Drug Screening Using Novel IMD in Renal Cell Carcinoma

Renal Cell Carcinoma Clinical Trial

Official title:

Pilot Study of an Implantable Microdevice for in Situ Evaluation of Drug Response in Renal Cell Carcinoma

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05700461
• Other study ID #: 22-492
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: Phase 1
• Start date: April 24, 2023
• Est. completion date: March 2026

Study information

• Verified date: June 2023
• Source: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
• Contact: Wenxin Xu, MD
• Phone: 617-632-6534
• Email: Wenxin_Xu1[@]dfci.harvard.edu
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This research is being done to study the safety and feasibility of implanting and retrieving a microdevice that releases microdoses of 19 specific drugs or drug combinations as a possible tool to evaluate the effectiveness of several cancer drugs against metastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCC).

The name of the intervention(s) involved in this study are:

• Implantable Microdevice (IMD)

• Surgery (excision of tumor)

• Drugs used in this study will only include drugs already used as standard of care for the treatment of metastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCC)

Description:

This Pilot research is being done to study the safety and feasibility of implanting and retrieving a microdevice that releases microdoses of 19 specific drugs or drug combinations as a possible tool to evaluate the effectiveness of several cancer drugs against metastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCC). The drugs participants receive will include medications currently used as standard-of-care treatment for metastatic RCC as well as medications currently approved in other cancer types that are under investigation for treatment of RCC.

• This study involves planting 1 to 6 microdevices, each small enough to fit inside the tip of a needle, into a tumor. The microdevices will release microdoses of cancer drugs via passive diffusion. The drugs will only penetrate the local tumor tissues.

• After approximately 3 days, the microdevices and small regions of surrounding tissues will be removed and analyzed.

The research study procedures include screening for eligibility, study imaging and evaluations, blood collections, tumor biopsies, and follow up visits.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has not approved the microdevice as a treatment for any disease.

The drugs being used have been FDA-approved for the treatment of cancers.

Participation in this research study is expected to last up to 4 months.

It is expected that about 5 people will take part in this research study.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 5
• Est. completion date: March 2026
• Est. primary completion date: March 2024
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients must have the ability to understand and the willingness to sign a written informed consent document.

• Participants must have confirmed or suspected metastatic renal cell carcinoma, and must be planned for either nephrectomy or metastatectomy as part of their clinical care. The lesion planned for excision must be at least 1cm in size.

• Participants must be 18 years of age or older.

• Participants must be evaluated by a medical oncologist who will determine the clinically appropriate treatment strategy based on clinical history and extent of disease.

• Patients must be deemed medically stable to undergo both percutaneous procedures and standard-of-care surgical procedures.

• Participants will undergo laboratory testing within 30 days prior to the procedure (or within 72 hours if there has been a change in the clinical status since the initial blood draw). Patients must have absolute neutrophil count =1,000/mcL, platelets =50,000/mcL, PT (INR) 1.5 and PTT <1.5x control.

• Participants must have undergone CT or MRI that assesses the extent of disease and allows the research team to assess for study eligibility. This will have been done as part of the standard-of-care.

• The participant's case must be reviewed by representatives of interventional radiology and the appropriate surgical subspecialty to assess the following factors:

• Patient is clinically stable to undergo microdevice implantation and surgical procedures

• Patient has sufficient volume of disease to allow implantation of the microdevice

• Patient has a lesion for which the microdevice is a) amenable to percutaneous placement, and b) amenable to removal at the time of surgery

• Patients must be willing to undergo research-related genetic sequencing (somatic and germline) and data management, including the deposition of de-identified genetic sequencing data in NIH central data repositories.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Uncontrolled intercurrent illness including, but not limited to, ongoing or active infection, symptomatic congestive heart failure, unstable angina pectoris, unstable cardiac arrhythmia, or psychiatric illness/social situations that would limit the safety of a biopsy and/or surgery.

• Uncorrectable bleeding or coagulation disorder known to cause increased risk with surgical or biopsy procedures (detailed below).

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Carcinoma
• Carcinoma, Renal Cell
• Kidney Cancer
• Kidney Neoplasms
• Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma
• Renal Cell Carcinoma

Intervention

Combination Product:
• Implantable Microdevice (IMD)
Small, implantable device with 20 microreservoirs for drug and drug combinations, via needle, percutaneously, and guided by interventional radiologic techniques. Drugs include all or a subset of the following: Cabozantinib, Pazopanib, Lenvatinib, Axitinib, Ipilimumab, Nivolumab, Pembrolizumab, Carboplatin, Paclitaxel, Abemaciclib, Gemcitabine, Everolimus, Belzutifan, Cabozantinib + nivolumab, Cabozantinib + belzutifan, Ipilimumab + nivolumab, Lenvatinib + pembrolizumab, Lenvatinib + everolimus, Abemaciclib + belzutifan, and Tivozanib.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Dana-Farber Cancer Institute	Boston	Massachusetts

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Wenxin Xu

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Number of Patients with Safe Microdevice Procedure	Defined by any grade 3-5 adverse event (AE) associated with microdevice placement or retrieval (attribution possible or higher) based on CTCAEv5.	Up to 45 days
Primary	Number of Patients with Feasible Microdevice Procedure	Defined as technical success of microdevice placement and microdevice retrieval from the surgery specimen plus having sufficient amount and quality of tissue for histopathology analysis and interpretation of at least 50% of the microdevice reservoirs.	72 hours