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CompletedNCT03744026SC9-GBM-01Updated Sep 7, 2022

Safety and Efficacy of Transient Opening of the Blood-brain Barrier (BBB) With the SonoCloud-9

A Phase 1/2 interventional study of SonoCloud-9 and Carboplatin in Glioblastoma, Adult, sponsored by CarThera. Completed at 6 sites in 2 countries. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2022-09-07.

Sponsored by CarThera · Phase 1/2, Interventional, and Treatment

Phase
Phase 1/2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
38
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

Recurrent glioblastoma (GBM) is a disease with high unmet clinical need. The standard of care for patients with GBM includes surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Despite this aggressive treatment, the overall median survival of patients with GBM remains at 15-20 months.

In more than 95% of cases, tumor recurrence is observed within 2 cm to 3 cm of the resection cavity within 4-7 months after initial treatments. One of the main causes of recurrence is the inability of chemotherapies to enter the brain from the systemic circulation due to the blood-brain barrier (BBB). The BBB is unique to cerebral blood vessels and blocks most drugs from entering the brain in sufficient concentrations.

The SonoCloud-9 (SC9) System delivers ultrasound to locally and transiently increase the permeability of the BBB to allow the passage of drugs into the cerebral parenchyma. The SC9 is dimensioned to cover the resection area and surrounding tissues in patients with recurrent GBM. The large sonicated volume covered by the SC9 device allows for broad BBB disruption and should allow for carboplatin chemotherapy to penetrate the surrounding tumor infiltrative area. By enhancing drug concentrations, it is hypothesized that further disease progression will be prevented.

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This will be an open-label, Phase 1/2a, multicenter, single-arm, interventional trial that will first evaluate the dose limiting toxicity (DLT) of escalating numbers of ultrasound beams at constant acoustic pressure using a standard escalation (Phase 1) and then confirm the safety and efficacy of BBB opening (Phase 2a expansion).

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Conditions studied

  • Glioblastoma, Adult

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Keywords

  • Recurrent Glioblastoma
  • Carboplatin
  • Ultrasound
  • Blood-brain barrier
  • Glioblastoma
  • SonoCloud
  • Low Intensity Pulsed Ultrasound (LIPU)
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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years and older
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

Eligibility criteria

Key Inclusion Criteria:

  1. Age ≥ 18 years, able and willing to give signed and informed consent.
  2. Patient with histologically proven recurrent de novo GBM:

    1. After at least a first-line standard of care (maximal safe resection, if feasible, radiation with temozolomide [TMZ], then TMZ);
    2. Any recurrence;
    3. Bevacizumab-naïve.*
  3. Patient eligible for carboplatin-based chemotherapy.
  4. Patient eligible for a surgical resection.
  5. Maximal tumor diameter at inclusion (pre surgery) ≤ 70 mm in T1wMRI.
  6. Patients should be stable, without evidence of a midline shift, significant peritumoral edema, or rapid progression of clinical symptoms.
  7. Karnofsky performance status ≥ 70.
  8. Patient receiving prednisone dose ≤ 40 mg (dexamethasone ≤ 6 mg) for at least 7 days.

Key Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Multifocal tumor (unless all localized in a 70 mm diameter area).
  2. Patients at risk of surgery site infection (2 or more previous craniotomies, neurosurgery within the last 3 months, poor skin condition, and/or previously infected surgical field).
  3. Posterior fossa tumor.
  4. Uncontrolled epilepsy.
  5. Patients with evidence of uncontrolled intracranial pressure.
  6. Patients with known intracranial aneurism or having presented intra-tumor spontaneous hemorrhage.
  7. Patients with coils, clips, shunts, intravascular stents, and/or unremovable wafer, non resorbable dura substitute, or reservoirs.
  8. Patients with medical need to continue antiplatelet therapy.
  9. Patients with known or suspected active or chronic infections.
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Study design

Phase
Phase 1 / Phase 2
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
38 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    SonoCloud-9 Ultrasound + Carboplatin

    SonoCloud-9 Carboplatin: 6 cycles (every 4 weeks)

    Device: SonoCloud-9 · Drug: Carboplatin

Interventions

  • DeviceSonoCloud-9

    Escalating numbers of ultrasound beams at constant acoustic pressure

  • DrugCarboplatin

    Dose of carboplatin infusion is AUC4-6

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Dose limiting toxicity (DLT) of number of activated ultrasound beams

    DLT will be evaluated using imaging (MRI) and clinical examination, as CTCAE that occurs within 2 weeks of the first sonication and that does not respond to optimal medical management (including steroids) within 7 days.

    Time frame: 15 days after the first sonication treatment

  2. Blood-Brain Barrier (BBB) opening

    BBB opening will be evaluated by contrast-enhanced T1w magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)

    Time frame: At the end of the first three sonication treatments (treatment occurs every 4 weeks)

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Study locations

6 sites
  • Northwestern University
    Chicago, Illinois 60611, United States
  • MD Anderson Cancer Center
    Houston, Texas 77030, United States
  • CHU
    Angers, France
  • Hôpital Neurologique Pierre Wertheimer
    Bron, France
  • Hôpital de La Timone
    Marseille, France
  • Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière
    Paris, France
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References and documents

Publications

  • Carpentier A, Canney M, Vignot A, Reina V, Beccaria K, Horodyckid C, Karachi C, Leclercq D, Lafon C, Chapelon JY, Capelle L, Cornu P, Sanson M, Hoang-Xuan K, Delattre JY, Idbaih A. Clinical trial of blood-brain barrier disruption by pulsed ultrasound. Sci Transl Med. 2016 Jun 15;8(343):343re2. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aaf6086. PubMed 27306666 ↗

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Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT03744026
Lead sponsor
CarThera
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Nov 16, 2018
Start date
Feb 18, 2019
Primary completion
Jun 23, 2021
Completion
Jun 30, 2022
Last update
Sep 7, 2022

Study contacts

Ahmed IDBAIH, MD
principal investigator · APHP

Oversight

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