A Phase 1/2 interventional study of 186RNL in Leptomeningeal Metastasis, sponsored by Cerenome. Recruiting at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-11-05.
Sponsored by Cerenome · Phase 1/2, Interventional, and Treatment
This is an open-label, multicenter, Phase 1 study to determine the safety and efficacy of multiple doses at defined intervals of rhenium (186Re) obisbemeda (rhenium-186 nanoliposome, 186RNL) administered via intraventricular catheter for any primary solid tumor cancer with leptomeningeal metastases to identify an MTD/MFD for a given dose, interval duration, and number of doses.
146 studies on the registry are indexed under Meningeal Carcinomatosis; 47 are open to participants now.
This study's planned enrollment of 24 is below the median of 30 across 128 interventional studies indexed under Meningeal Carcinomatosis.
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Acceptable liver function:
Acceptable renal function:
a. greater than or equal to 60 mL/min (using the Cockcroft-Gault Equation).
Acceptable hematologic functioning (without hematologic support):
Exclusion Criteria:
The subject has not recovered to the current National Cancer Institute (NCI) (CTCAE v5.0) Grade ≤1 from adverse events (AEs) due to antineoplastic agents, drugs, or other medications that were administered prior to study, at time of study registration.
a. Prior AEs due to alopecia, anemia, neutropenia, and lymphopenia are not required to be recovered to Grade ≤1 prior to study registration, assuming other inclusion criteria are satisfied.
Patients who had any therapeutic radiation dose to the whole brain regardless of when the radiation treatment was delivered, except:
Prior or concurrent therapy:
a. Intrathecally delivered therapy: i. Concurrent: Concurrent intrathecal therapy. ii. Prior: Intrathecal therapy given less than 14 days before study registration.
b. Systemically delivered therapy: i. Concurrent: Systemically delivered therapy UNLESS LM develops while on systemically delivered therapy AND the systemically delivered therapy is NOT associated with more than grade 1 myelosuppression.
ii. Prior: Systemically delivered therapy given less than 28 days before study registration.
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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.
A 0–100 scale of how well someone can carry out everyday activities. 100 is no complaints and no signs of illness; 70 is able to look after yourself but not to work or keep up normal activity; 50 is needing considerable help and frequent medical care.
Studies often ask for 60 or 70 and above. Your doctor gives the score.
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.
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.
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.
Cancer that has spread from where it began to other parts of the body. “Metastatic” cancer is cancer that has spread this way.
How quickly the kidneys clear creatinine, a waste product, from the blood. A study may estimate it from a blood test with age, weight and sex (often by the Cockcroft–Gault formula), or measure it using blood and urine collected over a set time. Given in mL/min; higher is better.
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.
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.
The protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen. A low level is anaemia, which can cause tiredness and breathlessness. Measured in g/dL or g/L (9 g/dL is 90 g/L).
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.
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.
Anti-inflammatory medicines such as prednisone, prednisolone and dexamethasone — not the anabolic steroids used for muscle.
Studies differ in what they allow: check which steroid medicines, routes (tablets, injections, creams, inhalers, eye drops) and doses this study accepts.
The US National Cancer Institute’s scale of how severe an adverse event is — any unwanted medical event during a study, such as a symptom, an illness or an abnormal test result, whether or not a treatment caused it. Whether it did is judged separately.
“Side effects of earlier treatment resolved to grade 1 or less” means they have settled to mild or gone.
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.
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.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Karnofsky performance status (KPS)
A 0–100 scale of how well someone can carry out everyday activities. 100 is no complaints and no signs of illness; 70 is able to look after yourself but not to work or keep up normal activity; 50 is needing considerable help and frequent medical care.
Studies often ask for 60 or 70 and above. Your doctor gives the score.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Metastases
Cancer that has spread from where it began to other parts of the body. “Metastatic” cancer is cancer that has spread this way.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Creatinine clearance (CrCl)
How quickly the kidneys clear creatinine, a waste product, from the blood. A study may estimate it from a blood test with age, weight and sex (often by the Cockcroft–Gault formula), or measure it using blood and urine collected over a set time. Given in mL/min; higher is better.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Hemoglobin (Hb)
The protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen. A low level is anaemia, which can cause tiredness and breathlessness. Measured in g/dL or g/L (9 g/dL is 90 g/L).
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Corticosteroids (steroids)
Anti-inflammatory medicines such as prednisone, prednisolone and dexamethasone — not the anabolic steroids used for muscle.
Studies differ in what they allow: check which steroid medicines, routes (tablets, injections, creams, inhalers, eye drops) and doses this study accepts.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
CTCAE grade
The US National Cancer Institute’s scale of how severe an adverse event is — any unwanted medical event during a study, such as a symptom, an illness or an abnormal test result, whether or not a treatment caused it. Whether it did is judged separately.
“Side effects of earlier treatment resolved to grade 1 or less” means they have settled to mild or gone.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
This is an open-label, multicenter, Phase 1 study to determine the safety and efficacy of multiple doses at defined intervals of rhenium (186Re) obisbemeda (rhenium-186 nanoliposome, 186RNL) administered via intraventricular catheter for any primary solid tumor cancer with leptomeningeal metastases to identify an MTD/MFD for a given dose, interval duration, and number of doses.
Drug: 186RNL
Multiple Doses of 186RNL
Maximum Tolerated Dose
Evaluation of any toxicity associated with research treatment per Common Criteria for Adverse Events.
Time frame: 13 months
Dose Distribution of 186RNL
SPECT imaging of the radioactive materials spread in the Cerebrospinal Fluid.
Time frame: 13 months
Safety and tolerability of multiple dose treatment
Evaluation of any toxicity associated with research treatment as determined by National Cancer Institute (NCI) common Terminology Criteria for adverse events (CTCAE).
Time frame: 13 months
Determine the objective response rate (ORR).
Determine the overall response rate (ORR) defined as the proportion of all evaluable participants achieving a response as the best overall response at the time of progression.
Time frame: 13 months
Determine the overall survival (OS).
The time from first treatment to date of death.
Time frame: 13 months
Characterize the dosimetry profile of 186RNL.
using the following equation to calculate the average radiation-absorbed dose in the CSF Volume (Eckerman and Endo 2008): D (Gy) = 7.126 (Gy.g/mCi.h) × A cummu. (mCi.h)/ m (g) D is the average radiation-absorbed dose in Gy. A cummu. is the cumulative radioactivity in mCi.h calculated as described above. m is the weight of the radioactivity distribution volume in grams. Given that there is no specific tumor mass to use for organ mass in grams identifiable post-infusion, the Sponsor proposes to use the estimated total CSF volume to calculate the absorbed dose to the CSF. To perform radiation-absorbed dose calculation, the weight will be calculated from the average CSF volume (Adult Male: 140 ml; Adult Female: 120 ml), assuming the density of 1 g/cm3.
Time frame: 13 months
Determine neurologic progression-free survival (PFS).
The time from first treatment to progression.
Time frame: 13 months
Evaluate Neurologic status by NANO scale
Neurologic Assessment in Neuro- Oncology (NANO) The NANO scale is a quantifiable evaluation of 9 relevant neurologic domains based on direct observation and testing conducted during routine office visits. The score defines overall response criteria. The scale scores nine domains: gait, strength, ataxia, sensibility, visual fields, facial paralysis, language, level of consciousness, and behavior. Each domain has a score between 0 and 2 or 3, with 0 indicating normal function and higher scores indicating increasing deficits.
Time frame: 13 months
Exploratory: Assess response using CSF tumor cell enumeration and compare to standard of care cytology.
Comparing the diagnostic accuracy of CNSide (cell capture and ctDNA) with cytology in diagnosing and monitoring LM and will be described in terms of sensitivity, specificity, Positive Predictive Value (PPV) and Negative Predictive Value (NPV) (as appropriate statistically).
Time frame: 13 months
Exploratory: Assess response using pharmacodynamic (PD) markers.
Determination of DNA damage markers by regression analyses of the time-activity curves will be performed and the residence times of 186RNL in red marrow will be computed using a reduction factor of 0.3 to consider the difference in activity between blood and marrow.
Time frame: 13 months
Safety: Determination of the incidence and severity of adverse events (AE) and serious adverse events (SAE).
Safety will be evaluated by the incidence of AEs and SAEs graded according CTCAE version 5.0
Time frame: 13 months
Safety: Determination of the incidence of dose limiting toxicities (DLT).
Maximum Tolerated Dose (MTD) will be evaluated by testing increasing doses with 3 to 6 participants in each cohort. MTD reflects the highest dose of drug that did not cause a Dose Limiting Toxicity (DLT) in \> 33% of participants.
Time frame: 13 months
Plan to share: No
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Started Jul 2025 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Jul 2027, 24 months after the start.
Primary completion moved once since we started tracking on Sep 25, 2026: Oct 2026 → Jul 2027, on Nov 5, 2026.
Earlier changes are on the record history on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.
From the registry record's own update history. This site started tracking changes on Sep 25, 2026; for anything earlier, see the record history on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Studies of the drug tested here: Rhenium Re 186 Obisbemeda
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