qBOLD MRI of Glioblastoma Multiforme for Assessment of Tumor Hypoxia.

Glioblastoma Clinical Trial

Official title:

Quantitative Blood Oxygenation Level Dependent (qBOLD) MR Imaging of Glioblastoma Multiforme for Assessment of Tumor Hypoxia.

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02466828
• Other study ID #: 127-2014
• Status: Completed
• Phase: Early Phase 1
• First received: November 21, 2014
• Last updated: April 17, 2018
• Start date: March 2015
• Est. completion date: April 2018

Study information

• Verified date: April 2018
• Source: Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most common primary malignant brain neoplasm in adults. Despite recent diagnostic and therapeutic advances, including aggressive surgical resection and chemoradiation, the prognosis of GBM has improved only slightly over the past two decades, with median survival of approximately 15 months. Tumor hypoxia is a feature of GBM that contributes to poor outcome through multiple mechanisms such as 1) overexpression of enzymes that play roles in temozolomide resistance, the main chemotherapeutic agent in GBM and 2) increase expression of cancer stem cells which are more resistant to radiation. Hypoxic tumour regions are associated with higher rates of progression and recurrence.

In this study the investigators will use an advanced MRI technique called qBOLD to non-invasively measure oxygenation in GBM and obtain targeted biopsies. The investigators take advantage of physical characteristics of Ferumoxytol (Feraheme®) which is an iron supplement, and utilize two recent technical advances not previously used in human tumours to quantitatively measure oxygenation in GBM.

Prior knowledge of hypoxia can assist in prognostication and individualization of treatment planning with special focus on hypoxic regions by targeted radiation dose or regimen modulation; consideration of more intensive chemotherapy regimens; more aggressive and targeted surgical resection and closer short-term clinical and imaging follow-ups.

Description:

We propose a study to demonstrate quantitative oxygen saturation estimation in GBM is feasible with qBOLD and it correlates with established histopathological markers of hypoxia and angiogenesis, and targeted intraoperative oxygen measurement.

All patients will undergo surgery as part of their standard treatment. By coregistering the hypoxia map on presurgical MRI we will be able to do the following:

1. Obtain targeted biopsies of the hypoxic areas and none hypoxic areas and correlate them with gold standard marker of tissue hypoxia by immunohistochemistry for hypoxia induced factor-1α (HIF-1α).

2. Draw Volumes of interests (VOI) over areas >0.5-cm3 (amenable to accurate intra-operative O2 measurement) with the lowest and highest oxygen saturation (SO2) values. VOIs will be then imported into the neuronavigation system (Stryker) for targeted placement of clinically approved Licox® oxygen-sensing probe (Integra NeuroSciences).

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 10
• Est. completion date: April 2018
• Est. primary completion date: April 2018
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Adult (>18 year old) patients with newly diagnosed GBM presenting to our centre for surgical management and post-operative chemoradiation

2. Creatinine clearance > 60 ml/minute

3. Able to tolerate an MR scan

4. Capable of providing informed consent.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Prior brain surgery or radiation

2. History of liver disease requiring liver MRI (due to accumulation of ferumoxytol in Kupffer cells which can affect liver MRI for up to 3 months)

3. On more than two antihypertensive medications

4. History of allergy or adverse reaction to iron supplements

5. Prior treatment with ferumoxytol

6. Large (>50%) hemorrhagic component in the solid enhancing part of the tumor

7. Need for emergency craniotomy.

8. Pregnant patients

9. Breast feeding

10. Serum ferritin of >800 ng/mL

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Glioblastoma
• Hypoxia

Intervention

Drug:
• Feraheme®
Drug will be diluted in 50 cc normal saline and infused over 15-60 minutes depending on patient condition.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Canada	St. Michael's Hospital	Toronto	Ontario
Canada	Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre	Toronto	Ontario

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre	St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Canada, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Oxygen saturation in GBM with qBOLD MRI and its correlation with histological markers of tissue hypoxia and angiogenesis	Pre-operative qBOLD imaging and O2 saturation mapping will be performed in 27 newly diagnosed GBM patients and targeted biopsies will be obtained from the hypoxic and non-hypoxic regions of the tumor.	Within 8 hours after the MRI exam is complete
Secondary	Oxygen saturation in GBM with qBOLD MRI and its correlation with targeted intraoperative oxygen measurement	Volumes of interest from the hypoxic and non-hypoxic regions of the tumor will be imported into the neuronavigation system (Stryker) for targeted placement of Licox® oxygen-sensing probe (Integra NeuroSciences).	Within 8 hours after the MRI exam is complete