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RecruitingNCT05781555Updated Jun 16, 2026

Alpha Radiation Emitters Device (DaRT) for Target Treatments of Malignant Tumors

An interventional study of Experimental: DaRT seeds in Malignant Tumor, sponsored by Alpha Tau Medical LTD.. Recruiting at 1 site in Israel. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-06-16.

Sponsored by Alpha Tau Medical LTD. · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Started Mar 2023; still recruiting 3 years 7 months later.
Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
100
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

This study is a Compassionate clinical study for the treatment of Malignant Tumors. The primary endpoint of the study is to assess the frequency, severity and causality of acute adverse events related to the DaRT treatment. Adverse events will be assessed and graded according to Common Terminology and Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) version 5.0. The secondary endpoint is to assess the tumor response to DaRT treatment assessed using the Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) (Version 1.1) 3 months after DaRT seed insertion.

Read the detailed description

This is an Open label, one arm, prospective study for Compassionate use for the treatment of malignant tumors. The study objectives are to collect data on the safety and efficacy of DaRT among patients who do not fit the entry of existing investigational trials.

The primary endpoint of the study is to assess the frequency, severity and causality of acute adverse events related to the DaRT treatment. Adverse events will be assessed and graded according to Common Terminology and Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) version 5.0. The secondary endpoint is to assess the tumor response to DaRT treatment assessed using the Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) (Version 1.1) 3 months after DaRT seed insertion.

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Conditions studied

  • Malignant Tumor

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Keywords

  • Tumor
  • Malignant Tumor
  • Cancer
  • Brachytherapy
  • Alpha emitting radiation
  • Compassionate treatment
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In context

Neoplasms

10,818 studies on the registry are indexed under Neoplasms; 2,324 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 100 is above the median of 60 across 7,703 interventional studies indexed under Neoplasms.

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Lead sponsor

Alpha Tau Medical LTD. is the lead sponsor of 29 studies on the registry; 17 are open to participants now.

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

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Who can participate

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

Go through the criteria one by one — yes, no or not sure — and take the list to your doctor or the study team. Kept in this browser only.

Inclusion criteria

  • Subjects with any
  • Subjects with a tumor size ≤ 7 centimeters in the longest diameter
  • Subjects over 18 years old
  • Subjects' is more than 6 months
  • Women of (WOCBP) will have evidence of negative pregnancy test and are required to use an acceptable method to prevent pregnancy for 3 months after treatment.
  • Subjects/Surrogate decision maker are willing to sign an form

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Known to any of the components of the treatment.
  • cardiovascular disease, e.g. cardiac failure of classes III-IV, uncontrolled coronary artery disease, cardiomyopathy, uncontrolled arrhythmia, uncontrolled hypertension, or history of myocardial infarction in the last 12 months.
  • Any medical or psychiatric illness which in the opinion of the investigator would compromise the patient's ability to tolerate this treatment or interfere with the study endpoints.
  • Volunteers participating in another interventional study in the past 30 days which might conflict with the endpoints of this study or the evaluation of response or toxicity of DaRT.
  • Patients must agree to use adequate (vasectomy or barrier method of birth control) prior to study entry, for the duration of study participation and for 3 months after discontinuing therapy.
  • High probability of protocol non-compliance (in opinion of investigator).
  • Subjects/Surrogate decision maker not willing to sign an .
  • Women who are pregnant or breastfeeding.
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(8)

Underlined terms in the criteria open these too. Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.

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.

Life expectancy

The study doctor’s estimate of how long someone is likely to live. Criteria use it so that people can stay in the study long enough for it to answer its question.

Childbearing potential

Able to become pregnant: from the first period until menopause, unless permanently unable to through surgery (removal of the womb, or of both ovaries or both fallopian tubes).

Criteria for people of childbearing potential usually ask for a negative pregnancy test and for contraception during the study and for a time after it.

Contraception

Ways of preventing pregnancy. “Highly effective” methods fail less than 1% of the time a year when used correctly — for example an IUD or an implant.

Criteria usually say which methods count and how long to keep using them after the last dose, sometimes for male participants too. Some studies accept a partner’s vasectomy if it was confirmed successful and that person is the participant’s only sexual partner.

Informed consent

Before you join, the study team explains what taking part involves — its purpose, what happens, the risks and possible benefits — and answers your questions, so you can decide freely. Consent is usually recorded on a form (the informed consent form, ICF) signed by you or, where the law allows, by someone legally authorised to decide for you.

You can keep asking questions during the study, you are told of new information that matters, and you can choose to leave at any time.

Hypersensitivity

An allergy, or another reaction of the immune system, to a substance. “Hypersensitivity to the study drug” means a known allergic reaction to it — not every side effect a medicine can have.

Clinically significant

Judged by the study doctor to matter for your health or for the study. It is a doctor’s decision, so ask the study team if you are unsure whether something counts.

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.

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Study design

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

Study arms

  • Experimental
    DaRT seeds

    Intratumoral Diffusing alpha-emitters Radiation Therapy (DaRT) Seeds

    Device: Experimental: DaRT seeds

Interventions

  • DeviceExperimental: DaRT seeds

    DaRT source will be inserted using preplanned radiotherapy parameters and reassessed by volumetric imaging 2-3 weeks after placement and then removed. The study objectives are to collect data on the general safety and efficacy of DaRT among patients who do not fit the entry criteria of existing investigational trials.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. To assess the frequency, severity and causality of acute adverse events.

    The primary endpoint of the study is to assess the frequency, severity and causality of acute adverse events related to the DaRT treatment. Adverse events will be assessed and graded according to Common Terminology and Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) version 5.0.

    Time frame: From Day 0 (DaRT insertion )

Secondary outcomes

  1. To assess the tumor response to DaRT treatment

    The secondary endpoint is to assess the tumor response to DaRT treatment assessed using the Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) (Version 1.1)

    Time frame: 3 months after DaRT seed insertion

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Study locations

1 of 1 sites recruiting
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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 Mar 2023 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Apr 2027, 49 months after the start.

Of 75 industry-sponsored interventional studies with no phase under Neoplasms, half reached primary completion within 23 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 11 and three quarters within 53. This study's planned 49 months is above that.

Counting every sponsor, half of 2,056 studies reached it within 29 months; a quarter within 13 and three quarters within 52.

Neoplasms covers many different conditions, not one, so the studies compared here vary widely. Read these figures as a rough guide.

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

Registered
Feb 26, 2023
First posted
Mar 23, 2023
StartActual
Mar 22, 2023
Primary completionEst.
Apr 2027
CompletionEst.
Apr 2027
Last update
Jun 16, 2026
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 Jun 16, 2026, 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
NCT05781555
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Mar 23, 2023
Start date
Mar 22, 2023
Primary completion
Apr 2027 (estimated)
Completion
Apr 2027 (estimated)
Last update
Jun 16, 2026

Study contacts

Liron Dimnik
Contact
LironD@alphatau.com
+972237377000
Aron Popovzer, MD
principal investigator · Hadassah University Hospital - Ein Kerem

Oversight

FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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