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The purpose of this project is to validate a new combined MRI and PET imaging technique as a biomarker or measure of glycolysis in brain tumors. To accomplish this, the investigators propose obtaining image-guided measures of tissue pH and biopsied tissue in tumor areas selected for bulk resection surgery. Investigators will then correlate the imaging measurements with pH, RNA expression, protein expression, and bioenergetics measurements of key glycolytic enzymes.


Clinical Trial Description

Patients who are scheduled for resection of glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) as part of standard care will be invited to take part in the study. All patients will undergo FDG-PET scan for the study using standard clinical imaging techniques, along with standard brain MRI plus up to approximately 15 minutes of investigational MR imaging sequences to permit calculation of "glycolytic index" as an experimental GBM imaging biomarker. Prior to bulk tumor resection at the patient's scheduled surgery, pH measurements, using the SoftCell pH probe, will be taken from approximately 3 anatomic sites that have been correlated with the imaging glycolytic index calculation. Following pH measurements, the patient's clinical biopsy/tumor resection will take place as planned for clinical care. Tissue samples resected during the clinical procedure will be obtained and processed using immunohistochemistry techniques for further assessments, including RNA sequencing and bioenergetics analysis. The current study will investigate the central hypothesis that biopsied tumor tissue undergoing high levels of glycolysis via RNA expression, protein expression, and bioenergetics analyses can be reliably detected, correlates with direct measure of tissue pH, and is strongly associated with a "glycolytic index" created by combining 18F-FDG PET, amine CEST-SAGE-EPI, perfusion MRI and diffusion MRI. In addition, the investigators will investigate whether metabolic differences identified from this imaging modality may identify infiltrating non-enhancing tumor cells. FDG: 18F-2-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose fluorodeoxyglucose CEST: chemical exchange saturation transfer SAGE: spin and gradient echo EPI: echo planar imaging IHC: immuno-histochemical rCBF: regional cerebral blood flow rCBV: relative cerebral volume DSC: dynamic susceptibility contrast ADC: apparent diffusion coefficient MCT: Monocarboxylate transporters ;


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NCT number NCT06059690
Study type Interventional
Source Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center
Contact Raksha Nagaraj
Phone 310-794-8995
Email RNagaraj@mednet.ucla.edu
Status Recruiting
Phase Phase 1/Phase 2
Start date September 6, 2023
Completion date September 30, 2028

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