Interest of the 18F-DOPA-PET Imaging in Metastatic Melanoma Treated With B-RAF Inhibitors: a Pilot Study

NCT ID: NCT02038348

Last Updated: 2022-11-14

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: PHASE2
• Total Enrollment: 5 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2016-02-16
• Study Completion Date: 2022-10-28

Brief Summary

Melanoma incidence is increasing in most developed countries. At the metastatic stage, the prognosis is usually poor. Major advances have been obtained over the last 3 years with the development of therapies targeting the MAP kinases pathway.

Vemurafenib (zelboraf®) is approved in France since 2012 as first treatment of metastatic melanoma carrying a B-RAF mutation.

For growth, the tumor needs an adequate supply of nutrients to allow the synthesis of macromolecules and a contribution in carbon elements to ensure the production of energy. The nutrition demand is met through greater availability of nutrients via tumor angiogenesis and through increased intracellular penetration of nutrients via specific upregulation of transport systems and metabolic pathways.

Scanner is the imaging method most commonly used for the evaluation of therapeutic response. Such a method gives a morphological indication but does not evaluate the metabolic response.

With the development of functional imaging techniques and the advent of positron emission tomography (PET), it is now possible to obtain an assessment of the metabolic activity of tumors. The use of 18F-FDG to assess therapeutic responses to targeted therapies is fairly recent. The advantage of this approach is well documented for GIST and non-small cell lung cancer. In melanoma, the metabolic response to 18F-FDG is much faster than the response to TAP scanner.

18F-FDG tracer that targets glucose metabolism, is the most sensitive functional imaging in melanoma, which has hindered the development of other tracers such as 18F-FDOPA and 18F-FLT. The 18F-FDG TEP can thus be used in the initial staging and follow-up of the disease, a situation in which it can replace the TAP scanner, additional brain imaging remaining necessary.

The use of metabolic imaging to study the response to targeted therapies in melanoma has been the subject of only one publications. There was a trend toward improved progression-free survival in patients with high metabolic response at day J15.

For melanoma, the diagnostic sensitivity of PET 18F-FDOPA is lower than that of 18F-FDG (64% versus 95%). In contrast, the 18F-FDOPA tracer has the advantage of allowing a brain assessment, which is critical in melanoma that gives frequent metastases in the central nervous system. There has never been any evaluation of the metabolic response to targeted therapies such as BRAF inhibitors PET with 18F-FDOPA.

The investigators propose to conduct a monocentric prospective preliminary study to explore the potential usefulness of the metabolic PET imaging with 18F-FDOPA in the evaluation of metabolic response of B-RAF mutated metastatic melanoma treated with vemurafenib.

Conditions

Metastatic Melanoma

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NA
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: PREVENTION
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

PET with 18F-FDOPA

Group Type: OTHER

PET with 18F-FDOPA

Intervention Type: DEVICE

Interventions

PET with 18F-FDOPA

Intervention Type: DEVICE

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• B-RAF mutated metastatic melanoma.
• Reference imaging <1 month inclduing a whole body CT and 18F-FDG.
• At least one metastatic lesion at least with a diameter> 10 mm on CT.
• To which the staff has proposed, a B-RAF inhibitor in first-line treatment
• Signed informed consent.

Exclusion Criteria

• Minor subject.
• Subject diabetic.
• Women of childbearing potential without effective contraception, with positive pregnancy test.
• Other known active cancer.
• No affiliation to a social security (beneficiary or assignee).

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Assistance Publique Hopitaux De Marseille

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

LOIC MONDOLONI

Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR

Assistance Publique Hopitaux De Marseille

Locations

Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Marseille

Marseille, , France

Countries

France

Other Identifiers

2013-35

Identifier Type: OTHER

Identifier Source: secondary_id

2013-003294-10

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id