Status:

TERMINATED

Contrast Enhanced Transrectal Ultrasonography (TRUS) to Assess Prostatic Vascularity After Radiotherapy (XRT)

Lead Sponsor:

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Thomas Jefferson University

Conditions:

Prostate Cancer

Eligibility:

MALE

40-80 years

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

Solid tumors, including prostate cancer, commonly exhibit tumor-associated neovascularity (growth of new blood vessels to feed the tumor) with increased microvessel density. Systemic, hormonal, and ra...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Men aged 40 - 80 years old
  • Biopsy proven intermediate/high risk clinically localized prostate cancer, as determined by a Gleason score of 7 or higher, clinical stage T2b or higher, or PSA \> 10. Pathology will be confirmed by at least two reviews
  • Patients opting for EBRT (external beam radiation therapy, standard of care) without hormonal ablation
  • Ability to undergo serial TRUS procedures
  • Ability to give informed consent

Exclusion

  • Subject has known hypersensitivity to octafluoropropane.
  • Evidence of distant metastatic disease on staging evaluation
  • Previous treatment for prostate cancer, including any form of androgen ablation
  • Previous procedures involving the anus or rectum, making serial TRUS difficult or dangerous
  • Expected life expectancy less than 10 years
  • Baseline testosterone \< 200 ng/dL
  • Subject with cardiac shunts and elevated pulmonary hypertension
  • Subject has worsening or clinically unstable congestive heart failure.
  • Subject has acute myocardial infarction or acute coronary syndrome.
  • Subject has ventricular arrhythmias or is high risk for arrhythmias.
  • Subject has respiratory failure, severe emphysema or pulmonary emboli.
  • Subject has a history of cardiac shunt or pulmonary hypertension.

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

June 1 2007

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

May 12 2011

Estimated Enrollment :

1 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT00635167

Start Date

June 1 2007

End Date

May 12 2011

Last Update

May 16 2025

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Thomas Jefferson University

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19107