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RecruitingNCT04656678Updated Feb 2, 2024

Focal US-guided Cryo-ablation Using DynaCAD / UroNAV Preplanning / Guidance of Intermediate Risk Prostate Cancer

An interventional study of Cryo-ablation Using DynaCAD / UroNAV preplanning / guidance in Prostate Cancer and Prostate Disease, sponsored by Northwell Health. Recruiting at 3 sites in United States. Open to male participants aged 45 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2024-02-02.

Sponsored by Northwell Health · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Primary completion was expected by Oct 2025, 1 year ago, but the record still lists the study as recruiting.
  • Started Nov 2020; still recruiting 5 years 11 months later.
Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
200
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
45 Years and older
Sex
Male
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Study summary

The purpose of this research study is to determine the safety and feasibility of using the UroNav software and DynaCAD software for planning and treating prostate cancer as an add on to the already approved workflow of using ultrasound only during the cryoablation of the prostate. The software application may aid doctors in locating a prior biopsy proven cancer location from the UroNav biopsy that patients previously had and then use that information to guide the treatment.

Read the detailed description

This is a single-center, prospective, single arm study to evaluate feasibility of UroNAV Ablation system aided cryo-ablation treatment of low and intermediate risk, organ-confined prostate cancer. All subjects will be treated and then followed up clinically for up to 24 months to evaluate any procedure or device related adverse events as well as to assess efficacy endpoints of the study. Additional data related to quality of life of treated subjects will also be collected

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Conditions studied

  • Prostate Cancer
  • Prostate Disease

Keywords

  • Prostate MRI
  • Cryoablation
  • Focal Therapy
  • Focal Prostate Cancer Therapy
  • Prostate Cancer
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In context

Prostatic Neoplasms

7,046 studies on the registry are indexed under Prostatic Neoplasms; 1,580 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 200 is above the median of 60 across 5,348 interventional studies indexed under Prostatic Neoplasms.

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Lead sponsor

Northwell Health is the lead sponsor of 475 studies on the registry; 107 are open to participants now.

Of its 45 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 23 (51%) have results posted.

Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.

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Who can participate

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

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Inclusion criteria

  1. Patients must have documented histological or cytological evidence of tumor(s) of the prostate.
  2. Patients must be ≥ 45 years of age.
  3. Patients must be able to read, understand and sign an .
  4. Organ confined clinical T1C or clinical T2a prostate cancer that is visualized on MR imaging.
  5. Prostate cancer is diagnosed by MR image guided .
  6. Gleason Score ≤ 7; and 2 or less positive lesions on prior MR US fusion guided prostate biopsy.
  7. A non MRI visible cancer detected via systematic standard biopsy will not be considered an exclusion condition provided the non-MRI visible cancer is singularly located in the contralateral hemisphere of the prostate; is Gleason 6 cancer; and comprises no more than 6mm linear extent of cancer in a single core on standard biopsy.
  8. If any standard biopsy cores are positive on the same hemisphere of the prostate gland, they must be confirmed as likely to form a contiguous lesion with the target lesion detected on MRI and therefore be from the same location in the prostate as MR lesion was biopsied and proven to be cancerous. (e.g., Left/Right, Base, Mid Gland, Apex).
  9. Prior mpMRI results dated within 120 days prior to ablation.
  10. No disease as per NCCN guidelines (www.nccn.org) - Bone scan indicated to r/o metastatic disease if clinical T1 and PSA > 20 or T2 and PSA > 10
  11. PSA \< 15 ng/ml or PSA density \< 0.15 ng/ml2 in patients with a PSA > 15 ng/ml.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. ASA status > 3
  2. Very Low Risk Prostate Cancer based on Epstein's Criteria having a tumor \<0.2 cc (AUA Guidelines 2017 pg. 9)

    GG1, PSA \< 10 ng/ml, no more than two positive cores and no core > 50% involvement.

  3. to MRI

    3.1 Claustrophobia

    3.2 Implanted ferromagnetic materials or foreign objects

    3.3 Known intolerance to the MRI or US contrast agents.

    3.4 Severely abnormal coagulation (>1.5)

  4. Patients with unstable cardiac status including:

    4.1 Unstable angina pectoris on medication

    4.2 Patients with documented myocardial infarction within 40 days prior to enrolment

    4.3 Congestive heart failure class IV

    4.4 Patients with unstable arrhythmia status, already on anti-arrhythmic drugs

  5. Severe hypertension (diastolic BP > 100 on medication)
  6. Severe cerebrovascular disease (multiple CVA or CVA within 6 months)
  7. History of orchiectomy, PCa-specific chemotherapy, brachytherapy, cryotherapy, Photodynamic therapy or radical prostatectomy for treatment of prostate cancer; any prior radiation therapy to the pelvis for prostate cancer or any other .
  8. Patient under medications that can affect PSA for the last 3 months prior to UroNAV Ablation system aided cryo-ablation treatment (Androgen Deprivation Treatment)
  9. Patients with lesions of Gleason 7 or greater outside the planned treatment area.
  10. Individuals who are not able or willing to tolerate the required prolonged stationary supine position during treatment (approximately 3 hrs.)
  11. Any rectal pathology, anomaly or previous treatment, which could change acoustic properties of rectal wall or prevent safe US probe insertion (e.g., fistula, stenosis, fibrosis, inflammatory bowel disease, etc).
  12. Any spinal pathology which can prevent safe administration of epidural/spinal anesthesia
  13. Evidence for lymph node involvement of cancer
  14. Bladder cancer
  15. Urethral stricture/bladder neck contracture
  16. Patients with incontinence demonstrated by use of more than 1 pad/day. .
  17. Active UTI
  18. Prostatitis NIH categories I, II and III.
  19. Compromised renal function
  20. Interest in future fertility
  21. Current participation in another clinical investigation of a medical device or a drug or has participated in such a study within 30 days prior to study enrollment.
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Biopsy and archival tissue

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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.

Metastases

Cancer that has spread from where it began to other parts of the body. “Metastatic” cancer is cancer that has spread this way.

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.

INR, PT and aPTT (clotting tests)

Blood tests of how long blood takes to clot. The INR is the prothrombin time (PT) put on a common scale; about 1 is usual for someone not taking a blood thinner.

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NYHA class (heart failure)

The New York Heart Association’s four classes of how much heart failure limits physical activity.

I
No limits: ordinary activity causes no undue tiredness or breathlessness.
II
Slight limits: comfortable at rest, ordinary activity causes symptoms.
III
Marked limits: comfortable at rest, less than ordinary activity causes symptoms.
IV
Symptoms even at rest; any activity makes them worse.

Studies set their own limit — many outside heart failure leave out class III–IV, while heart failure studies may ask for a particular class. Check the class this study names.

Cancer (malignancy)

Malignancy means cancer. Criteria about another or earlier malignancy ask whether you have had a different cancer, usually within a set number of years.

Some are commonly allowed, such as treated skin cancers other than melanoma and early cancers removed completely — check the exceptions this study lists.

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Study design

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

Study arms

  • Experimental
    DynaCAD / UroNAV

    This is a single arm study to evaluate feasibility of UroNAV Ablation system aided cryo-ablation treatment of low and intermediate risk, organ-confined prostate cancer. UroNav is a stereotaxic accessory for image-guided interventional and diagnostic procedures of the prostate gland. It provides 2D and 3D visualization of Ultrasound (US) images and the ability to fuse and register these images with those from other imaging modalities such as Magnetic Resonance (MR), Computed Tomography, etc. It also provides the ability to display a simulated image of a tracked insertion tool on a computer monitor screen that shows images of the target organ and the current and the projected future path of the interventional instrument. DynaCAD 5.0 is an image analysis and planning system that will provide off station, pre planning and review of interventional study data. It interfaces with the Uronav 4.0 fusion guidance system.

    Device: Cryo-ablation Using DynaCAD / UroNAV preplanning / guidance

Interventions

  • DeviceCryo-ablation Using DynaCAD / UroNAV preplanning / guidance

    Focal ultrasound guided cryoablation using uroNav system Version 4.0 and Dyna CAD software version 5.0.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Assessment of safety of the DynaCAD /UroNAV ablation planning and guidance system aided cryo-ablation in the treatment of low-intermediate risk, localized (organ confined) prostate cancer tumors.

    Incidence and severity of device/treatment related complications from treatment day visit through 24 month follow up.

    Time frame: 24 months

Secondary outcomes

  1. Assessment of tumor control achieved by treatment.

    Primary effectiveness analyses will be based on the 12-month biopsy results. Post-treatment PSA, non-perfused volume (NPV) by multi-parametric MRI, and EPIC - 26 (The Expanded Prostate Cancer Index Composite) questionnaire results through Month 24 visit will be summarized as secondary measures of effectiveness.

    Time frame: 24 months

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Study locations

3 of 3 sites recruiting
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References and documents

Publications

  • Jue JS, Coons S, Hautvast G, Thompson SF, Geraats J, Richstone L, Schwartz MJ, Rastinehad AR. Novel Automated Three-Dimensional Surgical Planning Tool and Magnetic Resonance Imaging/Ultrasound Fusion Technology to Perform Nanoparticle Ablation and Cryoablation of the Prostate for Focal Therapy. J Endourol. 2022 Mar;36(3):369-372. doi: 10.1089/end.2021.0266. Epub 2021 Sep 13. PubMed 34409850 ↗
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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 Nov 2020 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Oct 2025, 59 months after the start.

Of 1,098 non-industry interventional studies with no phase under Prostatic Neoplasms, half reached primary completion within 43 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 22 and three quarters within 86. This study's planned 59 months is above that.

Counting every sponsor, half of 1,155 studies reached it within 43 months; a quarter within 22 and three quarters within 84.

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

Registered
Dec 4, 2020
First posted
Dec 7, 2020
StartActual
Nov 25, 2020
Primary completionEst.
Oct 30, 2025
CompletionEst.
Oct 30, 2025
Last update
Feb 2, 2024
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 Feb 2, 2024, 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
NCT04656678
Lead sponsor
Northwell Health
Collaborators
Philips Healthcare
Responsible party
Ardeshir Rastinehad (Associate Professor of Urology and Radiology, Vice Chair of Urology at Lenox Hill Hospital, System Director for Prostate Cancer, Northwell Health) — Principal investigator
First posted
Dec 7, 2020
Start date
Nov 25, 2020
Primary completion
Oct 30, 2025 (estimated)
Completion
Oct 30, 2025 (estimated)
Last update
Feb 2, 2024

Study contacts

Ardeshir R Rastinehad, DO
Contact
Arastine@northwell.edu
212-434-6580
Cynthia Knauer, RN
Contact
cknauer1@northwell.edu
646-874-4733
Ardeshir Rastinehad, DO
principal investigator · Northwell Health

Oversight

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