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The Efficacy of APT Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Predicting the Efficacy of Bevacizumab in Recurrent Malignant Gliomas

An observational study in Diagnoses Disease and Glioma of Brain, sponsored by Zhujiang Hospital. Status unknown at 1 site in China. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 80 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2017-06-08.

Sponsored by Zhujiang Hospital · Observational

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Study type
Observational
Model
Cohort
Time perspective
Prospective
Enrollment
100
Ages
18 Years to 80 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

Targeted therapy with bevacizumab is the main method to prolong the progression-free survival of patients with recurrent malignant gliomas in recent years. Using noninvasive imaging methods to predict which RMG may respond to bevacizumab regimen therapy is a clinical problem ; on the other hand, repeated gadolinium enhancement may increase the risk of gadolinium ion deposition of brain tissue. Furthermore,there may be a false response phenomenon and cause assessment bias.in the evaluation of treatment efficacy,owing to bevacizumab is only anti-tumor angiogenesis.

Amide Proton Transfer (APT) is a new molecular imaging technique. Our previous studies have shown that imaging features and signal changes of APT can fully reflect the therapeutic effect of malignant glioma,without the injection of contrast agent and avoid the side effects.

RMG patients will be recruited in this study . This project will be designed multi-center, prospective, observational clinical research. The changes of APT signal intensity before and after treatment will be compared with those of different types of RMG line. The relationship between APT imaging characteristics and clinical end point events will be investigated and compared with conventional MR imaging technique. The sensitivity, specificity and accuracy of the progression-free survival and median overall survival will be measured after treatment with bevacizumab.

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Recurrent Malignant Gliomas (RMG) have a very short survival time, and re-operation risk is large and failed to significantly improve the prognosis of patients. At present, targeted therapy with bevacizumab is effective in prolonging the progression of patients However, a considerable proportion of recurrent malignant gliomas are insensitive to bevacizumab, and therefore, using noninvasive imaging methods to predict which RMG is sensitive to bevacizumab therapy prior to targeted therapy is very important On the other hand, the current evaluation of bevacizumab is mainly based on the degree of gadolinium enhancement and tumor volume changes, repeated gadolinium injection may increase the risk of gadolinium ion deposition of brain tissue, and because of Bevacizumab only acting as an anti-tumor angiogenesis, and a false response may occur in assessing efficacy, which is a bias in the overall assessment of bevacizumab.

Amide Proton Transfer (APT) is a new molecular imaging technique for the detection indirect of free protein and peptide concentrations based on chemical saturation exchange. Our previous studies have shown that APT signal is independent of gadolinium-enhanced imaging markers , The signal intensity is closely related to the density of tumor cells, cell proliferation and angiogenesis. Therefore, the imaging features and signal changes of APT can fully reflect the therapeutic effect of malignant glioma, and avoid the side effects caused by contrast injection.

This study will be designed as multi-center, prospective, observational clinical research. 100 cases of RMG patients in Zhujiang Hospital and Nanfang Hospital will be recruited. The patients will be examined with conventional MRI and APT-MRI imaging of 3.0T high field MRI. The treatment of different types of RMG line will be scanned with APT protocol. The changes of signal intensity will be studied. The relationship between APT imaging characteristics and clinical end point events will be observed and compared with conventional MR imaging technique. Two techniques will be used to predict the the 6-month progression-free survival after bevacizumab treatment. The aim of this study is to determine whether APT can predict the efficacy of bevacizumab in the treatment of RMG, and which RMG is effective and sensitive to bevacizumab therapy .Also,we will evaluate the feasibility of APT-MR imaging as a surrogate biomarker for predicting the efficacy of targeted therapy and to establish the basic criteria for the selection of individualized targeted therapy regimens for RMG.

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Conditions studied

  • Diagnoses Disease
  • Glioma of Brain

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Keywords

  • Amide Proton Transfer
  • bevacizumab
  • recurrent malignant gliomas
  • efficacy
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In context

Glioma

1,397 studies on the registry are indexed under Glioma; 351 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 100 is above the median of 88 across 238 observational studies indexed under Glioma.

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Lead sponsor

Zhujiang Hospital is the lead sponsor of 199 studies on the registry; 96 are open to participants now.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 80 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No
Sampling method
Probability sample

Study population

100 patients with recurrent maligant glioma will be recuritted. All the patients are eligible for the inclusive criteria.

Inclusion criteria

  1. malignant glioma patients at least 4 weeks after surgery;
  2. after radiotherapy or chemotherapy after the recurrence, stop to put,
  3. the age of patients ≥ 18 years old;
  4. bone marrow, liver and kidney function is good;
  5. not using steroid hormones or disabled for more than 5 days;
  6. patients are generally in good condition, expected survival is greater than 8 weeks, Karnofsky test is greater than 60.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. patients with refractory hypertension, active vascular disease, bleeding, intestinal perforation and other medical history;
  2. frail and difficult to tolerate treatment;
  3. HIV positive;
  4. pregnant or lactating.
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Study design

Observational model
Cohort
Time perspective
Prospective
Enrollment
100 participants (estimated)
Patient registry
No
Biospecimen retention
Samples with dna

Groups and cohorts

  • APT MR imaging

    Patients who will receive target therapy( Bevacizumab) for recurrent malignant gliomas will be asked to participate in this study. The routine sequences, Gd- enhanced MR imaging and APT MR imaging will be performed before and after target therapy.

    Diagnostic Test: APT MR Imaging

Interventions

  • Diagnostic testAPT MR Imaging

    Patients who will receive target therapy( Bevacizumab) for recurrent malignant gliomas will obtain routine sequences, Gd- enhanced MR imaging and APT MR imaging will be performed before and after target therapy. We will observe the change of tumor after target therapy using APT imaging. We will compare the change of tumor between Gd-enhanced and APT Imaging before and after therapy.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Signal intensity of tumor on APT imaging

    Observe the change of signal intensity of tumor on APT MR imaging before and after therapy, determine the predictive value of APT imaging about the efficacy of Bevacizumab in recurrent malignant gliomas.

    Time frame: From date of confirmed recurrence until the date of deterioration or date of death from any cause. That means measure, assessed APT signal intensity at 6 weeks, 12 weeks,18 weeks and so on, assessed up to 1 year.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Dimension of tumor on Gd-enhanced MRI

    Observe the change in dimension of recurrent tumor on Gd-enhanced MRI

    Time frame: Measure tumor dimension at 6 weeks, 12 weeks and 18 weeks for the most. It will be ended at any time the patient dies.

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Study locations

1 of 1 sites recruiting
  • Zhujiang Hospital of Southern Medical University
    Guangzhou, Guangdong 510282, China
    Recruiting
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Jun 8, 2017, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT03180697
Lead sponsor
Zhujiang Hospital
Collaborators
Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Jun 8, 2017
Start date
Jun 3, 2017
Primary completion
Sep 30, 2021 (estimated)
Completion
Oct 1, 2021 (estimated)
Last update
Jun 8, 2017

Study contacts

Zhibo Wen, Doctor
Contact
zhibowen@163.com
+8613802914951
Xianlong Wang, Master
Contact
23853913@qq.com
+8613763304767
Xiaoxiao Wu, Master
principal investigator · Institutional Ethics Review Board

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
Yes
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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