A Phase 1 interventional study of MRI Scan and CT Scan in Brain Malignancies and Pseudoprogression, sponsored by M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. Recruiting at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-06-11.
Sponsored by M.D. Anderson Cancer Center · Phase 1, Interventional, and Diagnostic
To learn if advanced imaging methods can tell apart true progression (the disease has actually gotten worse) from pseudoprogression (the disease appears to have gotten worse, but it actually has not).
Primary Objectives To determine if advanced imaging findings can correlate with tissue changes in order to distinguish true progression from pseudoprogression. We will recruit participants with new suspicious enhancement developing during treatment for glioma, and systematically perform: a) high quality routine MR imaging (including routine, diffusion, permeability, perfusion and spectroscopy imaging as part of our regular ABTI protocol) and compare this imaging to b) pathology obtained by means of stereotactic biopsy. Pathology will serve as the gold standard to determine which imaging strategies are most successful in distinguishing between true Tumor recurrence and Pseudoprogression for each lesion.
Secondary Objectives
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center is the lead sponsor of 2,999 studies on the registry; 581 are open to participants now.
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Exclusion Criteria:
Pacemakers, electronic stimulation, metallic foreign bodies and devices and/or other conditions that are not MR safe, which include but are not limited to:
Nonetheless, if patients have an electronic device for which manufacturer's guidelines exist to permit safe MR scanning (such as the Cardiology supervised pacemaker scanning program), such a patient would still be eligible to participate in the trial. Such patients will be scanned as per manufacturers recommendations.
The tests and procedures done as part of your standard-of-care biopsy preparation, participants will also have advanced MRI and CT scans performed no later than 2 weeks before the biopsy. Typically, these scans are done within 1 or 2 days before surgery to provide the most accurate images to the surgeon.
Procedure: MRI Scan · Procedure: CT Scan · Procedure: Biopsy
Performed by MRI Scan
Performed by CT Scan
Standard of Care Biopsy
Safety and adverse events (AEs)
Incidence of Adverse Events, Graded According to National Cancer Institute Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (NCI CTCAE)
Time frame: Through study completion; an average of 1 year
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