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Status unknownNCT04026763Updated Jul 19, 2019

MR/TRUS Fusion Guided Prostate Biopsy

An interventional study of prostate biopsy and MR US Fusion Guided Prostate Biopsy in Prostate Disease, Elevated Prostate Specific Antigen and Family History of Prostate Cancer, sponsored by Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Status unknown at 1 site in United States. Open to male participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2019-07-19.

Sponsored by Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai · Not applicable, Interventional, and Diagnostic

The sponsor has not verified this record recently (last verified Jul 2019), so the status shown — last known as Recruiting — may be out of date.

From the registry’s dates

  • Registered 1 year 2 months after the study started (first participant enrolled May 2018, registered Jul 2019).
Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
520
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
Male
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Study summary

This study will determine if targeted (Magnetic Resonance (MR) / Ultrasound (US) fusion biopsy) plus conventional biopsy is superior to conventional biopsy alone in diagnosing subjects with prostate cancer.

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The efficacy of targeting lesions for surgery may be limited by the visibility of a target during the procedure. The successful outcome of surgical intervention depends upon accurate device placement, which may be very challenging in certain settings, such as when a kidney tumor only is visible for a brief moment during the transient arterial phase of a contrast injection, and soon disappearing on dynamic imaging.

Historically, prostate cancer was diagnosed by digitally guided trans-rectal prostate biopsies. With PSA (Prostate Specific Antigen) screening and improvements in ultrasonography, trans-rectal ultrasound (TRUS) guided prostate biopsy have become the standard of care to screen and diagnose localized prostate cancer. Standard US 12-14 core prostate biopsy is now common practice, detecting cancer in 27% to 44% of patients.

Prostate MR imaging at 3 Tesla magnet dramatically improves diagnostic utility dramatically but biopsies are difficult, time-consuming, and require specialized equipment, which increases the cost significantly.

To meet this challenge TRUS images are overlaid on a previously obtained prostate MRI, combined with an electromagnetic tracking system. The urologist then performs directed prostate biopsies at MR-identified targets in addition to the standard prostate biopsies.

This study will consist of comparison of the standard of care prostate biopsy with the protocol biopsy which consists of a US guided prostate biopsy and a MR/US fusion tracked prostate biopsy. Each patient will act as their own control.

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Conditions studied

  • Prostate Disease
  • Elevated Prostate Specific Antigen
  • Family History of Prostate Cancer
  • Positive Digital Rectal Exam

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Keywords

  • Targeted Prostate Biopsy
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In context

Prostatic Diseases

84 studies on the registry are indexed under Prostatic Diseases; 19 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 520 is above the median of 77 across 66 interventional studies indexed under Prostatic Diseases.

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Lead sponsor

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is the lead sponsor of 776 studies on the registry; 176 are open to participants now.

Of its 125 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 83 (66%) have results posted.

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Who can participate

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

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Inclusion criteria

  • All patients must have a pre-operative MRI performed in accordance with the MT Sinai/NIH MR prostate imaging guidelines.
  • Age greater than 18 years.
  • No serious concurrent medical illness that would preclude the patient from making a rational informed decision on participation.
  • The ability to understand and willingness to sign a written form, and to comply with the protocol. If in question, an ethics consult will be obtained.
  • Ability to tolerate sedation and or general anesthesia if required.
  • PSA >2.5 or Abnormal digital rectal exam or current recommendations for from the American Urological Association
  • Pre-biopsy prostate MRI as described above, showing targetable lesions within 4 months of biopsy
  • Able to tolerate a ultrasound guided biopsy

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Patients with an altered mental status that precludes understanding or consenting for the procedure will be excluded from this study.
  • Patients unlikely able to hold reasonably still on a procedure table for the length of the procedure.
  • Patients with pacemakers or automatic implantable cardiac defibrillators ( to MRI)
  • Patients with uncorrectable coagulopathies.
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(3)

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Informed consent

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Biopsy and archival tissue

A biopsy takes a small piece of tissue to examine. “Archival tissue” is a sample already taken, for example at diagnosis, and kept by the hospital.

Whether a stored sample will do depends on when it was taken, how much there is and what the study needs. Ask whether the study accepts your stored sample or needs a new biopsy.

Contraindication

A reason a treatment, test or procedure should not be given to a particular person, such as an allergy, another illness or a medicine they take.

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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Diagnostic
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
520 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Males with Prostate Cancer

    Each participant will receive standard of care prostate biopsy as well as a US guided prostate biopsy and a MR/TRUS Fusion Guided prostate biopsy guided prostate biopsy.

    Procedure: prostate biopsy · Procedure: MR US Fusion Guided Prostate Biopsy · Device: MR/TRUS Fusion Guided Prostate Biopsy

Interventions

  • Procedureprostate biopsy

    standard of care

  • ProcedureMR US Fusion Guided Prostate Biopsy

    Trans-rectal ultrasound (TRUS) guided fusion prostate biopsy, Transperineal Ultrasound guided fusion prostate biopsy

    Also known as: Fusion Biopsy

  • DeviceMR/TRUS Fusion Guided Prostate Biopsy

    TRUS images are overlaid on a previously obtained prostate MRI, combined with an electromagnetic tracking system. The urologist then performs directed prostate biopsies at MR-identified targets in addition to the standard prostate biopsies.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Incidence of Prostate Cancer

    Incidence of diagnosing subjects with prostate cancer with MR visible lesions

    Time frame: Day 0 - day of procedure

Secondary outcomes

  1. Incidence of adverse events

    the incidence of adverse events occurring after a targeted and ultrasound guided prostate biopsy

    Time frame: 1 month

  2. Pirads score

    The Prostate Imaging Reporting and Data System (PIRADS) score classifies MRI lesions on a scale from 1 to 5, which reflects their level of suspicion from least to most. Higher score indicates more suspicion.

    Time frame: 1 month

  3. Gleason score

    The Gleason Score ranges from 1-5 and describes how much the cancer from a biopsy looks like healthy tissue (lower score) or abnormal tissue (higher score). Sum of the gleason grade of the most predominant tumor pattern and a second gleason grade of the second most predominant pattern. Full score from 2 to 10, with higher score indicating more clinically significance.

    Time frame: 1 month

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Study locations

1 of 1 sites recruiting
  • Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
    New York, New York 11101, United States
    Recruiting
    • Ardeshir Rastinehad · Principal investigator
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References and documents

Publications

  • Winoker JS, Wajswol E, Falagario U, Maritini A, Moshier E, Voutsinas N, Knauer CJ, Sfakianos JP, Lewis SC, Taouli BA, Rastinehad AR. Transperineal Versus Transrectal Targeted Biopsy With Use of Electromagnetically-tracked MR/US Fusion Guidance Platform for the Detection of Clinically Significant Prostate Cancer. Urology. 2020 Dec;146:278-286. doi: 10.1016/j.urology.2020.07.072. Epub 2020 Sep 18. PubMed 32956688 ↗
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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reachedSimilar studies: half by the dot; the band is the middle halfHalf of similar studies reached it by the dot; the band is the middle half, from a quarter to three quarters

Started May 2018 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Dec 2021, 43 months after the start.

Of 21 interventional studies with no phase under Prostatic Diseases, half reached primary completion within 54 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 18 and three quarters within 81. This study's planned 43 months is below that.

How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.

Registered
Jul 17, 2019
First posted
Jul 19, 2019
StartActual
May 11, 2018
Primary completionEst.
Dec 2021
CompletionEst.
Dec 2021
Last update
Jul 19, 2019
What these dates mean
Start.
When the first participant enrolled; while estimated, when the study expects to open to recruitment.
Primary completion.
When the last participant was examined or treated to collect data for the study's main question, its primary outcome. A study that stopped early gives the date its data collection stopped.
Completion.
When the last participant's last visit took place, for every outcome, secondary ones and side effects included: the end of the study. Often later than primary completion, sometimes the same day.
Actual and Est.
Actual means the registry says the date has happened. Est. (estimated) is a date the sponsor plans or expects. It can still move, and the sponsor is expected to change it to actual once it has passed.
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Jul 19, 2019, 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
NCT04026763
Collaborators
Philips Healthcare
Responsible party
Ardeshir R Rastinehad (Associate Professor of Radiology and Urology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai) — Principal investigator
First posted
Jul 19, 2019
Start date
May 11, 2018
Primary completion
Dec 2021 (estimated)
Completion
Dec 2021 (estimated)
Last update
Jul 19, 2019

Study contacts

Ardeshir Rastinehad, DO
Contact
art.rastinehad@mountsinai.org
212-241-4812
Cynthia Knauer, RN, MS
Contact
cynthia.knauer@mountsinai.org
212-241-0751
Ardeshir Rastinehad, DO
principal investigator · Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Oversight

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