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Background: - Positron emission tomography (PET) uses radioactive substances called radiotracers to locate areas of cancer in the body. For this test, the patient is given an injection of the radiotracer and lies in a large donut-shaped scanner that detects where in the body the radioactivity accumulates. Computed tomography (CT) scans use low dose x-rays that help to better localize where the radioactive tracer is concentrating. PET/CT scans are usually done in lymphoma patients before treatment starts and at the end of treatment to evaluate the response to therapy. - PET scans typically use a sugar-like radioactive tracer called fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) and low-dose x-rays. Sometimes, however, FDG PET scans show what looks like active disease and presence of a mass after chemotherapy even when there are no live cancer cells. Doctors have particular problems in evaluating response to treatment when this happens because they can't tell if the mass is active cancer or just dead tumor cells. - An experimental radiotracer called 18F- Fluorothymidine (FLT) has high uptake in active tumor cells and may be better able to evaluate treatment response. Objectives: - To test the use of FLT PET/CT imaging in assessing treatment response in patients with lymphoma. Eligibility: - Patients 18 years of age or older who are enrolled in a lymphoma therapy study at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center or in the Cancer and Leukemia Group B (CALGB) 50330 study at another location. Design: - There are two arms in this study: - The first arm evaluates FLT as an early predictor of tumor response to therapy. Patients are imaged with FLT and FDG PET before starting treatment, following two cycles of therapy and after treatment ends. - The second arm evaluates the ability of FLT to distinguish if a mass that remains after treatment has viable cancer or dead tissue. Patients who have completed treatment and in whom FDG PET shows a remaining tumor mass are imaged with FLT PET. Following the scan, the tumor is biopsied for verification.


Clinical Trial Description

Background: - 3-deoxy-3-18F-fluorothymidine (FLT) positron emission tomography (FLT PET)/Compute tomography (CT) has been shown to correlate with the rate of cellular/tumor proliferation. - The Imaging Subcommittee of the International Harmonization Project in Lymphoma recommends performing fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) at least 3 weeks, and preferably 6-8 weeks after chemotherapy or chemoimmunotherapy and 8-12 weeks after radiation or chemoradiation therapy due to high FDG accumulation in inflammatory tissues. - FLT uptake in inflammatory lesions is less prominent than FDG and it is likely that FLT PET/CT can better differentiate inflammation from tumor. - FLT PET/CT imaging is expected to better differentiate between treatment induced inflammation and malignancy and should enable early prediction of therapeutic response. - FLT PET/CT imaging is expected to differentiate between residual inflammatory residual masses from residual malignancy and therefore guide appropriate treatment. Primary Objectives: - To estimate the diagnostic accuracy of FLT PET/CT as an early indicator of complete response to therapy in B and T cell lymphoma. - To estimate the diagnostic accuracy of FLT PET/CT in the evaluation of residual masses after therapy. Eligibility: - Participant must be enrolled in a lymphoma therapy study at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center OR be enrolled in the CALGB 50303 study at another site OR undergoing a new course of treatment of lymphoma at another facility. The National Cancer Institute (NCI) Laboratory of Pathology will confirm diagnosis for subjects enrolled at all CALGB study sites. - Participants must have a clinical course consistent with lymphoma and have available documentation of lymphoma from either the NCI or from an outside pathology laboratory. - Subjects enrolling in the early response arm must undergo baseline FLT PET prior to receiving a new course of lymphoma therapy. - Subjects enrolling in the residual mass evaluation arm can be enrolled at the time the FDG avid residual mass is discovered (i.e. no pre-therapy FLT image is required). - Subjects can enroll in both arms of the study. - Participant must be 18 years or older. - Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) Performance score of 0 or 1. - Serum glutamic-oxaloacetic transaminase (SGOT), serum glutamic-pyruvic transaminase (SGPT) less than 5 times upper limit of normal (ULN). - bilirubin less than or equal to 2 times ULN. Design: There are 2 arms in this study - The first arm will assess FLT as an early predictor of tumor response to therapy (treatment naive or recurrent disease). Subjects are imaged with FLT and FDG PET pre-therapy, following 2 cycles of therapy and post therapy. - The second arm will assess lymphoma patients with FDG PET positive residual mass. Subjects are imaged with FLT PET prior to standard of care biopsy of residual mass. If initial FDG PET data is not available in Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) format or is of suboptimal image quality, a repeat FDG PET/CT at the study site may be required. - We will accrue 70 participants (40 in the early response arm and 30 in the residual mass arm) to this study. ;


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NCT number NCT00775268
Study type Interventional
Source National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC)
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Status Terminated
Phase Phase 1/Phase 2
Start date September 29, 2008
Completion date October 23, 2014

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