Overview

Innovative SonoCloud-9 Device for Blood Brain Barrier Opening in First Line Temozolomide Glioblastoma Patients.

Status:
Recruiting
Trial end date:
2024-03-01
Target enrollment:
0
Participant gender:
All
Summary
Glioblastoma (GBM) is an aggressive cancer with a progression-free survival (PFS) of 7 months and an overall survival (OS) of 15 months. Many therapeutic approaches have failed to improve the prognosis of patients to date. One of the main reasons is the presence of blood brain barrier (BBB) which limits therapeutic agents uptake in the brain. GBM is also considered to have a "cold" (unresponsive) immunological microenvironment due to factors released by the tumor and the presence of BBB limiting the transit of immune cells from the systemic circulation. Therefore, by-passing the BBB appears as a promising strategy. The objective of the Phase II clinical trial, SonoFIRST, is to evaluate if the use of therapeutic ultrasound device, sonoCloud-9 (SC9) could improve the progression free survival of newly diagnosed GBM patients, treated by concurrent temoradiation and adjuvant temozolomide. The transient opening of the BBB by ultrasound with the SonoCloud-9 (SC9) device, predicts the increase in the penetration of temozolomide (TMZ) into the brain and the stimulation of cerebral immunity with the prospect of improving the survival of 160,000 new brain tumor patients each year in Europe and the United States.
Phase:
Phase 2
Accepts Healthy Volunteers?
No
Details
Lead Sponsor:
Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
Treatments:
Temozolomide
Criteria
Inclusion Criteria :

1. Age ≥ 18 years and ≤ 70 years, able and willing to give signed and informed consent

2. MRI with suspicion of GBM or Patient with a newly histologically proven IDHwt GBM by
previous stereotaxic biopsy or king size opened biopsy

3. Karnofsky Performance Status ≥ 70

4. Patient eligible for a total or sub-total surgical tumor resection

5. Maximal tumor enhancement diameter at inclusion (pre surgery) ≤ 70 mm in T1W MRI

6. Patient eligible after surgery for the first line standard of care temoradiation and
adjuvant TMZ (Stupp protocol, 54)

7. Patient with adequate organ and bone marrow function within 14 days prior to
registration, as defined below:

- Hemoglobin ≥ 10.0 g/dL

- Leukocytes ≥ 3,000/L

- Absolute neutrophil count ≥ 1,500/L

- Platelets ≥ 100,000/L

- Total bilirubin < 1.5 x ULN

- AST(SGOT)/ALT(SPGT) ≤ 3 x institutional ULN

- Alkaline phosphatase (ALP) < 3 x ULN

- Normal creatine clearance ≥ 60 mL/minute.

- Prothrombin time and partial thromboplastin time within institutional limits.

8. For women of childbearing potential, a negative pregnancy test before inclusion and a
medically acceptable method of birth control used throughout the study are required. A
female patient is eligible to participate if she is not pregnant, not breastfeeding,
and at least 1 of the following conditions applies: Not a woman of childbearing
potential (WOCBP) OR A WOCBP who agrees to follow the contraceptive guidance during
the treatment period and for at least 1 month after the end of study visit

9. A male patient must agree to use contraception as detailed in this Protocol during the
treatment period and for at least 6 months after the last cycle of TMZ; he must
refrain from donating sperm during this period

10. Patient capable of giving signed informed consent, which includes compliance with the
requirements and restrictions listed in the Informed Consent Form (ICF) and in this
protocol

11. Patient must be a beneficiary of or affiliated with a social security scheme

Exclusion Criteria :

1. Patients with multifocal tumor (unless all localized in a 70 mm diameter area
accessible to ultrasound field) or located in posterior fossa tumor

2. Patient with diffuse FLAIR abnormalities attributable to Gliomatosis

3. Patients with evidence of uncontrolled intracranial pressure

4. Patients with uncontrolled epilepsy

5. Patients with medical need to continue antiplatelet or antithrombotic treatment

6. Pregnant or breastfeeding women (blood pregnancy test)

7. Patients with contra-indications to MRI or known sensitivity/allergy to gadolinium, or
other intravascular contrast agents

8. Known history of hypersensitivity reactions to perflutren lipid microsphere components
or to any of the inactive ingredients in Luminity®/Definity®

9. Patients with known intracranial aneurism, with and/or unremovable coils, clips,
shunts, intravascular stents, wafer, non resorbable dura substitute, or reservoirs

10. Patients with an uncontrolled intercurrent illness or any pre-existing comorbidities
that in the Investigator's opinion may prevent the implantation of the device or may
impair the ability of the patient to receive treatment with SonoCloud or may be
cofounding for evaluation of the clinical trial.

11. Patients with the following are not eligible:

- Known arterial hypertension grade 3 or higher without adequate control on
medications

- Known or suspected unstable active or chronic infections requiring systemic
treatment

- Known significant cardiac disease: right-to-left shunts, Unstable angina
pectoris, Symptomatic congestive heart failure, Unstable cardiac arrhythmia

- Known significant pulmonary disease: severe pulmonary hypertension (pulmonary
artery pressure > 90 mmHg), uncontrolled systemic hypertension, adult respiratory
distress syndrome, or Pneumonitis

- Known Severe renal failure

- Known serious myelosuppression

- Known Psychiatric illness/social situations that would limit compliance with
study requirements

- Any other illness or condition that the treating investigator feels would
interfere with study compliance or would compromise the patient's safety or study
endpoints

- Known immunodeficiency disease or treatments (HIV)

- Known viral or bacterial chronic/acute disease (potential blood borne infections
that could result in meningitis or brain abscess)

12. Patients under judicial protection

13. Patients with any following prohibited treatments:

- Any investigational medicinal product within 30 days prior to inclusion and
during the study

- Antibiotics with known neurotoxicity (eg, aminoglycosides, cephalosporin,
quinolones), unless substitution is not possible,

- Non-absorbable material (dura matter substitute, hemostatic agent…)

- Any other drug according investigator to cause cerebral toxicity due to BBB
opening

- Contra-indications to temozolomide

- Dacarbazine hypersensitivity

14. Implantation of the SC-9 not possible according to neurosurgeon (any patient
morphological characteristics (e.g. skin thin thickness >9mm), which, from
neurosurgeons' opinion, prevent implantation of the device or may impair the ability
of the patient to receive treatment with SonoCloud, would be excluded)