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Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) with ageing is thought in part to be related to reduced serum sex hormones which is well-recognized, especially in females, but poorly understood. International studies assessing hormone replacement therapy (HRT) to prevent/reduce MCI are ongoing. MCI leads to morbidity, reduced quality of life and substantial healthcare costs. The commonest therapeutically induced reduction in sex hormone level in men is treatment of prostate cancer (PCa). PCa is androgen dependent and androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) suppressing testosterone to castrate levels is key therapy for advanced disease. About one million men worldwide have received ADT for PCa, mostly using luteinising hormone releasing hormone agonists (LHRHa) although oral oestrogens were used in the past; eventually perhaps 4% of Caucasians may be castrated. MCI as a side effect of castration in men remains poorly researched. This study aims to demonstrate that pathological changes occur in the brains of a significant proportion of prostate cancer patients subjected to ADT that correlate with MCI symptoms. Highlighting the pathological changes of MCI should improve understanding and interventions for slowing/preventing MCI in PCa survivors. Brain scans employing positron emission tomography (PET) imaging technique will be used to detect the presence of pathological changes in the brain that relate to ADT induced MCI. MCI will be assessed by neuropsychological assessments (standard paper-based questionnaires and online) and its neural basis will be investigated using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).


Clinical Trial Description

In males, MCI with aging is thought in part to be related to reduction in serum androgen level and international studies are on-going to prevent age-related cognitive decline using androgen replacement therapy. Reduction in cognitive function often leads to morbidity and reduction in quality of life. The commonest therapeutically induced reduction in sex hormone level in men is in the treatment of prostate cancer. As prostate cancer is androgen dependent for growth, androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT) to suppress serum testosterone level to castration levels (< 1.7mM) is the key therapeutic intervention for advanced disease. Up to 1 million men worldwide are estimated to have been prescribed ADT for prostate cancer, mostly using luteinising hormone releasing hormone agonists (LHRHa). ADT is now also used to treat some early prostate cancer and as early asymptomatic prostate cancer is increasingly being diagnosed and treated following screening with serum prostate-specific antigen (PSA) measurement, estimates suggest that eventually up to 4% of all Caucasians will be castrated, some of them remaining on ADT for as long as 10 years or more. ADT is associated with considerable adverse effects, including MCI. Up to 69% of men showed MCI after six to nine months of ADT, with a decline in at least one cognitive area, most commonly visuospatial ability and executive function. Little work has been done to quantify MCI due to ADT, understand the mechanism, predict which patients will be affected and determine ways of reducing this side effect. Establishing the presence of pathophysiology in ADT induced MCI first is important due to the lack of understanding of the underlying mechanism. A plausible scientific approach in this regard appears to be the use of the brain's immunological response to pathology using a PET imaging ligand for activated microglia. Brain microglia have been demonstrated to be highly responsive to brain injury and are rapidly activated in an attempt to envelope/ contain the focal pathology. When activated, brain microglia have been shown to express the translocator protein (TSPO). The 18 kilo-Dalton (KDa) translocator protein (TSPO) formerly known as the peripheral benzodiazepine receptor (PBR) is widely expressed in the body but is particularly enriched up to 20 to 50 fold in steroid synthesising tissues. High TSPO expression has also been reported in immune cells such as macrophages and monocytes and TSPO is a well-characterised marker of neuroinflammation. PET imaging ligands have been developed for TSPO and used successfully for researching a range of brain disorders. While such imaging does not provide mechanistic information of the underlying pathology, except for the exasperation of frank neuro-inflammation, it does offer a generic sensitive bio-marker for demonstrating the presence of an on-going active pathology ;


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NCT number NCT02061345
Study type Observational
Source Imperial College London
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Status Completed
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Start date April 2014
Completion date January 2022

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