68Ga-DOTATATE Neuroblastoma Imaging Pilot

Neuroblastoma Clinical Trial

Official title:

Pilot Study of 68Ga-DOTATATE PET/CT and 123I-MIBG Scintigraphy Imaging of Neuroblastoma

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04559217
• Other study ID #: 2021-3828
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: Phase 2
• Start date: December 6, 2021
• Est. completion date: September 30, 2027

Study information

• Verified date: February 2024
• Source: Centre de recherche du Centre hospitalier universitaire de Sherbrooke
• Contact: Amelie Tetu, MSc
• Phone: 819-346-1110
• Email: amelie.tetu.ciussse-chus[@]ssss.gouv.qc.ca
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Neuroblastoma is the most frequent extracranial childhood tumor, with an annual incidence of approximately 10.2 per million children. Staging of the disease can be done by different imaging strategies (CT, MRI, scintigraphy and PET/CT). Discrepancies may be observed among these different strategies resulting in different treatment strategies. The goal of this study is to assess the feasibility and safety of 68Ga-DOTATATE and to compare it to 123I-MIBG when investigating neuroblastoma.

Description:

Background: Neuroblastoma is the most frequent extracranial childhood tumor, with an annual incidence of approximately 10.2 per million children. Initial staging of the disease and monitoring of the treatment response can be performed with different imaging modalities that include contrast-enhanced computed tomography (ceCT), ultrasound, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), bone scintigraphy and 123I-MIBG scintigraphy.

Another potential target for neuroblastoma imaging is the somatostatin receptor (SSTR) that is present in many neuroendocrine tumours (NET). The superior PET imaging technology used with new radiotracers (such as 68Ga-DOTATATE) enables imaging at advantageous resolutions well below what is possible by current clinical SPECT systems that are used for 123I-MIBG.

Design: Prospective single-arm non-randomized clinical trial (phase II) - pilot

Objective: 1) Assess the feasibility and safety of 68Ga-DOTATATE PET/CT imaging in patients with neuroblastoma or suspected of having neuroblastoma. 2) Compare lesion-by-lesion the uptake of 68Ga-DOTATATE and 123I-MIBG in the same participant.

Study population: Children and adults with biopsy-proven or suspected neuroblastoma

Procedure and Follow-up: Few days after 123I-MIBG scan, participants will undergo a 68Ga-DOTA-cTATE PET/CT scan (duration 2 hours). Clinical data will be collected from this imaging and from the participant's medical record (demographic, treatment, medication, pathology, lab test results) for a 2-year follow-up period.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 20
• Est. completion date: September 30, 2027
• Est. primary completion date: December 15, 2026
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: N/A to 21 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Newly suspected or biopsy-proven neuroblastoma or recurrence of neuroblastoma

• Planned 123I-MIBG imaging

• Able and willing to provide signed informed consent in French or English (for the adult candidates or the parent/legal tutor of the pediatric candidates)

• Aged between 1 day and 21 years old (inclusively).

Exclusion Criteria:

• History of another cancer in the past 5 years other than non-melanomatous skin cancer.

• Currently under a randomized control trial with unknown allocation;

• Currently under treatment;

• Medical/surgical intervention on the tumour between 123I-MIBG and 68Ga-DOTATATE PET/CT scan.

• Medically unstable or unable to undergo scan.

• Pregnancy (breastfeeding is not an exclusion criterion but needs to be stopped for at least 12 hours after 68Ga-DOTATATE injection).

• Prior allergic reaction to somatostatin analogues

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Neuroblastoma

Intervention

Biological:
• Radiopharmaceutical 68Ga-DOTATATE
Injection of 68Ga-DOTATATE followed by PET/CT acquisition

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Canada	CHU Ste-Justine	Montréal	Quebec
Canada	McGill University Health Center - Children's hospital	Montréal	Quebec
Canada	CIUSSS de l'Estrie-CHUS Hospital	Sherbrooke	Quebec

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Centre de recherche du Centre hospitalier universitaire de Sherbrooke

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Canada, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Accrual rate	Number of participants enrolled / year	For the duration of the study, lasting 6 years
Primary	Rate of adverse events	Number of adverse events (being serious or not) associated to the intervention (injection of 68Ga-DOTATATE and PET/CT acquisition	Up to 24 hours following injection of 68Ga-DOTATATE
Secondary	Positive lesions for 68Ga-DOTATATE	SUV mean of the lesion	One hour post-injection of 68Ga-DOTATATE
Secondary	Discordance of positive lesions for 68Ga-DOTATATE and positive lesions of 123I-MIBG	the number of discordant lesions divided by the number of total positive lesions is the discordance rate	Within one week (period between 123I-MIBG scan and 68Ga-DOTATATE scan)