Role of PET Scan in the Evaluation of Early Response to Maintenance Treatment in Advanced Non-small-cell Lung Cancer (CALMETTE)
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02507518 |
Recruitment Status : Unknown
Verified July 2018 by Centre Henri Becquerel.
Recruitment status was: Recruiting
First Posted : July 24, 2015
Last Update Posted : July 23, 2018
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Non small cell lung cancer is the first cause of cancer related death in France and is becoming an increasing health problem in developing countries.
Recently for patient with no progression disease after first line chemotherapy, new therapies were validated in maintenance (bevacizumab) or switch maintenance treatment (erlotinib, pemetrexed) with improved survival.
Until now, determination of efficiency of treatment is only based on morphological response (RECIST) and remains inappropriate to such cytostatic drugs for which there is no anatomical lesion modification.
Nuclear Medicine and especially 18-FDG Positron Emission Tomography (PET) offers a biologically relevant tool for assessment of tumour response therapies.
The assumption of the study is that FDG PET would allow to earlier detect a lack of response, thereafter, to modify an ineffective treatment. Indeed, nowadays the treatment is maintained up to evidence of progression disease.
However, despite the increasing use of FDG PET for predicting therapeutic response, there are no validated criteria for judging response of maintenance therapy in non-small cell lung cancer.
It seems necessary to determine standardized criteria response, earlier during the course of maintenance therapy in patient with non small cell lung cancer.
The final aim is to optimize survival by an adapted metabolic imaging guided therapy.
Condition or disease | Intervention/treatment | Phase |
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Non-small Cell Lung Cancer | Procedure: PET scan imaging | Phase 2 |
The purpose of the study is to optimize survival by an adapted metabolic imaging therapy in patients with advances non-small cell lung cancer.
The primary objective of the study is to evaluate the role of SUV and metabolic volume measured by FDG PETScan in the early prediction of treatment response.
80 patients will be included in 2 years. They will be follow up for one year for monitoring the progression free survival.
Study Type : | Interventional (Clinical Trial) |
Estimated Enrollment : | 80 participants |
Allocation: | N/A |
Intervention Model: | Single Group Assignment |
Masking: | None (Open Label) |
Primary Purpose: | Other |
Official Title: | Role of 18FDG PET in the Evaluation of Early Response to Maintenance Treatment With Bevacizumab or Pemetrexed in Advanced Non-small-cell Lung Cancer |
Study Start Date : | December 2013 |
Estimated Primary Completion Date : | December 2018 |
Estimated Study Completion Date : | March 2019 |

Arm | Intervention/treatment |
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Experimental: Experimental
Two Pet scan Imaging will be done : 14 days before and 16 days after the beginning of maintenance therapy
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Procedure: PET scan imaging
a PET scan will be done 2 weeks before the start of maintenance therapy and another 16 days after to predict the earlier response to treatment |
- progression free survival [ Time Frame: 16 weeks after the start of maintenance therapy ]time between the start of maintenance therapy and progression
- progression free survival [ Time Frame: on year ]time between the start of maintenance therapy and progression or death

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Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Age superior to 18 years old
- Effective contraception method or negative pregnancy test at the inclusion
- OMS inferior or equal to 1
- Non-small cell lung cancer stage IIIb or IV
- Non progressive disease after at lest 4 cycles of platinum-based chemotherapy
- Eligible fo maintenance therapy with bevacizumab and/or pemetrexed
- Inform consent signed
Exclusion Criteria:
- Evolution of a second cancer in the 3 years before inclusion
- Pregnancy or breast-feeding
- poorly controlled diabetes
- curatorship or guardianship
- contraindication to iodinated contrast agents
- participation to another clinical research with an experimental drug
- impossible decubitus
- not possibility to follow-up the procedures of the study due to geographic, social or psychic reasons

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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT02507518
Contact: Stéphanie Becker, MD | +33232082258 | stephanie.becker@chb.unicancer.fr | |
Contact: Olivier Rastelli | +33232082900 | olivier.rastelli@chb.unicancer.fr |
France | |
CHU Rouen-Hôpital Bois-Guillaume | Recruiting |
Bois-Guillaume, France, 76230 | |
Contact: Dominique Paillotin, MD +33232889083 dominique.paillotin@chu-rouen.fr | |
CH Dieppe | Recruiting |
Dieppe, France, 76200 | |
Contact: Julie Tillon, MD +33232888031 julie.tillon@chu-rouen.fr | |
Centre hospitalier intercommunal Elbeuf Louviers | Recruiting |
Elbeuf, France, 76500 | |
Contact: Pierre-Alexandre Hauss, MD 02 32 82 21 45 pierre-alexandre.hauss@chi-elbeuf-louviers.fr | |
Centre Henri Becquerel | Recruiting |
Rouen, France, 76000 | |
Contact: Stephanie Becker, MD +33232082258 stephanie.becker@chb.unicancer.fr | |
CHU Rouen | Recruiting |
Rouen, France, 76000 | |
Contact: Suzanna Bota, MD +33232888287 suzanna.bota@chu-rouen.fr |
Principal Investigator: | Stéphanie Becker, MD | Centre Henri Becquerel |
Responsible Party: | Centre Henri Becquerel |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT02507518 |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
CHB12.01 |
First Posted: | July 24, 2015 Key Record Dates |
Last Update Posted: | July 23, 2018 |
Last Verified: | July 2018 |
lung cancer, PET, progression free survival |
Lung Neoplasms Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung Respiratory Tract Neoplasms Thoracic Neoplasms Neoplasms by Site |
Neoplasms Lung Diseases Respiratory Tract Diseases Carcinoma, Bronchogenic Bronchial Neoplasms |