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RecruitingNCT05893381LUSTUpdated Dec 3, 2025

Lu-PSMA and Stereotactic Radiotherapy Versus Radiotherapy Alone for Prostate Cancer (LUST)

A Phase 2 interventional study of [177Lu]Lu-PSMA I&T and Stereotactic Radiotherapy in Prostate Cancer, sponsored by Istituto Romagnolo per lo Studio dei Tumori Dino Amadori IRST S.r.l. IRCCS. Recruiting at 2 sites in Italy. Open to male participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2025-12-03.

Sponsored by Istituto Romagnolo per lo Studio dei Tumori Dino Amadori IRST S.r.l. IRCCS · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Started Jun 2023; still recruiting 3 years 4 months later.
Phase
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
70
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
Male
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Study summary

Multicenter, open-label, parallel-group, phase II randomized study in patients with oligometastatic prostate cancer with 1-3 asymptomatic metastases of the soft tissue or bone. Eligible patients will be randomized at 1:1 ratio to Stereotactic Radiotherapy followed by Lu-PSMA (arm A) or Stereotactic Radiotherapy (arm B)

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Biochemical recurrence (BCR), i.e. prostate-specific antigen (PSA) only recurrence occurs in nearly one-third of patients, after primary definitive therapy for prostate cancer.

PSMA (prostate-specific membrane antigen) is an attractive target for diagnosis and therapy of metastasized prostate cancer (PCa) as its expression levels are directly correlated with androgen independence, metastases and progression.

Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography (PET-CT) using PSMA is able to detect > 50% of relapses with PSA between 0.50 and 1 ng/mL and >75% with PSA between 1 and 2.

Oligometastatic prostate cancer include 1-3 asymptomatic metastatic lesion(s) of the soft tissue or bone. The treatment of oligometastatic disease depends on multiple factors including the site, the size, number and location of metastases, and the effectiveness of treatments.

Recent advances in radiation therapy allow to image and treat precisely target lesions within any anatomic region of the body. Stereotactic radiation therapy permit highly conformal and precisely targeted radiation administered in a dose intensive strategy. Local control in excess of 75% has been reported for metastatic prostate cancer with very low toxicity.

Lutetium 177-PSMA (177Lu-PSMA) is the most extensively investigated PSMA radioligand for radionuclide therapy in castration resistant prostate cancer (CRPC). Several retrospective studies and three phase II prospective studies demonstrated safety and impressive efficacy of 177Lu-PSMA in metastatic CRPC (mCRPC).The purpose of this study is to evaluate in a randomized phase II study the impact of Lu-PSMA added to stereotactic radiotherapy vs radiotherapy alone in PSMA detected- metastatic lesions of hormone-sensible prostate cancer.

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Conditions studied

  • Prostate Cancer

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Keywords

  • PSMA PET/CT positive
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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 70 is above the median of 60 across 5,348 interventional studies indexed under Prostatic Neoplasms.

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Lead sponsor

Istituto Romagnolo per lo Studio dei Tumori Dino Amadori IRST S.r.l. IRCCS is the lead sponsor of 60 studies on the registry; 20 are open to participants now.

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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

  1. Patients with prostate cancer must have 1-3 asymptomatic lesions that are ≤ 5.0 cm or \< 250 cm3 documented at CT/MRI or WBD-MRI.
  2. PSMA-PET/CT positive scan matching with lesions documented on baseline CT/MRI or WBD-MRI.
  3. Patients must have had their primary tumor treated with surgery and/or radiation and previous salvage radiation to the prostate bed or pelvis is allowed.
  4. Patients will be admitted to the therapeutic phase only if diagnostic PET/CT PSMA SUV max is ≥ 3.
  5. Histologic confirmation of (primary or metastatic tumor).
  6. Prostate specific antigen (PSA) ≥ 0.2 ng/mL but ≤ 50 ng/mL and Testosterone ≥ 125 ng/dL.
  7. PSA doubling time (PSADT) \< 15 months. PSADT will be calculated using as many PSA values that are available from time of relapse (PSA > 0.2 ng/dL).
  8. Patients unfit or refusing ADT.
  9. Patients may have had prior systemic therapy and/or ADT associated with treatment of their primary prostate cancer. Patients may have had ADT associated with salvage radiation therapy.
  10. Patients must be ≥ 18 years of age.
  11. Patient understands the purpose of the study and the procedures required for it; the patient is willing to participate in the study and to sign a written document.
  12. Patients must have an performance status ≤ 2.
  13. Patients should have a of at least 6 months.
  14. Patients must have normal organ and marrow function as defined as:

    • Leukocytes >2,000/μL;
    • >1,000/μL;
    • >75,000/μL;
    • total within normal institutional limits (this will not apply to patients with confirmed Gilbert's syndrome);
    • (SGOT)/ALT(SGPT) ≤ 2.5 X institutional ;
    • Creatinine within normal institutional limits.
  15. If the participant engages in sexual activity with a woman of , a condom must be used together with another highly effective method of during the Treatment Period and for 6 months after the last dose of study intervention. The participant must agree not to donate sperm for the purpose of reproduction during the Treatment Phase and for a minimum of 6 months after receiving the last dose of study intervention.
  16. Highly effective birth control methods are required beginning at the screening visit and continuing until 6 months following last treatment with study drug. Patients and female partner who is of childbearing potential must use 2 acceptable methods of birth control (1 of which must include a condom as a barrier method of contraception, see Appendix F) starting at screening and continuing throughout the study period and for 6 months after final study drug administration. Two acceptable methods of birth control thus include Condom (barrier method of contraception) and one of the following is required ( established use of oral, or injected or implanted hormonal method of contraception by the female partner; placement of an intrauterine device (IUD) or intrauterine system (IUS) by the female partner; additional barrier method like occlusive cap with spermicidal foam/gel/film/cream/suppository in the female partner; tubal ligation in the female partner; vasectomy or other procedure resulting in infertility (eg., bilateral orchiectomy), for more than 6 months.

16. Highly effective birth control methods are required beginning at the screening visit and continuing until 6 months following last treatment with study drug. Patients and female partner who is of childbearing potential must use 2 acceptable methods of birth control (1 of which must include a condom as a barrier method of contraception, starting at screening and continuing throughout the study period and for 6 months after final study drug administration.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

The participant may not enter the study if ANY of the following apply:

  1. No more than 3 years of ADT is allowed, with the most recent ADT treatment having occurred more than 6 months prior to enrollment.
  2. PSMA -PET/CT scan more than 3 months.
  3. Spinal cord compression or impending spinal cord compression.
  4. Suspected pulmonary and/or liver .
  5. Bone metastasis in a femoral bone.
  6. Previous radiation therapy on the metastatic site.
  7. Patients who have had chemotherapy or radiotherapy within 4 weeks (6 weeks for nitrosoureas or mitomycin C) prior to entering the study or those who have not recovered from adverse events due to agents administered more than 4 weeks earlier. A window of 3 days is permitted.
  8. Participation in another clinical trial with any agents within 30 days prior to study screening. A window of 3 days is permitted.
  9. Any condition for which, in the opinion of the investigator, participation would not be in the best interest of the participant.
  10. Patients with known should be excluded from this clinical trial because of their poor prognosis and because they often develop progressive neurologic dysfunction that would confound the evaluation of neurologic and other adverse events.
  11. History of allergic reactions attributed to compounds of similar chemical or biologic composition to 177-Lu-PSMA- I \& T or other agents used in the study.
  12. Uncontrolled intercurrent illness including, but not limited to, ongoing or active infection, symptomatic congestive heart failure, unstable angina pectoris, cardiac arrhythmia, or psychiatric illness/social situations that would limit compliance with study requirements.
  13. Unable to lie flat during or tolerable SABR.
  14. Other known malignant neoplastic diseases in the patient's medical history with a disease-free interval of less than 3 years (except for previously treated basal cell carcinoma);
  15. Known -positivity, whether or not symptomatic.
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(15)

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Metastases

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

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.

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.

ECOG performance status

A scale of how much an illness limits everyday activity. For people being assessed to join a study, scores run from 0 (fully active) to 4; lower is more active.

0
Fully active, no restrictions.
1
Limited in strenuous activity, but walking and able to do light work, such as housework or office work.
2
Walking and able to look after yourself, but unable to work; up and about more than half of waking hours.
3
Able to look after yourself only in part; in bed or a chair more than half of waking hours.
4
Unable to look after yourself at all; in bed or a chair all day.

Studies most often ask for 0–1 or 0–2. Your doctor gives the score; the WHO scale uses the same steps. The full scale also has 5, which records death.

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.

Absolute neutrophil count (ANC)

The number of neutrophils, white blood cells that help fight infection, in a given amount of blood. Too few raises the risk of infection.

It is a count, not a percentage of the white cells. Limits are written in units that mean the same: ≥ 1.5 × 10⁹/L is ≥ 1,500 per mm³ (µL). Each lab has its own reference range.

Platelets

Blood cells that help blood clot. Too few raises the risk of bleeding and bruising. A usual adult range is about 150–400 × 10⁹/L (150,000–400,000 per µL); each lab has its own reference range.

Bilirubin

A yellow substance made when red blood cells are broken down, which the liver clears. A high level can mean a problem with the liver or the bile ducts.

Criteria often allow more for people with Gilbert’s syndrome, a harmless inherited condition that raises bilirubin.

ALT and AST (liver enzymes)

Two enzymes measured in a routine blood test of the liver. Higher levels can mean the liver is under strain or damaged. SGPT and SGOT are older names for ALT and AST.

Criteria usually give a limit as a multiple of the upper limit of normal (ULN), often higher when cancer has spread to the liver.

ULN (upper limit of normal)

The top of the normal range for a blood test, as set by the laboratory that runs it. Each lab prints its own range next to your result.

“≤ 2.5 × ULN” means the result can be up to two and a half times that top value.

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.

Investigational drug or device

A drug or device being studied in a clinical trial.

It may be new, or already approved and being studied for another use, dose or form. Criteria often leave out people who took part in another study of one within a recent period, commonly 30 days or five half-lives.

Brain metastases

Cancer deposits in the brain from a cancer that started elsewhere in the body (CNS metastases include the spinal cord).

Studies differ: some leave out any brain metastases, some accept ones treated and stable for some weeks. Check what this study allows.

HIV

The human immunodeficiency virus, which weakens the immune system.

Many studies now accept people whose HIV is controlled on treatment, judged by the viral load and the CD4 count. Check the limits this study sets.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 2
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
70 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Stereotactic Radiotherapy followed by Lu-PSMA (arm A)

    Ablative stereotactic radiation on the metastatic sites. Delivered in a 1 to 5 fractions regimen. 177Lu-PSMA-I\&T in 2 cycles of treatment at 6-8 weekly intervals at a dosage of 7.4 Gigabequerel (GBq)

    Drug: [177Lu]Lu-PSMA I&T · Radiation: Stereotactic Radiotherapy

  • Active comparator
    Stereotactic Radiotherapy (arm B)

    Ablative stereotactic radiation on the metastatic sites. Delivered in a 1 to 5 fractions regimen.

    Radiation: Stereotactic Radiotherapy

Interventions

  • The radiopharmaceutical 177Lu-PSMA-I\&T will be administered, by slow intravenous injection, in 2 cycles of treatment at 6-8 weekly intervals at a dosage of 7.4 GBq.

    Also known as: 177Lu-PSMA

  • RadiationStereotactic Radiotherapy

    Ablative stereotactic radiation on the metastatic sites. Delivered in a 1 to 5 fractions regimen, depending on the target size and the surrounding normal tissue constraints,

    Also known as: Ablative stereotactic radiation

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. 12-month PSA (Prostate-Specific Antigen)-progression-free survival (PSA-PFS)

    To determine the proportion of men with oligometastatic hormone sensitive prostate cancer who have PSA progressed after 12 months from randomization to Stereotactic Radiotherapy and Lu-PSMA versus Radiotherapy alone.

    Time frame: 12-months

Secondary outcomes

  1. 12-month radiographic Progression-free survival (rPFS), Androgen Deprivation Therapy-Free survival (ADT-FS) and Total progression-free survival (PSA-PFS+rPFS)

    To assess radiographic progression free survival (PFS) after 12 months, ADT free survival (ADT-FS) and Total progression-free survival (PSA-PFS+rPFS) of Lu-PSMA + Stereotactic Radiotherapy vs Stereotactic Radiotherapy defined as the time interval between the day of randomization and the day of disease progression.

    Time frame: 12-months

  2. Incidence of Treatment-Emergent Adverse Events [Toxicity]

    To describe the toxicity of Lu-PSMA + Stereotactic Radiotherapy vs Stereotactic Radiotherapy for the population enrolled using Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) version 5.0.

    Time frame: 60 months

  3. Overall survival (OS)

    To assess overall survival (OS) defined as the time interval between the day of randomization and death or last contact.

    Time frame: 60 months

  4. Proportion of subjects with undetectable PSA (<0.2 ng/mL)

    To assess proportion of subjects with undetectable PSA (\<0.2 ng/mL) defined as a PSA level ≤0.20 ng/mL as measured during routine follow-up

    Time frame: 60 months

  5. Quality of life questionnaire (QLQ)

    To assess quality of life in the Lu-PSMA+ Stereotactic Radiotherapy arm vs Stereotactic Radiotherapy only arm using the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy - Prostate (FACT-P version 4) questionnaire. The scale ranging from 0-4, where 0 is labeled 'Not at all', and 4 is labeled 'Very Much'.

    Time frame: 60 months

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Study locations

2 of 2 sites recruiting
  • UO Medicina Nucleare, AUSL della Romagna
    Cesena, FC 47521, Italy
    Recruiting
  • UO Medicina Nucleare, IRCCS IRST
    Meldola, FC 47014, Italy
    Recruiting
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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Dec 3, 2025, 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
NCT05893381
Lead sponsor
Istituto Romagnolo per lo Studio dei Tumori Dino Amadori IRST S.r.l. IRCCS
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Jun 7, 2023
Start date
Jun 27, 2023
Primary completion
Sep 2027 (estimated)
Completion
Apr 2032 (estimated)
Last update
Dec 3, 2025

Study contacts

Oriana Nanni
Contact
cc.ubsc@irst.emr.it
+390543739100
Bernadette Vertogen
Contact
cc.ubsc@irst.emr.it
+390544286058
Federica Matteucci
principal investigator · UO Medicina Nucleare, IRCCS IRST

Oversight

FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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