Active clinical trials for "Prostatic Neoplasms"

The purpose of this study is to see if a new diagnostic research agent named 68Ga-HBED-CC-PSMA can show prostate cancer on a PET/CT scan that cannot be seen on other standard imaging even when the PSA levels are very low.

This study will prospectively compare liquid-biopsy based methods for prediction of resistance under androgen-receptor signaling inhibitors. The main goal is to determine the optimal method to determine androgen-receptor variant 7 (AR-V7) status. In addition, the investigators will explore novel other, AR-V7 independent mechanisms of resistance and their predictive value for proper treatment. These are based on further AR splice variants, and on neuroendocrine differentiation of prostate cancer cells.

This study investigates if a new drug (PSMA) makes prostate cancer easier to identify in positron-emission tomography (PET) imaging. If this works, prostate cancer treatments can be prescribed that match the location of the disease. PSMA is radiolabeled with Gallium-68 (Ga-68). This means a participant receives a small dose of radiation from the drug - less than the annual radiation limit for a medical worker. To test this new drug, participants will receive an injection of Ga-68 PSMA and then have a PET scan. This PET scan, and the reported results, will be entered into the medical record and shared with the treating oncologists.

This study will enroll prostate cancer patients with an unfavorable diagnosis. Subjects will receive a combination of pembrolizumab, Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT) to the prostate, and short-term androgen deprivation therapy (STADT or Short-term ADT). After receiving this "trimodal therapy", subjects will undergo a radical prostatectomy. The prostate tissue will be analyzed for differences in pathology and local immune cell infiltration, and subjects will be followed for 2 years to watch for prostate specific antigen (PSA) recurrence. The PSA results will be analyzed by comparing them to historical controls that have already been published, to learn if this therapy approach delays PSA rise.

Patients with prostate cancer who are candidates for stereotactic radiotherapy to the prostate and seminal vesicles will undergo staging exams which will include prostate specific memrane antigen (PSMA) positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET-CT). If the PET scan is negative and the uroflowmetry is acceptable, the patients will perform the treatment, after fiducial implantation, simulation CT and magnetic resonance (MR), in a single fraction, delivered with an high-dose-rate (HDR)-like urethral sparing technique. In 70 patients acute and late toxicity, biochemical control, overall, cancer specific survival and quality of life with specific questionnaires will be evaluated.

This is an observational study in which only data are collected from participants receiving their usual treatment. In this study, data will be collected and studied from men with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer (mHSPC). Prostate cancer is a common cancer in men that starts in the prostate gland, a male reproductive gland found below the bladder. Metastatic means that the cancer has spread to other parts of the body. Hormone-sensitive means it can be treated with hormone-therapy such as androgen deprivation therapy (ADT). ADT lowers the level of testosterone, a male hormone, and slows down the growth of cancer cells. Men with mHSPC and who have been decided by their own doctors to be treated with darolutamide in combination with ADT and docetaxel can join this study. Darolutamide works by blocking the testosterone signals to slow the growth of the cancer cells. Docetaxel is a medicine used to treat different types of cancer. It works by stopping the growth and spread of cancer cells. Darolutamide in combination with docetaxel and ADT is an approved treatment for men with mHSPC. It was approved based on a study called ARASENS. More information is needed on how safe darolutamide is when given with ADT and docetaxel in Japanese men with mHSPC. The main purpose of this study is to collect information about the safety of this combination treatment in Japanese participants with mHSPC under real-world conditions. The main information that researchers will collect: Number and severity of heart-related medical problems participants have during the treatment Other information that researchers will collect: Number and severity of all medical problems participants have during the study Age and other information about the participants such as their illness, medical history, and other medicines taken at the same time Treatment pattern of darolutamide such as the amount of medicine given, the duration for which it is given, and any changes made to the treatment Data will be collected from August 2023 to July 2026. Researchers will observe participants from the start of darolutamide treatment until 30 days after they receive their last dose of docetaxel, which is expected to be approximately 6 months for each participant. In this study, data from regular health visits will be collected. No visits or tests are required as part of this study.

Although surgical or medical castration (i.e., androgen-deprivation therapy, ADT) is considered standard treatment in metastatic castration-naïve PC (mCNPC) patients, current guidelines have established the addition docetaxel or modern androgen receptor targeting agents (ARTAs; abiraterone acetate or enzalutamide) to ADT as the standard of care for patients with mCNPC [1,2]. One of the major challenges in the management of mCNPC includes balancing the toxicity of first-line docetaxel with clinical benefit. Our previous clinical studies suggested that the tolerability of docetaxel could be improved by using a biweekly regimen [3,4], without compromising efficacy. There is a growing interest in maintenance therapy as a strategy for prolonging the benefit of first-line therapy while minimizing long-term toxicity. In phase III trials involving first-line enzalutamide in mCNPC (ENZAMET and ARCHES), earlier treatment with docetaxel was permitted [5,6]. Based on these considerations, we hypothesized that enzalutamide maintenance therapy would improve outcomes in patients who had received first-line biweekly docetaxel plus ADT for mCNPC.

This is a randomized controlled and non-inferiority trial in comparison of intraperitoneal laparoscopic radical prostatectomy without drainage tube between intraperitoneal laparoscopic radical prostatectomy with drainage tube in the safety in men with a localized prostate cancer.

This trial collects multiple tissue and blood samples, along with medical information, from cancer patients. The "Cancer Moonshot Biobank" is a longitudinal study. This means it collects and stores samples and information over time, throughout the course of a patient's cancer treatment. By looking at samples and information collected from the same people over time, researchers hope to better understand how cancer changes over time and over the course of medical treatments.

The study is a prospective, single arm phase I/II study. The primary aim of this study is to evaluate the feasibility of 111In-PSMA I&T radio guided surgery in patients diagnosed with prostate cancer who are highly suspected of having one or more pelvic lymph node metastases based on pre-operative imaging. Patients with prostate cancer who have a high risk of lymph node metastases based on PSMA PET/CT and scheduled for robot-assisted PLND (with or without prostatectomy) will be recruited. Eligible patients will receive an additional ferumoxtran-10 enhanced MRI to complement pre-operative imaging. Twenty-four hours before surgery, patients will receive the radiolabelled PSMA tracer. Pelvic Lymph node dissections are carried out according to standard of care procedures. During surgery, the surgeon will be provided with a gamma-probe to detect PSMA expressing lymph nodes in vivo. Dissected samples will be systematically assessed on tracer accumulation using the gamma-probe ex vivo. After surgery, the samples will be scanned in the small animal SPECT/CT and 7T-MRI. After scanning, samples will be presented to pathologists for pathological analysis according to standard of care including staining for PSMA expression. At 3 months after surgery, patients will undergo a PSMA-PET/CT. Up until one year after surgery patients will be followed according to standard of care-guidelines by 3-monthly serum-PSA measurements.