Testing the Addition of the Drug Relugolix to the Usual Radiation Therapy for Advanced-Stage Prostate Cancer, The NRG Promethean Study

  • Recruiting
  • Treatment
  • Interventional
  • Randomized
  • Drug & Other
  • PHASE2
  • NRG Oncology
  • 18 Years -


Study Purpose

This phase II trial compares the usual treatment of radiation therapy alone to using the study drug, relugolix, plus the usual radiation therapy in patients with castration-sensitive prostate cancer that has spread to limited other parts of the body (oligometastatic). Relugolix is in a class of medications called gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) receptor antagonists. It works by decreasing the amount of testosterone (a male hormone) produced by the body. It may stop the growth of cancer cells that need testosterone to grow. Radiation therapy uses high-energy x rays or protons to kill tumor cells. The addition of relugolix to the radiation may reduce the chance of oligometastatic prostate cancer spreading further.

Intervention

Other : Quality-of-Life Assessment

Drug : Relugolix

Radiation : Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy

Procedure : Biospecimen Collection

Procedure : Bone Scan

Procedure : Computed Tomography

Other : Fluciclovine F18

Procedure : Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Drug : Placebo Administration

Procedure : Positron Emission Tomography

Procedure : PSMA PET Scan


Eligibility Requirements

info icon Pathologically (histologically or cytologically) proven diagnosis of prostate adenocarcinoma at any anatomical location (for example, prostate, metastatic site), including intraductal or ductal carcinoma, at any time before registration

info icon Age ≥ 18 years

info icon Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status 0-2 within 120 days prior to registration

info icon Prior curative-intent treatment to the prostate, by either: * External beam and/or brachytherapy to: Prostate alone, prostate and seminal vesicles, prostate and pelvic nodes, or radiation to all three sites * Radical prostatectomy alone, radical prostatectomy plus postoperative radiotherapy to the prostate bed, or radical prostatectomy plus postoperative radiotherapy to the pelvic nodes

info icon Must meet study entry criteria based on the following diagnostic workup within 120 days prior to registration: * History and physical examination; * Technetium TC-99m (99mTc) bone scan (Must be negative); * Either computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of pelvis +/- abdomen (Must be negative); * Fluciclovine or prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) PET scan (Must be positive with exception of local disease); * Note: All 3 scans are mandatory (bone scan; CT/magnetic resonance \[MR\]; PET)

info icon 1 - 5 oligometastatic lesions in bone and/or nodal/soft tissue sites on fluciclovine or PSMA PET within 120 days prior to registration and includes at least ONE of the following: * Bone - each metastasis is counted (for example, 2 distinct lesions in the right ilium count as 2 oligometastatic lesions) * Extrapelvic Nodal/ soft tissue - requires at least one extrapelvic inguinal or a nodal/soft tissue lesion superior to the iliac bifurcation (that is, American Joint Committee on Cancer \[AJCC\] M1a version 8) * Note: Although a patient must have bone and/or extrapelvic disease to be eligible, when counting the number of oligometastatic lesions, each lymph node lesion, whether pelvic or extrapelvic, is counted (for example, 2 distinct lymph nodes in the right external iliac basin count as 2 oligometastatic lesions; one extrapelvic and one pelvic node count as 2 oligometastic lesions, etc)

info icon Serum total prostate-specific antigen (PSA) ≤10.0 ng/mL obtained within 120 days prior to registration that also meets ONE of the following PSA recurrence definitions: * PSA ≥ post-radiation therapy (RT) nadir PSA + 2 ng/mL, if patient received-radiation therapy to intact prostate, or * Current PSA ≥ 0.2 ng/mL, with a second confirmatory PSA ≥ 0.2 ng/mL if patient received a radical prostatectomy with or without post-op RT

info icon Must have ≥3 PSA values within the last two years since end of primary treatment or within the last 2 years prior to registration, whichever is less * Note: PSA doubling time must be calculated by entering all PSA values since end of primary treatment or within the last 2 years prior to registration (whichever is less) into the PSA Doubling Time Calculator found at MDCalc.com

info icon Serum total testosterone ≥ 100 ng/dL within 120 days prior to registration * Note: Prior androgen deprivation therapy (other than bilateral orchiectomy) is allowed if discontinued prior to registration and serum total testosterone is ≥ 100 ng/dL

info icon Total bilirubin: ≤ 1.5 x institutional upper limit of normal (ULN) (Note: In subjects with Gilbert's syndrome, if total bilirubin is \> 1.5 x ULN, subject is eligible if direct bilirubin is ≤ 1.5 x ULN) (within 120 days prior to registration)

info icon Aspartate aminotransferase (AST) (serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase \[SGOT\]) and alanine aminotransferase (ALT) (serum glutamic pyruvic transaminase \[SGPT\]): ≤ 2.5 x institutional ULN (within 120 days prior to registration)

info icon For patients with evidence of chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, the HBV viral load must be undetectable on suppressive therapy, if indicated * Note: Known positive test for hepatitis B virus surface antigen (HBV sAg) indicating acute or chronic infection would make the patient ineligible unless the viral load becomes undetectable on suppressive therapy. Patients who are immune to hepatitis B (anti-hepatitis B surface antibody positive) are eligible (e.g. patients immunized against hepatitis B)

info icon Patients with a history of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection must have been treated and cured. For patients with HCV infection who are currently on treatment, they are eligible if they have an undetectable HCV viral load * Note: Known positive test for hepatitis C virus ribonucleic acid (HCV RNA) indicating acute or chronic infection would make the patient ineligible unless the viral load becomes undetectable on suppressive therapy

info icon Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients on effective anti-retroviral therapy with undetectable viral load within 6 months are eligible for this trial

info icon The patient must agree to use a highly effective contraception (even men with vasectomies) if he is having sex with a woman of childbearing potential or with a woman who is pregnant while on study drug and for 2 weeks following the last dose of study drug

info icon The patient or a legally authorized representative must provide study-specific informed consent prior to study entry and, for patients treated in the United States (U.S.), authorization permitting release of personal health information.

info icon Clinical, biopsy-proven, or radiologic (conventional or PET imaging) evidence of local tumor recurrence in the prostate and/or periprostatic/seminal vesicle region after radiotherapy, or in the prostate bed after prostatectomy * Note: if a patient had a prior local recurrence and received local salvage therapy, the patient is eligible if there is no current evidence of disease in the prostate/prostate bed. Patients with positive findings on examination or imaging remain eligible if biopsy of the site is negative for cancer

info icon Currently on androgen deprivation or anti-androgen therapy

info icon Definitive radiologic evidence of metastatic disease on conventional imaging, defined by one of the following: * Osseous metastasis on 99mTc radionuclide bone scan, or * Extra pelvic nodal/soft tissue disease (\> 1.5 cm in short axis) on CT or MRI pelvis +/- abdome

info icon Spinal cord compression, or spinal intramedullary, brain, and/or visceral (for example liver, lung, etc.) metastasis * Note: Spinal metastases (PET-detected) with epidural extension are eligible if there is \> 0.3 cm spatial separation between the gross tumor volume and spinal cord

info icon Biopsy-proven prostatic carcinoma with signet-ring, sarcomatoid, or neuroendocrine features (for example, small cell)

info icon Prior metastatic or non-metastatic, invasive malignancy (except non metastatic, non-melanomatous skin cancer) unless continuously disease free for ≥ 3 years

info icon Prior chemotherapy for prostate cancer or bilateral orchiectomy * Note: Prior chemotherapy for a different cancer is allowed if continuously disease-free for ≥ 3 year

info icon Prior radiotherapy to a lesion (i.e. oligometastatic recurrence by PET) * Note: Lesions outside of a previously irradiated planning treatment volume (PTV) are eligible as long as the prescription isovolume dose of any prior radiotherapy course is \> 2.0 cm distant from new lesio

info icon Inability to treat all oligometastatic sites with radiotherapy in the judgement of the investigator

info icon Intrapelvic lymph nodes as only site of prostate cancer recurrence

info icon Inability to swallow whole, undivided, unchewed, and uncrushed pills

info icon Known gastrointestinal disorder affecting oral medication absorption

info icon Co-morbidity defined as follows: * Patients with any comorbidities that would prohibit completion of protocol specified therapy * Inflammatory bowel disease in patients in whom abdominopelvic radiotherapy is planned * History of congenital long QT syndrome * Current severe or unstable angina * New York Heart Association functional classification III/IV heart failure (Note: Patients with known history or current symptoms of cardiac disease, or history of treatment with cardiotoxic agents, should have a clinical risk assessment of cardiac function using the New York Heart Association Functional Classification

Recruiting status

Recruiting

Estimated enrollment

260

 
Study start date

Apr 20, 2022

Study end date

Feb 01, 2029

Last updated

Mar 23, 2025

Primary purpose

Treatment

Design

Interventional

Intervention

Drug & Other

Study phase

PHASE2

Allocation

Randomized

 

Sponsor:

NRG Oncology

Collaborator:

National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Investigator:

Bridget F Koontz

NCT05053152

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