Clinical trial NCT05620290: MRI-Guided Focused Ultrasound Radiosensitization for Patients With Malignant Melanoma and Non Melanoma Skin Cancer
Official title: MRI-Guided Focused Ultrasound Radiosensitization for Patients With Malignant Melanoma and Non Melanoma Skin Cancer
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: RECRUITING
Phase: PHASE1
Conditions: Melanoma
Keywords: Focused ultrasound
Melanoma
Microbubbles
Lead sponsor: Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Terry Fox Research Institute
First posted: 2022-11-17
Enrollment: 20
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: The objective of this study is to examine the safety profile and therapeutic efficacy of MRI-guided focused ultrasound microbubble therapy and radiotherapy in humans.

Detailed description: The approach uses relatively low-power ultrasound, operating with lower power levels than high intensity focused ultrasound and ultrasound-based hyperthermia techniques, delivered on the Sonalleve platform. The tumour will be sonicated before the radiation to enhance the effect of therapy. The technique is spatially targeted and stimulates microbubbles using low-power ultrasonic fields in the tumour location only. the primary aim of this research is to evaluate the safety profile of MRI-guided ultrasound stimulated microbubble treatment and radiation in patients with malignant melanoma. The secondary aim is to evaluate tumour (primary and/or metastasis) response to MRI-guided ultrasound stimulated microbubble treatment and radiation, as measured radiologically within the treated regions.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Age ≥18 years
* All biopsy-confirmed malignant melanoma of the skin and non melanoma skin cancer, including metastatic lesions.
* Stage I-IV malignant melanoma and non melanoma skin cancer, per AJCC guidelines (8th Edition).
* Patient referred for palliative radiotherapy/ standard radiotherapy/ neoadjuvant radiotherapy/ SBRT/ hypofractionation.
* Patient on immunotherapy.
* Able to understand and give informed consent. Weight \<140kg.
* Target lesion visible by non-contrast MRI.
* Target lesion accessible for MRg-FU procedure.
* Able to communicate sensation during MRg-FU treatment.
* Creatinine within normal institutional limits or creatinine clearance \>60 mL/min/1.73 m2 for patients with creatinine levels above the institutional upper limit of norma

Exclusion Criteria:

* Pregnant or lactating women may not participate due to the embryotoxic effects of protocol treatment. Women/ men of reproductive potential may not participate unless they have agreed to use an effective contraceptive method.
* Unable to have contrast-enhanced MRI scan - the standard of care criteria
* Target lesion involves the skin surface causing ulceration, bleeding or discharge
* Severe cardiovascular, neurological, renal or hematological chronic disease
* ECOG (Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group) Performance Status ≥ 3. Unable to tolerate required stationary position during treatment
* Cardiac disease or unstable hemodynamics, including myocardial infarction within six months, unstable angina, congestive heart failure, ejection fraction \< 50%, cardiac shunts, cardiac arrhythmia and cardiac pacemaker.
* Contraindication to perflutren including subjects with a family or personal history of QT prolongation or taking concomitant medications known to cause QTc prolongation like cisapride, erythromycin, tricyclic antidepressants, Class IA and III antiarrhythmic agents and some antipsychotics like haloperidol, droperidol, quetiapine, thioridazine, ziprasidone.
* Severe hypertension (diastolic BP \> 100 mmHg)
* History of bleeding disorder, coagulopathy
* Severely impaired renal function with estimated glomerular filtration rate \< 30ml/min/1.73m2 and/or on dialysis

Primary outcomes:
measure: Incidence of toxicity and adverse events, scored on the National Cancer Institute Common Toxicity Criteria (NCI CTCAE 4.03)
timeFrame: 90 days
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Radiological response
timeFrame: 2 years
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Toronto
country: Canada
facility: Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
state: Ontario
Study officials:
affiliation: Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
name: Dr. Gregory Czarnota, MD, Ph.D.
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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