interval of a minimum of 12 weeks since the completion of prior radiotherapy, unless there is a new lesion outside the radiation field or unequivocal evidence of viable tumor on histopathological sampling

4. Patient is candidate for craniotomy and at least 50% resection of enhancing region

5. Maximal enhancing tumor diameter prior to inclusion = 5 cm on T1w. (In case of planned lobectomy, post operative peritumoral brain or residual size =5 cm)

6. WHO performance status = 2 (equivalent to Karnofsky Performance Status (KPS) = 70)

7. Age = 18 years

8. Participant must be recovered from acute toxic effects (<grade 2) of all prior anticancer therapy. Interval since last therapy to presumed date of surgery of at

least:

1. = 4 weeks or 5 half-lives (whichever is shorter) for

• Cytotoxic
• Other small chemical entity (e.g., targeted therapy)
• For biologics (e.g., antibodies, except bevacizumab)

2. = 6 weeks of prior bevacizumab

9. Adequate hematologic, hepatic, and renal laboratory values within 14 days of inclusion

i.e.:

1. Hemoglobin = 10 g/dL, platelets = 100,000/mm3, neutrophils = 1500/mm3.

2. Liver function test with = grade 1 alterations, except if due to antiepileptic drug therapy or isolated increased bilirubin due to Gilbert syndrome

3. Estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) of at least 60 mL/min/1.73 m2 using Cockcroft Gault formula

10. Patient able to understand clinical trial information and willing to provide signed and informed consent

11. Patient of childbearing potential must have a negative pregnancy test within 14 days of inclusion and must agree to use a medically-acceptable method of birth control during the treatment period and, if randomized in the experimental arm, for at least 1 month after the last cycle of carboplatin

12. A male patient must agree to use condoms during the treatment period and, if randomized in the experimental arm, for at least 3 months after the last cycle of carboplatin; the patient must also refrain from donating sperm during this period.

13. Patient must be a beneficiary of a health plan that covers routine patient care costs. Patient must be a beneficiary of or affiliated with a social security scheme (according to country-specific requirements)

Non-Inclusion Criteria:

1. Multifocal enhancing tumor on T1w (unless all localized in a 5 cm diameter area)

2. Posterior fossa tumor

3. Known BRAF/ NTKR mutated patients

4. Patient at risk of surgery site infection (e.g., 2 or more previous craniotomies/neurosurgery within the last 3 months, poor skin condition, and/or previously infected surgical field, or any other condition that is of increased infectious risk in the opinion of the neurosurgeon)

5. Patient treated at high, stable -or average- dose of corticosteroids (= 6 mg/day dexamethasone or equivalent) in the 7 days prior to inclusion. Patients on dexamethasone for reasons other than mass effect may still be enrolled.

6. Contra-indication to carboplatin, CCNU or TMZ

7. Known history of hypersensitivity reactions to perflutren lipid microsphere components or to any of the inactive ingredients in ultrasound resonator

8. Patient has received bevacizumab for other reasons (such as tumor progression) than treating edema

9. Peripheral neuropathy or neuropathy = grade 2

10. Uncontrolled epilepsy or evidence of intracranial pressure

11. Patient with known intracranial aneurism or having presented intra-tumor significant spontaneous hemorrhage

12. Patient with unremovable coils, clips, shunts, intravascular stents, and/or wafer, or reservoirs

13. Patient with medical need to be on continued anti-platelet aggregation therapy and/or anticoagulation. Patients for whom anticoagulation/platelet aggregation can be temporarily interrupted may be eligible after discussion and prior authorization by the sponsor.

14. Patient receiving enzyme-inducing antiepileptic drugs (namely phenytoin, carbamazepine and derivatives, phenobarbital), unless switched on another antiepileptic regimen

15. History of other malignancy within 3 years prior to study start with the exception of adequately treated basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, non-melanomatous skin cancer or carcinoma in situ of the uterine cervix

16. Patient with known or suspected active or chronic infections

17. Patient with known significant cardiac disease, known to have right-to-left shunts, severe pulmonary hypertension (pulmonary artery pressure > 90 mm Hg), uncontrolled systemic hypertension, or acute respiratory distress syndrome

18. Known sensitivity/allergy to gadolinium, or other intravascular contrast agents

19. Patient with impaired thermo-regulation or temperature sensation

20. Pregnant, or breastfeeding patient

21. Any other serious patient medical or psychological condition that may interfere with adequate and safe delivery of treatment and care (e.g., positive human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] status, potential blood-borne infections,…), circumstance (e.g., sinus opening during surgery), psychological, morphological characteristics (e.g., skin characteristics, bone thickness), or any pre-existing comorbidities that in the investigator's opinion may prevent the implantation of the device, may impair the ability of the patient to receive treatment with SonoCloud-9 or may be confounding for evaluation of the clinical trial endpoints

22. Patients under guardianship, curatorship, under legal protection or deprived of liberty by an administrative or judicial decision Exclusion Criterion: Occurrence of any major medical illnesses or impairments that in the Investigator's opinion may hampered the ability of the patient to receive treatment with SonoCloud-9 or may be confounding for evaluation of the clinical endpoints.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• GBM
• Glioblastoma
• Recurrent Glioblastoma

Intervention

Device:
• SonoCloud-9 (SC9)
Implantation of SC9 device and repeat activation at constant acoustic pressure

Drug:
• Carboplatin
Dose of carboplatin AUC 5 mg/ml.min-1 calculated using Calvert's formula: Dose (mg) = target AUC (mg/mL x minute) x [glomerular filtration rate (GFR) mL/minute + 25].
• Lomustine
Dosed and administered per labelling.
• Temozolomide
Dosed and administered per labelling.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Belgium	Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel	Brussel
Belgium	Universitair Ziekenhuis Leuven	Leuven
Belgium	CHU de Liège	Liège
France	Hôpital Neurologique Pierre Wertheimer	Bron
France	Hôpital de La Timone	Marseille
France	Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière	Paris
Germany	Neurochirurgie uniklinik Köln	Köln
Italy	Istituto Oncologico Veneto	Padua
Netherlands	Erasmus Medisch Centrum (Erasmus MC)	Rotterdam
Spain	Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre	Madrid
United States	University of North Carolina	Chapel Hill	North Carolina
United States	Northwestern University	Chicago	Illinois
United States	NewYork-Presbyterian / Columbia University Irving Medical Center	New York	New York

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
CarThera

Countries where clinical trial is conducted

United States,  Belgium,  France,  Germany,  Italy,  Netherlands,  Spain, 

References & Publications (2)

Carpentier A, Canney M, Vignot A, Reina V, Beccaria K, Horodyckid C, Karachi C, Leclercq D, Lafon C, Chapelon JY, Capelle L, Cornu P, Sanson M, Hoang-Xuan K, Delattre JY, Idbaih A. Clinical trial of blood-brain barrier disruption by pulsed ultrasound. Sci Transl Med. 2016 Jun 15;8(343):343re2. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aaf6086. — View Citation

Sonabend AM, Gould A, Amidei C, Ward R, Schmidt KA, Zhang DY, Gomez C, Bebawy JF, Liu BP, Bouchoux G, Desseaux C, Helenowski IB, Lukas RV, Dixit K, Kumthekar P, Arrieta VA, Lesniak MS, Carpentier A, Zhang H, Muzzio M, Canney M, Stupp R. Repeated blood-brain barrier opening with an implantable ultrasound device for delivery of albumin-bound paclitaxel in patients with recurrent glioblastoma: a phase 1 trial. Lancet Oncol. 2023 May;24(5):509-522. doi: 10.1016/S1470-2045(23)00112-2. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Other	Safety and Tolerability	Frequency and severity of adverse events scored according to the Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE), version 5.0, from surgery to End-of-Trial Intervention visit	Up to week 24
Primary	Overall survival (OS)	Survival status will be collected during the treatment period, for up to 7 months (short-term follow-up) and then every 3 months as standard of care follow-up (long-term follow-up) until participant's 'End of Study', defined as end of survival follow-up period, death, withdrawal of consent for the collection of data, or 'lost to follow-up' (whichever comes first).	Up to 24 months
Secondary	Tumor Growth Rate	Tumor Growth Rate will be determined by measuring hyperintense tumor volume using T1w contrast-enhancing tumor-related region from post-surgery MRI baseline to unequivocal progression MRI (i.e., suspected radiologic progression confirmed by repeat scan).	Up to week 24
Secondary	Progression Free Survival (PFS)	Defined as the time from date of randomization to the earlier of the following events: unequivocal tumor progression as determined by IRC per RANO criteria or death due to any cause.	Up to 24 months
Secondary	Overall survival at 12 months (OS12)	Defined as the proportion of participants alive at 12 months	12 months
Secondary	Overall survival at 18 months (OS18)	Defined as the proportion of participants alive at 18 months	18 months
Secondary	Progression-free survival at 6 months (PFS6)	Defined as the proportion of participants without disease progression or death due to any cause at 6 months.	6 months

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