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Phase I Study Evaluating 161Tb-PSMA Therapy in Adult Patients With Metastatic Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma

A Phase 1 interventional study of 161Tb-PSMA-1 (radiopharmaceutical) in Metastatic Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma, sponsored by Centre Leon Berard. Not yet recruiting at 1 site in France. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-09-18.

Sponsored by Centre Leon Berard · Phase 1, Interventional, and Treatment

Phase
Phase 1
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
26
Allocation
Not applicable
Sex
All
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Study summary

This study is an open label, Phase I study investigating the safety and clinical activity of 4 IV injections of 161Tb-PSMA-1 in patients with mccRCC.

This trial is divided in 2 parts:

  • The dose escalation part aims to assess the safety of 161Tb-PSMA-1 in up to 21 patients with mccRCC. Eligible patients will be treated with escalating activity of 161Tb-PSMA.
  • The extension part aims to collect preliminary clinical activity data of the proposed treatment.
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Patients with mccRCC will be selected, treated and followed-up as described below:

Selection step - 68Ga-PSMA PET:

A selection step at screening is mandatory for all patients in order to evaluate the PSMA expression in tumor lesions through 68Ga-PSMA PET and according to local imaging review. Only patients with PSMA expressing tumors according to eligibility criteria define din the protocol will be eligible to the treatment step.

Treatment step:

Eligible patients will be treated with escalating doses of 161Tb-PSMA-1 (from 7.4 GBq ± 10% to 11.5GBq ± 10%), intravenously (IV) for 4 cycles administered every 6 weeks. Three DL are expected to be assessed in the dose escalation part from 7.4 to 11.5 GBq ± 10%.

Dose Levels 161Tb-PSMA, IV, Q6W, 4 doses :

  • DL-1 5.5 GBq ± 10% Q6W
  • DL1 (starting activity) 7.4 GBq ± 10% Q6W
  • DL2 9.5 GBq ± 10% Q6W
  • DL3 11.5 GBq ± 10% Q6W

Assessment step:

To assess tumor response according to RECIST V1.1, imaging will be performed at baseline, W9-10, W24, then every 12 weeks up to 1 year after the first administration and every 24 weeks afterwards until progression, death or overall study completion, whichever is earliest. Survival status will be documented for all patients until death or overall study completion at least 12 months after the last patient. Moreover, to study the distribution of the 161Tb-PSMA-1 in standard organs and tumor lesions, repeated SPECT-CT acquisitions will be performed on all patients treated in the dose escalation part.

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Conditions studied

  • Metastatic Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma

Keywords

  • radioligand
  • terbium
  • psma
  • mccRCC
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In context

Clear-cell metastatic renal cell carcinoma

70 studies on the registry are indexed under Clear-cell metastatic renal cell carcinoma; 31 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 26 is below the median of 39 across 63 interventional studies indexed under Clear-cell metastatic renal cell carcinoma.

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Lead sponsor

Centre Leon Berard is the lead sponsor of 210 studies on the registry; 62 are open to participants now.

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

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
Child (0–17), Adult (18–64), Older adult (65+)
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

  • I1. Male or female patients aged ≥ 18 years at time of signature.
  • I2. Patient with confirmed diagnosis of clear cell renal cell carcinoma (mccRCC) progressing during or after at least 2 including at least 1 line of anti-VEGFR and 1 line of immunotherapy.
  • I3. Patient with documented radiological disease progression at the time of inclusion with as per v1.1.
  • I4. Patient with positive PSMA-PET (68Ga-PSMA-PET) (see Appendix 6):

    • For patient with only extrahepatic disease: ≥ 50% of positive extrahepatic lesions
    • For patient with both extra-hepatic and liver metastasis: ≥ 50% of positive extrahepatic metastatic lesions and ≥ 80 % of positive supracentimetric liver metastatic lesions.
    • For patient with only liver metastatic lesions: ≥ 80 % of positive supracentimetric lesions
  • I5. ≥ 6 months.
  • I6. performance status (ECOG PS) 0-1, with a Performance Status (KPS) ≥ 80%.
  • I7. Adequate organ function according to laboratory values defined below:

Haematological function :

  • Peripheral (ANC) ≥1.5 x 109 /L
  • count ≥ 100 x 109/L
  • ≥ 9.0 g/dL (without transfusion within 7 days)

Renal and hepatic function :

  • Serum creatinine or according to

    o ≤ 1.5 X (ULN) OR ≥ 40 mL/min/1.73m2

  • Total

    o ≤ 1.5 X ULN with the following exception: Patients with known Gilbert disease who have serum bilirubin level ≤ 3 x ULN may be enrolled

  • (ASAT) and Alanine aminotransferase (ALAT) ≤ 1.5 X ULN (up to 3x ULN in case of liver metastases)

    • I8. Women of must have a negative pregnancy test at screening (within 72 hours prior C1D1) and must agree to use 1 highly effective form of from the time of the treatment period and of the negative pregnancy test up to 6 months after the last administration of IMP. Effective forms of contraception are listed in Appendix 5.
    • I9. Fertile males must use a highly effective contraception during dosing period and through 6 months after final administration of study.
    • I10. Patient should be able and willing to comply with study visits and procedures as per protocol.
    • I11. Patient should understand, sign, and date the written voluntary informed consent form at the screening visit prior to any protocol-specific procedures performed.
    • I12. Covered by a medical insurance.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • E1. Patients with known active central nervous system (CNS) and/or epidural metastases and/or leptomeningitis. Patients with previously treated may participate provided they are stable (without evidence of progression by imaging for at least four weeks prior to C1D1 and any neurologic symptoms have returned to baseline), have no evidence of new or enlarging brain metastases, and are not using (at doses higher than 10 mg/d of methylprednisolone or equivalent) for at least 4 weeks prior to C1D1.
  • E2. Patients previously treated with any radiopharmaceutical.
  • E3. Persisting AEs related to previous anti-cancer therapy which were not resolved to grade ≤ 1 (except: anemia provided that criterion I7 is met) and /or any persistent immune-related AEs >1 (except adequately controlled irAE, e.g.: with replacement therapy for endocrine irAE) using V6.0.
  • E4. History, within 2 years, of cancer other than renal cancer, except for basal or squamous cell carcinoma of the skin, in situ carcinoma of the cervix or localized prostate cancer.
  • E5. History of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, non-infectious pneumonitis, interstitial lung disease that required steroids or has current pneumonitis, interstitial lung disease, drug-induced pneumonitis, or evidence of active pneumonitis.
  • E6. Prior therapy or needs to be treated with a forbidden concomitant/concurrent therapies/procedures including (see protocol for minimal wash out period to C1D1 and use during treatment) :
  • Any anticancer treatment (immunotherapy, chemotherapy) or therapy
  • Targeted therapy including antiangiogenic therapy
  • Radiotherapy
  • Major surgery
  • Growth factors targeting the myeloid lineage (e.g., G-CSF, GM-CSF, M-CSF) or growth factors targeting the erythroid lineage (e.g., erythropoietin)
  • Live or . Note: killed vaccines are allowed.
  • E7. Patients with hematuria, hematemesis or hemoptysis exceeding 0.5 teaspoon (2.5mL) of red blood, as well as those with a history of coagulopathy or other significant bleeding (e.g., pulmonary hemorrhage) within the 3 months prior to the initiation of the study treatment. Patients receiving anticoagulation medication will be eligible only if the dosage and route of administration have remained stable for at least 2 weeks prior to C1D1.
  • E8. Patients with an active uncontrolled infection.
  • E9. Pregnant or breastfeeding women.
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(25)

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Informed consent

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Histologically or cytologically confirmed

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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.

Line of therapy

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“Two prior lines” means two courses that count separately under the study’s rules — not simply two drugs. Ask the study team if you are unsure how yours are counted.

Measurable disease

The amount of disease can be tracked with a defined measurement, so the study can see whether it shrinks or grows. It might be a tumour measured on a scan or, in some blood cancers such as myeloma, a marker measured in blood or urine.

The criteria or the study team say which measurement counts — having no tumour visible on a scan does not by itself rule you out.

RECIST

The standard rules for measuring tumours on CT or MRI scans, to tell whether a cancer is shrinking, stable or growing during treatment.

“Measurable disease per RECIST 1.1” usually means at least one tumour 10 mm or more at its longest on a CT scan, or a lymph node 15 mm or more across its short axis.

Life expectancy

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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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

GFR and eGFR (kidney filtering)

GFR (glomerular filtration rate) is how much blood the kidneys filter each minute. It is usually estimated from a blood test — eGFR, by formulas such as CKD-EPI or MDRD — and some studies ask for it to be measured directly instead. Usually given in mL/min/1.73 m².

Check the method, the units and the minimum the study states. A value of 90 or above is in the normal-or-high range, but kidney damage can show in other tests too.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

1
Mild.
2
Moderate.
3
Severe.
4
Life-threatening.
5
Death due to the event.

“Side effects of earlier treatment resolved to grade 1 or less” means they have settled to mild or gone.

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.

Live vaccines

Vaccines made with a weakened form of the germ, such as measles–mumps–rubella (MMR), chickenpox and yellow fever. They can be risky when the immune system is weakened. Flu injections are not live; the nasal flu spray is.

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.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 1
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
26 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    161Tb-PSMA-1

    Radiopharmaceutical - injectable solution

    Drug: 161Tb-PSMA-1 (radiopharmaceutical)

Interventions

  • 161Tb-PSMA-1 (from 7.4 GBq ± 10% to 11.5GBq ± 10%), intravenously (IV) for 4 cycles administered every 6 weeks. Dose Levels 161Tb-PSMA, IV, Q6W, 4 doses * DL-1 5.5 GBq ± 10% Q6W * DL1 (starting activity) 7.4 GBq ± 10% Q6W * DL2 9.5 GBq ± 10% Q6W * DL3 11.5 GBq ± 10% Q6W

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Incidence of Dose-limiting toxicities (DLT)

    Time frame: During the first cycle of treatment (i.e., first 6 weeks)

Secondary outcomes

  1. Objective Response Rate at 24 weeks (ORR-24W)

    Time frame: 24 weeks after treatment start

  2. Objective Response Rate (ORR)

    defined as the rate of patients with a complete or partial response (CR or PR) according to RECIST v1.1.

    Time frame: Assessed through study completion, an average of 12 months.

  3. Disease Control Rate after 24 weeks (DCR24w)

    Time frame: 24 weeks after treatment start

  4. Best Overall Response Rate (BORR)

    Time frame: Assessed through study completion, an average of 12 months.

  5. Duration of response (DOR)

    Time frame: From the date of first documented response until date of documented progression per RECIST 1.1 or death due to any cause, assessed through study completion, an average of 12 months.

  6. Progression Free Survival (PFS)

    Time frame: From treatment start until the date of documented progression or death due to any cause, assessed through study completion, an average of 12 months.

  7. Overall Survival (OS)

    Time frame: From treatment start to the date of death, assessed through study completion, an average of 12 months.

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Study locations

1 site
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reached

Start is estimated for Nov 2026; primary completion for Nov 2028, 24 months later.

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

Registered
Sep 3, 2026
First posted
Sep 18, 2026
StartEst.
Nov 2026
Primary completionEst.
Nov 2028
CompletionEst.
Nov 2029
Last update
Sep 18, 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 Sep 18, 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
NCT07828249
Lead sponsor
Centre Leon Berard
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Sep 18, 2026
Start date
Nov 2026 (estimated)
Primary completion
Nov 2028 (estimated)
Completion
Nov 2029 (estimated)
Last update
Sep 18, 2026

Study contacts

Anne-Laure GIRAUDET, MD
Contact
anne-laure.giraudet@lyon.unicancer.fr
04 78 78 20 21

Oversight

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